Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.59.184-20140809221526/@comment-25857155-20151121012431

Why would Ironwood make a possibly confidential call back to HQ with an adorable little girl loitering in the background? But no, Ironwood's face is visible on Cinder's scroll when she says she has a new access point. Beacon and the Beacon CCT are the same system.

He missed the flickering queen piece because it was meant for US to see, not him - it's called plot-induced blindness, which is fairly common in works like this (and in the horror genre).