Wolves Are Monogamous and They Don’t Climb Trees
WOLF PACK – Season 1 – Episodes 6 & 7 – (limited spoilers) ⁓
The Pool Party
After doing mushrooms at Tia’s party, Baron (Chase Liefeld) transforms into a wolf-like humanoid. Kristin Ramsey (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the first to find him in this state, and tells him she can help him, but then Garrett Briggs (Rodrigo Santoro) shows up and wounds him with a silver bullet. Baron briefly becomes human again.
The ghost of Phoebe Caldwell (Bailey Stender), the werewolf’s most recent victim, appears to Everett after her death. When asked who the werewolf will kill next, she howls like a Banshee.
Ramsay explains to Briggs that she lost a husband and child in that fire eighteen years ago, then takes him to see a cache of bodies stashed in an elevator shaft on an abandoned construction site. (Briggs does not know that Ramsey first located the bodies with the help of a security guard, whom she then added to the pile.) Ramsey does not kill Briggs, and he manages to “convince” her not to tell anyone else about the corpse stash so she can remain in charge of the investigation. Briggs estimates there are 18 bodies.
Of Tia’s party guests, only Phoebe (Bailey Stender) is killed. Her body is dramatically dragged over Tia’s sun room, and deposited in the bathtub of the hotel room where Blake (Bella Shepard) and Danny (Nevada Jose) are staying. Danny has the dubious pleasure of finding the body. After Ramsey arrives to investigate, Danny tells his sister that he remembers Ramsay from the parking garage (from which he was briefly abducted – see previous post). Blake keeps correcting him, saying that he met Ramsey in the parking lot, not the garage. Danny finally gives up and is silent.
In one of the show’s best scenes, Everett’s father David (John L Adams) tries to convince his son to continue taking his meds, and uses his own complex medication regimen which might be a chemical cocktail for prevention of lycanthrophy.
DAVID: “Have a look at all this. It’s a lot of pills, I know. DHEA to boost my testosterone. Vitamin K because my Vitamin D is low. Metformin to keep my blood sugar down. Probiotics, prebiotics. They each serve a purpose. Especially this one. [holds up a blue pill] But you know what this one’s for. I keep taking it, everything is fine. Go a week without it, probably still fine. Eventually, well, you remember.”
EVERETT: “Yeah, I remember.”
DAVID: “You need to keep taking your medication, Everett, even on your good days.”
David Lang (John L Adams) has a talk with his son Everett (Armani Jackson)
Everett (Armani Jackson) is developing a close relationship with Blake, whose parents split up after Blake unlocked her mother’s phone (at her father’s request) revealing text messages that confirmed her mother was having an affair. (This is why Blake is phone-phobic.) Both teens were born in the same year, and might have a connection involving both their families. Everett’s mother (Amy Pietz) has never bonded with him. (There is a powerful scene in which she refuses to let him borrow the car, and Everett insists with a wolflike stare, saying repeatedly: “You should be nice to me.“) Everett’s father seems to get along with the boy quite well. If, 18 years ago, David Lang was werewolf-bitten during an extramarital affair, it might explain a few things.
Gideon Emery as Malcom — On 23 November, Emery tweeted: “Hey #Wolfies and fellow animal lovers: join me in helping our gray friends still being hunted in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana (where 273 wolves were killed last season).”
Ex-firefighter Malcom (Gideon Emery) tells a revealing tale of how he survived the 2005 fire. “A gray wolf, largest one I’ve ever seen, stood there, watching us, baring its teeth at us,” he says. “The only way out, the path to the ridge, was behind that wolf…I fired off a couple rounds to scare it but the thing didn’t even flinch…It went down and just kept getting back up, and Nix – Cyrus’ dad – finally managed to to put a bullet right between its eyes.
When we came over to push the body away, we saw the thing was still breathing. We dragged it as close to the fire line as we could, and watched the flames take over. That’s when it changed. At first we thought we were seeing a trick of the light, ’till we saw its arms grow longer. The snout extended, and the wolf started to stand up on its hind legs which all of a sudden were twice as long. You could see muscles pushing through the fur, and the fur itself didn’t burn.”
Malcolm then explains that a 50 ft tree fell on the creature; the ridge collapsed; and it was probably killed. Then another wolf – a female – arrived, probably unseen by Malcolm. She transforms just as her mate did, and kills those firefighters, allowing only Malcom to escape.
When he was younger, Harlan (Tyler Lawrence Gray) saw what he believed to be his father in the woods. It was a large, but quite normal-looking, grey wolf, so we might be dealing, not only with people who change into wolves, but also with wolves who change into people.