Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-13965604-20140715134406/@comment-19765459-20140716220019

Paul.rea wrote: Gerard would have suffered no ill effects had he not been bitten by a werewolf so your suggestion of Scott poisoning him is yet another your negative distortions.

Also - it was mountain ash which is harmless to humans.

The entire intent behind feeding it to him (since as you point out it would have no effect on humans and thus would have been pointless) was based on the assumption that Gerard would get Bitten by an Alpha. Indeed, you might recall that Scott literally hauled the paralyzed Derek over to Gerard and made him bite down!

It was a trap, executed with premeditated intent. That Gerard fell for it does not change the fact that Scott performed all the required steps to complete the trap. However, we already know that Scott is not at all knowledgable about the specifics of the supernatural. He usually relies on Stiles or Deaton for that. In this case, how would he know that the mountain ash combined with the Bite would not prove lethal, especially to an old man with cancer? Who, by the way, was off his meds because Scott stole and replaced them! At best it could be argued that Deaton assured him that Gerard would probably survive.

Not that I'm a fan of Gerard any more than I am of Kate or Victoria. They're evil people. But don't pretend that Scott wasn't the primary agent in a plot to poison Gerard, because that is exactly what he was doing.

As mentioned on another thread, I would have just recommended talking to his best friend's father - y'know, the town Sheriff and telling him that Gerard threatened him and Melissa over his dating Allison. What was Gerard going to do? Argue that Scott was a werewolf? That would have gotten him into a senior citizen home with a healthy dose of prescription tranquilizers right quick!