Teen Wolf 3×13 – “Anchors” – Recap and Video

by Dianna Berrian

Teen Wolf is back! And mind boggling as ever. We left off last season with a lot of drama and the three leads – Scott, Stiles and Allison – coming back from the dead. Deaton warned them there would be consequences, and now each of the three are experiencing worsening side effects.

Read on for our recap of season 3 episode 13 of Teen Wolf: Anchors.

Let’s start with Stiles. He’s caught in an “Inception”-like mess of nightmares within nightmares, never truly sure if he’s awake or not. One of which is him waking up with Lydia in his bed?! Oh these writers are playing games with my shipper heart. The nightmares become more like night terrors, causing him to be stuck in a state of sleep paralysis until he can make himself wake up, thrashing and screaming. But the dreams are always about the same thing – the enormous stump of the Nemeton. The very thing their three deaths gave power to.

Scott, on the other hand, is totally awake while he suffers from hallucinations. His shadow appears to have claws while he does not. But all Isaac is worried about is if Scott is mad at him for having the hots for Allison. And it’s a pretty comical confrontation:

Isaac: “Do you want to hit me? I think you should hit me.”
Scott: “It’s not like you kissed her or anything, right?”
Isaac: “No. No. Definitely not.”
Scott: “Did you want to?”
Isaac: “Oh yeah, totally.”
Scott: *sucker punches into the wall*
Isaac: “Feel better?”

 

Allison, meanwhile, is on her way out when she suddenly gets chills inside the elevator. The doors open to the wing of the hospital where all the shenanigans went down with the alpha twins and the darach formerly known as Jennifer Blake. Naturally, she just takes a stroll through the abandoned wing that popped up out of nowhere. She finds her way to the morgue where she’s haunted by flashbacks of Kate, predominantly her death. When one of the drawers creaks open, she creeps over to peek in and the drawer looks empty and endless, when suddenly a creepy zombie crawler version of Kate’s corpse speeds towards her. Allison runs for the hills but when she bolts through the door, she’s suddenly at school. What?

The school day is definitely one for the history books. And speaking of history, we meet Miss Blake’s replacement and, more importantly, his daughter Kira. And Scott deeeefinitely likey. That is, until his shadow starts acting up again. Then at art class, Allison can’t keep her hand steady to paint a single stroke because she keeps hallucinating about Kate’s death. After class, Scott makes eyes at Kira again and when she looks his way, he starts to wolf out. I’m talking red eyes, fangs and claws. You know, the works. Stiles manages to shove him into an empty classroom so Scott can control it, but he can’t. He digs his claws into his own palms to bleed himself pretty badly. “Pain makes you human.” And Stiles isn’t faring any better at school. It’s usually in dreams that you generally can’t read or form words on paper. But this is reality and Stiles can’t read a thing because all of the letters are jumbled. Trippy.

Lydia tries to help Allison get her steady aim back. But Allison hallucinates again, seeing someone running in the woods. The hallucination turns day into night and Kate is running at her with a vengeance. Well, the good news is, Allison’s perfect aim is back. The bad news? The arrow is aimed straight for Lydia’s face. Luckily Isaac is there to stop the arrow. And to report back to Scott what’s going on: 

Isaac: “If I hadn’t been there, Lydia would have been dead.”
Scott: “Why were you there?”

Oh Isaac. You awkward little puppy.

Sheriff Stilinski is keeping busy going through his old cases to see what was possibly supernatural related, since, you know, he’s all clued in now. One case in particular sticks out to him in which a man’s wife and two kids were killed. But one of them was allegedly dragged off and eaten by coyotes. The other bodies were covered in bites and scratches, but it just so happens the accident occurred on the night of a full moon. Coincidence? I think not.

The next day at school, Stiles walks into class to find a seemingly deaf student in his seat, trying to sign something to him but he just nods and agrees and takes another seat. But weirdly, the room is silent and all of the students look robotic – faced forward, wide eyes, completely still. Coach Finstock starts signing something at him as well, and the whole class follows. They’re all signing the exact same thing and Stiles tries to leave, having a panic attack from the ringing in his ears. It turns out to be the Coach’s whistle, waking him up. But Scott informs him he wasn’t asleep. And Stiles looks down to his notebook to see “Wake Up” written all over his notebook.

At lunch, Kira walks up, having overheard the group talking about the weird side effects affecting them all. She knows what it is – “bardo”.

bardo, n. [ˈbɑːdəʊ] (in Tibetan Buddhism)
the state of the soul between its death and its rebirth

Kira explains that all of the stuff they were talking about happens in bardo and that there are different progressive states of hallucinations. Some see things, some just hear. And some are visited by wrathful deities – like demons. The last state of bardo = death.

Hoping to find some answers, Stiles and Scott go to consult with Dr. Deaton. He translates the sign language Stiles saw to “When is a door not a door?” A riddle for the mind being open and susceptible. He tells them sternly that they each need to close that door. Probably cause those wrathful deities are about to come a knocking…

In an effort to find 9-year-old Malia, Papa Stilinski asks Scott to try to catch her scent and find out who (or what) really murdered her and her family. While he questions the father of the deceased, Stiles and Scott break in to the house to find her scent. But all he can smell are animal scents. Mainly, the dog. There’s a brief scare of being caught when the dog starts barking but his owner calls him off from the other room and they continue their search. Still, all Scott can smell is dog. They reconvene with the Sheriff and tell him it was a bust. But why is he so hell bent on closing this case? Stiles says he wants to solve one more while he’s still Sheriff. Wait. Still!?

Turns out Scott’s dad is “trying to get Stiles’ dad fired”. Something about a lack of resolution and inability to close cases. Pshaw! Amidst the arguing, Scott starts to go wolf again. His mom is there to talk him down. She tells him to find an anchor, but his anchor was Allison, who he doesn’t have anymore. “Then be your own anchor.” And he does. She gives him a pep talk about love and how he’ll survive. “Until then, be your own anchor.” Aw, mom. Late that night, Scott wakes up Stiles with a mission: “We’re gonna go find a body. A dead body.”

At the Argent residence, Isaac and Allison are having one hot hook up. There’s a moment of hesitation when Allison asks to make sure Isaac got the O.K. from Scott before he sits up to take his shirt off. But there’s something around his neck. It’s a thin wire, held by Kate who starts choking him with it. “Let’s do him together,” she purrs. And Allison lifts a knife up while Kate kills him. When Allison wakes up, the knife is in her hand. Ooh, creepy!

Stiles and Scott resume their normal state of life – walking through the woods. A distant howling scares Stiles into grabbing Scott and causing his phone to drop in the murky water. Oops. But alas, they have stumbled on the wrecked car from over 10 years ago. “Why wouldn’t they move it? Isn’t it evidence?” Too true, Scott. Too true. But this is TV and unlikely coincidences that move the plot forward are abundant. Let’s just chalk it up to… “Probably too much of a pain in the ass to tow out.” We’ll believe that for a minute. Scott scopes out the claw marks across the car and deducts that animal claws would be a lot closer. So it was a werewolf. But who? And a rustling in the shadows is the answer to their prayers. Scott takes off after it until he comes face to face with a blue-eyed beta wolf. Malia? Hmm.

But before we go, let’s just make sure Derek’s okay too! Scott shoots a few texts his way but Derek is a little tied up. Well, chained up, really. And right beside him is his dear uncle Peter. That electric fence they’re chained to looks awfully familiar…

Not bad for a mid-season premiere. A nice balance of creepy, funny, and eye candy. 

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