I thought this was where they were going to go for like the last six months, so no, i am not surprised. I almost thought they were chickening out after the clips they released and it seemed Charming was just sleep deprived.
It was different then i thought, in that Hook was not hired by George, he was just randomly there for some reason. I think it is more interesting that it didn’t come out immediately and i like how they incorporated the pages August ripped out in Season 1 into the story by having Hook see a picture of Robert that way.
I still think it won’t make any difference in the long run. These characters don’t act like real people and they forgive one another for everything including trying to murder their children. Murdering a parent is nothing to these people.