Peter quotes from Teen Wolf

Cora

An animal clinic?

Peter

It's not as ordinary as it looks. The building's half made out of mountain ash. I'm not actually sure how to get in.

Cora

[rolls her eyes] Well, maybe we could do what normal people do, and knock on the door.

Stiles

Okay, so if Derek was a sophomore back then, how old was he? How old were you? How old are you now?

Peter

Not as young as we could have been, but not as old as you might think.

Stiles

Wow, that was frustratingly vague. [He turns to Cora] How old are you?

Cora

I'm seventeen.

Stiles

See? That's an answer. That's how we answer people.

Cora

Well, seventeen how you'd measure in years...

Stiles

Alright, I'm just gonna drop it.

Melissa

[horrified] You're supposed to be dead.

Peter

I get that a lot, actually.

Peter

I've heard it's something only an alpha can do, and with good reason.

Derek

Which is?

Peter

You know normal wolves never abandon an injured member of the pack. They care for it. They bring it food from a kill, and then regurgitate it into the mouth of the injured wolf. They even give it physical and emotional comfort by intensely grooming it. In a way, they can do more than just ease pain. They can be instrumental in healing their own.

Derek

If you're trying to tell me I can save her, just tell me.

Peter

I'm telling you... I've heard it's possible.

Derek

How?

Peter

It's that spark of power that makes you an Alpha. When you take her pain, she draws on the power that provides you with those special gifts. The power that heightens your senses, your strength. The power that transforms your body. As an Alpha, you have that bit of extra, that spark that intensifies the color of your eyes from a bright yellow into a searing red.

Derek

If I can save her...

Peter

If.

Derek

If?

Peter

I didn't say it works every time. It could just as easily kill you.

Derek

How do I do it? By taking her pain?

Peter

And then some. Because there's a cost.

Peter

I can understand not seeing a downside to this, as you haven't exactly been Alpha Of The Year, but think about what else you'll be losing.

Derek

I don't care about power. Not any more.

Peter

What about the power to fight back? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Kali's ultimatum still stands, and the full moon is tomorrow night. And if you couldn't beat her as an Alpha, how do you think you're going to beat her as a Beta?

Derek

Do you want me to run?

Peter

[sarcastically] No, I want you to stay and get slaughtered by an Alpha with a psychotic foot fetish. Of course I want you to run! Sprint, gallop, leap your way the hell out of this town.

Jennifer

[laughs bitterly] Of course it's you. Everyone else suffers, but somehow, you come out on top. And now that Scott's an Alpha, you'll be able to steal it from him. You'll be an Alpha again.

Peter

Again? Again?! I am the Alpha. I've always been the Alpha!

Peter

Why are you looking at me like this is my fault?

Derek

Because it is your fault.

Peter

Yeah, you're probably right.

Derek

[shocked] You're the one who saved Isaac.

Braeden

I'm the one who was hired to save Isaac.

Peter

Someone hired you to get us out of here?!

Braeden

Someone hired me to get Derek out of here. You? I'm totally fine leaving for dead.

Peter

Where did I get this reputation?

Derek

Who hired you?

Braeden

Deucalion.

Peter

Deucalion? The guy who did that to you? [He gestures toward the scars on her neck and face]

Braeden

[shrugs] Girl's gotta eat.

Peter

[to Derek] You know, there's always an element of danger to rituals like this. I'm not particularly fond of them! ...Unless they somehow benefit me in some way.

Derek

[rolls eyes] What do you want?

Peter

I want to keep them. [Derek side-eyes him] Sentimental value. [Derek side-eyes him harder] She was your mother, but she was also my sister! [Derek gives him an even stronger side-eye] What? Am I not allowed a little bit of sentiment?

Peter

You want the truth, Lydia? It's not the scream that gives you power. All the scream does is help drown out the noise, allowing you to hear what you really need to. I can help you focus your hearing.

[skeptically] But you want something in return.

Peter

[sarcastic] No, I'm dedicating my life to helping out narcissistic teenage girls. Of course I want something in return.

Derek

Back in his room, Stiles had a board with my name on one of the pieces. If this is a game to him, then I need to figure out the plays.

Peter

Not so easy to do when it's a game without rules.

Derek

[frowns] What does that mean?

Peter

You're dealing with the kind of spirit that's lived too long to play by human rules. It's a fox spirit that chose to become human. And supposedly, that's something that can do only after about a hundred years. If a kitsune is an annoying pain in the ass, then a nogitsune, which is a dark kitsune, is a freaking disaster. Besides, chess is Stiles' game. It's not the game of a Japanese fox.

Peter

[about Nogitsune/Stiles] He doesn't look like he would survive a slap across the face, much less the bite of a werewolf.

Scott

You don't think it would work?

Peter

[shakes head] This is more a war of the mind than the body. There are better methods to winning this battle.

[unsure] What kind of methods?

Peter

We're going to get into his head.

So, do we have a plan?

Peter

Scott is going to try to dig through pale-and-sickly Evil-Stiles' mind to unearth pale-and-sickly Real-Stiles, then guide him back from the depths of his own subconscious. But, he's not going to do it alone.

Scott

What do you mean?