Death By Sleep in latest ‘Teen Wolf’ Season 5 Episode 3 Recap

Mason stealing the show as the latest bro in the Pack's Inner Circle.

 Dreamcatchers  Episode 3 Recap

In this third episode, Dreamcatchers, Tracy is back on the scene and this time she’s out for blood. Trapped in one of her night terrors, she tears through the episode slaughtering her father, psychiatrist and several cannon fodder police officers. Her hackjob isn’t on purpose though, as Lydia finds out towards the tail end of the episode that Tracy’s stuck in a nightmare and killing off everyone who helped her. Leaving a trail of ungrateful dead in her wake, Lydia uses her banshee powers of persuasion -- or er… just persuasion--and insists that the Pack does whatever they can to wake Tracy up from the nightmares she’s living. +50 Moral Points.

There’s plenty of character development going down here too. Mason is the latest initiate into the inner circle of the Pack, and he’s especially gungo-ho about the supernatural crew. INTENSE MAN. INTENSE. Next we’ll see him wearing a tee shirt with just that word scrawled on it. Maybe even in sharpie, since he seems he could be a DIY hipster kind of guy. Mason serves up the light hearted moments in an otherwise dark episode, and as the preview for the next episode shows it looks like he’s gonna be getting some action. Macking on dudes aside,  it looks like Liam’s not in the clear for his own ventures in the romance department.

Tracy's psychiatrist is down for the count.

The show is setting it up that Bubble gum chick is going to hook up with Liam. Urgh urgh. The whole juvenile 5th grade school yard nah-nah-na-na-nah taunting just reeks of LOVE INTEREST! Excuse me while I hurl in a corner. We don’t need a prickly beeyotch like her pairing up with Liam just to check off the Obligatory Teen Mating requirement in the show. And I gotta say, is it just me, or does Bubble gum look a lot like Lydia? Not just the hairstyle, which is in line with Teen Girl Waves required ‘do of most of the chicks on teen-geared TV, but her facial features as well.

Blegh the white bread casting is grating at times, and this is one of ‘em. On that same note, Theo, Brett, and Liam also are cut from the same cloth and could be brothers. ‘Teen Wolf’ needs more color beyond Scott, Kira and Mason. Or I’m just going to keep crying WASP. WASP.

On the other hand, THIS Bubble gum I can handle.

It’s also annoying as hell that it looks like Bubble gum girl is next in line for a big ass helping of paranormal abilities. In her history class, she got her wrist nearly snapped by zombie-Tracy's grip. In a seriously ick scene parasomnia-possessed Tracy’s nails sunk into Bubble gum’s flesh, to the point that blood was oozing out. After Bubble gum shares a moment with Liam (again LOVE INTEREST!) she goes to the bathroom to wash her wounds  and we see that they healed. So great, when she goes super saiyan and becomes whatever twisted creature she’s bound to be, I can’t help but dream that she’ll be on the evil-crazy-rampage side and meet her untimely death. Pleasepleaseplease.

Back to the main storyline, it’s not long before the Pack nabs Tracy who goes into complete basket-case territory, drooling out mercury and convulsing. Batshit crazy dot com. Scott and the Pack hustle her over to the animal clinic where she falls into a coma and Deaton starts to perform some tests on her. In the spirit of this season, which is especially warped and trippy, we find out that Tracy is a Were-Kanima so the mountain ash barrier Deaton sprinkled around them isn’t enough to keep her in. After rising from the dead---er coma, and paralyzing Deaton, Scott, Malia and Stiles, she charges off to crash Sheriff Stilinski’s and Lydia’s mom’s super-secret-date. Because, the Pack finds out that Tracy’s hit list is everyone who’s helped her recently, and the last one left is… Lydia’s mom. GASP.

Yup a kanima like Jackson was. Only more 'were' in there.

Kira and Lydia head Tracy off at the Sheriff's station, which doesn’t strike me as setting the mood for a steamy date, but hey, whatever makes you happy. I could put a dirty comment in here about chains and hand cuffs, but I’m not. You’re welcome. Lydia’s mom gets a close encounter with Were-Kanima Tracy, and it looks like her days of being the last parent in the dark about the Pack and sheltered from the supernatural freakishness of Beacon Hills, is over. Tragic.

Continuing to be bad ass ninja babe, Kira taps into her KITSUNE powas and with the fox fire swirling around her she severs Tracy’s Kanima tail clean off. But not before the Were-Kanima Tracy had a go at Lydia and took a chunk out of her side. OFC in an attempt to make Malia one of the cool kids of the show, she overcomes her paralysis at the animal clinic before the others --despite whining about being stuck and nearly going into full panic mode-- and faces off with Tracy in the basement of the Sheriff's station.

Before Malia gets a chance to KO Tracy, those masked evil scientists poof onto the scene and terminate her. Sagging up against a wall, Malia sees them up close and personal and is all, ‘This shit is getting serious.’ Yes, yes indeed it is.

The masked weirdos are apparently engineering these mutant uber strong paranormal creatures by shooting them up with some seriously hard junk, in other words pure unfiltered supernatural steroids. If the Were-Kanima is any indication we’ll be seeing even more freaky hybrids going on the rampage.

Y'ALL GOIN' DOWN.

On the other side of this episode, we get some other character development and some loose ends are tied up.

The silver leaf necklace came back (well it looked like an earring) which is a solid check mark on the Important Item drop down list. It helped the Pack solve the over-much-too-soon Tracy mystery.

We’ve  also got a new character on the scene, Donovan a delinquent with some homocidal fantasties and explosive anger that goes way beyond Liam’s hot headedness. Played by Ashton Moio, the mousy faced pathetic best friend of Jo in ABC’s ‘Twisted’ (or the 'Jo Show') stars as this juvie d. ass with anger management issues (aren't they all?) who wants nothing more than to destroy Stilinski (uhh why?). And after Tracy slaughtered his prison transport team, at the beginning of the episode, the mask people assaulted him!!! They went all teenage lobotomy on him and attached this wicked looking metal prong into his skull and screwed a thick metal rod into his ears.

Channing is de-feathered here but no less de-sireable to Mila Kunis. 

In the holding cell he starts showing symptoms of whatever that thingamabob did to his noggin. Either way, we got a new villain in the making. What exactly Donovan is going to morph in to is anyone’s guess. Another Were-Kanima? Or a Were-Angel-Human Super Soldier like Channing Tatum in ‘Jupiter Ascending’? Hey maybe he and Bubble gum will self destruct together? Maybe? Please?

Malia is still not working out for me. We get a filler slightly comedic scene with Malia taking driving lessons with Lydia and Kira. On a highway. After miserably shooting down every single cone in the Beacon Hills High parking lot with a teacher in the car. Uh huh. I still cry bullshit that a girl who basically grew up and spent her early formative years in the woods AND was transformed  into a Were-Coyote 90% of the time, not only has impressive social skills, is apparently a pro kisser and sex goddess (Yeah I’m still not buying the slapped together Stiles x Malia ‘ship) , can keep up with senior level work and she can now DRIVE. Well color me not impressed. It's yet another attempt by the writers to make us go "aww how cute Malia", but just makes me roll my eyes.

On the Malia’s Mama front, Stiles gets a pic on his cell from Braeden of the latest Desert Wolf. By that I mean the latest instagram massacre of humans she’s taken down.The snapshot is full of slashed bodies sprawled out in a room, in a scene that's more tame than carnage. No surprise that the Desert Wolf is a killar. What is odd is how the hell Braeden knew it’s the Desert Wolf’s work, or how the hell she found her in the first place. A small WTF moment in an otherwise rad episode.

Turning back to our man Theo, it looks like he’s following the tried and  true devious villain acting a hero and saving the day game play. Basically, Theo is probably in cahoots with the steampunk mad scientist baddies, and has helped engineer these little conflicts personally. I’m betting he’s a man in command when it comes to shooting up the ‘test subjects’, makin’ monsters, and the like. All in a day’s work. 

I wasn't the only one who was thinking this... 

By putting on an awwshucks air, and rocking a Doing The Right Thing mentality Theo eagerly jumps in to rescue the Pack. Another variation of this we’re bound to see soon from Theo, is he’ll have a tip off, or an ‘instinct’ about this group of villains and by following his advice, it’ll give Scott’s Pack an advantage. Stiles will see this as a red light, but Scott and the Pack will be showering their trust onto the bugger, which will end in a scene with Theo cockily smirking at a frowning Stiles who’s standing feet away from his friends with his hands clenched into fists. With the appropriately insidious techno music soundtrack cutting in as half the screen fades to black and the credits stream by.

Images from the IMDB and MTV.com