User blog comment:Doc Hamme/Those EYES...../@comment-23790511-20140728032610/@comment-3146930-20140728034546

Obviously you don't introduce the main villain in the first episode...unless you can hide them very well. Someone hidden in plain site but you would never suspect was the bad guy. Someone like, the Dust-shop owner. Roman robbing the shop was obviously a test to see if he could get the job done. However when he saw the henchmen were easily knocked out by a young girl, he upgraded and had Cinder hire the White Fang instead. There is no reason for the old guy to re-open his shop when Roman at this point has stolen all the Dust in the city unless he is using the increase in Dust cost to gain a prophet by selling stolen Dust back to people.