Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-67.162.31.47-20140715100605/@comment-13965604-20140812192806

213.120.234.130 wrote: So after we found out the third cipher key (which was derek, someone soon to die, like Stiles said) Lydia tells Stiles to call Parish. We all saw that Meredith was on the list but were too late and told that she hung herself and was dead. Am I the only one who is thinking that The Benefactor could be the guy that we always see working at Eichen House. He had the perfect opportunity to get eliminate Meredith from the list. And he always seems really evil and holds a certain hate towards Stiles and Lydia when they go to see Meredith at Eichen. So that's just my theory on who The Benefactor is.

No, you aren't the only person to think that. Its been said repeatedly and I've given reasons why I doubt its him.

1) He looked genuinely sad that Meredith died, and there was no one else on screen for him to be acting for.

2) If he were the benefactor why would he have put her on the list at all, just to go and kill her himself? Especially seeing as he is one of the few people who have access to her.

I also don't think he assassinated her for a part of the pie because of what he said to Stiles about "government jobs not being as secure as they used to be" or however he worded it. Thats not the line of someone hurting or desperate for money.