Scott is attacked by one of the Dread Doctors while in
the middle of an asthma attack (I think Scott did have Asthma before he became
a werewolf) to be rescued by Malia and Melissa (might an medical care) before
they run to a lift.
Apparently this is a consequence of reading that book.
Now to the night-time sports ground full of holes. Either
they’ve been attacked by weremoles or lots more chimera have been buried.
And Stiles and Malia tell Sheriff Stilinski about the Chimera. Poor Sheriff Stilinski. Stiles is also feeling 8 kinds of fugly about Donovan who they realise is also a Chimera. Who they also realise was a Chimera. Sheriff Stilinski also disapproves of the terrible name “dread doctors.”
Stiles realises the Dread Doctors went to a whole lot of
effort to get these teenagers –including a jailbreak, so why these kids?
Parrish continues to train Lydia how to fight. And flirting,
of course. Interrupted by Lydia having Dread Doctor’s memories.
Theo and Scott are on the look out for more mysterious chimera
– people acting strange (remember Theo is the bad guy. Also they’re looking for
people acting strange in Beacon Hills). And the whole gang gathers for a Dread
Doctor’s book club though side effects may include hallucinations and killing
sprees. Still an easier book to read than some I have
We also learn that Lydia’s mother doesn’t remember her
Kanima experience because of the Dread Doctor’s memory shenanigans. Lydia also
tell them she thinks the Doctors may have messed with her.
The read, it doesn’t seem to be very riveting read. 0.5
fang I think. Stiles is also still trying to hide the whole Donovan death thing
from super-sensed Malia. But then she’s trying to hide her recent Desert Wolf
vision as well.
In the end they all end up falling asleep rather than
reading (0.5 fangs, definitely), except Theo who is evil. Kira also talks in
Japanese in her sleep – which Theo records.
School the next day for more paranoia, memory musings and
electricity shenanigans. And a whole lot of worry about random students being
chimera. I don’t think evil teachers openly revelling in their students leaving
their oh-so-difficult course are Chimera but she should be eaten anyway.
Lydia’s kindness towards another student leads to a
creepy vision. A really really really creepy vision – or possibly a memory – of
child Lydia finding her mother over the body of a woman who has drilled into
her own head. The woman was her grandmother (another Banshee) in Eichen house
Scott and Theo find her all passed out and she tells them
she did have a bad memory flashback but not a relevant one. Which is when
Natalie arrives and Lydia tells her she just fainted (this isn’t the Victorian
age, just fainting isn’t a thing that can be brushed off).
Mason catches up with Kira who is still having problems
with the book (and confirms that she doesn’t speak Japanese or Korean) – Mason shares
his research into Japanese folklore an Kitsune which basically amounts to
Kitsune suck at language and why she can’t read the book which is one big
language trick.
Evil teacher actually tries to talk Scott out of dropping
her class because she gets off on cruel head games. And Scott has an asthma
attack/memory thing about being attacked by a dog as a child. Liam manages to
find an inhaler for Liam and gets him to take it with glowing wolfy eyes.
Theo checks on Scott and he puts his asthma attack down
to being a rising memory. Theo tells Scott about Kira’s Japanese sleep-speaking
and plays the recording: which translates as “I am the messenger of death.” Probably
a bad sign. Scott tells Theo about the foxy aura which is a bad idea – and this
is making him wary of Kira. Especially since the electricity is acting up and
something is happening in the basement.
Down there they find ripped out wires – not Kira woo-woo
acting up.
Lydia now thinks that her memories of the Dread Doctors
are actually all false and it’s her Banshee powers kicking in – she has a
vision of someone else being Dread Doctored.
So she and Stiles go to check up on the vision in a
closed floor of the hospital – and Stiles has his own memory vision. Of his
mother, Claudia’s, fear and horror of being in the hospital with her mental
illness (she’s a Stilinski and has a NAME? Stilinskis don’t have names). Part
of which manifests from thinking her 10 year old son is trying to kill her –
and she attacks him.
While Lydia hears and ECG repeatedly say the name “Hayden”
in a very spooky voice. And then she gets a terrible vision of their experiments.
We have a Chimera chewing on electric wires. Nom nom nom.
As everyone has gathered at the hospital, we have several
attacks – Stiles by a wire chewing werewolf – which Theo fights and kills. Scott
begs Stiles not to say anything about it – saying he didn’t say anything about
Donovan.
And Scott returns to the opening scene, having an asthma
attack, facing a dread doctor before Melissa and Malia intervene.
At the club, Liam is still trying to impress Hayden. Or
appease her. Or something. Not something I care about. More
flirting/hostility/nonsense the next day at various sports practice.
Mason reveals the
old silly grudge between the two. We also learn Hayden is on some kind of
medication. Which makes Liam feel more guilty about costing her money and more
determined to pay her back – the meds are for a kidney transplant she had and
she works so her sister doesn’t have to pay the full cost of the meds
Of course she’s also being screwed by her employer who
takes half her tips and money because all of his employees are underaged so can’t
complain. He also checks her eyes and sees they glow. So she may be
supernatural or possibly a chimera.
Theo also flirts, much more effectively, with Malia since
his flirting method is to get shirtless and show is impressive body off while
working out. This is a very effective method and much approved of. She wants to
know why he hasn’t told everyone about her Desert Wolf memory. Malia doesn’t
like his caginess. And she shows she seems to be stronger than him.
I will have another weekly dose of my “Parrish and Lydia
is creepy, don’t do it!”.
Hayden and Liam isn’t much of a storyline that interests
me (largely because Liam doesn’t) but at least Hayden seems to exist more than
as Liam’s love interest
Melissa screamed… and it was loud. It could have been a
dramatic scream but it kind of looked supernatural
I really don’t have much else to say beyond enjoying the
plot and story and not having a lot to complain about. I do think it’s worth
noting in passing that Kira doesn’t speak Korean and Japanese – I think one of
the prevalent memes we have in the West of anyone who is POC is that they must
be foreign on some level and, almost inherently, must be multi-lingual because
of that. With an extra side of random assumptions about what language they
should speak (even Kira pointed out that she’s half-Korean so it’s not just
Japanese everyone should note she doesn’t speak). It’s interesting to have a
character who is a POC, is a child of immigrants but also breaks that
assumption of speaking several languages.
