Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160109160106/@comment-10390252-20160109185458

​Well, well! It looks like Emerald may have overplayed her hand. After all, Ruby knows that Mercury ​can't​ be in Beacon right now. So, combined with Velvet and Yang's stories, she now knows that there must be an illusion-caster somewhere around the stadium.

Meanwhile, I suspect that Atlas is about to be very, very publicly shamed when Pyrrha inadvertently 'outs' Penny as an android; I'm pretty sure that entering a Synthetic in the tournament would be considered cheating. Indeed, Pyrrha's so disoriented and unbalanced by her confused thoughts and her shame at hurting Jaune that she could easily do something fantastically stupid and seriously injure Penny with a misjudged move.

The only remaining question is why Emerald chose to taunt Ruby with this possibility? She's too much of a team player to want to undermine Cinder's plots so the Black Hats must have some motive to want to have Ruby disrupt the bout.