Talk:Vytal Festival Tournament (WoR episode)/@comment-10390252-20151010134054/@comment-4010415-20151011203105

The breach wasn't the point of the plan.

The point was to put on a little play that made Roman's capture much more believable and show the public that he's much more than just a common thief. Emerald and Mercury "captured" Roman and led him to Ironwood's ship (as you can see during the scene change that shows everyone from a distance gathered in victory).

It may have also been to get security upped in certain areas, so there's less in other areas, but there's not much supporting this part of the theory, so eh.

Anyway, the goal of the breach was for Roman to be "captured" and put in place where he can play The Manipulator to help get the ball rolling toward the next phase of their plan. Ironwood is going to be interrogating Roman, and Roman has shown, in Painting the Town, that he has a bit of a silver tongue. Ironwood has been established as "the general who thinks he can solve everything with violence and military bravado and is eager to do so," to the point where they hammered it into our skulls with how much Glynda talked about it.