Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-27.110.167.87-20140205131646/@comment-19765459-20140205195332

Landocurdy wrote: Lady, look at what Deaton is wearing in that "retirement" scene and look at his pants and shoes.. Looks eerily close to the person who pulled out the stem..

I've always said an thought that it was either Deaton or Morrill that pulled out the stem.

As far as Deaton having his own motives for having the 3 sacraficing themselves to the nemeton, I just don't see it.

Because the Nemeton recovered a spark of power when Derek killed Paige there. Enough to heal Julia/Jennifer. But not enough to really recharge it so that it became a true place of power again.

Now, a druid interested in recharging the Nemeton would have two options:

1) Start dragging people out there and sacrificing them on or under the stump. Derek did this purely by accident. He had no idea what the Nemeton was or what killing a virgin on its roots would do.

2) Arrange an alternative means of recharging the Nemeton that did not require blood sacrifices. This is exactly what Deaton did with Scott, Stiles and Allison.

As for motives, that could be vague. Stiles has used the name "Obi-Wan" to describe Deaton, which could have some subtext to it. Obi-Wan, after all, was preparing Luke Skywalker to assassinate his father and the Emperor. Deaton was notably unhelpful to Alpha Derek, perhaps because (as some fans have already suggested) like Deucalion he attached great importance to having a "True Alpha" and wanted Scott to progress to that status all along, for some unknown future purpose.

Or, it may just be that he wanted the Nemeton recharged for druidic reasons. This gave him an opporunity that did not require actual murder.