Brett and fellow werewolf Lori are running through the rain at Beacon Hills High School pursued by assassins with crossbows. They run onto the lacrosse field and the banks of overhead lights begin to come on one by one. Several red laser sites find Brett and he tells Lori to get to close her eyes. Just as one of the arrows homes in on him, Kira's sword flashes through and deflects it. She yells for them to run and covers their escape by deflecting arrow after arrow.

~~~

Scott grabs his motorcycle helmet and an extra one for Liam. He says Kira found Satomi's pack and they need to go. Liam hesitates. He explains that he's not like Scott and he says he doesn't mean strength or werewolf control. He wonders at the fact that Scott and his friends try to protect everyone. He asks, "how are you all still alive?" to which Scott says "not all of us are." Scott offers to take Liam home.

~~~

Stiles is at the hospital with a concussion and Melissa says she won't let him leave without a CT scan. He points out that he still hasn't paid for the last one. Melissa insists that his father has Meredith at the station and that it will take some time to get her to talk and that there really isn't anything Stiles needs to do but stay put. Stiles agrees but asks her to find him a cassette player. He has the tape Brunski made when he killed Lorraine Martin.

~~~

Sheriff Stilinski is getting nowhere questioning Meredith and tells Lydia he needs a psychologist or a medium. Lydia questions if Meredith is competent enough to be charged with something. The sheriff says if Meredith is The Benefactor "she was competent enough to trick Kate into opening the Hale Vault, competent enough to blackmail Brunski into helping her and competent enough to create a hitlist and payout money for its completion." He says she's practically a criminal mastermind and he wants to find out how the payments from the Dead Pool work so he can stop it. Lydia agrees that they don't just need to stop the Dead Pool, they need to stop the money.

~~~

Scott arrives at the animal clinic and is reunited with Kira. They kiss and he asks about her mother's injury. Kira says Noshiko is healing and shows Scott the remaining members of Sapack that she has gathered at the clinic to hide. Satomi says she already knows Scott. Lori asks if they are safe at the Clinic. Scott looks around at Satomi and the seven members of her pack, all wounded, grouped in the exam room. He says they're going to need a lot of help.

~~~

Selene disables the guard at a warehouse and throws him through a door. Another guard comes up from behind and she turns around. She lifts the gaurd up and then throws him against the ground, hard.

"All clear. I think you need to do the rest" Selene says and Argent walks through the door.

"I know you don't agree with this-"

"That's an understatement" Selene cuts him off.

"We might need him"

"I can imagine none, and I mean literally, NO situation where we would need him"

"Not yet, and hey maybe we might never use it"

"Or we do use it and he kills us all" Chris shakes his head and walks towards the middle of the room. A single stalk of flowering yellow wolfsbane is standing here like a throphy.

~~~

Lydia is sleeping in the Sheriff's Station while the psychologist is questioning Meredith. Once they're done, the sheriff tells her he should have gone with the medium. Parrish reports that they've gone through Brunski's office and found nothing. Both he and the Sheriff want Lydia to go home and get some rest considering what she's been through over the past several hours. She insists on staying and insists on questioning Meredith herself reminding them that she's gotten through to the other before.

~~~

Melissa knocks on Stiles hospital room door (Patient Room 115). She doesn't have the cassette player but instead brought someone to see him. Melissa leaves and closes the door. The exchange between Stiles and Malia is awkward. They share "I almost died" stories. Malia says she's fine and, having seen that Stiles is okay too, says she should leave. The door is locked. They call for Melissa but she doesn't come. Malia says she could break it but Stiles says no because he already owes the hospital a bunch of money. Malia says Melissa is stupid for locking the door by mistake.

Stiles turns the whole "didn't mean to lock the door" thing into a metaphor for how he didn't tell Malia that Peter is her father. Malia admits that she doesn't have much experience in things like forgiveness. She says that some things come easy but other things not so much. Stiles says "like math." Malia admits she hates math and Stiles asks if she hates him. She admits she likes him a lot and they kiss. As they relax their embrace, the door opens on its own.

~~~

Chris Argent and Selene returns to Argent Arms International and places the yellow wolfsbane stalk inside a safe hidden in one of the walls. Selene suddenly stands up from her kneeling position and does a shush motion to Argent, who raises his weapon.

A shadowy figure appears behind one of the hanging pieces of plastic and Chris is ready to fire but one of Sanomi's metal spikes grazes his hand and embeds itself into the wall behind him. Chris takes another gun out of his pocket and raises it. Brett is suddenly facing off with Chris, fangs bared. Selene immediately pushes the gun down and Brett frowns.

"You could have called Scott" Selene yells and Scott quickly walks forwards.

"I'm sorry, you're right. What are you guys doing here anyway?" Scott asks.

"Long story and I could ask you the same"

"I didn't have anywhere else to take them" "I know this man... He may not remember, but we've met before" Satomi explains, also stepping out of the shadows. "You can trust him. I trust him" Selene tells her mother."How do we know he's not like the others?" "What others?""Last night... There was a whole team after them, and they used crossbows" Kira explains and gives Selene the arrow. Selene sighs and gives Chris the arrow. They both shake their heads."They're Hunters, aren't they?" Scott asks."Not if they're killing for profit. Not anymore" Chris answers."Can they find us?" Brett asks."They might already know you're here. Maybe they're waiting for dark" Selene says, more to Chris than to the pack. "So we're not safe here?" Kira asks Scott."We're not safe anywhere. We've been trying to get out for days. Everywhere we turn, we find someone new trying to kill us""If they're coming, Selene, they're coming for you, too. You're still number one on the Deadpool" Argent says and Selene nods grimly. "I know Lydia can get the answer from Meredith-- she just needs more time," Scott says."Then that's what she'll get" Argent answers.

~~~

Stiles and Malia are back at his house listening to the tape Brunski made when he killed Lorraine. On it, Lorraine says there is something she has to do. Brunski says they have to return her to Eichen House but Lorraine says she knows they're not going back because she can hear the "recorder in your pocket." She says he plans to record her death just as he did "the others." Stiles realizes that her murder didn't happen at Eichen House. They listen to the tape again to try to figure out where Lorraine died.

~~~

Lydia is questioning Meredith. She begins by laying out her theory of how it all happened, "You used Brunski right? You knew he'd killed people and that he would do it again. He used my grandmother's code for the dead pool, he put it online. He took the money from the Hale Vault, then turned the bearer bonds into cash. He made the payments." She questions if Brunski had Meredith fake her death because he got nervous when she helped them with one of the cipher keys. Meredith says she wants to help but first wants to talk to Peter Hale.

~~~

Malia hears a sound in the background of Brunski's cassette. She says it's the record player at the lake house. They suspect, a long time ago, Lorraine's banshee abilities predicted a whole lot of people would die - the Dead Pool - and she knew there was something in the lake house that could stop it. Stiles and Malia decide to go there and check.

~~~

Chris Argent places motion sensors around the area inside the Argent Arms warehouse. Scott called in Derek to help. Derek says Satomi's pack has "claws and fangs" but are not fighters. He then points out that he no longer has claws and fangs. Braeden says that's why Derek called her. Kira says she hopes it's all just a false alarm. That they could wait there all night and nothing would happen.

Scott says Lydia is still talking to Meredith while Stiles and Malia head to the lake house. He says they're trying to stop it. Brett steps in and asks "what if there is no stopping it? What if it doesn't end until we're all dead?" Derek rallies the group with a speech about sending a message to all who would come against them. He says it doesn't matter if they are trained assassins, hunters or just some amateur who picked up a gun, if they think they can kill them for money then they get to be a name on "our dead pool."

Selene smirks at Derek's speech and then turns back to healing someone, burning the wolfsbane out. She sees Elias and smiles. He approaches and hugs her.

"So, how are you doing apart from trying not to get killed?" He asks.

"Okay-ish" Selene replies

"You know what they say: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" A snort is heard behind them and Selene turns around to be met by Cheryl and Reed.

"What doesn't kill her better run" Cheryl replies and they have a little group hug.

"Yeah, and what doesn't kill you gives you unhealthy coping mechanisms and a really dark sense of humour," Reed says to Cheryl who just laughs.

~~~

Peter Hale is incredulous that Meredith is the person who ripped him off and planned the killings but the Sheriff insists that he go into the interrogation room and find out what Meredith has to say. He asks her where to find what's left of his money. The girl reaches up and touches his face and points out that all his burns are gone. Lydia realizes that they've met before.

~~~

Chris says he remembers Satomi but that she was not a Buddhist when they met before. She counters that he wasn't protecting werewolves back then either. He questions her about the mantra her pack uses "Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth." Satomi says for her "the truth" is that werewolves are violent creatures who eventually won't be able to control their violent impulses. The mantra helps subdue their nature. Chris points out that they are still violent creatures to which Satomi replies "aren't we all." The motion-sensor alarms begin going off around the warehouse.

~~~

Peter is yelling at Meredith. Pointing out that she put his nephew and his daughter on a death list and she needs to explain why. She says Peter said it had to be kept secret. He is incredulous pointing out that they have never met. She says he doesn't remember. He says no, he doesn't remember, but she might. He jumps up, knocks Parrish away, and grabs Meredith around the throat. He sinks his claws into the back of her neck.

~~~

Gas grenades fly into the Argent Arms International warehouse.

"Get back!" Selene yells before all hell breaks loose. Several helmeted and heavily armed gunman enter shooting and Chris Argent, Braeden and Derek return fire.

~~~

The Sheriff and Lydia rush into the interrogation room. Parrish has recovered himself and is now standing. Both he and the Sheriff have guns drawn. Lydia says not to touch Peter or Meredith because to break their mental connection could kill them both.

Inside Meredith's memory, we see her getting hurt at the lake house and her time in the hospital after. She remembers a doctor describing her injuries. "Patient has been non-responsive for several weeks. No sign of physical trauma, no response to external stimuli, our feeling is that the damage is primarily psychological."

Meredith begins mumbling, neither the Sheriff nor Deputy Parrish can understand her but Lydia says she's getting it "perfectly."

Meredith and Peter had been hospitalized side by side. Peter was in a coma after the fire had left him badly burned and killed most of the Hales. It seems Meredith could hear Peter's thoughts while they were there for "weeks or months."

While he was in his coma, Peter was ranting the whole time about how he warned Talia that something like the fire was going to happen, that the Argents were going to strike at them, but she wouldn't take him seriously. Peter said Talia made the family weak and the weakest in the herd get picked off by the predators. They used to be the Apex Predators until Talia turned them into sheep.

Peter vows to act as a "Vengeful god" and raze this Earth to the ground. He vows to take out all the supernaturals, Banshees, Wendigos and all the other weak shapeshifters in Beacon Hills and start over, with a stronger breed of supernaturals fathered by him.

He lays out his plan to hire people to do the killing, he mentions The Mute, The Chemist and The Desert Wolf specifically, using the family money in the Hale vault. He even says the list of targets will be known as The Dead Pool. He says anyone can become a killer for the right price because when it comes down to it, everyone can be corrupted by money.

In the interrogation room, Peter releases Meredith and falls back onto the floor. Parrish catches Meredith before she falls from her chair. The Sheriff points his gun at Peter and Lydia sums up the situation "it was your idea and you don't even remember."

~~~

Malia and Stiles are listening to the record player in the lake house but aren't getting anything from the seemingly random clicks and pops. Stiles turns off the player and makes to leave but Malia stops him. She still hears the background noise from the cassette, the sound of something spinning.

Stiles checks the record player and the table it's on and notices a coaxial cable extending out of the wall behind it. They move everything and Stiles starts ripping the cable up and out of the wall. The drywall splits as he pulls the cord toward the ceiling. They tear away the remaining board and find large, old fashioned, reel driven computer tape drives behind the wall. Stiles declares that they've found the Dead Pool.

~~~

The fight at Argent Arms International seems endless. A steady stream of identical attackers continues to come at Chris Argent and Satomi. No matter how many they shoot or skewer, more follow. Derek and Braeden fight back to back as well. Braeden says there are "too many."

Suddenly one of the men gets set on fire but no one has time to pay attention to it. Liz stares at her own hands and someone approaches her from behind. Liz senses I and turns around. The attacker shoots but gets pushed to the ground, making his shot miss. Liz looks up from the guy on the ground to see Selene holding out her hand. Liz takes it and they start to run to another place in the building.

~~~

Sheriff Stilinski levels his service weapon at Peter's head. He wants to arrest him. Peter defends himself saying he couldn't possibly remember any of what took place while he was in the coma. Lydia again points out that Meredith got the whole plan from Peter. He says he was out of his mind, paralyzed by cognizant. He says Meredith was listening to the ranting and raving of a lunatic, "a former lunatic. I'm much healthier now."

Lydia wants them to stop. She says this is what Meredith wants. She points out that three people in the room, herself, Parrish and Meredith, are on the Dead Pool and that's what Meredith wants. She wants Peter to kill them all.

The Sheriff still has his gun pointed at Peter who says it better be a perfect shot because "I don't go down easy." The sheriff shifts his aim, placing the barrel directly against Peter's forehead. He says "I'm willing to bet a bullet between the eyes doesn't heal real fast, not even for your kind."

Peter points out the absurdity of charging him with a crime asking how the sheriff plans to explain to a judge that a telepathic girl overheard the thoughts of a comatose werewolf and carried out his plans for retribution. Lydia says they have to let him go.

The Sheriff reluctantly allows him to leave but says "that's twice Peter, there's not going to be a third.".

Meredith becomes agitated as Peter leaves yelling "no, it's not finished!"

~~~

Stiles stops Malia from simply smashing the old computer equipment. She then realizes that there is a control on the face of the central unit that is accessed by a key.

~~~

Selene sees Brett and hugs him quickly. Then she gets hit by a bullet in the shoulder.

"Go! Hide! There's too many to fight. Get everyone to hide" Selene orders and Brett nods. Selene pushes Liz towards him and they run in a direction. Another bullet hits Selene and she roars before continuing to fight.

~~~

Via video call, Stiles shows Lydia the computers but she doesn't know anything that might help. She asks if there is a monitor and Stiles says there's nothing like that, showing her the room again. She realizes that the wine stain is gone. She says the stain can't be gone because she bribed Brunski with the $200 she was saving for the carpet cleaning. Knowing that red wine stains don't just disappear, she realizes that the it might not have been wine she spilled.

Since the ashes in her grandmother's urn were not ashes, the study isn't a study and the record player isn't a record player, she figures the wine might not have been wine and sends Stiles to find the bottle. It's a 1982 Cotes du Rhone (this is the name of the region in France where the wine is produced and not the name of a specific winery.)

Stiles returns quickly with the bottle. It clinks when he shakes it but he doesn't have a "wine opener." Malia solves the problem by throwing and breaking it. They find a key among the wet shards of glass. Stiles rushes to the bank of computers, inserts the key and turns it.

~~~

Lori has become separated from the rest of the pack. She is stumbling in the smoke and chaos of the warehouse. One of the assassins has her targeted but Scott rushes in and takes him down. He throws him up on a table and slams his head down hard. Scott then begins slashing at him mercilessly. As he does, Scott's face ripples and begins to change taking on a more distinctly werewolf appearance with a more prominent brow, deeper set dark red eyes and larger, more pointed ears. He removes the man's helmet and looking directly into his eyes begins to slash and growl.

He then removes the man's balaclava, he can now see all of the man's bloodied face but he continues slashing away at him. He only stops when the man places both hands up in a signal of surrender and Scott seems to regain some level of control. His face reverts to a more normal transformation.

Cell phones begin vibrating all over the warehouse. Scott removes the one from his victim's pocket, looks at it and then shows it to him. It is a message from the Benefactor, "ALL CONTRACTS TERMINATED." The assassins begin retreating from the warehouse.

~~~

At the lake house, the computer reels stop turning as the machinery whines to a halt. There appear to be several dead assassins in the warehouse as Scott, his face streaked with blood, rejoins the others. Kira asks if it's over.