Both the "magician" and the "sister" single out Kujo. Coincidence? Maybe, but I'm skeptical. Is it possible the magician wanted Kujo to give the hat to Victorique for the express purpose of trying to unsettle Gravil?

Victorique's reaction to the plunk on the head was extreme. She seemed to be reacting to something other than the simple physical pain. Is this just a quirk of her rather extreme nature, or is it possible that she's been treated much more harshly in the past than we presently have reason to believe?  (I HOPE it's the former rather than the latter.)

Was the "Sister" -- Mildred -- really planning on going to the village? Or was she perhaps simply following Kujo and Victorique, and then playing it by ear?

Victorique's dream of the squirrel -- there are some scenes in the opener that show her in the presence of a squirrel. Perhaps a new-found pet. So...was her dream a premonition of things to come? Some have suggested this mysterious power of the Gray Wolves may have to do with precognition. This would tend to lend credence to that. And also help to explain why she's so good at what she does.

It's so CUTE when she's struggling to throw the chair! (Sorry.)

Victorique says her mother "threw herself into the war that had just begun." Threw herself into it how????? Did she become a Mata Hari? The Great War keeps coming up in different contexts -- and impinging on the present.

Many things about the Elder's story don't make a lot of sense, but the statement that the "others" he was with at the time of the murder "all" reported different times is especially weird. How does that happen? Diverging parallel timelines? I don't really think this is THAT type of story. Were these other people really there to witness this event at all? Or were people later coerced into providing alibies?

What was hidden in the compartment beneath Cordelia's house? And why replace it with a picture of her and Victorique? What purpose does that serve? It doesn't seem like something that would've been done by someone hostile to Cordelia -- it seems rather sentimental.

Victorique's reaction at the grave of the murdered Elder shows a side of her that we haven't seen before. (We also learn something else important about Victorique in this episode. She can't sing.)

The three "tourists" ask Mildred how it went with the phone. She also made a phone call from the hotel in the village of Horvitz. She sure seems to make a lot of phone calls, especially at a time in history when this was not all that common an activity. Could she be 'checking in" with somebody? If so, who? Good guys? Bad guys? My gut feeling is she's not a bad guy. (And that could be REALLY wrong.) Could she have been reporting to Miss Cecile? (See my speculations in Episode 1 concerning Miss Cecile being more than she seems.) And could Miss Cecile be working for/with...Cordelia Gallo????? (Kudos on that one, SDB.)

Brian Roscoe, who -- ten years ago, at the start of THE WAR -- provided money to the village and had electricity installed. Could he have been Maxim/Kuiaran, the mummified thief from episode 5? The time frame fits, at least. And Maxim was blond haired. (As was the rather petite second Kuiaran.)

The three tourists seem very interested in investigating "objects." Examining a pitcher, plinking a goblet, dropping a vase in (holy) water. And one also expressed concern about being chased out of the village "right away" or "right now." I think it's possible they may have been there looking for treasure. Possibly the gold coins that the previous Elder was reputed to have "collected." (Which gold may have been melted and formed into other objects.) Are they being killed to protect the treasure, or for other, more devious reasons?

Finally, towards the end of the episode, Victorique is standing in the study were the previous Elder was murdered. The clock strikes three, scaring birds outside the window, and suddenly it all comes together in her mind. Why? The one obvious thing is that, had the murder genuinely occurred at precisely 12:00, as the present Elder testified, the clock in the study should have been striking -- something which everyone would have heard. There should have been no doubt as to the time. And yet, that appears not to have been the case.