But next week's episode title and synopsis make me lose hope. But then again, last week's episode was entitled “The Return” and had the image of a motorcycle riding through the woods in the opeining sequence. But did anyone return? No. Was the episode truly about August? No. So, I'm hoping next week's episode title and synopsis are all just red herrings and we'll find out at the end of the episode that he's actually someone else.
Actually, we did see the return of a few characters. Kathryn, for one and in fairytale world, Baelfire came back from the ogrewars because Rumpel created a treaty, stopping them. Back in Storybrooke, Mary Margaret got her freedom back, so that was kind of a 'return'.