Alright, I'm going to be a bit more elementary about this with you, Raziek, and we'll go by baby steps:
Lets assume Ryker has told the entire truth this entire time. We'll assume he's Town, which subsequently means that we will assume he's Cinnamon Bun, VT.
We will also assume that Ryker didn't know I was Jake, since that is what he claims.
1. Ryker "suspects me of being scum," and wants me to claim before him.
This is fine so far, except he sort of magically decided he wanted to pin me as scum, but we'll ignore that.
2. Ryker realizes that I'm not going to claim before him.
This realization is fine.
3. Ryker does what would appear to be a bait/gambit on me; he claims Jake and claims an investigative result on me.
This is the big problem in his "Town" thought process. Where and how did he jump from step 2 to step 3?
Why claim Jake?Why not claim Cinnamon Bun?
Claiming Jake, when Ryker wasn't actually Jake, doesn't make sense. If he is Town, and if he really did try to bait/gambit me, he would not have chosen Jake. There's no reason to if he did not remember that I was Jake, and there's also a chance that the real Jake could have CC'd him.
In fact, he would have known that I claimed Jake and paid attention to my Jake/Watcher claim as Town. Trying to bait/gambit me as Jake is foolish if that is what he was really trying to do, because I'M JAKE, I ALREADY CLAIMED JAKE!
If you can provide a Town thought process that makes sense between steps 2 and 3, I'll back off.