Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24597765-20150909003444/@comment-26509675-20150909012237

Do remember, this episode showed some major insight iinto Bill's master plan.

We now know that Bill needs the contained interdimensional rift to transfer his monsters from the Nightmare Realm to the Earth Realm. And now he knows that Stanford Bill-proofed the house and his mind, making Bill need a new puppet outside the shack.

In my opinion, the puppet will either be Soos, Robbie, Gideon, Wendy, Pacifica, or Fiddleford. (Well maybe not those last three, since they are not confirmed symbols of the Cipher wheel.) Bill needs a puppet, and he'd most likely use a puppet with unknown power over them, if the theory that the characters on the Cipher Wheel need to be together to defeat Bill is true.

Honestly though, I feel the Mabel-Unicorn subplot was just a sideplot to

A. Make the episode feel like Sock Opera

B. Create filler space so they didn't have to give too much information about Bill (which in my opinion, didn't work, since they basically have shown in the last two episodes that Gideon is aware of the Cipher Wheel and that Stanford used to be Bill's Marionette, plus it basically showed Bill's master plan.)

But this is just my opinion!