Crystal Reed Returning to Teen Wolf… But With a Twist!

Debi Moore |

Jan 7, 2016

When fan favorite Crystal Reed left “Teen Wolf,” several of the show’s viewers were brokenhearted so news of her return is being met with enthusiasm even though it’s just for one episode and she won’t be portraying Allison Argent, a character who died back in Season 3.

The actress herself announced her guest appearance on Twitter, and Buzzfeed filled in a few blanks:

Very excited to tell you that I’ll be returning to @MTVteenwolf for an episode! Meet ‘Marie-Jeanne’!!! pic.twitter.com/JTTssd6EHw

— Crystal Reed (@CrystalmReed) January 7, 2016

Reed will portray the progenitor of the Argent family line, Marie-Jeanne Valet, in a flashback-heavy episode written by executive producer Jeff Davis, who, it turns out, was able to convinced her to return fairly easily.

“Basically, Jeff just said, ‘France in the 1700s,’ and I was in,” Reed said of their conversation. “He was definitely playing into my emotions. He knows that I have been dying to do a period piece and I love getting my head around different accents and different cultures. He didn’t even have much of a character worked out other than it was based on the Maid of Gévaudan. And I knew the legend, so before really knowing anything further, I said yes.”

Davis created a storyline that not only allowed Reed to return to “Teen Wolf” but also informed the present-day plot: Scott (Tyler Posey), Stiles (Dylan O’Brien), Lydia (Holland Roden), Malia (Shelley Hennig), and Liam (Dylan Sprayberry) are trying to figure out how to defeat the Beast of Gévaudan, a supernatural creature that’s been resurrected in Beacon Hills that the Maid of Gévaudan, Marie-Jeanne Valet, faced in 1765.

“She was a peasant girl who had fashioned a bayonet onto a spear and was supposedly one of the first to survive an attack by the beast,” Davis explained. Allison’s grandfather, Gerard Argent (Michael Hogan), recounts Valet’s story to Scott’s pack in hopes they can deduce the creature’s weaknesses.

“Valet is another female warrior, and I think one of the great things Crystal does is she gives our viewers, especially our young female viewers, someone to look up to,” Davis said. Plus, he noted, “we also get to see her wielding a crossbow again!”

There’s also a bit of chatter about possibly spinning off the character and bringing the Argent family’s long lineage back to television so be sure to hit the above link for more!

“Teen Wolf” Episode 5.12 – “Damnatio Memoriae” (airs 1/12/16, 9pm)
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