Teen Wolf Season 3B

Echo House

The Sheriff and Stiles drive in silence to Eichen House. They each want to say something but keep themselves from doing so. They both look doubtful and concerned as they get out of the car at the gate. They turn at the sound of a motorcycle and find that Scott's come to find them.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Scott asks them both. They admit that they were trying to avoid a scene just like this. "It's only 72 hours," Stiles says. Scott reminds them that William Barrow, the man with a tumor filled with flies, came out of this place. "You don't know everything yet." The Sheriff replies that he knows about nogitsunes, kitsunes, and Oni. "Scott, I saw an MRI that looked exactly like my wife's, and it terrifies me." The Sheriff is going to LA the following morning to talk to a specialist.

Scott asks why the Sheriff is putting Stiles in Eichen House, but Stiles explains that it was his decision. Scott is upset because he can't help Stiles if he's incarcerated in a mental ward. Stiles points out that if he's locked up, he can't hurt Scott. "Deaton's got some ideas, Argent's calling people. We're gonna find something. And if we can't..." "If you can't... if you can't, you have to do something for me, okay? Make sure I never get out."

Scott doesn't have an answer to that, and the Sheriff takes Stiles inside.

Eichen House looks like something out of a horror movie when they walk inside. Patients are strewn about the lobby or behind bars shaking and muttering to themselves. A nurse greets them and takes them to the office. She explains that for the first 72 hours there are no phone calls, no emails, and no visitors. Stiles will get a brief physical and then in the morning be assessed by a staff psychologist, speak to social worker, and attend group therapy.

The Sheriff looks over his shoulder as some orderlies swipe themselves through a barred door. He shakes his head and says he feels like they're forgetting something. The nurse gives Stiles some slippers to wear. She makes sure he doesn't have a belt and asks him to empty his pockets. The Sheriff suddenly remembers that they forgot Stiles's pillow. Ever since he was little, he's had to bring his pillow with him or he won't get to sleep. "We gotta go back," the Sheriff says. Stiles tells him that it's fine and he can bring it tomorrow.

The sound of the door closing sounds too much like a prison door, and the Sheriff can't take it. "Stop, stop. Stiles, get your stuff. I'm not checking you in here if you're not going to get one good night's sleep." "Dad, I haven't had a good night's sleep in weeks," Stiles replies, and gives him a hug. The nurse leads Stiles away, leaving the Sheriff in the office alone.

As Stiles and the nurse head up the stairs, Stiles spots Malia as she steps out into the hallway. Malia steps back into her room, and the nurse leads Stiles on. Stiles looks up and sees a patient tying a rope out of sheets. "I'm a part of the bird that's not in the sky," the patient says. Stiles starts to rush up the stairs because he knows the man is going to kill himself. The man switches his riddle to, "I can swim in the ocean yet still remain dry." Stiles shouts for someone to stop the patient, but the man steps up onto the railing and then jumps, hanging himself.

Other patients gather at the bottom of the stairs and look up in horror. Stiles spots the wrapped man among them.

"Did you have any trouble with Ikeda?" Chris asks Deaton from a phone in the sheriff station. Deaton reports that everything went fine and the white wolf was exactly where Chris said it would be. He explains that their first problem is that the lichen isn't a cure and it will wear off in a matter of days. However, while it's working, the Oni won't go after Stiles. Deaton says that Eichen House has an unusual history that makes it dangerous for the Oni.

The second problem is that the yakuza boss Chris saw die never found the scroll. "What scroll?" Scott asks. The shugendo were the ascetics mystics of Japan. The scroll describes how to exorcise a nogitsune. Deaton did find out that Kincaid was the last man who purchased it. Allison recognizes that as the name of Katashi's bodyguard. "Stilinski already told me that nothing like it was found among his things. And a paranoid like Katashi would keep it close, probably on him at all times," Chris says.