It is a story is about two forest fires, both of them werewolf-connected. Eighteen years ago, in the first of the fires, Park Ranger Garrett Briggs (Rodrigo Santoro) found two orphaned wolf cubs which he adopted after the cubs transformed into apparently human babies. In 2023, the “Briggs twins”, having matured into high school seniors Luna (Chloe Rose Robertson) and Harlan (Tyler Lawrence Gray), have their senses amplified by a second fire that also brings more werewolf activity. Might some Van Helsing-like werewolf hunter be flushing out his (or her) quarry by starting fires? And just how many werewolves roam the area around Grey Lakes High School?

Everett’s best friend Connor Ryan (Sean Phillip Glasgow) reacts badly to a tetanus shot. He was also bitten, but because his bite heals slowly and a werewolf hunts him down.

While fighting the latest fire, Ranger Briggs’ truck is attacked by something with claws and on the day that fire begins, high school sophomores Blake Navarro (Bella Shepard) and Everett Lang (Armani Jackson) are bitten by a large animal.

Blake’s mother (whom we have not met) is separated from her husband and no longer communicates with him. (Blake refuses to have a phone, and she might be avoiding contact with her mother.) One night, Blake, who is a parking garage attendant, takes her brother Danny with her to work. Blake leaves the kiosk briefly, and when she returns, Danny is nowhere to be found. Frustrated and frightened, she screams her brother’s name from the top of the building. A few minutes later, Everett arrives carrying the boy, who is uninjured and clutching a fistfull of werewolf hair. (A DNA analysis of that hair might prove interesting.) Harlan and Luna also heard Blake’s call and arrive moments later. Blake wonders how they could have heard her scream all the way across town. “You didn’t scream,” Luna explains. “You howled.”

In Episode Four, screaming is also mentioned when Everett’s parents, Kendra (Amy Pietz) and David (John L Adams), discuss their son.

DAVID: “You hate him so much you can’t drive him to school?”
KENDRA: “I raised two other kids who are perfectly capable adults who never pulled this shit. I don’t hate my son. I just don’t love the teenager.”
DAVID: “You didn’t love the pre-teen either, or the child.”
KENDRA: “He screamed for four months. Not crying. Screaming.”
DAVID: “He had colic.”
KENDRA: “I know. But all the panic attacks, all the psychologists, all the prescriptions that need filling. It’s all just screaming.”

Blake and Everett seem to have a psychic connection of some sort that is affected by the full moon. They dream about each other. Everett is about to kiss Blake in Episode Two when the moon goes behind a cloud and he reconsiders.

The four young werewolves have, thus far, changed form only partially. Both Blake and Harlan have sprouted fangs at least once, but have normal teeth most of the time. When ten-year-old Luna was kicked by a horse, she grew claws and killed the animal. After that, Ranger Briggs decided to play it safe and made some silver bullets for his rifle. Fellow Park Ranger Prisha (Hollie Bahar) is privy to the true nature of the twins and has her own stash of silver bullets though neither Ranger is sure that silver actually kills werewolves.

An anonymous call tips Blake and the gang to where (but not who) the werewolf will kill next, and on arrival at the designated spot they find an overturned car with Nurse Hughes (Bria Brimmer) inside. The driver (Dr. Salvado, according to Hughes) is nowhere to be found. We don’t find out what happened to Salgado. The wrecked car is dragged away by something unseen, and the nurse likely does not survive. The following night, another phone tip sends the gang to Tia Patterson’s house.

Tia, it turns out, is having a party. Austin (Rio Mangini) is there, and he is haunted by what he saw the day the fire began, which is surprising because far from being a sensitive sort, he has a mean streak that at one point causes Blake to toss his phone into Tia’s swimming pool. Austin borrows some sleeping pills from Everett because he can’t sleep, and has Luna draw the creature the way he remembers it. (While drawing Austin’s werewolf, Luna has a vision of blood dripping on the drawing from a wound on Austin’s neck, so she might have precognitive abilities and Austin might soon be slashed by werewolf claws.) Austin and Luna discover that they both play piano, but Austin is better at it.

Cyrus Nix (Zack Nelson), whose father was killed fighting the 2005 fire, does not display his Caller ID. (We find this out when Harlan asks him for a date and they exchange phone numbers. So Cyrus might be the anonymous caller plaguing the gang. Tia’s party ends when a werewolf comes out of the pool and growls threateningly. We don’t find out if it eats anyone.

Werewolves (there could be a few of them) seem protective of the recently bitten, and one of them has been dumping bodies (not devouring them as one might expect) in an elevator shaft at an abandoned construction site. Arson Investigator Kristin Ramsey (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has determined that this year’s blaze was started by two incendiary devices that were 3D printed at the high school and delivered by drone to their targets. Ranger Briggs suggests that the arsonist watched the fires start from an upper level of the same construction site where the bodies are being dumped (although he doesn’t know about the bodies). Ramsey, whose son who died in a fire, gets the last word in Episode Five, and, not surprisingly, it’s “werewolf“.

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