Scenes with Liam 86
[Scott and Liam have brought the injured Surgeon to the animal clinic for Deaton]
I'm not sure he technically is alive.
Liam
[scoffs] Screw keeping him alive! How do we get him to talk?
Personally, I don't think we utilize torture nearly enough...
Maybe there's something in here. Something about how he was a genetic chimera.
Mason had a vanishing twin.
Now we've got a vanishing Mason.
Liam
What does that have to do with him turning into a 250-year-old French guy? How does that even happen?
Hold on-- Scott might have something. Mason's twin wasn't entirely gone. That's what made him a genetic chimera. The DNA was still there. Metaphorically speaking, the DNA of Mason could still be inside Sebastien as well.
Life is energy. Energy doesn't just disappear. The Dread Doctors may have found a way to break the rules of the supernatural, but there are some rules that simply won't break.
Liam
So, Mason can't just be gone?
Somewhere in Sebastien, he has to still exist in some form. A spark of energy, a flicker of memory...
Hang on... Liam, you said Mason said something right before he turned.
Liam
He said, "That's not my name."
He finally remembered his name. Damnatio memoriae.
That's what they wanted. They wanted Sebastien to remember his name. Scott, do you know the myth of what happens when you call a werewolf by its given name?
[shocked] It turns back to human...
Liam
What does that mean? Someone can just walk up to the Beast, yell Mason's name, and turn him back?
[Sebastien has Scott in a choke-hold, and Liam has just picked up the pike to kill him]
Liam, wait! We can still save Mason.
Liam
Who's going to save you?
[confused] What kind of werewolves are you?
[Stiles has just rushed away from Natalie and runs into Liam, Mason, and Hayden, which causes him to be relieved as he addresses Liam and Hayden due to their encounter with the Riders the previous evening]
You two, you two have to listen to me right now-- Alex is gone, just like his parents, okay? The Ghost Riders took him, so you guys, you can't be alone. You gotta stick with Scott or with me, because I can see them.
[Liam, Mason, and Hayden all look at Stiles as though he is crazy, and Stiles' is clearly impatient with them]
Why the hell are you looking at me like that?
[Hayden turns to whisper in Liam's ear]
Liam
[whispers back] I don't even know if he goes here...
[Mason looks at Stiles with a kind and patient expression]
Do you go to this school? What's your name?
[Liam and Scott are practicing lacrosse on the field late at night and are unable to sense the invisible Ghost Riders riding their horses nearby]
All right, let's keep going.
Liam
[impatiently] Or we could call it.
We gotta work on your backshots.
Liam
[balks] Why?
Liam
[offended] What are you talking about?
[Scott gives him a look]
Your backshots... which suck.
[Liam, eager to prove him wrong, makes nearly a dozen backshots that fly right past Scott and into the goal, and Scott frowns in confusion for a moment before he speaks, not knowing that he's missing memories of Stiles]
I must've been thinking of someone else.
[Scott is sitting on a bench in the locker room when Liam walks in, looking guilty and apologetic]
Liam
I blew it, didn't I?
[sighs] You blew it off. You'd have to be trying in order to blow it.
Liam
[anxiously] Maybe someone else can be captain. With all of the schoolwork-- [He lowers his voice]-- and all the other stuff we have to deal with...
Devenford Prep started practice three week before us. Riverside, two weeks. We're behind before we even start. Half our team can't even cradle the ball, let alone score.
Liam
Why can't you stay captain?
I'm graduating. You know, I'm not gonna be here next year. Someone's gotta step up and fill the gap. It should be you.
Liam
[bitterly] Yeah? Well, Coach doesn't want me. I don't know if the team wants me.
[firmly] It's not up to them-- it's up to you. You have to want this, because they're gonna keep coming at you. They're gonna keep knocking you down. And you have to get back up. You have to show them that you can get back up. Leaders don't run!
[When Scott is trying to get Liam out of bed to go to school]
Liam
No, I'm...I'm sick. I'm sick.
Liam
Yeah, I'm, like, deathly ill. It's serious. I think... I think it's the flu.
Liam
Uh, then I probably have pneumonia.
Liam, you're a werewolf. You can't get pneumonia.
Liam
I don't think I should go to school. Or outside. Or anywhere. Ever again.
It doesn't matter what you think, okay? Because you gotta go. Now, all you do is pretend like nothing happened.
Liam
Pretend? I'm just supposed to pretend?
Think of it like when Superman gets caught with his glasses off. You know, he doesn't give up. He puts them back on and says, "I'm still Clark Kent."
Liam
You want me to wear glasses?
No. I want you to go to school, okay? And be Liam Dunbar. Just like how Superman has to be Clark Kent, like Spiderman, and Captain America...
Liam
Captain America is just Steve Rogers. He doesn't have to pretend. Everyone already loves him unlike us, who everyone hates. They hate us for trying to save their lives.
You're right. We are trying to save our lives. Which is why you're gonna get up and go to school and pretend like nothing happened because if you don't, more people could die.
Liam
I have to get out of here.
No! If you leave, these rumors never stop. You've gotta just convince them that you're a regular kid.
Liam
I'm not a regular kid!
Look, remember what Scott said? Be Clark Kent.
Liam
Clark Kent turns into a guy in a red and blue outfit and a cape. I turn into a monster with claws and fangs!
[to Liam] I had to knock you out.
Liam
Yeah, how many times?
Liam
[while talking on the phone with Mason] Did it work?
Yup. Nolan's right behind me. Like, literally right behind me. He's driving a bright red car. He's actually terrible at this.
[After Liam and Theo start a fake fight to distract the hunters]
Liam
You ripped my t-shirt.
Yeah, you broke my nose. Twice. It healed. You broke it again. Two times.
[Liam punches Theo in the face]
Liam
Three times.
[to Liam] You still working on that anger?
Liam
I'm fine.
Well, you can be angry at Nolan and stay alive.
Theo [when he sees Liam attacking Gabe] You're really gonna kill him? I mean, I don't care if you do, but have you thought this through? Any idea where you're gonna dump the body? But no one saw you grab him, did they? 'Cause that could be a problem.
Liam
I don't care.
I don't care, either, but at least let me help. I'm the one with experience here. If we kill him, we'll have to find the witnesses and kill them too which means we're gonna need shovels, some plastic bags, maybe a chainsaw...
Liam
You've made your point.
And you didn't kill him. That's progress.