Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24171394-20140918132653/@comment-13965604-20140923180827

Bennett89 wrote: For the record...........Jeff tied in Braeden with the Desert Wolf as an attempt to keep her and have her in more episodes. There was nothing in the finale to suggest that they won't return from a plot perspective. Also, they just set up Derek as Scotts second in command and the fact Derek could now probably take on an Alpha 1 on 1 means they gona be a good team.

The issue with that is, that with how compressed the timeline is, they don't have to bring the desert wolf story line into play immediately. In four seasons we've only went about a year and a quarter their time, so they could dangle that storyline for a good two seasons and it not be an unreasonable length of time in show for nothing to have developed.

Personally, I felt like the finale looked like it was a nod off to Derek leaving with Braedan, at least temporarily. I could certainly be wrong, and they might do the same thing that they did for 3b.