Next Stop Same As The Last
LOST GIRL – Episode 403 – Lovers. Apart. – (SPOILERS) ⁓
Jumbee and Bo
Clio (Mia Kirshner) and Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) find themselves in the dining car of an antiquated train. Dyson is disoriented until Clio blows in his ear in a very siren-like way. (The sound is inaudible but concentric waves are visible.) “Non-elemental boys like yourself,” she says, “can’t pass from one plane to the next without getting sick.” Dyson calls out Bo’s name and the train shakes violently. A conductor enters the car and says (in a voice that brings W C Fields to mind): “Next stop, same as the last. Last stop same before next. Get your tickets ready, please.” Clio says she hears the screams of “damned souls trying to get out”.
Darren Frost as Clio’s friend Lazy John, who fell asleep against a tree and was buried by monkeys.
In the train car where Bo had been, Dyson finds The Handmaiden (Linzee Barclay), who has still not entirely recovered from Bo. “She’s such a good kisser,” The Handmaiden tells him. “He’s gonna be so angry when he finds out she’s gone.” Dyson calls out Bo’s name again and the train shakes even more causing the door to the outside to open. (They must be in the hindmost car.) Clio uses a piece of Bo’s clothing to determine direction, and the two of them jump off the train together.
Bo (Anna Silk) jumped off the train a short while earlier, but without the guidance of an elemental. After running through a swampy area, she finds an isolated and apparently abandoned house. Almost immediately, Ian Jenkins (Lochlyn Munro), his wife Kathy (Katherine Ashby), and daughter Julia (Chloe Rose) arrive. Chloe hits Bo over the head with a cast-iron skillet, knocking her out. This likely is an homage to the opening scene of Takashi Shimizu’s 2006 film “The Grudge 2“, a film about a curse.
Bo is hungry when she wakes up, and Chloe says the episode’s best line: “Can you not look at my dad like he’s made of hot dogs?”
Julia Jenkins
The Jenkins family is both cursed and haunted, and they tend to kill each other. So on one particular day each year, Ian locks himself and his family into separate cells in the basement until the following sunrise. Shoes are tied in pairs facing in different directions along a clothesline in front of the house, because whatever is haunting them is believed to be obsessive compulsive and must try on all the shoes and undo all the knots before doing anything else.
Once the family is locked away, Bo returns and frees Julia, who does not believe in ghosts, goes beyond the clothesline, and is promptly possessed by a body jumper called Jumbee (Neema Bickersteth) (This is not the first such Fae in the series. A body jumper named Eddie appeared in “Dead Lucky“). When Bo feeds off the possessed Julie, she learns the history of the haunting.
Before she is subdued, the possessed Julia slashes Kathy’s throat. Clio goes out to collect leaves from the Peony plant, which she calls “The healing plant of the Gods”. to stop the bleeding. In humans, that plant has the opposite effect. It prevents clotting, so it is possible that Kathy Jenkins is Fae.
Evony and Massimo
The Morrigan with her new eye.
Meanwhile, Evony (Emmanuelle Vaugier), who is once again The Morrigan and has lost her right eye, is living in Lauren’s apartment. She feeds on a janitor (Donald Tripe) who has come to fix the air conditioner, and later on a cosmetics salesperson (Jeannie Daniels).
Evony’s son Massimo (Tim Rozon) drops by to bring her a new eye. Evony suggests that Bo was somehow behind her temporary fall from power, and she would like Bo to be permanently gone. Massimo says he already helped Tamsin get rid of the succubus.
In “Delinquents” (episode 3.10) Acacia (Linda Hamilton) sent Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) a bottle made of Rune Glass with which to cast a spell on Bo at the behest of “The Wanderer”. In “Those Who Wander” (episode 3.13), Tamsin threw the Rune Glass at Bo’s feet, but it had no apparent effect. Massimo will tell Bo, in “Turn to Stone” (episode 4.4), that the potion in the bottle was designed to “mark” her and allow her to “transcend planes” so she could be “collected”. This might explain how Bo escaped most of the ill-effects of inter-dimensional train travel.
The doomed cosmetics salesperson
Jumbee and Noah
More than a century earlier, Noah Jenkins (Ryan Tilley) fell in love with Jumbee (Neema Bickersteth), a water elemental. The rest of the Jenkins family thought she was a witch and decided to kill her. When Noah tried to stop them, they killed him too, but they buried the couple separately. To end the curse, Dyson and Bo dig up both sets of bones and put them all in one grave. Dyson finds two wedding rings. He and Bo take the thwarted lovers’ places and marry them in a proxy ceremony. This is the second time Bo has participated in a marriage ceremony. She married Ryan Lambert (Anthony Lemke) in “Fae-nted Love” (Episode 2.18) but it didn’t stick. Bo will have another matrimonial experience in “Origin” (episode 4.12).
Noah and Jumbee reunite
Crystal and Amber
At Ronnie’s Restaurant, Crystal (Ali Liebert) continues flirting with Lauren (Zoie Palmer). Lauren wonders why Crystal is working in such a place, and she explains. “I guess sometimes when a girl’s had so much bad luck she can start to feel like she’s the one causing it…And that’s when you start to accept things, like how being the best singer in town doesn’t really mean very much in the big city and how sometimes big dreams will swallow you whole.” Crystal produces a real estate ad for a farm she wants to buy. “If you don’t turn ’em into small ones instead. Small farm for sale…Work hard all day and just sit and watch the stars at night. Little heaven right there.”
Crystal and Amber
Amber visits Crystal and they have sex. Soon after that, Lauren learns her enemies have found her and she needs to leave town. As she hitchhikes, Crystal stops and offers her a ride, then apologizes as someone hiding in the back seat grabs and sedates Lauren.
Clio tries to capture Bo at knifepoint and take her to Vex, but Jumbee warned Bo about that possibility, and Clio does not succeed. Dyson drives Bo home in a car they obtained by unknown means, and they pass Crystal’s Dodge in which Lauren is being held captive, which is sitting by the side of the road. Bo thinks the other car has broken down and suggests they stop and help. Dyson rejects that idea, because getting Bo home is his priority, but Ronnie’s Restaurant and the Jenkins’ house cannot be very far from each other.