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"What I'm about to show you isn't supposed to exist." Deaton tells Scott and Stiles as he takes out photos from an envelope. "This is the only surviving evidence of Dr. Valack's time as Chief Medical Officer of Eichen House. To call it human experimentation would be charitable." Deaton says as the two teens take in all the photos of patients who had holes drilled in their heads. "A Banshee. She died screaming." Deaton says pointing to a picture of a young woman screaming.
"So, he drilled holes into their heads? All of them?" Scott asks him. "That was the experimentation part. He did it to Werewolves, Banshees, Wendigos, any creature he could get his hands on. And Valack found that trepanation and would initially heighten their powers, but to levels that couldn't be contained." Deaton explains to them. "So he wants to make Lydia more powerful." Stiles asks him.
"Yeah. Except she's going to end up like them." Scott answers for him. "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." Deaton says making the two boys shiver. "That's going to kill her." Stiles says out loud.
"Not only that...her own dying scream could be so powerful that it might kill everyone around her as well."
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"There's four steps. We get into Eichen, we get into the Closed Unit, we get Lydia, get out." Stiles explains to the group which consisted of Scott, Malia, Kira, Liam, and Brett. "And we have to do all of this while getting past orderlies, guards, electric door locks, and a Mountain Ash barrier." Scott continues for him. "You have a plan for all of that?" Malia asks the two. "I stole this last night off an orderly." Stiles says pulling out a card from his pocket. "But it's useless 'cause they reset the codes each night."
"So why did you take it?" Kira asks him. "I'm getting to that. The only way to get Lydia out of Eichen is to make that key card work again." Stiles continues before being asked another question. "How are you going to do that?" Liam asks him. "We're getting to that, okay, just listen. I pulled all the history off the key card. Two weeks ago, there was a brownout and the security system rebooted. During a reboot, all of the key cards revert back to a default code. So, if we trigger a reboot..."
"The card goes back to the default code. It works again." Liam finishes for Stiles. "How are we going to cause a brownout?" Kira asks them. "That's your part. You're going to draw power from the main line." Scott says to her. "But only enough to cause the brownout. Not a blackout. Do that and you send Eichen into lockdown which would be bad. Very, very bad." Stiles continues to explain. "There's an electrical room behind the reception counter. The main power line goes into two breakers that run power to all of Eichen." Scott finishes leaving Kira worried.
"Okay, slight problem. I don't know how to do that." She says to him. "That's okay. You have time to practice." Scott reassures her. "Let's say all this goes perfectly. How does a brownout get us into the Closed Unit of Eichen?" Malia asks the two boys. "The system takes five minutes to reboot. In that five minutes all the alarms will be turned off the key card should work." Stiles answers her.
