Inside the lab, Landon was showing signs of disorientation, "Landon?" Dr. Valack tried, "Can you hear me?"
Landon gazed at him weakly, "What do you want from me?"
"I want your help against the Dread Doctors." Dr. Valack shared, "They ruined me. Destroyed me. They drove me to obsession, consigned me to professional ridicule." He expressed, "People thought I was a monster when I was simply trying to open their eyes." He said with defense, "Now you want me to be your eyes. You'll see things, Landon. Things no one else can see." He explained," You may not survive, but you might save the lives of your friends."
He turned to a table behind him, picking up something off the table. When he turned around Landon could see him holding onto a Dread Doctor's mask.
Meanwhile, Scott and Liam were using a lighter and an aerosol can to fire up Parrish.
"We have to slow your mind first." Dr. Valack told him, "There's too much activity in your brain. We have to get from a gamma wave to a theta."
"I can't." Landon moaned, "It's too loud."
"If I try the mask now it will kill you." He said, "You have to calm your mind. You understand what they've created."
"The Beast."
"The Beast of Gevaudan." He agreed, "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."
"Damnatio Memoriae."
"That's right. The Beast was a man first. A human killer in the late 1700s." He explained, "The Dread Doctors are trying to get it to remember itself. To remember the man. When that happens, the teenager is gone."
Josh helped Corey off the morgue table. Even though he seemed to be healing, there were still parts of his skin still blackened, "Any ideas on how we're supposed to get out of here?" He questioned.
"This place is still in lockdown," Micah informed him.
"It's not just locked," Kira told them.
"Yeah, I can feel it, too." Josh agreed, "What are we supposed to do? Just wait here?"
"There's a Plan B." Micah shared, "We've got a guy on the outside in case this happens."
"Who?"
"Mason," Kira answered.
Corey doesn't hide the disbelief in his voice, "Mason's going to unlock the lockdown?" He questioned the two of them, "How's he going to do that?"
"He's got the blueprints of the building." Kira explained, "And he has the full map of Eichen's electrical system. All he has to do is get into the transformer shed behind the building." Corey looked slightly panicked, "Don't worry." Kira assured him, "Mason knows exactly what he's doing."
Outside behind Eichen House, "Liam, call me back, I have no idea what to do." Mason said to Liam's voicemail, "And I'm panicking. I'm completely and totally panicking." He looked confused, "I drove around this building, like, four times and I can't find this transformer shed."
He turned towards the building he was standing in front of, "Well, actually, that's partially right. Because I found where the transformer shed is supposed to be. But it's not a shed anymore." He stared at a wall, "It's a wall. Like, a very big wall. So, I mean, I tried calling Hayden. And she still isn't here, and I heard alarms go off. Now I don't know what to do. So, Liam, just call me."
Back in the tunnel, Theo and Stiles were closing in on Landon.
In the hidden room, Valack continued explaining his theory, "This teenager, Landon, is the last Genetic Chimera." He shared, "A young man or a young woman, maybe even someone you know." He theorized, "A success where Theo and the others were failures."
"But we went through the list of Genetic Chimeras." Landon answered weakly, "There's no one else."
"There must be one you missed." Valack suggested, "Another way they could have two sets of DNA. If you could see the face of this teenager, discover its identity, then your friends would have a fighting chance." He held up the mask, "The mask can help you see."
Outside of the room, Valack could hear Stiles calling out for Landon as the sound of thudding against the door accompanied the outcry, "What the hell are you doing?"
The machine that Dr. Valack was using to calm the screams in Landon's head began to spark repeatedly, before powering off completely.
Immediately, the screaming returned in a full blast vibration inside Landon's head as he began to lose control, "I'm sorry." Valack apologized, getting closer to Landon with the mask, "But time's up."
Just as he was about to place the mask on Landon's head, Landon freed a powerful Reaper Cry that seemed to create a sound wave, that sent the doctor flying back.
The sound wave echoed through the door of the room on the outside, causing Stiles to be thrown into Theo as he grabbed onto her as they fell to the ground.
Back inside when Landon was done, the mask dropped to the floor as half of Dr. Valack's face revealed to be twisted into a bloody pulp.
From the outside, Theo and Stiles recovered as he managed to break the door handle while Stiles rushed inside, running to Landon's aide.
Landon gave a weak smile, "You came back."
"We're getting you out of here, okay?" Stiles told him, focusing on undoing the restraints.
"You can't." Landon shared in a strained tone, "It's too dangerous."
Stiles looked him in the eye, "Landon," Stiles stated very calmly, "Please shut up and let me save your life." With another weak smile, Landon simply nodded his head as Stiles helped him up, "We gotta get you outta here."
While Stiles and Landon exited the room, Theo eyed the Dread Doctor's mask on the floor.
Mason sat in his car, completely nerved and gripping the steering wheel tightly, "Okay, here we go." He told himself, "Gonna ram the wall. Gonna ram it with my car." He decided, "Just smash through it. Take out the power." He continued speaking, trying to work up his nerve, "And save my friends. Here we go."
Mason doesn't move at all, "All right. Just ram it and destroy my beautiful car that my parents bought me on my birthday, but I'ma save my friends." He repeated to himself, now moving the gear out of "park" and into "drive". "Here we go. Ram the wall. All right."
Just as he was about to press down on the gas, Hayden tapped on his glass window, "What the hell are you doing?" She demanded at him.
"Oh, thank God." Mason breathed, clearly relieved for not having to damage his own car, "Can we use your car?"
"Are you kidding?" She stared at him as if he were crazy, "A car is not getting through that."
"What?" He challenged, "You have any better ideas?"
Hayden stared at the height of the wall, "Uh... "
It was like Mason could see the wheels, turning in her head, "Hayden? Hayden. Wait."
Hayden doesn't wait. She took an enormous just against the high wall, leaving Mason in amazement, "Whoa."
The was an audible thud that came from the other side, "I'm in!"
The Hellhound walked down the hall to the Closed Unit. Scott and Liam followed from a safe distance, "How's he going to get through the mountain ash?" Liam wondered aloud.
As The Hellhound reached the doorframe, he simply passed through it without any issues and continued on. Scott and Liam get to the doorframe but hesitantly stopped, before carefully stepping through the threshold together with ease.
"He's burning it right out of the walls." Scott realized.
Stiles was assisting Landon down the tunnels, trying to bear some of Landon's weight, "Okay. You gotta try and stay on your feet." Landon groaned as the screams in his head were coming back, "The plan didn't work out too well." Stiles confessed, "So I'm gonna need your help, okay?"
"You had a plan?" Landon questioned with surprise, "Bet Derek thought it was stupid."
Stiles laughed at the mentioning, "Yeah. It was good on paper." Stiles admitted, "Not too much in reality."
Landon suddenly dead weighted Stiles, causing them to fall the ground as the screams were continuing to overwhelm him, "I can't hold it." He groaned miserly.
Stiles kneeled beside him more worried than before, "Landon..."
"Stiles, run!" Landon yelled, shoving her back as his vision began to blur from the screams.
But instead of falling back from Landon's push, Stiles pulled him by the arm and embraced him as Landon cried out, "No!"
However, Landon's plea was underheard as Stiles lets out a piercing wail, mimicking Landon's screaming ability, creating a sound wave that caused the ground to shake around them as some of the bricks from the walls began to crumble into specks of dust.
Landon pushed himself off Stiles appearing to be unharmed, while Stiles appeared to disoriented as he noticed that her eyes weren't focusing, "What did you do?" Landon asked in disbelief.
"I couldn't…" Stiles answered in a scratchy tone, "I can't lose you."
Landon was ready to respond when another wave of voices echoed through his head louder than before. He clenched his head as he opened his mouth to unleash another Reaper Cry. A small sound escaped his lips just as the Hellhound appeared, grabbing onto Stiles and Landon as he flamed up absorbing the rest of Landon's cry.
From their position in the hall, Scott and Liam could see the flames branch out from around the corner the Hellhound had turned to.
But as they neared the corner, the vibrations of Landon's silenced scream caused the ceiling of the tunnel to release a larger amount of dirt and smoke filled the hallways, but when it cleared Jordan emerged from the smoke and debris carrying Landon in both arms while Stiles laid on ground, surrounded by her force field, but not moving.
Scott hurried to Stiles' aide, breaking through the barrier, "Stiles?"
Stiles groaned to the call out still disorientated. Not wasting another second, Scott wrapped one of Stiles' arms around his neck and picked her off the ground. Wordlessly, Liam began rushing down a hall as Scott and Jordan followed closely behind him.
Back outside Eichen House, "There's two red levers." Mason told Hayden, "You're going to pull them both." But he doesn't get any confirmation, "You see them?"
"I see 10."
"Two."
"No. 10." Hayden repeated, "There are ten red levers." However, she doesn't get an answer from Mason this time, "Mason, what am I supposed to do?"
"Just pull them all!" Mason responded easily.
"Where to?" Scott questioned still carrying Stiles, while Jordan was carrying Landon.
"This way." Liam directed as he turned a corner as he led the group, "Come on. There's a gate up ahead."
"What about Mason?" Scott questioned, remembering that Eichen House was still in lockdown mode.
"He's on it." Liam answered confidently, "Trust me."
Hayden pulled all the levers and the lockdown was released, the metal shutters rolled up off the windows and doors.
"What's... What's happening?" Landon questioned, trying to get aware of their situation.
"Plan B," Jordan answered as they continued following Liam through the maze of the building.
Liam rushed to the gate ahead of them, "Liam, slow down." Scott told them. However, Liam doesn't slow down. He goes faster, "Liam, wait!"
As soon as he touched the gate, Liam got shocked, but the gate does give away due to his push, "I told you." He beamed at them.
Back in the morgue, the door opened and Micah and Kira rush out to get to Stiles' Jeep.
The group escaped through a grate that leads up out of the road in front of the Eichen House gate. Micah and Kira arrive with Stiles' jeep in tow, relieved to see that their friends were all out.
"Can you stand?" Jordan questioned, Landon as he placed Landon on his feet.
"Are they okay?" Micah asked, noticing the hole in Landon's head and hearing Stiles' disoriented groans.
"No, we need to go." Scott told them, "We gotta get them to the clinic."
The sound of slashing caught their attention as Jordan fell to the ground, revealing three claw marks that ran along his back. They turned to see Tracy with Landon in her claws, "Sorry, but he's coming with me." She eyed them, "And there's nothing…"
The sound of electricity crackled the air as Tracy released Landon and fell to the ground. The group stared at Natalie, who was armed with the taser stick she had armed herself with earlier.
"Could somebody please get my son out of this hellhole?" She demanded to them.
Scott was having trouble getting the Jeep in gear as he was driving down the road.
In the back, Stiles seemed to gain back her focus but focused on Landon, who appeared to be in pain, "Hey. Landon," Stiles called out to weakly, "Landon, hey."
The screams were building up in Landon's head as he tried to hold back a tiny scream that managed to escape from his tightly closed lips. Despite the small sound, it was powerful enough for Scott to flinch due to his enhanced hearing and break the Jeeps mirrors, "You're gonna get through this, okay?" Stiles continued assuring Landon, "Landon, look at me, you're gonna make it."
Landon watched Stiles, "But you're not." He voiced with worry, making a weak pointing gesture at the blood that was running from Stiles' ear.
At this news, the Jeep finally gave the impression of cooperating and lets Scott put it in the right gear as he floored it.
"I said it was for emergencies only." Theo chastised at Hayden, later at the lair, seeing an empty Kanima venom vile.
"I had an emergency," Hayden answered with an unashamed tone.
"Don't worry, Theo." Deucalion cooed from his place on the ground, "A little dissension in the ranks is perfectly healthy." Theo eyed the blind Alpha, "Did you find what you were looking for?"
"No. But I think I might have found something better." He held onto the Dread Doctor mask, "A way to answer the question. Who is the Beast?"
Derek was already waiting for them outside the animal clinic. Scott hurried out of the jeep moving out his seat to get to Landon, "We need to them inside now."
Inside the clinic, Deaton already has his examination table cleared, "Get him on the table." Deaton instructed to Scott. From his peripheral, he could see Derek sitting Stiles down in a chair as she was holding onto her head gritting her teeth in pain. Almost as if she was experiencing the same pain Landon was feeling.
On the table, Landon released another groan of pain, trying to not be consumed by the voices. He sat up on the table, "Whoa, hold him." Deaton instructed to Scott while noticing Derek was restraining Stiles as well.
Landon released a minor scream, that doesn't appear to cause any harmful effects, "I think you gotta do something." Scott pleaded to him as he could see both his friends suffering.
"I will." Deaton assured him, "But right now, I need you to keep Landon still."
Landon continued fighting with the voices in his head, but at the same time fought Scott's hold, "Derek I need your help over here!" Scott called over his shoulder.
"Go." He could hear Stiles say.
It doesn't take long before Derek hold Landon down by one of his arms, while Scott held down the other, "Steady." Deaton told them as he equipped himself with a syringe.
From her place in the chair, Stiles could see the substance that Deaton had in his syringe, "Mistletoe?" Stiles questioned in obvious pain, "He's got a fricking hole in his head."
Deaton doesn't respond to Stiles' outburst as he injected the Mistletoe into the trepanation hole in Landon's head.
This resulted in Landon releasing another prevailing scream, causing not only all the windows of the clinic to shatter, but also for Deaton, Derek, and Scott to be thrown to the ground. Amid the chaos, Stiles disappeared from the chair and reappeared at the examination table, falling over Landon's body as pieces of broken glass fell to the ground, none touching them as a force field protected them.
When everything appeared to be calm, Stiles lets down the field and moved off Landon. But unlike the others, Stiles could see Landon's face appeared to be pale as his eyes were closed.
In an immediate panic, Stiles started patting Landon on his face, "Come on, Landon. Wake up." Stiles commanded, "Can you hear me? Landon." Stiles doesn't get a response and Landon remained unmoved, "Landon, open your eyes." Stiles demanded, trying to hold back tears that were threatening to fall.
"Come on, listen to me. Hey, show me your eyes, okay?" Stiles pleaded voice breaking completely, while Scott, Derek, and Deaton watched silently. "Landon, you have to open your eyes."
Still, nothing and Stiles broke down silently crying, cradling Landon in her arms. Deaton and Scott watched in silence as Derek moved towards Stiles, enveloping them both into his arms.
"Stiles?" A whisper filled the room. Stiles felt a touch on her arm and opened her eyes to see Landon with his eyes opened, appearing to be okay, "You're okay." He stated with relief looking up at Stiles.
Stiles broke down into a relieved cry and managed to give a head nod, "Want to try to sit up?" Derek questioned.
Together, he and Stiles helped Landon sit-up as he observed his surroundings. There was one person, who hadn't been in the room previously, standing right at the doorway, "Mom?"
"Oh, honey," Natalie spoke as she rushed to her son's side, Stiles moved out the way letting the mother and son embrace each other.
"They saved my life, Mom." Landon told her, eyeing Stiles with a smile on his face, "Stiles saved me."
At the statement, Stiles managed to smile herself as she wiped away her tears as she looked around the room, "I'm not paying for the windows." Stiles informed Deaton, which earned her a minor smile.
NEXT TIME ON TNH: La Bête du Gévaudan (January 7th)
"You sure were helpful when we finally got to Landon in that hidden lab," She replied in a sarcastic manner, taking a step closer. "And a very helpful in trying to actually get him out of Eichen." She ranted as she continued to getting closer, "I mean, were you there when we both nearly died?" She questioned him angrily, "No, I didn't think so. Quite frankly that doesn't surprise me, which is the exact reason I chose to help Scott."
Theo appeared to be peeved at the mentioning, "You used me."
"Don't you dare turn this on me." Stiles snapped, "I did what I had to do to get Landon out of that hellhole." Stiles rebutted, "Just like how you used Eichen trying to get what you wanted out of me."
"You knew."
"I'm not stupid." She took a step toward him, "You thought with enough trauma that some part of the "darkness" that's still inside me would come out and take control of me." She took one finally step to where she stood right in front of him, "Let me share something with you, the only way you're gonna get the Stiles, the Void Stiles as you call it, you want is if you have another dark fox spirit in hand," She gave him a strong glare, "Because as far as I am concerned that Stiles is dead."
Lori went in for a kick, but Kira jumped back causing the girl to fall to the ground. Not giving Lori a chance to recover, Kira swung down a piece of her stick, while Lori managed to fight of the attack with a part of her own.
Kira then moved to slam both her sticks into the ground, but Lori managed to do a backward roll, right back onto her feet. She used on foot to hold the sticks and went for a punch. However, Kira blocked it and punched Lori instead.
Kira grabbed a hold of Lori and forced her back right into a desk, that the two rolled over and onto the ground. They end up tasseling right through the door into the hallway.
Kira gained the upper hand and slammed Lori into the ground, now bearing down on her.
Lori moved back on the ground as Kira stalked her way closer to her. However, Kira seemed to halt suddenly and began shaking.
