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It’s funny that I have now grown suspicious of questions like this.  They are seeming polite, but they also seem grounded in fanon animosity.

I can tell by your question it has been a while since you watched the show.   Because the first thing you should remember is that Derek biting Gerard wasn’t Scott’s plan, it was Gerard’s plan.  Gerard wanted the bite to cure his cancer, but it was obvious that he wasn’t planning to be anyone’s beta.  If he was going to go against his own family’s Code (and, as we’d discover later, but he would have already known about them, the Calaveras), he was going to need power.  He targeted Derek to give him the Bite, because not only was Derek the only damn alpha available at that time, but he could also disguise his actions from the other hunters by claiming it was revenge for Kate.  (I’m sure he wanted revenge for Kate thus he could control the kanima, but he could have focused that revenge elsewhere.  As a tactician, Gerard could do two things at the same time.)

Gerard had to maneuver Derek into a position where he could force Derek to bite him but still have Derek in a position of weakness, so he could immediately kill him and take the alpha power.   He chose Scott whom he suspected would be vulnerable to his manipulations.  It wouldn’t be hard to put that together from what Chris could tell him about Season 1.

So, you wanted a timeline for Scott’s plan.

Abomination (1x04):   Gerard begins his plan by confronting Scott outside the hospital at the end of the episode.   What many people might not realize is that Gerard was never fooled by Scott’s act at the family dinner.  Gerard’s performance was for Chris and Victoria.  If they knew that Gerard knew about Scott’s lycanthropic nature, they’d ask questions.  Gerard stabs Scott, demanding that Scott obey or Gerard would kill his mother.  However, Scott smells the cancer on Gerard.

Restraint (1x07): After discovering that Jackson is the kanima, Scott joins Derek’s pack under false pretenses.   His goals seem two-fold: to convince Gerard he’s doing what he ordered him to do and to convince Derek to try to save Jackson rather than execute him. 

Raving (1x08):  Scott and his pack, Derek and his pack, Victoria, and the rest of the Argents get in a four-way car wreck at the rave, which leaves Victoria bitten, a girl dead, Scott near death, and Jackson and his master free. 

Fury (1x10): Scott steals Gerard’s pill case and replaces his normal medication with mountain-ash filled pills.  Sometime between this episode and Abomination, Scott went to Deaton and got his help to doctor the medicine.  An important aspect of this plan is that it never had to happen – it was a fail safe, as other people have pointed out.   If Gerard never managed to get Derek’s bite, it might have caused Gerard’s fatal cancer to kill him more quickly.

As an aside – here’s where fanon’s conception of Scott as being naive and indulging in black-and-white thinking breaks down.  Scott had to know that there was a risk that Gerard would die after he tampered with Gerard’s medication.  Even if any number of members of the fandom think that Scott was a potato (which he wasn’t), Deaton would have pointed that out.  The truth is that Scott didn’t have a no-kill rule.  Scott had a reluctance to kill, but he was certainly capable of imagining it and, as this sequence shows, capable of taking actions that could cause it.  His complaints were always either about, in the case of Jackson, Lydia, Stiles, Boyd, Cora, and the chimeras, killing victims, or jumping to murder as a first solution and not the last possible alternative.  That’s a difference which fanon simply refuses to contemplate.

Battlefield (1x11): For all that fanon likes to complain that Scott worked with hunters, he wasn’t very cooperative, was he?  Gerard felt that he had to constantly threaten Scott to get the least little tidbit of information.  On two separate occasions in one episode, Gerard had to threaten Scott with the death of people he cared about in order to convince Scott to give him Derek.  And yet, Scott didn’t give Gerard Derek’s location – which he knew – in either case.

Master Plan (1x12): Here is where the fail safe comes into play.  At Derek’s suggestion, Scott and Isaac bring Jackson’s body to the warehouse.  Derek had told Scott that Peter knew a way Lydia could cure Jackson, but Derek had betrayed Scott once again by planning to murder Jackson anyway.  Gerard showed up with Allison, because as Gerard states, Scott didn’t know Gerard could sense the kanima’s location.  Chris, Scott, Isaac, and Derek fight Jackson and get whupped.  It’s only after this, only after Gerard has Jackson’s claws at Allison’s throat, that Gerard demands that Scott make Derek bite him.   Scott apologizes to Derek yet complies with the demand, because he knows that the fail safe is in place.  Gerard is disabled by the Bite mixed with the mountain ash, Stiles – who got the location from Scott – and Lydia burst in and save Jackson with Peter’s plan.   Bad guys beat.  No one dies.

Some fanon like to claim that the mountain ash fail safe did nothing, but Stiles’ jeep wouldn’t have stopped Gerard from killing Derek and becoming alpha. Scott did that, thus preventing Gerard’s plan from coming to its successful conclusion.

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