'Teen Wolf' recap: Someone's changing the rules
Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for Monday night's episode of Teen Wolf.
It's a club rave of death and destruction and you're all invited.
The gang is finally zoning in on the Dread Doctors, with Malia's encounter with them and Tracy bringing them to the light. And this week Scott and co., faced a hybrid lizard/werewolf monsters. Yep, things got freaky in Teen Wolf this week, with "Condition Terminal" making Scott realize that his hero complex may be more severe than he initially thought.
A Trip to the Dentist
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While the Scooby gang is distracted by a bleeding out Lydia at the sheriff's department and finding Tracy, Donovan gets captured by the Doctors in his jail cell. Stiles hesitates at leaving Lydia (this is where my Stydia shipper heart comes out), but he follows Scott to the basement where they find Malia with a dead Tracy. Malia frantically pleads with the pair that it wasn't her, but even Stiles doesn't really believe her. When Deaton says they have to hide the body, Sheriff Stilinski and his code of honor (and the law) protests, asking where they draw the line. But Deaton tells the sheriff that he crossed that line long ago.
Meanwhile Donovan seems to keep getting himself involved in the grosses scenes in each episode. Strapped to a table, the Doctors rip out all of Donovan's teeth with pliers as he screams in pain (eugh), but at the end of this horrible process, a newfangled set of Wendigo teeth grow in to Donovan's mouth. Back at the hospital, Lydia is going through surgery and seeing visions of the Dread Doctors, while Liam reveals to Scott his findings that Tracy was buried alive. And poor Malia is still not being believed.
Not so supernatural
Stiles is adding to his X-Files conspiracy wall, and he and Malia kind of make up when she sees that he's still looking for her mom, the Desert Wolf. Downstairs, a "sweet" moment between Kira and Scott (who still have no chemistry whatsoever, I'm sorry) gets interrupted by Deaton, who shows them that all the teenage creatures they've faced recently are a mishmash of shapeshifters -- they're not supernatural, but were made with parts of supernatural creatures. Deaton leaves to find answers, but not before ominously warning Scott and Kira to protect themselves.
Lydia wakes up at the hospital to Parrish sitting at her bed, and she asks Parrish to teach her out to fight -- some set-up to Lydia's sudden martial arts skills that we saw in the first episode this season.
Back in AP Biology class, Scott and Kira get some Harry Potter-style exposition when their bio teacher tells them about the chimera, a hybrid creature made of different DNA strands. The group find an entry for the chimera in their magical bestiary book, and it's off to the library to research.
Ranting and raving
Oh hey, that hot evil new guy is working for/with the Dread Doctors (his name his Theo, sorry, I'll get it together). He definitely has a better bedside manner than the Doctors, but he only uses it to manipulate Donovan to go after people that Sheriff Stilinski loves. This cannot bode well.
This week on "Teen Wolf the Next Generation," Liam goes to a party at a club where he and his hot frenemy love interest scowl at each other. Teen Wolf seriously overestimates the number of '90s-style raves that high schoolers go to. The episode cuts back and forth between the '90s rave and the group doing book research in the library which is so Buffy-esque I could cry (I'll stop making comparisons when they stop inviting them).
But hey -- this club has actual plot significance. It turns out the werewolf/scorpion hybrid guy who stung the boy that Scott and Kira visit in the hospital is at this club. Liam spots this guy, Lucas, and gets into a fight with him before Lucas can attack Liam's annoying friend, Scott and Kira head to help, Scott accidentally says he loves her, and there's a showdown. Kira inexplicably gets possessed by her Kitsune spirit and almost delivers a killing blow, but is stopped by Scott. This amounts to nothing however, because Lucas is quickly killed by the Dread Doctors, who tell Scott that "his condition was terminal."
Playing with fire
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I'm liking Malia more with each episode, as she takes initiative to do some investigating on her own at Tracy's room, and finds a novel lended to Tracy called The Dread Doctors (three guesses as to who lent it to her). Meanwhile, Scott is feeling guilty over not being able to save everyone, but his mom gives him an inspiring pep talk.
Oh and remember that scene from the beginning of the episode where Parrish and Lydia were trying to decipher a recurring dream that he had where he was carrying bodies (while naked of course) to a burning bonfire around the magical Nematon tree stumps? It turns out that a somewhat possessed Parrish is doing this in real life -- taking Lucas' body out of the hospital morgue to the magical burning bonfire. That's going to be an interesting date conversation.
And just when we though things had winded down for the evening, STILES GETS KIDNAPPED. Foreshadowing sucks.
Missed last week's recap of Teen Wolf? Read it here.