Stiles is back….
…uh-huh that means Teen
Wolf is powering up a major gut-punch to the Feels, doesn’t it?
Stiles is in a train station. Yes, apparently the Wild
Hunt dumps everyone in a train station and then just kind of leaves them there.
It’s not even a good station with free wi-fi and great snack shops and maybe a
couple of decent coffee shops – just rows of benches and the occasional radio
announcement
Everyone, despite waiting there hours and hours, seems to
be almost comatose. As Stiles repeatedly pokes their stories and exposes the
nonsensical holes he still can’t convince them something odd is happening. When
the wild hunt rides through now and then, smacking people and dropping new
captives off in the waiting room, everyone quickly forgets. At least Gwen is
reunited by
It’s not really explained why Stiles is the one who is
able to remember the hunt and not just stare into space
But he isn’t the only one – there’s also Peter Hale. Yes,
Peter Hale, evil wolf, Derek’s relative, Malia’s dad, the werewolf who bit
Scott and generally not a nice man. He was last seen in Eichen house and he
managed to escape during the power outage caused by various hijinks from
previous seasons. He is pretty much giving up but tolerates Stiles’s repeated
attempts to escape.
Which doesn’t get very far. But they do find another guy
who has been there far longer and is at the end of his patience and driven to
desperation. He can think of one way to escape – the portal where the Hunt
enters and leaves, guarded by supernatural fear and requiring you to jump on
the back of one of the Wild Hunt’s horses
It’s brave to say the least. And turns out to be foolish
since it gets you horribly horribly burned to death. Not nice.
Peter succumbs to despair and tries to tear down all of
Stile’s hope by randomly taking his possessions to point out how useless all of
it is because they don’t exist any more.
Of course Stile’s doesn’t give up – and remembers the
intercom system announcing various stops from the non-existent trains which
speaks now and then. He hopes to use the radio to communicate with the outside
world…
So to the outside world and Lydia leads Scott to Stiles’s
Jeep, which involves both bribing a repo man and then Malia ripping off bits of
his truck. Because Malia doesn’t do deals
Inside the jeep Scott finds all of their scents – which makes
no sense to them because none of them remember being inside. Malia is in
complete denial about Stiles. As Stiles is another person she’s lost, another
loss she can’t take.
And at the station, Peter looks at the list of stations
on the board and has a realisation – one he doesn’t share with Stiles, but which
changes his mind and instills a lot of urgency in him. He declares Beacon Hills
is well and truly doomed – and that he has to get out. Ostensibly so he can
escape, but really so her can save his daughter, Malia. And no, he’s not
fooling anyone, least of all Stiles.
He jumps on the back of one of the Wild Hunt horses. He
thinks he can survive the horrible burning death because he’s a werewolf with
major healy woo-woo.
He arrives in the real world and his agonised, pain filled roar is heard by Scott and Malia – they rush to find his horrifically burned body and their memories of him are suddenly restored, much to their horror of having forgotten him. He’s also carrying Stiles’s jeep keys
With those keys they can get Stiles’s jeep working –
including the radio, allowing Stiles to contact them. And their memories to
come back. FEEEEEEELLLLLLSSSS. ALL THE FEEELLLLLLS. All the beautiful
feellllllssssss. Among the emotional moments,
Stiles asks them to find one of the places on the destination list:
Canaan.
Now I don’t recognise Canaan (except the ancient history
thing), but I do recognise Pripyat and Bannack – they’re abandoned towns in
Ukraine and US respectively.
