Who killed Derek?

             When Annie told Sutton that “The Snake” crawled out of the water Emma and Sutton decided to try and figure out who the snake is. Annie wasn’t really able to give them a good description of who “The Snake” was when they went to visit her in the hospital.

        

           After we saw the car accident I always had suspensions about Derek. Everyone was at the Sutton’s party but Derek. Back at school when Emma went to confront him about breaking up with Char at first he acted really weird. When she first went up to him he started getting nervous, “I am sorry, I didn’t mean to.” But once he realized they weren’t talking about the same thing he said “Oh, are you talking about Char?”

         Ethan and Sutton saw that Derek had a tattoo of a snake on his wrist. They went to confront him at his work. He admitted that he was the one in the car. “It wasn’t suppose to end like that. I was suppose to just take you to a parking lot but you freaked out and went into the water.” Derek then picked up a tire iron and hit Ethan. Ethan then punched Derek really hard making him fall on the ground. As Derek was getting up, a car was pulling in. Ethan and Sutton ran out not seeing who it was. The next day Derek was found dead. Ethan was pulled over that night and a police officer saw Ethan’s hand and with his reputation he is being accused. Dan, Ethan’s brother told him to leave town and he will try and figure out who did it.

Ethan and Sutton Being Pulled Over

Emma Being Questioned For Derek's Death
 (thought to be Sutton)

Alec Telling Derek To Do A Favor
 For Him

           I think that Alec had something to do with Derek’s Death. Alec cancelled his date with Rebecca and came home late. He said that he was going to go find his daughter who was supposed to be at the library but was not. He didn’t find her and just came home. If he were supposedly as worried as he said he was he would have called the police and kept searching till he found her. Why would anyone want to kill Derek other then Sutton? Derek was getting up when they were leaving. The places Ethan punched Derek on his face are very unlikely to cause him to die. Alec on the other hand has motive to kill Derek! Derek started telling Sutton and Ethan information. Alec could have killed him because he didn’t want them to find out anything else and reveal his secret.

          During Derek’s funeral Emma and Alec started talking about Derek and how it is a tragedy that he died. “You did a lot for Derek didn’t you? And he did a lot for you?” Emma said.  Alec became very defensive asking her what she was talking about that she should be careful who she accuses. He then starts saying that he finds it awful weird that she cant remember to much of that night, but the problem is, is that Sutton was there and she wasn’t. He tells her that he doesn’t think that Ethan did it and that he should come back. 

         If Alec says he doesn’t think that Ethan did it then why is he accusing Ethan? I think he is just saying that because he wants Ethan to come back so they don’t investigate to much into it and find he had a part in it. Also if Alec didn’t kill Derek then why was he so defensive when Emma asked him a simple question? He also turned it around on Emma/Sutton not allowing her to ask to many
questions. Alec is right that it was a tragedy that Derek died because he died for no reason! Alec is being selfish letting people getting hurt or killed just for this secret. Wouldn’t it be better to just let the secret out instead of always worried about it and hurting people?