Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-27312496-20181210203148/@comment-24994749-20181211121930

SirGauoftheSquareTable wrote: Why didn't they try that the first time, unless this is a continuation of the first time? I think they didn't want to use Weiss because Weiss has made it clear from the beginning she isn't happy to go back to Atlas... and saying they are there to take Weiss back home will probably get someone calling Jacques, who Weiss most definitely doesn't want to see.

So that's why Qrow tried to pull the "friends with Ironwood" card first.

That said, I was kinda hoping Blake might try to pull the "representative of Kuo Kuana". Mind you, Atlas probably wouldn't give a damn about some Faunus Chieftain but I do was hoping Ghira might have given them a letter to try to help them get through the border, wouldn't have hurt to try.