Season finale time!
Lots of action! Lots of bloodshed! Lots of people getting slammed
against walls! Let’s do this.
So Scott just inadvertently revealed his werewolf identity
to Allison. As Allison looks after him in shock and horror, Scott runs away
from the school and flees into the woods, sobbing hysterically. While for the
most part the Sturm und Drang of the Scott-Allison relationship makes me
roll my eyes in exasperation, the moment nicely captures Scott’s utter heartbreak.
Hard not to feel bad for the poor kid.
On the lacrosse field, Peter orders Stiles to come with him.
Stiles refuses to leave Lydia bleeding to death on the grass, so Peter lets him
call Jackson to tell him where to find her. Peter advises him not to waste time
worrying about Lydia: Either she’ll turn into a werewolf or she’ll die, and
there’s nothing anyone can do about it now.
Back at the Argent house, Chris Argent hurls things around
and pitches a full-scale hissyfit, furious with Kate for spilling the beans to
Allison about the existence of werewolves. Hate to break this to you, Chris,
but even if Kate had kept her mouth shut, Allison would’ve worked it out on her
own around the time her boyfriend transformed into a werewolf in front of her.
Of all the reasons to be vexed with Kate, this is pretty low on the list. Chris
orders Kate to take Allison out of town until their problems with the Alpha are
resolved.
Jackson carries Lydia, bloody and unconscious, off the
lacrosse field and brings her to the hospital. Sheriff Stilinski slams Jackson
against the wall and demands to know why he didn’t do a better job of looking
after his date. He’s furious, until Jackson points out that Lydia’s date for
the formal was actually… Stiles. You know, I like Sheriff Stilinski (and Linden
Ashby is great in the role), but I often have grave misgivings about his
competence.
Peter takes Stiles to a parking garage, whips out a laptop,
manhandles him a bit, and forces him to locate Scott’s phone, which is
currently in Derek’s possession. To do this, Stiles logs into Scott’s account
(Peter: “His user name is ‘Allison’? His password is also ‘Allison’?”
Stiles: “Still want him in your pack?”). Using the GPS on Scott’s phone, Stiles
and Peter discover that Kate’s secret lair, where she’s holding Derek captive,
is located underneath the burned ruins of the Hale house.
Miserable and desperate, Scott howls at the moon. Derek
(still shirtless, still in chains, still looking like he wandered off the cover
of an especially tawdry romance novel) howls right back at him, thus alerting
Scott to his location.
Now that Stiles has helped him pinpoint Derek’s location,
Peter releases him. First, though, he magnanimously offers to turn him into a
werewolf as a reward for his assistance. Stiles insists he’s not even the
slightest bit interested. Nope, not one whit. Peter, with his super-enhanced
werewolf senses, knows he’s lying, but lets the matter drop anyway.
Stiles races to the hospital to check on Lydia. In addition
to losing a lot of blood, she’s having a bad allergic reaction to something.
Sheriff Stilinski bawls him out and grills him, unsuccessfully, about Lydia’s
attacker. In a particularly clunky segue, Stilinski mentions how, thanks to the
tip he received from Mr. Harris a few episodes back, he now believes Kate
Argent was responsible for the fire that killed Derek’s family.
Scott tracks down Derek via his howl and frees him from his
chains, then asks for his help in stopping Peter from slaughtering all the
Argents, Allison included, to get revenge on Kate. Derek initially refuses,
until Scott convinces him that Peter deliberately lured Laura Hale to Beacon
Hills and murdered her to become the Alpha.
Back at the hospital, Jackson offers to drive Stiles to the
Hale house to find Scott. Stiles is too traumatized by recent events to marvel
at the heretofore unseen sight of Jackson actually being sort of helpful and
considerate. Before they can take off, the boys are apprehended by Chris Argent
and his lackeys, who are hell-bent on finding Scott. Chris drags Jackson and
Stiles into an empty room to interrogate and manhandle them (in a delightful
motif, Jackson and Stiles get manhandled by pretty much everyone in this
episode). Stiles tells him Kate murdered the Hale family, thus violating the
nigh-sacrosanct werewolf hunter code, which clearly states that no innocents
may be harmed in the course of their duties. Chris mulls this over and decides
that, yes, this does sound like something Kate would do.
Scott and Derek make it out of the underground lair and
scurry through the woods. They’re ambushed by an arrow-shooting Allison, of all
the damn people, who joins her crazy aunt for a rousing spot of
werewolf-hunting. While Allison is more than happy to riddle Derek and Scott
with arrows, she’s horrified to learn that Kate actually wants to kill
them. Kate whips out a gun and prepares to shoot Scott. Before she can pull the
trigger, Chris Argent pops up and orders his sister to knock it off with all
this murdering crap.
And because things weren’t quite chaotic enough,
Peter bursts onto the scene and knocks out Chris, then grabs Kate by the neck
and drags her into the ruins of the Hale house, with Allison following. Peter
tells Kate that if she apologizes for murdering his family, he’ll let Allison
live. Kate stammers out an apology, and Peter rips her throat open.
Farewell, Kate. You were crazy and sadistic and icky and
sort of awesome.
After dropping Kate’s lifeless body to the floor, Peter
turns to Allison: “I don’t know about you, Allison, but that apology didn’t
sound very sincere.” He advances on her.
Derek and Scott launch a joint attack! A big, messy fight
ensues! We get lots of fancy werewolf effects, some more convincing than
others! Peter transforms into the Alpha and starts to clobber both Derek and
Scott at once. Things look grim, until new fun couple Stiles and Jackson zip up
in the Porsche and hurl self-igniting Molotov cocktails—Lydia’s special recipe,
presumably—at the Alpha and char it to a crisp.
As Peter lies dying, Allison tenderly kisses Scott, who is
still in werewolf mode. Chris Argent scowls ominously, but makes no move to
stop his daughter. Derek approaches a still-moving Peter and, above Scott’s
protests—after all, Scott needs the Alpha alive if he’s ever going to be
cured—slashes his throat. Upon Peter’s death, Derek’s eyes glow red. He
triumphantly announces that he’s now an Alpha. Nobody else looks especially
thrilled about this, except maybe Jackson, who is clearly getting some Very Bad
Ideas.
Stiles and Scott sneak into the hospital to check on Lydia.
She’s still unconscious. Her vital signs are good, but her wound hasn’t healed
itself. So she’s not dying, but she’s also not a werewolf. “Then what the hell
is she?” Stiles asks.
And then Jackson, who has a confoundingly slow learning
curve, returns to the Hale house to plead with Derek yet again to turn him into
a werewolf. Because that worked out so well for him last time. This time
around, Derek is only too happy to give him the bite.
Finally, on the roof of the Argent home, Scott and Allison
snuggle together blissfully and kiss beneath the moon.
A strong end to a swell first season. Season Two recaps will
commence immediately.
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