Jackson is in a body bag. There was some kind of clear liquid leaking out of the bag. The EMT thanks Melissa for her help, but they can take it from there. Melissa, though, decides to ride in the ambulance with them and gets in before the EMT can say no.
"What is that clear goo?" Laura asks cringing slightly. Everyone shrugs.
A hunter forces Stiles to go down into a basement. He hears something in the darkness and turns on the light to see Boyd and Erica tied up and tape on their mouth.
"I got to meet with the medical examiner and try to figure out what happened with Jackson. I've got an APB out on Stiles. His jeep is still in the parking lot, so that means - the hell, I don't know what that means. Um - look, if he answers his phone, if he answers his emails, if either one of you see him - " Sheriff tries to continue investigating.
Isaac stops him, "We'll call you."
"Look, he's probably just freaked out from all the attention or something. We'll find him." Scott replied.
"Yeah. I'll see you, okay?"
Coach comes up to Isaac and Scott, "McCall. We need you on the team, okay? You know I can't put you on the field next season if you don't get your grades up."
"Yeah, I know, coach."
"All right. I mean, I - I know I yell a lot, but it's not like I hate you guys. Well, I kind of hate Greenberg, but, you know, that's different. It's Greenberg. I'm just saying we - I need you on the team. Get your grades back up."
"I will."
"I know."
"So the coach is nice." Cora says surprised, while the lacrosse players nod their heads.
"Is that everyone?" Scott asks Isaac as everyone leaves.
Isaac looks around, "I think so." Scott pulls off the locker door and pulls out clothes, "You're gonna find him by scent?"
"Yeah, we both are."
"But how come you get his shirt and I get a shoe?"
Everyone laughs at that.
Derek pops up, "We need to talk."
Peter comes around the corner, "All of us."
Scott, surprised, "Holy sh -"
Some people chuckle at Scott's reaction.
In the Argent's basement, Stiles tries to untie them, but didn't take off the tape on their mouth so doesn't hear the warning about it being electrified. Gerard enters and tells him that. He also says that he isn't going to bother to torture Boyd and Erica because their bond is too strong with their Alpha. Stiles stands up against Gerard and makes sarcastic comments about Scott being able to find him by scent. He describes what it probably smells like, but Gerard counters that with a vivid image of his own. Stiles doesn't believe him when he says that he is going to beat him to a bloody pulp since he is old. Gerard then starts punching Stiles.
Everyone looks on in disbelief. "I can't believe Gerard would do that, just to get to Scott." Liam said. Everyone looked sad that Stiles was getting beat up for no real good reason. Chris couldn't believe that his father would beat up a teenager just to get what he wanted. Malia growls and her eyes turn blue. Everyone was confused about the eye color, but didn't want to ask when she was obviously angry. Scott grabbed her hand and Stiles grabbed the other to show that he was fine, and it calmed her down.
Scott is staring at Peter, "What the hell is this?"
"You know, I thought the same thing when I saw you talking to Gerard at the sheriff's station."
"Okay, hold on. He - he threatened to kill my mom. And I had to get close to him. What was I supposed to do?"
"I'm gonna go with Scott on this one. Have you seen his mom? She's gorgeous." Peter says.
Derek and Scott turn to Peter, "Shut up."
Some people snicker at that.
"Who is he?" Isaac asked.
"That's Peter, Derek's Uncle. Little while back, he tried to kill us all, and then we set him on fire, and Derek slashed his throat."
Peter waves his hand, "Hi."
"That's good to know."
"How is he alive?"
"Look, the short version is he knows how to stop Jackson. And maybe how to save him." Scott and Isaac look at each other.
"Well, that's very helpful except Jackson's dead." Isaac tells them.
"What?"
"Yeah, Jackson's dead. It just happened on the field."
"Okay, why is no one taking this as good news?" Isaac asks.
"Because if Jackson is dead, it didn't just happen. Gerard wanted it to happen."
"But why?"
"Well, that's exactly what we need to figure out. And something tells me the window of opportunity is closing. Quickly."
Chris walks into Allison's room and sees her talking with Gerard. Chris confronts Gerard as he is leaving about what happened at the game. Gerard says that they won, but Chris is talking about Jackson, Gerard leaves the room. Chris goes up to Allison and asks her to step aside because it is her friend that is dead. Allison blames it on Derek, she apparently blames Derek for Kate, her mom, and Jackson. Chris asks about Scott, he wonders what will happen if he dies. Allison wonders when he started to care about Scott, he says he cares about her. Allison says that he should be proud because she is doing what he wants. Chris disagrees saying that she is doing what Gerard wants. She changes the subject by saying that she is going to bed and that he owes her a new bow. Chris cuts the string on her crossbow and adds that he owes her a new one of those as well.
The Hales glare at Allison, "Not everything was Derek's fault." Allison shrugged, "At the time I thought it was, and Gerard fed on that thought."
Melissa is in the morgue. She is with Jackson's body, she notices the liquid that is leaking. She psychs herself up and opens the bag.
Sheriff is talking to someone on the phone telling them to call him if they find Stiles. Stiles walks into his room and announces his presence. The sheriff looks at him and the welt on his face as well as the split lip. Stiles says that it was some of the opposing team members, he was mouthing off and they didn't like that. Sheriff gets angry and asks for their names, Stiles says it was too dark, Sheriff wants descriptions so he can find them and pistol whip them. Stiles yells at him to stop and they hug.
Everyone smiles at that scene.
Scott on his phone as they go through the Hale house, "Oh. Oh, they found Stiles."
"I told you, I looked everywhere."
Peter pulls out a hidden box under the stairs, "You didn't look here."
"What is that, a book?"
"No. It's a laptop. What century are you living in? A few days after I got out of the coma, I transferred everything that we had. Fortunately, the Argents aren't the only ones that keep records."
Everyone laughs at that comment to Peter said to Derek.
Scott's phone rings, "Hey, mom, I can't talk right now."
"Oh, yeah? Well, I'm so freaked out that I can barely talk either."
"What's wrong?"
"Something - Definitely something. I don't know what, but I think you're gonna want to see this for yourself."
Stiles is lying down on his bed when there is a knock on the door, "Dad, I said I'm fine."
Lydia is standing on the other side, "Hi."
"Hi."
"Your father let me in."
"He did? Yeah, of course he did."
"What happened to your -" Lydia gestures to his face.
"Oh, uh - yeah, no, it's nothing. Don't worry about it. I'm fine. Do you want to come in? How are you doing?"
"They won't let me see him. I'm supposed to give him something. He kept asking for it back." She holds the key.
The girls aww at that. Jackson is smug that Lydia still has it.
Scott, Isaac, and Melissa examine the cocoon Jackson is in, "What's happening to him?"
"That is messed up." Cora muttered. Jackson is worried about his status and he is freaked out by what he is incased in.
"I thought that you were gonna tell me. Is it bad?"
"It doesn't look good."
Jackson starts to twitch, "Whoa."
"Whoa. Um, mom, could you zip it up, please?"
"Okay. Okay, okay. Okay, here we go." Melissa goes to Jackson after giving her son a look.
Some people chuckle, "You had to have your mom do it for you? Your a werewolf." Jackson asked. Scott just shrugged, "It was creepy."
"Mom, zip."
"Okay, okay, okay, okay." She got stuck by the chin.
Scott yells, "Zip! Zip, mom, zip! Zip!" As Jackson's mouth opens with kanima teeth on display.
In the basement Chris is explaining to Erica and Boyd that he has been studying werewolves for a long time and has learned that electricity can stop their abilities. He goes on to talk about this for a minute before reaching for the dial. The two panic thinking he is going to raise the current. He says that the line between the natural and the supernatural can blur and you can find yourself surprised about which side you end up on. He turns the knob and it shows that he turned it down.
The werewolves smiled at Chris.
"Hey, sorry, I didn't have any tissues, so, uh -" Stiles gives her toilet paper.
"That's fine. God, I'm such a mess. God. You have 17 missed messages from Scott."
"I know."
"You're ignoring him?"
"No. No, not really."
Scott looked over at Stiles as if to say, 'yeah right'. Stiles just shrugged.
Lydia gets up and sees what's on his desk, "Why do you have women's jewelry?"
"Oh. Uh, nothing, it's just some stuff I bought, you know, for your birthday."
"For me?" Lydia seems flattered.
"Yeah, I just - I kind of didn't know what to get you, so I just bought you, like, a bunch of stuff. Like, a lot of stuff. You know, I was gonna return anything that I didn't give you."
Lydia smiled at Stiles for all of these gifts even he never got to give them to her.
Lydia looks at the gifts, "A flat screen TV?"
"Yeah, that I'm definitely returning."
Stiles gets a text that Lydia reads, "You're gonna want to read this."
Derek, reading a text message, "They say he's in some kind of transparent casing made from the venom coming out of his claws."
Peter is looking through the computer, "That sounds sufficiently terrifying."
"They also say he's starting to move."
"Okay, look, I think I found something. Looks like what we've seen from Jackson is just the kanima's beta shape."
"Well, meaning what? It can turn into something bigger?"
Peter clicks on something, "Bigger and badder."
"He's turning into that? That has wings."
"I can see that."
They all laugh at that exchange while still being freaked out about the Kanima becoming worse than it already is.
Derek gets on the phone, "Scott, bring him to us."
Scott is watching Jackson wriggle around on the table, "I'm not sure if we have time for that."
"Look, somebody actually made an animation of it. Maybe it's less frightening if we -" They start to watch it when a screeching sound is heard. Peter quickly slams the computer shut, "Nope, not at all. We should probably meet them halfway."
Everyone laughed at that little scene, even an animation was enough to freak Peter, the psychopath, out.
"Scott, get him out of there now - go now."
Gerard has sensed that Jackson is 'waking up' and wakes Allison up telling her that it's started.
Scott looks around, "Hold on, hold on. Okay, go. Go, go, go, go, go."
Isaac and Scott carry Jackson's body through the hospital parking lot. Scott drops him on his head right when headlights show up. They look at see that it is Argent in the car.
Everyone except Jackson chuckle at Scott dropping Jackson on his head. Jackson just glared at him.
Peter and Derek race towards the door, but Peter slows down, "Derek, we need Lydia."
"There's no time for -"
"That's the problem. We're rushing. We're moving too fast. And while everybody knows that a moving target is harder to hit, here we are, racing right into Gerard's crosshairs."
"If I get the chance to kill Jackson, I'm taking it."
"You always seem to change your mind from save to kill really quick." Talia told him. Derek shrugged while the others laughed at this exchange.
"You're alone." Scott notes.
"More than you know."
"What do you want?"
"We don't have much in common, Scott. But at the moment, we have a common enemy."
"That's why I'm trying to get him out of here."
"I didn't mean Jackson."
Stiles asks what she knows about all this, Lydia says it is like a dream. Lydia wants to go help Jackson and Stiles doesn't want her to go. He makes this big speech about how she doesn't care if she is hurt, but he will be devastated. He gets a little loud in his speech and Lydia cringes away from him. He realizes what he is doing and tries to apologize to her. She says she will just find Jackson on her own and she leaves.
The girls aww at that little scene. Lydia smiles at Stiles before kissing him. Jackson just rolls his eyes.
"Gerard has twisted his way into Allison's head, the same way he did with Kate. And I'm losing her. And I know you're losing her too."
"You're right. So can you trust me to fix this? Then can you let us go?"
"No. My car is faster."
"This is the beginning of us helping each other out." Scott said to Chris, who smiled back at him.
Stiles is sitting at his desk when Sheriff comes in. He asks Stiles if there is anything there between him and Lydia. Stiles says no because she is in love with someone else. Sheriff sits down next to Stiles and tells him that while getting beaten up and Jackson dying has shaken him up he should be happy about one thing, he single handedly won the game. Sheriff explains that the game was practically over and then Stiles scored and he kept scoring. His father calls him a hero. Stiles claims that he isn't a hero.
Everyone looks on in sympathy for how Stiles is feeling. "Everyone can get shot down multiple times and feel like they can't do anything to make it better." Scott told him. Stiles nodded his head at him. Talia smiled at Scott's advice.
Chris, Scott, and Isaac arrive at the warehouse district when Isaac says, "I think he stopped moving."
"Where's Derek?" Scott suddenly looks in a certain direction and we see Derek running on all fours before flipping in the air and looking at them with his red eyes.
"Someone certainly enjoys making an entrance." Peter rolls his eyes.
They all laugh at that.
"I'm here for Jackson. Not you."
"Somehow, I don't find that very comforting. Get him inside."
"Where are they?" Scott asks once they are inside.
"Who?"
"Peter and Lydia. Whoa, hold on a second. You said you knew how to save him."
"We're past that."
Scott: "What about -"
"Think about it, Scott. Gerard controls him now. He's turned Jackson into his own personal guard dog. And he set all of this in motion so that Jackson could get even bigger and more powerful."
"No. No, he wouldn't do that. If Jackson's a dog, he's turning rabid, and my father wouldn't let a rabid dog live."
Gerard comes walking inside, "Of course not. Anything that dangerous, that out of control - Is better off dead." Derek goes to put his calls into Jackson's chest, but Jackson put his claws into Derek first and is able to throw him into the next room.
"Ouch!" Cora and Laura uttered.
"Well done to the last, Scott. Like the concerned friend you are, you brought Jackson to Derek to save him. You just didn't realize that you were also bringing Derek to me." Allison shoots a bolt from her crossbow, Scott ducked, but it hit Isaac.
"Allison?" Scott wonders what she is doing.
Chris fires several shots at Jackson, it doesn't hurt him, but the next moment Jackson has fully transformed into the Kanima. He whips out the tail and grabs Chris's gun. Chris runs to get a better position to fight it. He only had a knife and turned around to face it. The Kanima bats him away easily.
Derek, Scott, and Isaac have wolfed out are are getting ready to fight the kanima. They attack, but the kanima beats them. He throws Scott into a wall, and Derek is slashed in the stomach and probably partially paralyzed. Isaac is going to help him when Allison comes from behind and slashes him in the gut and then stabs both knives into his back. Isaac collapses and Allison locks in on Derek. She twirls her knives walking forward to Derek. Peter is hiding behind some columns and watching all of this.
"Why aren't you helping?" Cora asked. Peter shrugged telling them that he thought they could handle and he had his own separate plan.
"No, Allison!" The Kanima grabs Allison by the throat.
"Not yet, sweetheart."
"What are you doing?"
"He's doing what he came here to do."
"Then you know." Gerard looks at him.
"What's happening?" Liam asked in general.
"What's he talking about?"
"It was the night outside the hospital, wasn't it, when I threatened your mother. I knew I saw something in your eyes. You could just smell it, couldn't you?"
Isaac stands up, "He's dying."
"I am. I have been for a while now. Unfortunately, science doesn't have a cure for cancer yet. But the supernatural does."
"What?!" Everyone was surprised. The reactions of the others was that Gerard went through a lot just to get the bite. Scott's group was curious as to why when he wanted the bite then he wanted to obliterate the supernatural later on.
"You monster."
"Not yet."
"What are you doing?" The kanima tightens his hold on Allison's throat.
"You'll kill her too?"
"When it comes to survival, I'd kill my own son! Scott."
"Scott, don't. You know that he's gonna kill me right after. He'll be an Alpha."
"That's true. But I think he already knows that, don't you, Scott? He knows that the ultimate prize is Allison. Do this small task for me, and they can be together. You are the only piece that doesn't fit, Derek. And in case you haven't learned yet, there is just no competing with young love."
"Scott, don't! Don't!"
"I'm sorry. But I have to." Scott grabs Derek by the neck and allows for Gerard to get bit by Derek. Gerard looks proud and raises his bit arm.
Everyone looked at Scott in anger for doing what Gerard wanted.
The other look on in confusion as the blood turns black.
"What the -" Peter wonders what happened.
"What? What is this? What did you do?" Gerard looks to Scott.
Scott looks at Derek, "Everyone said Gerard always had a plan. I had a plan too."
"No. No." He grabs his pills and remembers from a previous 'episode'.
"You dropped this." Scott handed him the pill holder back. We see that Deaton helped Scott with the mountain ash filled pills.
Gerard crushes the pills and black smoke rises, "Mountain ash!" His eyes and nose start to run with black blood. He falls to his knees and seems to have a fountain of black blood come out of his mouth.
Everyone had calmed down when they saw this. They smiled sheepishly at Scott when he looked at them, "Really, you thought I would just turn him like that?" They shrugged.
Derek looked hurt, "Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because you might be an Alpha, but you're not mine."
"Poor Derek." Cora muttered.
Gerard, from the floor, "Kill them! Kill them all!"
The kanima lets up on Allison and she is able to get away right when Stiles' jeep comes and hits the kanima. Stiles has is eyes closed and asks if he got him. The kanima jumps up on his hood and makes Lydia and Stiles get out of the jeep. Stiles heads towards the others while Lydia gets closer to the kanima calling Jackson's name. It doesn't seem to hear so she holds up the house key that she has and it stops him.
Everyone laughs when Stiles hits the Kanima.
We see that the Kanima and he remembers the moment for this key. In the flashback we see Jackson and Lydia in bed together. He rolls over and gives her a key and tells her that it is for the front door. They tease each other. They cuddle and look content.
Back in the warehouse Jackson has transformed into his half kanima form, he takes the key and his eyes turn human. He backs up and closes his eyes. Derek sees Peter getting ready to attack and he goes to Jackson. They both end up stabbing him at the same time while lifting him off the ground. Jackson falls to the ground and asks Lydia is she still loves him and she says yes she does. He dies, Allison has noticed that Gerard disappeared. Lydia gently sets his head on the floor and starts to walk away. All of sudden they all hear claws against the concrete. They turn and see Jackson start to breathe and open his eyes. His eyes glow blue, he gets up and howls. He turns human again and Lydia rushes to hug him. We see Stiles slightly tear up and he tells Scott that he scratched his jeep.
They all wonder what Peter's plan was exactly. They wondered what happened to Gerard. Everyone was surprised when Jackson again was raised from the dead. "Hey! Your finally a werewolf." Liam patted Jackson. Jackson just glared at him.
Allison and Scott are in her room. She apologizes to him and he tells her it's okay. She is breaking up with him. He tells her it's okay because he believes they will be together. She says there is no such thing as fate, but he mentions that there is no such thing as werewolves. He kisses her forehead and gets up to leave. He runs into Chris as he is leaving. He turns around and sees Chris hug Allison before he leaves.
Boyd and Erica are running through the woods, Boyd needs to stop for a minute. When they do they are surrounded by people with claws. We hear a howl when shown the full moon.
"Uh… who were those people?" Laura asked.
Deaton is looking at the black blood when Ms. Morrell shows up, "You're not planning on getting your hands dirty, are you?"
"I do what I have to."
"Good. I never liked you being retired anyway."
"Whoever said I was retired?"
The next day Peter, Derek, and Isaac are at the Hale house where a mark is on the door, "You haven't told him everything yet, have you?" Peter asks Derek.
"What do you mean?"
"Why do you think Derek was in such a hurry to build his pack? So eager to strengthen his power and his number? When there's a new Alpha, people take notice."
"People like who? What is this? What does this mean?"
"It's their symbol. And it means they're coming."
"Who?"
"Alphas."
"More than one?"
"A pack of them."
"An Alpha pack. And they're not coming. They're already here." Peter warns.
"An Alpha pack!" Talia exclaimed, remembering something.
Stiles and Scott are on the lacrosse field, "So you really think she's gonna come back to you?"
"Yeah, I know she is. What about you and Lydia?"
"Ah. Well, the 10 - year plan for making Lydia fall in love with me may have to stretch to 15, but the plan is definitely still in motion."
Everyone chuckles, Lydia smiles, "You got me before the 10 year plan was up." Stiles grins at her.
"Why don't you just ask her out?"
Stiles laughs, "Yeah, okay. Why don't you just get into the goal and help me make team captain like you promised there, big guy."
"Hey, you know what I just realized? I'm right back where I started."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean no lacrosse, no popularity, no girlfriend. Nothing."
"Dude, you still got me."
"I had you before."
"Yeah, and you still got me. Okay? It's a life fulfilled."
"Very."
"Now remember, no wolf powers."
"Got it."
"No, I mean it. No super fast reflexes, no super eyesight, no hearing - none of that crap, okay?"
"Okay. Come on."
"You promise?"
"Would you just take the shot already?" Scott looks down and when he looks back up his eyes glow yellow.
Stiles throws, "I said no wolf powers!"
That caused everyone to laugh. Alia was worried about the Alpha pack. Derek was worrying about his problem with the Alpha pack. Allison and Peter were glad that they were now caught up to everything that they have been through. Everyone thought Scott's plan was great.
A/N: I added the part about Malia's eyes when Gerard hit Stiles, because I don't think anyone knew that she had blue eyes. So this gives them a chance to see that.
