I think you've missed the point completely, and if anything that's even more impressive for the show. Misdirection has been hit and miss with Vikings (who didn't see Floki secretly working for Ragnar in the second season?), but this time it's been brilliantly executed and people are falling for it, perhaps too well,…

Me just thinking aloud here, but does anyone suspect that Michael is possibly Sin Rostro - the faceless man? He has a bad history, so the potential to be a bad guy is there; and the people who could connect him to being Sin Rostro, or who get in his way, seem to end up dead… He also had no problem forcing Petra to end…