Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140905003518/@comment-10390252-20140911084842

My hoped-for summary for episode 7:


 * Mercury dances with Pyrrha, makig Jaune jealous;
 * Pyrrha finally gets the guts to tell him that what he's feeling now is what she feels ever time he gushes about Weiss in front of her; she then sasshays off with a slack-jawed Jaune waching her go;


 * Emerald dances with Ruby and surprises herself by enjoying the younger girl's relentless chatter; the two bond over Emerald teaching Ruby to walk in heels;


 * Mercury follows Pyrrha upstairs and hits her with the whole 'come to the dark side' gig. Pyrrha rebuffs him;
 * There is a fight in which Mercury has an advantage because Cinder has wrapped anti-magnetic dust cords around Mercury's boots; Jaune tackles Mercury just before he lands the death blow;
 * Mercury effortlessly knocks Jaune back and is about to hit him when his Semblance triggers. The reflected energy snaps Mercury's leg like a twig and blows him back through a window;


 * Cut to Ozpin and Glynda finding a corpse in the halls; Ozpin tells Glynda to call Ironwood and Port and tell them to start searching the rooms of the transfer students;


 * Emerald is trying and failing to make her sales pitch to Ruby; the girl has turned her back to talk enthusiastically about being a hero when Emerald pulls one of her gunblades and is about to hack her down; Ruby turns and, when their eyes meet, Emerald freezes. She can't explain to Ruby what she's doing or why;
 * Mercury crashes through the window above and drops in a heap beside them. Ruby tell Emerald that she doesn't have to do this. "Actually, I do," Emerald says before helping a wounded Mercury hobble off. Ruby doesn't follow, she just looks sad;


 * The Teacher Four kick down the door of Team CRME's dorm and find it deserted. Cinder has left behind some of her needlework (her emblem on a hankerchief). Ozpin glares at the needle still in the fabric;


 * In the warehouse, Cinder is raging at her apprentices as Roman sneers over their failure. She tells Mercury she is disappointed at how easily he was overcome; she is beyond incandescent at Emerald and slaps the girl with a fire-covered hand when she makes the lame excuse that she "just couldn't". Fortunately, the night has not been totally worthless. Several powerful enemies are no more and a few have 'listened to reason'. Cut to Cardin stepping out of the shadows with a poisonous smirk accompanied by several shadowy figures;


 * Flash cut to Qrow receiving a text from Ozpin - the message is chess-themed message about Black making its' first move


 * Cut to Pyrrha asking Ruby why she let Emerald escape. Ruby looks haunted; she knew that she'd lose if she fought but something tells her that it's early days yet;


 * Flash cut to Emerald looking at her Scroll. On the screen is a selfie of her and Ruby at the Ball, both grinning at the lens like mad monkeys. She shakes her head, closes the machine and storms off.