According to Dr. Valack, the doctors came to Beacon Hills many years before the events of Season 5. Many people died due to their efforts. They returned after Scott McCall, Allison Argent, and Stiles Stilinski recharged the power of the Nemeton. (A Novel Approach)
Marcel, a bar owner in 18th-century France and a soldier during the French and Indian War, was a loyal friend to Sebastien Valet. In a sign of his unrequited love, Marcel covered up Sebastian's crimes. Marcel continued to cover for his friend after Sebastian became La Bte du Gvaudan and went on a murder spree across the French countryside.
Along with like-minded individuals, Marcel practiced at the fringes of pseudoscience and, over several decades, learned to harness electromagnetic forces, prolong his own life and manipulate the memories of anyone who crossed his path.
The Dread Doctors primary method of operation involves operating on young natural chimeras, teenaged humans who have two different sets of DNA. Human chimeras can be born with the condition or a second set of DNA might be introduced through organ or bone marrow transplant.
From details shown on screen, the process involves the doctors collecting pieces from real supernatural creatures. They also apparently use the seepage from an unhealed wound inflicted on Garrett Douglas by Ghost Riders during World War II. Douglas was a natural werewolf/lion chimera the doctors kept in a fluid filled tube in their laboratory. The liquid in the tube is infused with the trans-dimensional energy of the Wild Hunt and is apparently key to the doctors' efforts. The fluid also appears to prolong the doctors' lives.
Their primary goal was to create a new body for Sebastian Valet. Marcel believed to way to achieve this would be to create the ultimate killer creature. All of the doctors efforts over the years failed to produce the desired effect although they came close with Theo Raeken. Marcel described him as "perfect evil" but he ultimately failed their purpose too.
Theo's failure resulted in a change in doctors' tactics. After decades of trying to use evil to recreate evil, Marcel realize that the greatest evil would be to take something innocent and corrupt it.
They took Mason Hewett. Mason was a natural chimera because he absorbed the body of his twin while in his mother's womb. While the doctors' operation on Mason resulted in the body of the Beast of Gevaudan returning, the creature had no memory of his former life. The doctors used special electromagnetic frequencies to induce transformations in an effort to help Sebastian remember his former life.
Owned by the Surgeon, he uses it as a weapon to killed failed experiments or defend himself. It is revealed to be the pike that Marie-Jeanne Valet used to kill her brother. It was forged steel mixed with Wolfsbane, Mountain Ash and Marie's blood under the light of a full moon. When it is used on Sebastien again, it disappears along with him.
In The Sword and the Spirit, Theo lets Malia use these spiked goggles to find her mother. He explains that all supernatural creatures vibrate at certain frequencies that differ one from another. For them to work, one places the goggles over their eyes, flip a switch, and the spikes shoot out and embed themselves in the soft tissue just below the eyes. With enough focus, Malia was able to pin point the location of The Desert Wolf.
These Masks are imbued with electromagnetic properties that can potentially kill anyone who puts it on. Dr. Valack had one of the masks from a former doctor. It was stolen by Theo in an effort to discover the identity of The Beast.
Dr. Deaton explains that, while the Doctors' experiments may appear to be familiar creatures, they are not supernatural as evidenced by their ability to cross Mountain Ash barriers. The old rules and restrictions do not apply to the subjects of these experiments.
The Doctors created hybrids by combining parts, most seem to have some werewolf traits mixed with more exotic species, to form a chimera. Theo says they are "cheap knockoffs" of the supernatural creatures they resemble.
They would bury their victims in the ground for incubation before they emerged with no apparent memory of these events, then they were sought out by the doctors when they were "Awakening" to finish their construction with mercury injections. (Parasomnia, Dreamcatchers)
If an experiment is emitting black goo, the doctors consider their condition as "worsening" and will either salvage it or kill it. If mercury begins to bleed from their orifices, the experiment's condition is "terminal" and is deemed a failure before being terminated otherwise it will suffer a slow and painful death. (Ouroboros, Lies of Omission, Status Asthmaticus)
Sheriff Stilinski and Melissa McCall have figured out that several of the chimera they know about had skin or other tissue transplants at the hospital in the past. This suggests they were all genetically chimera before the Dread Doctors.
They pumped black goo into Liam when he was briefly captured. According to Theo, this was a wolfsbane solution designed to suppress his abilities and make it impossible to find their lair again as he attempted the same procedure on Deucalion.
The doctors appear to be slightly out of phase with reality. The bodies blur constantly. A sonic device deployed by Gerard Argent was apparently tuned to a frequency that kept the doctors motionless for an extended period.
The Geneticist is played for most of Season 5 by frequent Teen Wolf actor and stuntwoman Caitlin Dechelle. Dechelle moved to London midway through filming the second half of the season and was replaced under the Geneticist's mask by Elisabeth Carpenter.
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So I sort of read the pages in the dread doctors book and found something intresting. One of the characters (I think it was Judy, but I can't remember) used two weapons against a chimera: a wrench and a baseball bat. Sounds familiar to our Stiles Stilinski, right? You think it's significant?
So Dr Valack has admitted to writing this book. My next question then becomes - when. When did he write this? He says there was ever only one edition. Which means that this is the original print from when it was first published. Look at the price. 50 cents. When did a paperback like this, a pocket book, cost 50 cents?
I did a little digging and found that when they first started printing paperbacks the price was 25 cents. That was back in 1939. The price stayed fixed for about 10 years. From the 1950s you could also find paperbacks priced at 35 cents and 50 cents. I also found that a mass-market paperback fiction cost $1.35 in 1975. A paperback with small print runs would be more expensive. In conclusion this book was probably published prior to the 70s, possibly in the 50s or 60s. Dr Valack does not look that old, unless he wrote is as a toddler. The actor portraying him was born in 1969.
It will culminate in a theory that the dread doctors have put a new heart in Scott - much like they did with Theo. Theo was the chimera that almost succeeded. He got a new heart. Are they repeating that, only with Scott - someone who also had asthma like Theo - and who was weakened by wolfsbane so that it returned.
I think that was why Scott remembered the trip to the hospital after reading the book - he was brought in with a severe case of asthma, perhaps a condition the doctors was looking for, finding suitable. I also think the doctors have messed with Scott already, like in 5x01 with the odd thing with the magnets. Possibly as long back as the icebaths.
I keep circling back to emissaries and their mission. I have a sneaking suspicion the doctors are emissaries. According to what Gerard told Scott in 3x08 Lycaon asked the druids to help them and they became emissaries to the wolves.
On a side note: Damnatio memoriae - condemned from history. I absolutely think this relates to what happened back with La Bete in 1700s. Will the flashback show us how it was defeated? I somehow doubt we have the whole story there. Argent has claimed the victory - has a family tradition and code of conduct been based on false premises?
So guardian of the supernatural. Cool. Also interesting word of choice - abominations. This can be linked to the kanima aka Jackson, we have a lacrosse player nicknamed this, and Stiles called himself an abominable snowman. Hmm..
Talia appears to Derek on the Nemeton, telling him the town need to be protected. It seems obvious this is at the center of what it needs to be protected from. Now most of the Hales are dead and the remaining members are not around. This is also why I think Derek will make a return to fulfill his duty.
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