Lydia quotes from Teen Wolf

They probably also didn't read books that caused violent hallucinations...

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Lydia

Maybe I should have my mother read it. She might remember a girl with a tail leaping off the ceiling and attacking everyone.

Yeah, if it works.

Lydia

It has to.

[concerned] What's that mean?

Lydia

[anxiously] When I look at the cover of the book... It's almost like...

Theo

...A memory trying to surface?

Lydia

Yeah.

Theo

Isn't that what Valack wanted when he wrote it?

Lydia

If they did something to me, I want to know what it is.

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Okay, then what are we doing here if you've already had your repressed memory?

Lydia

[frustrated] It wasn't the right memory. I remembered my grandmother in Eichen House. There was nothing to do with surgery, nothing to do with the Dread Doctors. So, if I've read the book, why don't I have the full memory of my experience with them?

...I'm not supposed to know that, am I?

Lydia

No, something... [She suddenly gets an idea] ...happened during the surgery. But now... I think that maybe it has more to do with me being a banshee. It's not my memory, Stiles. :Stiles: It's someone else's.

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[Lydia, Malia, and Jordan are all unloading the frequency jammers from the car to put in the high school]

Malia

We're betting our lives on these?

Lydia

I think we're betting Hayden's life on them.

JJordan

Yeah, well, I'm glad I brought my gun.

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Lydia

[about Hayden] Liam, we brought her here to protect her.

And now she's the bait.

Hayden

[fearfully] Am I?

[sighs] No. No one's bait. But we can't be bodyguards to everyone every night.

[angrily] Then why aren't we talking to Stiles' dad? Why aren't we doing something better than hiding in a school?

[frustrated] Because we still don't know anything about them or what they want, okay? They're winning, and we don't even know what the game is!

What if they come in here and those things don't work? What if you have an asthma attack again? What are we gonna do?

[sighs] I don't know.

This plan sucks!

[loses his temper] You got a better one? Kids are dying! And she's next. So, somebody has to do something! Somebody has to save everyone! So somebody's got to be the bait!

[Liam is surprised by Scott's uncharacteristic frustration and anger, and Scott immediately looks guilty for raising his voice to him]

Scott... Promise me you'll do everything you can to save her. [Scott hesitates] Scott! Promise me.

[gulps nervously] I'll do everything I can. I promise.

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[Lydia is currently hallucinating that Tracy is alive and has run over to her]

Lydia

Tracy?

Tracy

Lydia? Thank God! I need your help.

Lydia

What do you need? What can I do?

Tracy

I need you to scream.

[Tracy reaches into Lydia's mouth and rips out her tongue, causing her to fall to the floor and choke on her own blood]

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Hang on-- if the Nemeton's covered in bodies, shouldn't you be able to find them?

Lydia

Me?

Yes, you! That's what you do. You're the banshee! You find the bodies.

Lydia

Well, the banshee's having an off-day, so how about we talk to Parrish?

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[Lydia and Parrish have just found the Nemeton, and he is freaking out about what he has just learned about what he's been doing during his blackouts]

I need to call it in. No, I need to turn myself in!

Lydia

I don't think that's such a good idea...

You just told me I'm the one taking the bodies! I've attacked other law enforcement officers. That's a criminal offense! I shouldn't even be near you.

Lydia

[gives him a look] I'm not afraid of you.

I'm afraid of me.

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Lydia

Whatever's happening seems to only happen when there's a body. Other than that, you're still a pretty nice guy. And you're a pretty good deputy.

I'm a very good deputy, and I'd like to stay that way. Flipping over Jeeps and attacking colleagues doesn't exactly fit with "protect and serve." I'm covering up the bodies of murdered teenagers!

Lydia

You're not covering them up...

[Lydia is suddenly struck by a realization]

Lydia

Actually, maybe you are.

[confused] What?

Lydia

It's the same thing we asked Stilinski to do with Tracy. You're not covering up bodies... You're covering up the supernatural.

What's the difference?

Lydia

Maybe you're keeping the secret safe. Maybe that's part of what you do.

I'm a deputy.

Lydia

You're not just a deputy. And you aren't one of the bad guys.

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Lydia, you just showed me that my dream was real... But you haven't heard the rest of it. Every time I carry a body to the Nemeton, I put it down and add to the ones that are already there.

Lydia

[worriedly] How many?

Hundreds, Lydia. Hundreds.

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[Lydia is sitting outside of Parrish's holding cell, where they're both leaning against the same part of the metal barred door]

Go home, Lydia. Stilinski isn't telling anyone where he put the bodies, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not psychic.

Lydia

[softly] But you're drawn to death. Just like me.

Does that make me kind of a banshee? You find bodies, I find chimeras... Dead chimeras.

Lydia

So, we're both harbingers of death.

I should probably add that to my resume.

Lydia

[shrugs] It's on my college applications.

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Does it help, knowing? Knowing what you are?

Lydia

It doesn't scare me as much, that I know. Do I scare you?

Once.

Lydia

Really?

It was the night I found that werewolf, the one with the talons. I thought I was going to die that night.

Lydia

How come?

Because I saw you. I saw the banshee. But I guess it was just a dream or a hallucination.

Lydia

[curiously] What was I doing?

Trying to keep me alive.

Lydia

[smiles] Well, sorry, but the banshee was mostly trying to stay out of the rain. That was the night of the storm, remember? The Wild Hunt.

The what?

Lydia

Oh, it's something Kira was telling me. A myth about thunderstorms... Ghost Riders in the sky, and black dogs...

[Lydia is suddenly struck by a realization]

What is it?

Lydia

I need to check on something. I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere.

[Jordan makes a face at her]

Lydia

You know what I mean.

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[In a flashforward, Dr. Valack is instructing Lydia on how to use her newly-gained extrasensory perception after he drilled a hole into the side of her skull. In her vision, she's walking through the creek in the nature preserve where Theo's sister died]

Stay focused, Lydia.

Lydia

What did you do to me?

I've amplified your abilities. Something that might just save the lives of your friends.

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[about Theo and his sister] Why did he let her die? What did he want?

Lydia

Her heart... He wanted her heart.

There's no record of a heart condition... But a transplant would make Theo a genetic chimera like the others. The hypothermic conditions would keep the organ viable. But why him? Why choose a ten-year-old willing to kill his own sister?

Lydia

[weakly] Why do you care?

Because Theo was the first step in the right direction for the Dread Doctors. Think of who they are. Parascientists who have prolonged their lives and twisted the laws of Nature in pursuit of one goal-- the creation of the perfect killer.

Lydia

The last Chimera...

And now they've done it.

Lydia

But Theo doesn't know who the success is.

It doesn't matter. There's a reason they chose him, a reason he failed, a reason they changed their methods, and a reason the finally succeeded. It all starts with Theo.

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When did you know for sure? That the Dread Doctors had succeeded?

Lydia

[weakly] Scott and Stiles found out that night.

The night of the supermoon.

Lydia

But they really didn't know it yet. There was too much going on. Liam had almost killed Scott. Kira was still gone. Malia was trying to find the Desert Wolf...

You were missing.

Lydia

And Sheriff Stilinski was dying...