"Not until today. I suppose you want me to put the weapon down."

"Yep. I try to keep my motivations pretty straightforward, putting the weapon down would be fantastic."

"No! Don't! We don't know how the kanima master controls it, it could attack if he has a chance to order it."

"If you'd ever bothered to read a book, you would know that the kanima can sense the thoughts of its master. A moment of wishing someone dead is enough to destroy your enemies. I just trust my speed with this knife more than the speed of his thoughts. Teenagers in this town aren't very bright."

"I had higher hopes for the next leader of our family," he says, inclining his head to Allison.

"... I was under the impression it was still trapped? Is it not?"

God damn it Scott if it is out of its cage and you didn't tell her she will dutifully restrain herself from strangling you, but she'll really, really want to!

"How would any of us have trapped a kanima? No, the best thing is to kill it before it transforms, which we can do tomorrow, instead of standing around in the middle of the night betraying each other left and right."

This is the part of the show where Yvette looks at the camera, exactly like she's in the Office. Audience, maybe you understand Yvette's pain, because these people.

She looks at Scott, and raises her eyebrows slightly. It is still trapped, right?

"Lydia. Remember when I said you didn't have to pretend? I changed my mind. Show him how much you feel for him."

"What."

"Lydia," she says through gritted teeth.

"Tell Jackson, your boyfriend, your true feelings. Since humans becomes kanimas due to feeling unloved."

Yvette is briefly at a complete loss for words. The lizard is out? The lizard is here?

She is momentarily filled with screaming and then she shuts down that part of her head and gets to work, because she's the only one present who can pull this off.

"I," she begins, and stops. How the fuck is she going to do this.

"I-I'm sorry," she continues, finding her angle, "I've been getting by not focusing on how it's him." Can she manage a sniffle? No not quite, too much burning rage. Scott you took her shopping today and went to a fucking party and you maybe could have mentioned the lizard monster was free! She settles for wrapping her arms around herself and looking down and attempting to look destitute and lost. "I, I don't want to imagine a world without him, it seems - wrong, and, and, and." Fucking hell, c'mon woman. Sob. Sob like you mean it. No? No sobs? Fine, declarations of love it is. "And I think I love him, I can't lose him now."

The lizard, making its debut on a stage, decides to drop in.

It circles the others, hanging on her every word.

Some seem amused by this turn of events.

Others, cautious and watchful.

The kanima master seems confused and angry.

Probably a good sign.

Okay, awesome. She'll just. Keep this up. How much romantic drivel can she manage before she vomits? Let's find out!

She 'spots' Jackson and lets herself inhale sharply. Then she takes a few tentative steps forward.

"Jackson?" she says, and oh look there are her tears, fucking finally. God. You'd think she hadn't had a shitty couple of days. "I, please. Come back to me."

'Jackson'...jumps over.

The kanima twists and turns sinuously around her, like it can't quite find a good opening to attack.

Or like it misses its girlfriend.

Who knows, really.

A gun changes its target.

So do the bow and arrow.

Yvette has backup.

If she needs it.

If they get there in time.

Oh god oh god oh god why.

Well she has chosen this route, let's play it through to the end and hope she doesn't die.

She reaches out and touches the kanima's face.

"I love you."

"Hold on. I need help. If you know so much about this stuff, if you have all these books lying around, why couldn't I find anyway? When I wanted to know why wishing someone dead meant seeing their corpse? What good are any of you?"

The kanima...is no more.

Jackson howls, for the first time.

Chekov's gun finds its target.

Gerard falls.

The knife clatters to the ground.

Yvette flinches at the gunshot and immediately ducks.

Also oh god what the hell did she just do, does she have to pretend to be in love with this person to keep them from murdering people? Does she have to kiss him? She hopes she doesn't have to kiss him.

She might be tempted to say something snappy here but what the hell aaaaaaaa.