Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-76.65.14.156-20130820031921/@comment-72.161.77.218-20130820144448

I guess it's possible that he didn't want to kill Derek to become alpha so he made sure Derek lost his alpha status. And that he also knew that Derek would return to help and that in doing so it would ensure that Scott became the true alpha so that when Peter took the alpha status it would be from Scott and not Derek.

Of course I would think this would require a lot of foreknowledge on Peter's part besides just being incredibly smart and intuitive. Lydia seems to have a "knowing" about death now after what Peter did to her. I wonder if he may have also came back with a little something extra as well.

To me his so called master plan doesn't seem so apparent. In season 2 he told Lydia that he had had a plan...this would indicate that his orginal plan was from season 1 when he was already an alpha...so what was he really up to (because this is already after Kate is dead as well so he had finished that). Lydia being his backup plan just seemed a way to get him back onto the playing field after being knocked out of the game. If becomming an alpha again is a part of his plan now it would seem that it would be an addition to what he had already planned from season 1. Whatever he is up to seems like it may be bigger than just becomming alpha.