Time of Death begins with Stiles having trouble sleeping, remembering how he and Malia used to sleep in his bed together each night
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In the following scene, we hear Agent McCall recording his testimony about how he saved Stiles’ life. He and Scott talk about how many times McCall has had to take a life and how he used to deal with that by drinking. Scott’s father has to leave town to deal with what he’s done, but when he gets back, he wants to know everything Scott knows. Scott is more than a little worried, but he hesitantly agrees.
With three computers set up in front of them, Kira, Liam, and Stiles decide to draw out the Benefactor. The scene cuts to Liam’s step-father running through the hospital halls and then trying to resuscitate someone we don’t see. When he can’t revive them, he calls the time of death. Scott McCall has died.
Going back to Derek’s loft, Braeden wakes up there and tip-toes over to Derek, who has given up his bed for her and is sleeping on the couch. She checks Derek’s wound, and he wakes up, telling her he’s fine. But she knows he isn’t. It seems that he also can no longer change his eyes.
Meanwhile, we get a horrifying scene of Melissa crying for her dead son. We flash back to Kira shocking Scott in order to make him look dead. Luckily, Melissa is in on it, though that doesn’t make her seeing Scott in the morgue any easier. Mrs. Yukimura says they have to wake Scott up in 45 minutes or else he’ll really die.
While all of this is going on, Chris and Stiles contact the Benefactor to try to draw him out. Chris then hijacks the security feeds for the hospital so they can see who visits Scott’s body. Back at the loft, Braeden says she’ll teach Derek to be human.
Scott starts dreaming while he’s in his comatose state. Liam is there, and Scott finds a new list, using his name as the code, that shows the assassins as the targets. Liam tells him he’s a predator, and Scott struggles with denying he could be a killer.
While Malia is in the Hale vault, she finds a file about her. But Peter shows up before she can read it. Father and daughter are finally coming face to face with both parties knowing everything. This should be interesting.
As the cameras go out in the morgue, Kira and Liam check it out. When they head up to the roof, they’re confronted by Berzerkers.
Apart from the action again, Lydia is at the lake house. Her mom shows up, wanting to know what she’s up to. Lydia gives in, and when she shows her mother a picture of Meredith, Mrs. Martin says she knows her.
When Scott dreams again, it’s similar, but slightly different, to the one we saw before. Most interestingly, Scott says he has more fangs and that he noticed it during the quarantine. Once again Liam dies at the hands of the Mute.
Braeden teaches Derek how to use a gun, though he’s not too keen at first. As she blocks all of his attempts to pull it on her, he finally “cheats” by distracting her with a kiss. But they both win as they finally give into their feelings for each other.
In another flashback, Kira and Scott discuss wanting to go on a real date. Maybe after they save the entire town. Again.
In the morgue, Stiles can’t get a hold of Chris. Maybe because he’s currently fighting off his sister, Kate. If she’s there, does that mean she’s the Benefactor? Nope, she’s not. But she’s mum on why she wants Scott McCall’s supposedly dead body.
Peter tells Malia it’s not his fault that he’s a psychopath. Maybe that’s true, but can we really forgive him for the things he’s done? Regardless, Peter has something to offer Malia — her mother. He calls Malia’s mother the desert wolf. Which is another name for a coyote.
We learn that Lydia’s grandma died in Eichen House. It turns out that she heard voices, too. And she wanted Lydia to spread her ashes across the lake when she turned 18. But the urn Mrs. Martin gives her daughter is not full of the woman’s ashes. It’s mountain ash. The whole lake house is made of mountain ash.
In yet another dream, Scott finds himself going through the same motions. Only this time, the Mute helps Scott kills Liam. And that’s when Kira brings Scott back. But it’s not all good news. Kira’s mother is seriously injured.
After Chris convinces Kate to leave the morgue without taking Scott’s body, Kate returns to Peter, saying he was right and that Scott isn’t dead. Peter is surprisingly relieved about this news. At the end of the episode, Malia comes back to Stiles’ room, and despite his reassurances, she is afraid she is like Peter.
Kira and Scott realize a banshee is the Benefactor, since they wouldn’t need visual confirmation to know if someone is dead or not. At the same time, Mrs. Martin passes Lydia a note that her grandmother had written before she died. The note contains the same code we’ve already seen previously.
