Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37364794-20181111194746/@comment-4010415-20181111200910

Like Embellem pointed out, it looks like the person Cinder is fighting in the opening may be Neo, as the attacker's weapon looks like a closed umbrella.

The RWBY crew have actually said before that Neo is still alive and may come back. The writers have also mentioned that Neo is more dangerous without Roman.