Laura: Peter?
I love Peter Hale's character. I love his
arc from insane killing machine to selfishly evil comic relief.
Peter: [sniffing]
There's blood.
That being said, prior to the start of the series Peter Hale was a cold and
calculating killer who meticulously planned the death of his niece.
Scott: You're on his side? Are you forgetting the part where he killed your sister?
Derek: It was a mistake. Scott: What?
Derek: It happens.
Derek doesn't actually believe that. I mean, I'm giving him the benefit of the
doubt that he doesn't actually believe that Laura's death was an accident.
Derek has all the facts he needs by this point in the
show to know that his sister's death was planned.
Derek: I want to know about the animal you found with the spiral on its side.
Three months ago, the deer.
You remember this?
Stiles: Yeah well, he's not here either. Derek: What?
Stiles: He's not here. He's gone Derek.
Derek: Stiles get out of there right now. It's him! He's the alpha!
Peter: You think I killed Laura on purpose? My own family?
Here's what we know for sure of Peter's time prior to the
start of season one - he was in a coma for six years after the fire.
Doctor: ...near fatal burn victim, the interesting part is that typically in a situation like this
the coma is induced medically as the pain can often be too much for the patient to bear.
We're not sure how Mr. Hale became comatose however.
His brain was active with rambling but cogent ranting that whole time.
Peter: Like a vengeful god, I will raze this Earth to the ground. I will take out all of them.
Years and years of that stuff and just because Meredith wasn't there
to hear it doesn't mean he ever stopped his subconscious plotting and revenge fantasies.
Every shape shifter, I will obliterate the weak. I will
remake the supernatural of Beacon Hills in my image.
Some people have formed this idea of Peter slowly coming back to himself becoming
stronger on each full moon and slowly rising from the coma to full awareness over time.
This is not the case. I mean he states it quite clearly in season two.
Derek: What is that a book? Peter: No, it's a laptop.
A few days after I got out of the coma, I transferred everything that we had.
Fortunately the Argents aren't the only ones that keep records.
So within just a few days of first waking up, Peter is back at Hale
house and busy transferring remaining family historical documents to a digital format.
And we know he also lured Laura back to town
by killing and marking this deer with a revenge symbol.
Derek: Three months ago, the deer, you remember this?
Deaton: They called me because they wanted to know if I'd ever seen anything like it.
Derek: What'd you tell them? Deaton: I told them no.
Peter was insane but he wasn't a raving loon barely holding it together. In fact,
the only thing that was random and somewhat crazy was his biting of Scott.
Scott has zero to do with this revenge plan and creating a new beta or leaving
a dead teenager due to bite rejection is just a major distraction at this point.
And ultimately proves to be the only poor decision Peter made in achieving his goals.