I am starting to believe more and more that Neal dies. Which makes me really sad. 🙁 At this point I would trade any other character for him (except Belle). I know nothing is confirmed, but not seeing Neal anywhere, the graveyard scene with everyone but Neal there, and this article ( Hook “not going anywhere” ( honestly it seems to me like Adam is doing damage control) and when asked about Neal they are like “his character will grow”and then go to say Graham also had growth…. really????). They may be fooling us and if that turns out to be true I will be more shocked than I ever was. But I doubt it. Usually when spoilers come this way they are what they seem to be. I remember for example when someone posted a spoiler during the filming of the last episode of the 2nd season that Rumple left Belle in Storybrooke and when Adam was tweeted about it he was like “it may not be what it seems” or sth like that and all the while I am thinking “yeah, right, it’s exactly as it seems”, and I was right, so I’m not holding out too much hope now.
What I do know is if they kill off Neal I will never believe in a million years that the death was story driven. If it was someone like Hook I would believe it (even though I love Hook and I really don’t want him to die). But if it is him I don’t care how many times Adam says it was planned, I won’t believe him. Fake killed him ten episodes before just to kill him again now? They couldn’t even make some very minor deaths stick like Blue Fairies, but hey lets kill one of the most important characters and pretty much the catalyst for the whole story? Yeah, not buying it! Sorry, I don’t want to bring anyone down, just trying to express my opinion.