@RumplesGirl wrote:
I got the impression that he didn’t want to disrupt or help the curse nothing more than that.
Neal’s got family in this now though. Not just his Papa but his son. I think he’ll do what he has to to try and save his son.
I thought the actor’s quote is in the context of what happened 10 years ago as far as why he left Emma, not what is coming up in the finale specifically. Many people have implied that Neal left Emma because he was afraid of jail or Rumpel finding him (like what HappyEndings says about the impression Neal didn’t want to help). The actor’s words (and also the clip of A&E in that preview) kind of support the “he sacrificed himself” so Emma could break the curse idea, that he actively wanted the curse broken but to do that, he believed what August had told him, that he couldn’t be in Emma’s life.
Of course, if he is willing to sacrifice 10 years ago, he might also do something in the finale that cuts himself off from the ones he loves again, in order to save them and everyone else. Henry and Emma would give him extra motivation, sure, but he’s also thinking of the greater good.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass