Talk:Kanima (Beacon Hills)/@comment-5028409-20120619002237/@comment-75.72.231.55-20120619124321

The thing scavenging at the cemetary that night that Isaac was working was the Omega that Allison's grandfather strung up and killed.

Regarding the motives of the creature, I found a definition of a Kanima that describes it as "a jaguar-shaped spirit that seeks and kills murderers." It kills Isaac's father, which leads me to believe that Isaac's father had killed Isaac's mother. It also killed the auto-shop guy that we know nothing about so he could have killed someone...it didn't kill Stiles even though it had the chance to while he was paralyized. It was going for him and Derek in the pool, but only because Derek had killed in the past. It didn't seem to try to kill Scott either, which means he's never killed anyone.

I don't think it's Lydia or anyone we know as of yet. It could just be a "spirit" creature as stated in that description.