What are the motivations of Jefferson?

[ShadowBeak]

Why Jefferson kidnapped the innocent girls and sometimes killed them in the darkroom?

[Blackwell_ninja]

Because he was certified psychopath. And maybe he was even selling those photos on dark web, with Prescott as his boss (cost of dark room was 1.350.650, i think too much just for pervert hobby).

[Remy]

To keep you from asking anymore questions.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Originally posted by DarkRisado:

Why Jefferson kidnapped the innocent girls and sometimes killed them in the darkroom?

No way to know, really. He was a complete sociopath, without empathy for others.
Perhaps he really was just doing it all for the art.

[Rexx]

Insane basically. Twisted. It's interesting that you ask this, which makes what those two in the art room talked about all the more true. 'Hang on to that book, it'll be worth millions down the line'. Jefferson for better or worse will sure as hell be discussed in mass media and even idolized on some fronts. There's no avoiding that whether he is killed or put into prison for his actions.

[Jdwarfer]

He wanted to master his photo art, in his own psychopathic way.

[Kawaccino]

I think he wanted to be even more famous than he was already. He wanted to produce exclusive shots that would be his and his only because, well, I don't think there is that many crazy maniac who would kidnap girls to capture their emotions (I hope), so they would be difficult to copy or reproduce. In his twisted mind he really thought he was doing it for art.
Honestly he is on something though because as you may have heard sometimes "eyes are the mirror of the soul". And a young woman captured and immobilised by a man in a dark soundproof room must express a loooot of things with her eyes and her whole face in fact. She must express true feelings/emotions that even the best actors can't achieve to play.
Careful, I don't excuse what he did, it was wrong on so many levels that you can't see the top level even when you look up with binoculars, but the idea wasn't ... damn, I don't know how to say it so it doesn't sound wrong... mh, okay, I'll say the idea wasn't entirely stupid because that's all I have right now. I'll edit if I find a better term.

Or, like BaeOverBae said he could have done that for some people on the dark web. If you believe the rumors there are plenty of strange people with even stranger "needs" and tastes and fetishisms that pay a lot of money for the most twisted thing you can think of (or even worse than that).

Why did he kill them? Because they weren't all as shy and secret as the sweet Kate and they would certainly have gone to the police.
On the other hand I am not sure he killed them in fact. We know for a fact that he killed Nathan Prescott because this one messed up by killing Rachel and because Max (and Chloe) was coming a little too close to the truth. But are we sure he killed the other ones? He might have just taken their picture while they were too drugged to recognize him then he could have taken them back to civilization.

[Jeckenn]

DarkRisado! You need to put SPOILER in your forum title it is not fair to someone who has not played all the episodes to read any of this! Please do this ASAP!


That is the really bad part about this story, Jefferson and his motives just don't add up at all. There is no way he could have got away with this for what must have been at least a few years, think about it even if he let the girls go and did not murder them sooner or later one or more of them would have dreams/nightmares about their abduction and soon after that they would likely seek help to find out why they are having these nightmares. That means they would likely seek out a hypnotist and with their help they would likely be able to re-live the entire experience.

Now if one girl did that it would likely not amount to much but if more of them did that then the police would become interested and if the local police would not investigate because they are owned by Prescott's someone eventually would go to either State Troopers or even the FBI to seek justice.

So having said that he would have HAD to kill them all of he would be discovered, no doubt about it because of what I said above. This makes the Jefferson character not even able to get away with his crimes.

Not only that but what are his motives? Why does he want to take these pictures? Did he become famous with such pictures or does he just like to look at them? There was absolutely nothing in the bunker to suggest they were selling those pictures and the only time he ever mentioned Sean Prescott was when he was talking about himself having to kill Nathan so Sean was NOT involved at all. In fact he referred to Sean Prescott as a fool/ idiot and of no consequence to him what so ever.

Now a rich man like Sean Prescott who spends nearly 1.4 million on an underground bunker that would see him safe during a raging tornado and he does not even think to go there on that night? He forgets all about it? Come on rich men don't forget about things they spend 1.4 million on if they did they would NOT be rich.

The entire thing with Jefferson as the bad guy is the worst part of the entire story because he basically can't even exist as he did in that story. All the girls who went missing were from his class this makes him suspect NUMBER ONE! Now I do realize that Sean Prescott owned the police and if he would have been the bad guy behind it all then he could have kept them on his leash but Jefferson? He had no such control over the police so how did he fly under their radar?

[Uncle Jensen]

Seriously I feel sorry for those who had not reached ep5 and ran into community discussion and saw this XD

[Kawaccino]

Originally posted by DannyDannyDanny:

Seriously I feel sorry for those who had not reached ep5 and ran into community discussion and saw this XD

Damn, you're right... Well let's hope that it will make them so curious that they will want to see by themselves and play the game until the end.

[Matt]

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

DarkRisado! You need to put SPOILER in your forum title it is not fair to someone who has not played all the episodes to read any of this! Please do this ASAP!


That is the really bad part about this story, Jefferson and his motives just don't add up at all. There is no way he could have got away with this for what must have been at least a few years, think about it even if he let the girls go and did not murder them sooner or later one or more of them would have dreams/nightmares about their abduction and soon after that they would likely seek help to find out why they are having these nightmares. That means they would likely seek out a hypnotist and with their help they would likely be able to re-live the entire experience.

Now if one girl did that it would likely not amount to much but if more of them did that then the police would become interested and if the local police would not investigate because they are owned by Prescott's someone eventually would go to either State Troopers or even the FBI to seek justice.

So having said that he would have HAD to kill them all of he would be discovered, no doubt about it because of what I said above. This makes the Jefferson character not even able to get away with his crimes.

Not only that but what are his motives? Why does he want to take these pictures? Did he become famous with such pictures or does he just like to look at them? There was absolutely nothing in the bunker to suggest they were selling those pictures and the only time he ever mentioned Sean Prescott was when he was talking about himself having to kill Nathan so Sean was NOT involved at all. In fact he referred to Sean Prescott as a fool/ idiot and of no consequence to him what so ever.

Now a rich man like Sean Prescott who spends nearly 1.4 million on an underground bunker that would see him safe during a raging tornado and he does not even think to go there on that night? He forgets all about it? Come on rich men don't forget about things they spend 1.4 million on if they did they would NOT be rich.

The entire thing with Jefferson as the bad guy is the worst part of the entire story because he basically can't even exist as he did in that story. All the girls who went missing were from his class this makes him suspect NUMBER ONE! Now I do realize that Sean Prescott owned the police and if he would have been the bad guy behind it all then he could have kept them on his leash but Jefferson? He had no such control over the police so how did he fly under their radar?

Most of what you said makes perfect sense, but the last thing you want to do is piss off the most powerful man in the bay. As far as Sean knew, Jefferson was keeping him on a leash and is helping control his urges.

Last thing the police want to do is make an embarrasment out of themselves with the zero evidence they have and the richest guy backing the opposition.

Police officers don't like it, but their houses, schools and bars are owned by the same guy. Would you risk your family based on a scent?

[Jeckenn]

Originally posted by That Guy:

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

DarkRisado! You need to put SPOILER in your forum title it is not fair to someone who has not played all the episodes to read any of this! Please do this ASAP!


That is the really bad part about this story, Jefferson and his motives just don't add up at all. There is no way he could have got away with this for what must have been at least a few years, think about it even if he let the girls go and did not murder them sooner or later one or more of them would have dreams/nightmares about their abduction and soon after that they would likely seek help to find out why they are having these nightmares. That means they would likely seek out a hypnotist and with their help they would likely be able to re-live the entire experience.

Now if one girl did that it would likely not amount to much but if more of them did that then the police would become interested and if the local police would not investigate because they are owned by Prescott's someone eventually would go to either State Troopers or even the FBI to seek justice.

So having said that he would have HAD to kill them all of he would be discovered, no doubt about it because of what I said above. This makes the Jefferson character not even able to get away with his crimes.

Not only that but what are his motives? Why does he want to take these pictures? Did he become famous with such pictures or does he just like to look at them? There was absolutely nothing in the bunker to suggest they were selling those pictures and the only time he ever mentioned Sean Prescott was when he was talking about himself having to kill Nathan so Sean was NOT involved at all. In fact he referred to Sean Prescott as a fool/ idiot and of no consequence to him what so ever.

Now a rich man like Sean Prescott who spends nearly 1.4 million on an underground bunker that would see him safe during a raging tornado and he does not even think to go there on that night? He forgets all about it? Come on rich men don't forget about things they spend 1.4 million on if they did they would NOT be rich.

The entire thing with Jefferson as the bad guy is the worst part of the entire story because he basically can't even exist as he did in that story. All the girls who went missing were from his class this makes him suspect NUMBER ONE! Now I do realize that Sean Prescott owned the police and if he would have been the bad guy behind it all then he could have kept them on his leash but Jefferson? He had no such control over the police so how did he fly under their radar?

Most of what you said makes perfect sense, but the last thing you want to do is piss off the most powerful man in the bay. As far as Sean knew, Jefferson was keeping him on a leash and is helping control his urges.

Last thing the police want to do is make an embarrasment out of themselves with the zero evidence they have and the richest guy backing the opposition.

Police officers don't like it, but their houses, schools and bars are owned by the same guy. Would you risk your family based on a scent?

The thing is though Sean Prescott had basically forgot all about his expensive bunker because otherwise he WOULD have showed up there the one night he actually needed it. So any investigation into girls being abducted would not even involve Sean Prescott, instead the main focus would be Mark Jefferson as he would be the ONLY common thing that all the girls had, each one attended his class.

[Kawaccino]

Prescott senior is a rich man so... I think it's highly possible that he has properties out of Arcadia Bay and can "get the hell out of here" in short time. So, I don't think if he saw the tornado he would come to the bunker even if it's a great protection, he would go away without a thought.

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

All the girls who went missing were from his class this makes him suspect NUMBER ONE!

Does it? We never learn anything about the other girls in the folders .As one of the inspirations for Rachel is Laura Palmer. Rachel's shown to have a a secret double life with various people being suspected of being responsible for her going missing. Kate was alive and well and unable to recall actual details and as her time in the Dark Room is after a Vortex club party where she was drugged there isn't anything which would suggest Jefferson's involvement and Max is taken at a point when nobody else is aware of where she is

[Matt]

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

Originally posted by That Guy:

Most of what you said makes perfect sense, but the last thing you want to do is piss off the most powerful man in the bay. As far as Sean knew, Jefferson was keeping him on a leash and is helping control his urges.

Last thing the police want to do is make an embarrasment out of themselves with the zero evidence they have and the richest guy backing the opposition.

Police officers don't like it, but their houses, schools and bars are owned by the same guy. Would you risk your family based on a scent?

The thing is though Sean Prescott had basically forgot all about his expensive bunker because otherwise he WOULD have showed up there the one night he actually needed it. So any investigation into girls being abducted would not even involve Sean Prescott, instead the main focus would be Mark Jefferson as he would be the ONLY common thing that all the girls had, each one attended his class.

It's not a matter of having Sean Prescott involved, it's about preventing Jefferson mentoring his child. Something which Sean Prescott paid Jefferson to do.

[Kawaccino]

Originally posted by MorningLightMountain:

As one of the inspirations for Rachel is Laura Palmer.

Mh, that's the second reference to Twin Peaks. Now I wonder what else is a reference to it. What did I miss?

By the way, as you say we don't know anything about the other girls, so it's hard to say that Jeff' is screwed.