Hey you notice how Ausiello says “The Good news” is that Neal wants to reunite with Emma? That’s good news to me. I know the rest sounds a little ominous but by now I think with Rumbelle separated, the writers definitely aren’t going to risk that wrath to put Neal and Emma together that easily right? So something kind of HAS to separate them, but we have to hope it gets resolved sooner rather than later. Until then, at least Neal doesn’t have to deal with feeling jealous of Walsh (monkey or not). On the other hand, I think that’s the point.
Shipping wise, I think Walsh is there to illustrate a sort of dark side to Hook, that he is possessive and jealous. I can’t see Neal reacting that way really, given he said he’d quit bugging Emma, knowing he was engaged to Tamara, and the way he apologized. Of course, if they’re delaying Emma and Neal from reuniting until she has her memory back, then chances are, Neal won’t have to deal with Walsh at all. So what we get out of it is that Hook is on a different page than Emma far as emotions go, and she’s maybe not even in the same book. I suppose we wait to see and hope we’re right about Hook giving Emma Neal’s apartment # and the dreamcatcher and other things convincing her to drink the potion.
“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