4.11 A Promise To The Dead Kate brought a very interesting dynamic to Teen Wolf‘s first season that the show had trouble recapturing. She was both sexy and dangerous (remember Peter essentially seducing Lydia?), usually at the same time, and her interactions with Derek made it clear that she was nowhere near as wholesome as the rest of the gang, and might have revelled in her own weird sexual quirks in the process. Like Peter, she was dangerous and entertaining and definitely unique in her universe, and like Peter, she was gone far too soon. Presumably that’s why Jeff Davis brought Kate (and the brilliant Jill Wagner, who also does a fine job hosting Wolf Watch) back for the fourth season, and why Kate has been working so closely with Peter. They seem to have a rapport with one another, an understanding, and they also have differing goals. But really, is anyone surprised when Peter sleazes up to Malia at the lacrosse game and lets her know she’ll get to meet her mother if she’ll kill Kate Argent? Or when Peter rams a piece of rebar through Chris Argent’s stomach and bends it to pin him to the wall in an attempt to kill him without directly killing him (which he promised Kate he wouldn’t do)? Peter is Rasputin in a v-neck, and Kate’s just not quite on his level when it comes to manipulation techniques, even if she does use some sort of weird magic to turn Derek into a teenager. However, to her credit, she does spoil Peter’s plan to kill Scott by kidnapping him and Kira and making Scott wear some berserker bones so his friends will kill him instead of Uncle Peter. It’s almost as if Jeff Davis and Ian Stokes, who wrote the episode together, are planting seeds for the next two episodes. Perhaps I’ll get more of the stuff I want in short order. Still, the fact Scott has never seen Star Wars and Kira has to explain it to him is very funny, and Peter’s manipulation of Malia (and Malia’s favorite food being deer) Still, what we do get of those limited scenes works very well, but the real stand-out moments involve Liam. He’s taken Scott’s fears from the first season and created a full-fledged internal panic about his new powers, his place in the world, and the fact that now he’s a part of a world he’s definitely not equipped for. Tim Andrew does great work with Liam’s scenes, really cranking up the fear and paranoia, and the berserkers that haunt Liam’s dreams only look that much more impressive when seen lurking over the teenager’s bed or stalking him on the lacrosse field during the big game. The little glimpses we get of Deaton’s world, and the Iglesia prison of Scott and Kira is not disappointing due to its amount of skeleton parts. Read Ron’s review of the previous episode, Monstrous, here. US Correspondent Ron Hogan would love to know just how much water they have used to replicate rainy Atlanta weather while in California. Hopefully they can recycle that water for other things. Find more by Ron daily at Shaktronics and PopFi. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
