Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20151009004044/@comment-24930713-20151010015257

Tausendberg wrote: Dude, Annie is still in the crystal. The last mention of her was Armin telling Reiner and Bertolt that Annie was being tortured as a bluff even though she's just been underground, chilling, presumably in stasis so not starving or dehydrating or anything.

Something I'd like to know that doesn't make sense to me...

As soon as Eren turned into his titan form for the first time and sealed the hole in Trost... why didn't Rod Reiss connect the dots that he was the coordinate and immediately go after him then?

I think he was going to try a more subtle approach, something like waiting until he was given to the Military Police so he could have the First Interior Squad snatch him up without anyone knowing about it. But since he was given to the Survey Corps, he had to try something different. Remember, Kenny mentions that Rod was covering up the entire thing until Eren used his abilities the first time in Trost. So he was likely devising a new plan to recover Historia and Eren, but didn't want to arrouse suspicion from anyone, including the Survey Corps.