Scenes with Mason 36
Mason
Okay, well, I've been doing some reading on kitsunes...
Mason
'Cause I met one?
Mason
Do you know why people in Japan answer the phone "moshi moshi?"
Mason
Yeah, but there's a reason why you have to say it twice on the phone. Because, according to Japanese folklore, fox spirits have difficulty with language. And the way that you prove you're not a fox? When you answer the phone, you say "moshi" twice. The important part is "moshi moshi" confuses kitsunes because it's a language trick. So is the book-- you know, it's just one long language trick.
That's why I can't read it?
Mason
It's affecting the fox part of you, confusing it.
[Suddenly, the electricity flickers, and Mason gives her a look]
[Mason and Brett are sitting on the bleachers and watching lacrosse and soccer practice on the field as they talk]
I don't know, dude. Everyone at Devenford's pretty abnormal to me.
Mason
All right. What else is there to look for? There's heightened strength, smell, hearing, speed...
Uh, able to see in the dark...
Mason
Glowing eyes...
Eyes that reflect the light...
Mason
Visible scorpion stingers protruding out of limbs?
[chuckles] Yeah, or three-foot lizard tails.
[After hours of no luck finding Liam and Hayden, Scott becomes so stressed that he has an asthma attack and has to use his inhaler. He falls to his knees and looks devastated and overwhelmed]
This is all my fault. We're never going to find them. It's my fault...
[Mason holds out his hand to help Scott up]
Mason
Scott... We should keep looking. We should keep trying.
[Mason looks at him encouragingly, and finally, Scott takes his hand and lets Mason help him up before they return to the search]
[Mason has just saved Scott from Liam and is helping him walk out of the library]
Mason
Scott, what happened?
[groans] It's the supermoon. It was just...
[Just then, Theo appears, looking furious]
Bad timing. I mean, seriously. You couldn't have waited five minutes?
[Theo backhands Mason so hard he is thrown onto the floor before turning back to Scott]
I should've stayed. I should've made sure.
[smirks] Because now you have to kill me yourself. [Theo glares at them] They're still mine.
Maybe not yet, but they'll come around.
Not for you. They're not like you. They never will be.
[sneers] Because I'm a chimera? Because I'm not a real werewolf?
Because you're barely even human.
[Theo becomes so furious that he plunges his claws into Scott's chest and rips it open, killing him]
[Melissa has just arrived to the library to find a stunned Mason kneeling next to Scott, who is laying motionless on the ground. Mason's hands are bloody, as though he tried to save Scott's life]
Scott! Scott! No, no, no, no, no, no, no...
[She rushes over to Scott and starts to do CPR]
Okay. One, two, three, four, five...
Mason
What are you doing?
Mason
What are you doing?
Mason
But his... his heart... He... he hasn't had a pulse in over fifteen minutes. You can't bring someone back that's--
[cuts him off] He's not someone. He's my son! And he's an Alpha, and he's too strong to die like this!
[She gives Scott two rescue breaths before returning to doing chest compressions]
Come on. You can do this. You're an Alpha. You're an Alpha. Come on, Scott! Roar! Come on! Come on, Scott! ROAR!
[She desperately slams her fists against Scott's chest, which causes him to awaken with a gasp, his eyes glowing red before he roars at the top of his lungs]
GDr. Geyer
No, there have not been any other bodies brought in tonight, thank God.
GDr. Geyer
Mason, take him home. It's six o'clock in the morning.
Dad, you're sure there have been no other dead bodies?
GDr. Geyer
[exasperatedly] Both of you. Home. Now.
[Dr. Geyer leaves, and Mason looks over at Liam]
Mason
We're not going home, are we?
Mason
Well, we both know where Hayden's body is... And, if you want to find her, you're going to have to find the Nemeton.
Okay, let's find the Nemeton.
Mason
[sighs] I need to learn to shut up.
[Mason and Liam are looking at a map in a book in the library]
Mason
Alright, this is the one. You see these? These are ley lines. They're mapped according to telluric currents. Stiles said that he and Lydia were looking at the intersections.
Probably... this one. But they never found it. They kept going out there to look, but they said the Nemeton has to want to be found.
Mason
It's a supernatural tree that has to want to be found in order for you to see it?
Mason
That's awesome.
[Liam and Mason are wandering around the nature preserve in search of the Nemeton when Liam suddenly stops, looking defeated, and brings up Hayden]
Mason
No one could. I was standing right there. Melissa did everything medically possible--
[interrupts him] --While I was trying to kill Scott.
Mason
You can't take all the blame. I mean, there was like 800 extenuating circumstances. It was just the moon, then it was losing Hayden, and fear, and anger... And Theo took advantage of it.
Mason
Liam, you're a werewolf. There was a full moon, a supermoon. And you can't let yourself...
[Mason suddenly has a dawning realization]
Mason
The Nemeton's a beacon for supernatural creatures, right?
Mason
So, what if it takes a supernatural creature to find it?
I am a supernatural creature, and I can't find anything.
Mason
But you've been looking with your human eyes.
I went to the club, looking for Hayden, and there's Josh, standing there completely alive. Just like Hayden. Because of Theo.
Mason
Theo brought them both back. That's what he's doing. He's, he's building a pack-- his own pack of dead Chimeras.
They both looked pretty alive to me... But they're not the same. There was something about Hayden. There's something wrong about her.
Mason
Maybe that's what dying does to you. What if it, what if it like darkens your soul? What if they're all evil now?
[Just then, the similarly resurrected Corey walks into the school with a bright, genuine smile]
Hey guys! Are you volunteering for the library clean-up too?
Mason
Corey's not texting me back.
Because he left with Theo.
Mason
[shocked] Are you sure?
Mason
Well, then we should do something, right? We should tell someone.
[Liam makes an anxious face when he realizes he's talking about Scott]
Mason
Liam, you have to tell him.
Liam': You think he'll even talk to me?
Mason
You're his Beta. Doesn't he have to?
Where would I even start? "Sorry for trying to kill you?" "Sorry for leaving you for dead so that Theo could kill you?"
Mason
If you start off with sorry, the rest probably won't even matter.
[Corey is trying to get Mason to go on a second date with him]
You like me. Go out with me.
Mason
But you're still with Theo. You... You're the bad guys.
[sighs] There are no bad guys.
Mason
[incredulously] There are definitely bad guys! Some of the bad guys are called Dread Doctors. You don't get a name like "Dread Doctors" and not get classified as the bad guys.
[frustrated] That's what none of you get. There aren't gonna be any good guys or bad guys. It's either gonna be dead or alive. I want to be alive. Don't you?
Mason
Not if I'm left standing with the bad guys.
[Kira has just woken Scott up from a nap in his bed, and when he opens his eyes, he is surprised to see Liam and Mason standing in front of them]
Mason
I found something out from Corey. We know what Theo's doing.
He's looking for an Alpha. A blind Alpha.
[Malia, Kira, Josh, and Corey are locked in the morgue of Eichen House and are talking about the McCall Pack's plans]
Anybody know how we're supposed to get out of here? This place is still in lockdown.
Yeah, I can feel it, too. What are we supposed to do? Just wait here?
There's a Plan B. We've got a guy on the outside in case this happens.
[shocked] Mason's going to unlock the lockdown? How's he going to do that?
He's got the blueprints of the building, and he has the full map of Eichen's electrical system. All he has to do is get into the transformer shed behind the building.
Don't worry-- Mason knows exactly what he's doing.
[The scene cuts to behind Eichen House, where Mason is holding his cell phone to his ear with one hand and gaping in horror at the blueprints in his other hand while he leaves Liam a voicemail]
Mason
Liam, call me back-- I have no idea what I'm doing.
[Mason is trying to psych himself up to end the lockdown by wrecking his car into the transformer]
Mason
Okay, here we go. Gonna ram the wall. Gonna ram it with my car. Just smash through it. Take out the power, and save my friends. Here we go. All right. Just ram it, and destroy my beautiful car, that my parents bought me on my birthday... but I'mma save my friends. Here we go. Ram the wall. All right.
[Mason is about to hit the gas pedal when Hayden suddenly arrives and stops him]
What the hell are you doing?
Mason
[sighs in relief] Oh, thank God! Can we use your car?
[Corey has just showed Mason the burns from where Parrish set him on fire]
This is life in Beacon Hills. This is what happens. It doesn't hurt, it's just taking forever to heal.
Mason
But you are healing. Maybe it's taking longer because of how bad you were hurt, but it's happening. I mean, look at you. You can make yourself invisible. You're fast. You're strong. People like me need people like you to save our asses. I need you.
No, you don't. You're too smart to need anyone, and it's the smart ones who always survive.
Mason
Then survive with me.