Reginald did such a great job at raising the Sparrow Academy that they've turned the table on him and he's now completely kowtowed to them. There's clearly something more going on with the whole dynamic, what if the CCTVs all over the inside of the Academy. Plus, there's got to be a good reason why Ben is such a dickhead aside from just being such a dickhead.
I originally was going to complain about how Reginald was able to adapt a completely different set of children, but despite his claim that he did exactly that, it turns out all of the Umbrella graduates were never born because their mothers died before the simultaneous birthing event (I did notice during the reintroduction of the Academy the number of births was lower but I didn't think much of it). That said, how could Reginald know how to train them different without any details of how he trained them in the first place? I don't expect there will be an answer to that question, unless part of the mystery Reginald has the El-Aurian ability to sense the differences in the timeline.
But coming back to the birthing event, we get a new bit of information when see Ben's birth: Little glowing embers flying through the air that enter his mother's body...embers that look a lot like the ones Reginald released from a jar in the long time ago flashback of him. On a different note, it can't be a coincidence that Sissy died on the exact same day of the event.
Speaking of Sissy, I can't help but wonder if Callum Keith Rennie's character is a grown-up version of Harlan. He certainly appears to have some kind of powers and the way he uses different tapes of ambient sounds to block out overwhelming aural inputs is a classic autism coping device.
Lastly, I love how the show handled Viktor's coming out. As expected, Klaus, Five, and Diego just rolled with it, while Allison had a touching heart-to-heart conversation with him about who Viktor is and loving himself now. We haven't seen Luther's reaction yet but I imagine it'll be the same as his brothers.
