[Stiles has just found Lydia in the closed unit and is horrified to see that she has a hole drilled in her skull and her wrists and ankles are bound to her bed. Lydia looks equally horrified to see him as well]
[Hayden is still standing guard over Deucalion, who is still weakened by a wolfsbane IV drip, on Theo's orders while she thinks about her conversation with Liam]
[Scott has just entered Meredith's mind with his claws, which is allowing him to also enter Lydia's mind through their Banshee connection. Lydia is on her knees on the floor, clutching her head while Scott and Meredith watch worriedly]
[offended] Yeah, I was nine years old. I also believed a guy in a red suit came down the chimney to deliver presents. So, when three people in leather masks showed up and said that my sister wanted me to have her heart, I believed them, too.
[smugly] I found Deucalion. You're right. I'm going to help Parrish stop the Beast. I'm going to take its power, and then I'm gonna break its neck. So, maybe I'm not the good guy in your eyes, but I might end up being the guy who saves all your asses.
I want your help against the Dread Doctors. They ruined me. Destroyed me. They drove me to obsession, consigned me to professional ridicule. People thought I was a monster when I was simply trying to open their eyes.
The Beast of Gévaudan. An engineered version of it. But, it's not yet fully grown. It's still bound to its host, the teenage Chimera inside. And, it still requires the Dread Doctors' protection.
That's right. The Beast was a man first-- a human killer in the late 1700s. The Dread Doctors are trying to get it to remember itself. To remember the man. When that happens, the teenager is gone.