Jordan Parrish wakes up and finds himself tied to the steering wheel of a sheriff's cruiser with plastic handcuffs. Deputy Haigh is splashing gasoline all over the car. He explains to Parrish that he is worth $5 million to The Benefactor dead, and Haigh means to collect.

Parrish is quick to point out that he only makes $40 thousand a year but this seems to anger Haigh who says he only makes 36 (thousand per year). He dumps gasoline not just on the car but through the open window onto Parrish's head.

Parrish begs for his life saying he can't believe that Haigh would just stand there and listen to a fellow deputy burn to death. Haigh puts in earbuds before lighting his zippo lighter and tossing it into the open window of the car.

Parrish screams as the entire vehicle is consumed by fire.

~~~

Lydia and Stiles have brought Sheriff Stilinski the latest information to at his office. They explain that Lydia's grandmother, Lorraine, may have faked her death and could be working with The Benefactor or might be The Benefactor.

Outside the sheriff's office, Haigh reports to the Benefactor via computer and requests his money wire transfer for Parrish's death.

Parrish is not dead. Covered in soot and dressed in the barest remains of his burned clothing, Parrish walks into the Sheriff's Station. He makes straight for Haigh who draws his service weapon. Parrish grabs him and slams him against the wall. He then throws him to the ground and punches him. The gun goes off, striking Sheriff Stilinski in the shoulder.

Haigh keeps saying "but you're dead" and Parrish keeps punching him.

On the computer screen the message "KILL NOT CONFIRMED" appears.

~~~

Lydia brings Parrish to the loft for a debriefing with Scott and Derek. After examining the deputy's hands, Derek says he has no idea what his supernatural deal might be. Scott brings up the fact that Derek knew about Jackson and Kira (that one was a Kanima and the other was Kitsune) but this is apparently out of his realm of experience. He suggests there might be something in the Bestiary but Scott says doesn't know where to find Argent.

Parrish is confused. He wants to know if they're all like Lydia – psychic. This elicits amusement from Derek. By way of explanation, Scott shows Parrish his Alpha eyes.

~~~

Stiles is watching as the sheriff is filling out forms in the hospital. The doctor mistakenly calls his patient "Mister" and Stiles corrects him with "Sheriff."

The doctor explains that they're going to perform surgery "first thing in the morning" and that it will take some digging to get the bullet out. The sheriff wants an explanation of some of the information on the forms. It is a list of materials and supplies to be used during the procedure. Each item comes with the caveat "Balance Patient Responsibility" out to the side.

The Doctor explains that those charges not covered by the insurance will be Sheriff's Stilinski's responsibility to pay. The Sheriff seems concerned about the expense involved but the doctor says that is between him and his insurer. The doctor leaves after explaining that he gave him Morphine and he'll soon start to feel it.

Stiles chews on his thumbnail nervously and his father tells him to stop it. He claims he was just curious about the terminology on the forms and that "we're not in any kind of dire straits." Stiles knows he is lying because he has seen the bills. He says he knows about the debt collectors calling about Eichen House and about the advance (loan) on his salary the Sheriff got from the department and the credit cards he's been using to help pay off some Stiles' medical expenses.

His father is surprised and angry that Stiles is "going through my stuff" but his son says he has to go through the stuff because his dad keeps things from him. The sheriff explains that he keeps things from him because Stiles doesn't need to know everything. Stiles counters that he does need to know everything in order to take care of his father. The Sheriff begins to shout, "you're not supposed to take care of me! I'm the dad you're the son! You get it? Dad! (indicating himself) Son! (pointing at Stiles)" Stiles sits in the hospital room chair. He looks at his father and says "we're supposed to take care of each other."

Calmer now, his father assures him that they will be alright. When Stiles asks how he knows this the Sheriff admits he doesn't "but the morphine's kickin' in and I'm not all that worried about anything right now." He closes his eyes and groans softly. Stiles returns to biting his thumbnail and whispers "I am."

~~~

Derek, Lydia and Scott have apparently been trying to explain the supernatural to Deputy Parrish without much success. He asks them to explain "Kamina" to him again. Scott says they'll get back to that but for now, all Parrish needs to know is that everyone "like us, everyone with some kind of supernatural ability is on the Deadpool." Parrish protests that he doesn't even know what kind of supernatural he is but they say it doesn't matter.

When he queries the number of assassins out to get them, Lydia says they've started to lose count. This leads them to discuss if the list has spread beyond the "professional" killer realm. Parrish says he doubts Deputy Haigh has ever done anything like this (a contract killing) before. Derek points out that if it's true then anyone with access to the dead pool can take a chance on cashing in on a kill.

~~~

Liam is trying to sleep at his house. He is interrupted by his printer which begins to spit out page after page of the dead pool list.

This version of the "ALLISON" list has some names crossed off and one name conspicuously absent.

SEAN WALCOTT 250 DAVID WALCOTT 250 MICHAEL WALCOTT 250 CHRISTINA WALCOTT 250 LYDIA MARTIN 20 SCOTT MCCALL 25 DEMARCO MONTANA 250

CARRIE HUDSON 250

Derek's name used to be between Demarco and Carrie but his name is gone and space is left blank on this new list.

The AIDEN list now has a few names crossed off as well.

KATE ARGENT 12 NOSHIKO YUKIMURA 5 JOANNE MCLAUGHLIN 1 STEVE GRACE 1 TOM HILL 1 BRETT TALBOT 1 REED SCHALL 6RICHARD BENEFIELD 250

Liam tries to stop the printer but the machine continues. He finally unplugs it and the pages stop.

~~~

Lydia explains to Parrish, Derek and Scott how Meredith ended up in her grandmother's lake house.

Her grandmother, Lorraine Martin, was in love with a woman named Maddy. One day, while Lorraine was at work at IBM in San Francisco, she began to hear the sounds of a storm but looking out the window saw only clear blue skies. The rain and thunder sounds got louder and louder until Lorraine let loose a Banshee scream.

She called Maddy who, being an accomplished and award-winning yacht captain, was about to head out onto the lake. Maddy told Lorraine the weather was clear at the lake house too so she never mentioned the storm sounds or her fears. There was an accident on the lake and Maddy drowned. It was four days before her body was discovered. Lorraine spent several decades trying to figure out how she knew Maddy was going to die before it happened. She brought in Parapsychologists who designed the study in the lake house based on the very latest (at the time) according to every pseudo-scientific theory they could find. They brought in the red record player and speakers.

When she didn't get results – she looked into more extreme occult methods including mediums and psychics but none of the attempts worked until they located Meredith at Eichen House. She was, at the time, just a fragile girl who didn't understand the sounds she could hear but others could not.

A group of four paranormal experts brought her to the lake house, placed headphones on her and then turned on the red record player. Meredith had a seizure and began bleeding from the ears. Lydia says they almost killed her. She was hospitalized for over a year and never really recovered. Lorraine Martin drove her insane and Lydia says she then drove her to suicide.

Lydia says her grandmother created the code for The Dead Pool. She believes Lorraine was the banshee who picked the names out in the first place. Lydia has the final message her grandmother left her. It is written in the same code but grandmother did not leave the keyword necessary to decipher it.

~~~

Deputy Parrish returns to his department SUV and stares at his unblemished hands.

~~~

Stiles places the photograph of Lorraine and Maddy on his murder board along with a copy of the final coded message.

Scott walks over to Derek's bed in the loft and picks up a handgun. He wonders why Derek has it since he doesn't like guns. Derek explains about his loss of abilities and how "whatever Kate did to me" is still happening. Scott explains that Derek's name was one of the keywords to unlock The Dead Pool. While Scott skirts the issue, Derek says if a Banshee picked his name it means they were predicting his death.

~~~

Scott heads out of his room heading to school but stops in the door, turns and goes back in, and closes the door. He grabs the bag of money he got from Garrett's locker. He takes all the money out, frantically stacks it, and then counts the stacks. Satisfied, he puts the money back in the bag and returns the back to the spot under his bed.

~~~

Liam seems paranoid. As he walks into school it seems everyone is talking about him and laughing. He sees a flash of what appears to be a Beserker in the hallway and remembers the fight on the roof.

Mason wants to know if Liam is going to the Lacrosse team bonfire scheduled for that night. Liam says he plans to skip it but Mason says he has to go. He plans to find Liam a nice girl "you can embarrass yourself in front of and find me a nice lacrosse player." He goes on to explain that "statistically speaking" someone on the lacrosse team would also play on "my team" meaning one or more of the players would be gay. Liam, still seeing the Berserker down the hall, says he'll be there and runs off.

~~~

A near-constant beeping signifies Stiles' printer is out of paper. He and Lydia are agonizing over the keyword they need to decipher the message Lorraine Martin left for her. They try several things.

MADDY LYDIA NATALIE

Each attempt gets an ERROR message.

~~~

In the locker room, Coach warns his players not to "get out of hand" during the "Start of the Season Bonfire." He says the biggest problems are alumni showing up, other teams and alcohol "lots and lots of alcohol." This last elicits a cheer from the entire team except for Liam, who still looks stressed and Scott who seems preoccupied.

Selene notices Liam's state of mind. While Coach says there is nothing he can do to keep them from getting falling down drunk at the event, their Team Captain, Scott and Selene, will narc on them if they do. Liam takes off just before Coach finishes his speech and when Selene looks up he is gone.

~~~

Stiles says all the stuff Lorraine left for Lydia, the ashes and the code, were meant for her to figure out. The beeping from the printer has finally gotten to Stiles, he jumps up and feeds a stack of blank paper into the machine. The action seems to shake loose something in Stiles' brain. He begins to repeat something Lydia said about the clues being for "no one else" but her. He says they've been using words that mean something to Lorraine and should instead look for something she might have chosen specifically about Lydia.

He urges her to think about things that she and her grandmother did together. Lydia can only come up with one thing – reading. Lydia says they read The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen.

They try typing in words associated with that.

LITTLEMERMAID MERMAID

Both entries get an ERROR message. Lydia is frustrated saying she and her grandmother read the book every night. She was so into it, she refused to answer to any other name but Ariel for months. She says it drove her parents crazy but her grandmother thought it was adorable.

She types ARIEL into the code and names begin to scroll down the screen.

TAMRA JOHANSEN ALICE DUFFY PAULA BRASCH TREY LOCKHART JOSH MORRIS

~~~

Selene goes to check on Liam and finds him sitting on the stairs at the end of the hall.

"Hey... You okay?" Selene tries to get his attention."Last night... my printer went off by itself. I couldn't turn it off. I hit the "cancel" button, but it just kept printing" Liam explains."Printing what?" Liam hands over the new Deadpool."What the hell's this?" They hear coach shout and quickly get up. They rush to his office and find page after page of the dead pool coming from his printer and spreading out across the floor.

~~~

Back at Stiles', the full list is now visible. The rest of it reads:

ELISA CHIN PETER MCELROY TAYLOR FREEMAN TERRANCE SHUMAN LORRAINE MARTIN

Stiles printer is also going off, printing dead pools. Realizing what is happening he decides to call Selene.

~~~

At school, Selene retrieves one of the pages from the floor of Coach's office.

"See the difference?" Liam asks and Selene nods.

"Derek's not on the list anymore..." Selene says and looks at the other paper.

"And I'm not worth three million. It's eighteen now-- eighteen million."

~~~

Lydia and Stiles go to the Sheriff's station to have Parrish run the names on this new list. He calls it an already dead pool because all the people on it are deceased. They all died by suicide at Eichen House within the past 10 years.

On Parrish's laptop, we see the "INCIDENT REPORT" for Elisa Chin.

ELISA CHIN

221 KARRY RD APT #4 BEACON HILLS, CA 95931

She was 5'1", 126 lbs. and was 30 years old, born on "3/11" with no year provided.

She was last seen at 0723 (7:23 AM) and was found dead at 0932 (9:32 AM) at Eichen House.

~~~

In the school's courtyard, a "metal cyclone" is rigged with natural gas jets and set on fire with a torch. The flames race up the cone-shaped sculpture eliciting shouts from the crowd of students. The DJ begins to spin and the crowd sways and jumps to the music.

One of the Security Guards approaches the DJ booth. The two lean in close to each other and exchange words. There are several other, identically dressed, security guards watching the crowd. A number of the students are drinking from red solo cups while others drink straight from flasks and bottles. The lacrosse team is all decked out in their jerseys. Scott realizes that he is overdressed in his black button-down shirt.

He scans the crowd and spots Malia on a slight rise overlooking the action. She is dancing and drinking from a silver flask. He goes to her and asks her what she's doing. She says getting drunk and asks him what he's doing. Scott says he's trying to make sure no one gets hurt to which she replies "that sounds like fun too."

Scott points out that werewolves can't get drunk thanks in part to their healing ability. She says Scott should tell Liam that. He is sitting on a picnic table with Mason. Liam is pouring booze into a plastic pop bottle and guzzling it down.

~~~

Lydia and Stiles conspire to get the files from the 10 Eichen House suicides. They decide to try to bribe Brunski to let them see the files.

"Then I'm coming with you" Selene's voice suddenly says and Stiles and Lydia turns around.

~~~

Liam wonders why Mason isn't telling him to slow down on the booze. Mason says "I think you should get drunk and I mean stumbling down, fall on your ass, passed out face-in-the-toilet drunk." Mason says maybe if Liam was that drunk he might actually be too drunk to lie and might tell him what's been wrong with him lately. Mason says he's not asking just to know – he wants to help.

Liam sees Scott with Malia and says he's going to get another drink and is already feeling drunk.

~~~

"A thousand" Brunski proposes.

"A thousand dollars? To use one little key to open one little file room? Are you out of your mind?" Stiles asks.

"When you get the keys, you make the price"

"Right. You actualy think we have that kind of money?"

"I know you don't-- if you did, Daddy Sheriff would have paid the bill by now. That's why I'm talking to them"

"I have two hundred" Lydia says.

"Three" Selene adds. They place the money on his desk as Brunski turns to his cassette boombox, presses eject, takes out a tape and flips it over before reinserting it and pressing play. Stiles and Lydia realize the cassette (labeled "mixtape") is identical to the ones distributed by The Benefactor. Brunski picks up the money, sniffs it, grabs his keys, and cheerfully leads them to the file room.

~~~

Scott tries to explain why he didn't tell Malia about Peter. He says it was to protect her. She says that's what Peter said Scott would say. She says her father thinks they were right to try to protect her. Scott is suspicious and wonders what Peter really wants. Scott says they need to stay together, him, her and Stiles but Malia doesn't want to talk about her estranged boyfriend.

Malia begins to sway as if unsteady on her feet. Her words are slightly slurred and she almost falls down when she tries to walk away. Scott catches her and realizes that she is actually drunk, which should be impossible. He sees Liam is stumbling too and becomes concerned. Malia says drunk doesn't feel as good as she'd hoped.

~~~

Brunski opens the door to the Records Room.

"Good?" Brunski asks.

"Yeah. We can help ourselves. Uh, Lydia, you got the list?" Stiles asks and Lydia gives Stiles the list. Stiles sighs. "Lydia, why did you write another name on here?"

"I didn't write anything..." Lydia objects.

"This is your handwriting"

"Why would I write another name?"

"Why would you write mine?" Stiles says and then his eyes become big realise Selene hasn't said anything. He turns around and sees her lying on the flor, unconiues.

"It was the tapes, wasn't it?" Brunksi asks. He is holding his high-powered tazer which he uses to down Stiles. Lydia screams and Stiles grunts as he falls to the ground. He then turns to Lydia and says "your turn sweetheart."

~~~

Braeden, dressed in a pantsuit and with a badge hanging on a chain around her neck, visits Deputy Haigh in the interrogation room at the Sheriff's Station. She claims to be an US Marshal working the case with the local authorities. She says she has a few questions for him but he has a question for her, "where'd you get those scars." Braeden answers honestly saying it was a werewolf. She then asks how he broke his nose. Before he can say "what's that supposed to mean" she breaks his nose with a single punch.

~~~

Scott is trying to figure out what is making Malia woozy. She says there was vodka in the flask, he smells it. Now Scott is beginning to feel the effects of whatever it is too.

~~~

Looking through the printouts of all the suicides at Eichen House, Parrish realizes that they were all reported by "L. Brunski".

~~~