We have the Beastie running amok and attacking the
hospital and generally causing havoc with only one thing stopping him. Parrish.
Ok Parrish doesn’t exactly WIN but since he apparently wounds the monster and
turns it back human I think a case can be made for a strong draw.
The pack’s plan is to finally unite by rescuing their
missing member – Lydia. She’s locked up in Eichmen house being tormented by Dr.
Valack
Recap on Valack – Valack is the guy who was once
imprisoned in Eichmen House with a hole drilled in his head who tended to
terrify people by making them stare at the hole in his head. He now runs the
place and he loves drilling holes in lots of skulls. This isn’t just a fun
hobby, he does this to try and enhance the power of supernaturals. The weird
part is that it actually works – yes supernatural beings all get super charged
with a hole in their heads; now there’s a weird quirk, Of course that usually
goes wrong (beyond, y’know, the whole hole in their head) and will go super
wrong with Lydia – since she’s already damn powerful already. Supercharging
Lydia will mean she hears all the deaths ever – which will be agonisingly
painful causing her to unleash her Banshee scream at Adele-eclipsing volumes
and melt everyone’s brain.
So it’s rescue time – which leads to a nifty plan
involving the whole pack with little gems like Melissa still hating Liam
because of the whole trying to kill Scott thing (hah, in line Melissa, I hated
Liam before it was cool) and Malia’s awesome/terrible encouragement of Kira. I
do like Malia’s complete social ineptitude and ferocious dedication.
I also have to kind of smile at the lampshading of Kira
getting all her skills just magically dropped on her. Self-awareness like that
can really work for a show’s cheese
They also get Parrish to play driver for both his
authority and because he’s the only one who can actually go toe-on-toe with the
beast.
The plan pretty much works out… sort of – except Theo and
his Chimera gang also move in and they’re not stopped by Black Ash. They reach
Lydia first – not that they care about Lydia but because they want Parrish and
want to lure him in. Well... it works. And burny hellhounds also don’t care
about Black ash. Or walls. Or doors. Now, Theo’s lured him I do wonder what he
intends to do with him.
Scott and Liam get caught out by the guards with tasers
and Scott has an Alpha moment. The best part about this is that his roar
triggers the eye-glow of the whole pack (well, not Stiles, obviously) really
bringing home they are a pack even if most of them aren’t wolves.
We’re starting the big upswing I mentioned.
Almost amusingly, the sheriff does something which would
have made everything much easier several episodes ago –he takes evidence of the
abuses of Valack to Natalie to show that maybe she shouldn’t have left her
daughter with them.
And back at Chimera lair, Deucalion lectures Hayden on a
big flaw in Theo’s plan – Theo wants to use the Dread Doctor claws to absorb
the Beast’s powers: but the claws aren’t designed for Theo so will probably
kill him.
Deucalion knows all this for REASONS. He can also detect
claws in a sealed glass jar across the room with some kind of woo-woo sense and,
no, being Blind doesn’t explain being able to smell things through glass or
hear objects not producing actual sound.
