So everyone is all worried about the Beast and not
knowing what to do about it, especially since they don’t know how to find the
beast. What they do know is the Beast is getting smarter, stronger and more
powerful with each transformation. As Gerard points out, the Beast will get
more powerful until it completely forgets whatever Chimera teenager it and
becomes a monster through and through
Corey wants to run (which is pretty smart since he only
cowers or gets terribly injured) but Mason wants him to stay because he doesn’t
want to have to get to know the next replaceable gay token. He wants Corey to
protect him (I’d laugh if this weren’t so very very sad). But Mason has a logic
leap – the Beast appears near transmissions every time, the Dread Doctors are
controlling the beast and summoning it with broadcasts. By making it transform more
and more and more they are encouraging to become the super powerful monster.
Mason having an idea – excellent, maybe he is going to be
around more than 2 seconds every three episodes? Nope, because Liam gets to
explain this idea to the gang. Really, you couldn’t have Mason explain his own
idea? A straight white guy had to present it to the group for more
brainstorming? They can’t have him silently in the back of the room or
something?
Anyway, having come to all these conclusions the then
realise there’s a charity lacrosse match coming up which is going to be heavily
televised. A crowd of people for the Beast to slaughter
Surprisingly they actually make the sensible decision and
decide the match needs to be cancelled rather than insisting the game has to go
off (honestly so many teen drama would have had the match go on no matter
what). Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any sensible way to actually
cancel the match, the Sheriff certainly can’t without a reason
The idea they come up with is, sadly, to rely on Coach Finstock
to forfeit the match. The problem with this is a) I don’t see how forfeiting at
the last minute will work since the crowd will be there and the media. And B)
it relies on the random coach Finstock doing what they want.
Can we have an aside here to say that it’s not ok to
treat his alcoholism like that. He has been constantly faking relapse so he can
stay in rehab – but getting into rehab is a hard, expensive and often
impossible process, it’s wrong to trivialise it
So the match, predictably, goes ahead – and the gang
hopes to try to find the Beast’s alternate identity by checking for blood
stained shoes (the idea the Beast may have more than one pair of shoes sees to
have skipped that). They’re helped by Brett, the werewolf playing for the other
team, and his sister Lori.
The latter is especially helpful because she ends up
distracting Kira. Kira completely (and, again, predictably) loses it to the
fox. This has been threatened since a very cute moment with Scott and Kira
together. After Kira completely tears up the lacrosse field she is sent off and
speaks in Japanese – I’m sure we’ve been told previously that Kira doesn’t
speak Japanese. It’s a sign the fox is peaking through. She and Lori fight,
tearing through the school and it only stops when Scott arrives. It’s a pretty
pic fight
His Alpha Roar brings her back to her self. I actually
like this because it’s a sign of how all of them are becoming more powerful as
a pack – especially since Scott has now finally healed his wound now he has
reunited his pack. His power, his strength how they will win is dependent on the
unity of his pack.
Meanwhile Malia runs into her mother – the delay prevents
her from cutting off all of the radio signals
Corey and Mason also kiss – which is excellent and keeps
raising my low hopes – but Corey breaks it off, something seems to be bothering
him. I worry now, I worry again.
All of their distractions mean they fail to find the
Beast – and to stop him appearing. The Beast appears and everyone cowers in the
school preparing to face the Beast who has already unleashed one slaughter
At that first slaughter Parrish went all Hellhound to
face the Beast – and it didn’t end well. As the Beast is evolving, Parrish is
not really managing to keep up and can no longer go toe-to-toe with the Beast.
He needs to do his evolving – he needs to embrace his inner hellhound
So he turns to the Argents. Oh dear gods who thought this was a good idea? Of course, on long Teen Wolf tradition, that means a near death experience! This time by freezer… allowing Lydia to communicate with the inner Hellhound who seems to have a lot of contempt for the body he’s occupying. But, by the end, Lydia seems to convince him, invoking Banshee authority.
This episode it seems everyone is starting to get their
issues together. Scott has healed, Kira has conquered her fox at least once…
maybe it will bode well for the future. This is where the pack seems to be
getting everything lined up and ready – or we seem to be heading that way
