I’ve actually talked around this issue in a couple of other videos but I still get the question.
What happened to Jackson when Derek clawed his neck in Magic Bullet?
Y’all remember this.
Kate gets to town, gets chased by beast mode
Peter and shoots Derek with a special wolfsbane bullet.
Chris: How long will it take?
Kate: I give him 48 hours.
So Derek is getting sicker and sicker and goes to the school looking for help.
Instead he finds a very unhelpful Jackson.
Derek: Where's Scott McCall?
Jackson: Why should I tell you?
Derek: Because I asked you politely and I only do that once.
While Derek is forcefully impressing upon the teen just how important it is to find
Scott immediately, Derek’s claws slip into the back of Jackson’s neck.
We all know what’s happening here – claws to the back of the neck – it’s the most
common way werewolves extract or share memories.
Peter did it to Scott in the locker rooms just a few episodes later.
Scott did it with Corey.
Lydia: No, Scott, don't!
It’s just a thing that you do when you want to show someone your memories or you want
to look at their memories.
Theo: What do you think Lydia?
Am I doing it right?
Derek had no intention of sharing his memories in this moment.
He was so sick and out of it that he didn’t actually realize he’d done it.
But we know he did share because Jackson suddenly had memories of Hale house.
Jackson: This house, it's the same house.
Derek: What'd you say?
Jackson: I've dreamt about this place.
I remember the staircase.
I remember these walls.
I remember everything.
And Jackson had a visceral, physical reaction when he heard the roar in Night School.
We know there’s an instinctual reaction that happens to all werewolves when they hear
a roar – any roar.
I should really do a video explaining what I mean by that but that’s for another day.
For now, just know that there is a physical reaction to any roar which makes me believe
that Jackson’s reaction at the school is because he had that part of Derek’s memory.
Subconsciously and involuntarily his body reacted like a werewolf due to Derek’s memories
of other similar roars that he’d heard before in his life.
But since Jackson wasn’t a werewolf at this point – that reaction manifests as pain
centered in his neck wound.
What else?
Oh yeah, this wonderful hallucination he had in the locker room is just a hallucination.
This wasn’t a case of Derek’s memories sifting to the surface. This was the wolfsbane
poisoning messing with Jackson’s mind.
If you remember, he had been just a couple days before, been up close and personal with
that same clawed hand at the Video 2-C store.
So this is just a hallucination as is the dream Jackson had in the doctor’s office.
Derek: Hold still!
Both were just examples of the fictional hallucinogenic effects
of Wolfsbane on humans in the Teen Wolf universe.