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The Benefactor
The central mystery of [[Season 4]] is identity of the Benefactor. Assassins receive cassette tapes with instructions on how to participate in a hit list called the [[deadpool]], where they can earn rewards for killing supernatural creatures in [[Beacon Hills, California|Beacon Hills]]. 
 
The Benefactor arranged for [[Kate Argent|Kate]] to open the [[Hale vault]] so that he could steal the Hale's fortune, $117m which he is using to fund the [[deadpool]].
 
At the end of [[4x09 - Perishable]], it is heavily implied that [[Meredith Walker|Meredith]] is the Benefactor. Her suicide was faked, with the help of [[Brunski]]. And she tells [[Lydia Martin|Lydia]], [[Stiles Stilinski|Stiles]], and [[Deputy Jordan Parrish|Parrish]] that [[Brunski]] wasn't on her list but he was a bad man.
 
In [[4x10 - Monstrous]], we learn that Peter Hale is the Benefactor, only he doesn't remember. While he was in a coma after the fire, he planned the entire thing and Meredith could overhear him. She enacted his plan.