Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10317392-20130906010815/@comment-10390252-20130911085955

ChishioKunrin wrote: Thaaank youuuuu. I still don't understand the whole "The ultimate plan is to release the Grimm, let the Grimm kill everyone, control the Grimm to rule the world" thing being talked about.

1. Where is the actual benefit in doing that?

2. What makes you think they can control the Grimm? I don't see any reason to believe that. The Grimm just kill people indiscriminately.

We just know that he's been gathering dust and hiring men, and it looks like his main target is Beacon. He might attack various places in Vale to draw people out. He needs enough people and enough dust to carry out a siege. The thing to remember in my first theory is that Roman is ignorant of the real movers' and shakers' true designs. By being Crimson's catspaw, he has gained power, wealth and position that would have been out of his reach. As far as he knows, he's forming a criminal empire. However, Crimson's demands of late have been... odd. She's also aggressive and he's genuinely afraid of her and what she might do to him if he refuses to give her what she wants.

That's why he was so upset after hanging up his 'phone in episode 8. He's first and foremost a businessman and being even tangenitally involved in a terrorist attack on Beacon is bad for business. However, and let me repeat this, he's scared of Crimson and he's been backed into a corner. She's been his main muscle for a while and he knows what she's capable of. Suddenly, she's reminding him that she chose him, not the other way around and now she's calling in the debt.

Roman's benefit in the second theory is, once again, fairly simple and straightforward. HE knows Kalder Schnee. He knows the man's opinions, his methods and his decidely screwy sense of personal morality. A Vale dominated by his party followers would be a Vale that is decidedly bad for business. As bad as the Hunters and Huntresses are, they are at least a known quantity that Roman is confident that he can deal with. Squads of 'blackshirts' marching around on the streets, 'disappearances', 're-education camps' and all the rest of the paraphernalia of tyranny are an unknown he would prefer not to deal with.

Necessity tends to make strange bedfellows.