Malia Tate

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

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

She is listed on the Season 4 Dead Pool as "Malia Hale."

Malia Tate is portrayed by Shelley Hennig.

Biography
Malia was born on November 28 at Midtown Memorial Hospital (see Malia's Age below). She was officially adopted less than a month later by Evelyn and Henry Tate.

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

She apparently lost control and transformed on a full moon while the three were riding in a car. Malia was 9 years old. Just before the accident, she had argued with her mother and said she wished they were all dead. This adds to her feelings of guilt about the incident.

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 now views Stiles as her mate in every sense of the word.

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

Having learned that Peter Hale is her father, she worked with him to find her mother until she saw him as the monster he really was. So far the woman is known only as "The Desert Wolf."

Malia's Age
According to her birth certificate, Malia was born late in 1998 - this would make her just 13 in the established show timeline since it is now early 2012 in Beacon Hills. This seems to be a case of the production willfully ignoring their own timeline - suggesting they meant to make the character 15 going on 16.

For the purposes of official canon, Teen Wolf Wikia uses the information provided by Sheriff Stilinski and Agent McCall (and repeated several times by other characters) in Season 3. Malia went missing "8 years ago" when she was "9 years old" meaning she was 17 when found in the woods just before Halloween and turned 18 shortly after that in November.



We have more on the continuity problems caused by this birth certificate, including how it conflicts with most of what we learned about the character in Season 3, up now in the Teen Wolf News.

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...)

Malia joins Derek in the search for Satomi's pack. (read more...)

Malia is infected and goes blind briefly before being cured. She finds out she's listed on The Dead Pool as "Malia Hale." (read more...)

She breaks into the safe in the Hale Vault and finds a report on her adoption. She comes to believe that she may be a killer like her real father. (read more...)

Malia tells Scott about her conversations with Peter and is incapacitated by a sonic weapon at a school bonfire. (read more...)

Malia and Stiles make up. They work together to find and shut down the computer running the dead pool. (read more...)

Malia is grateful Stiles is trying to find her mother. Her school work improves. Peter asks her to kill Kate Argent. (read more...)

Malia rides to Mexico with Peter. He tries to manipulate her into killing. She sees what a monster her biological father truly is when he goes after Scott. She tries to stop him but he punches her. (read more...)

Season 5
MTV says - "To say that high school has been a struggle for Malia is an understatement. Having spent more time in the woods of Beacon Hills than out of them, Malia constantly feels the pressure to be normal. Surrounded by her friends and with Stiles at her side, Malia has found where she belongs in the world and is always ready to take on whatever comes her way - especially a fight."

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.


 * "Try to remember that I'm a werecoyote who murdered her own family. I won't judge. I promise."

- 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.


 * "I heard you were coming to talk to Peter. And since Lydia tells me he's basically Satan in a V-neck, I figured you shouldn't be alone."

- Malia to Scott in 117.


 * "Green is for the things I understand, yellow is for "I'm working on it", and red means "I have no clue". I'm mostly using red."

- Malia explaining her highlighters to Stiles in Muted.


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

- Malia to Lydia about the Dead Pool in I.E.D..


 * "Scott's worth 25, Kira 6. They'll take you guys out way before me."

- Malia on being listed at $4 million on the Dead Pool in Weaponized.