LOST GIRL – Episode 501 – Like Hell (Part I) – SPOILERS
Kenzi
Singing “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain”, Bo (Anna Silk) climbs a crag. Reaching the top, she stands and admires the view, then plucks the missing Helskór (aka hel-shoe) from a large bird’s nest. On the way down she slips, and falls quite some distance.
“She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” has its roots in an old gospel song about The Rapture. “She” is sometimes interpreted as the vehicle returning the saviour to earth to pass judgement on the living and the dead. The choice of song could indicate that Bo is the vehicle destined to bring salvation to the Fae.
The Three Rednecks, played by Tyler McMaster, Trent Pardy, and Zach Apostoleris.
After her fall, Bo is apparently unconscious and is found by three men listed as ‘rednecks’ in the credits. Bo drains their chi to heal herself, but leaves them alive.
After returning home, Bo asks Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten): “What happened when you delivered Kenzi’s soul? Whether it’s hellfires, evil dragons, sexy dragons. I don’t care. I can handle it.” Bo did encounter a dragon (of sorts) called Leviathan (Jennifer Dale) in “Destiny’s Child” (episode 4.9). The Book of Job (41:19-21) depicts Leviathan as a fire-breathing beast.
“Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.”
Tamsin won’t answer the question, but she does tell Bo that she has given the other hel-shoe to Trick (Rick Howland). After retrieving the second Helskór from Trick, Bo visits Lauren at the clinic. (Lauren runs the Marquise Technical Clinic, and she is still with The Dark.
Trick’s map of the underworld.
When Bo puts on the hel-shoes, they become invisible on her feet and she vanishes.
Upset by this turn of events, Lauren visits Tamsin, who again refuses to talk about what happened to Kenzi, and suggests that Lauren should “eat a sack of tits”. As Trick will explain, Valkyries are blood-bound not to reveal anything about the afterlife. If they do, they die. Tamsin does give them her secret journal from which they learn that Bifröst, the bridge connecting Midgard (Earth) and Valhalla, is sometimes a teleport. Lauren has strands of Tamsin’s hair she found in Massimo’s “druid stash” and suggests she and Dyson might use it to trick the Gates of Valhalla into opening.
Freyja’s assistant Stacey reluctantly prepares to take a call
Bo enters Valhalla, and in that place it is always noon, at least according to the prominently-displayed clock, the hands of which never move. One wonders if Bo is about to face a dilemma similar to the one faced by Marshall Will Kane in Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 film High Noon. She meets Freyja (Michelle Nolden), who is quickly revealed to be dangerous when she summarily sends an uninvited guest (Rachel Blair) through a portal of some sort, likely to an undesirable destination. Bo avoids further contact with Freyja and instead seduces a maid (Alyssa Veniece Chin) and appropriates her uniform.
In Norse myth, Freyja rules over Fólkvangr, where half of those who die in battle go. The other half go to Odin’s Valhalla.
Lost Girl’s Freyja has an assistant named Stacey (Kate Corbett), who has known Tamsin, and been her nemesis, for a long time.
Eventually, Bo locates Kenzi (Ksenia Solo), who seems to be in no distress at all. Freyja is arranging Kenzi’s wedding, but Bo’s arrival throws a spanner into the works, and makes Freyja send Hale (K C Collins), who died in “End of a Line” (episode 4.11) away and cancel the nuptials. Freya is ready to feed Kenzi to some unspecified demon, but Bo intervenes.
While Freyja sends Bo to Tartarus, a guard (Mary Ann Stevens) escorts Kenzi away, and Tamsin is held back by two other guards (Tracy Messenger and Stephannie Hawkins).
After promising to return Kenzi to her body, Freyja opens a portal and Bo finds herself in the hotel elevator which is lined with one thousand, six hundred and seventeen buttons, on her way to meet someone who might be her father. Kenzi is returned to her body, which is in her coffin. Fortunately, she is still wearing her wedding dress and has two things Bo gave her in preparation for the wedding: the matches (something new) and the knife (something borrowed).
At the Gates of Valhalla, Lauren chants: “I navnet til sjelene brakt frem til Valhalla, la portene apenbarer seg. Avslor. Avslor. Avslor!” which, loosely translated is: “”In the name of the souls brought forth to Valhalla, let the gates open. Reveal. Reveal. Reveal!” The Gates appear, and Dyson forces them open. Lauren is briefly possessed by a Valkyrie spirit and warns Dyson away, then collapses.
Miscellaneous Info
Kenzi wakes up in her coffin.
Ksenia Solo stars as Sarah Mathis in Bennet De Brabandere‘s science fiction horror thriller RAPTUS, about a woman who employs a “comfort robot” to help her deal with the after-effects of a savage attack.
Michelle Nolden is Rain Homur in HOME FREE, a film about two sisters, Ivy and Daisy, who return home for their parents fiftieth wedding anniversary only to discover their father is dyingg of a nearly untreatable brain tumor. HOME FREE was filmed in Paris, Ontario, and directed by Avi Federgreen.
RAPTUS can be streamed on TUBI as can HOME FREE.
** Revised. — Originally published in 2015.
