Just from the way the wagon went yesterday, ima say Melkor, Ratchet and Hime aren't scum. Melkor doesn't seem to have much reason to go for Alco right out of the gate, neither does Ratchet with a lot of the town leaders gone, and Hime I could be wrong about but then I also think Ratchet has a point that she woulda had all kinds of opportunity to use her duel on me for example as scum. Also reading up on yesterday, it seems like Melkor wanted Alco even before yesterday so if this is a bus ima say it's a good one. Retros vote was the first that looked to me like it could be bussing, also because it appears quite clear to me that she was getting ready to go Hime yesterday instead and just hopped onto Alco when the wind starting blowing that way.
I also think it's strange for Retro to suggest that Rugrat was killed for having any sort of pull, or give such a long-winded explanation for it at all. It almost reads like a slip to me, like she's saying yea these are the reasons we killed him. It's also probably pure coincidence that Rugrat ended up voting Alco and wanting others to go for Alco in that big MQ Retro made. The question is, why would scum kill Rugrat if Alco was his preferred direction and town? If Alco was town, keeping Rugrat alive to push it is the clear choice, but that's not something Retro seemed to be considering at all. With the hindsight of knowing Alco was scum, it seems pretty clear that that's what Rugrat was probably killed for, so this MQ and assessment of it strikes me as trying to act a bit too oblivious while also letting it show that she's given this more thought than she'd like us to think.
Sky can also just go at this point, "nobody has presented a case" is a bad justification to abstain from voting Alco when your other option is setup spec.
This when the wagons were at Alco 6 and Hime 4, looks to me like someone who doesn't care much about their own case but rather someone who wants to end up on the right side of history. The quicklynch test right afterwards was also silly as all hell.