User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/DDI In Depth - The writing/@comment-25405817-20140916190425/@comment-10390252-20140918084923

A lot depends on why she did what she did. Someone can want not to be seen at a certain point but want to be seen at another point.

I suspect that there was something of a multi-layered shadow-play in action in this episode. Cinder wanted to be seen in her catsuit and identified as being the intruder in the CCT. However, she didn't want to be seen as having gone there from Beacon. It was sheer bad luck that Ruby was looking in the right direction and saw Cinder jump the peak of that building's roof.

I think that the secondary objective of her attack on the CCT was for a mysterious black-clad Dark Huntress to be seen and blamed for the sabotage of the CCT but that no-one to make a connection with anyone at Beacon. Additionally, the new super-suit suggests that she also didn't want that person connected with Cinder Fall, whose look and style I suspect is very well known.

It is also possible that Ironwood was also pre-cast as the one to find her engaged in her nefarious deeds in the tower but that is specific to one or two theories about what she is up to.