Talk:Gerard/@comment-174.226.193.135-20120714061754/@comment-174.44.171.191-20120717144452

Maybe

But they've always showed a lot of emphasis on him consuming those pills, not just a background thing, the camera focuses on him eating them

And then he couldn't cross the mountain ash, really odd, I think he might've been bitten in the past and those pills suppress him transforming or prevent possible deadly side effects