Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-30530552-20171121182355/@comment-24994749-20171124115657

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: To learn that it is in fact under the control of a single person who has been controlling them the whole time makes it an ongoing war with a hostile army, that they happen to have been losing quite badly. I suppose, when you put it like that... Knowing about Salem could potentially create you Ironwoods all over the 4 Kingdoms and turn everyplace into a borderline police state. Not to mention these new Ironwoods might not be nice but misguided people, but outright dictators.

That said, I wasn't thinking about Ozpin just coming out and saying "Yup, there is a being called Salem. She is Sapient, looks similar to a human woman, is capable of human speech and has been controlling the Grimm against humanity." but more on sth like "We have pretty strong evidence that older/ancient Grimm can control younger Grimm. It also appears these ancient Grimm can coordinate with each other possibly through another even older Grimm."

I mean, we haven't really seen how Search & Destroy missions work, but I would think having a more accurate idea on how Grimm behave would make organizing defenses/ofenses more effective.