"In a way. If we came from an experiment, we're the final product. These chimeras aren't. They die." 

"We think whoever is churning them out is killing them. Destroying the ones that aren't viable." 

"We need a way to find them. Something more elegant than removing the rooves of relevant buildings and looking inside."

"I can find things by scent, but we haven't smelled them. Otherwise, Lydia can try predicting where the next body will be."

"Since when was that reliable? We're better off talking to Valack."

"Who is Valack?"

"Maybe a former doctor. Definitely a guy kept locked up in the local supernatural prison."

"His name was tied to a book we found called "The Dread Doctors", in one of the chimera's rooms. She was having night terrors." 

"'Dread Doctors'? That's not melodramatic at all."

"It was billed as fiction. Never very popular, one of many forgettable science fiction novels. Except Valack is the author."

"Not much more than vague suspicion, but better than anything else we have. And I have time to spare."

"To Eichen House, then?"

Nod.

"We should get back to the others."

Then they can go that way.

"How did it go?"

"We talked to him. It went fine. We were thinking of going to Eichen House. See if we can find out the story behind the book."

"Unless you've come up with any better ideas?"

"Most things are better than Eichen House. We can come up with something." 

"We don't all have to. Me, Scott, Lydia, Liam, and Kira can go."

"I guess I'm not invited?"

"You're more vulnerable than the rest of us. I should ask Theo, too."

"Yeah, what this plan really needs is more of him."

"What is Theo's deal?"

"He's an old friend of Scott."