Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-27.110.167.87-20140205131646/@comment-19765459-20140205181822

27.110.167.87 wrote: am i the only one that thinks that deaton is behind everything? i think he's the one that pulled that stem from the nemeton. he's the one that suggested the dying then coming back to life so maybe he knew that this was going to happen to them.......

You're not alone in being suspicious. Deaton has been very intermittent about his role as an Emissary since Talia's death. Derek didn't even know about Deaton's druid deal! He also seems to withold information even from Scott, doling it out selectively when it suits him.

But what really bugged me was the Nemeton. Deaton is a druid that has apparently lived in Beacon Hills for at least a decade. Since things like the telluric currents and places of power are apparently important to druids, how plausible is it that Deaton didn't already know where the Nemeton was? Why did Scott, Stiles and Allison need to be proxy sacrifices in order to locate it?

I think that that was not the real purpose of the ritual. In my opinion, Deaton wanted to recharge the Nemeton and what was going on with Jennifer allowed him an opportunity to do so without actually having to drag people out there and sacrifice them on or under the stump. It seemed that he tricked the kids into helping him perform the required ritual by pretending ignorance of the Nemeton's location.

So it appears that he is up to something.