For goodness' sake guys, no one is saying Methos is a saboteur. He's not, obviously there wasn't any saboteur who could just call down an airstrike. But no one ever said that he was. He's a third party, neutral-ish foreigner on his own faction most likely.
I'd also like to point out glaring inconsistencies in the above and make note of Methos' extreme underhandedness. He's a scum, he's not an Innocent with personal goal problems or anything like that. I don't know how he thought admitting to the above would clear him but it doesn't.
Firstly, the tape recorder problem. Well it turns out, according to Renata, that no, Methos didn't have to go the bridge every night. He could have left his tape recorder there on/off (whatever way it works in flavor) a loop, and the tape recorder would have taken care of things. He actually purposefully did not use the tape recorder for this to threaten Renata that he, Methos, had to be protected and remain alive. The party surprised Methos too apparently and also took away his leverage since his foreign contacts no longer care it seems, but he in no way was trying to be Innocent about that the start. And I question how we could really believe it was the case that if someone random (say a Rogue) came along and killed Methos at the start, as an Innocent, that all of the rest of us would have to face immediate consequences from that.
Secondly, once we see that Methos admits to killing askthepizzaguy we can see how scummy he was about the whole matter. Again, I'd like to point out specifically what Renata told us, which is that askthepizzaguy was pretending to be neutral or some gambit like that, which made Methos think he was a rival/threat to himself and so he killed askthepizzaguy. Not an Innocent move at all. Also ATPG might have been behind starting the whole rumor of people using "two personal abilities" but not sure on that, that only came up in passing and we'll never get that clarified as its past and gone now.
A failed vig-kill is one thing, but no Innocent would ever try to frame another Innocent using said vig-kill as evidence:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=10208043&postcount=655
rhawn, I've sent you some more explanations on our vigilante problem. To be clear, Ekolite was not at all near the top of the list to be vig-killed, I would have gone for CCRunner, Seon, Paulos, had to us, and Methos (if we thought the vig-kill could get Methos) first, but I don't have the final say.
And about robbiecon - really guys, the scan just isn't a guarantee. We've had a very false scan before for no reason. I'm willing to accept our scanner may be Innocent and honest on his end, but working off of this evidence alone isn't worth it. The only way robbiecon could be a killer, again, is if he was given a bomb and used it to blow up someone, and so far nobody has confirmed that, least of all Methos, who could supposedly have just revealed where any bombs sprig/Renata/anyone else there had the whole time. Every other kill has been by somebody else and robbiecon has also been accounted for on night actions a lot of nights, not to mention locked up last night when it looks like we had 3 saboteurs or at least 2 saboteurs and a third party serial killer active. So at best, even if he is a saboteur, he could only do a little bit of damage/have another bomb around, and like I said, we should helicopter him out of here tonight. I highly doubt any saboteur would have behaved like robbiecon in this situation - giving his items back, cooperating and sharing info, etc... and anyway if he wouldn't go on the helicopter tonight we'd know we could get him tomorrow.