Deaton quotes from Teen Wolf

Okay, wait! Stop! The deadpool's over. You're not going to get paid! It's over.

I'm not here to kill you, Patrick. I'm taking you back to Eichen House, where they know all about your "culinary practices."

I was hoping we could talk. My name is Dr. Alan Deaton.

Oh, I know your specialty, Dr. Deaton, and I know it's not cats and dogs.

I'm here because of what you know about South American mythology.

No. You want to know about Kate Argent. You want to know about La Loba, the Bone Woman.

I need to know what she did to Derek Hale. And, if he's dying.

Why?

Because of a promise I made to a woman I loved.

Scott

Find anything?

Maybe. Are you sure this guy was a werewolf? As far as I can tell, these claws are actually talons. In fact, they're the talons of a harpy eagle, one of the largest known birds of prey.

Scott

[confused] How does a werewolf get talons?

Personally, I'm more interested in how these talons somehow were able to absorb your powers. The only one who should be able to do that is a Beta of your own making.

Scott

Someone like Liam?

Exactly.

Scott

And what if I let someone into my pack? Like another Beta?

I would normally say no... But, I'm starting to wonder if the rules to our supernatural world aren't as rigid as I once thought. Or maybe someone's trying to change those rules.

Malia

Uh, can't you just give her a shot of something?

She doesn't look to be in any pain...

Malia

I meant a shot to kill her!

Sorry to interrupt.

A werewolf with the talons of an eagle-- possibly a shapeshifter known in Eastern mythology as a garuda. Tracy's claws-- the unmistakable claws of a werewolf. But, a werewolf who also bears the venom and the scales of a kanima.

Kira

What do you even call that?

Personally, I call it "terrifying." But, at the moment, I'm more interested in how Tracy was able to get across the mountain ash.

Kira

[confused] I thought no supernatural can do that.

As did I. So, if Tracy was able to cross the mountain ash, and no supernatural can do that...

Scott

Tracy's not a supernatural.

Exactly. If she wasn't born, and she wasn't bitten, she had to have been made.

Scott

"Made?"

Someone is trying to make supernatural creatures with non-supernatural means. And, whoever they are, they're somehow managing to blur the lines between science and the supernatural.

Kira

What are we supposed to do?

Same thing you've always done. Protect your friends. Protect each other.

Scott

[worriedly] So, what about someone like Tracy?

I wish I could tell you.

Kira

How scared should we be?

I've lived in the world of the supernatural a long time. But, I'm still a doctor. Still a man of science. Something like this happens, it rattles the foundation of everything you believe. Something like this shakes you to the core.

Scott

Something like what?

The rules-- the rules have changed.

What does that say?

[reads aloud] "They come. They come for all of us."

[about the Dread Doctors] What was the story?

They say they never took off the mask. Some people believed they had no faces underneath. But they had a symbol-- the snake that eats itself.

The Ouroboros?

[points at the wall] Like that one.

Easy, Doctor. I know you have skills, but I'm pretty sure I can shoot faster than you can hit. [She pauses for a beat] Do you know who I am?

I know what you're called... The Desert Wolf.

I heard an interesting rumor, Doctor... I heard that my daughter is still alive. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?

[plays dumb] A daughter? I don't know anything about a daughter.

Well, I hope you're telling the truth... Because if she is still alive, I'm just gonna have to kill her again.

What I'm about to show you isn't supposed to exist. This is the only surviving evidence of Dr. Valack's time as Chief Medical Officer at Eichen House. To call it human experimentation would be... charitable.

A Banshee. She died screaming.

Stiles

So, he drilled holes into their heads? All of them?

That was the experimentation part. He did it to werewolves, Banshees, wendigos... any creature he could get his hands on. And Valack found that trephination would initially heighten their powers, but to levels that couldn't be contained.

Scott

So, he wants to make Lydia more powerful.

Stiles

Yeah, except she's going to end up like them.

Worse, actually. Lydia's abilities were already pretty exceptional to begin with. Putting a hole in her head will be like causing a leak in a nuclear reactor. She'll hear everything-- every death, every dying scream, all at once.

Scott

[worriedly] That's gonna kill her.

Not only that... Her own dying scream could be so powerful that it might kill everyone around her.

Scott

Can you keep him alive?

I'm not sure he technically is alive.

Liam

[scoffs] Screw keeping him alive! How do we get him to talk?

Stiles

Personally, I don't think we utilize torture nearly enough...

Scott

Maybe there's something in here. Something about how he was a genetic chimera.

Mason had a vanishing twin.

Stiles

Now we've got a vanishing Mason.

Liam

What does that have to do with him turning into a 250-year-old French guy? How does that even happen?

Hold on-- Scott might have something. Mason's twin wasn't entirely gone. That's what made him a genetic chimera. The DNA was still there. Metaphorically speaking, the DNA of Mason could still be inside Sebastien as well.

Stiles

How?

Life is energy. Energy doesn't just disappear. The Dread Doctors may have found a way to break the rules of the supernatural, but there are some rules that simply won't break.

Liam

So, Mason can't just be gone?

Somewhere in Sebastien, he has to still exist in some form. A spark of energy, a flicker of memory...

Stiles

Hang on... Liam, you said Mason said something right before he turned.

Liam

He said, "That's not my name."

Scott

He finally remembered his name. Damnatio memoriae.

That's what they wanted. They wanted Sebastien to remember his name. Scott, do you know the myth of what happens when you call a werewolf by its given name?

Scott

[shocked] It turns back to human...

Liam

What does that mean? Someone can just walk up to the Beast, yell Mason's name, and turn him back?

Stiles

Not someone... Lydia.