Natalie Martin, Lydia’s awesome mother who doesn’t get
nearly enough attention is counselling one of the strudents, Tracey who is
sleep deprived because she suffers from Night Terrors. She recounts one
involving a storm, ravens knocking on her windows and creepy figures peaking in
Lady needs to invest in some curtains, especially if she’s got spooky trees all round the house (and she apparently lives somewhere with huge spot lights outside her window). Of course windows that open themselves and not having the good sense to have the tools to close them is another issue. She isn’t sure what is a dream and what isn’t and but I’m going to settle on “skylight doesn’t open” as not a dream, but creepy guy dragging her stool probably wasn’t. This says all you need to know about Teen Wolf
Natalie thinks this is perfectly normal. So Tracy vomits
black sludge all over her desk. Serves her right for deciding anything in
Beacon Hills is normal. She also vomits up a raven feather
Over to Scott who is being taught vital vet skills by Dr
Deaton (who, against all the odds, is not dead) and we’re all supposed to go “aww”
because a little girl calls Scott “doctor” and Deaton does the paternal smile
thing. Back to the woo-woo and the werewolf who Scott beat last week; they have
his claws or, rather, talons which are actually eagle talons. Power absorbing
talons (and we get another loop hole in the whole “True-alphas can’t be drained”
– they can be drained by betas they’ve made or… maybe… by wolves they’ve
accepted into their pack though that should be impossible).
Stiles, meanwhile, takes his suspicion/jealousy over Theo
to his dad because ZOMG he’s a werewolf. Sheriff Stilinski’s awesome response “your
best friend is a werewolf, you’re dating a werecoyote, I still have no idea
what Kira’s supposed to be. When he flying monkeys come flying through this
station you will have my undivided attention.” Sheriff Stilinski is over being
shocked by the supernatural. And is beyond exasperated by the eternally
exasperating son. He still ends up doing a background check (or making poor
Parrish do it) which finds nothing
Which Stiles still tries to make a big deal of, of
course. Even Malia sees how silly he’s being while also, of course, being very
uncomforting. She offers to torture him, she’s perfectly willing. At least
Stiles’s suspicion is partly based on how Theo has apparently changed since 4th
grade.
First day at school, Scott and Kira are happy and Lydia
and Kira are a little surprised that Scott is in their AP biology class (he has
clearly been doing lots of work I also kind of love the whole conversation
Lydia and Kira have with their eyes alone). Theo is also in the class – and they
have a big test coming.
Mason has made a reappearance to tell Liam about the
creepy supernatural stuff that attacked him while Liam is indifferent and
denies it all. But Liam has girl issues and Mason is distracted from the whole
supernatural monster that kidnapped him with the idea of watching the soccer
team practice. And apparently this girl hates Liam for reasons.
While poor Tracy is still having terrifying
hallucinations of the same creepy steampunk guys who were in the end of the
last episode before Lydia breaks through the vision (which leaves claw marks on
her locker). Lydia tries to convince her mother there’s more than night terrors
here and decides to help.
Help involves taking Parrish to examine Tracey’s home and
see how secure it is – including finding that her supposedly seal skylight
opens easily. He also either lies are doesn’t look very hard – because the
skylight is covered in claw marks, blood and dead corvids.
Parrish does offer to come check the house after hours and Lydia wants to spend time with him doing that.
In the locker room, Theo recounts how he became a
werewolf – he was bitten by the alpha that Ethan and Aiden killed and why he
needs to be in Scott’s pack. Stiles is still uber suspicious and continues to “investigate”
Theo for anything suspicious but his evidence convinces no-one (I especially
like his “if someone’s parents are killers we shouldn’t trust them” with Malia
pointing at her own parentage as a counter example). Abandoned by people who
won’t take his paranoia seriously, he recruits Liam.
Which means Liam and Stiles following him in the middle
of the night. And Stiles urging Liam to actually tell Mason about the whole
supernatural thing – before Liam walks into a pit with some significant
jewellery at the bottom. They then use Liam’s werewolf skills to smell Theo’s
grief as he drops a flower in the water – Stiles realises what’s happening and
hustles them away; this is the bridge where they found Theo’s dead sister (he
had a sister who got lost and died, apparently and Stiles, even in his excesses,
isn’t going to intrude on that). As they leave, Theo finds them and asks Stiles
why he’s so suspicious and weird (because he’s STILES) and Stiles presents his
limited evidence (he thinks Theo’s dad’s signature changed). Theo lays a huge
guilt trip on Stiles about how great a friend Stiles is to be a creepy stalker
and he wishes he had the same.
Scott also arrives to lay more guilt gazes on Stiles.
Stiles is irritable because he knows how very wrong he is – and Scott points
out that Stiles has pretty much being suspicious of every new person in their
lives. Finally Stiles angrily says that Scott is far too trusting (also true) –
it’s a powerful moment (especially as Scott uses his werewolf touch to help
heal his hurt hand from fixing the truck)
And yes, Stiles, keeps being suspicious and even puts
Theo on a suspicious wall. He also notes that his dad is no longer wearing his
wedding ring (which has the Sherriff rethink whether Stile’s suspicion is unreasonable)
At Tracy’s Parrish is watching – and Tracy acts very very
creepy as she sneaks out. Lydia joins Parrish after she’s long gone and don’t
even realise it. Instead they flirt while Tracy wakes up in the crepy medical
experiment chamber of the bioshock villains who inject her with something. We
look back at the creepy things happened to her and see it was her own doing –
and se seems to be a werewolf.
Liam goes to meet Mason to finally tell him the truth
when a wolf appears behind them. They run. Until Liam roars at it – naughty wolf
meet werewolf.
The wolf turns and leaves and goes to the bridge – and turns
into Theo. Hmmm we haven’t seen many werewolves who can go full wolfy. And when
he goes home he chides his fake father for not having a perfect fake signature –
and fake!dad seems terrified of him – which makes sense when Theo breaks his
hand.
Scott and Kira are all cute and sexy as he shares his
insecurities about being truly smart enough to pass senior year and get into a college
of his choice. And Kira shorts a light with her touch (she does have
electricity powers
I know the show and a lot of fandom want Lydia/Parrish to
be a thing but, putting aside the actual ages of the actors, can we remember
that Parrish is a police man who is also apparently old enough to be ex military
as well, while Lydia is a high school senior.
I dearly dearly hope that Mason knowing the truth means
he is actually going to be included in the storyline and not be another
neglected token. I kind of want to get my hopes up – but we’ve had four seasons
of extreme dubiousness and sidelining when it comes to both LGBT characters and
most POC so… I’m wary. Honestly, I was actually expecting him to disappear without a trace or real explanation. Like Danny and Ethan and Caitlin.
I loved Scott and Stiles’s byplay – Stiles’s suspicion
came off a lot like jealousy for Scott last episode (and I think there’s some
of that) but this really shows the protectiveness and it works and is very real
when we look back on their characters. Part of what makes Scott such a nice guy
is he does see the good in everyone, he is willing to open his arms to anyone,
even when he obviously shouldn’t. Stiles’s extreme need to check on everyone
coming close to Scott makes a lot of sense when we realise how vulnerable Scott
makes himself.
I also quite liked Sheriff’s turnaround on Stiles – yes Stiles
is being paranoid and obsessive and silly… but Stiles is also keenly
intelligent, an excellent investigator and super observant. His hunches can’t
entirely be dimissed
