User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 04-06-'12 — E3 hub/@comment-4013467-20120606140645/@comment-78.3.240.22-20120606152348

"no apprentices appear on screen"

the apprentices were the four redcoats that showed up immediately after he raised his fist... he was pretending to be captured so he could get through that checkpoint or whatever it was