Malia Hale

Malia Tate is the biological daughter of Peter Hale although she was raised to believe that Mr. Tate is her dad.

She was thought dead for eight years after the deaths of her mother and little sister. All the while, she was actually living fully transformed as a Werecoyote.

Malia Tate is portrayed by Shelley Hennig.

Biography
Malia believes herself responsible for killing her mother and sister.

She apparently lost control and transformed on a full moon while the three were riding in a car. She remained fully transformed and lived in a den near the crash site for eight years. She kept many of her human belongings and developed a sentimental attachment to her younger sister's doll.

She is, at first, resentful that Scott McCall forced her to return to human form and is unable to change back. She was committed to Eichen House, a mental institution.

Scott has been teaching Malia how to harness her shapeshifting abilities while Stiles Stilinski is helping her reintegrate into human society and think less like a coyote.

She's now enrolled at Beacon Hills High School and is having difficulty catching up to her peers academically.

Season 3
Scott and Stiles learn Malia's story while helping Sheriff Stilinski investigate the accident that killed her mother and sister. Later, Scott finds a werecoyote in the woods and recognizes that it is a transformed Malia. (Read More...)

After Stiles steals her sister's doll, Malia tracks him to the school where she attacks Kira. Scott uses his Alpha abilities and roar to force Malia to become human again. (Read More...)

Malia is apparently the long lost daughter of Peter Hale. (Read More...)

Committed to Eichen House she helps Stiles get into the basement. The pair start kissing on an old sofa and Stiles gives up his fight with the Nogitsune to save her. (Read More...)

She enrolls at Beacon Hills High School and Scott shows her how to "flick out" her claws while in human form. (read more...)

Season 4
Malia travels to Mexico with Scott, Stiles, Lydia and Kira. She and Stiles have become closer and he is teaching her how to better interact with humans. (read more...)

Malia meets Peter Hale and fights Berserkers with Scott. We also learn she often sneaks into Stiles' house at night. (read more...)

Malia struggles with Math. (read more...)

Lydia's been letting Malia use the basement of her lake house as a safe place to restrain herself during full moons. Malia's loss of control is linked to her guilt over her mother and sister's death and the fear she might again kill someone she loves. (read more...)

Malia tries to help Lydia find the keyword for the Dead Pool. She figures out that the numbers Meredith Walker provided relate to the letters on a telephone keypad. (read more...)

Derek calls her out of class to help him find the pack that Brett Talbot belongs to and later wonders if they should run from Beacon Hills to escape The Benefactor. (read more...)

Quotes

 * "You're right, Stiles. Thank you. Thanks for invading my home, for putting me on the run, for turning me back to human so that I could look at my father everyday and try to figure out how to explain to him that the reason my sister and mother are dead is because I almost ate them on a full moon. Thank you so very much."

- Malia to Stiles in Echo House.


 * "I sometimes ran from cougars trying to eat me."

- Malia to Coach Finstock in The Divine Move.


 * "If she was weak and injured, yeah. If hunting had been bad that season I would eat her. Then I'd leave."

- Malia to Kira about leaving Lydia in The Dark Moon.


 * "I would never leave without you. Them I would leave."

- Malia to Stiles about Kira and Lydia in The Dark Moon.


 * "Dance with me, dumbass."

- Malia to Kira in The Dark Moon.


 * "If some one's coming to take my head off, then yeah, I'd like to know."

- Malia to Lydia about the hitlist in I.E.D..