[Scott is sitting next to Stiles on the floor while Stiles recovers from the kanima venom from Tracy's claws and groans when he realizes Theo purposely destroyed the message left in mercury by the Dread Doctors]
[sighs] Damnatio Memoriae. It means the condemnation of memory. I think it also means that whatever the Dread Doctors created, whatever this last Chimera really is, it's not something new. It's something old. Really old.
[Argent has just cured Gerard by giving him a yellow wolfsbane plant to eat. Once he's finished, Gerard stands to his feet and looks at Argent with mild exasperation]
Oh, not what it is. What it was. A monster whose only purpose was to kill. Not for sustenance, not for revenge, not for any rational impulse other than the drive to end life wherever it's found. It also has a rather personal connection to our family.
The others? You mean Kira, who's currently battling a homicidal fox spirit inside of her; Malia, who isn't even speaking to either one of us; Lydia, who's stuck in Eichen House; and Liam, who almost killed you?
[Kira has just been beaten in battle with the three Skinwalkers, one of which has pinned her against a large boulder by impaling her in the shoulder with her spear. The three Skinwalkers look at her curiously for a moment while Noshiko watches anxiously, and they speak in distorted voices]
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She's frightened... But she's not frightened of us.
[Stiles is working on fixing up his Jeep in the garage when Scott joins him after rejecting Liam's request to go with them to find Kira in Shiprock, New Mexico]
Well, I've been with you on a full moon, so I've seen that look. [He sighs and closes the hood to the Jeep] You want to get the band back together, Scott? You don't leave out the drummer.
They don't care about that. The Doctors, they needed a body because they couldn't resurrect the Beast out of thin air. That kid underneath, whoever it is, is just a side effect. All the Doctors care about is the Beast.
So, this is it? This is all I've got? I pass their test and then I can spend a couple months, or, if I'm really lucky, years, learning from a couple of crazy, half-naked women carrying spears and wearing animal pelts?
They're mostly the same stuff you already knew. "Damnatio memoriae was a Roman practice, a government decree to destroy the images of the damned. And they would scratch off their names from inscriptions, chisel their face off of statues... The Romans believed it was a punishment worse than death."
Listen to this-- "Damnatio memoriae was later used on a serial killer in 1598 known as the Demon Tailor. He lured children into his shop in Paris, where he would kill them and boil the flesh off of their bones to eat. The courts believed the crimes so horrible, they ordered all the documents destroyed. To this day, no one knows his real name."
You mean, how you're hanging out with a total psycho who tried to get me to kill Scott and then did it himself? Yeah, okay. Let's-let's talk about that.
[incredulously] There are definitely bad guys! Some of the bad guys are called Dread Doctors. You don't get a name like "Dread Doctors" and not get classified as the bad guys.
[frustrated] That's what none of you get. There aren't gonna be any good guys or bad guys. It's either gonna be dead or alive. I want to be alive. Don't you?
[Noshiko has unwrapped Kira's wounded shoulder and is surprised and a little scared to find that the wound has completely vanished, though she covers it up well]
