Kharma, Synchronicity, and the Body in the Morgue
LOST GIRL – Episode 503 – Big In Japan – SPOILERS ⁓
Lisa and Mr. Keats
Bo (Anna Silk) is painting her living room olive green, at least that’s the colour of the paint in the roller tray. It might ba a lighter shade when it dries. Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) tries to explain proper painting technique, to no avail. He wants sex, but Bo is off her feed and feigns a headache. When Dyson offers to heal her in the usual way, she deflects him again, saying she’s really thirsty.
Mushashi discovers the poison in his drink. He suggests that the poison came from “a rare breed of piranha”. No piranhas are known to be poisonous.
Across town at the Dal, it’s karaoke night. A man named Musashi (Scott Ryan Yamamura) and two unnamed friends (Mercedes Leggett and Bethanie Ho) are demonstrating their lack of singing ability. After performing “Ring My Bell“, Musashi spills his drink on someone, and eases the man’s anger with a change purse full of gold. While this is going on, another man drops something poisonous into Musashi’s drink. The intended victim quickly detects the poison.
At her clinic, Lauren (Zoie Palmer) shows Dyson one of the three intact bodies from last episode’s elevator crash. “Elizabeth Helm,” she says. “Junior lawyer. Healthy. She’s pretty too.” The three do not seem to have known each other when they were alive. Dyson says that one was a corporate Vice-President and family man, and the other was a bike courier, taking classes at night school. Four blood types are detected and one of them is from an unknown species of Fae. One wonders how three humans with the same Fae blood factor could come together in one elevator just before it crashed.
Tamsin and Bo at the hot dog stand.
Since she turned The Morrigan human (in Origin, Episode 4.12), Lauren has been getting threatening phone calls, and Dyson warns her to be careful.
Bo is looking at a website dealing with low sex drive in women. She conceals this from Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten), and the two of them go out for some food. They find a street vendor and order hot dogs, but are diverted from that by Musashi who suggests they join him at a club called North of the Border.
Next morning, Bo wakes up with the sun in her eyes. “Remind me again why i took the boards off the windows,” she says, and Tamsin says: “Something about maturity, growing up, and taking control.” (The real reason Bo began to remove the boards from the windows was to place the candle given to her by Persephone in one and light it, an action that might have precipitated the elevator crash mentioned earlier. Then they notice Musashi sitting in a chair, and we learn that Bo sleeps with a large knife under her pillow. A “fail-safe assassin”, Musashi explains, is trying to kill him, and last night they agreed to be his bodyguards.
Lauren and the broom
The episode’s funniest moment is when Lauren arms herself with a broom to defend against an imagined intruder at the clinic. (It turns out to be the night janitor.) The experience causes Lauren to ask Dyson for self-defense training. He encourages her to take a Zen-like approach, and she learns how to use the shuriken. This enables her to save one of her nurses (Lisa, played by Nadine Djoury). An intruder looking for the serum to turn Fae human holds Lisa hostage, and Lauren sticks him in the neck with a ketamine-filled hypo from across the room.
Musashi is scheduled to become “king of his ancestors” in reward for deeds of heroism that (as it turns out) he did not perform. His sister Tamoe (Emily Piggford) was the true hero. She called the hit on her brother, not for selfish reasons, but because if he were to go through the Ascension ceremony under false pretense he would become an Akaname (filth-licking spirit), somethng Tamsin calls a fate worse than death. Bo and Tamsin straighten things out and Tamoe gets appropriate credit for her heroism. Musashi responds to his newfound disgrace by stabbing Bo in the belly and the injury is life-threatening because she has no sex drive and cannot feed to heal herself.
Bo’s blurry view of Lauren and Lisa working on her wound while a worried Trick looks on.
After other approaches fail, Tamsin disconnects Bo from life support, forcing her to reveal the real source of her unwillingness to heal, which is a fear of abandonment triggered by the loss of Kenzi (who left for Spain at the end of “Like Hell, Part II” – Episode 502). Trick (Rick Howland), Lauren, and Dyson all reassure Bo that they will never leave. Tamsin gives no such assurance, and this foreshadows things to come later in Season Five. Bo immediately regains her succubus powers. She and Dyson have loud, enthusiastic sex, while Tamsin and Lauren, both of whom are in love with Bo, wait in the next room.
Elizabeth Helm (or somebody like her) wakes in Lauren’s morgue.
Lauren puts her hand on Tamsin’s knee and says: “I just want to say that you’re full of surprises. And most of them are downright horrible. But sometimes — every once in a while — they’re just what everybody needs.” Tamsin waits for Lauren to leave the room, and begins to cry.
Lawyer Elizabeth Helm (Amanda Walsh) rises from the dead, unsteady on her feet. The first person she encounters is Lisa. “Can you see me?”, she asks, and after getting an affirmative reply, snaps the unfortunate nurse’s neck.
Cast News
Rachel Skarsten is Jazz Ramsey in the Hallmark movie JAZZ RAMSEY: A CANINE MYSTERY, a film based on the second book in the series of mystery novels by Kylie Logan. In the books, Jazz is an amateur detective who trains cadaver dogs and lives in Cleveland. In the film, Jazz and Zeus, the dog she is currently training, happen upon bodies in an abandoned building, and sShe is forced to work with her ex, Detective Nick Kolesov, to find the killer. JAZZ RAMSEY: A CANINE MYSTERY can be streamed on Hallmark Plus.
Emily Piggford as Tamoe
Emilly Piggford will be Lily in the dark satirical comedy THE ROSES, which will star Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman, a re-imagining of Danny DeVito’s 1989 film “The War of the Roses”, which was the story of a middle-aged couple and their unpleasant divorce. Directed by Jay Roach, THE ROSES (“A Perfeição Desmascarada” in Brazil) will be released on 28 February.