Ominous abandoned dangerous nuclear facility is ominous…
for some reason Deacon’s decided to explore with someone else who speaks
Russian in tow. The place is deserted and has signs saying “they come for all
of us” which is when I’d be gone so fast you’d think I invented teleportation. “They”
are terrible masked people which are pretty clearly the Dread Doctors – but with
an Ouroboros symbol.
They find a spooky spooky lab full of bottled foetus and
dead kiddies – and Deacon finds a tooth. Which is apparently what’s looking
for. He then decides it’s time to leave when he is confronted by a woman with a
gun.
The Desert Wolf. Malia’s mother.
Back in Beacon Hills, everyone’s looking for Liam and
Hayden
And Melissa wants to explain something to the sheriff,
something the requires he not be sheriff while listening. Sheriff is all
worried because he seems to keep doing it while Melissa is “this is what our
kids do. Deal with it.”
She shows him the clawed body on her table – and Sheriff
asks after Kira. The sheriff reports the body – against Melissa’s wishes. She
slaps him, furious he’s going to accuse Kira while the sheriff certainly isn’t
going to cover up the murder of a teenager. Melissa throws back that their kids
are constantly dealing with stuff outside the law. But “not above the law” is
the counter.
Worryingly, Kira is wandering down the road in a trance
before a deputy (Hayden’s sister, Clarke) finds her and snaps her out of it –
and arrests her.
News of the arrest is heard on the police radio by Stiles
and Theo. Parrish also learns as he washes off more soot and looks all troubled
by another murder while he blacked out
At the police station the sheriff is still a good guy and
is assuming Kira acted in self-defence if she was involved when Kira’s parents
arrive. Kira’s father, Ken Yakimura, quickly lies and makes up a story blaming
himself.
Since Melissa found the body she also has to give a
statement. Melissa is Not Happy and gives him a wonderful statement, describing
the claws on the bodies as well as chimera, werewolves, banshees and everything
else she can think of. This is not helpful. Clarke also interrupts about more
information about the 911 “prank call” that Stiles made to try and report Donovan’s
death – and it implicated Stiles. Sheriff declares no more bending the rules
for anyone
Melissa: “maybe you should bend before someone breaks.”
Scott meets Kira and he wants to stay but he still has to
find Hayden and Baby Wolf – he does assure her, not too convincingly, that he
totally doesn’t believe she’s the murderer. This puts him in a mood so he goes
home and storms up to Corey and plunges his claws into the back of his neck to
do the whole werewolf mindreading trick. I did wonder why Corey was still alive.
Tapping into the memory, Scott sees images of Corey being
dragged to the doctors’ lab. There’s some questioning over Scott’s methods here
but he just snarls “he’ll be fine.” This gives them the water treatment plant
where Hayden and Liam are being held.
Scott wants to charge off but Stiles & co desperately
try to make him pause and see sense. Stiles is worried about Mason going as a
normal human, he wants to talk to his dad and he’s still worried about some
super powerful supernatural force stealing the chimera bodies. Lydia also wants
Scott to realise he could have really hurt Corey with his claw stunt. Scott can’t
delay and insists on going – taking Mason and Malia.
Corey would quite like to go somewhere where werewolves
don’t stab him in the neck so Theo and Lydia lie about bansheeness to pretend
she predicts his death if he leaves. They’re not convincing. Theo keeps pushing
for any more memories he may have, dragging out that there’s a basement in an
old house with a hole in the wall.
The police, meanwhile, move the body while holding lots
of big dramatic guns. That includes Parrish. Stiles, who learns his jeep “spontaneously
combusted” tries to convince his dad not to protect the body from the uber
powerful fire monster. He also gives his dad grief over Kira. While he asks
Stiles about accessing the school after hours referring to Donovan which sends
Stiles into a little bit of an angst moment, toying with his library card before
throwing it away (the card that allows him after hours access to the Schooll)
In the morgue it starts to get hot… and the sprinklers
spew super-pressurised water as the lights go out. Something throws all the
police around. Parrish acts super creepy to the sheriff, speaking like a robot,
and the body disappears.
Kira is still the only one who hasn’t read the Dread
Doctor’s book because of her kitsuneness and Noshiko gives her some advice on
how to get past this. She triggers her memories and remembers the Dread Doctors
messing with her, injecting her eye (eewwww uckies) and channelling lightening
into her brain. Probably not a good thing for a storm Kitsune (but crafty since
it let them into Eichman house).
Liam is in the Dread Doctor’s lab with Hayden and both of
them are having nasty things done to them in very nasty surroundings.
Especially Hayden who isn’t doing well. Liam does the werewolfy pain stealing
thing to try and help her. Well, he tries, baby wolf isn’t up there yet. They continue
to be tormented. And locked behind an electric fence.
They’ve been locked up with another chimera called Zach.
With what looks like severed wings on his back. Zach has pretty much given into
despair, telling them how chimera develop, how they become violent and are
dragged away when they’re called “failures.” He warns them that when you bleed
silver, that’s when you’re considered a “failure.”
The Doctors come for him when he starts bleeding silver. Bye bye angel boy.
Scott, Malia and Mason run through the tunnels of the
water plant for ages, unable to find them while Scott’s growing frustration and
panic keeps triggering his asthma – though he’s resistant to using his inhaler.
It bothers him a lot to use it – and then he goes into a guilt spiral for not
saving Liam and Hayden. Mason has to convince him to keep trying. There’s also
an ourobouros on the wall.
Using the new info he got from Corey (apparently), it’s
Theo who finds Liam and Hayden and rescues them by ripping out the electric
fence (electric fence doesn’t work so well on a werewolf). He rescues them –but
Hayden isn’t healing. She considers herself one of their failures and she and
Liam kiss – he pulls off the werewolf pain sucking thing.
With them rescued, Scott & co return home – but Scott
is clearly troubled still despite all the hugging.
Kira is also there – packing. She needs to fix her fox and
to do that she has to leave so she doesn’t hurt anyone and can figure herself
out (with the body gone, Ken is released and not charged with a murder). Scott
tries to deny it and Kira again demands he look at her with his alpha eyes. He
does – and sees the flaming fox around her.
Kira leaves town after Scott kisses her goodbye in the
sad rain and trails of sparks. He falls into a massive funk, telling his mother
“something has changed” with him and his friends, something he can’t fix but is
his fault.
Stiles has figured out it’s Parrish taking the bodies –
and Lydia knows where. Flash to the Nemeton and its growing collection of
corpses
And back to Deacon and the Desert Wolf – she’s curious at
the idea that Malia is still alive and plans to kill her. Again. Not good.
First and worst – Kira. I hate the idea of Kira leaving,
she was an excellent part of this show, she and Scott’s romance was excellent,
she’s awesome and needs to stay. I hate the idea that she’s been written out –
and how knows how long this may last? Is she ever going to come back?
I like Noshiko giving Kira advice on how to deal with
Kitsune-ness but it kind of annoys me that Kira doesn’t turn to her more often -
or any of them for that matter. She has several centuries of supernatural
experience under her belt. Now it seems we may never see it
Hmmm I think “outside” or “above” the law are difficult
to reconcile especially since there is a difference – only one I think the
sheriff may be the one making the mistaken definition on, not Melissa. Though
it’s an understandable difficulty – but
there is a difference between things the law cannot/shouldn’t touch (outside) and
things the law daren’t touch because of the power involved (above).
The supernatural is not really something Beacon Hills
police force is equipped to handle. These creatures are, by definition, outside
the law – beyond the law’s reach, outside of the sheriff’s ability. In some
ways this could be interpreted as “above” because the supernatural are too
powerful to prosecute but, ultimately, it’s “outside” because the law is
neither equipped nor written to deal with the supernatural – nor is it ever
likely to be so. It’s not a matter of power per se, so much as complete and
utter alien ignorance.
Which is why Melissa’s statement is more than passive
aggressive awesomeness. If the sheriff is going to bring the supernatural
before the law and insert law enforcement into an obviously supernatural case
then let it do so. Either it’s supernatural and they decide the law can’t apply
because it’s too complex, OR they decide the law does apply to the supernatural
– so the whole story needs to be told. Cherry picking for the sheriff’s
conscience is no more just than turning a blind eye.
Of course, the sheriff has to see that the people he is protecting
as “outside” also tend to be his friends and family… which means even if it isn’t
a case of “above” the law, it does look and feel like it. It must feel like he’s
covering for his son and his son’s friends and the sheriff is too good a man
for that, especially when we reach murder and especially when supernatural “justice”
will leave a lot of families with no answers.
Yes I like this whole conflict because it isn’t simple.
Scott is also interesting this season – I think in part
this is because he is, unequivocally, a leader and a leader of people under
threat. He feels responsible, threatened from several angles and, no, he isn’t
perfect. I think it may also be a consequence of being Alpha – not just in
terms of responsibility but, from what we saw when he first confronted a
chimera, his sheer physical power. That is a way he can fight and win.
It probably says a lot about how the nameless Stilinskis
quietly eats at me that I was rather ridiculously excited to see Stiles’s first
initial – M – on his library card.
