MCCALL HOUSE
SCOTT AND SAM WERE IN THE LIVING ROOM DISCUSSING HER NEWLY ATTAINED POWER.
"Can you show me your eyes?" Scott asked me " The purple one?"
" Mhmm"
" Wow."
" If you had noticed I got these cuffs on my hand too along with this little crown." I say
"Cute but for what?"
I shrug. Suddenly my phone rang causing us to look at it. I smiled when I saw Stiles name.
"Hey babe, what's up?" I ask him on the phone but I hear no reply " Stiles? Stiles? You there?"
"Sam? Hey, I'm here..." Ok his voice is not reassuring so I put it on speaker. " Are you okay? Can you hear me?" Scott asks
"Scott, Sam I don't know where I am... I don't know how I got here... I think I was sleepwalking..."
"Okay, um, can you see anything? Just tell me what you see?" Scott asks
" Uh, it's dark. It's hard to see. I think there's something wrong with my--"
" Hey--" his voicemail starts playing.
" Stiles?"
" This is Stiles and you missed me. Leave a message." his voice mail plays
" Come on..."
"Hey, this is St--"
"God, come on, come on..."
"Stiles?"
"Scott, Sam I don't think I can get out of here. I can't move."
"Where are you?" Scott asks
" I don't know. I don't know. It's too dark. I can't see much, and something's wrong with my leg. It's stuck on something, and it's... I think it's bleeding..." he replies
"How bad? Stiles, how bad is it? Stiles, are you there? Can you hear us?"
"Ah, there's some kind of smell down here. Something smells terrible. It's brutal. My eyes are watering."
"Okay, listen. I'm calling your dad--"
"No, no, no, no, don't--"
" But your dad--"
" Don't. Just please, don't call him. Promise you won't. He already worries about me too much. Scott, please--"
"But what if we can't find you? Stiles, we can't make a promise like that--"
" No, no, no, just, please... Please, don't call him. Come find me. You can do it. He doesn't have to know. Scott, Sam you can find me."
" I don't know if we can do this..."
"Oh, I gotta call you back. I have to turn the phone off."
SAM : [on the phone] What? No, hey, wait--
STILES: [on the phone] I'm gonna call you back--
SAM : [on the phone] Hold on, Stiles, wait! Hold on, man--
But the call disconnect's so me and Scott run to Isaac's room
"Isaac! Isaac, get up! We need your help! Isaac!"
" What? What's wrong?"
" It's Stiles. Get dressed."
"What's wrong with Stiles?" Isaac frowns getting up
" ...I don't know."
BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
LYDIA: I said hold still.
AIDEN: Are we even allowed to be here this late? What if security catches us?
LYDIA: [scoffing] There is no security! The number of homicides in this school has seen to it that no sane person will ever take a night job here again.
AIDEN: So, we're all alone...?
LYDIA: You're losing the pose again.
AIDEN: You know, when you said you wanted me to model for you, this wasn't what I thought you had in mind...
LYDIA: Oh, really? If you're thinking nude modeling, it's usually done without the pants.
LYDIA: ...You hear that?
AIDEN: Hear what?
LYDIA: You don't hear that?
AIDEN: I hear music-- what do you hear?
LYDIA: Voices. It's gone...
STILES: [voiceover] Please, come find me...
MCCALL HOUSE
SAM : [on the phone] Hey, Stiles--
STILES: [on the phone] Did you call him? Did you call my dad?
SAM : [on the phone] No, just Isaac . We're coming to find you. Can you figure out where you are? Try to find something and tell us where to look.
STILES: [on the phone] It's a basement... I think I think I'm in some kind of basement...
SAM : [on the phone] In a house?
STILES: [on the phone] No, it looks bigger-- like industrial. I think there's a furnace. But it's cold. It's freezing down here.
STILES: [on the phone] I gotta turn the-I gotta turn the phone off, Sam. It's going to die.
SAM : [on the phone] Wait, wait, wait! What else is there? What do you see?
STILES: [on the phone] The phone's dying. I can't talk. I have to go. Please...
SAM : [on the phone] Stiles... Why are you whispering?
STILES: [on the phone] Because I think there's someone in here with me...
YUKIMURA HOUSE
KIRA: Mom, my lamp's dead. Do we have any more bulbs? Mom?
NOSHIKO: What did you do?
KIRA: Uh, nothing. It was an accident--
NOSHIKO: It's after midnight. You should be asleep. Go to sleep.
STILINSKI HOUSE
SCOTT: How did you know? Did he call you, too?
LYDIA: I heard it.
AIDEN: Don't ask-- it gets more confusing when you ask.
ISAAC: Okay...
LYDIA: Not as confusing as this. He uses red for unsolved cases...
AIDEN: Maybe he thinks he's part of an unsolved case?
ISAAC: Or is an unsolved case?
LYDIA: Hold on-- is he still out there? You don't know where he is?
SAM : He said that he was in an industrial basement somewhere.
ISAAC: We came here to get a better scent.
LYDIA: What else did he say?
SAM : [anxiously] Something's wrong with his leg-- it's bleeding.
ISAAC: And he's freezing.
AIDEN: Tonight's the coldest night of the year. It's going to drop into the twenties.
LYDIA: What did his dad say?
SCOTT: We kind of... We didn't tell him yet.
LYDIA: [incredulously] Stiles is bleeding and freezing and you didn't call his dad?
SCOTT: He made us promise not to! We can find him by scent. If he was sleepwalking, he couldn't have gotten far, right?
AIDEN: You didn't notice his Jeep is gone, did you?
LYDIA: You promised you wouldn't call his dad-- I didn't.
SCOTT: Wait, Lydia! Hold on-- I can get more help. I can call Derek, Allison--
LYDIA: [scoffing] Everyone except for the cops. Great idea!
AIDEN: You guys remember she only gets these feelings when someone's about to die, right?
SCOTT: [sighing] You don't have to call his dad. It's five minutes from the station.
LYDIA: We'll catch up.
SCOTT: What? Why?
LYDIA: There's something here...
ISAAC: Yeah, evidence of total insanity.
SAM : We can figure out what's wrong with him after we find a way to keep him from freezing to death.
LYDIA: Go. We'll be right behind you.
STILES' MINDSCAPE (EICHEN HOUSE)
" Who's there? I know you're there. I can hear you. Who are you???"
STILES: Self...
BEACON COUNTY SHERIFF'S STATION
"Come on...If his Jeep is gone, that's where we start. Parrish, let's get an APB out on a blue 1980 CJ-5 Jeep. Cordova, I want a list of any kind of industrial basement or sub-level of any building that he could've gotten into while sleepwalking. It's the coldest night of the year so far... So, if he's out there barefoot in just a t-shirt, he could already be hypothermic. Let's move fast. Let's think fast." Stilinski orders.
"The3 of you, come with me." he says urging us ."Okay... Is there anything you need to tell me that I can't tell anyone out there?"
" Lydia knew he was missing." Scott answers.
" Can she help find him?"
" Well, she's working on it." Isaac replies
" Anything else?"
"I called Derek and Allison for help."
"Can-can you find him by scent?" Stilinski sighs
" We got it, sir. We found the Jeep." Parrish answers
BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
" It's dead. He must have left the lights on." Stilinski answers seeing the jeep headlights which were not turning on.
" Why would he come here?" I ask
"Let's find out."
" Security's doing sweeps of every floor. Nothing yet." my dad answers
"What about the basement?"
" Follow me."
Me and Scott were now in the terrace
" He's not here. Not anymore." Derek replies. " You mean, the whole building?" Scott asks
" Gone."
"I'll go tell Stilinski" Isaac says turning to leave when Scott stopped him " And see if you can find Allison-- she's not answering her phone."
" Notice how strong the scent is up here? Ever hear of chemo-signals? Chemical signals that communicate emotion. And just our sweat can give off anger, fear, or disgust. Take a deep breath and tell me what you feel."
"...Stress."
"And anxiety."
" What was he doing up here?" Scott questions
" I don't know... But there was definitely some kind of struggle."
" With who?"
"Himself."
BEACON COUNTY SHERIFF'S STATION
"Where is everyone? We get a lead on our sword-wielding maniac?" Rafael questions at the front desk. " Nope. But, we've got posters up all over town for your guy." Parrish answers showing him a sketch.
"...Not exactly how I described him to the sketch artist..."
" Well, you're not exactly the highest priority of the night, Agent McCall." Parrish answers
"What does that mean? What's the high priority?" Rafael frowns
STILINSKI HOUSE
Lydia and Aiden were going through his room when she saw a picture of Stiles, Sam and Scott in their lacrosse uniform
" Didn't you draw this?" Aiden asks holding up a drawing of a tree. " Put that back!"
" It's yours, right?"
"It's one of them... I guess..."
" Okay...Nothing at the hospital. Derek is headed to high school. Isaac is going to find Allison." ...And, Scott and Sam are with the Sheriff."
" And we're standing in a bedroom staring at the walls." Aiden says rolling his eyes while touching a string " What did you just do? Did you touch one of the strings?" Lydia questions
"...Maybe."
" What did that sound like to you?"
"...Like a string being pulled?"
" You didn't hear people whispering?"
" I definitely didn't hear people whispering."
"You didn't hear that???"
" Lydia, I'm not sure anyone hears what you hear."
"They're whispering... Something about a house..."
"What house?"
"That one." she says pointing
" What's Eichen House?"
" It's a mental health center. It's where William Barrow, the Shrapnel Bomber, was committed."
" Is that it?"
"That's where he is. That's where Stiles is."
STILES' MIND SPACE (EICHEN HOUSE)
STILES: No, come on...AHHHHHHHHHHHH! Who's there? Who are you???
NOGITSUNE: Watagushi, na ke de wa nai... [Japanese: "I am not alone."]
STILES: What?
NOGITSUNE: Kore wa wa re ran ogu tu na no cha... [Japanese: unintelligible]
STILES: I don't... I don't understand...
NOGITSUNE: Not "Who are you?", Stiles... "Who are we?" It's getting colder, Stiles... Did you notice that we've stopped shivering? Do you know why that's a bad sign?
STILES: It's the body trying to conserve energy. It was my fifth-grade science report-- hypothermia.
NOGITSUNE: Our speech is starting to thicken. Then, comes fatigue. Confusion. We're going to die if we don't get out of here...
STILES: Stop saying that! Stop saying "we!"
NOGITSUNE: We're just trying to keep you from freezing to death. You better get up, Stiles.
STILES: [angrily] HOW? There's a freaking steel-jawed trap on my leg!
NOGITSUNE: ...Is there? Notice something different? It was on your right leg before, wasn't it...?
STILES: No...
NOGITSUNE: Are you sure?
STILES: What is this? What are you doing?
NOGITSUNE: We're trying to save you, Stiles. We're trying to save your life.
EICHEN HOUSE
STILINSKI: Lydia, I don't want to say, "Are you sure about this?", but...
LYDIA: No-- he's here. I swear to God he's here.
STILINSKI: I need access to all basement rooms in this facility.
BEACON COUNTY SHERIFF'S STATION
RAFAEL: Hey, is this the exact transcript of Scott and Stiles' phone call?
PARRISH: It's what he gave us--
RAFAEL: But these words? Stiles says, "Something smells terrible. My eyes are watering."
MELISSA: Hi, I'm Melissa McCall. I was hoping to see Agent McCall.
RAFAEL: What are you doing here?
MELISSA: My shift was over. I just wanted to see if I could help.
EICHEN HOUSE
LYDIA: It's here. It's right here. Stiles?
SCOTT: Lydia...?
LYDIA: I don't get it. This has to be it.
STILINSKI: Then where is he, huh? Where is he? Where is he? I'm sorry...
LYDIA: I don't understand...
ON THE ROAD
MELISSA: So, what are you saying?
RAFAEL: I'm saying, the real question might be... How do we know he's not still asleep?
SAM : You mean, he's been asleep the whole time?
RAFAEL: Well, people who sleepwalk can do crazy things. One guy goes down and cooks an entire meal, another guy is found mowing his lawn naked...
MELISSA: Why's any of that matter?
RAFAEL: Remember that townhouse apartment we lived in? There was that one night, I came home drunk--
MELISSA: [interjecting] Oh, one night?
RAFAEL: Let me finish! So, I'm drunk, passed out on the bed. I get up to go to the bathroom. Then, all of a sudden, I hear you yelling, "What the hell are you doing?"
MELISSA: [exasperatedly] Because you were in the closet, peeing into the laundry basket!
RAFAEL: Yeah, I thought it was the bathroom.
MELISSA: Oh no, you were drunk off your ass.
RAFAEL: Yeah, but I was convinced it was the bathroom.
MELISSA: Yeah...
SAM : Ok guys can we please focus??
RAFAEL: So, how do we know Stiles isn't just convinced he's in some kind of basement and isn't actually there? I think when he called Scott and Sam , he was still asleep... And is still asleep right now.
MELISSA: Then where is he?
RAFAEL: I got an idea about that, too.
STILES' MINDSCAPE (EICHEN HOUSE)
NOGITSUNE: You don't understand, do you? It's a riddle. Do you know any riddles, Stiles?
STILES: A few...
NOGITSUNE: What gets bigger the more you take away?
STILES: A-hole.
NOGITSUNE: What gets wetter the more it dries?
STILES: A towel.
NOGITSUNE: When is a door not a door?
STILES: ...When it's ajar.
NOGITSUNE: Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it?
STILES: I don't-I don't know.
NOGITSUNE: Everyone has it, but no one can lose it... What is it, Stiles?
STILES: I don't know...
NOGITSUNE: Everyone has it, but no one can lose it...Daremoga sore o motte imasuga, dare mo sore o ushinau koto wa dekimasen.
STILES: I don't know! No! No! No! No! No, wait! Wait! WAIT!
SAM : Stiles!
BEACON HILLS PRESERVE
STILES: Wait! No! WAIT!
MELISSA: Stiles!
STILES: Wait!
SAM : Stiles! You're all right! Okay? You're all right. Babe, you're all right.
ARGENT APARTMENT
ISAAC: What the hell have you been doing???
ALLISON: Sleeping? What the hell are you doing?
ISAAC: You didn't get any calls or texts?
ALLISON: My phone's off...
ALLISON: I never turn my phone off.
ALLISON: Sleepwalking? Is he okay?
ISAAC : Yeah, they found him a few minutes ago. They're bringing him to the hospital.
ALLISON: I don't know what happened... I never turn it off.
[Allison frowns and notices a voicemail on her phone before tapping it to listen. A male voice begins speaking rapidly in Japanese, causing both Allison and Isaac to frown in confusion]
ISAAC: Who's that?
[Isaac moves closer so that he and Allison can continue to listen to the unintelligible Japanese being spoken by the mysterious man on her voicemail, with no indication of who could have possibly sent it]
BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
AIDEN: So, you think he was just sleepwalking, or is there something more to it?
DEREK: In this town, there's always something more.
" What if I told you I know something more? I kind of overheard--Well, I listen in on Stiles talking to Scott-- how he thinks he was the one who wrote that message in the chemistry room. The message tells Barrow to kill Kira."
DEREK: You think Stiles-- skinny, defenseless, Stiles-- is the Nogitsune, a powerful dark spirit?
AIDEN: I'm not the only one thinking it. I'm just the only one saying it.
DEREK: This thing wants to possess someone and chooses Stiles? Why wouldn't it take someone bigger? Stronger? Someone with a little more... ...Power?
BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
STILINSKI: He's sleeping now... And he's just fine. He doesn't remember much. It's a bit like a dream to him. Thank you.
RAFAEL: It was that repellent we sprayed in the coyote den to keep other animals out. I couldn't go near it without my eyes watering. it's just a good thing he mentioned it over the phone.
STILINSKI: No, it was more than that. Thank you.
RAFAEL: It was a lucky connection.
STILINSKI: [exasperatedly] McCall, can you shut up please and accept my sincerest gratitude?
RAFAEL: [smiling] Accepted.
ANTHONY : All right, you 3. You've got school in less than six hours. Go home. Go to sleep.
SCOTT: Okay.
LYDIA: I don't know what happened. I was so sure...
SCOTT: Yeah, I wasn't much help, either. Doesn't matter, if he's okay. Lydia, do you hear something?
LYDIA: ...No. I didn't hear anything.
BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
KIRA: Scott, hey...
DEREK: He's a little preoccupied... But I can help you.
KIRA: [anxiously] Why would you want to help me?
DEREK: Because I want you to tell me everything that happened at the power station with William Barrow. Actually, I want you to show me.
BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
MELISSA: It was the other day... I asked him some questions... Just symptoms, and, um...
MAN: [over PA system] Blue team to ICU, please. Blue team, ICU.
STILINSKI: Yeah, it's okay... I think, I, uh... I think I know what you're talking about. I've been writing these down for the last two weeks. I think we need to do some tests.
ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION
KIRA: It was around here, I think... But everything kind of looks the same now. What is that? Is that a baseball bat?
DEREK: It's Stiles' bat. It's magnetized. Kira, I'm going to need you to tell me everything you know about foxfire.
BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
KEN: You're right. It's Japanese. Who left this on your phone?
ALLISON: I don't know... All of the messages are the same, and they all say "Blocked ID."
ISAAC: Can you translate it?
KEN: Mostly. The man speaking is giving instructions, actually. The first line is, "All evacuees are required to stay at least ten feet back from outside fences."
ISAAC : What does that mean? What fences?
KEN: The fences surrounding a Japanese internment camp during World War II. After Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were rounded up and put in camps. This man is reading instructions to prisoners upon their arrival.
ALLISON: Well, where does something like this come from?
KEN: I have no idea... Because it's fake. It mentions the name of the internment camp as "Oak Creek." There was no internment camp named "Oak Creek" in California.
SCOTT: You okay?
LYDIA: Yeah... I'm just a little hypersensitive to loud sounds today.
SAM : They're doing tests on Stiles all afternoon. I was going to go over at around six o'clock to visit. Do you want to come with us?
LYDIA: [distractedly] I should probably just go home...
SCOTT: You sure you're okay?
LYDIA: Yeah... I'll text you later...
BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
DR. VANDENBERG: I'm not sure I know how to pronounce this... or if it's not actually a misspelling...
STILINSKI: [impatiently] Just call him Stiles.
DR. VANDENBERG: Okay. Stiles, just to warn you, you're going to hear a lot of noise during the MRI. It's due to pulses of electricity going through metal coils inside the machine. Uh, if you want, we can get you earplugs or headphones...
STILES: Oh, no. No, I don't need anything.
MELISSA: Hey, we're just on the other side of that window, okay?
STILES: Okay. You know what they're looking for, right? It's called frontotemporal dementia. Areas of your brain start to shrink. It's what my mother had. It's the only form of dementia that can hit teenagers.....and there's no cure.
"Stiles, if you have it, we'll do something. I'll do something." me and Scott firmly say
STILES IMMEDIATELY PULLS SCOTT AND SAM INTO A HUG.
THEN SCOTT LEAVES
" I promise you . Everything's gonna be fine. I love you." I assure him before placing a soft kiss on his lips and forehead." I love you too."
I give him a smile before leaving.
BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
KIRA: I don't know if I should go in... You're going to tell Scott and Sam that Barrow might have used foxfire-- created by me-- to jump-start the Nogitsune's power inside Stiles.
DEREK: Yeah...?
KIRA: Basically, that I helped a dark spirit take control of his best friend.
DEREK: ...You should probably wait here.
DR. VANDENBERG: Okay, Stiles... This will take about forty-five minutes to an hour. Now, remember, try not to move--Even a little bit. Stiles, you're going to hear that noise now. It's going to be a loud clanging-- kind of like a hammer hitting an anvil.
SCOTT: You know the stuff you were telling me about chemo-signals earlier? It reminded me of the time you were teaching me to use anger to control the shift.
DEREK: [smiling] I think you ended up teaching me more about that...
SCOTT: Are you teaching me again?
DEREK: Think of it as sharing a few trade secrets. You know, I took Cora back to South America, right? It's where she spent most of her time after the fire. But that's not the only reason I left... I needed to talk to my mother.
SCOTT: [confused] Your dead mother?
DEREK: [nodding] She told me something that changed my perspective on a lot of things. She said that my family didn't just live in Beacon Hills-- they protected it. This town needs someone to protect it. Someone like you 2.
SCOTT: And someone like you to teach me a few trade secrets...
DEREK: What?
SAM : He was trying to protect us. Stiles was protecting us-- from himself.
DEREK: What are we looking for?
SCOTT: I'm not sure... But I think Stiles wasn't just up here struggling with himself. I think he was struggling not to do something.
DR. VANDENBERG: See this? The tissue here and there? Both those spots are showing signs of atrophy.
STILINSKI: Atrophy?
DR. VANDENBERG: I'm sorry.
STILES' MINDSCAPE (BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL)
NOGITSUNE: Have you figured out my riddle yet? If you answer correctly, we might consider letting them go...
STILES: Letting who go?
NOGITSUNE: Your friends... Your family... Everyone who ever meant something to you. We're going to destroy all of them, Stiles-- one by one.
STILES: Why?
NOGITSUNE: Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it?
STILES: I don't know.
NOGITSUNE: Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it?
STILES: I don't know.
NOGITSUNE: Everyone has it, but no one can lose it! What is it? What is it?
STILES: I DON'T KNOW!!!
STILES: ...A shadow.
That was enough. When the Nogitsune removed the bandage there stood another Stiles.
Not our cheerful good Stiles.
A dark Stiles with an evil smirk.
BEACON HILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
MELISSA: What was that?
DR. VANDENBERG: It sounded like a power surge.
STILINSKI: Where's my son?
WOMAN: [over PA system] Dr. Bender to the mental ward, please...
NOSHIKO: You know me. Then you remember that I won't be deterred by your choice of host... even if it's an innocent boy.
VOID STILES: Are you threatening us?
NOSHIKO: Now I'm threatening you.
VOID STILES: We're not really afraid of your little fireflies.
NOSHIKO: If the Oni can't defeat you, I know someone who will.
KIRA: Oh, my God!