Teen Wolf season 5 is back with “The Last Chimera.” We discuss what happened in the latest episode and, more importantly, what it all means for our heroes.
On Teen Wolf season 5, episode 11, “The Last Chimera,” Valack has already drilled a hole in Lydia’s head. However, it might not be as bad as it looks (and it does look pretty bad). He’s trying to help her remember what happened in leading up to her current situation.
Lydia sees that a 10-year-old Theo stole his sister’s heart in order to make him a genetic chimera. “Why choose a 10-year-old willing to kill his own sister?” Valack asks. It’s a good question. We don’t know the answer yet, but we do know Theo is important. He was the first step in the right direction toward making the perfect killer, which is what the Beast of Gévaudan is meant to represent. If Valack can figure out why the Dread Doctors chose him, why he wasn’t right for the part, and why they changed their methods, then he can figure out what the Doctors are up to.
The real punch to the gut comes when we see Sheriff Stilinski being wheeled into the emergency room. They only have each other, especially now that Stiles has isolated himself from Malia and his other friends. Luckily, Melissa swoops in to calm him down and take care of the details of the hospital paperwork.
Parrish’s hallucinations still star Lydia front-and-center, and this time he knows there’s something wrong with her. He discovers her comatose body next to the Nemeton, where she’s scratched a seven-pointed star into a rock with her own fingernails. Parrish takes her to Scott, who is having trouble healing himself after his brush with death, and the deputy says he believes the star is an image of a sheriff’s badge. Scott thinks it’s a warning.
Scott and Parrish take Lydia to the hospital, where Stiles attacks Scott, blaming him for what’s happened to the sheriff. “Your dad’s not the only one who got hurt,” Scott says. “Oh, you’ll heal,” Stiles says dismissively. “I wasn’t talking about me,” Scott replies sadly.
Stiles then visits Lydia, but her mother quickly kicks him out of the room, blaming him for her current state. Stiles tries to get Mrs. Martin to look at Lydia’s neck, and after he leaves, she does. Mrs. Martin sees the claw marks from Theo, and Lydia repeats the phrase, “I told you to stay in the car,” which is exactly what her mother told her when she was a child and they were visiting Lydia’s grandmother in Eichen House.
Despite all of this, Mrs. Martin puts Lydia into Eichen House. Parrish is adamant this is a terrible idea, and he’s not wrong. What’s stranger is Dr. Fenris clearly does not want to come face to face with the deputy. Later, when the doctor is loading Lydia into the ambulance, he somehow transforms into Valack, and he and the creepy orderly take her away.
Meanwhile, Liam is on a mission to find Hayden, who he is convinced is alive. Liam still blames himself for the situation, but as Mason correctly points out, “There were, like, 800 extenuating circumstances.” Mason also realizes the way to find the Nemeton is to have Liam look with his supernatural eyes. They find the stump and the dead bodies (#intense), but the cops also find them at the crime scene, and they’re being led by none other than Hayden.
Across town, Stiles spends the majority of the episode pushing Scott away, while Scott spends the majority of it trying to convince Stiles he needs him. Reluctantly, Stiles enlists Scott’s help to lure Theo to him, where they use a shirt to cover up Scott’s scent and trick Theo into thinking the True Alpha is still dead.
Theo offers a few useful bits of information to Stiles and Scott. The first one is direct when he admits that if Lydia is right about Parrish being a Hellhound, “things are going to get a lot worse.” Unintentionally, Theo also admits he never attacked Sheriff Stilinski and puts the duo on the trail of a missing sophomore named Noah, who is a Berserker chimera.
Scott not longer cares about what Stiles did to Donovan. He just wants his friend back, and he wants to help Stiles save the sheriff. Stiles is still reluctant, and it gets even more awkward when Malia shows up, but the trio track down Noah at the same time the Dread Doctors do. Stiles is tasked with getting him out of there, while Malia and Scott fight off the bad guys. Luckily, Scott called Chris Argent for some backup.
At the hospital, the sheriff’s surgeon, who’s also Liam step-father, is getting suspicious of Stilinski’s worsening situations, especially since there seems to be no reason. Melissa admits she can’t tell him what’s going on, but once Stiles realizes a part of Noah’s Berserker bone protrusion is poisoning his dad, Melissa has the doctor open him back up and remove it. Sheriff Stilinski is in the clear. Noah, unfortunately, is not, and he’s killed by the Dread Doctors.
Throughout the episode, Stiles is knocked out in various ways, and he sees himself as a child at his mother’s grave, his father by his side. It’s unclear if this was purely for emotional impact (and if so, then it totally worked), or if it has a great significance.
At the end of the episode, we see Hayden and Theo coming upon a symbol that’s been clawed into a piece of metal sheeting. It’s a circle within a circle, the symbol of Scott’s pack and a promise to reunite them.
Theo and all his chimeras except Hayden visit Eichen House and search out Lydia. “The Dread Doctors don’t know how important she is,” Valack tells Theo. But Theo isn’t there for Lydia. He came for a Hellhound, and as Parrish shows up, covered in flames, it looks like Theo got what he was looking for.