Weaponized

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A small plastic quarantine tent sits within a larger tented laboratory. The small tent is surrounded by a circle of powdered Mountain Ash. There is growling coming from within.

A lab-coated man enters, sits at a work table, and begins making notations. He drinks tea while inside the smaller tent a werewolf, oozing black goo from his eyes and mouth, reaches out feebly with a clawed hand.

The man presses play on a cassette player. The voice on the tape says:

"After entering the IP address you will be connected through a darknet portal to an untraceable bank. Once logged in enter your account number to receive wire transfers. The IP address will deactivate..."




The voice continues on a boom box in Scott's bedroom:

"...with each transfer. You will be assigned a new transfer if you choose to continue down the list. Remember, visual confirmation is always required for payment. "

Stiles presses stop on the boom box tape player. He and Scott admit they don't understand what the voice was talking about because they've never had enough money to require a wire transfer. Scott also doesn't understand The Benefactors motivation for using all the Hale's money to kill him and the other Beacon Hills supernaturals.

Scott picks up the money (taken from Garrett's locker) and begins to stow it under the bed. Stiles wants to know what Scott plans to do with the half-million dollars. Scott wants to give it back to Derek but Stiles is hesitant to give the money back. He reminds Scott that the money also belongs to "homicidal killer" Peter Hale. They are interrupted by Malia before they can finish their discussion of what to do with the money. She explains that she and Derek found Satmoi's pack and they're dead. 

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Derek arrives at the hospital carrying Braeden. He announces that Braeden's been shot and he thinks she's dying. Selene and Mellisa quickly approach to help.

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Outside the Animal Clinic Deaton is locking up when he senses someone behind him. He whips out a telescopic baton weapon. He turns and swings at a hooded foe. They duck and attack with what appears to be a foot-long metal spike. After a few parries and thrusts, Deaton stops, bows and says "You could have called, Satomi-san." Under the hood, we see Satomi. Her eyes glow red. 

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Saturday finds Scott, Kira, Malia and Stiles at school for the PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test). Lydia and Selene apparently took the test when they were freshmen. Malia is reluctant to take the exam but both Scott says she studied harder than any of them and adds that "while we're trying not to die, we still need to live." He says if he survives high school he would like to go to college, "a good college." Kira points out that the test only takes three hours to complete and "we can survive three hours." 

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Each student is required to place their fingerprint on their answer sheet. The security measure is an effort to keep students from paying others to take the test for them. Scott presses his thumb into the provided ink pad and applies it to the paper. He is then handed a booklet by a teacher who we can see is the same man we saw in the lab at the beginning of the show (The Chemist).

Students are also required to give up their cell phones for the duration of the test. Natalie Martin (Lydia's mom) takes each phone and places it in an individual, numbered envelope.


The test is supposed to run for 2 hours and 10 minutes. "The Chemist" explains that it consists of "two 25 minute critical reading sections, two 25 minute Math sections and an essay writing portion that will last 30 minutes."

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