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Why Did Doctor Waggner Send Karen to the Colony full of Werewolves ?

posted 13 years ago by geskhan
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Yeah, this kept me wondering for quite some time..

Its revealed that Doctor Wagnner is a werewolf in the end and he definitely knows the Quists.

So obviously he knows the reason behind Karen's trauma encounter with Eddie; that Eddie is a werewolf as well.

So why exactly did he suggested that Karen take a vacation at the Colony? Where everybody there is a WEREWOLF!! What was the purpose of doing so? What was his motive here? How does that help in alleviating Karen's mental condition anyway?

Or did Doctor Wagnner send her there for her to be changed into a werewolf too? But this doesnt seem the possibility cos when Karen discovered they were all werewolves. They wanted to kill & silence her, rather than make her one of them ..

This is all very weird. Can someone explain ?

[–] zorn24601 13 years ago

It may have been his plan to prepare her for induction into the pack. But the werewolves at the colony were beginning to turn on him and his pacifistic approach to werewolfism, and they weren't interested in having this whiny reporter as one of their kind. Her husband, yeah, Marcia was all over him, but only a few of the Colony pack liked her.

Erle (the old werewolf) and Marcia wanted to return to the old ways, and had obviously been recruiting pack members to their way of thinking for awhile by the end.

[–] Xex-Arachnid 12 years ago

I think he wanted he was playing Karen close because she was the only one who had tabs on Eddie via their contact.
Dr. Wagner's approach was to have werewolves live among humans and Eddie took his philosophy all wrong and started killing people in Los Angeles. Something that wasn't intended and although it wasn't expressed, I think the whole colony was against it because he was outside of his parameter's thus risking exposure to the colony.
By the time Eddie is shot dead I think Wagner wanted to probe Karen's mind to know for certain if she knew the truth behind Eddie then perhaps who else she might have told and kill her or perhaps include her in the colony that way his way of thinking could have more influence.

[–] doctor_dickenstein 11 years ago

"werewolfism" lol :)

"He must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"

[–] DSNFan 10 years ago

I prefer the term "werewolfery".

[–] zyggums 10 years ago

Either he wanted to remove her as a witness of seeing a werewolf; or he wanted to use her to help mainstream werewolves. As someone famous and in the media she had public influence.

[–] first-things-first 10 years ago

I agree and suspect the second. If he could get approval of their kind, his goal was achieved.

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