Board Thread:WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD/@comment-11593970-20130706054527/@comment-11533671-20130727035141

72.37.249.100 wrote: I've just remembered 2 important details... Deaton was surrounded by Mountain Ash while he was hanging, and mountain ash only works when the person who puts it knows what they're doing. You can't take an ordinary joe, tell them to sprinkle it and expect it to be effective. So the person who put the ash there must be someone that knows how to use it... and that can be Ms. Morell (but I doubt), Jennifer (we don't know anything about her), mystery girl from epi 1, Chris or Gerard (we don't know what history the elder Argents have with magic).

The next detail is that even though Ms. Morrell told the gang that Lydia can give them the location of Deaton (when he was taken), she didn't actually work with them to help them find him. So I'm guessing that Deucalion is somehow involved with the Darach and his sacrifices (she's an emissary for his pack so hinting to them and possibly stopping the sacrifice would have been bad in Deucalion's books if he found out about it). I mean, we can't take Gerard seriously when he said the Deaton kidnapping may have been a setup, cuz we saw the bugs come for him, right?

Actually you can totally take an ordinary joe and have him place mountain ash someplace and it will have the exact same of an effect. It was in Season 2 episode 8 entitled "Raving" "Stiles will have to create a barrier of black dust made from the Mountain Ash tree." (http://teenwolf.wikia.com/wiki/Raving)

Placing Mountain Ash doesn't require someone with any sort of gift or knowledge....you could teach a monkey to place the ash around in a circle and it'll still work. Why? Because it is the ash's properties that are restrictive to the supernatural or werewolves NOT the person placing the ash. Think of it like this: A child pours gas in the shape of a circle, if a flame hits that gas the result will be the same as if a firefighter had placed the gas there.