RWBY V7 C8

## Plot

The episode starts with team RWBY and Oscar meeting in their dorm room, talking about the upcoming dinner. Jacques claimed that he just wanted to break bread and hash things out, but they know what it really means is that he'll be the one controlling the conversation. Weiss still can't believe that he beat Robyn, and thinks that there are too many coincidences. They think her father could be involved with Salem. Ruby wants her to sneak around the house and find whatever Jacques is hiding, since no one will question her wandering around her family's house. No one gets fancy outfits for the party, which I don't really mind, because we already got new outfits for them this volume, and Weiss's especially is already fancy enough. Ironwood is bringing all of the kids, Qrow, Winter, the Ace Ops, and even Penny. Most of them are just there on standby in case the council needs additional eyewitnesses. They're greeted at the door by Whitley. He tells Weiss that Klein was let go, obviously for letting her leave back in volume 4. Ironwood, Winter, Clover, and Penny head to the dining room. Qrow is offered a glass of wine by a Faunus waiter, but he refuses and heads outside to patrol the grounds. Marrow follows him. Before Weiss can head up the stairs, Whitley blocks her path and won't let her leave. Also, it's really hard to see, but apparently Oscar brought the relic to the dinner party. That's a bad idea. Sure, someone should guard it at all times, but was it really necessary to bring all of the characters here just in case they need to give witness or character testimony about Ironwood? Which they never end up having to do, FYI. Couldn't they just do that over the phone? Jacques is in the dining room with Councilman Sleet and Councilwoman Camilla… and even Robyn. She looks at Penny, who glances away. When Ironwood asks what Robyn is doing there, Jacques tells him that they're all here because they're concerned about their kingdom. Before they can start though, Jacques asks if they're safe with Penny there, which noticeably upsets her, along with Ironwood's response, where he claims that she's completely under his control. The other members of the council are concerned about how much control he has over the kingdom. Jaune, Nora, and Ren come up with a plan to get Whitley away from Weiss so she can snoop around. Nora gathers up a pile of food, and then she spills it towards Whitley when Ren "accidentally" bumps into her. However, it ends up hitting a woman who walks in front of him to get some hors d'oeuvres. Luckily, her freakout results in her spilling her wine on Whitley, who leaves, and Weiss finally walks up the stairs. Back at the dinner, the others point out that the closing of their borders is only serving to hurt their relations with the rest of the world, and it's obvious that no kingdom intends to declare war on them. Robyn says that it's hurting them, and the people of Atlas want to know why. Jacques says that it's more than Ironwood's choices that have brought harm to their citizens lately. They still haven't caught whoever has been killing the general's critics, and Clover tells them that the details of the investigation are classified. Jacques asked the other council members about Amity Coliseum, but they're just as in the dark as he is, which surprises Robyn. Ironwood tells them that the Amity project will help with all of these problems, but discretion is a top priority. When Jacques asks if he doesn't trust them, Winter, who has been getting steadily angrier during the conversation, finally snaps at her father that he can't just buy trust like everything else, he has to earn it. Her outburst impresses Robyn, but Jacques uses it to his advantage by turning it back around on Ironwood, saying that he's already spent all the trust the council had in him. How can they trust him when he's given them nothing? Winter tries to say that isn't what she meant, but Ironwood tells her that's enough, and she excuses herself and leaves. Penny asks her if she's okay. She tells her that she'll be fine. She just let her emotions get the better of her. When Penny asks her what she means, she says that she wouldn't understand. Penny is hurt by this at first and thinks that she means it's because she's a robot. Winter notices her reaction though, and tells her that she just meant that this place has a lot of memories for her specifically. She thought she was in control, but thinks she sounded like a petulant child during her outburst. Penny thinks she sounded fine, because she was just speaking from her heart. Winter tells her that's the problem. She should've just stayed in line. Penny tells her that she's right, she doesn't understand. Weiss makes it to her father's office… which happens to be where her mother is. Everyone, meet Willow Schnee. She comes with alcohol, in this case, vodka. Weiss claims that she was looking for something that she left behind, and Willow remembers that she left. Weiss wants to use her father's computer, and when her mom asks her why, she tells her that she thinks he might've done something wrong. Willow figures they all just assumed that at this point, and drinks some vodka after her youngest daughter tells her that at least some of them are trying to do something about it. When she sees Weiss's face afterwards though, she tells her that Jacques started locking his home computer, but he still has blind spots, and shows her a live camera feed of them in his office on her Scroll. She put a hidden camera in every room in the house, for their safety. She's glad that Weiss hasn't come back to stay. She tells her that a man came by, and worries that Jacques may be involved in something more dangerous than he realizes. She asks Weiss that no matter what happens, she won't forget about her brother. When Weiss tells her that Whitley wants nothing to do with her, Willow points out that she left him alone, with an alcoholic for a mother and a cold, greedy, abusive businessman for a father. Willow leaves, and Weiss plays the camera footage of Watts meeting with Jacques. Speaking of which, Watts is in Mantle at the moment, and now has access to Atlas security, and the heating grid in Mantle… which he turns off, causing the rain to turn to snow. And remember, according to Weiss's comment in chapter 3, the cold of Solitas can kill in hours without heating or projected Aura. So, yeah, according to that and a sneak peek at chapter 9, the people of Mantle will panic and start a huge bonfire to survive, the robots will tell the large crowd to disperse because of the restrictions on assembly, they'll refuse, all of the negativity will attract a whole herd of Megoliath and Sabyr Grimm, which will most likely get into Mantle rather easily because of that giant gap in the wall that Ironwood refused to repair. Oh, and to make matters worse, Pietro and Maria are down there when it happens, and Robyn is up in Atlas. So, yeah, this is a major problem, and a lot of people will probably die.