LOST GIRL- Episode 402 – Sleeping Beauty School – SPOILERS ⁓

Tamsin has been reincarnated as an eight-year-old version of herself (Ava Preston). Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) finds her in shrubbery near the place where she disappeared. Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) is charged with babysitting the girl. She objects strenuously, possibly because of her experiences babysitting young Ethan in “Adventures in Fae-bysitting” (episode 3.11), but Dyson insists.

Trick (Rick Howland) uses the Recuerdo Compass (see previous episode) to determine that Bo is “no longer on this plane of existence”. Dyson suggests possible people to track down her location. “Helios,” he says, “is retired, Moldavia is in prison. There’s Ebisu but he’s an idiot.” (Ebisu must have been named after the Japanese God of fisherman and luck. Moldavia likely takes his or her name from a former principality that is now part of Romania. Helios is the brother of Selene.) Trick says the only person able to track someone across the ‘intersecting planes of existence’ is Endymion. No one knows where he is, but Trick refers Dyson to Selene, Endymion’s ex.

Selene is the Moon Goddess, and, according to Pliny the Elder, Endymion was infatuated with her. Selene though Endymion was beautiful when he slept, and asked his cousin Zeus to keep him that way. Zeus put Endymion into an eternal sleep and Selene visited him every night and had fifty daughters by him.

Dyson and Hale (K C Collins) get the run around from Selena (Cynthia Preston), who runs a beauty school, and also from Clio (Mia Kirshner), a Nymph who gives Hale a message written in Hindi to give to Astrid (Farah Merani) that is supposed to get her to help but instead tells her to erase his memories. When she reveals that she has no mouth, Hale reverently calls her Astomi, which is the name for a mythical people who lived near the Ganges River and survived by smelling fruits and flowers.

Astrid tells Hale not to trust Clio, gives him relationship advice, and does not erase his memories. Returning to the beauty school, Dyson locates the sleeping Endymion (Benjamin Ayres) behind a vault door which resembles the vault door in “Fae Gone Wild” (episode 2.7). Astrid gave Dyson a kiss-in-a-spray-bottle, and Dyson uses that to force Selene to wake her sleeping captive.

Young Tamsin accidentally sets fire to the Wanderer card, revealing the Roman numerals MMXV.

Lauren (Zoie Palmer) is working in a nearby diner under the name Amber. Another name for the mineral amber is succinite, a fact Lauren probably knows. Succinite and succubus look similar but do not have a common root. This is purely speculative, but Lauren might have (perhaps unconsciously) taken the name because she thinks of herself as Bo’s kryptonite. She performs a tracheotomy on a choking customer (Danya Nearon) who turns out to be a Ghanian Diversity Fae with distinctive non-human organs inside his neck. Lauren’s co-worker Crystal (Ali Liebert) films the operation, but later deletes the video from her phone at Amber’s request.

Endymion carries an umbrella, which is sometimes open and sometimes not. It is never raining and always cloudy, so the umbrella is something of a mystery. Dyson tries to persuade him to help find Bo, and he says he will, but they are being followed by Clio who somehow steals Endymion’s umbrella, and then explains that she has been impersonating Endymion while he was sleeping and is better than he at tracking people. Using the umbrella, she manoeuvers Endymion onto a train track and while he’s busy singing his own praises, a train arrives. The train is steam-powered and trans-dimensional, and as it strikes Endymion, he vanishes. Clio, who is an elemental and knows these things, says another train is coming at a quarter after eight and they need a ticket to get on it.

Meanwhile, The Una Mens have brought their inquisitional techniques to town because they are upset at the recent breakdown of law and order. They torture Vex (Paul Amos) and then threaten to kill him, at which point he offers to get them Bo. They implant something from behind Arabella’s ear in his throat and send him on his way.

Vex breaks into an old, mid-sized Chrysler and phones Clio, explaining that he will “pay her triple” if she delivers Bo to him. The Nymph agrees, then returns to Dyson and puts The Wanderer card into a slot in what appears to be an old radio abandoned near the train tracks. She is surprised and pleased that it turns the signal light to red. A determined Dyson and a worried Clio stand on the track, and vanish just before the train hits them.

Bo (Anna Silk) wakes in a bed in a nineteenth-century-style train compartment with a broken window. When the train is viewed from the outside, we see is the only broken window on the train. Bo’s compartment is locked, and after she bangs on the door for a while, a Handmaiden (Linzee Barclay) arrives.

HANDMAIDEN: “Please. I think you’ll awaken him. Beautiful eyes, both brown and blue. You’re the one.”
BO: “What is this place? Who is he?”
HANDMAIDEN: [the train shakes] “You’ve made him angry. This is all your fault.”

Bo sucks just enough chi from The Handmaiden to get herself off the train, kicks open the door, and jumps into the night.

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