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Did they find the cop?
All Ramsey saw was the blood on the tree.
And no one's found his body.
Careful.
Are those... - Bodies.
Who put them down there?
An incredibly powerful supernatural predator,
part human, part wolf.
It's there.
It's right there.
- Right where? - The pool.
There's nothing in the pool.
It's not in the pool anymore. It's right outside it.
- Where? - The wall.
Look at the stone wall around the hot tub.
I don't see shit.
- I do. - Where?
You see the Buddha? Right behind it.
Oh, shit.
What the fuck was that?
I told you it's out there.
There's something out there.
No, no.
It's just a possum, okay?
Stop trying to scare the shit out of everyone.
- It wasn't a possum. - It had dark fur,
and its eyes were reflecting the light.
Yeah, I think I know what a goddamn possum
looks like, Phoebe.
Everything's spinning.
I think I need--
I think I need some air.
Don't.
Maybe we should all get away from the doors.
Are you okay?
I can't...
remember my name.
Okay, how much did you take?
I can't remember.
It's okay.
It's just the shrooms.
I can't remember my name.
It'll wear off.
Blake, turn the light off.
Fuck this.
I'm leaving.
Go for it.
Nobody here knows you anyways.
I think I'm still feeling the shrooms.
Probably shouldn't drive.
We took an Uber.
Can you shut the fuck up, please?
I need to lie down.
Tia.
Is the possum going to kill us?
- No. - It's not a fucking possum!
He saw it, too.
Stop it.
You're scaring everyone, asshole.
They should be scared.
Okay, just keep the doors locked.
Everyone stay inside.
Because whatever's out there,
it's the same thing we saw on the freeway
during the fire.
Tell him.
I waited ten minutes for that guard to come back.
Still couldn't find the key.
Don't worry. We can go back later.
Jang found something in Cyrus's room.
I think you need to get over here.
On my way.
When we were on that bus,
when all the animals came running out of the woods,
it wasn't just because they were scared of the fire.
They were scared of something else.
Austin saw it first.
He tried to warn me.
It has dark fur, black and brown.
If it stood to its full height, it'd be over seven foot,
at least 500 pounds.
The fire drove it out of the woods.
Now it's here in the city.
It killed Connor.
What?
I thought Connor was just missing.
He's missing 'cause they never found his body.
It killed a cop.
It killed my nurse and a doctor.
It's killing people every night.
Say it.
Say what it is.
Everett.
Say it.
It was a bear.
A black bear.
You fucking liar!
You piece of shit!
God, you lying prick! Get the fuck off me!
Hey, hey. Jesus.
Calm down.
Oh, yeah, everyone look at me like I'm crazy, right!
I know what I saw.
And when it's standing right in front of you,
about to rip your fucking head off,
you'll know it, too.
Fuck you all.
I hope it kills every fucking one of you.
Wait.
What happened to the other guy?
Who?
The blond-haired kid, the really quiet one.
Where did he go? - Who are you talking about?
The guy who was standing right behind me.
He was really high.
He could barely remember his name.
That's not high. That's brain damage.
No, he was right here.
What if he went outside?
Did he come here with your drug dealer?
I'm not a drug dealer.
More of a facilitator.
He's probably one of Tia's friends.
I'll go out and find him.
Anyone wanna facilitate me?
What about the bear?
There's no fucking bear out there.
I'm coming with you.
To protect me from the rabid bear?
If you get killed, how are we supposed to go on a date?
Why did you lie?
I thought--
I thought you were gonna tell them all the truth.
I couldn't.
You did it for the pack.
They can't know what we are.
It's your secret now, too.
Oh!
Sorry.
You're not sorry.
Why do you hate me so much?
I don't hate you.
You ghosted me.
You went completely off the grid.
No phone, no texts, no email.
It's like you don't even exist.
You don't have to have all that shit to be a person.
I exist.
But I don't,
not to you.
You can't even tell me why.
About a year ago, my dad came to me with my mom's phone
and asked me to unlock it.
I told him I didn't know her password.
But he knew I was lying.
So I unlock it.
And I watch him find all these messages
from some guy named Rob.
Your mom was cheating on him?
He screams at her,
shoves the phone in her face,
keeps screaming at her until she starts crying
and tells him everything.
Then what happened?
The neighbors call the police.
Social services took Danny for a week.
I was put in a foster home.
My whole life turned to complete shit...
All because of a fucking phone.
Why didn't you tell me?
Because I didn't tell anyone.
Who called the cops?
They just got there.
I told them we're about a mile out.
If you go in armed into a house
full of inebriated teenagers,
try to remember my teenagers are in there, too.
You're carrying, aren't you?
Requirement of the job.
What about the one at your back?
Personal.
We're looking for Cyrus Nix.
Why?
Is he on the premises?
You got a warrant?
Your eyes are pretty dilated there, young lady.
Have you been smoking or consuming
illicit substances?
No, just needles.
We like to share dirty needles.
Blake, tell Harlan and Luna to come out.
You're all going home.
Cyrus Nix, we need you to step outside right now.
- It's here. - What?
It's on the grounds, outside in the backyard.
It's here.
We should go back.
Well, what about the guy?
He's probably passed out in the house somewhere.
You really think there's something out here?
I think we should go back.
Okay. One thing first.
All right, we can go back.
One sec.
Now we can go.
You know, this is gonna be a problem.
- What do you mean? - You and me.
I mean, if you really like me--
Oh, my God, it's not a problem.
Your friends don't like me.
Who cares?
They're not going to accept me as part of your pack.
Our what?
Your group. Your little clique.
Whatever you wanna call it. - Our pack.
Yeah, I think they kind of see me as...
a threat?
Cyrus... get back.
What the fuck is that?
Don't move.
You see it?
I see it. Harlan...
run.
What was that?
Garrett, wait!
Cyrus Nix.
Cyrus Nix, come on out!
We know you're here!
Those were warning shots.
I'm not here to hurt you.
Not if I don't have to.
I know you can hear me.
I don't know how much you can understand.
But you get the general idea of what I'm saying.
I'm not afraid of you.
But you know that.
You hear the steadiness of my heart.
My voice is calm.
No scent of fear.
But if you come at me,
don't think I won't defend myself.
I can help you.
You don't have to stay like this.
I can bring you back.
I can help you control this.
Let me help you.
Help me.
Wait! Stay back!
Let's go, back in the house.
Somebody get that girl a glass of water.
Jesus.
What the hell was that?
You didn't see it?
See what?
Garrett?
I think I winged it.
Winged what?
Mine were warning shots.
I was just trying to scare it.
Scare what?
Ursus americanus californiensis.
A bear?
California black bear.
It was dark. I couldn't see much.
That thing was big.
And it was really angry.
My shots scared it off, but probably not for long.
Wait, you saw a bear?
The fire has driven out all sorts of animals.
There have been multiple sightings.
All of you need to be more careful.
Now, everyone, inside.
This party is over.
Someone put out the damn fires.
Where's Harlan?
Where do you think he took Cyrus?
I don't know.
He had to take him back to your house, right?
Only if he wants Garrett to find him.
Is he gonna tell us where he is?
I don't know.
He's not answering any of my texts.
Maybe you should try texting him.
Funny.
I'm sorry. I didn't--I didn't mean that.
Yeah, you did.
It's okay.
What if the werewolf killed that kid?
Cyrus?
No, the blond-haired kid, the quiet one.
If he did, they won't find a body.
Because no one's ever found a body.
Maybe the voice on the phone was wrong.
Maybe it doesn't kill every night.
The night's not over.
Don't.
You can see the light from the house.
I don't want Garrett knowing you're here.
What about Luna?
She'll know.
Okay.
Where are the horses?
We haven't had them in a long time.
Ah, just fugitive arson suspects?
I'm gonna ask you something,
and I need you to tell me the truth.
Okay.
Why is your phone set to no caller ID?
Because I blocked my number.
Why?
Why do you care?
You gotta tell me right now.
Why did you block your number?
What is this about?
Tell me why you blocked your number.
I started getting calls from a blocked number.
You blocked your number because you were getting calls
from a blocked number.
Yeah.
I mean, all it said was "No Caller ID."
Well, what did they say on the call?
It was some guy asking about my father.
He said he knew what really happened
and how my father really died.
Did he tell you?
No, I told him I know how my dad died.
He burned to death in a wildfire.
What did the voice sound like?
Like a guy?
That's it?
There's nothing else?
My dad died in a fire.
I--I never met him.
All I've got is a lighter.
That's it. I'm not an arsonist.
Say that again.
I'm not an arsonist.
Say it again.
Why are you doing this?
Say it.
I'm not an arsonist.
Got a minute?
How was your, um--
ah, what are you guys calling it, a...
kickstand?
Kickback.
Right, right.
Maybe I was just getting it confused with a keg stand.
We used to do those back in college.
I was pretty good at them actually.
Are you gonna tell Mom?
No.
Don't worry.
It's between us.
You okay, Dad?
I was gonna ask you the same thing.
Any recent panic attacks?
No, not today.
Not even yesterday.
That's good to hear...
especially since you haven't been taking your medication.
Yes, I have.
No, you haven't.
Not for a week.
I still count your pills.
You're not feeling any side effects?
I don't think so.
Night sweats?
Brain zaps?
No, actually.
Maybe I don't need them anymore.
Maybe I'm changing.
Have a look at all this.
It's a lot of pills, I know.
DHEA to boost my testosterone.
Vitamin K because my vitamin D is low.
Metformin to keep my blood sugar down.
Probiotics, prebiotics.
They each serve a purpose.
Especially this one.
But you know what this one's for.
I keep taking it,
everything is fine.
Go a week without it, probably still fine.
Eventually...
well, you remember what happens.
Yeah.
I remember.
You need to keep taking your medication, Everett,
even on your good days.
I was gonna call you,
but...
I know.
Yeah.
You wanna know why I don't have a phone?
I'll tell you if you really wanna know.
You don't have to tell me anything.
I'll get a phone if you want me to.
I don't need a phone to find you.
Fucking ruin her.
Shut up and go to sleep.
Kids all right?
Luna's asleep.
Harlan came back pretty drunk.
Found him passed out in his bathroom.
Alone?
Harlan doesn't date.
He also doesn't harbor fugitives,
if that's what you're asking.
Last time I saw him, he was with Cyrus.
You want me to wake him up?
No.
Let him sleep it off.
You can bring him to me in the morning.
It's not every day you get chased through the woods
by a bear.
I'm gonna go check on Luna again.
Did you get a good look at it?
Not really.
It was pretty dark.
You?
Enough to get a shot off.
Is there something you wanna tell me?
This thing is dangerous.
Of course it is.
It's a wild animal.
A little more wild than most.
It might have been dark,
but I know what I saw.
It was an animal
with fur, claws,
teeth, and eyes,
like every other big, dumb animal out there.
That's all it is, Garrett.
But if you want, we can call in a sketch artist.
You can add another picture of your own to my wall.
No, you're right.
Just an animal.
And like every other animal in those woods, we can hunt it,
and we can kill it.
So the guy on the phone,
the same one who's been calling us
from a No Caller ID, says he knows how your father
really died 17 years ago.
What did he tell you?
We didn't get that far. I blocked his number.
He's not the first person to try and fuck with me.
What do you mean?
Well, they never actually found the bodies.
And you know what happens when they don't find the bodies?
Conspiracy theories.
I've had crazy assholes calling me for years,
telling me shit like aliens abducted my dad
and the rest of the crew,
or they're all still alive
and being used in a government experiment.
Okay, so there's no one who knows
what really happened to your dad.
Like, not one real witness to the fire.
There's this one guy, Malcolm.
He was in the hotshot crew with the rest of them.
Wait.
Someone survived?
He works at a hospital. I think he's, like, an orderly.
But I wouldn't talk to him if I were you.
What did he say?
He said that the fire didn't kill my dad
and the rest of the hotshot crew.
What did?
A wolf.
I just think that--
- We'll find out. - Let's figure it out.
Phoebe Caldwell never made it home last night.
Well, that's funny, because apparently,
Harlan Briggs took off this morning
and didn't tell his father where he was going.
What do you mean, "never made it home?"
Is she missing?
Just like your son and Cyrus Nix.
Lot of missing kids.
Mine is not missing.
I told you, Harlan and I are working through some issues.
Oh, you mean him hanging out
with our number-one arson suspect?
Or going to a party with a girl who's now missing?
Or how about Officer Trent Miller's car being found
right around the corner of your house
the night he went missing?
Harlan doesn't know where Cyrus is.
Are you 100% on that?
He doesn't know.
Gentlemen, can we try and remember
that we're all on the same team here?
I have no doubt that Mr. Briggs will do
everything in his power to help us find Cyrus Nix.
Isn't that right?
Of course.
Good.
Great.
I knew we were gonna be friends.
Good friends.
The best.
I don't know what you're talking about.
A crew died in a fire.
I know it might sound crazy,
but sometimes, it happens to firefighters.
We heard that you told people it was something else.
I'm telling you right now it was a wildfire.
Cyrus Nix told us you had a different story.
Remember him?
Nix's father was a dick,
but a good firefighter.
I remember telling his kid he was a hero.
That's what you tell a kid who never met his father.
So you didn't tell him that a wolf killed the hotshot crew?
Nope. Never said that.
What kind of wolf was it?
How about all you fuck off and let me do my job?
Was it a gray wolf?
Timber wolf?
I said fuck off.
Werewolf.
How old was she? Phoebe?
17.
I need to tell the kids what I know.
Not yet.
I mean, Jesus, Garrett.
We don't even know if silver bullets
can actually kill a werewolf.
These things gonna work?
They work.
Wait, did you hit it last night?
I winged it.
Silver bullets had an effect.
It only lasted for a moment, but...
it definitely had an effect.
Garrett, what did you see?
Something that changes everything.
Don't worry.
This wing's been closed for months.
Six of us splintered off from the rest of the hotshot crew
when fire was spotted outside the containment line.
We tried to get it under control,
but it was moving too fast.
The wind shifted,
drastically reduced our chances to get
back to the safety zone.
So we kept going.
The canyon walls closed in.
There was only one path out.
Something stopped you.
A gray wolf.
Largest one I've ever seen.
What did it do?
Stood there,
watching us,
baring its teeth at us.
The fire was right behind us.
We could feel the heat at our backs.
Path to the ridge and the only way out was behind that wolf.
What happened?
Rinzler--I think it was him.
He threw a rock at it,
tried to scare it off.
All that did was make the wolf angrier.
It wasn't letting any of us get through.
Didn't you carry axes?
Yeah.
Some of us also carried handguns.
I fired off a couple rounds to scare it,
but... the thing didn't even flinch.
So I fired the next rounds into its hide
and dropped that fucker to the ground.
But you didn't kill it.
Did you?
No.
The wolf went down and got right back up.
And then we opened fire.
That animal must have taken 40 to 60 rounds.
It went down and just kept getting back up.
And Nix, Cyrus's dad, he finally managed
to put a bullet right between its eyes.
When we came over to push the body out of the way, we...
Saw the thing was still breathing.
We dragged it as close to the fire line as we could,
watched the flames take over.
That's when it died?
No.
That's when it changed.
The fire changed it?
Transformed it.
At first, we thought we were seeing a trick of the light...
Till we saw its arms grow longer.
Snout extended.
The wolf started to stand up on its hind legs,
which, all of a sudden, were twice as long.
You could see muscles pushing through the fur.
And the fur itself didn't burn.
Grew and darkened.
And the eyes.
The eyes started to glow.
You saying the fire turned the wolf into--
A werewolf.
Maybe the fire took it from one shape to another.
'Cause the next thing we saw, a 50-foot oak tree
came crashing down on it.
The whole ridge collapsed.
Everything got swallowed up by the fire.
It was gone.
But then who killed the hotshot crew?
That wasn't the only wolf we saw in the woods.
Did you start those fires?
No.
Don't say it to the ground. Say it to me.
Look at me, Cyrus.
Did you start the fires?
No.
I believe you.
But there are some people who don't.
You're gonna have to convince them.
The wolf was protecting its pack.
That's why it didn't let you
and the rest of the crew through the trail.
Right.
Where was the rest of the pack?
Did you see the cubs?
Did you see where they were hidden?
No.
No cubs.
But we saw the mate.
You shoot that one, too?
We couldn't.
We were out of bullets.
The strange thing is,
I think the animal knew it, too, because...
it came right for us.
You ran.
You're goddamn right I did.
You didn't see it kill the others?
No.
I only heard it.
Wait, hold up.
Garrett found you in that same fire 17 years ago.
Yeah, we know.
The hotshot crew killed your mother,
but your father killed the crew.
And then, like, ten years later,
you're in the middle of the woods,
and you see your father.
But he was a wolf.
Until this fire.
The guy calling us.
The voice on the phone.
He knows all about werewolves.
If he's the arsonist, then he probably knows
what fire does to a werewolf.
That it turns the wolf into a monster.
What if that's why he set the fire:
not just to draw the wolf out of the woods,
but to change it?
To transform it into the werewolf
killing everyone right now.
Into the werewolf that bit us.
The light's on.
Where is he?
- Harlan-- - What the fuck did you do?
Only what I had to.
You told them he was here. You let her arrest him?
That thing is out there, killing your friends.
Right now, Cyrus is probably safer with Ramsey.
In jail.
In a juvenile detention center.
Then in court, where he'll get
a chance to explain his side of the story.
You fuck!
You fucking piece of shit!
Prisha!
You think now's a good time to tell them
I know their secret?
Harlan Briggs, look at me.
Harlan!
Remember yourself.
Harlan.
Remember.
Harlan!
How?
How did you do that?
I did the same thing when you killed your horse.
There's an old myth.
Call a werewolf by its given name,
and it might remember who it is.
Harlan.
You know who you are.
You're my son.
I'm sorry.
The wolf you saw in the woods as a boy
and the thing you saw last night?
It's not your father.
Blonde hair.
Pale skin.
Same age as us, right?
He couldn't remember his name.
Who?
His name--
Everett?
His name is Baron.
What?
His name is Baron.
How do you know that?
I have no idea.
But that was him.
The quiet kid at Tia's.
The one no one saw.
No one but me.
He's not your father.
But he's part of the pack.
Our brother.
Baron.
I saw a wolf go into the fire.
I saw something else come out.
He'll kill them all, and then he'll come for you.
What are you not telling me?
Let's catch a werewolf.