Time for the tense sand off – with Elena very much wary
of Jeremy’s intentions and plans. While Clay still wants her to trust Jeremy,
Elena rightly points out that Jeremy’s priorities are larger than her family.
Especially since Katja and Alexei are being used as bargaining chips
Elena is left guarding Constantine, Roman’s son and the
Pack’s own bargaining chip as he pokes her history and just why Elena is the
only female werewolf (answer – because it’s an annoying trope that happens
repeatedly in so many werewolf stories in order to justify a nearly all male
cast with a heavy emphasis on Exceptional Woman tropes and a whole lot of
delicate-precious-in-your-gilded-cage companion tropes). With a relatively
logical series of deduction, Constantine realises that Elena is Sasha’s
daughter. Which also makes her the daughter of Natalya – Roman’s daughter. Ooooh twist.
They fight and Constantine escapes (with a broken wrist)
and we have to go to where Jeremy, Sasha and Roman are having tense
negotiations to hear the rest of the story
Like any good werewolf, Roman abandoned his daughter
Natalya because she’s human (aforementioned only-female-werewolf-specialness)
and by universal law she couldn’t know about the werewolves. A law Jeremy
agrees with, humans can’t know about them (which is going to get awkward).
Because he still cared about his daughter he had Sasha watch her and protect
her. Instead cupid hit, he fell in love and decided to show Natalya that
werewolves are real.
Roman, following the law, killed his own daughter to keep
their secret. Lots of pain, angst, guilt and rage – but all very justified and
well acted. That’s a whole terrible, painful mess to unpick. Which, of course,
puts Elena in the middle of it.
Jeremy’s attempted plan to bring peace is to offer Roman
lots of counterfeit money so he can continue to bribe his large, sprawling pack
into obedience (which is how Roman manages to hold his pack together and is
getting shaky since the Russian pack is having money troubles).
But roman wants vengeance more, draws a knife and summons
his wolves to fight it out. And things get even more messy
Karen, the ex-sheriff continues to investigate the
suspicion Russian gangsters who have suddenly come to her town. Following them
around she gets in the middle of the fight. She ends up stabbed in the leg by a
running Roman (who fled with his big wadge of cash) and she sees Alexei have
his first change… and go running off
Alexei is later found back in human form. But also
smelling of human blood. It looks like he snacked on forbidden meat
While there’s lots of major conflict, there’s another
undercurrent: Katja. Throughout this episode she has expressed a wish to live a
normal life, move to a big city, get a job and a career. She’s not a werewolf,
she doesn’t need other wolves around like her brother nor is the idea of
getting to know the big sister she’s never known really motivation to make her
want to stay in the middle of nowhere… but she knows the big secret. Which,
along with Karen’s witnesses Alexei’s change, means Jeremy’s going be
confronted by this rule very soon. Especially since, during the negotiations,
he didn’t disagree with Roman’s decision to kill his daughter to preserve the
werewolf secret
That’s going to be awkward…. Especially since they’ been poking
at the beginnings of a Jeremy/Karen relationship.
