trouble - teen wolf

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT

FLASHFORWARD-- EICHEN HOUSE, WEEKS FROM NOW

[Lydia is standing under a steaming stream of water with a bruise and a healing surgical scar on her side]

NURSE CROSS: All right, you've had long enough. Let's go. I'm not buying the catatonic act. So don't think that I'm going to drop my guard.

[Lydia remains silent and motionless, as though she's staring off into space. Nurse Cross rolls her eyes and continues to speak with her in an aggressive and irritated tone of voice]

NURSE CROSS: I know you can hear me. Look at me when I'm talking to you. I said look at me! Lydia!

[The nurse walks over to the young girl and grabs her face, turning it toward her to find that Lydia is staring with a deadened expression, as though she wasn't even conscious]

[After Lydia is dressed into lounge clothes, she and Nurse Cross are walked back to Lydia's room with Schrader and one of his fellow orderlies, both of whom look concerned about Lydia's current state]

SCHRADER: Is she all right?

NURSE CROSS: [bitterly] She's fine. It's all part of the act.

[Nurse Cross purposely shoots Lydia a mean look and raises her voice]

NURSE CROSS: She's just a dedicated performer.

[The nurse and orderlies get Lydia into her bed in the closed unit, where Nurse Cross turns toward Schrader]

NURSE CROSS: Up the dosage to three mils. She wants catatonic? Give it to her.

[Nurse Cross leaves the room with the other orderly, leaving only a syringe-wielding Schrader left to care for Lydia]

SCHRADER: Sorry about her, Lydia. She doesn't have the gentlest bedside manner. But I can be gentle. I promise to be gentle.

SCHRADER: Are you all right, Lydia?

[Schrader inserts the needle into a blood vessel in the left antecubital space of her arm. He immediately hits a vein and draws the plunger back, causing a plume of blood to flow into the syringe. However, knowing that Lydia is not paying attention to him, he pretends as though he missed her vein so he has an excuse to keep sticking her with a needle]

SCHRADER: Oh. Sorry about that. I... Couldn't find a vein. I'll have to... Try again. Hmm.

[Schrader continues to successfully stick Lydia's brachial arteries and veins while pretending not to, as though this is some sadistic form of torture for him]

SCHRADER: I'll... I'll just have to find a bigger vein.

[Schrader tilts Lydia's head to the side, squeezing the syringe in his fist as he prepares to insert the needle into Lydia's jugular. However, before he can do so, Lydia finally springs awake, shrieking a Banshee scream so loudly that the light bulbs in the room explode and Schrader is forcefully thrown across the room, allowing Lydia to quickly jump to her feet and rush out of the room]

[Orderlies block the hallway on both sides, so she takes them on. Lydia has had some combat training with Parish before and easily knocks the much bigger men down. She uses her scream as a weapon with a concussive force that throws a man across the hallway. Lydia rushes out into the rain where more security surrounds her. They have electrical batons, but Lydia is able to take all three of them down using her force scream. She's about to get away when someone walks up the steps toward her.]

"AIDEN": Sorry, Lydia. But your treatment's not done. Not yet.

LYDIA: [frantically] Please, I have to tell them! They're going to die. My friends. They're all going to die.