A Candle To Light You To Bed
LOST GIRL – Episode 506 – Clear Eyes, Fae Hearts – SPOILERS
Anna Hopkins as Head Cheerleader Brinkley White
In a dream, Bo (Anna Silk) sees Lauren (Zoie Palmer) in a white dress. In Lauren’s lap is the music box Bo’s father sent her for her birthday. When Lauren cranks the music box, it plays the tune of an old English nursery rhyme, “Oranges and Lemons”. The rhyme was originally an 18th century mnemonic for identifying the bell ringing patterns of various London churches, and evolved into a children’s game about a hundred years later. These lines were added to the end of the rhyme for the game:
“Here comes a candle to light you to bed.
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.
(Chip chop, chip chop, the last man’s dead.)”
Clay Jones (Dwain Murphy).
Bo wakes, calling Lauren’s name. This wakes Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten), who is sleeping on the left side of the bed. (In the episode Big in Japan, Tamsin slept on the right side.) Tamsin tells Bo about her dream: “I was driving in my truck,” she says, “and you were there. Wait. Were you there? Yeah, you were very much there. I just really wanted a burger but nothing was open. Everything was closed forever. The drive-thrus were closed. Forever.”
Bo suggests breakfast. “Half Cap’n Crunch and half Lucky Charms?”
Cheryl Hickey as an unnamed reporter investigating the death of a college quarterback. — Hickey is now co-host of Breakfaast Television with Tracy and Cheryl on CITY TV.
Jake Marshall a wide receiver for The Thunder (college football) is murdered. A triskele is written in blood near the body, and Dyson has seen that symbol at the scene of several recent murders. (The Triskele is a triple spiral symbolizing birth, because the sun moves in a spiral path across the sky and repeats it every three months. Three spirals equal one normal human pregnancy.) Dyson enlists Bo’s help in the investigation.
Bo poses as a recruiter from the Van City Valkyries, and Tamsin comes along as a competing cheerleader from another school. (Stephannie Hawkins doubles for Skarsten in this episode.) Tamsin takes an immediate dislike to head cheerleader Brinkley White (Anna Hopkins), and to cheerleaders in general. “I can smell their insecurity from here,” she remarks, and Bo comes back with: “I think it’s Eau de Taylor Swift.”
Bo with cheerleader Derek Finley
The one male cheerleader (Derek Finley played by Aren Buckholz) is arrested for the murder because of planted evidence. Finley is dramatically exonerated when Clay Jonas (Dwain Murphy), the team’s quarterback, comes out as his boyfriend and alibis him. The quarterback doesn’t know it, but he’s a Heraclid, Trick (Rick Howland) explains that Heraclids are descendants of Hercules, who was the son of Zeus and the human Alcmene. According to Trick, Zeus was/is Fae, and Heraclids, descended from Hercules, have no Fae powers (see “Where There’s A Will, There’s A Fae”). (They do have what Trick describes as “good genes”.)
Zee (Amanda Walsh) drops by the Dal, and orders a cocktail that Trick hasn’t mixed in a thousand years. She does not tell Trick who she actually is. Here are the ingredients of what Trick calls the “drink of prophecy”:
- Rum-soaked bark of the Chuchuhuasi tree
- Ambrosia spirits
- A boiled egg
Zee at the Dal
The Chuchuhuasi tree grows in the Amazon rain forest and its bark contains alkaloids that increase endurance and sexual potency. Zeus calls it a Coquetel, which is Portuguese for cocktail.
Zee is wearing the body of Elizabeth Helm, one of the people killed in the elevator crash in “Like Hell, Part II“. At about the same time, Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) gets a visit from Alicia Welles (Lisa Marcos), the widow of another victim of that elevator crash. She is upset because days after burying her husband Kevin, she saw him walking down the street and was able to take a photo of him. The possessed version of Kevin Welles (Noam Jenkins) is Clay Jonas’ agent, and it was he who insisted that Jones keep his relationship with Derek a secret. (Bo went on a date with him during her investigation into what happened to Cassie in “It’s Your Lucky Fae” (episode 5.5).
NOTES
The page of Trick’s ledger with Bo’s signature. The ledger is now in the possession of Zee and Heratio. It was stolen from The Dal by Iris (Shanice Banton) in episode 5.5.
Beginning with this episode (21 May 2015) SyFy aired LOST GIRL at 10pm Thursdays immediately after WWE SMACKDOWN, which was itself moved to Thursdays the previous January. Asked why wrestling was moved to Thursday, Michael Engleman, SyFy’s Executive VP of Marketing and Digital and Global Brand Strategy told R. Thomas Umstead of MultiChannel News: “Quite simply, more young men watch television on Thursday night than on Fridays. In fact, that tends to be 15% higher on Thursday than Friday during primetime hours among men 18-49. [And with] the majority of broadcast programming [biased toward] female, we’re also using Thursday nights to counter program.” It seems likely that similar reasoning was behind LOST GIRL’s schedule change.
In 2014, The Miami Herald reported: “Quite simply, more young men watch television on Thursday night than on Fridays,” Michael Engleman, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Digital and Global Brand Strategy, Syfy, said in a release. “Among Men 18-49, PUTS are 15 percent higher compared to Fridays, expanding the potential audience for SmackDown. Since the majority of broadcast programming skews female, we’re also using Thursday nights to counter program.”
** — Revised. Originally published in 2015.