The Wild Hunt is still up to their shenanigans, making
another student disappear. Phoebe is gone and no-one remembers she ever existed
except her sister – Gwen. Her sister who saw the Wild Hunt.
Which means she is next – unless the gang manages to save
her. Which isn’t especially easily to do because even though Gwen lives in
Beacon Hills she doesn’t believe in the supernatural and certainly not
invisible memory erasing hunters.
How do they keep her safe? Follow her around constantly.
And the people doing the following is the B team – Hayden, Liam, Mason and
Corey. This will definitely not end well. Malia suggests they kidnap her. Scott
says no. She insists. Scott says no. Scott ruins all her fun.
So why does this poor woman’s life rest on the B team?
Because everyone else is much more involved with Stiles. His absence continues
to leave ripples – especially as Malia is increasingly losing control and turns
into a werecoyote during a test, much to poor Natalie’s concern who is so very
much trying with all this supernatural stuff. Sherriff Stilinski deals with a
coyote at school by encouraging Scott to growl at her. While Lydia much more
sensibly suggests they get out of her territory and giving her chance to turn
back. Lydia always talk sense
As they talk about Stiles in front of Sheriff Stilinsky,
he fills in some gaps. Stiles is a family nickname, last used by the Sheriff’s
dad. Of course, Scott & co want to speak to him and the Sheriff is
vehemently opposed. Viciously, furiously opposed, quite surprisingly so.
Despite the normally very calm sheriff’s vehemence and
talk about the fact he hasn’t even seen his dad in years, of course the gang
decides to break in. And Malia decides to punch a nurse
Because she’s Malia. And so much fun.
They do find Stilinski senior who has advance dementia.
And isn’t that nice. Questioning him isn’t very productive but Lydia pulls some
useful tricks which if they were this consistently useful would be revolutionary
for all the people suffering from this terrible condition. Using this very
convenient clarity they discover… that Stilinski senior is actually a really
really really really horrible person.
At which point the Sheriff turns up, he’s furious,
disgusted and outraged and gives the gang their marching orders. The Sheriff
ignores his father who tells him “go back to your dead wife and loser sun.”
Uh-huh – Claudia is currently alive and Stiles doesn’t
exist. The Sheriff is disturbed by this, obviously.
But before we follow that, let’s catch up with the B
team. Through various not very sensible decisions the gang decides the best way
to save Gwen by having a party at Scott’s house with the whole school, pissing
off another guy who they have to pay off because he had another party planned.
It’s not like they can even get drunk because they’re drinking what Americans,
in their ignorance, call beer werewolves can’t get drunk
Ok.
The wild hunt then arrives at the party and the gang
desperately try to fight it. How? It turns out Corey can not only see the Wild
Hunt, but if he touches the Wild Hunt he makes them visible to everyone. This
doesn’t actually make it possible to kill them or win – but apparently Parrish
with a gun can drive it off. Did he lose his whole hellhound thing? And why did
it win? He just shot the guy 3 times and did very little.
Oh and remember how the Wild Hunt then targets everyone
who has seen them? Which is now the entire school and Parrish pretty much?
Uh-huh, and this is why you guys are the B Team. You should have kidnapped
Gwen, Malia was right
On top of that they’ve trashed Scott’s house. He is not amused.
But we get a much more moving scene with Sheriff Stilinski who arrives to
explain his hostility towards the gang visiting his father (you need to explain
this? And without Stiles, exactly what connection does Scott and the Sherriff
even have?). He shows Scott a scar he has – a scar he got when his dad threw
him through a glass table to get at his mother. Well there’s some completely
unexpected back story for the Stilinski story
The Sheriff is also very disturbed by a dream he had – a dream
he had of talking to Claudia about a child they were going to have; a child he
wanted to name after his Claudia’s father, despite that name being so very terrible
no-one ever says it aloud. His own father was so terrible he completely
respects Claudia’s. And while Claudia hates the name she knows it won’t matter
as he’ll be called Stiles anyway. Obviously this is a memory, not a dream,
explaining The Name, the greatest mystery in the history of this show (except
for where Danny and Kira have gone. They better show up with the Wild Hunt).
Time for some more plot elements – Chris Argent shows up
at Melissa’s house (and, for the record, he can show up at my house while I’m
in my nightclothes) to ask her help in poking the new body in the morgue
(remember the murder). Turns out this guy has had his head bitten into,
apparently by some super werewolf. He’s eating pineal glands. Apparently.
Also Melissa is awesome.
So who is the murderer? Hey remember that new hot
teacher? Well he’s making ominous speeches about power and electricity to his
class. He keeps turning up the volts despite each time making him cough
terribly until he flees to a cupboard to huff helium
Ok, that random word salad? Actually true. We also get what I assume is a flashback to him escaping from a tank of green goo – which makes me think about the Dread Doctors. In the tank he was missing skin, but he see
He also has glowy red eyes – which suggests he’s not just
eating brain meats but is also an Alpha Werewolf
But clearly has no idea about ethically sourced food. I
mean, killing a whole human and only eating a pea-sized gland?! Look at the
waste! Has this man not heard of sausages?
