The weregecko’s master is setting him on poor people in a
trailer – killing the man, but sparing his pregnant wife (more hints adding to
Allison’s conclusion that the weregecko does have some moral compunctions about
its murder spree)
The Scooby Gang – Allison, Stiles and Scott, have a recap
on what it must be like to be Jackson the weregecko – how he must be completely
forgetting not just being the weregecko, but also shifting, cleaning up
afterwards, everything – though his master must be helping him edit the video.
Of course, talking to Jackson is somewhat difficult
because the of the restraining order that has now been put out on them against
Jackson (though I admire Stiles his ability for causing every adult in the room
to cross their arms in exasperation at the same time). And the parents are also
Not Pleased with the whole kidnapping and restraining order thing. Scott’s
mother in particular has grounded Scott from Stiles – and wants to know what’s
going on with him, alas, at Stiles’s urging, he doesn’t tell her.
Derek and the Wolfies (except Boyd who is never ever
around) want to find the identity of the weregecko from Scott and Stiles – and
it seems Erica and Isaac still have to be chained up (for kinky reasons… wait,
no, because of full moon) and Derek hasn’t been teaching them while worrying
about the Argents (which was the whole point of having them) and Jackson the
weregecko. Derek also notices that Granddaddy Argent wasn’t afraid of the
weregecko – that would be a weregecko that needs a boss, the killing machine
that is being controlled. Now I wonder I wonder why Granddaddy Argent isn’t
afraid? Oh what a mystery. Here, let me beat you to death the clues a little
more.
Meanwhile Allison is sneaking around the CCTV and passing
on Lydia’s confused translations – under the excuse that they’re part of an
online gaming community that battles mythical creatures. This a) allows Stiles
to be geekily adorable and b) confirms Allison
as the worst friend ever since, last episode, Allison refused to talk about
Lydia’s trauma and hallucinations and insisted they do the translation instead.
If my friend said “sorry, no time for your major real life trauma – but can you
translate the Monster Manual for me?” I’d slap them. And they learn that the
weregecko is an agent of vengeance – it kills murderers until the Master gets full
control then it kills whoever the Master (Granddaddy Argent) wants. Also, the
weregecko will become a fullfledged werewolf when he finally resolves his
issues, whatever they may be. They put 2 and 2 together of his story and wonder
about Jackson’s biological parents (we’ve already learned he has issues with
his adoptive parents).
Jackson, meanwhile, is getting really really friendly
with a snake. Really friendly, extra friendly if that expression on his face is
anything to go by – and the snake crawls down his throat, while he still looks
very happy about it (you are all forbidden to come up with innuendos, it’s just
too damn easy).
Scott’s mother decides to search his room (starting with
the pretence of cleaning and then ransacking the place extremely thoroughly)
and finds… a pack of 12 condoms, with only one left. Well, looks like Scott and
Allison weren’t playing board games. And what does she do with this knowledge?
Go talk to Mummy Argent about it, of course. Ye gods, do parents really do
this?
Allison is stalking Jackson – presumably because sneaking
up on someone carrying your shoes is the best way to question them about their
traumatic childhood (I always like to start these conversations by jumping up
behind them and shouting “boo”). She runs into Matt, who has a crush on her,
gets her a ticket to a party and generally reminds us that the character still
exists. Allison continues to look for Jackson, calling his name now, and
following him into the boys changing rooms, then to the showers, where he is
naked (what did you expect, Allison?) and Jackson starts being menacing and,
y’know, Jackson. Scott himself is taking a chemistry exam he missed – but at
least its multiple choice when his Allison-sense goes off and he feels she’s in
trouble and tries to run – but his teacher insists he stays and finishes the
test, even though he’s used up his allotted time (wow, multiple choice and
infinite time in which to finish it? Which exam board is this?) Jackson acts
even worse than he usually does – which takes effort – and starts growing
claws, but when they end up on the floor he comes back to his senses. Of course
this is when Scott comes in, sees Jackson naked over a cowering Allison and
attacks. Time for the fight scene.
Erica is trying to find something out from Stiles, but
the CCTV defeats her being all wolfy – but she does reveal she knows that
Jackson’s parents are dead (which helps because Lydia isn’t talking, mainly
because she’s Lydia). Stiles’s curiosity clues Erica in that Jackson is the
weregecko. Their conversation (which was just getting good and just starting to
add some characterisation to Erica) is interrupted by Scott and Jackson’s
fight. The fight is broken up – and Matt picks up Scott’s tablet with the
weregecko translation on it and starts snooping (why? Why would he do this? Why
would he care what’s on the tablet belonging to a guy he barely knows?) and
they all end up in detention because their chemistry teacher is more evil than
the weregecko
In detention Allison sees Matt has Scott’s tablet, we
learn that Stiles doesn’t get on with Matt and Scott wants to kill Jackson (oh
NOW you’re on team kill Jackson. You know, it would have been better to do this
last episode). When Jackson leaves to go to the bathroom feeling ill (the snake
from earlier crawls out of his eye… yeah I didn’t need to see that) we finally
get Erica interrogated about Jackson’s parent’s death – in a car accident, a
day before he was born. (Nice to see Erica’s dad keeps his confidential files
confidential) And that he had to be pulled out of his mother’s body by c-section.
And the car accident is “inconclusive” whether it’s an accident or not.
Because of his mother’s wonderful revelation, Scott is
also called to speak to evil Mummy Argent who interrogates him about his sex
life before returning to Jackson who has another weregecko moment, or
half-weregecko anyway making a massive mess, paralysing Erica and Matt – then writing
on the blackboard: “Stay out of my way or I’ll kill all of you”. Erica starts
seizing and demands to be taken to Derek and Matt needs an ambulance – so they
rush to help. Hah, no, of course they don’t. With wounded on the floor Scott
and Allison have an angsting moment to a piano solo at the idea of leaving poor
Allison alone.
They get Erica to Derek and it seems werewolves have the
worst possible doctoring methods ever. And Scott confronts Derek about putting
Erica at risk to find Jackson – and volunteers to join Derek’s pack to stop
Jackson so long as they catch him not kill him.
Lydia, meanwhile, is still being flirted with by the mysterious
neighbour boy who gave her a flower, and has a date. But she can’t find the
flower, nor any flowers on the vine he pulled one from. But then she feels
compelled to go wandering out of her house, out into the woods and to a strange
house – all without even wearing shoes. The house is abandoned and empty – but she
does run into the cute guy she’s been flirting with – and they kiss and kiss
and… oh dear. The whole house becomes a burned out ruin – Werewolf central and
the boy she’s kissing becomes the burned and scarred body of Peter Hale – the last
Alpha. Which he has been all along, he has never existed. While Lydia looks on,
horrified into the distance, Peter sits next to her and tells her how not mentally
ill she is, honest; apparently Lydia is a backup plan because of her immunity.
In the hospital we catch up with the pregnant woman from
the beginning of the episode, telling Scott’s mother that her attacker wasn’t
human. When she leaves, a guy who totally isn’t-granddaddy Argent, honest
folks, kills her.
“I am tired of feeling slightly terrified all the time”
This is one of the best lines on class and poverty I’ve heard in a long time.
That lack of security that being poor brings, that edge of everything not only
being ready to fall apart – but knowing you have no resources to fix any of it.
That constant 2 seconds from disaster. Of course, we then get the weregecko
surging in for extra terror, but it was a great point made before then
Last episode weren’t they going to let the police chief,
Stiles’s dad, on the whole werewolf thing? The weregecko is still loose… what
has changed to make the secret less important to reveal? I think we’ve reached
a point where it would make more sense to tell Scott’s mother and especially
Stiles’s dad about the werewolfiness than not.
We got a shred of Erica’s development, but not much more.
Lydia, meanwhile is perhaps on the spookiest storyline of them all.
