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In the second season of the anime several members from the 104th training
regimen are detained without their gear and are forced to wear street clothes.
It is said that it was because they were suspected to have titans among them.

How did they come to this conclusion?


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Why were several members from the 104th training regimen suspected of being titans?


This detainment of the 104th recruits began during the last few seconds in the
last episode of Season 1, right after the dusts settles

> after the battle between Eren and Annie

[Season 1, Ep
25](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Wall:_Assault_on_Stohess,_Part_3)

> As Annie is being kept deep underground, a group of the former 104th Cadet
> Corps soldiers are nearing an unknown location, not knowing of the dangers
> awaiting them.

In this scene, they are also wearing regular civilian clothing and no ODM
gear. And as we see, they are being held in the beginning of Season 2 due
potential of titan spies

[Season 2, Ep 1](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Beast_Titan_\(Episode\))

> 12 hours before this, the 104th recruits are kept at a southern outpost in
> Wall Rose under suspicions of a Titan spy among them

Prior to the titan attack in season 1, the idea of Titan Shifters was unknown
to a majority of the population; very few actually knew about them. At the end
of season 1, both of the (currently) revealed Titan Shifters were from the
104th recruits. As Henjin and Nevious stated in the comments, a lot of the
104th cadets were refugees from the initial titan attack and there was little
known of their history.

In [Season 2, Ep 6](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Warrior_\(Episode\)),
which occurs only three days later (according to the
[timeline](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline#Story)), it shows that

> Eren thinks back to twelve hours earlier at Ehrmich District where Sasha's
> report revealed that Reiner and Bertholdt were registered as originating
> from the same region as Annie Leonhart.

So based on this information, the 104th cadet contained 2 confirmed and 2
suspected Titan Shifters. Given that 2 others came from the same region as one
of the Titan Shifters, and with no knowledge of how many Titan Shiters there
could be, it was better to isolate them then draw attention to specific
individuals.


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