Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140912002450/@comment-25405817-20140913041353

My guess is that, because Ironwood found Ruby, a person whom he isn't very fond of (for befriending Penny and thus compromising his project), on the scene, he'd jump into wrong conclusions; warranting to open an investigation, the general would end up being called out on lack of evidence against Ruby, not before her Dad arrives.

Okay, all this sequence of events is just so that they can bring Mr. Long to the show already.