Recipients of Derek's bite included Jackson Whittemore, Isaac Lahey, Erica Reyes, and Vernon Boyd III, though only the latter three actually joined the pack. Sometime later, when Derek realized the Alpha Pack intended to recruit him, Derek began biting and turning several teenagers in hopes of building his own pack to help fight against them. It was Derek that gave him the killing blow in retribution for killing Laura, which caused Derek to gain Peter's Alpha status. Upon learning that Peter's killing of Laura was premeditated and not an accident like he claimed, Derek teamed up with Peter's first Beta, Scott McCall and his friends, along with Hunters Allison and Chris Argent, to kill him. Shortly afterward, Laura was murdered in order for her killer to steal her Alpha powers, forcing Derek to track and battle against this mysterious and vengeful new Alpha, only to learn that it was actually his uncle Peter Hale, who sought to create a new pack with which to get revenge on those who orchestrated the Hale House Fire. However, after the majority of his family was killed in a house fire set by Kate Argent and her co-conspirators when he was in his late teens, Derek and his sister Laura fled to New York for several years before they were both lured back home in late 2010 or early 2011. He is the son of the renowned Evolved Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale and an unnamed father, and is also the younger brother of Laura Hale, the older brother of Cora Hale, the nephew of Peter Hale and the maternal cousin of Malia Tate.Īs a born Beta Werewolf in the centuries-old Hale Pack, Derek grew up knowing about the supernatural and embracing his lycanthropy.
Derek Hale to the members and allies of the McCall Pack and Satomi's Packin Monstrousĭerek Samuel Hale is a former main character (from Seasons 1 through 4) and a current guest character in the second half of Season 6 in Teen Wolf.