by Kevin Ranson:
Teen Wolf Recap: “The Girl Who Knew Too Much”
Original Air Date (MTV): Monday July 29, 2013
Season 3 Episode 9
What’s better than finding out who the Darach is? Actually finding out what Lydia is!
Okay, can anyone explain how that creepy Darach chant keeps coming over all the airwaves? Deputy Graeme – alone, of course – responds to a 911 call and sees her dead self in the shower just before the Darach kills her. Outside the school, Lydia calls Allison, Stiles and Scott because she thinks there’s a dead body… and of course she’s right.
At home, Allison arms up after telling Daddy Argent that she needs to stay home to deal with things for a few days; she didn’t lie exactly, and it isn’t like she needs Isaac to protect her – especially after she hauls him in through the window at knife point when she discovers him watching over her for Scott. At school, Stiles confronts his father – the sheriff – about what’s going on, but his dad shuts him down and sends him to class. While Jennifer gives a lecture on idioms and and cliches, Scott and Stiles discuss the Darach and getting to Ethan on their side; in the hallway, Aiden warns Ethan away from Danny. Everybody got all that?
Lydia confronts Aiden while Scott and Stiles take Ethan aside. Someone scratches a vendetta symbol onto the door where Lydia is; Aiden thinks it’s Derek, but it’s Cora who attacks him. Ethan admits that he and Aiden were omegas, the worst of the pack that eventually killed their way up to the alpha. Extra points to Stiles for calling the Doublemint twins “Voltron Wolf.” Ethan feels pain; he knows Aiden is being attacked. Everyone arrives in time to stop Aiden, but not before he smacks Cora down with a barbell weight to the head – ouch – and she doesn’t look good.
Isaac and Allison look at Daddy Argent’s map again; it turns out that his map table is inscribed with a druidic five-fold knot. Is Chris the Darach? Place your bets! Jennifer the Teacher has a moment with Derek, but she has to stay at the school for the recital. Scott confronts Ms. Morrell in her office; he believes her when she says she isn’t the Darach, but also admits she’s been pulling Deucalion’s leash taught. She warns Scott that Deucalion is already ten chess moves ahead of him and will either have Scott or ruin him.
Lydia discovers another teacher taken – and screams again. Jennifer tries to calm Lydia down; Scott and Aiden try to figure out the pattern. Back at home, Stiles tries to convince his father what’s really going on in Beacon Hills… the entire truth. When it goes bad, he tries to have Cora reveal her wolf form as proof, but she collapses. Allison and Isaac use the maps to find the next body location and find the Darach, but Daddy Argent comes in guns blazing; it isn’t him, and the Darach gets away once more. The group manages to piece together that the current three sacrifices are philosophers – teachers – and every other teacher they know will be at the school recital.
At the hospital with Cora, Stiles continues to try an convince his father of the truth; Stiles plays the dead-mom-would-believe-me card. Derek is out of commission with his sister in the hospital; the sheriff gets some unexpected help from Scott’s mom, Melissa. A young girl was brought in from the woods, slashed up, and while on the operating table, hundreds of birds killed themselves outside the hospital… like a sacrifice.
Wait. Was Paige really dead when Uncle Peter left her in the woods? Because Derek took her life in the nemeton… uh oh.
At the recital, Lydia is lured away by a text from Aiden, but Aiden has “misplaced” his phone; it’s not him. That’s when Jennifer wallops Lydia; Jennifer has been the Darach all along, but is her fascination with Derek because she’s actually Paige? As the orchestra starts playing that creepy Darach music in some kind of trance, Lydia awakens to Jennifer binding her to a chair and belts out the scream to end all screams; Jennifer figures it out: Lydia is a banshee! Well, that explains a lot, but what can a banshee do other than find bodies, scream and die?
The sheriff gets there first! He fires, but Jennifer gets the drop on him. Scott appears, already wolfed out, but he’s slapped down, giving the sheriff an another shot at Jennifer. After being shot, she threatens the sheriff but doesn’t kill him, revealing her Darach from to him just before taking Lydia with her out a window. As usual, help arrives too late.
Using the “no one is no one” philosophy, Jennifer was my second choice. Lydia as a banshee is something I can’t imagine many people would have figured out, but it makes sense all the way back to the beginning.
Three episodes to go in this season!
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Kevin A. Ranson is the author of The Spooky Chronicles and the upcoming vampire thriller The Matriarch. He also the creator/critic for MovieCrypt.com and the “ghost writer” for its horror host Grim D. Reaper (often seen skulking around horror conventions). Find him on Facebook, on Twitter @KevinARanson, and his author blog at ThinkingSkull.com.
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