Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-2245905-20140806211028/@comment-25222572-20140814132521

DaleyWong wrote: Let me clarify a post I made earlier regarding the characters we see at the hospital in E08 "Time of Death". In that post, I included only part of what Scott said regarding the Benefactor. Here is more of the conversation (starting at about 40 minutes into E08).

Kira: "I just wish it had all worked. It was a good plan."

Scott: "Yeah, I've been thinking about that too. And actually, I think maybe it did work. Not that I know exactly who the Benefactor is, but we might know a lot more about him now."

Kira: "But no one came. And no one got visual confirmation, right?"

Scott: "That's why it might have worked. Think about it. Who has the power to know when someone's dead but doesn't need to see the body to know it happened?"

Kira: "A banshee."

(Let's set aside the point that the Teen Wolf writers have never told the viewers, and will never tell them, exactly what a banshee can and cannot do.)

Suppose the Benefactor did in fact come to the hospital (or was already there) while Scott was pretending to be dead. Here is the list of all nine characters we see at the hospital during E08:

Scott, Stiles, Kira, Liam, Melissa McCall, Noshiko Yukimura, Dr. Geyer (Liam's stepfather), Kate Argent, Chris Argent.

If you were to pick one of these characters as the Benefactor, which would it be? Ah, Daley, I just love your posts. Always so well thought out and accurate.

And to answer your question:

Scott: Pretty sure we can rule him out....

Stiles: Him too.

Kira: Starting to sound a little like a broken record, but....

Liam: See above. Unless he's very clever.

Melissa McCall: Clearly.

Noshiko: If she is, she's remarkably stupid for a murderous mastermind.

Dr. Geyer: I always get a weird vibe off him, but that may just be my Vampire Diaries Connor paranoia. Still, possibility.

Kate: Yeaaaah, no.

Chris Argent: Well, considering he was communicating with the Benefactor about the money transfer while Stiles was standing right next to him, it's hard to place him as the Benefactor. Unless of course "the Benefactor" is (as some people have theorized) more than one person working together, or the lines he entered confirming Scott's death were trigger phrases causing specific replies to be sent back to his laptop. Probably overthinking it, but still. Chris is one of the few I can see it being (motive, skills, odd and oddly convenient timing, a hint of mental instability; ala Scarface moment in the warehouse).

So, overall, I'm going with the Banshee thing, until proven otherwise.