Talk:Scott McCall/@comment-71.234.51.129-20120612202810/@comment-198.228.200.157-20120613214508

I remember Derek saying the first season that shift involved tapping into anger. Derek is driven by anger, but was angry and crazy as hell. Not only was his family mostly wiped out, but he was pretty messed up physically too, and since his personality was burned away as he put it, the animal in him had time to stew over that crap. Put it all together, you get an Alpha angry enough to shift all the way without a pack. Derek may just have to do it the hard way but might be even stronger an Alpha in the long run, provided his hubris doesn't get him killed before that.