“One form of dictatorship is being in a prison cell and you can see the bars and touch them. The other one is sitting in a prison cell but you can 't see the bars and you think you 're free.“

What’s happening right now is what’s known as “foreshadowing”. During and after the season finale we’re meant to point back at these and other events and go “ah, of course, it couldn’t have happened any other way, what excellent writing!”