TEEN WOLF RECAP: Creatures of the Night 5x01

Let's start with Lydia, since our lovely strawberry blonde opens the show for us. She's in Eichen House, having a shower, in quite the catatonic state, being yelled at by a female nurse. The scene changes, and she's walking down a dark hallway in Eichen House with wet hair, followed by a couple of nurses. Eventually they get to her room/cell, and the male nurse is in the process of injecting her with some kind of sedative. As soon as he sticks her with the needle, she sits up really fast and screams so loud that the lights blow out and the nurse goes flying across the room, like so:

And then she runs out of the room and has one of the most badass fight scenes I've ever seen on Teen Wolf, like, ever, which includes this move of hers:

It looks like she's propelling her scream out of her hands in the form of a sound wave to make it into a weapon, and it looks pretty damn cool to me. She makes it to the outside of Eichen House, where she beats up a couple more nurses and security guards until she is met with a scary sight as she approaches the stairs. Aiden is walking up the stairs, telling her that it's not her time yet, whatever that means, and then she is subsequently tasered by the security guards while saying "No, no, you have to let me go. My friends... my friends.., they're all going to die." 

And then it cuts to the credits. All this happened in about 2 minutes. That's craziness, if you ask me. 

Let's talk about the credits for a second. They changed them for this season, and the only parts that are the same are Posey, Dylan, and Holland's. Then it cuts to Shelley doing her through-the-hanging-brush thing, a Scira kiss, then Arden doing her knife thing, and then baby Dylan looking cute as ever, with a quick change between wolf and regular self, and then it says TEEN WOLF in the traditional block letters, followed by a really creepy shot with the doctors. I missed the theme music man. 

So after the fabulous theme ends, we open with a shot of Scott and Stiles sitting - where else? - on Stiles' jeep in the middle of the woods. They appear to be overlooking the city of Beacon Hills, and Stiles is going through apartment listings in San Francisco, chattering on while Scott stares at the moon. He stops when he notices Scott isn't listening,and this is the introduction of Stiles' "vision". This vision apparently entails Lydia getting into Stanford with no problem, Kira going to USF, Malia figuring something out, and the two of them living together. With the jeep, of course, because no one gets left behind (although that thing broke a lot this episode so maybe it needs some professional help or maybe a funeral and a new car for Stiles - although, like him, I'm sure we're all very attached to that car. We've had so many adventures in it.) And then you hear Liam, who's chained to a tree behind them. Then, this happens:

And then they approach him, so he asks to be unlocked. They agree, or rather, Scott agrees, because as Scott approaches Liam to unlock him, Stiles says "In control? Last time it was a dozen calls to the Sheriff's office about a mysterious dog boy running naked through the streets." Which prompts this:

This is the point when they decide to leave for the Senior Scribe, with our not-a-senior friend Liam in tow. The jeep has the first of its many breakdowns during this trip, a very impressive and scary lightning bolt goes off in the background while they're fiddling with the engine, which is legitimately 65% duct tape. Liam sees it and tries to get their attention, to no avail, because they're having a very deep conversation about why Stiles is so insistent on getting to Senior Scribe on time. Then, another one of those impressive lightning bolts hits the ground behind Scott and Stiles, and then Liam turns on the car, sticks his head out the window, and goes "Can we go now?" because that kind of lightning = bad, even though we literally have no idea what caused it at all. Liam starts to question them, asking where they're going and why he can't come and is it a party and where are the girls.

We then join Malia and her dad in a parking lot with a bunch of strangers, trying to lift a fallen tree in what appears to be one of the worst storms Beacon Hills has seen in a while. Malia ends up lifting the tree with no assistance from her father or the 6 or so strangers also helping, which she attributes to her "strong legs". Stiles then swings into the parking lot in his jeep to pick her up, where they kiss for the first time and her father says "You know I own a gun, right?". Inside Stiles' car, everyone turns to stare at her for no reason. They are all curious to see whether she "got it", and then, in a strange turn of events, Liam does the wrong thing and explains the entire situation as Malia waiting for an email from school letting her know whether she's a senior or whether she has to repeat junior year after her summer school stint to make up for her low ACT scores.

Then, we jump to Kira, standing on a car in the biggest traffic jam I have ever seen, attempting to get some cell service so she can call Scott. As she gets back into the car as per her mother's request, she sees this guy, our new friend Theo, for the first time:

Who is also attempting to get some cell service. At this point, he looks like a random dude, but we all know better than that. He's not just any random dude. But we'll get back to Theo later. 

We join Scott and Liam in the hospital, dropping him off so that he can wait for his dad to get out of surgery and they can all go to Senior Scribe. Scott joins Stiles downstairs, after making sure Liam can stay in control (he uses music as his anchor) and they're discussing Scott telling Kira to have fun in New York, which was apparently a bad idea, as illustrated by one of Malia's fabulous lines: "Fun like bowling, or fun like sex with other guys?" to which Scott aptly replies, "Okay, now I'm worried." Mama McCall informs them that all these injured people are coming from a jackknifed tractor trailer on the 15, which is apparently the only way back into Beacon Hills from the airport and currently where Kira is, sitting in a car with her parents while they tell her legends about the Ghost Riders. Scott goes to his house to grab his helmet from his room, and suddenly all the magnetized objects break because Blue Nails, as I have dubbed him, is creeping in the background trying to hurt Scott. He doesn't, not till later. Scott then hops on his bike and drives through the traffic - totally illegally, by the way - to find Kira. Thankfully, she didn't have fun in New York, like I knew she wouldn't, and then they kiss and make up and everyone's happy. 

Stiles and Malia are standing outside the school building, fruitlessly checking their phones for messages from Scott, Kira and Lydia. Malia smells Stiles' anxiety and asks him why he smells this way, and he explains that he's nervous about everyone not being together on this night. He says that his dad doesn't talk to any of his high school friends anymore and he can't understand how that can be, because he already has all the best people in his life right now and so it makes sense that he would fight to keep them there.

Finally, FINALLY, we make it inside the damn school building that is never locked at night and totally should be because how many times have we been there at night and something bad has happened? Someone call the janitorial staff, they have to LOCK THE DAMN DOORS. It's not hard, really. Lydia finds them inside the building, and they all proceed to the formidable school library inside BHHS. Seriously, that thing is huge, mostly because they built it where Derek's loft used to be. I want a library like that in my life. They all line up to write their initials on the shelves, and Stiles goes first. It shows the initials DH for our lovely Derek Hale, then Lydia goes, then Kira, who is very concerned about vandalism, then Malia, who signs as a Tate, and then Scott. Scott writes his own initials, and then, after a pause, does this: 

And writes Allison's initials. Way to make me cry, man. They reminisce about Allison, and Lydia says that she is always with them, which is true. Apparently no one cares about Isaac, but I mean, whatever. That totally doesn't annoy me at all. 

And with that, Senior Scribe is over. 

Now we get to the fun parts of the episode - the fight scene, the Doctors, and Parrish.  

We see Parrish for the first time near the beginning of the episode - answering the phones at the front desk in the Sheriff's office. The power is down in Beacon Hills because of the storm, and apparently that means everyone has to call the police for assistance. Stilinski comes out of his office to tell Parrish to go check the backup generators and to answer the damn phone, because that thing is ringing off the hook. Parrish then charges into his office, yelling about how he's done traffic direction, courthouse security, served subpoenas, and just that night, finished an overhaul of the evidence locker. He's annoyed that Stilinski won't let him go anywhere when the power is down, there's a jackknifed tractor trailer on the 15 and reports of gunshots downtown. According to him, he needs every available deputy out there. So, to make him be quiet, Stilinski hands him a noise complaint so that he can feel useful.

So he goes to investigate said complaint, and breaks open a wall inside of the house because he thinks someone is trapped somewhere. I honestly don't know what the hell is train of thought was. So, anyways, he breaks the wall and gets pulled into this mysterious space by none other than Blue Nails. He says that Parrish is "definitely something" because his eyes light up when he picks him up off the ground, and he then proceeds to slash his chest open with his formidable talon things. He asks Parrish where Scott McCall is, and Parrish doesn't give him up, because he's a wonderful human being. Blue Nails leaves him to die on the floor and leaves in search of Scott, which is when he ends up in his house, like I mentioned previously.

Parrish leans himself up against a metal shelving unit and tries to call for backup, to no avail. He then starts to hallucinate Lydia being there with him, and they almost kiss, until Stilinski bursts into the room to save him. He carries Parrish off to the hospital and Mama McCall. They lie him on the metal table, his bloody wound smoking for no reason, until he shoots up off the table incredibly fast. His eyes light up, and he turns around to see Stilinski pointing his gun at him with Mama McCall behind him. His wound has been reduced to blood marks left on his chest, and he tells them that Scott is in trouble. Liam, being incredibly helpful, bored, and nosy, is standing outside the door and runs off as fast as can be as soon as he hears this. He finds Stiles and Malia at school, and Malia almost takes him out because she thinks he's going to hurt them. He tells them that Scott is in danger, and we join Scott and Kira making out under that bridge thing where everything happens when we're at school - the one where Aiden died. That one. The fight has already started, as Blue Nails has found them first, and Kira has this totally badass belt knife thing she's using to attempt to defend herself and Scott against Blue Nails. Stiles, Malia and Liam show up and Liam almost goes full wolf, but settles for an intimidating stance instead. Theo also shows up out of goddamn nowhere, and attacks Blue Nails but gets thrown against the wall, like Scott and Kira previously were. Blue Nails then approaches Scott and sticks his talon things inside of him in an attempt to suck out his true Alpha power. He almost makes it, but then, in true Teen Wolf fashion, his eyes light up and he breaks Blue Nails' wrist and throws his talons on the ground. Blue Nails then runs away, and this is when we officially meet Theo for the first time. Apparently they used to be friends in the fourth grade and now that Theo is a werewolf, he heard that Scott was a true Alpha and wants to join his pack.

The show ends with Blue Nails crouching in some mysterious place, clutching his broken wrist (the bone is sticking out and everything), telling a mystical entity that he can do better and that they have to give him another chance to kill Scott because he can do it. The camera angle changes, and we see the Dread Doctors approaching him with a very large knife, telling him that that was his only chance and that they failed him. They then proceed to stab him through the chest, effectively killing him and releasing a swarm of ravens from his mouth into the aerial camera shot. My guess is that those ravens represent some kind of spirit the Doctors can put into different people to make them do their bidding. They all look very.. Not scary, really, maybe creepy is the word that I want. They look so mysterious, and I really want to take their masks off and see what's underneath, if anything.

That's it. That's Creatures of the Night for you. It was definitely a jam-packed episode. Parasomnia, the second episode, is better, in my opinion, but they were both still great. That's it for now, folks. See you next time!