Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
[about Marie-Jeanne] Maybe someone should resurrect her.
Don't leave--
Parrish; My dreams aren't like yours, Lydia. I'm not just a Harbinger of Death-- I'm the cause of it.
[Parrish leaves, and Lydia attempts to chase after him, only to be stopped by Gerard and Argent]
Let him go.
Why?
Because as much as we believe Parrish could take on the Beast... Neither of us think he's our only hope at stopping it.
What do you mean?
We think there's another. You.
[Stiles and Hayden have just brought a seriously-injured Liam into an empty classroom. Both Hayden and Stiles are horrified when they lay him on a desk and peel away his tattered jersey to reveal his chest and abdomen have been shredded open]
Okay. Okay. What do you guys usually do when this happens?
[woozily] Uh, I usually pass out... And I think I might still do that...
[Hayden has just taken Liam's pain by kissing him, causing her to use her werewolf ability to siphon the pain through her darkened blood vessels. Stiles looks impressed when Liam finally starts to relax and heal]
Okay. Next time, I'll kiss him!
Marie-Jeanne was a lot like you, Lydia. Skeptical of her own abilities, and, once, actually just as skeptical of the supernatural.
[In flashback, Monsieur Tolbert and other members of the Gévaudan community are discussing the Beast]
Her name was Agnes. She was eleven years old. Eleven. Torn limb from limb. There wasn't enough of her left for a proper burial.
I am well aware. I'm also aware that every new report conflicts with the last! Some say it is part-hyena, part-wolf. It has red fur, black fur, cloven hooves, a stripe down its back!
We know it kills at night. It targets the head and neck. This, we know for sure. It won't stop. Where the wolf finds a lamb, there he seeks another. But it never eats its victims. It kills for sport.
[scoffs] No animal kills for sport!
This is no animal.
Tell that to the King. I have word he may send a contingent of his own professional hunters. Until then, we can use volunteers for a hunting party, especially someone to lead it.
[Just then, Sebastien and Marcel appear in the doorway of the tavern]
Why ask for a volunteer? We all know who the best hunter is in Gévaudan-- Marie-Jeanne, my sister.
[Marie-Jeanne, Henri, Marcel, and Sebastien are preparing the hunting party to search the woods for the Beast]
[to Sebastien] You believe it? I never knew you were so superstitious.
I don't need to believe something I saw with my own eyes.
And I've been through every inch of these woods and hunted just about every creature under the sun.
But not the moon...
Are you trying to frighten me?
I'm trying to warn you. You're going to need more than ordinary steal to stop the Beast.
[Malia has just called Braeden after the Beast showed up at the high school]
Braeden, it's me. I'm at the school, and we need you. Bring your shotgun. [She pauses for a moment] Bring all your shotguns.
You should hear the rest of the story.
[rolls her eyes] Why should I be listening to you?
He knows it better than any of us.
[sighs] Everything I've read says that the Beast was killed by Jean Chastel.
[scoffs] Who told you that? The Internet? If that's your most reliable source of information, then you might as well go.
[Henri has brought Marie-Jeanne to his home, surrounded by rowan trees, after nearly being attacked by the Beast. Marie-Jeanne looks at all of the bowls and bottles of ingredients on his table while he binds her wounded leg]
What is this?
Mountain ash.
And that?
Mistletoe. Please, put that down.
Why do you have all of this?
[sighs] To protect myself. I have spent half a lifetime gathering the implements and skills to survive a werewolf. I can teach you... if you want to know.
[stands] I do not care about surviving one. I want to know how to kill one.
[Marie-Jeanne has just confronted Sebastien after learning that he is the Beast, and that Marcel has been covering for him]
You have killed children.
[shrugs] I kill whatever dares to cross my path.
[horrified] Why?
It's what I am. What I've become. You've heard the old story of what happens when you drink rainwater from the pawprint of a wolf. You become the Demon Wolf.
[Marie-Jeanne looks around the room, debating whether or not to expose him]
Go. Go ahead. Tell them it's me. Then, watch me tear them apart in a matter of moments. Every last soul in this place.
You're a monster.
Beast, Marie-Jeanne. The Beast. You won't catch me. And you won't kill me. We're family, Marie-Jeanne. We're family.
[Braeden, Malia, and Liam arrive to help Scott fight the Beast in the library. Braeden's shotgun shells eventually cause it to run off, and Liam and Malia help Scott stand to his feet]
You didn't seriously think you were gonna have a chance against that thing, did you?
[shakes his head] No. But I got its scent.
[voiceover] Marie-Jeanne hunted Sebastien for three years until she finally cornered him in 1767.
[Marie-Jeanne runs toward a snow bank in the woods, grabs a large wooden pike with the steel blade forged in the shape of a fleur-de-lis, which impales Sebastien/the Beast through the chest and forces him to shift back into human]
You think this minor injury will stop me? I'm the famous and feared Beast of Gévaudan! And when I'm done killing, everyone will know. I will have done such horrors that all of history will remember my name!
No one will remember.
[horrified] Damnatio memoriae? You would have them take my name? Our name?
[He starts to cough up black blood]
What? What is this?
No ordinary steel. Wolfsbane and mountain ash, forged with our blood under the light of a full moon. History might remember you, Sebastien... but only as a Beast.
Damnatio memoriae.
They erased every detail of him. Everything he signed, everything he owned.
They burned it all. The name Sebastien Valet has been forgotten for over 150 years, but when it's remembered...
When the Beast remembers, the teenager inside is forgotten.
Gone. Forever.
But Marie-Jeanne didn't do it alone. She was never alone. She had help from Henri, the Magistrate, the town... even Marcel. We need Parrish. I'm going to go find him.
Lydia, he's dangerous. He's still a shapeshifter. And one who's just beginning to understand his power.
And I'm not?
You're not the same. You access the supernatural. It works through you.
But it doesn't control you.
[scoffs] How would you know? Why do you care? Why are you suddenly on our side?
Because it's my name as well. Marie-Jeanne never left Henri after the death of her brother. And their relationship became more than a partnership. They married, and she took his name.
Argent...
Our name will be remembered as well, Lydia-- for killing the Beast.
But I'm not an Argent. And I'm not Allison.
[Mason and Corey have just awakened in the sewer after the revelation that Mason is the Beast]
Okay, hold on. It's not me. I'm not even a genetic chimera...
You sure about that? It was on the bus, after I made us disappear... I felt something. I don't know how to describe it, but it felt wrong. Completely and totally wrong. And trust me, every other second I'm with you, it's completely and totally right.
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