This is the part where I go back to Chapter 1 and re-read the conversation of Eren with his parents in the kitchen. So much is packed into that short scene it's incredible.
If Reiner ate Eren that would just mean Reiss (who is apparently Reiners boss in this case) would have to eat him in turn... assuming my understanding of Titan powers is correct. And on another note, for Eren to gain the 'hardening" ability he would have to eat someone else who has that ability?
Just goes to show you that in stories like this, whenever someone leaves the room announcing they're just taking a piss, it's going to tie into the grand plot somehow.
Betrayal is more painful, and a more effective tool of torture, than getting all your fingernails ripped off and teeth removed one by one. Good to know.
It's strange, the facial expressions Bertholdt and Reiner make, they don't seem all that nefarious for being the "bad guys" in this situation. They look paniced, like they're trying to save Eren, or something? Even Annie cried when she lost Eren from her grasp. Really makes me wonder...
I guess now's a good time to start wondering who Annie's father is... some higher-up in the Center who's been training her this way all her life, and why? The story of corruption from the 'high-brass' is starting to expose itself here...
"People who can't throw away something important can never hope to change anything." I guess the spy inside the Female Titan isn't one such person. Whatever this conspiracy is, is more important than her own life? And what's this talk about "some humans who artificially endanger the walls"...