Mr. Lahey

**Mr. Lahey** was a character introduced during Season 2 of MTV's *Teen Wolf*. He was the father of Isaac Lahey who owned the cemetery in Beacon Hills and who was the coach of the Beacon Hills High School swim team.

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

In *Omega*, he and his son, Isaac, were questioned by Sheriff Stilinski regarding what had happened in their cemetery the night before; specifically, the fact that a mysterious person (who, unbeknownst to Mr. Lahey and the Sheriff, was an Omega Werewolf) dug up a grave and seemingly robbed it. Mr. Lahey gruffly asked Stilinski if they could speed up the interview, as Isaac needed to get to school. Stilinski, noticing the dark bruise around Isaac's left eye, asked him how he sustained it, and Isaac anxiously lied and stated it happened during lacrosse practice.

Stilinski seemed to catch on to Isaac's anxiety and assumed that he was being abused by his father, an assumption that would later be confirmed to be true when the Laheys' neighbors, the Whittemore Family (specifically their adopted son Jackson Whittemore) confessed to having witnessed Isaac being abused on a regular basis. Stilinski went on to inform them that Lydia Martin, one of Isaac's classmates, had gone missing, and that their K9 unit tracked her scent to the cemetery; he made it clear that the fact that Lydia disappeared without any of her clothes just when the temperatures were going to drop to below-freezing temperatures meant that they would need to find her quickly before she could sustain hypothermia. Mr. Lahey assured him that if Isaac saw a naked woman who wasn't appearing on his computer screen, he would definitely remember it.

In *Shape Shifted*, Mr. Lahey and his son Isaac were having dinner together at home. Mr. Lahey asked Isaac about what grades he had so far in his classes, and Isaac, already knowing this was a trap, began with the classes in which he had good grades, French (in which he had an A) and Economics (in which he had a B-). Noticing what Isaac had left out, Mr. Lahey asked him about his grade in chemistry, and Isaac attempted to evade telling him the answer by pointing out that midterms were scheduled in a few days which could improve his score.

Upon being questioned further about the grade, Isaac tried to play dumb and state that he didn't know, but when his dad threatened to have them "continue their conversation downstairs," he finally confessed that he had a D. Mr. Lahey went on to assure Isaac that he wasn't angry, but that it was his duty as a parent to punish him for his low grades. Isaac breathed a sigh of relief when he revealed his punishment would be to do the dishes and clean up the kitchen. Just as Isaac began to believe their argument wouldn't devolve into a fight, Mr. Lahey dramatically swiped his dinner plates off the table, causing them to crash and break against the floor. He then threw his empty glass at Isaac's head, and Isaac was just barely able to duck before being hit with it, though when the glass hit the wall behind him, a piece of shattered glass embedded itself into the skin under Isaac's right eye.

Mr. Lahey immediately blamed the injury on Isaac for his poor grades, and Isaac furiously replied that he could have blinded him before beginning to remove the glass from his wound. Mr. Lahey continued to berate Isaac's "overreaction" before the sight of Isaac's wound healing itself before his eyes shocked him into silence. Isaac, realizing that his recent transformation into a Werewolf after being bitten by then-Alpha Derek Hale, instinctively ran out the door and sped away on his bike, not wanting his dad to figure out what he had become. Mr. Lahey called out for him to stop before getting into his car and driving after him in the pouring rain.

Once he made it into downtown, Mr. Lahey stopped in front of the alley where he saw what he believed to be Isaac on his bike and got out of his car to chase him. His glasses became covered in rain drops, preventing him from realizing that the dark figure in the alley wasn't his son until it was too late—the large, taloned reptilian shapeshifter chased after Mr. Lahey, tearing the door off of his car and ripping him to shreds.

In *Fury*, it was revealed by Matt Daehler via flashbacks that in 2006, Mr. Lahey invited the members of the swim team he coached (which included Camden, Mr. Lahey's oldest son and Isaac's older brother) to the house to swim in their pool as a reward for winning state championships. Matt, who was only twelve years old at the time, had also come over to the house to hang out with Isaac in order to read and trade comic books. Hearing the party going on, Matt and Isaac went outside to find that Camden and his swim team cohorts were all drinking and hooking up in the pool. One of the teammates, who was very intoxicated, then decided to throw Matt into the pool despite his desperate pleas that he didn't know how to swim.

Once in the water, Matt panicked and desperately tried to stay afloat, to no avail; instead, he slipped under the surface and nearly drowned to death until he was finally saved by Mr. Lahey, who resuscitated him with CPR but who threatened him into never saying a word about what happened to anyone, knowing that he was at risk of exposure if the police were to learn he provided alcohol to underage students. It was this event that led Matt to use his mysterious connection and control over the newly turned Kanima Jackson Whittemore in order to take his revenge against everyone who participated in that particular near-death experience, starting with Mr. Lahey himself.

## Appearances

**Season 2**

* *Omega*
* *Shape Shifted* (death)
* *Venomous* (mentioned)
* *Raving* (mentioned)
* *Fury* (flashback)

**Season 3**

* *Motel California* (voice, uncredited)

## Etymology

* **Lahey**: An Irish surname that originates from the Gaelic surname O Laithimh, which itself is derived from O Flaithimh; *flaitheamh* is Gaelic for "lord" or "ruler." It may also be related to the Gaelic words *leighiche*, "physician," *lagh*, ""law, order," and *fear lagha*, "lawyer." Variations of the name include: Lahy, Lahiff, Lahiffe, Laffey, and Lahive.

## Trivia

* His full name is possibly Camden Lahey Sr.[*Citation needed*]

## Gallery

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Pictured with the 2006 swim team