Lydia quotes from Teen Wolf

Lydia

Eichen House says Meredith can't have visitors without permission from a family member.

Malia

That's not gonna be easy, since her whole family is dead...

Lydia

Perfect.

Malia

Okay, maybe we go back to the art room? Or music room?

Lydia

I'm not plucking piano strings for two hours, waiting for some supernatural inspiration.

Malia

Fine. What else do banshees do?

Lydia

[frustrated] You think I know? I can't just turn this on. I'm not like you guys. I don't have claws, or glowing eyes, or super senses. I just have voices in my head.

Okay, that's kind of terrifying. What's the number?

Lydia

...That's how much you're worth.

[offended] I'm worth five dollars?!

Stiles

[holds up a hand] Five million.

I only make 40,000 a year. Maybe I should kill myself.

Stiles

Okay, well, we know one thing-- both of the first two keys, "Allison" and "Aiden," they're both names of the dead. Right?

Lydia

But, we've already tried every other dead person's name we could think of. And, if you haven't noticed, there were a lot of tries.

Lydia... As all of this is still very new to me, and I don't know how it works, I still have to ask-- do you have any kind of... indication? Any kind of feeling about this? Is someone in there going to die?

Lydia

[scared] Yes. And it's not just a feeling.

Derek

[incredulously] He covered you in gasoline?

Lydia

It's the hair and nails, isn't it? The parts of the body that are essentially dead.

Derek

Well, they should be gone.

I was set on fire. All of me should be gone.

Scott

[sheepishly] Not if you're like us.

How did she die?

Lydia

How's not the story-- it's what happened right before. My grandmother, Lorraine, used to work in San Francisco for IBM. She was there on a weekend, catching up on work. She started hearing this sound... like, rain. But, when she looked out the windows, all she saw was blue sky.

Scott

But she kept hearing the rain?

Lydia

And it just kept getting louder. Rain, and thunder, cracking like gunshots in her head. So loud, she finally just screamed.

Derek

Like a banshee...

Stiles

What do you remember doing with your grandmother? You know, what was your guys', like, special thing? Did you guys go to the beach? You know, did you like ice cream, or...

Lydia

...We read.

Stiles

Okay, what did you read?

Lydia

The Little Mermaid.

Stiles

[confused] You read that movie?

Lydia

[annoyed] It was a book first!

Lydia

He--He killed my grandmother. He was controlling Meredith.

Stiles

He used her to create the deadpool.

Lydia

And killed her when she tried to help us.

Brunski

[coughs up blood] You...You think it was me? That I was controlling her? Idiots... She was controlling me.

Lydia

Oh, god. It's not him. He's not the Benefactor.

Meredith

[comes out of the shadows] No. And he wasn't on my list... but he was a bad person.

Lydia

What did she say?

Hard to tell. There were words. I'm not sure there were actual sentences.

Lydia

So... nothing.

I think we need a psychologist. Or a medium.

Lydia

Is she even competent enough to be charged with a crime?

If Meredith is the Benefactor, then that means she was competent enough to trick Kate into opening the Hale vault, competent enough to blackmail Brunski into helping her, and competent enough to create a hit list and pay out money for it's completion. This girl's practically a criminal mastermind.

Lydia

I think I'm getting an idea of how all this happened. You used Brunski, right? You knew he'd killed people, and that he would do it again. He used my grandmother's code for the deadpool. He put it online. He took the money from the Hale vault, then turned the bearer bonds into cash. He made the payments. Was it Brunski's idea to fake your death? Did he get nervous because you helped us with one of the cipher keys?

Meredith

I wanted to help.

Lydia

All you ever wanted to do was help. Is that why you're here? I know you wouldn't want to be here if you didn't want to talk.

Meredith

I do. But, only to one person.

Lydia

Who?

Meredith

Peter. Peter Hale.

Peter

Lydia's right. We don't want to kill each other.

The only person I'm pointing a gun at is you.

Peter

Then, you better make it a perfect shot, Sheriff, because I don't go down easy.

[cocks gun] I'm willing to bet that a bullet between the eyes doesn't heal real fast, even for your kind.

Lydia

Stop. Please, stop.

Peter

This department's getting more corrupted by the second. What are you gonna charge me with, Sheriff? How are you going to explain this to a judge? "Telepathic girl overhears thoughts of comatose werewolf and decides to enact his plans for retribution?" Hmm. [He clicks his tongue] They're gonna be pointing a gun at your head and asking you to go quietly.

Stiles

Lydia, what the hell does wine have to do with anything?

Lydia

Red wine doesn't just disappear... Unless it wasn't wine.

Stiles

What? What do you mean?

Lydia

The ashes weren't ashes, the study isn't a study, the record player isn't a record player, so... So, maybe the wine wasn't wine.

Lydia

Are you okay? I guess you are, aren't you? For someone who'd put their own name on a hit list...

Meredith

I had to.

Lydia

Why?

Meredith

Because I heard you. I heard you scream in the tunnels at Oak Creek. [Lydia flashes back to when Allison was killed and she wailed for her death] That's why I knew it was the right time to start over.

Lydia

But with Peter?

Meredith

He's the alpha. He's always been the alpha. He'll make it right. It never was with us. Too many people die because of us. We're the monsters. Even banshees. Even me.

Lydia

[shakes her head] I don't believe that. Not all monsters do monstrous things.

Meredith

Like who?

Lydia

Like Scott.

Meredith

Like you.

Kira

It's over. The computers are off. No more assassins. No more murders. No one's dying.

Lydia

Not yet...

Lydia

This used to be on a hard drive, but we eventually decided it might be a good idea to have a hard copy around. So, we put it in a book.

[confused] What is it?

Lydia

It's called the Bestiary. Whatever you are, it might be in here. I'd like to help you figure it out.