Scenes with Liam 86
Liam
I forgot I was supposed to meet Mason at the school gym.
Okay, why didn't you just tell him?
Liam
Tell him what?
Liam
I can't just tell him anything.
Liam
Because I haven't... I haven't told him everything.
Still? We said it was okay.
Liam
Yeah, I know, but it's not that easy. It's a lot to accept.
[exasperatedly] He watched my dad blow up a Berserker with a landmine! I think the groundwork's been thoroughly laid for acceptance.
[Liam looks at him nervously, and Stiles sighs]
Scott and I have been through this, okay? More than once. It's always been better when they know.
Liam
But what if he freaks out? What if he doesn't want to talk to me? What if he tries to stab me with something silver? Or what if--
[Suddenly, a loud thud is heard, and Stiles turns back around to find Liam has fallen into a large hole]
[Scott has found Stiles and Liam in the woods, the former of whom is embarrassed to be caught tracking Theo]
Liam
I fell into a hole...?
Liam
Hey. Sorry I'm late.
Oh, no. You're not late. You missed it. I worked out... for two hours.
Liam
Yeah, I know. I forgot.
[Mason rolls his eyes]
Liam
And I'm gonna tell you why. Actually, I'm gonna tell you a lot of things. A lot of really hard-to-believe things. Really hard to believe.
[Mason has become distracted by something behind him. It's a black wolf]
[scared] There's a wolf...
Liam
Yeah, I'm getting to that--
No, there's a wolf right behind you.
[Liam turns around and gapes in shock when he sees it]
Liam
That's a wolf!
[Outside the school, the McCall Pack and Mason are discussing their current problem]
Tracy wasn't just having trouble sleeping, it was a real disorder. It was night terrors.
Well, now she's the night terror. Especially since no one can find her.
Okay, I know we're all tired and miserable...
[He looks over at Mason, whose eyes are wide in excitement as he listens to them all talk]
Oh, I'm sorry, this is all just so mind-blowing! [He looks over at Kira] You're a Kitsune! I don't even know what that is!
[bashfully] I'm still learning.
Liam, we said you could tell him, not invite him to the inner circle.
[excitedly] Uh, I'm in the inner circle?
LSLiam & Stiles
[simultaneously] No!
[Mason and Liam are staring at Brett while he plays lacrosse with some friends. Mason, seeing that he's shirtless, starts to leer at him while Liam scowls in annoyance]
Liam
Yup.
[smiles] This just gets better and better.
[Liam, Brett, and Mason have found the hole in the woods that they believe Liam fell into the previous night]
Liam, I thought you said this was a sinkhole.
Liam
It's a hole. What's the difference?
I mean, look at all these handprints, and look at all this dirt.
She didn't fall in here...
Liam
...She was buried.
[Liam and Mason are walking to a club]
Can you put your phone away from five minutes? Scott can howl if he needs you.
Liam
[sighs] I just feel like I should be doing something.
You are! You're my wingman tonight. And, considering the state of my dating life, I need a wingman, co-pilot, and a really hot flight attendant.
Liam
I'm definitely not your hot flight attendant.
[Hayden is walking to her car in the Sinema parking lot while Liam chases after her]
Asking me to close my eyes was weird. Sticking a glow stick in my face? Even weirder. But werewolves and dead doctors?
Liam
[sheepishly] Dread Doctors.
[annoyed] Whatever. Get away from me.
Liam
[desperately] What if I could prove it to you?
Liam
This.
[Liam sighs before wolfing out and roaring with glowing gold eyes and fangs in Hayden's face. Hayden is so scared she screams and punches him in the face before driving away]
[Scott and Stiles have met up with Liam at Scott's house. Hayden has locked herself in the bathroom]
She's definitely a chimera?
Liam
She said she heard a voice saying, "Your condition improves."
Well, that's unsettling. [He starts to talk to Hayden through the locked door] Hayden, this is Stiles. Your sister works for my dad down at the station? Look, just open the door, okay? You can trust us.
We just need to tell you the truth, Hayden. And that kind of thing usually is better face-to-face. Listen, either you're gonna unlock the door, or I'm gonna have to break it open. It's okay if you don't want to talk, or if you're not ready to believe us. But, I just... I gotta know that you're okay in there.
[Scott is about to break the door open when it suddenly unlocks and cracks open. Scott, Stiles, and Liam slowly walk into the bathroom to find Hayden partially wolfed-out, with glowing gold eyes, claws, and fangs]
Liam
Don't worry. You'll learn to control it.
I'm not like you. I wasn't bitten by a wolf. I was... somebody's science experiment. [She sighs] This is so bizarre.
Liam
I know. But you're gonna be okay. I promise.
Liam
[smiles] You're Hayden.
[smiles] By the way, if you get me out of this, I'll forget all about the sixth grade.
[about Hayden] Liam, we brought her here to protect her.
Liam
And now she's the bait.
[sighs] No. No one's bait. But we can't be bodyguards to everyone every night.
Liam
[angrily] Then why aren't we talking to Stiles' dad? Why aren't we doing something better than hiding in a school?
[frustrated] Because we still don't know anything about them or what they want, okay? They're winning, and we don't even know what the game is!
Liam
What if they come in here and those things don't work? What if you have an asthma attack again? What are we gonna do?
Liam
This plan sucks!
[loses his temper] You got a better one? Kids are dying! And she's next. So, somebody has to do something! Somebody has to save everyone! So somebody's got to be the bait!
[Liam is surprised by Scott's uncharacteristic frustration and anger, and Scott immediately looks guilty for raising his voice to him]
Liam
Scott... Promise me you'll do everything you can to save her. [Scott hesitates] Scott! Promise me.
[gulps nervously] I'll do everything I can. I promise.
[Liam and Hayden are talking to one of the fellow chimeras, Zach, who they're locked up with in the Dread Doctors' electrified holding cell at the abandoned house from Creatures of the Night]
ZZach
We're not getting out of here...
You could be a little optimistic.
ZZach
It's kinda hard when you've watched three people get dragged out of here screaming.
Liam
[warily] What happened to 'em?
ZZach
They were failures. That's all they said. First, you forget. You don't know who you are or what you're doing. Then, you get violent. I watched two of them almost kill each other. One of them had a nasty looking cut, just like that.
[Zach points at the incision on Hayden's side from the experiments, which is bleeding black blood, and she self-consciously covers it]
ZZach
Don't worry. Black is okay. It's only really over when you start bleeding other stuff. When it starts turning silver...
Liam
...Mercury.
ZZach
That's when you know you're really a failure.
Liam
How many more failures are there supposed to be?
ZZach
Who knows? But doesn't it make you wonder what the success is going to look like? I mean, what are we turning into? Something with claws and fangs?
Liam
Something with wings?
[Liam and Hayden have just stopped at Sinema to get her paycheck before they attempt to leave town, and Hayden has just knelt in front of the safe]
Liam
You know the combination?
Liam
But that's...
Yeah. Phil's an idiot. My sister's going to go out of her mind worrying about me.
Liam
We'll come up with something to tell her.
Liam
Wherever's far enough, I guess.
What if I turn out like Tracy? What if I hurt you?
Liam
[smiles] I'll get over it.
[Liam, Theo, and Hayden are on their way to the animal clinic after the Dread Doctors gave Hayden an overdose of modified mercury]
Liam
How do we help her?
I don't know. When it's wolfsbane poisoning, you burn it out. But I don't know anything about mercury. Especially a kind that's probably been altered by them.
Liam
Is she going to heal?
The problem is she's not really like us, Liam. None of them are. They're more like... like cheap knockoffs. She might not be as strong as we are, or heal like we do. She's not a real werewolf.
Liam
[gets an idea] What if we turn her into one?
Nice idea. Except you and I can't do that.
Liam
...But Scott can.