Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-10390252-20140810114503

Episode 4 will have a twin-thread episode of Yang and Neptune going to the Club mixed with Blake and Sun proving Sun right that The White Fang has degenerated into a cult. For example, crowds of masked maniacs chanting approval as Roman does his snake oil salesman presentation of the Atlesian Paladin. I think it will also include the introduction of Bane and Neopolitan. I suspect that Neopolitan and/or Bane will recognise Blake as their old team-mate; Blake and Sun will need to make a quick exit, pursued by Freckles.

I'm not expecting a resolution to the Penny issue until Episode 5, when Blake and Sun, being chased by Freckles and needing to be rescued by Yang and Neptune in the dramatic Highway fight, rendezvous with everyone else.

I expect Blake to be really, really upset about Ironwood's company creating sentient and expendable sentient androids like Penny to fight their wars for them. She'll see it as just a logical extension of the abuse of Faunus labour. Weiss will say something tactless and might even get scolded by Ruby for it and Yang will probably be the only one who genuinely worries about whether they'll get in trouble for 'borrowing' a multi-billion-lien prototype like Penny without authorisation.

Sun and Neptune will be asked to get Penny to safety in Beacon so the girls can focus on Freckles. It will be on a rampage, blowing up 'human oppressor' targets all over Vale so assessing all their intelligence 'take' can wait until later.

The big battle will happen in Episode 6 and will introduce the mid-volume hiatus.

My theory about Ironwood being lawful evil-aligned will be tested by his reaction to the girls' smashing one of his state-of-the-art battlemechs that, somehow, ended up in the hands of The White Fang. I expect Ozpin to run him out of town either way.