Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160109160106/@comment-24994749-20160115033459

Ozpin also has to bear in mind that after the Breach and Yang punching Mercury, the council has the intention to remove him from his position.

The Brotherhood has to contemplate they will either have to initiate Ozpin's replacement into the Vault and the Maiden secret or find a way to navigate it around them. Either way, the replacement arriving to a FAMOUS student gone MIA is not the best way to start.

Because that's the other thing: sure, Pyrrha could agree to go underground, they could fool her team and family... but they also have to fool her fans and the media all over the world.