Dreamcatchers

**Dreamcatchers** is the third episode of Season 5 and the sixty-third episode of *Teen Wolf*.

## Synopsis

Scott tracks a new shapeshifter that's threatening Stilinski, and Malia receives information about her mother.

## Plot

Tracy goes on a killing spree, brutally murdering her father and her psychiatrist. Liam, Mason and Brett discover that Tracy was buried alive in the woods and dug her way out. Lydia and Kira figure out that Tracy is still trapped in a night terror and thinks that she's still asleep. The next morning, the McCall Pack meet in the school bus bay to discuss how they will deal with both helping Tracy and preventing her from harming anyone else; this group includes Mason Hewitt, who was informed of the existence of the supernatural world the night before by Liam and who is awestruck by the sight of the pack in action.

After Tracy appears at the high school and hurts Hayden Romero (who is shocked by disbelief when the claw wounds on her wrist heal in seconds) before falling unconscious, Scott, Stiles and Malia bring Tracy to Deaton at the veterinary clinic, where Tracy grows a tail and is revealed to be a Kanima. She paralyzes Scott, Stiles, Deaton and Malia and escapes, breaking through a barrier of mountain ash with ease. Tracy then goes after Lydia's mother at the Sheriff's station; during the resulting fight, Kira inadvertently unleashes her Kitsune powers and manages to cut off Tracy's tail, but not before Tracy uses it to badly wound Lydia. Malia arrives and manages to subdue Tracy, but the Doctors immediately appear and kill Tracy in front of her.

Meanwhile, Liam and Mason seek out Brett Talbot to see if his Alpha, Satomi Ito, happened to have bitten and turned Tracy, but Brett insists that their pack is no longer recruiting after the events of the Deadpool. The three then set off for the nature preserve in hopes of finding a necklace belonging to Tracy that he found in the hole he had fallen into several nights prior. However, though they do not find the necklace, they do find a second hole and realize that the new shapeshifters have been buried alive and forced to dig themselves out.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Tyler Posey as Scott McCall
* Dylan O'Brien as Stiles Stilinski
* Holland Roden as Lydia Martin
* Shelley Hennig as Malia Tate
* Arden Cho as Kira Yukimura
* Dylan Sprayberry as Liam Dunbar

### Supporting Cast

* Linden Ashby as Sheriff Stilinski
* Seth Gilliam as Alan Deaton
* Ryan Kelley as Deputy Jordan Parrish
* Cody Christian as Theo Raeken
* Khylin Rhambo as Mason Hewitt
* Susan Walters as Natalie Martin
* Ashton Moio as Donovan Donati
* Kelsey Asbille as Tracy Stewart
* Victoria Moroles as Hayden Romero
* Tom T. Choi as Ken Yukimura
* Michelle Clunie as Mrs. Finch
* Salvator Xuereb as Mr. Stewart
* Benita Robledo as Deputy Valerie Clark
* Cody Saintgnue as Brett Talbot
* Marti Matulis as The Surgeon
* Douglas Tait as The Pathologist
* Caitlin Dechelle as The Geneticist

### Guest Cast

* Chris Gann as Driver
* Chris Jai Alex as Prison Guard
* Claire Bryétt Andrew as Sydney (uncredited)

## Continuity

* Tracy Stewart becomes the second Chimera killed by the Dread Doctors after being declared a "failure" in this episode. The first was Belasko in *Creatures of the Night*.
	+ She also demonstrates that Chimeras are immune to the effects of Mountain Ash when she is able to run over a barrier of it around the exam room in the animal clinic. This fact will be very important throughout the rest of Season 5.
	+ Likewise, another important discovery is that Tracy has an allogeneic skin graft (a skin graft from an outside donor of the same species), which will play a role in the discovery of more Chimeras throughout the season.
* The Desert Wolf is mentioned by Stiles, Scott, and Malia. She was last mentioned in *Smoke and Mirrors*.
* Kira reveals her new Kitsune aura for the first time in this episode since she got her first tail in *Smoke and Mirrors*. The last time her aura was seen was in *Illuminated*.
* Mr. Stewart referenced Donovan Donati's breaking and entering charge from *Creatures of the Night* when he informed him that the defense attorney is pushing for three to five years and that he is attempting to get him out in two years.
* It is revealed that Donovan is also among the Dread Doctors' new Chimeras when they experiment on him by injecting modified mercury into his ear after he flees the scene of Mr. Stewart's murder, which will play a role in the rest of the season.
* Tracy echoes Mr. Stewarts words to her from *Parasomnia* ("Don't worry, I'll never let anything happen to you") when she kills him during a combination of a night terror and a hallucination from reading *The Dread Doctors* novel by Gabriel Valack, though the latter will not be confirmed until *Condition Terminal*.
* Mason Hewitt is introduced into the McCall Pack after learning about the supernatural from Liam Dunbar in *Parasomnia*.
* Stiles references the fact that the McCall Pack members have been monitoring his emotional state using chemosignals, which was first implied by Malia in *Creatures of the Night*.
	+ In the same conversation, he reveals that Braeden (and presumably Derek) have been tracking the Desert Wolf since the events of *Smoke and Mirrors* and sending Stiles updates on their progress, including crime scene photos of her assassinations. The Desert Wolf was first mentioned in *Time of Death*.
* Malia continues her driving lessons in this episode, this time with Kira and Lydia, after it was shown that she had started to learn at school in *Parasomnia*.
	+ Just like her first lesson with Ken Yukimura, being in the driver's seat of the car triggers a flashback to the car wreck that killed her adopted mother and sister, which was first discussed in *Anchors*.
* Stiles reminds Scott of the fact that some werewolves can inhibit their scent, which was first revealed by Derek in *Orphaned*.
* Scott receives a score of 86% on his AP Bio entrance exam, which was first mentioned in *Parasomnia* when Mrs. Finch explained that she wanted to see what kind of knowledge base they were working with in the students.
* Hayden Romero demonstrated an accelerated healing ability in this episode after Tracy clawed her wrist up while Scott, Liam, and Ken tried to help her. This is the first hint that Hayden may be a Chimera, which will not be revealed until *Required Reading*, and which won't be confirmed until *Strange Frequencies*.
	+ It's possible that Tracy was drawn to the sophomore-level history class (despite actually being a senior herself) because she was drawn to Hayden as a fellow Chimera, similar to how she was drawn to where Donovan was riding with her father in the prison transport van.
* Liam discovers that Tracy must have been buried in the woods after he sees the necklace Tracy is wearing in her yearbook photo is the same necklace he found in the hole he fell into in the woods in *Parasomnia*. As a result of this discovery, Liam, Mason, and Brett discover that the Chimeras are being buried alive as part of their transformation process.
* Satomi Ito was mentioned in this episode. She was last seen in *Monstrous*.
	+ It is also mentioned that she hasn't been "recruiting" members for her pack since the events of the Deadpool, which ended near the end of Season 4.
* Brett Talbot appeared in this episode. He was also last seen in *Monstrous*.
	+ It is also revealed that, like Derek and Laura Hale, Brett and his sister Lorilee were orphaned when their family was killed in a fire, and that is why Satomi adopted them into her pack.
* Stiles references the fact that Scott broke through a Mountain Ash barrier in *Lunar Ellipse*. Scott remarks that the effort almost killed him, though there was no evidence that this occurred in that episode.

## Trivia

* The episode's title refers to the night terrors experienced by Tracy Stewart and the dreamcatcher Kira and Lydia found in her bedroom, which was given to her by her father to help with her night terrors.
* Sheriff Stilinski and Natalie Martin try to go on a date on two occasions in this episode, but are unable to do so because of Tracy's attack.
	+ Ironically, their actors, Linden Ashby and Susan Walters, are actually married in real life.

## Body Count

* Mr. Stewart - mauled to death; killed by Tracy Stewart
* Psychiatrist - mauled to death; killed by Tracy Stewart
* Tracy Stewart - overdose of Modified Mercury; killed by the Dread Doctors

## Locations

* Beacon County Sheriff's Station
	+ Sheriff's Office
	+ Bullpen
	+ Holding Cells
	+ Basement
* Downtown Beacon Hills
	+ Tunnel
	+ Warehouse District
* Beacon Hills High School
	+ Bus Bay
	+ Mrs. Finch's Classroom
	+ Mr. Yukimura's Classroom
	+ Girls Restroom
	+ Lacrosse Field
* Beacon Hills Animal Clinic
	+ Exam Room
* Stewart House
	+ Tracy's bedroom
* Beacon Hills Preserve

## Soundtrack

* "Set It Off" by Life In Film
	+ Lydia and Kira are giving Malia a driving lesson in her new Toyota Camry.
* "Ilium" by Alex Metric & Mark Yardley
	+ Mason and Liam watch as Brett practices lacrosse on the Beacon Hills High School lacrosse field.
* "Take It All" by Ruelle
	+ Malia recovers from her Kanima-venom-induced paralysis and leaves the animal clinic to go find Tracy. Scott pleads with her to save Tracy and not kill her.

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