Thread:AforAlison/@comment-28440360-20160515075710/@comment-104.249.196.6-20170522070747

I must point out that there is evidence to support Jasper having taken the chip well before the oil rig. It's pretty solid too.

Exactly when Jasper took the chip seems to be unclear, hidden from us actually. However in season 3, episode 14 I believe, Jaha and Allie are talking in the city of light, right before Raven hacks in. They are inside a building on a set of stairs. Allie tells Jaha that Sinclaire is dead, Jaha asks how does she know this and she gives a sorta "that's not important" response, if I remember the scene correctly.

Anyways this is huge information that really gets slipped into that scene very breifly. Emmerson killed Sinclaire in Arcadia when Clarke and the group went back for Lincoln's book. Now the only way Allie would know of his death is if someone there was chipped. It could not have been Emmerson, because Clarke killed him with the Flame.

In the shipping container while Clarke, Belamie, and Octavia are locked in there and Luna is being tortured and Jasper was tied up, Clarke mentions that if Luna is chipped before taking the AI Allie will know everything. Here Belamie also poses the theory of drones following them to the oil rig, which throws us off of Jasper being chipped earlier on. Also given the fact that Emmerson has no hint of ever taking the chip and Allie is looking for Clarke and the Flame at the time of Emmerson's revenge, it is safe to assume that Jasper was the one that was chipped. If it was Emmerson he would have been taken over by Allie the moment Belamie cuffed himself in the air lock with the others and just shot Clarke and went for the Flame, but instead Emmerson was there on personal revenge, and went through with his plan of torturing Clarke, not caring about acquiring the Flame.

My best theory is after Chipped Raven, tied to the bed at the trading post, discovered where she was by seeing Nadia thus alerting Allie, Jasper maybe felt they were doomed or that this was finally too much (chipped Raven also just put him on edge about Mia's death) so he took a chip he has been holding onto, battling within himself about whether to take it (he shows heavy signs of inner rage picking up Clarke in the Rover and onwards, he makes many comments to Clarke over the next few scenes showing he is very unstable. Then when they all get back to Acadia to get Licoln's book he is stable again making dry humour jokes from there on). Or maybe he took it when he was tied up in the air lock? Just feeling that it was all over?

Allie kept him undercover for obvious gains at a later time as you then see the payoff for (exposing him to try and stop them from frying Ravens chip has no strategic gain from Allies point, the group would just fry it out of him or tie him up or what not, keeping him covert, just like Allie did before with male doctor, Abbey's assistant, makes the most logical/strategic sense).

When he got that chip is unclear to me. Any input to this would be awesome since this has been eating at me so any others hints noticed by others as to when Jasper got chipped would be great to hear about.