Creatures of the Night

**Creatures of the Night** is the premiere episode of Season 5 and the sixty-first episode of *Teen Wolf*.

## Synopsis

The Season 5 premiere opens on the eve of senior year: Scott and his pack deal with the arrival of a new enemy and the return of an old friend.

## Plot

Scott, Stiles, Lydia, Kira and Malia prepare for their senior year. Sheriff Stilinski is threatened by a teenage delinquent named Donovan. Stiles and Malia are continuing their search for Malia's biological mother, the Desert Wolf, while Stiles is struggling with the fear that he will lose his high school friends when they all go to college.

A strange, mutated Werewolf named Belasko hunts down Scott, intending to steal his Alpha power. Scott and Kira are able to fight off Belasko with the help of Theo Raeken, who introduces himself as a former friend of Scott and Stiles and a bitten Werewolf. Theo says that he's come back to Beacon Hills to join Scott's pack. Injured after the fight, Belasko reporting back to his masters. After a brief talk about Scott and his pack, he executed by his masters, the Dread Doctors. In a flash-forward, Lydia is being held in Eichen House. While being questioned by Dr Gabriel, Lydia only says that her friends are all going to die.

## 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

* Melissa Ponzio as Melissa McCall
* Linden Ashby as Sheriff Stilinski
* Ryan Kelley as Deputy Jordan Parrish
* Tamlyn Tomita as Noshiko Yukimura
* Cody Christian as Theo Raeken
* Todd Stashwick as Henry Tate
* Max Carver as Ethan
* Ashton Moio as Donovan Donati
* Gabriel Hogan as Belasko
* Steven Brand as Dr. Gabriel Valack
* Benita Robledo as Deputy Valerie Clark
* Marti Matulis as The Surgeon
* Douglas Tait as The Pathologist
* Caitlin Dechelle as The Geneticist
* Mandy Levin as Nurse Cross
* Clayton Froning as Schrader

### Guest Cast

* Kelly Bacon as Student (uncredited)
* Chris Brewster as Orderly (uncredited)

## Continuity

* Stiles remarked that it has been six months since the last time anyone tried to kill them. Since this episode takes place the night before the first day of school, this puts the timeline at about mid-to-late August 2012, six months after the battle at La Iglesia in *Smoke and Mirrors*, which took place in February.
* There are flashforwards that involve Lydia in Eichen House. The timeline of the season will not catch up with these flashforwards until *The Sword and the Spirit*.
	+ Lydia was shown to be in a catatonic state, which will not occur in the present until *Status Asthmaticus*, and will not end until *The Sword and the Spirit*.
	+ She was also shown to have developed impressive fighting skills, which she will not begin to learn until *Required Reading*.
* Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, Kira was experimented on by the Dread Doctors during the timeline of this episode, a fact that would not be revealed until *Ouroboros* after Kira reads Gabriel Valack's *The Dread Doctors* novel and triggers her repressed memory. The effects of this experimentation will linger throughout the entirety of the season.
* This episode marks the introduction of quite a few new characters:
	+ Theo Raeken, who apparently went to elementary school with Scott, Stiles, and Lydia and has returned to Beacon Hills under the claim that he wants to join the McCall Pack
	+ Donovan Donati, a young criminal who has a connection to Sheriff Stilinski.
	+ Valerie Clark, a new deputy at the Beacon County Sheriff's Station.
	+ The Dread Doctors, a mysterious group of masked men who sent Belasko, who appears to be a mutated Werewolf (and will later be revealed to be a Chimera) after Scott McCall.
	+ Nurse Cross and Schrader, new employees at Eichen House who were shown in the flashforwards treating Lydia.
* It also marks the first appearance of a Chimera in the series; in this case, Belasko, who was part-Werewolf and part-Garuda.
	+ It would later be revealed that the first Chimera introduced was technically Theo, who is part-Werewolf and part-Werecoyote.
* It is revealed that while Liam Dunbar more or less learned control over his Werewolf transformation in *Smoke and Mirrors*, he still struggles to maintain it, and has taken to listening to music and impaling his palms with his claws to keep himself human.
* Scott references Alan Deaton's remark about "regression to the mean" in this episode, which Deaton made in *The Divine Move*.
* This episode marks the first time Stiles' Jeep breaks down this season, which will continue to be a running theme throughout the entirety of Season 5.
* This episode also marks the first of several instances where Jordan and Lydia's connection is demonstrated, when Lydia's Banshee spirit comes to Parrish when he's injured at the abandoned house.
* Deucalion and the decimation of the Argent Family were mentioned by Belasko in this episode.
	+ Deucalion was last seen in *Lunar Ellipse* and last mentioned in *More Bad Than Good*.
	+ Kate Argent was last seen in *Smoke and Mirrors*. Gerard Argent was last seen in *Visionary*. Victoria Argent *was last seen in* Party Guessed*. Allison Argent was last seen in* Insatiable*.*
* Henry Tate appears in this episode. He was last seen in *More Bad Than Good*.
* Ken Yukimura appears in this episode. He was last seen in *Weaponized*.
* Aiden appears in this episode after Valack uses his glamouring power to make himself look like him. Aiden was last seen in Season 3's *The Divine Move*.

## Trivia

* The title refers to the supernatural creatures of Beacon Hills, particularly werecreatures, who are often referred to as "creatures of the night" due to their connection to the moon.
	+ It could also be foreshadowing the introduction of Hellhounds and La Bête du Gévaudan, who are also considered to be creatures of the night due to the fact that they transform after sundown.
* This episode was dedicated to Tyler Posey's mother Cyndi Garcia-Posey, who passed away due to complications from cancer during *Teen Wolf's* hiatus.
* This episode marks Dylan Sprayberry's first episode as a main cast member after being promoted at the end of Season 4.
* In Lydia's flashforward, there were glimpses of several scenes of what is to come throughout the first half of the season. This included Scott and Liam fighting each other; Melissa slapping Sheriff Stilinski; Jordan naked and covered in soot and fire as his eyes glow with flames; Kira standing in the soaking rain before getting into her family's car and driving away, while Scott watches sadly and a streetlight explodes above him; Malia being cornered by the Desert Wolf in her coyote den; and Stiles laying unconscious inside his overturned Jeep, covered in blood and surrounded by flames in front of the animal clinic.
* Stiles and Scott talk about Stiles' "vision" of the pack's future in college together, where it's mentioned that Lydia intends to attend Stanford University, and Kira is leaning toward the University of San Francisco. To fit with these choices, Stiles has been looking for pack apartments in the Mission District, Haight-Ashbury, Nob Hill, Oakland, and the Bay Area, all of which are in northern California.
* It is revealed that Jordan Parrish has been on desk duty for the last six months, likely due to the mystery surrounding what his supernatural identity is.
* Noshiko and Ken Yukimura mention the Wild Hunt, which is a mythological group of ghost riders from Germanic and Celtic mythology who hunt souls, which will play a minor role in this season.

## Body Count

* Belasko - stabbed in the chest; killed by The Surgeon

## Locations

* Eichen House
	+ Women's Showers
	+ Closed Unit
		- Lydia's Room
* Beacon Hills Preserve
* Beacon County Sheriff's Station
	+ Bullpen
	+ Sheriff's Office
* Abandoned House
* McCall House
	+ Dining Room
	+ Laundry Room
	+ Living Room
* Route 115
	+ Yukimura Family Car
* Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital
	+ Reception Area
* Beacon Hills High School
	+ Outdoor Tunnel
	+ Entrance Hall
	+ Library
* Dread Doctors Operating Theater

## Soundtrack

* "Firestone" by Kygo & Conrad Sewell
	+ Scott and Stiles discuss their post-high-school plans while Liam is chained to the tree during the full moon
* "I'll Die" by My Double, My Brother
	+ Scott, Stiles, and Liam drive through the preserve to go pick up Malia when the Jeep suddenly breaks down
* "Catch the Wind" by the High High's
	+ It is pouring down rain when Scott finally shows up on his motorbike to pick up Kira, who is stalled in traffic from the jack-knifed tractor trailer. The two kiss passionately
* "Touch" by Shura
	+ Scott and Kira make out in the tunnel at school until Belasko shows up and attacks them
* "Ava" by FAMY
	+ Scott, Kira, Lydia, Malia, and Stiles go to the library at school to participate in Senior Scribe, where Scott writes Allison's initials on the shelf next to his own

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