Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24058209-20150202141006

Is it possible these rats we keep seeing - and I'm almost certain they've appeared in the previous season as well - are all spies and foreshadowing that the Rat King is still alive and watching? There always seems to be one scene in every episode (contained within the city) that has a rat in it... That being said... if the Rat King were still active in the city why would he have not taken control of Splinter while he was in his fractured state of mind (Return to New York) anyways... I just found it odd how it feels like the creators are going out of their way to show these random rats moreso than they have in previous episodes (since the rat king's apparent demise) but I might just be overthinking it. 