THE FOX AND THE WOLF

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FLASHBACK-- CAMP OAK CREEK, 1943, POST-RIOT

MERRICK: There's an answer, I swear! Come on, just try. "What gets broken without being held?"

HAYES: I don't care.

MERRICK: A promise! Get it?

HAYES: No, I don't. It's stupid. It's not funny. None of this is funny.

MERRICK: "What has teeth but doesn't bite?"

HAYES: Will you shut up already?

MERRICK: Come on, this one's good! "What has teeth but doesn't bite?"

MERRICK: A comb!

HAYES: These jokes are stupid.

MERRICK: They're not jokes, idiot-- they're riddles. My girl back home loves them.

MERRICK: "What has a neck but no head?"

HAYES: Your mother.

MERRICK: A bottle.

MERRICK: What the hell?

NOGITSUNE: "What has a neck but no head?"

END FLASHBACK

BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

VOID STILES: Coming in on a Saturday? That's dedication.

VOID STILES: Where is she hiding them?

KEN: I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about...

VOID STILES: Her little knives. Daggers. I know what they are: a physical representation of her tails... however the hell that works...

KEN: Maybe you'd like to do some reading on it? I can direct you to the section on Japanese myth in the library.

VOID STILES: No... No, I'd like to talk to you.

VOID STILES: The older the tail, the stronger the Oni... Am I right?

VOID STILES: I know there's one left. I know it's the strongest.

KEN: Unfortunately, I don't know what you're referring to...

VOID STILES: You'll talk...

VOID STILES: They always talk.

MCCALL HOUSE

KIRA: This looks just like me. This has to be my grandmother.

SCOTT: You remember, I told you about Malia? She's the last one who saw Stiles at Eichen House. This picture, and this--

SAM : They found it with a body buried in a wall. The same backward "5" that the Oni put on us was on the wall. It sounds like it all goes back to your family-- your grandmother, your mom...

SCOTT: What is it?

KIRA: My dad.

BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

NOSHIKO: Kira, did you bring it?

KIRA: You going to tell me what "it" is?

NOSHIKO: Reishi.

KIRA: [incredulously] You're not seriously giving Dad magic mushrooms???

NOSHIKO: Are you okay?

SCOTT: Stiles did this?

NOSHIKO: [nodding] He wanted the last kaiken.

NOSHIKO: I've kept this near me ever since your friend disappeared.

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