Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-121.45.89.17-20130804051413/@comment-19765459-20140210174102

Because, Isaac and Boyd already held Scott in higher esteem than anyone else. Scott was already acting as a quasi-Alpha to them. Their allegiance would have shifted to Scott if Derek were dead. Indeed, they were already basically taking direction from him. Derek himself also respected Scott more than any of his own Betas. Plus he probably would not want the spark to go to Peter or to Cora (whom Peter would probably promptly kill to take it from).

It was just interesting, because we had scenes where Jennifer was hauling half-dead Derek into his loft. And whenever he seemed like he was on the brink of dying, Scott's eyes would briefly turn red. Like Scott was going to be the new Alpha of Derek's pack no matter what happened.