-= The truth about Nathan, Jefferson and Rachel [SPOILER] =-

[ShadowBeak]

We know that Mark Jefferson was a very talented photographer with a huge reputation and social and professional prestige, being respected and regarded throughout Oregon and Blackwell Academy.
At first glance the players do not suspect that a quiet man, well educated and charismatic in reality was an angry psychopath, pretentious, manipulative, being able to kill someone in cold blood, even that victims are only female adolescents.
However, Jefferson only kill the girls who are conscious about Darkroom, because he did not want to be identified. Rachel Amber, Max Caulfield and Victoria, all these girls learned that Jefferson was the psychopath who was hiding in the Darkroom, so he wanted to kill them. Max was saved only because he had powers, but dozens of other girls were not so lucky.
The reason for Kate have survived was because she remained unconscious the whole time and could not identify the Jefferson, so he did not have to kill her. But only as a precaution, Mark Jefferson injected a drug in Kate encouraged her depression and the will to commit suicide.
I think it was not Nathan who killed Rachel. If you think a little realize that the girl had been missing for a long time. Nathan died recently because Jefferson knew that Max and Chloe were looking for him.
Jefferson was watching Max and Chloe talking about Nathan through the hidden cameras that were in the Darkroom. They knew that Nathan was involved in the kidnapping of students Blackwell. Nathan had called too much attention to Jefferson and needed to be eliminated.
Nathan was no longer necessary to Jefferson. Nathan Prescott had many family problems. He was an abused child, undervalued and unloved. He grew up being a person frustrated and without self-esteem.
Mark Jefferson realized that the boy had serious mental problems and offered to help him. Mark Jefferson became a surrogate father to Nathan. Jefferson used the excuse of wanting to turn Nathan into a great photographer to ask him a lot of money and build a Darkroom. He also asked Nathan to bring girls for them to be photographed.
Nathan was naive and believed that this was something good for his apprenticeship as a photographer, so he obeyed the Jefferson without hesitation. Jefferson went on to persuade him to stop taking the medicine and advised Nathan to drug and kidnap more girls.
Mark Jefferson also drugged Nathan without him noticing. Nathan was getting crazier. Mark Jefferson was prepared to put all the blame on Nathan if anything went wrong with his plans.
After Nathan Prescott was killed, Mark Jefferson pretended it was Nathan to attract Max and Chloe directly into a trap. Both girls knew too much about the Darkroom and needed to be killed. As I had said before, anyone who knew of the existence of Darkroom was killed by Jefferson.

[King Yuri]

https://youtu.be/ucGtatINv28

[Lunch Box1912]

I posted this in another thread but it's relevant here as well...

I don't think Nathen knows he overdosed Rachel. The photo of him posed with Rachel in the junkyard could have been taken by Mr. Jefferson, taken to use in framing Nathan. This photo is the complete opposite of Nathen's work and Jefferson has been manipulating Nathen all along. My thought is once Jefferson realized Nathen overdosed Rachel Jefferson then dossed Nathen and posed him with Rachel's dead body.

I think Nathen knows something went down that night and then Rachel was just gone. I think Nathen is just as confused about what happened to Rachel Amber and himself that night as much as Max and Chloe are unsure of what happened to Rachel Amber. In fact so unsure and frightened of Jefferson that he purchases a gun to protect himself. Even though he is doing terrible things with Jefferson I don't believe it was ever Nathans intention to kill. His reaction was of joy for a split second as he thought perhaps that night didn't go as terrible as he thought.

[ShadowBeak]

yep

[Jeckenn]

I have said this all along because when Max confronted Jefferson about killing Chloe he immediately blamed it on Nathan and he also blamed Rachel's death on Nathan. Psychopath's regularly do this, they put the blame on anyone but themselves, or they are doing because someone of something told them to, it is never their fault.

This is why I think all the girls in the binders were killed and even if they were not then how is Jefferson able to tell if the girl will remember and never worry that she will? He would likely just kill them all just to be sure he can continue his career of filming drugged young girls. It is so wierd to me that no one investigated this except David Madsen because if that many girls had gone missing even for a day or two it would be news and there would be an investigation no doubt about it.

[Firing Line]

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

I have said this all along because when Max confronted Jefferson about killing Chloe he immediately blamed it on Nathan and he also blamed Rachel's death on Nathan. Psychopath's regularly do this, they put the blame on anyone but themselves, or they are doing because someone of something told them to, it is never their fault.

This is why I think all the girls in the binders were killed and even if they were not then how is Jefferson able to tell if the girl will remember and never worry that she will? He would likely just kill them all just to be sure he can continue his career of filming drugged young girls. It is so wierd to me that no one investigated this except David Madsen because if that many girls had gone missing even for a day or two it would be news and there would be an investigation no doubt about it.

But the list of missing people in Arcadia Bay is shorter than my ♥♥♥♥, so obviously they're still alive or they would be placed on the missing persons list.

[Clord]

You could say that Jefferson didn't want to kill anyone but felt like he was forced to since Nathan screwed up.

However, more likely his reasoning is that he wants to keep his subjects alive and unaware. If they ever get aware of it, he must dispose them.

Other one is, that in a such small town you don't just constantly start dispose its residents without getting FBI or some other authority to investigate the case. Basically when the police starts to believe that there might be a serial killer, Jefferson would be in a huge disadvantage to continue his operation and at that point, only reliable way to stay free would be to stop his "hobby." But since he's likely psychopath, I doubt he would decide rationally.

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

I have said this all along because when Max confronted Jefferson about killing Chloe he immediately blamed it on Nathan and he also blamed Rachel's death on Nathan. Psychopath's regularly do this, they put the blame on anyone but themselves, or they are doing because someone of something told them to, it is never their fault.

He doesn't fully admits to killing Chloe but states that he will use Nathan as scapegoat.

[ShadowBeak]

The Prescott family could easily control the local police and Jefferson have taken advantage of it.