Part two of the season opener aired tonight, and it was pretty sketchy. Starting with the fact that new girl Tracy vomited black goo and feathers all over Mrs. Martin’s desk. Yuck.
Tracy has been having what she’s determined are night terrors – incredibly realistic nightmares accompanied by sleepwalking known as parasomnia. She insists the dreams feel real, and what do you know, they are. Parrish and Lydia go to investigate Tracy’s claims that birds were trying to get in her skylight, only to find bloody claw marks and many dead bird carcasses lying on her roof. She is haunted by a mysterious ticking noise, and starts to use the mantra “it’s not real,” to calm herself.
At the same time, Stiles’ distrust of Mike … sorry, Theo … leads him to launch a full scale investigation including handwriting analysis. Now, I’m cliqueish. I always immediately dislike new characters, so I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, just like Scott would want me to. But Stiles and I were right, as it turns out.
Malia is featured for a couple of one-liners and a moment of terrible driving, where she experiences PTSD that flashes back to the night she killed her adoptive mother and little sister. Me too, Malia. Cars are the worst.
Mason is one of my favorite additions to the cast, because he’s attractive and because he seems really chill. When he and Liam are chased by a wolf into the school, and Liam has to face it with a mouth full of fangs and hands full of claws, Mason is delighted. “You’re a WEREWOLF!” he exclaims.
My favorite part of all of the Liam/Mason stuff (minus the fact they’re trying to make them the new Scott/Stiles a little bit) was Stiles giving Liam the advice to tell him the truth. “It’s always better when they know,” Stiles said. And that’s a huge part of why I love “Teen Wolf.” Although there is an effort to keep people out of the supernatural world for their own protection, it’s not a web of lies. Parents, teachers, friends – everybody is there to support each other.
Anyway back to Theo, who Stiles and Liam trail into the woods to catch him doing something shady. What they do find him doing is throwing a lily into the river below a bridge. The whole thing felt a little Mystic Falls to me and that obviously made me have less than zero sympathy for the kid. Then the kicker – in one of the final scenes of the episode he is seen threatening a man and woman who are posing (?) as his parents. And he smashes his “dad’s” hand with a hammer. So that’s not normal.
Tracy, sleepwalking in incredibly cute pajamas, walks right past Parrish and Lydia on their stakeout date (Team Stydia, but actually just Lydia + anyone) and straight into the hands of the doctors. They inject her with something, and trigger or “awaken” her to her powers.
We’ll just have to wait till next week to see what exactly that means.
Best Line:
“My parents are Peter, and The Desert Wolf.” – Malia, after Stiles says you can’t trust people with questionable parentage