

I'm not sure of the etiquette of this site so I'm just going to point out at
the beginning here that this post will have spoilers. I'll edit this part out
if I am informed that spoiler warnings are unnecessary.

In episode 107, Palm is caught by Pitou's En while on a mission to infiltrate
the castle and catch a glimpse of the king and his guards. Her power makes the
tactical advantage of accomplishing this mission obvious, but it doesn't make
much sense from a planning perspective.

The Hunter association was aware of Pitou's ability to detect intruders at
tremendous distances. They also knew that this ability was in use around the
castle; evidence being that Knov's comment about the En barrier being
unexpectedly lowered, thus allowing him to place portals in the castle.

With this in mind, it seems that there would be zero chance of Palm succeeding
in her mission; at best she is made useless by being trapped in the
underground compound, and at worst she is captured. The fact that they chose
to send her on this mission is baffling to me because the characters in the
show usually engage in an extremely detailed risk analysis for important
decisions.

The only thing I can think of that would make sense from a planning
perspective is that they cynically counted on the team's sympathy for Palm to
get them fired up for battle when they discover she has been captured. In
other words, a sort of artificial morale booster.

Can someone provide a plausible in-world justification for this mission?


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Why was Palm sent on the mission to see the king and his guards?


[Palm](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Palm_Siberia) was sent into the
compound with some other women to serve as a secretary to [Director
Bizeff](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Bizeff). This as we all know is a
farce the idea is that Palm will try to infiltrate the compound further to
gain knowledge on the Royal Guard and the
[King](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Meruem). If you remember that she
is an [Enhancement Nen](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Enhancer) user and
contains Clairvoyance that pre-ant transformation she could:

> Palm is a clairvoyant. Her ability requires her to feed her own blood to a
> dried merman corpse carrying a crystal ball. After fulfilling this
> condition, Palm becomes able to track the location of anyone she has seen
> with her own eyes.

She was attempting to just catch a glimpse of the King so that she could track
him. In a covert operation any information that can be gained can drastically
change the outcome. Up to this point no has had any information on the two
royal guards and king besides what
[Colt](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Colt) possibly told them. It may
seem illogical to most people but if there is even a chance to gain the upper
hand against a powerful opponent most people will take it. We also need to
remember that she is a hunter and every hunter knows that going into a job
doesn't necessarily mean they will come out alive.

Just imagine if she was able to relay information to the others on the
location of the King. Would
[Komugi](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Komugi) have been hurt by the
Dragon Dive? Maybe the operation would have changed and they would have
bypassed the Royal Guard and ambushed the King directly.

TL:DR - Was basically just a grab for information.


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They screwed up the continuity there a bit. Palm rode the elevator up using
Bizeff's code but later they say if someone enters a code that doesn't match
the height and weight of who it belonged to then it locks down.


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