This is highly interesting and fits perfectly into what I would expect to see from Eomer and SpM. If Eomer was an original wolf, as I suspect, and SpM is the fourth wolf, as I suspect, I had anticipated seeing both of them going at each other. This seems counterintuitive but I shall attempt to explain.
On DAY 2 Eomer went after SpM with much 'passion', I think he did this because he was hoping to get some support for lynching SpM. Let's face it we all want to trust him but we are all afraid to do it too. So Eomer played on this fear and set the wheels in motion. Hoping to pull off the double-bluff Eomer and his cohorts attacked SpM at night, but to their great surprise he was cursed as is now one of them.
Now the question would be: "What do we do now?" For Eomer letting go of SpM would be too obvious and SpM giving up on Eomer would be too easy as well. So they came to an agreement that basically states that they would continue to go after one another, each voting for the other early on thus one getting killed today. What this would do is basically make it so that if Eomer is killed and proven wolf we all assume SpM is innocent and the same is true if we produce a guilty SpM then Eomer looks innocent. Because, certainly wolves wouldn't go after each other, would they? Of course they would, and in this case they had little to no choice. They are content to sacrifice one so the others innocence is assured. Also what this pulls off is that I suspect our seer dreamt early on about SpM and if Eomer is lynched (which is more likely) then with an "innocent" SpM the seer will have no need to dream of him again thus solidifying his victory.
This may seem a bit far fetched but really it's not unlikely. I've noticed a change in posture of SpM that is very uncharacteristic of him and I think he's trying to adjust to his new role as a werewolf and is experiencing some growing pains.
Now I still believe Alcarillo to be guilty. But SpM was right about Eomer when he said that he left no trail to follow. So his loss wouldn't be as damaging, overall to the WW team, as the loss of others would be.
I don't know how Cailin fits in this, my opinion is she's simply an innocent bystander that found some of Eomer's behavior rather suspicious and decided to attack.
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