With this in mind, we can reasonably assume her honesty with everyone—including us/Henry—is also suspect. We are in fact encouraged to be suspicious of her early in the game when she is overheard on an open mic talking with someone else, and she becomes defensive if you question her about it. There are a few theories on who this person might be, but it is strongly implied that it is not who she says during her apologetic explanation.
Perhaps the most glaring example of likely dishonesty concerns Wapiti Station/Meadow. It is established during their getting-to-know-each-other dialogue that Delilah has been doing her supervisory job in the park for a long time. Yet upon the mention of the fence (parts of which being visible from her tower) she expresses surprise almost to the point of disbelief, and acts as if she has no idea what "Wapiti Station" is when Henry mentions it being named on the clipboard he locates. Either she has been given a huge Idiot Ball for the plot's benefit, or she is deceiving Henry.
The second huge instance of Delilah's deceit is in her "understanding" of radios. The convoluted solution—and really a lot of the main-plot-that-later-becomes-the-sub-plot—she devises to the eavesdropping problem is so simple and ineffectual that it is reminiscent of something you might find in a satirical spy novel... She speaks to Henry entirely out of character to the point that he asks multiple times why she's acting so chipper, and directs him to a flora sheet (one Ned would be familiar with as a former watcher, and one we later discover in a burned out cabin not far from Ned's hideout) she uses as a "code" to direct him to a cache with a new combination that contains different radio. Upon reflection, this all comes off as a ruse, especially as reviewers like this one
have pointed out in their analyses that this cache is actually farther away from Delilah's tower than Two Forks where Henry is stationed, making this trip and the complications surrounding it all the more ludicrous.
At the core of the theory though is the big "WHY" of it all. It is at this point it becomes a matter of darkness; is Delilah as simply one who deals poorly with conflict and confrontation? Is she bored and using Henry as her new toy as a means of keeping herself entertained through the summer? Or is she actually trying to keep her involvement in the circumstances leading to the death of a young boy a secret?
As noted by many, Ned's behavior makes absolutely no sense for someone intentionally trying to avoid detection; he breaks into Henry's lookout tower, fabricates an entire government conspiracy to convince Henry and Delilah they're being observed and recorded, nearly gets the two of them framed for a fire he set, and even provides Henry the key into the very cave he's trying to keep him out of, the only way in said cave, which, as it stands, seems to have only been to try and trap him down there, which didn't even work.
However, his behavior makes perfect sense for someone who wants someone to find it and doesn't want to admit it. Maybe when he saw Henry, Ned decided he finally wanted to come clean, but didn't want to face the consequences for not doing the responsible thing and reporting Brian's death. He broke into the lookout tower to put Henry on edge, but when that failed to sufficiently provoke his interest, went to extreme lengths by fabricating the conspiracy to ensure that when he provided the key to the cave, Henry would go down and investigate instead of turning it over or ignoring it. Even his confession at the end saying he was trying to keep Henry away could be seen as him simply lying to himself, reflective of the Never My Fault attitude he displays during said confession.
It's not a perfect theory, but it makes more sense than him just being extraordinarily bad at trying to stay hidden when he'd been doing so just fine for three years before that point.
- The entire point of the game was that it was anticlimactic. There wasn't supposed to be a massive conspiracy behind everything or have everything connected
- What didn't they resolve? If you explore Ned's bunker and read his notes, it pretty much explains everything that happened. Ned was behind everything a la a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. There wasn't an actual conspiracy.
