Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-35434444-20181208215217

Wanderer21 wrote: Wait, there's something I don't get. Say, if only for the sake of argument, Tock is (was?) from Salem's faction, and was ordered to do what she did to Maria's eyes. If so, then why the change in tone with Salem ordering Ruby brought to her (alive, since she doesn't want Cinder killing her)? The simplest explanation I can think of is that Salem intends to exploit the silver eyed power in some fashion, but she only needs one sample in order to carry out whatever plan she has.

Only problem with that is, if said sample is so important, it would be pretty risky to begin picking them off if she didn't already have one in her clutches.

It's possible that it wasn't being a silver eyed warrior on it's own that drew so much attention. Maria was simply being too much of a nuisance in her own right to go unchecked.