Wolfblood: The First Pack - S1

A girl is home alone on a full moon when she hears a noise outside... She bravely goes to see what it is and is confronted by two wolves escaping from INSIDE her house! She controls them back into the cellar - her eyes flashing golden - who is this girl? She's Maddy Smith and she's a wolfblood. Fourteen-year-old Maddy Smith is hiding an extraordinary secret about who she really is, belonging to a half-human species of wolfbloods, even from her closest friends. After letting her parents out of the locked cellar—their "den," and only place in their lives free of humans—she scolds them for breaking out of the cellar the night before, and they promise her that once she can transform, she'll understand the pull of the moon. She goes to school and faces her best friends Tom Okanawe, a loyal boy and football enthusiast, and Shannon Kelly, resident beast hunter. Shannon is ranting about a paw print she found on the moors, but Maddy is distracted by the scent of another wolfblood in the school. She meets this second wolfblood soon in morning registration, a boy called Rhydian Morris who doesn't take kindly to Maddy's amazed comment that he "smells like her parents." Later, she scolds him for being on her pack's territory and he shrugs her off.

When Shannon shows a photo around school, a blurry silhouette of something with yellowish eyes, Maddy realises it's a photo of a transformed wolfblood. When classmates ask to see the raw files for the image, Shannon takes them to the darkroom to show them, but the memory card has vanished. She assumes Jimi is responsible, but Maddy can smell that Rhydian has been in the darkroom, too. She confronts him later, accusing him of being the wolf in the photo, which he denies angrily. He gives her the memory card and tells her to give it back to Shannon if she wants to so bad, but she instead takes it home and deletes the photos, discussing her misery being so dishonest to her friends with her mother.

Bradlington High holds a presentation on the students' artwork representing their families. After the K's make fun of his original, solemn, drawing, Rhydian draws a sarcastic happy family and storms out of the auditorium, snapping at Maddy when she follows him that she's just "pretty and fake" like the others. Jimi glares as his usually cold father tells Tom how impressed he is by his work. Tom waits for his own father to arrive and is still there when the presentation ends and the others go home, saying his dad is just late to pick him up for a weekend trip. The students arrive after the weekend and find the auditorium demolished, with each project completely destroyed. Jeffries announces the cancellation of the End of Year Disco—unless the culprit is found.

Maddy is on the brink of her first full blown transformation and she's struggling to keep her wolf-side hidden, but insists on going to take an important test at school. Her mother gives her a bottle of "rescue remedy," which shatters before she even enters the school. After she promises to study with Tom during lunch and accidentally blows him off to run in the woods with Rhydian, Shannon finds herself angry with Maddy, too. During the exam, Maddy's stress levels reach their peak and she begins veining up, her eyes turning yellow, and she looks to Rhydian for help. He runs to the fire alarm and triggers it, and Shannon scolds him outside as the students gather. He's taken to the Head's office and Maddy snaps at Shannon to back off, but Shannon yells at Maddy for her cruelty to Tom. Afterwards, Tom sides with Jimi and plans to cheat on the exam and Shannon goes with popular girl Kara to study.

On the day of her first full moon transformation, Maddy joins her school on a trip to the old Lindisfarne Island, which is known for legends about a ghost dog that attacks anyone wandering alone late at night. When Rhydian feigns an injury so he can stay on the island that night, the whole class becomes trapped and Maddy and Rhydian must plan how to sneak away before the moon rises.

With the energy of her first full transformation still coursing through her veins, Maddy succumbs to its power and interrupts the dance performance of Kay, earning the praise of her peers and the ire of her teachers. After Kay's crush, Dean, takes notice in Maddy, the K's invite Maddy to Kay's birthday party in an attempt to lure Dean there. Tom reminds Maddy that the party is on Shannon's movie night, and they all have plans together. When she tells the K's, they invite Shannon, Tom, and Rhydian as well. Even still, Tom and Shannon refuse to go, and Maddy says she just wanted to have fun for once. When Shannon is offended at the idea that they don't have any fun, Maddy storms off and remains in a bad mood the rest of the day.

t's the day of the dark moon, and Maddy and Rhydian have lost all of their wolfblood powers. Rhydian passes out during a drama class after nearly wolfing out and is taken to hospital to have a blood test. Maddy, Shannon and Tom go to the hospital to visit him. Tom and Shannon go to see Tom's mom, who is Rhydian's doctor, whilst Maddy tries to get Rhydian out of the hospital before they take his blood; any blood test would reveal his half-human nature. They don't escape in time and Maddy passes out too, and both she and Rhydian have blood samples taken. Shannon is overjoyed that Maddy's blood will be tested, sure that this will reveal her werewolf nature, and Tom scolds her for celebrating the possible illness of their best friend. He points out that even if Shannon is correct, which he strongly denies, the government would only take Maddy away and test on her for the rest of her life or worse, and Shannon admits that she doesn't want that to happen. Maddy convinces Rhydian to try and steal their blood back, but they fail and the blood is tested. Shockingly, the only anomaly found in their blood is that they are both a very rare blood type, which Tom owes to their supposed relation. Shannon, humiliated by the test results, runs away and Maddy follows her, assuring her that she doesn't hate Shannon for thinking her to be a werewolf. She tells Shannon that she still loves her and wants to be friends again, saying that one day Shannon will find her beast and prove everyone wrong. They hug, and the group leaves the hospital. Maddy's parents reveal that wolfbloods are completely human during the dark moon, even down to their DNA, and that they got extremely lucky. Maddy tells Rhydian she wants to stick to being human for a while to keep from losing her friends again, and he reluctantly agrees to do the same, earning a kiss on the cheek from Maddy.

During a sleepover with her friends at Shannon's, Shannon reveals that she has been mapping out where she thinks the beast has been around the village and wants to go hunt for it. Maddy has a cold and so Shannon gives her a herbal pill to make her feel better. It turns out to contain wolfsbane, which causes Maddy to partially transform into her wolf; she has yellow eyes, sharp teeth and an intense hunger. Rhydian tries desperately to restrain her before she reveals them both, dragging her upstairs and locking both of them in the bathroom so he can show Maddy her reflection. Tom and Shannon race up the stairs after them and Rhydian lies that Maddy's being sick. Neither of them believe it, and while Tom is jealous of Rhydian, Shannon thinks Maddy is faking for attention from the boys. Rhydian finds online that thistle root can reverse the effects of wolfsbane but doesn't have time to find any before Shannon snaps and leaves for the woods alone, taking a bowl of meat as bait, and Rhydian and Tom follow her to make sure she is safe. Rhydian, Tom and Shannon go hunting for the beast on the moors whilst Maddy escapes and hunts down the nearest source of meat. Rhydian finds thistle root and tackles Maddy, forcing her to eat it, which brings her back to normal. She tells Shannon she had an allergic reaction to the herb pill and they reconcile. Back at the house, she jokes with Shannon and Tom and tells Rhydian how happy she is to be doing normal things again with normal people, and Rhydian says there is nothing normal about her friends.

Rhydian agrees to spend the full moon in the den with Maddy and her parents, but after finding an abandoned box of Sinclair clothes he takes some for himself, with Maddy taking some for her, Shannon, and Tom. Shannon doesn't want the clothes, and Maddy begins to feel guilty, though Rhydian quickly sells the extra shirt to a classmate and shrugs when Maddy refuses to take some of the money. He goes back to steal more clothes and sells them to the popular K's and Jimi, though they are caught with the stolen clothes and narrowly manage to cover for Rhydian and themselves. He swears off stealing but Jimi's friends Liam and Sam threaten to turn him in if he won't bring them Sinclair clothes for free, so he goes to get the clothes for the last time. After a chase with police, he reaches the local cafe Bernie's and attempts to give Sam and Liam the shirts, but they pretend not to know him and reveal a police officer standing right behind him. He is arrested and the Smiths rush to help him, pretending to be his foster family. They are unable to get him released that night, and Maddy's mother tells her to run so she won't be found out at moonrise. Maddy, however, comes up with a plan and tells her father to tell police that Rhydian has clinical lycanthropy and will hurt himself "transforming" when the moon rises. He actually does begin to transform and police quickly release him before he can destroy their cell, and the Smiths and Rhydian run to the woods to transform. Rhydian and Maddy talk about how much fun it was to transform outside as a pack on the way into school the next morning, with a crowd of classmates slowly gathering around them, baffled that Rhydian isn't still in jail. Rhydian laughs it off and goes inside with Maddy.

Whilst messing around outside, Maddy, Tom, Shannon, and Rhydian spot another person watching them from the trees. Maddy and Rhydian can't find any trace of the other person beside a footprint and a faint scent, recognising it to be the wild wolfblood they fought previously. This wild wolfblood catches Rhydian alone later and reveals that she is his biological mother and he flees, spotting her again outside his foster family's home. The next day at school Maddy plans to hunt down the wild wolfblood but Rhydian refuses, saying he wants to forget she ever existed. At Bernie's he reveals that she is his mother, and Maddy encourages him to speak with her despite his anger at having been abandoned, saying that he doesn't know what really happened when he was two and won't know unless he asks his mother. His mother, Ceri, arrives at Bernie's and Maddy leaves the two alone, though she embarrasses Rhydian by not knowing how to drink from a mug and by being dirty and disheveled. Jimi mocks her and she snarls in his face before running off with Rhydian. He tells her he is embarrassed of her and she says he shouldn't be, that she can teach him everything about being a wolfblood, even things that Maddy's "tame" family can't teach. She tells him that she'd been hunting for food and had left Rhydian in a safe place when he was found and taken by humans, only being able to track him after sensing his first transformation, and that she wants to bring her son home. She shows him eolas, a supernatural ability to connect to nature, giving its user the ability to track anyone or see anything.

Rhydian shows off using eolas in school and Maddy demands to know what he is doing. He shares the secret with Maddy, though she passes out while using eolas after getting too close to some pylons, and her parents tell her not to see Rhydian or use eolas anymore. She runs away instead, going to Rhydian to ask him to leave with her, but he calls her selfish and tells her to just go home to her family that loves her. Betrayed, she runs off anyhow and Rhydian joins her parents as they search frantically for her. Her mother reveals that when she was younger, her cousin Louise discovered eolas and went mad with it, running off into the wild never to be seen again; her worst fear is losing Maddy the same way.

It's a full moon and out-of-town beast hunter Kyle enlists Shannon and Tom to help him track down the beast of Stoneybridge. Maddy and Rhydian decide they can't live with the idea of staying in the basement every full moon and take to the woods, locking her parents in the cellar. Meanwhile, Kyle and crew make preparations to capture 'the beast' in a large box using multiple kinds of bait, while Kyle's documentarian films the process. Maddy and Rhydian cannot resist the wolf bait and transform, running right into Kyle's hands. Kyle successfully takes both of them down, locking them in a crate, then decides to take them to sell, thinking they're normal wolves thought to be extinct in Britain. Shannon, Tom, and Jo (the filmmaker) take a short-cut to stop Kyle's truck and save the wolves. The next morning, with foggy memories of the prior evening, Maddy decides to tell her parents what happened and accept the consequences of having gone against them and run out into the wild.

Shannon becomes determined to get the two wolves protected and plans to use Kyle's remaining bait to lure them to her and photograph them, proving their existence. Knowing any wolfbloods in town would be unable to resist the bait and would thus expose themselves, Maddy and Rhydian plan to find the bait themselves but are separated by Maddy's parents, who blame Rhydian for putting them in this position. They lock themselves in the house and tell Maddy they can't help Rhydian anymore, which infuriates her. Meanwhile, a younger wolfblood named Bryn arrives and tells Rhydian that he is his younger brother that has come to take him "home" to the wild. Ceri has been inconsolable since Rhydian rejected her, and Bryn is determined to reunite his family. He tries to expose his and Rhydian's wolfblood nature to force Rhydian to leave with him but is only laughed at and embarrassed. They catch Ceri's scent as she enters the territory to find Bryn, but Shannon and Tom have found the bait and set it off. Maddy sneaks out and runs to find her friends, using a mask to keep from losing control and shouting at her friends to run as the approaching Ceri begins to wolf out. She transforms and tackles Ceri, now also in wolf form, and Rhydian also wolfs out before telling them all to stop. Shannon and Tom, witnessing all of this, run off in shock after photographing them in wolf form, and the Smiths arrive to find their secret has been exposed. They blame Rhydian and he says he will leave with his mother and brother, calling Ceri ‘mum' for the first time, and Maddy heartbrokenly leaves with her parents. Rhydian goes to stop Shannon and Tom from uploading the photos, reminding them that it would only hurt Maddy and her family, and leaves for the wild with his family.