Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20171012080158/@comment-34633327-20171016035913

ChishioKunrin wrote: NeoVelociraptorDelta wrote: Nobody mentioned this earlier, but in the theater release, Miles explicitly said in the V4 finale behind the scenes bit that Ruby has not dealt with the death of Summer, or anything else pre-Volume 3. And V3 for that matter. He outright stated she's slowly bottling it up, and will explode at some point (he didn't specifically say it was Volume 5 though). Yessss! I'm looking forward to it. Much excite! We already can see the cracks forming! She was definetely uncomfortable having to remember Penny's death when Lionheart brought it up, and seemed just as when Jaune brought up Cinder! The Crack's in her Stepford Smiler routine are breaking! And man it sounds really messed up that I'm happy about this!

On another related note, notice Lionheart called Penny a "Poor girl" not machine or anything. Looks like Cinder's efforts to make people see Penny as a weapon in disguise didn't affect many, since Lionheart recognizes that even if she was a machine, she was still alive and her death was still a tragedy.