With a fresh new pair of eyes after discovering the truth about Beacon Hills’ supernatural inhabitants, Sheriff Stilinski (Linden Ashby) revisits an 8-year-old case surrounding the death of a mother and two daughters, one whose body police were unable to locate. In last night’s episode of Teen Wolf Sheriff Stilinski, with lots of help from his son Stiles (Dylan O’Brien), and Scott (Tyler Posey) re-examine the traumatic car accident after they believe the cause of death had something to do with werewolves.
Scott and Stiles not only find the missing girl, Malia Tate, who is not dead as the police had presumed, but they also discover that she’s not entirely human — she’s a werecoyote! Scott and Stiles chase her in the woods but are out-run by the four-legged animal. They do, however, find her den where she also keeps the jacket and doll she had as a child.
Mr. Tate (Todd Stashwick) was told by police years ago that the only explanation of his daughter’s missing body was that after the car wreck had killed his wife and two kids, coyotes removed Malia’s body away from the accident and ate her up. And in present day, when Mr. Tate believes they are close to finding the coyote responsible, he plans to exact his revenge by killing it. Little does he know, the coyote he plans to kill is is daughter.
Scott and Stiles conclude that on the night of the accident, which also happened to have a full moon, Malia began to turn and began uncontrollably ripping her mother and sister into shreds, causing the car to crash. Malia, then in her coyote state, ran away (but not too far away) and has remained a coyote ever since.
In an effort to stop Mr. Tate from killing his own daughter, Team Scott — which includes Allison (Crystal Reed), Lydia (Holland Roden) and Isaac (Daniel Sharman) — all head to the woods to find her before it’s too late. Allison and Isaac find Mr. Tate with his gun pointed at the coyote and instead of using her tranquilizer gun to shoot and subdue Malia, she uses it on her father instead. Scott then turns into a werewolf and uses his Alpha status to tell her to change back to a human. The plan works and slowly rising from the ground, is none-other than the very human, very disoriented, and very naked Malia (Shelly Hennig).
Sheriff Stilinski, with Malia in tow, head to her father’s house where he — after almost a decade — is reunited with his daughter. It was a very emotional scene and had us in tears! We see Mr. Tate come out of the house and briefly glances at Malia without a care in the world, and after realizing who he is looking at, you can just see and feel the flood of emotion pour over him. As the song goes, reunited, and it feels so good.
BEST BITES
• Subtlety is not in Mr. Yukimura’s (Tom Choi) DNA at all. On his first day at Beacon Hills High as a teacher, he embarrassingly calls out his daughter Kira (Arden Cho) as having no friends and later points her out in the classroom. And after she forgets her 2-hour work pile of research she did for Scott at home, he hands it to her while she’s talking to Scott. “You forgot your research you did for that boy you like,” he told her. I literally laughed out so loud and cringed with the awkwardness that followed.