Reply To: How did Hook get to NYC?

Hook:  Snow and the queen settled their differences.  Frankly, I was bored.  I had a life to get back to–a pirate’s life.

Emma:  Glad to see you haven’t changed.

Hook:  There wasn’t anything for me in the Enchanted Forest. Why would I stay?  All was well…until I got a message, a message saying that there was a new curse and that everyone had been returned to Storybrooke.  The message told me that the only hope was you.

So going by the dialogue (taken from closed captioning) Hook wasn’t with the others when they came back to Storybrooke. So he had to come to our world by another means.  He needed a portal of some kind.  So counting off what we know as portals he could have come by:

• curse
• bean
• mermaid
• flying monkey
• shadow

So….how did the pirate get to our world.  He had to be working with someone for the potion and the portal.