Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20171024153942/@comment-14909251-20171026231003

One thing about Adam's overthrow of Sienna Khan is that it opens up that Adam isn't entirely in sync with them. We had assumed that maybe Hazel had already met Khan or that the coup was a contingency plan, but it turns out Hazel hadn't met her yet and that was Adam's plan all along unbeknownst to Salem's crew. Given how he was forced into working with him, this goes back to something I mentioned in another thread. If Adam's "attack" on Haven isn't even an attack, then it isn't entirely in his interest.

With Beacon it was a big spectacle and they forced the greatest fighters in the Kingdom of Vale to abandon one of their most important locations. Occupying an undefended Haven is hardly a show of anything. Adam would wonder what the point is of doing it and why they are so interested in the Huntsmen Academies as opposed to other parts of the capital. Presuming they keep him in the dark about that, then he may found out about the relics when he is left without distractions and that may prompt him to turn on them.