If you were ready to storm Beacon Hills — armed with pitchforks and torches — to take down Meredith The Benefactor after last week’s “Teen Wolf” episode, you might want to pause and reconsider.

Tonight, while Malia and Stiles tore apart Lydia‘s lake house to find clues about how to stop the hit list’s cash flow, Lydia tried to understand the dead pool’s origin from the horse’s mouth. But Meredith said there was only one person with whom she wanted to speak — Peter Hale — and when the former alpha wolf arrived at the police station, Meredith claimed it was he who’d set the assassins in motion. Huhhh?

Apparently, some time earlier, Peter and Meredith were both at the hospital at the same time — he was in a coma while recovering from severe burns, and she was temporarily vegetative after listening to the record player at Lydia’s lake house — and Meredith’s sensitive banshee hearing acted as a sponge for Peter’s subconscious ranting. While he was asleep, his deranged mind tossed around ideas about eliminating the town’s entire supernatural population. And a paralyzed Meredith, who had no choice but to listen, took his jumbled thoughts as concrete direction. Eventually, she made his perverse fever-dream a reality.

Thankfully, Stiles and Malia found the dead pool’s mainframe behind a wall in the lake house’s study and were able to turn it off and (FINALLY!) freeze The Benefactor’s money, effectively stopping the assassins ...

Taylor Swift already teased us with a snap of a sparkle-ecrusted microphone pre-MTV Video Music Awards. Now, she’s giving us a glimpse at her pre-show prep — a routine that apparently involved lots of cuddles with her cat and a makeup session with her BFF.

Taylor Swift, she’s just like you (assuming you are a girl who has ever prepared for a school dance) — except her cat glows with the glory of a 1,000 angels and her BFF is Ed Sheeran.

“These are our #VMAs game faces,” Swift wrote, throwing up an adorable snap of her and her cat Olivia Benson mugging for the camera. Where’s Meredith, Tay?! Doesn’t she get get any shine?

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Benson was soon dumped in favor of VMA prep, however, as Swift shared a photo soon after of her playing makeup artist for Ed Sheeran, one of her many, many BFFs. We’re guessing they’re getting some quality hang-out time in before the big night, seeing as how they’re not sitting next to each other (travesty!).

How are you preparing for the VMAs?