The ill-tempered foreman, Yuri (Jorge Rivero) gets into a fight with his crew: Tommy (Jules Desjarlais), Joel (Joe Estevez), and Bill (Randall Oliver).

The action then shifts to a house in suburban Flagstaff, where a writer named Paul Niles (Federico Cavalli) arrives to take up residence.

At a party, Paul is introduced to Natalie Burke (Adrianna Miles), a member of the archeological team present at the time of the original discovery.

Yuri is expelled from the party after sexually harassing Natalie, but improvises a plan to create a new werewolf out of an unsuspecting security guard (director Tony Zarrindast).

The following day, Paul visits the lab at Natalie's invitation and is violently attacked by Yuri, who strikes him with the werewolf skull.

Finally, at a pool hall where Natalie and Yuri are both present, Paul transforms fully into a werewolf, turns feral, and runs out into the streets on a rampage.

The Times Colonist criticized the acting and editing, adding that it made Plan 9 from Outer Space look like Independence Day.

[6] Dave Nuttycombe of Washington City Paper wrote in 1997, "Moving the werewolf myth from eastern Europe to southwestern America and transposing it into Navaho lore is a good idea; hiring the Greater Flagstaff Remedial Theater Auxiliary to perform and buying the monster suit in the Halloween aisle at CVS are not.

"[9] Cast member and episode director Kevin Murphy summed up the experience with the famous quote, "Werewolf is a gift from God.

"[10] Fellow writer Bill Corbett said, "[Werewolf] was set in the Southwest but had all of these inexplicably Eastern European people mangling the pronunciation of the word werewolf—there are about seven different ways they pronounced it.