I think this is a very misleading Press Release which should have been worded differently.
I think they are going to discover that he isn’t actually dead, but lost somewhere. I do think it’s misleading.
Agreed. From the perspective of Neal and Belle, they are essentially trying to bring Rumple back from the dead, that’s the most basic way to describe what they’re attempting, (and a press release is like a tweet in that you’ve only got limited space to get the point across). That doesn’t mean that’s what’s actually happening though.
Also odd wording is saying that Neal finds himself back in SB, like he’s only just arriving in our world. I’d been thinking he came over to our world separately, but 314 debunked my thinking on that, and instead I ended up thinking that Zelena had him prisoner in the farm house, and while she was away visiting Snowing, he got out, and went and busted Rumple out of the storm cellar, and they both made a run for it and split up in the SB woods, (“We need to split up, son, she still has my dagger and I could be a danger to you if we’re together when she discovers we’ve both escaped.”) Now, that could still work if the press release is just worded strangely, and Neal meets up with everyone else in town, and then discovers Rumple is still missing out there somewhere, (because Zelena summoned him back, in that clip in the promo). Rumple’s obviously with the group at some point judging by the promo, but perhaps they lose him, and it’s after that that they find Neal, which is him “finding himself back in SB” even if he’s been trapped in the farm house on the outskirts of town up until this point.