Lydia sits down at the kitchen table inside Emma's home, across from Emma. "Your mother is a coroner, right?"

"No." Emma shakes her head. "She's a Medical Examiner."

"Did she examine the dead Argents?"

Emma shrugs.

"Why didn't you ask?"

"Just", Emma looks down with an exhale, "after the body that I found…"

"You don't want to be around anymore."

Emma nods.

"I understand."

Emma stands and straightens her Grindhouse apron. "What are you doing today?"

Lydia shrugs.

"Want to come to work with me? I'm not working a long shift today."

"Sure." Lydia says sweetly; and the two leave.


Noah and Stiles are walking down stairs.

"So, if the victims are Argents", Noah starts, "then that means they're hunting and being killed by something supernatural."

"Yep." Stiles says.

They make it to the front door.

"Then I should stay to help."

"No." Stiles shakes his head. "You go out and have fun." He opens the door for Noah and there stands Audrey about to knock.

"Hi." She and Stiles say to each other.

"What's up, Audrey?" Noah asks.

She shrugs. "Came over to see if you wanted lunch."

"Well, I'm going back upstairs." Stiles says, pats Noah's shoulder, and heads upstairs.

Noah comes outside. "I'm actually going to meet someone at the mall."

"Who?"

"That new girl: Alice."

"Not by yourself."

Noah grins. "Why not?"

"Noah, what if she's the killer?"

His eyes widen. "I didn't think about that."

"Don't worry", Audrey puts her hand on Noah's shoulder, "I'll go with you."

"Good." Noah goes down the steps. "Good, good. Wait – you can't go with me."

"Why not?"

"Unless…you keep your distance inside the mall. Just watch me and her from afar."

Audrey nods. "Works. But don't make it obvious that you suspect her. Just be yourself."

"I can do that."

Audrey lowers her head and looks up at Noah. "You remember when you suspected me?"

"Right. How do I do this?"

"You focus on the fact that she might not be a killer. To you, she's just a sweet girl who is on a date with you. While I will focus on the fact that she might be a killer."

Noah nods. "I can do that."

The two leave for the mall.

Sometime later:

Scott and the pack, minus Lydia, are sitting in Noah's kitchen, while Scott is on his phone.

"So?" Malia asks Scott.

"Chris says he'll come here after he finds out what the creature could be." Scott says.

Liam asks: "How long could that take?"

"He said it could take a week."

"A week?" Stiles asks loudly.

Scott just looks at him like: what do you want from me?

"Does he know who the other Argents are?" Hayden asks.

"He said they're probably cousins and that we need to be safe, because they could be like Kate and Gerard."

Malia shrugs. "So, what now?"

"Whatever this creature is", Scott starts, "it's killing Argents, who may or may not follow the Argent code and I think we need to do something that we haven't done before."

Liam narrows his eyes. "What's that?"

"Train."

Noah is sitting at a table in the mall's food court, bouncing his knee. He turns to Audrey who is in a nearby store.

Audrey points at his knee and does the 'cut it out' motion.

Noah stops and looks at his phone.

"Noah."

He looks up and sees Alice. "Alice." He smiles.

"Do you want to get lunch first?"

"What?" Noah looks down at the table. "Oh." He lightly chuckles. "Uh…yeah sure." He smiles at her and stands. "Where would you like to eat?"

Audrey says to herself: "Really, Foster?"

After eating together, Noah and Alice decide to take the escalator up to the second floor.

"So, what brought your family to Lakewood?" Noah asks.

Alice shrugs. "My parents just wanted to move here."

Noah grins. "For no reason?"

"Kinda." Alice nods.

"What about their jobs?"

"My mom is unemployed and my dad makes enough money working from home."

"Uhhh-"

"You guys have a merry-go-round?!" Alice grabs Noah's hand and pulls him to the ride.

Scott parks his bike behind Gustavo's car, next to Lakewood's park. He gets off the bike, taking off his helmet, and walks to Gustavo. "What's up?"

Gustavo holds up his IPad. "I have to draw your Werewolf form."

Scott looks at the pad and then back at Gustavo. "Why?"

"For my next comic."

"You're basing it off of what's going on?"

"Dude." Gustavo holds up the pad, pointing to it. "Coping mechanism."

Scott quirks a brow.

"This isn't as bad as Noah's podcast."

Scott nods. "Is there some kind of stance or something that you want me to take?"

"I just need you to transform and come around that tree." He points to the nearest tree in the park. "But stop before you completely come around."

"So, just come around halfway?"

"Yeah."

Scott walks behind the tree, transforms, puts his left hand to the front of the tree, creeps around to the side, and growls.

"Stay just like that!" Gustavo starts drawing, looking at the IPad and Scott. "You're good, I can remember the rest."

Scott turns back to normal and jogs to Gustavo. "Nice." He nods at the early drawing.

"Thanks. I just needed an outline of everything."

Scott grins at Gustavo, getting an idea. "You know. I think I know how to make your comic a bit more awesome."

Audrey and Noah are riding in his car.

"So, what all did you find out about her?" Audrey asks.

"Not much." Noah answers. "Her parents came here for essentially no reason, her mom is unemployed, and her dad works from home."

Audrey looks out the window. "Sounds like a vague killer back-story."

"Right?"

"Do you think she could be the killer?" She turns back to Noah.

"I don't." Noah says. "But considering that no one suspected Piper or Kieran…"

"Hey, you are supposed to see her as a sweetheart. I'm the one who is supposed to suspect her."

Noah grins at Audrey and puts up his fist for a fist-bump. "Bi-curious and the Nerd."

Audrey laughs out a 'hmm'. "I like it." She fist-bumps Noah.

Noah's phone goes off. "Could you get that for me?"

"Yep." Audrey picks up the phone, reads the text, and smiles. "Noah."

"Yeah?"

"How would you like to see a sparring match between four shape shifters?" She presses the audio button.

"I would love that!"

Audrey giggles and sends the audio to Gustavo.

"But where will they spar?" Lydia asks Emma.

"I know a place." Emma answers.


The entire group goes to the Wren Lake Estates. They stand in the backyard of a home. Scott facing Liam and Hayden facing Malia, all ready to spar.

"Ready?" Scott asks the onlookers.

They all say yeah or simply nod and Gustavo starts to record with his IPad.

Everyone looks at him.

"What?" He asks. "Anyone that sees this will think that it's fake."

They all silently agree.

The four fighters shape shift and begin to spar with the one in front of them! Malia drop kicks Hayden just as Liam's punch is countered by being tossed over Scott's shoulder and onto the ground.

"OH!" The onlookers yell out.

The match(es) continue with everyone cheering, taking sides, and drinking.

All the while a cloaked figure with a Brandon James mask is watching from inside the next house…