It was the most destructive and deadly relationship in all the Teen Wolf universe, started 300
years ago when a French boy fell for another French boy who also happened to be a serial
killer and later became a werewolf.
Poor Marcel.
He had it so bad for Sebastian and was such a codependent that he even hid bodies for
his unrequited love.
No matter how bad it got, no matter how high that pile of corpse Legos in the basement,
Marcel was still protecting him.
But his real OAG behavior didn't begin until after Sebastian died.
Marcel just could not let go.
He apparently really got into leather and steampunk and started doing human experiments
and an attempt to bring his bay back to life.
Putting a body count on this one relationship is kind of hard.
We know there were hundreds of deaths in France initially, and then the dreads killed hundreds
more teenagers with their experiments in the ensuing centuries.
In addition to all the families who lost loved ones, this relationship specifically ruined
Theo's life.
Without this Marcel and Sebastian relationship, Theo might have been your run-of-the-mill
sociopath.
He might even have gotten help for his problems instead of becoming a murderous wannabe.
It is a great, epic love story.
It spans 300 years, but Marcel and Sebastian are the absolute worst.
Theo: This is what the Dread Doctors use to keep track of the chimeras. It seeks out and
homes in on a certain frequency. The supernatural creatures also have their own frequency.
The vibrations they can see will allow them to recognize the special type of humans they
need for experiment.
The mask also allows them to bend light frequencies and mess with people's memories so they can
better sneak into places to procure the victims.
They also need fully ripe chimeric teenagers high schools are the easiest place to find
these and with the helmet allowing them to wander unseen or unremembered, they can sneak
around until they find the right kind of multi-genotype individuals that they really want.
The Surgeon: We're on a frequency you can't possibly imagine.
Chimera have two different types of DNA in their body. Most humans only have one type
of DNA.
It includes all the instructions that make you the person you are - eye color, skin tone,
whether or not you drink too much, and even who you find attractive - that can all be
influenced in some way by your DNA. It's the base code of your operating system.
A chimeric human has two types of DNA. This can be because they had an organ from another
human implanted or a skin graft from another person.
That organ has the DNA of the donor. Once it's in you or on you, you have the donor's
DNA as well.
It doesn't actually do much well except piss off your body's natural defenses, which is
why people with transplants have to take anti-rejection drugs. Otherwise, that new DNA just kind of
sits there.
When the Dread Doctors came along they looked for chimeric teens because they wanted to
attach different supernatural bits to the two different types of DNA in order to create
a host for their big bad.
They were able to activate both types of DNA to achieve the werewolf hybrid creatures we saw.
We don't know how they did that, but it's Beacon Hills, I mean, come on.
The dread doctors is the primary reason why I think a list of physical strength is dumb.
The dreads both should and should not be on such a list.
We saw the doctors overpower all the werewolves except the one they created, but they're not
physically strong at all. The tech was doing all the work and when that stuff was working
right they could literally stop anyone with a magnetic field generator.
But is that really strength?
Because when you strip away the special mask and other gadgets, you end up with squishy
old regular humans
Sebastien: Marcel, if this is what immortality looks like, I think you might have been misled.
Teen Wolf's Dread Doctors needed to "Ocean's Eleven" Eichen House
and for that they needed a Kitsune.
The dreads and their minion Theo are working a complex plan manipulating Scott's pack into
action at certain times and in certain locations.
Lydia: Hello?
On the first night - the night of the storm - they hooked Kira up to one of their devices,
called down lightning and revved up her foxfire
They then had Theo plant the book about them at Tracy's house hoping that the discovery
would lead Scott's pack to Eichen House to find the book's author.
Lydia: The Dread Doctors by T.R. McCammon.
Theo: What about the author? If he knew all about these guys, shouldn't we be talking to him?
Scott: We thought about that, but it's pretty much a dead end.
Theo: What about this guy?
The book worked, now they're going to see Valack.
They're going tonight.
Eichan House deployed frequency generators and other technology-based methods that would
keep out those who can manipulate electromagnetic fields - like the dread doctors.
The system effectively blocked them from entering the building.
But once Kira was inside, the security system began to interact with her foxfire.
This caused a massive electrical discharge.
And that shorted out the whole security system.
The dread doctors basically use Kira to break the security so they could get into Eichen
House to steal Valack's third eye.
Dreads: To Eichen (repeating)
Valack: You don't have to...
So, what about that third eye?
Questions about Doctor Valack tend to go in a couple of directions.
Why would the dread doctors even want the third eye?
OR What kind of Teen Wolf creature has a third eye like that?
Let's look at what we know for sure.
Valack encountered the dread doctors many years ago and then went to great lengths to
figure out what they were doing and to try to stop them.
He wrote that book that altered the reader's perception so that they could remember the dreads.
He also started doing dread doctor-like experiments on supernatural creatures presumably to try
and stop the return of the beast.
Deaton: What I'm about to show you isn't supposed to exist.
This is the only surviving evidence of Doctor Valack's time as chief medical officer of
Eichen House.
To call it human experimentation would be charitable.
A banshee.
She died screaming.
Stiles (VO): So he drilled holes into their heads?
All of them?
He did it to werewolves, banshees, wendigos - any creature he could get his hands on.
Trepanation would initially heighten their powers but to levels that couldn't be contained.
Valack was breaking creatures to see what made them tick.
And at some point before he got caught and incarcerated, he experimented on himself.
Deaton: Just because you drilled a hole in your own head, it doesn't mean you've somehow
gifted yourself with extra sensory perception.
Valack: Come a little closer, take a look for yourself.
Oh but Deaton was so very wrong about that.
Wasn't he?
Valack: That's it, come and have a look. Come on.
Just one look into eyeball number three and Deaton was in a fully immersive virtual vision
of Tezcatlipoca’s Temple.
How did Valack – an ultra-intelligent but otherwise normal human - manage to do all that?
We know he was aware of the dreads and their techniques, and
that he had been doing similar experiments.
It is only a tiny leap in logic to suggest that Valack - using dread doctor science - managed
to gift himself an impressive form of ESP.
He could not only sense the wider world but also broadcast those senses to other brains
directly and with some force.
I still wonder what Peter saw.
I like to imagine Valack put him into one of those many romance novels he has stacked
up in the cell.
Anyway, in addition to the ESP precognition and remote viewing, Valack also managed to
do the same type of glamour that Jennifer Blake had to kill a bunch of virgins to do.
Jennifer: Do you know what it takes to be able to look like this?
To be able to look normal?
It takes power.
And in Valack’s case, he could still pull off this trick even after the third eye was gone.
Valack (as Aiden): Sorry Lydia but your treatment's not done.
As to why the dreads went to great lengths to take that third eye, they were nearing
their final success.
Valack’s extra eye gave him the ability to mentally travel and gather information
from anywhere.
They definitely didn't want someone who understood what they're up to to also know everything
else - like their location.
Valack: you don't have to
Everything else Valack did in season five was about trying to find the dread doctors
some other way.
He tried one of their masks.
Enhancing Lydia to the point where she'd be able to find the beast and its host.
Presumably he was doing all this in an effort to stop them.