Teen Wolf Season 1

Second Chance at First Line

Chapter 2 picks up right where chapter 1 left off, with Scott having just seen Allison's father pick her up from school.

Scott wanders into the boys' locker room in a daze. He peels off all his lacrosse gear, and Stiles notices the forlorn look on his face. Stiles asks if Scott apologized to Allison, thinking it may not have turned out as well as he'd hoped. Scott tells him she gave him a second chance, and Stiles is happily surprised at the news. He assumes everything is good, but Scott tells him that Allison's father is one of the hunters. "He... shot me... with a crossbow," Scott says. Stiles can't process the news and keeps asking Scott to repeat it until he's shouting.

Scott starts to freak out, but Stiles smacks him a few times and asks if Chris recognized him. Scott doesn't think so, but he's not sure, and he starts to cry. Stiles tells him to focus on lacrosse and shoves all of Scott's gear back into his hands before running out onto the field.

Coach Bobby Finstock has Jackson take a long stick, and practice begins in earnest. Greenberg is notably sent to take a lap. Scott's turn quickly comes up, but his head is obviously not in the game. Jackson takes the opportunity to slam into him for all he's worth, lifting Scott off the ground. Scott lands hard, and Jackson taunts him. Coach Finstock taunts him as well. "My grandmother can move faster than that, and she's dead. You think you can move faster than the lifeless corpse of my dead grandmother?" Scott glares at Jackson as he replies, "Yes, Coach," and his eyes turn yellow.

Scott goes back for a second try. This time, fueled by anger, he runs straight for Jackson. His doesn't appear to be moving any more swiftly, but he hits with much greater force, and this time Jackson is the one thrown to the ground. Scott staggers off to the side as his werewolf transformations come to the surface. Jackson rolls on the ground in pain with a dislocated shoulder.

Stiles grabs Scott and hauls him off the field. As they run by the bleachers, Derek appears, glowering.

Stiles takes Scott into the locker room and tries to see if he's okay, but Scott growls at him to get away. His eyes are glowing and his fangs are out. Stiles scrambles back and then runs as Scott leaps onto the lockers in pursuit. Scott jumps higher up into the rafters, following Stiles and snarling. Stiles makes for the door and bumps into a fire extinguisher, which he uses on Scott. It's enough to knock Scott's transformation back, and Scott returns to himself. "Stiles? What happened?"

Stiles drops the fire extinguisher and tears off his gloves. "You tried to kill me." He explains to Scott again how his anger and a rapid heart rate will force a shift. Scott points out that lacrosse is violent by nature, but Stiles counters that it'll be a lot more violent of Scott ends up killing someone. He tells Scott that he's got to get out of playing on Saturday until he can control himself. "But I'm first line," Scott says. "Not anymore," Stiles replies.

Later, Scott schleps into his room and flops down on the bed. His mother, Melissa, comes into tell him that she's got another late shift at the hospital. She assures him that she's taking Saturday off to witness his first game. He tells her that she can't, but she thinks it's important to be there for him. "One shift isn't gonna break us. Not completely." Which suggests that the McCall's live pretty close to the edge of their income.

Melissa asks Scott what's wrong with his eyes, and he's suddenly afraid that they've gone yellow without him knowing. She clarifies that he looks tired, and he claims it's from stress and homework. She laughingly asks him if he's on drugs, and his reply is, "Right now?" This is not what she was expecting to hear, and she asks if he's ever taken drugs. "Have you?" he counters, and she declines to answer, instead just telling him to sleep. The conversation is notably devoid of anger.