I hope he has no idea about Henry, also. I just can’t see any reason, even inheriting cowardly genes from Rumple, that he’d abandon his child. I’ll be disappointed in the writers if they do that. Even Rumple, like you guys have mentioned, stepped up and took care of his son. How many men would have done that in the environment Bae was raised in?
I do think, and hope the writers remember her talking about him, that Emma was telling the truth when she told Regina that the father had no idea about Henry and wouldn’t be a problem. I also think there was a seed of truth in what Emma told MM in “True North”.
Speaking of “True North”, do you think it’s just a coincidence that the episode mentioned both Henry’s father and a compass and here we are in “Tallahassee” with Henry’s father appearing in some version and Emma looking for a magical compass? Or is it just me? I know that compass of Hansel and Gretel will come back somehow. It just has to, even if it is broken. Maybe it didn’t work because magic wasn’t in Storybrooke at the time if it is indeed magical.
Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.