Speaking of deleted scenes being non-canon:
I was looking into what number episode “Manhattan” was to see how long Neal was really on the show in the present day. It was 214, meaning he was pretty much only there for a year from “Manhattan” through “Quiet Minds” (315).
Anyway, I found out that there was a scene (apparently filmed) involving (an unnamed) Malcolm abandoning Rumpel then being killed by two guys, who decide to take the latter to the spinsters.
I guess A/E said they deleted it, because it didn’t fit the episode, but I’m wondering if it was deleted because of the Neverland arc. Wasn’t this also the same episode that first suggested Bae was in Neverland? This might suggest that he was INDEED originally meant to be Peter Pan…