Memory Found

**Memory Found**  is the ninth episode of Season 6 and the eighty-ninth episode of *Teen Wolf*.

## Synopsis

While Liam and Theo act as decoys, Scott, Lydia and Malia enact a desperate plan to try and remember Stiles.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Tyler Posey as Scott McCall
* Dylan O'Brien as Stiles Stilinski (credit only)
* Holland Roden as Lydia Martin
* Shelley Hennig as Malia Tate
* Dylan Sprayberry as Liam Dunbar
* Linden Ashby as Noah Stilinski
* Melissa Ponzio as Melissa McCall (credit only)
* JR Bourne as Chris Argent (credit only)

### Supporting Cast

* Cody Christian as Theo Raeken
* Marti Matulis as The Outlaw
* Alexander Ward as The Enforcer
* Kevin 'ohGr' Ogilvie as The Ranger

## Continuity

* Isaac Lahey was mentioned in this episode. He was last seen in Season 3B's *The Divine Move* and last mentioned in Season 4's *Muted*.
	+ The ice bath he was given to access his memories after they were stolen by Deucalion and the Alpha Pack was also mentioned in this episode. This ice bath occurred in Season 3A's *Chaos Rising*.
* Derek Hale's voice is heard in Scott's memories in this episode. He was last seen in Season 4's *Smoke and Mirrors*, and last mentioned in Season 5A's *Creatures of the Night*.
* When Sheriff Stilinski demanded that Theo Raeken tell him one thing that he remembered about Stiles Stilinski in exchange for being let out of his cell, Theo stated that Stiles was too smart to trust him. This is a reference to Season 5A, when Stiles was convinced that Theo had ulterior motives even despite any evidence, a suspicion that turned out to be correct.
* This episode contains numerous flashbacks experienced by Scott McCall, Malia Tate, and Lydia Martin in their attempt to use extreme cold and flames to enter trance-like states in hopes of triggering their memories of Stiles.
	+ Scott's memories include:
		- His second full moon in Season 1's *Lunatic*, when Stiles handcuffed him to the radiator in Scott's bedroom and got upset that Scott made out with Lydia under the moon's influence.
		- Stiles asking Scott, "Why is it starting to feel like you're Batman and I'm Robin?" in Season 1's *Pack Mentality* when the two investigated the dream Scott had the night before in which he killed Allison Argent in one of the school buses.
		- Scott apologizing to Stiles for not being able to prevent Sheriff Stilinski from getting bumped by a moving car (which occurred in Season 1's *The Tell*) in class in Season 1's *Heart Monitor*.
		- Stiles reminding Scott that, as a Werewolf, he can do things no one else can do, and that he needs to use it to save people in detention in Season 1's *Heart Monitor*.
		- Stiles cheering on Scott when he did a flip in the air during lacrosse try-outs in Season 1's *Wolf Moon*.
		- Stiles pleading with Scott to not leave with Deucalion after both Sheriff Stilinski and Melissa McCall were captured by Jennifer Blake in Season 3A's *The Overlooked*, insisting that they always have a Plan B.
		- Allison, Scott and Stiles performing the surrogate sacrifice ritual in ice baths at the animal clinic in Season 3A's *Alpha Pact*.
		- Scott helping Stiles through a panic attack in the locker room in Season 3B's *More Bad Than Good* due to the Nogitsune's possession and the side-effects of being resurrected.
		- Scott asking Stiles why he doesn't trust anyone, and Stiles yelling, "Because you trust everyone!" in Season 5A's *Parasomnia*.
		- Scott and Stiles desperately trying to awaken Lydia after her Banshee scream shattered all the windows in the animal clinic in Season 5B's *Lie Ability*.
		- Stiles telling Scott he doesn't know how he survives without him when Scott tries to find the new werewolf on the lacrosse team in Season 2's *Shape Shifted*.
		- Scott hugging Stiles outside of the MRI machine at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital after Stiles informed him that he may have frontotemporal dementia like his mother, where Scott assured him that he would give him the Bite if it came down to it in Season 3B's *Riddled*.
		- Stiles informing Scott that he's a Werewolf and stating that he's cursed in Season 1's *Wolf Moon*.
		- Scott and Stiles drawing the McCall Pack symbol into the dirt floor of the Underground Tunnels to signify their renewed friendship and dedication to reuniting the pack in Season 5B's *Damnatio Memoriae*.
		- Scott taking Stiles' pain after he punched his Jeep's engine in Season 5A's *Parasomnia*.
		- Scott talking to Stiles on the phone after he sleepwalked into Malia's old coyote den in the Beacon Hills Preserve in Season 3B's *Riddled*.
		- Scott's final memory was of Stiles talking him out of committing suicide at the Glen Capri Motel in Season 3A's *Motel California*, with Stiles insisting that Scott was his brother and his best friend, and that he needed him before taking the flare out of his hands and throwing it aside.
	+ Malia's memories include:
		- Malia seeing Stiles for the first time in one of the corridors at Eichen House and then again the next day when she punched him in the face in Season 3B's *Echo House*.
		- Stiles helping Malia finally learn control of her transformation on the full moon in Season 4's *The Benefactor*, where he assured her that he knew she wouldn't hurt him and where he remarked that she was afraid to do so because of what happened to her adoptive mother and sister.
		- Stiles walking in on Malia showering in the boy's bathroom at Eichen House, Malia demanding that Stiles help her learn how to change back so she can keep living as a coyote in the Beacon Hills Preserve, and Malia telling Stiles why she wasn't happy being a human due to the guilt she feels for her mother and sister's death in Season 3B's *Echo House*.
		- Malia visiting Stiles in the hospital after Brunski gave him a concussion (which occurred in Season 4's *Perishable*) in Season 4's *Monstrous*.
		- Malia telling Stiles that she can't deal with all of the Chimeras dying in front of her in Season 5A's *Lies of Omission*.
		- Stiles and Malia trying to sleep in Stiles' bed in Season 4's *Time of Death*, where they moved around to find a good position and ultimately decided on Malia spooning Stiles, to which Stiles remarked, "This is good."
		- Malia's final memory was of Stiles coming to say goodbye, giving her his jacket, and kissing her on the forehead before leaving to distract the teachers from Scott, Malia, and Kira's absence in Season 4's *Weaponized*, when their contraction of the modified canine distemper virus forced them to bunker down in the Hale Vault. When Malia asked him if he was coming back, Stiles promised that he would never leave her behind.
	+ Lydia's memories include:
		- Stiles visiting her at her house in order to figure out what Lydia knew about the Alpha attacking the video store in Season 1's *The Tell*, where she asked, "What the hell is a Stiles?"
		- Stiles and Lydia attending the Winter Formal together, where Stiles stated that he was the only one who knew how smart Lydia really was and that he knew she would end up winning a Nobel for mathematics before demanding that he dance with her in Season 1's *Formality*. Lydia corrected him and said she would win a Fields Medal before agreeing to dance with him.
		- Stiles and Sheriff Stilinski finding Lydia naked in the Beacon Hills Preserve after running around for two days in a Banshee fugue-state in Season 2's *Omega*.
		- Stiles urging Lydia to scream in Season 3B's *Galvanize*.
		- Stiles telling Lydia that she is *something* in Season 3A's *Currents* after Lydia insisted that she wasn't a psychic.
		- Stiles offering Lydia a Reese's cup at the Beacon Hills Ice Rink and cryptically talking about perfect combinations during his and Lydia's double date with Allison and Scott in Season 2's *Ice Pick*.
		- Stiles screaming at Brunski to shut off the tape recorder playing Lorraine Martin's death to spare Lydia's feelings in Season 4's *Perishable*.
		- Lydia attempting to assure Stiles that there was still time to save Sheriff Stilinski, Melissa McCall, and Chris Argent from death at Jennifer Blake's hands in Season 3A's *Alpha Pact*. When Stiles began to have a panic attack, Lydia tried to calm him down, eventually kissing him to distract him long enough for him to calm his breathing.
			* Lydia also confesses that this is when her feelings for Stiles changed from friendly to romantic.
		- Lydia laying on Stiles' bed while Stiles unravels the red yarn around her fingers and assures her that her Banshee instincts have never failed them in Season 3B's *Galvanize*.
		- Lydia and Stiles hiding from the Dread Doctors in a side room at Eichen House in Season 5A's *A Novel Approach*.
		- Stiles finding Lydia after her scream killed Gabriel Valack and helped get her into the tunnels in Season 5B's *Lie Ability*, and again when they were in the back of the Jeep, trying to get Lydia to the animal clinic so Alan Deaton could reverse her trephination before it killed her.
		- Lydia's final memory was the last memory of Stiles that she had, where the two of them were hiding in his Jeep from the Ghost Riders, and Stiles insisted that she needed to find some way to remember him before referencing their history and telling her that he loved her in Season 6's *Memory Lost*.
* Theo continues to suffer from flashbacks and hallucinations of his time in his underground prison. This was first indicated in *Heartless*.
* Malia references the conversation that Scott and Stiles had in Season 5A's *Creatures of the Night*, when the two were looking at a map of the Bay Area of California and trying to figure out where they would be getting an apartment to live together when they go to college.
* Liam and Theo manage to kill several Ghost Riders in this episode, a feat that was previously thought to be impossible until Garrett Douglas killed one by biting into its skull and eating its pineal gland in *Heartless*.
	+ One Ghost Rider was killed after being bisected when Theo and Liam pinned it to a wall with an autopsy table. Another was killed by Theo when he cut its neck open with a surgical saw. Two more Ghost Riders were seemingly killed by Liam when grabbed their hands and used the guns in them to shoot themselves.
* This episode foreshadows Theo's potential redemption after he uses himself as bait to save Liam. This is much like Peter's potential redemption after he got himself captured once again by the Ghost Riders to save Scott and Malia in *Blitzkrieg*.

## Trivia

* The episode title is a reference to the premiere episode, *Memory Lost*, in which Stiles Stilinski is erased from reality and the memories of his loved ones. The title "Memory Found" is then a play-on-words regarding the fact that Scott, Malia and Lydia spend the episode forcing themselves to remember Stiles.
* Sheriff Stilinski and Liam Dunbar return to the Beacon County Sheriff's Station to find that all of the deputies have been taken by the Wild Hunt. This implies that Hayden Romero's sister, Valerie Clark, has been taken as well.
* When Liam and Theo Raeken return to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, they find that all of the hospital personnel have been captured as well.
* Scott, Malia, and Lydia each use a different visual (created by Lydia) in order to help them access their repressed memories without drowning in them.
	+ Scott visualized each of his memories of Stiles being locked in their own individual locker at Beacon Hills High School.
	+ Malia visualized all of her memories being stored in their own individual book in the library at the high school, with her memories of Stiles occupying their own bookshelf on the first floor.
	+ Lydia visualized her memories of Stiles as their own individual channel on a television, and she used a remote control to manually flip through them.
* According to Lydia, Natalie Martin saw a hypnotist many years ago to help her quit smoking cigarettes and had Lydia see the same one when she was ten years old to help her stop biting her nails.
* Liam Dunbar made his first kills in this episode when he shot two Ghost Riders, one in the chest and one in the head, with their own hands on their guns. This also proves that their weapons can be used against them as well.
* After Scott, Malia, and Lydia in turn triggered their memories of Stiles, a rift opened in the tunnel outside of the Argent Bunker, where a male figure was walking toward them. It's revealed in *Said the Spider to the Fly* that the figure is the Anuk-ite, who will became in the main antagonist in the Season 6B.
* Despite Liam and Theo's insistence that they wouldn't put their lives on the line to protect each other, each of them did so on several occasions when they were close to being captured by the Ghost Riders.

## Body Count

* Sheriff Stilinski - erased from reality by the Ghost Riders
* Theo Raeken - erased from reality by the Ghost Riders
* Unnamed Ghost Rider - run over by a car; killed by Theo Raeken
* Unnamed Ghost Rider - blunt force trauma to vital organs; killed by Theo Raeken and Liam Dunbar
* Unnamed Ghost Rider - slit throat; killed by Theo Raeken
* Two unnamed Ghost Riders - shot in the chest and head by their own guns; killed by Liam Dunbar

## Locations

* Underground Tunnels
	+ Argent Bunker
* Beacon County Sheriff's Station
	+ Bullpen
	+ Holding Cells
	+ Parking Lot
* McCall House
	+ Upstairs Hallway
	+ Scott's Bedroom
* Beacon Hills Back Roads
* Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital
	+ Morgue
	+ Hallway
	+ Elevator
	+ Roof
	+ MRI Room
	+ Parking Lot
* Beacon Hills High School
	+ Adrian Harris' Classroom
	+ Lacrosse Field
	+ Library
	+ Gymnasium
	+ Boys' Locker Room
	+ Parking Lot
* Beacon Hills Impound Lot
* Beacon Hills Preserve
* Glen Capri Motel
* Eichen House
	+ General Unit
	+ Outside Patio
	+ Men's Showers
	+ Closed Unit
* Martin Lake House
	+ Basement
* Hale Vault
* Martin House
	+ Lydia's bedroom

## Soundtrack

* "Wildest Ones" by Zayde Wølf
	+ Theo and Liam frantically try to find the correct key to start the Sheriff's deputy cruiser
* "Way Down We Go (Stripped)" by Kaleo
	+ Malia and Lydia struggle to help Scott stay awake and focus on a single memory. Scott flashes back to being with Stiles in the hallway at school
* "Alps" Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
	+ In Scott's trance, he opens a locker and finds a lit road flare inside before flashing back to Stiles convincing him not to commit suicide at the Glen Capri Motel
* "Can I Exist" by Missio
	+ In Malia's trance, she looks through books to find memories of Stiles, ending with Stiles kissing her goodbye when they were infected with the modified canine distemper and hiding in the Hale Vault
* "Start of Time" by Gabrielle Aplin
	+ In Lydia's memories, she struggles to help Stiles with his panic attack after learning that Argent had been taken by the Darach and ultimately kisses him to make him hold his breath.
* "So Nice to Meet Ya" by Hayden Calnin
	+ Lydia's memories trigger a rift to open in the Argent Bunker, and a shadowy figure that they hope is Stiles starts to walk toward them

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## References

1. ↑ Upcoming Episode Titles - Various Shows - 6th January 2017
2. ↑ Teen Wolf - Episode 6.09 - Memory Found - Synopsis