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What can you say about where things are going for Stiles, and just how close he’ll get to completely losing his mind?

DYLAN O’BRIEN: Pretty close. It’s stuff I’ve really been working hard on, and it’s my first try at [stuff that dramatic]. It gets worse, for each of us. There literally becomes a point where Stiles is going to check himself into a mental hospital. It’s that bad. We finally pinpoint what’s going on mid-season, but then that just brings on a whole other bag of problems, like how it usually goes on our show. But, it’s done in a really clever, cool way. It was a lot of fun for me, this season. I had a lot of really cool stuff that I’m excited for everybody to see, and I hope goes over well. At the end of the day, it felt good walking away, and it’s just about the experience. It was a really fun season to do, and I think we all feel that way, about the show in general, about each other’s parts, and about our own parts. It’s good. It will be weird, but good.

Is it a little bit harder to find the comic relief, for these episodes?

O’BRIEN: Yes. That’s a good question. That’s one of my main challenges. I never want to lose that essence of the character that I built a foundation on and that I love so much. I get all these tormenting storylines, and I just try to figure it out. Clearly, that changes a person, but I refuse to toss Stiles away, at all. My job then becomes about balancing and trying to blend the humor and the comedy with the horrible, daunting, crazy stuff that’s going on. When he’s going through this season is dramatized, so it’s hard to keep the humor in. But, fans should not fear ‘cause that is always something that’s on my mind. I will never let Stiles get too dramatic. I don’t care what they write for me, I’ll just start cracking jokes. I want him to have that confident energy about him. I love that. I also love that people have every layer possible in them, too. I just hope that the scripts keep everything that I like about Stiles, and that the fans do, too. I basically hope that this season doesn’t make them hate me. The whole time I’m like, “Oh, god, please don’t kill me!”

Do you enjoy getting to include Stiles’ dad on things, now that he knows what’s going on?

O’BRIEN: Oh, my god, it’s so much better. That was such a block for them, and it was so annoying. Now, me and Linden [Ashby] are more of a team again. In Season 1, we were very much a detective tandem, but there was always one piece that I wasn’t telling him, and I was always trying to get stuff out of him that I could use. Now, it just rounds that whole thing out. He’s as aware as I am, so we help each other. He comes for our help, which has never happened, in Teen Wolf history. We always show up at the crime scenes, and he was always telling us to get lost and didn’t understand why we were so interested. It’s a cool dynamic that we have, now that he’s in the know and a part of our team, rather than being in the dark, with us having to constantly keep it that way.

Will the conflict between Scott’s father and Stiles’ father cause tension between Scott and Stiles?

O’BRIEN: No. It’s always cool between them. Nothing can damage that. We don’t even think about toying with that, even for a storyline. It’s just so wrong for the characters and for the show. They’re such brothers. They always have each other’s back. It doesn’t fucking matter what’s happening. They can never lose that. I don’t think Scott and Stiles can ever truly be in a fight. In Season 1, we fought for two minutes. There was one scene where I was mad at him, and then I was just back in it because I want to know what’s going on. Their relationship is the foundation of the show, and we love that foundation. I don’t think anything, even their fathers, can come between that or break that up.

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I'm so happy that Scott and Stiles' friendship will never be broken, that the writers don't even consider going there. That's awesome - actually, much better than what SPN's been doing for years, to be honest, and I love SPN. I never want to see Scott and Stiles at odds, that would undermine the whole show and I'm glad that they are aware of that.

And, gosh, Stiles will go so crazy that he will consider admitting himself into an asylum? Ouch. AWESOME! Yeah, yeah, call me cruel, but that's such a fantastic storyline! I cannot wait to see it.