Theo: "That is great, but if we're the only ones left in Beacon Hills, then we need each other. Which means you need me out of this cell." Liam: "We need to trust you." Theo: "Then you need to get realistic, because trust is not important right now. It is us against them, and you want a lot more of us, considering how many of them there are." Liam: "...I hate to say he's right, but... He's kind of right." Sheriff: "If I let you out and I see any behavior that I find remotely suspicious, I'll put so many bullets in your head, God won't even recognize you." Theo: "I'm an atheist. Fire at will."
The ice bath he was given to access his memories after they were stolen by Deucalion and the Alpha Pack was also mentioned in this episode. This ice bath occurred in Season 3A's Chaos Rising.
When Sheriff Stilinski demanded that Theo Raeken tell him one thing that he remembered about Stiles Stilinski in exchange for being let out of his cell, Theo stated that Stiles was too smart to trust him. This is a reference to Season 5A, when Stiles was convinced that Theo had ulterior motives even despite any evidence, a suspicion that turned out to be correct.
This episode contains numerous flashbacks experienced by Scott McCall, Malia Tate, and Lydia Martin in their attempt to use extreme cold and flames to enter trance-like states in hopes of triggering their memories of Stiles.
Stiles asking Scott, "Why is it starting to feel like you're Batman and I'm Robin?" in Season 1's Pack Mentality when the two investigated the dream Scott had the night before in which he killed Allison Argent in one of the school buses.
Stiles reminding Scott that, as a Werewolf, he can do things no one else can do, and that he needs to use it to save people in detention in Season 1's Heart Monitor.
Stiles cheering on Scott when he did a flip in the air during lacrosse try-outs in Season 1's Wolf Moon.
Stiles telling Scott he doesn't know how he survives without him when Scott tries to find the new werewolf on the lacrosse team in Season 2's Shape Shifted.
Scott hugging Stiles outside of the MRI machine at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital after Stiles informed him that he may have frontotemporal dementia like his mother, where Scott assured him that he would give him the Bite if it came down to it in Season 3B's Riddled.
Scott's final memory was of Stiles talking him out of committing suicide at the Glen Capri Motel in Season 3A's Motel California, with Stiles insisting that Scott was his brother and his best friend, and that he needed him before taking the flare out of his hands and throwing it aside.
Malia's memories include:
Malia seeing Stiles for the first time in one of the corridors at Eichen House and then again the next day when she punched him in the face in Season 3B's Echo House.
Stiles helping Malia finally learn control of her transformation on the full moon in Season 4's The Benefactor, where he assured her that he knew she wouldn't hurt him and where he remarked that she was afraid to do so because of what happened to her adoptive mother and sister.
Stiles walking in on Malia showering in the boy's bathroom at Eichen House, Malia demanding that Stiles help her learn how to change back so she can keep living as a coyote in the Beacon Hills Preserve, and Malia telling Stiles why she wasn't happy being a human due to the guilt she feels for her mother and sister's death in Season 3B's Echo House.
Stiles and Malia trying to sleep in Stiles' bed in Season 4's Time of Death, where they moved around to find a good position and ultimately decided on Malia spooning Stiles, to which Stiles remarked, "This is good."
Malia's final memory was of Stiles coming to say goodbye, giving her his jacket, and kissing her on the forehead before leaving to distract the teachers from Scott, Malia, and Kira's absence in Season 4's Weaponized, when their contraction of the modified canine distemper virus forced them to bunker down in the Hale Vault. When Malia asked him if he was coming back, Stiles promised that he would never leave her behind.
Lydia's memories include:
Stiles visiting her at her house in order to figure out what Lydia knew about the Alpha attacking the video store in Season 1's The Tell, where she asked, "What the hell is a Stiles?"
Stiles and Lydia attending the Winter Formal together, where Stiles stated that he was the only one who knew how smart Lydia really was and that he knew she would end up winning a Nobel for mathematics before demanding that he dance with her in Season 1's Formality. Lydia corrected him and said she would win a Fields Medal before agreeing to dance with him.
Lydia attempting to assure Stiles that there was still time to save Sheriff Stilinski, Melissa McCall, and Chris Argent from death at Jennifer Blake's hands in Season 3A's Alpha Pact. When Stiles began to have a panic attack, Lydia tried to calm him down, eventually kissing him to distract him long enough for him to calm his breathing.
Lydia also confesses that this is when her feelings for Stiles changed from friendly to romantic.
Lydia laying on Stiles' bed while Stiles unravels the red yarn around her fingers and assures her that her Banshee instincts have never failed them in Season 3B's Galvanize.
Lydia's final memory was the last memory of Stiles that she had, where the two of them were hiding in his Jeep from the Ghost Riders, and Stiles insisted that she needed to find some way to remember him before referencing their history and telling her that he loved her in Season 6's Memory Lost.
Theo continues to suffer from flashbacks and hallucinations of his time in his underground prison. This was first indicated in Heartless.
Malia references the conversation that Scott and Stiles had in Season 5A's Creatures of the Night, when the two were looking at a map of the Bay Area of California and trying to figure out where they would be getting an apartment to live together when they go to college.
Liam and Theo manage to kill several Ghost Riders in this episode, a feat that was previously thought to be impossible until Garrett Douglas killed one by biting into its skull and eating its pineal gland in Heartless.
One Ghost Rider was killed after being bisected when Theo and Liam pinned it to a wall with an autopsy table. Another was killed by Theo when he cut its neck open with a surgical saw. Two more Ghost Riders were seemingly killed by Liam when grabbed their hands and used the guns in them to shoot themselves.
This episode foreshadows Theo's potential redemption after he uses himself as bait to save Liam. This is much like Peter's potential redemption after he got himself captured once again by the Ghost Riders to save Scott and Malia in Blitzkrieg.
Trivia[]
The episode title is a reference to the premiere episode, Memory Lost, in which Stiles Stilinski is erased from reality and the memories of his loved ones. The title "Memory Found" is then a play-on-words regarding the fact that Scott, Malia and Lydia spend the episode forcing themselves to remember Stiles.
Scott, Malia, and Lydia each use a different visual (created by Lydia) in order to help them access their repressed memories without drowning in them.
Scott visualized each of his memories of Stiles being locked in their own individual locker at Beacon Hills High School.
Malia visualized all of her memories being stored in their own individual book in the library at the high school, with her memories of Stiles occupying their own bookshelf on the first floor.
Lydia visualized her memories of Stiles as their own individual channel on a television, and she used a remote control to manually flip through them.
According to Lydia, Natalie Martin saw a hypnotist many years ago to help her quit smoking cigarettes and had Lydia see the same one when she was ten years old to help her stop biting her nails.
Liam Dunbar made his first kills in this episode when he shot two Ghost Riders, one in the chest and one in the head, with their own hands on their guns. This also proves that their weapons can be used against them as well.
After Scott, Malia, and Lydia in turn triggered their memories of Stiles, a rift opened in the tunnel outside of the Argent Bunker, where a male figure was walking toward them. It's revealed in Said the Spider to the Fly that the figure is the Anuk-ite, who will became in the main antagonist in the Season 6B.
Despite Liam and Theo's insistence that they wouldn't put their lives on the line to protect each other, each of them did so on several occasions when they were close to being captured by the Ghost Riders.
Theo and Liam frantically try to find the correct key to start the Sheriff's deputy cruiser
"Way Down We Go (Stripped)" by Kaleo
Malia and Lydia struggle to help Scott stay awake and focus on a single memory. Scott flashes back to being with Stiles in the hallway at school
"Alps" Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
In Scott's trance, he opens a locker and finds a lit road flare inside before flashing back to Stiles convincing him not to commit suicide at the Glen Capri Motel
"Can I Exist" by Missio
In Malia's trance, she looks through books to find memories of Stiles, ending with Stiles kissing her goodbye when they were infected with the modified canine distemper and hiding in the Hale Vault
"Start of Time" by Gabrielle Aplin
In Lydia's memories, she struggles to help Stiles with his panic attack after learning that Argent had been taken by the Darach and ultimately kisses him to make him hold his breath.
"So Nice to Meet Ya" by Hayden Calnin
Lydia's memories trigger a rift to open in the Argent Bunker, and a shadowy figure that they hope is Stiles starts to walk toward them
