Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28194879-20160415101055/@comment-4929778-20160416133041

Yeah it didn't make a lot of sense. The way Kenny phrased it, Rod planned all of it. Like the squad that killed alma was sent by Rod. Alma might've known what was gonna happen which is why she was so grim as she knew that she had no choice but to die. Basically he probably knew that Grisha would give the coordinate to his son because: a) the Reiss family transmitted it via bloodline b)Grisha would be a wanted criminal so he had to hide the power somewhere c) all he would have to do was run a background check on him which would likely give him children, marriage, etc. Plus he might've had an idea that eren had the power and the battle of trost hit the nail on the head. Or he got wind of the thing Grisha did in the forest as it is never mentioned if anybody else heard or saw it. Rod might've gone on reports about it and realized what Grisha did and how Grisha basically went MIA.

But yeah while the uprising arc filled us in on stuff it was confusing because of unreliable narrators aka Rod.