We pick up where we left off – with Theo demanding Stiles’s
silence in exchange for not telling everyone about Stiles killing Donovan. Theo
explains how he knows (which, even more than the fact he was harassing a
werewolf) convince Stiles to stop trying to manhandle a werewolf.
After some doubt and questioning, Stiles agrees to lie
and hide the body (he’s wry, slightly sad note that he has a lot of practice
lying to his dad is sad but true.
They take the body to Deacon’s vets and lie to Scott
about what killed him – the plan is for Theo to stay with the body to see who
is stealing them.
He stands vigil alone and a Dread Doctor checks in – the Dread
Doctors don’t care who is taking the bodies and they don’t feel any special
need to keep Theo informed, much to his irritation. Anyway, Stiles has a new
plan – product placement cell phone cameras (and his new iWatch. Really? Stiles
can afford that?)
Meanwhile, baby wolf Liam has just decided to tell Hayden
everything and, to the surprise of no-one, she doesn’t take it well and thinks
he’s the freakiest freak ever. He doesn’t exactly make things better by showing
glowing eyes and fangs and growling at her. She has a good punch though. She
drives off – and her fist magically heals. Then the Dread Doctors arrive – being
horrendously menacing, communicating through her radio and stopping her car
working.
Liam pulls her free from the car and they run.
Later Liam calls in the gang to report another chimera.
She heard the Dread Doctors say “your condition improves” and is juuuuust a
little freaked out. She’s tried to hide in a bathroom – because she’s getting steadily
more feral, complete with fangs and glowing eyes.
When they’re alone, Liam tries to be all reassuring so we can get this love interest thing moving.
Kira is generously and gracefully helping her dad at
school on a Saturday morning. And her mother decides to attack her with a
katana before giving her a sword so they can duel. She keeps yelling at Kira in
Japanese, asking who she is, demanding she show herself, until Kira gets her
flamy Kitsune aura – and almost kills her mother. Something Noshiko blames on
the fox inside her.
Kira goes home and Noshiko uses acupuncture to try and
help. But that night they find her bed empty – and “115” spelled out on her
headboard in pins.
Meanwhile Mason runs into Corey – who
didn’t die of Chimera scorpion venom somehow. Well that’s a plus! And his
survival may be down to a book of miraculous healing he’s reading.
Later Mason meets Corey at the club and Mason mentions his miraculous healing which pushes Corey close to tears.
At the school, the gang installs the electrical
interference devices and prepare for the Doctors to arrive (and Scott plans to
capture one). We do get an ominous moment when Scott hears something dragging –
and Lydia wonders, if they’re expecting the Dread Doctors at the school, then
what is heading to Theo and Stiles?
And Liam isn’t a big fan of the whole idea of capturing a
Dread Doctor – since it makes Hayden bait. He complains and Scott,
uncharacteristically, shouts him down (with sense, but still). Peace is
restored when Scott promises to try and protect Hayden. Who needs her pills –
so Scott has to go get them from her locker.
Parrish is alone in the car when he starts seeing the
Lydia Queen of Diamonds card and a hallucination Lydia kisses him. Then they
start ripping off clothes. Did I mention the “DO NOT WANT!” part of this
relationship? I’m clearly not the only one – because Lydia becomes a charred
corpse
Parrish leaves, heard by Malia – but she is then pinned
to the floor by spikes and bear traps that suddenly appear as the Dread Doctors
arrive.
Scott goes to get Hayden’s pills, hears the ominous
dragging noise – and is stabbed and strangled by Kira, ominously talking about “being
a messenger of death.” I’m sure that’s Lydia’s job. But Lydia is seeing Tracy –
apparently alive. And she pulls out Lydia’s tongue before the dread Doctors
arrive (now Lydia has been disarmed without her scream).
Nasty….
Which leaves Hayden and Liam alone facing the Dread
Doctors who dismiss the attempt to block them with the devices they made.
And Scott snaps out of his vision (clearly not real) when
Mason cuts his hand. He’s there to tell them that Corey is a chimera – but they’re
too late when they come together Liam and Hayden are gone. Both taken to the
lab by the Dread Doctors.
Stiles and Theo have a vigil on the body at the vet’s.
Theo tries to convince Stiles he’s totally good guy honest. Stiles isn’t buying
it so Theo brings out dead sister anecdote for lots of heart string plucking.
And a rather out-of-nowhere explanation of how he found his sister’s body. We
have a flashback of said sister dying – but Theo just seems to be watching.
They do talk about Stiles issues and fear of the consequences of killing a Chimera
– he fears he’ll lose Scott as a friend.
Theo points out how dubious that is – that Scott isn’t going
to dump Stiles over self-defence and even shows off his yellow eyes. After all,
werewolf eyes turn blue if they take an innocent life. Stiles doesn’t buy that
because “innocence” is such a subjective term – he thinks the blue eyes is
based on the guilt of the werewolf in question. Pushing further, Theo gets to
the heart of Stiles’s guilt: when he killed Donovan he thought “good.” Theo has
a nasty evil smile for this.
Which is when he smells fire and burning – and the door of the jeep is ripped off right before it’s turned on its roof. Theo is punched and knocked unconscious and bloody by a burning fist. Stiles is left unconscious in a burning jeep. Parrish steals the body.
Theo wakes up in time to save Stiles
Melissa and the Sheriff do their own investigations – the
Sheriff is considering the book, particularly “dread doctors” and wondering if
anything medical connects the chimera. Of course she would never show the
police medical records without a court order. She will, however, demonstrate
how her keycard words on the room that contains said records. Y’know, while I
like all the characters, I think everyone disappearing and it becoming the
Melissa and Stilinski show would not be a bad thing.
At the police station the sheriff talks about Donavon and why he was so upset and angry and generally not in a good mental place. This leads to a lot of prompts and research into the chimera’s medical history and finds all of them had skin grafts or similar donations from another person giving them all separate DNA strands. They were all already “chimeras.”
Melissa goes home to find a boy impaled on a sword on her
kitchen table. That’s unhygienic. The body has long claws – and is impaled with
Kira’s belt sword.
On Kira – I’m torn. On the one hand I don’t like that a
source of her greater power is also making her weaker and less reliable and
less involved. On the other hand, I like that she has her very own storyline
here, something very unique to her and not an extension of anyone else’s. Also,
I like the maturity with which it is handled. In so many other shows (and
certainly books) the idea that Kira should stand back while her powers are
freaky and unpredictable would cause a storm of outrage, tension and tantrums.
Kira is very mature and very sensible about it – she’s reasonable and
responsible.
Mason keeps being involved – tangentially, with a small
amount of screen time, but he is involved in the plot. Again this makes me hopeful
while, at the same time being afraid to hope after the last 5 seasons and, at
the same time, recognising that I’m pinning a lot of hope and glee on very
little (minor involvement in the plot and occasional brief screen time is not
something I should be praising, not really – but damn it’s nice to see given
the slim pickings in what I’m watching at the moment).
Stiles’s emotional journey continues to be impressive –
but there’s no surprises there
Melissa is awesome, it is known.
Deacon has disappeared again. He spends so much time in
his plot box I think he’s decorated it just to his taste by now.
Not impressed by Stiles's shiny smart watch, one of the pressing concerns of Stiles and Scott in past seasons is that, despite their cavernous homes, they don't come from wealthy families and struggle with bills. That kind of bling is nice for product placement (which, it has to be said, Teen Wolf is pretty infamous for) but it doesn't fit well with Stiles
