So after seeing these pics I’m thinking that the things that happen in NYC what happens in 312 New York City Serenade could either be a Hook or Emma flasback or a dream
Henry was in the NYC stuff, so it can’t have been a flashback. The only previous time that Hook’s had the opportunity to be in NYC, which would make a flashback for him there possible, was when he went to kill Rumple, but he was wearing his hook then, not the fake hand like in 312. I think the stuff with Emma and Chris Gorham is also present day, because they’ve got her in the same red jacket as the scenes she has with Henry, and if they wanted to differentiate between flashback and present day with Emma, you’d think they’d have dressed her very differently.
Wouldn’t think that they’d have a large part of any ep just be a dream sequence, let alone the first ep back from a 3 month hiatus, when all the viewers are desperate to see what happens next in the story.
I think the “it’s not what you think it is” comments from Adam was just in reference to how he got bombarded by shippers from both sides, all blowing up about CS being in a full on relationship with Neal being completely discarded from the story.