“The Pack” is episode two of season one of Special Unit 2.
A woman is on a phone at night walking down an alley. She passes a man that makes her nervous, but there’s something watching from above. The man grabs the woman but something grabs him and tosses him aside. He runs but something very fast grabs him. The woman runs but something grabs her as well. Leaving a clawed footprint in the ground.
Sean is talking about how the urban myth about an increase in crime and emergency admissions during the full moon is true. Page says it affects everyone, but there’s been an unusually high number of murders around the full moon. Sean has a picture of the woman from the beginning. Unusual, in that she was only partially eaten. Kate asks if they’re talking about werewolves. They call them Thropes. But yes. They have a contagious mutagenic virus in their saliva. They move fast, are strong and impossible to identify in their human state. They hunt in packs of ten.
Page asks Nick if he’s going to use Carl to find the Thropes. He is. And to keep track of Carl, Nick made him eat a tracker. He and Kate arrive at a place with a lot of garden gnomes. Nick breaks two as Kate is talking about Thropes. The third one is Carl, who was robbing the place. Claiming it was a political statement.
Carl asks around by phone, plotting a heist at the same time by the sounds of it. This leads them to a park. There’s a Thrope in the area and it’s lured into a van.
Carl is talking to Page; no, he doesn’t want a crime overlooked. But by the sounds of it, he wants a future one overlooked. Page is told that the Thrope is ready. He meets with Kate and Nick; the Thrope reverted back to human form once the full moon passed. Impossible to tell he’s not human. Apart from the virus in his blood. He also denies being a Thrope. Even with a video of it. Nick wonders if it’s amnesia, or a distraction to deflect interrogation. Kate has an idea.
The man, Brace Kendall, is a stockbroker. He’s been secured to a chair in a locked room. Kate provokes him into revealing his Thrope side. But he won’t talk. He can’t feel pain and in two weeks he will be strong enough to break free.
So, Plan B. Which is getting Carl to break Nick and Kate into Kendall’s offices. Kendall has three days off with two other members of the firm around the full moon. They also don’t appear to sleep or take lunch. The door beeps and another broker, Craig Richards, comes in on the phone. They’ve hidden but it seems he can detect them, as he’s a Thrope too. But he doesn’t find them.
Carl is on the phone again. He gets some bad news, and is still plotting, when Page calls him. Kate says it was like the Thrope could smell them. Carl says Thropes have serious senses even when it’s not the full moon. They have three Thropes ID’d; the problem is the other seven. Kate suggests arresting the three they know about; Page tells her the pack will infect new people if they’re short. And this is irreversible without antivirals for several days. Carl’s contact has been eaten. Page wants ideas for infiltrating the pack. Think outside the box.
Which results in Nick releasing Kendall, though he only manages to attack Nick before being caught again. Nick is bitten, though. Which was his whole plan. He’s going to infiltrate the pack that way.
Nick can be treated for being a Thrope if he gets the antivirals before time runs out. According to Sean, they don’t know how long that is for certain. During that period, he will start to show the signs of infection. Not just physical; his human side will start to go as well. If Nick can’t identify the whole pack in time, he’ll need to be pulled out. Or probably be put down himself.