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dracox-serdriel · 11 months

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Warning: This post contains spoilers for all episodes of season 1 of Wolf Pack.

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So, after I finished watching 01x08 "Trophic Cascade", I keep reading articles and posts that claim that the arsonist was "revealed" in the episode. I saw so may articles claiming this that I rewatched it thinking I seriously missed something, but, no, I did not.

The arsonist was not revealed in the episode!

Never once did Ramsey admit to or imply that she started the fire. There was no flashblack showing that she started the fire. All that happened in this episode was that Malcolm - a character who we know can't be taken at his word - says that Ramsey did it.

That's it. One extremely suspect dude uttering an accusation. And who did he say it to? The wounded child he had just kidnapped from the hospital. A child he has plenty of reason to lie to - hell, anything he could do to drive a wedge here would be a win for him.

Yet... everybody is acting like Ramsey "revealed" to be the arsonist. Why? There was not a single element of this episode or the overall story that implicates her as the arsonist in any way.

Apparently, the plot being implied here goes like this:

Ramsey's husband (and possibly older son) are killed by the Hot Shot crew seventeen years ago during a horrible fire raging through the woods. Ramsey lashes out in revenge, killing all but Malcolm, who only survives because he flees. Because she was busy slaughtering people (and possibly also because her oldest son was killed), her baby twins were left alone in the woods. While the woods were on fire. Ok. And she kept leaving them there even afterward? And then Garrett found them.

Despite being a literal werewolf whose offspring (who are for sure in her pack) have supersenses, Ramsey fails to find her twin babies. Possibly because she fails to look? But there's no explainantion for this -- whether she assumed they were dead or simply couldn't use super-senses to find them -- we don't know. But apparently, she doesn't find the twins. For 17 years. Even though as an arson investigator she could've found them by pretty human means ('oh hey look a dude adopted two babies he found during that same fire I lost two babies in')

Ramsey's other son Baron is raised by her. I mean, if he is older than Harlan and Luna, it's not by much, and I have a sneaking suspicion that he's actually younger. But whatever the case is, he was clearly raised as a werewolf -- that is, he was both a wolf and a human -- he hasn't been living as a wolf in the woods for 17 years. (If he had, how would he speak English and so on?)

At some point during his teenage years, Ramsey and Baron become estranged to the point of where Baron runs off.

Again, Ramsey - despite being a literal werewolf - cannot find her missing son. Even though 100% of evidence clearly shows they are in the same pack (as Ramsey supposed "marks" both werewolf and human alike to protect them from Beast-Mode Were Baron -- essentially, claims them into the pack).

We're supposed to believe that Ramsey couldn't find Baron, so, naturally, she LIT THE FOREST AROUND HIM ON FIRE just to find him. She's also an arson investigator, so she would know full well that the two ignition points would all but ensure Baron would be lit on fire himself, turning him into BEAST MODE WERE -- which, incidentally, he can't be transformed back from WITHOUT a pack (presumably of more than two people).

None of that makes sense, particularly the idea that she started a fire to "smoke out" Baron before she secured an actual pack to save him from Beast Mode. Even if she was a horrible person/mother, the extreme danger of exposure with a Beast Mode Were on the loose would be more than enough reason for her to find literally any other way to locate Baron. INCLUDING HUMAN WAYS. Geeze.

Malcolm is a far better suspect. He has plenty of reason to hate werewolves. His son is near enough to adulthood for him to enact a plan of vengeancew... yes, it might lead to his own death, but his kid is old enough (at least in theory, this explains why he waited 17 years).

All that being said, I'm not sure it's actually Malcolm. The story (and even the filming/camera angles) all seem to indicate that the arsonist is actually Garrett.

In the first episode, Garrett makes a recording for Luna and Harlan when he believes he might not survive the fire. He tells Luna that things are going to change. He assures her that she's going to find her pack - something she's been desperately looking for. Seems a weird thing to impart as last words when you're assuming your kid will never see you alive again, doesn't it?

In a later episode, we then hear this ENTIRE recording played again, which is a very unusual move on part of the writers here if the recording was what it seemed to be on the surface in the first episode -- that is, a farewell/I love you message from a father to his kids. Why bother playing it again? There wasn't more recorded message to listen to... so the only real reason is that there's more than the surface-level meaning. In this way, playing that whole message again plays very strongly as an admission of guilt. Fold in the fact that the twins only get the recorder because Ramsey slips it to them covertly (rather than putting that recording into evidence where it really should be)... at the very least, that makes it wildly clear to me that Ramsey 100% suspects Garrett of starting the fire.

I'm not saying he is the arsonist - just that the story is making him out to be the obvious suspect. Why? Possibly to "smoke out" the werewolf his son saw many years ago in the woods, possibly even hoping that there was a whole pack hiding in that national forest.

As far as we know, Garrett doesn't know that Beast Mode Were is activated by fire. (I very much doubt that Malcolm said anything about it to him, and Malcolm is the only living person who could've said anything.) So, it's not such an insane idea that Garrett lit the forest on fire hoping to fid more werewolves. He maybe even made sure the fire was just as bad at it was seventeen years ago because, well, there are fires every year... but nary a werewolf has been seen since that fire seventeen years ago.

Why would Garrett wait seventeen years to do this? We haven't been given direct insight on this...that being said, the best bet is that he did it now because he only recently got some very bad news about his health---he's dying of something. And he's looked for - and failed to find - werewolves for the past 17 years. In short, he's desperate to find more werewolves to help his kids. I doubt he entrusted his werewolf search to his "backup plan" aka the other ranger who knows.

Malcolm is still a better suspect (revenge is always a good motive). But both Garrett and Malcom make 1000x more sense as the arsonist than Ramsey.

#wolf pack tv #wolf pack #kristin ramsey #garrett briggs #ramsey is innocent #malcolm #seriously i need this show to actually make sense i'm too scarred by teen wolf's plot lines here

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