Poor Lydia. She’s still having nightmares and
hallucinations/visions of Peter Hale, the last Alpha, who has a plan for the
next full moon which will apparently make him real (on her birthday as well).
All because she is immune – to what she doesn’t know because no-one’s filled
her in, something Peter points out most accurately.
If only she had a good friend to confide in. Alas, all
she has is Allison.
Derek and Scott are closer now Scott’s accepted being
part of his pack (thankfully. I always thought the rift between them was
excessive) but Scott thinks Derek is keeping secrets still about the weregecko(of
course) and Derek’s all depressed because he doesn’t think they can save
Jackson or kill him.
Allison has finished her Not!Date with Matt, tells him
she’s Not!Dating Scott and how everything is complicated., Lots of cute
flirting – but he leaves his camera behind, giving Allison a chance to go
through his pictures (as you do – because I know I always go through friends’
stuff if they leave it unguarded for 10 seconds) and find that he has pictures
of the sports team and class and her and her and her oh and more of her and yet
a dozen more of her. His sweet little crush is upgraded to full-blown spooky
stalking with a side-order of peeping Tom.
Stiles and his dad are still stuck on the case trying to
put together who is controlling the weregecko – and it seems Harris, the
chemistry teacher, has been taken in for questioning since his car (with its
Einstein bumper sticker) has been seen at so many of the crime scenes (ok, it’s
official, he’s definitely not the weregecko master). But Stiles doesn’t buy it,
despite how Harris hates him – it’s not enough; and he’s determined to solve
the case for the sake of his father. But flicking through the year book they
find something else the victims had in common – including the latest victim –
they were all in the swim team, and Isaac Lahey’s father was the coach.
Lydia invites Jackson to her party but he scares her and
tells her she doesn’t want him there. He’s clearly disturbed and becoming more
and more aware that something’s happening to him. Still time for Lydia’s party.
Stiles brings a huge present before discussing his findings with Scott
(weregecko doesn’t like water and is linked to the swim team, a connection
perhaps). Unfortunately for Lydia, the party is also deserted except for
Allison, Stiles and Scott because Lydia’s mental illness/haunting has turned
her from the most popular girl in school to a pariah (the term they use is “nutjob”
repeatedly. At length – which is both unnecessary and vexing). Allison insists
they have to do something since they’ve completely ignored her for 2 weeks
(just noticed, Allison? Late in the day for guilt. Though I love Scott’s come
back “Lydia ignored Stiles for the last 10 years” poor Stiles). Out of guilt,
Scott and Stiles pull in what contacts they have to fill the party.
Party in full swing and Stiles (who is just completely
adorable, in case it’s not obvious, and should be the star of this show) tries
to give Scott advice to heal his rift with Allison after last week when he was
cross with her for deciding to spill all their secrets to her evil Argent family.
And then Jackson shows up. Just in time to try the punch – which looks like it’s
an odd mix of fruit juices, magic and wolfsbane.
Party time (and an actual gay couple in the background
among all the others, yes, I’m desperate for slight crumbs of inclusion, don’t
judge me) and the drink kicks in – or so I assume after Allison takes down her
stalker Matt, and is then shot in the chest with a crossbow wielded by…
Allison! And this Allison even lectures her about her constantly yelling for
help and how pathetic it is (hey, can we keep this Allison?), alas we cannot
for it’s a hallucination.
Stiles gets a far worse hallucination than Allison – he gets his drunken father trying to destroy him, accusing him of killing his mother and trying to kill him. Poor Stiles.
And Scott – what terribly traumatic thing does he see? Jackson making out with Allison. Awww, c’mon, really? Allison gets killed by herself, Stiles is utterly destroyed by his father and he worries that Allison is making out with the weregecko?
Jackson – he hallucinates his biological parents – who are disturbingly faceless. Scott goes seeking Lydia after the hallucination (and lack of any real trauma) but she’s already wandered off.
And we finally answer the “who is the weregecko’s master”
question, while everyone is freaking out over the punch, Matt is thrown into
the pool and completely freaks out about it. He doesn’t like water and can’t
swim – and later we see him, wet with Jackson the weregecko, in full gecko
form, at his feet. Ok, I did NOT see that coming, I have to admit.
On the Argent front, Granddaddy Argent, Daddy Argent and
Mummy Argent are all dealing with the fact Mummy Argent has been bitten by
Derek, an Alpha werewolf after she tried to murder a 16 year old boy (my only
regret is he got her shoulder and not her carotid). Granddaddy Argent, being
the merry murderer he is, declares her already dead, just a thing, a cocoon
waiting to hatch a monster (so says the patriarch of the matriarchal Argents.
And yes he calls himself a patriarch). Daddy Argent is all upset that his
murderous wife is facing the consequences of her violence and worries how hard
it will be for Allison to lose her murderous mother so soon after losing her
murderous aunt. Oh, what’s a murderous father to do?
Needless to say, I’m not exactly empathising with the
Argent’s pain. Even when they prepare Mummy Argent for suicide. Since Mummy Argent didn’t have chance to talk
to Allison about her suicide (Allison was trying on dresses with Lydia and utterly
clueless to subtext) she decides she wants to commit suicide in Allison’s room…
what? I thought the “I didn’t get to talk to Allison” was regret about not
being able to say goodbye – not “damn now I’ve got to find another way to traumatise
her”. They have a deep, heartfelt
discussion about suicide which is also full of shaming and ableism for people
actually living with depression; there’s a lot of powerful emotion in the
scene, it’s touching but the messages are awful (depression is weakness and
shameful). As her eyes turn gold, he helps her kill herself.
Allison arrives at the hospital to see her dad – and find
her mother is dead.
Meanwhile Derek and the rest of the wolfies are all
preparing for full moon with lots of chains and Boyd actually being given some
lines to say. It’s very very unpleasant especially the headband he has for
Erica. It seems Derek’s precautions are not quite adequate and he tries to call
the eternally unreachable Scott for help because the wolfies break free. After
lots of confined fighting he manages to put Erica down – and Isaac grounds
himself and holds back Boyd, he’s found his own anchor to keep him human. His
anchor is his father – what he used to be before he was abusive.
Which is when Lydia arrives to blow some purple dust in Derek’s eyes, which knocks him unconscious and allows her to drag him (she’s stronger than she looks!) to the old Hale house (former werewolf central). Some blood, some moonlight – and Peter Hale is reborn.
Wow… there’s a lot going on there – how they’re going to
keep up with all of this is going to be an interesting question.
