LOST GIRL – Episode 405 – Let the Dark Times Roll – SPOILERS ⁓

The Keeper (Christine Horne), leader of the Una Mens, calls to order the inquisition of Fitzpatrick McCorrigan (aka Trick). She refers to Trick (Rick Howland) as a “humble Lakin Chan” whose drinking establishment became a place of sanctuary, gaining him influence with the Light and the Dark. “I keep my nose out of Fae politics,” says Trick, and The Keeper gives him a history lesson.

KEEPER: “You must know how the Una Mens came to be. After the Great Fae War, there was a rebellion. Fae rebels trying to overturn the blood laws of the Blood King. Why?”
TRICK: “He became corrupt.”
KEEPER: “But a peace was offered, if The King would relinquish power to a council made up of those willing to sacrifice their individual flaws and desires.”
TRICK: “And souls.”
KEEPER: “To form a single soul without ego or ambition. The Blood King agreed. Then he betrayed us. The six seeds of the sacred papyrus plant were given to six Fae to swallow. So they might be blessed with new life as a single vessel of humility and justice. The King stole his seed and vanished. Absorb the power of the blood mage and the Una Mens will be able to enforce the laws he wrote, unchallenged.”
TRICK: “Unchallenged?”
KEEPER: “We would have him take his rightful place among us. If we might find him.”

In an article for “The Open Court”, Lewis Spence wrote that Itzamna, one the most important of the Mayan deities, was also referred to as Lakin Chan, which translates as “Serpent of the East”. This suggests that the Una Mens are aware that Trick is the Blood King and know they must tread carefully, and persuade him to swallow his papyrus seed (which he keeps in a vault in his lair). They cannot force the issue, because, as Trick will later explain to Bo, the Una Mens have no emotions, but they do have rules which they follow rigorously.

Perhaps in recognition of the former king’s governing skills, The Keeper names him Acting Ash.

Trick makes a phone call to an old acquaintance. “Just get me anything on this Wanderer, Wai Lin, and we’ll do dinner. Just dinner,” he says. In “Barometz, Trick, Pressure” (episode 2.13), Wai Lin (Kyra Harper) asks Trick about a box. “1419,” she says. “We were on board a Song Dynasty Junk Ship heading to the Americas. You were carrying a box. You were very protective over it. What was inside that box?” Trick refused to tell her the truth about that, but it likely contained his papyrus seed. In 1899, Trick was in Europe in “La Fae Epoch” (episode 4.7), so he traveled to the Americas twice, the first time likely from Asia.

Bo (Anna Silk) has joined the Dark, though she has no memory of signing the contract. The Una Mens told her she must “pay fealty to the leader of the Dark” or die, so Bo goes to see Evony Fleurette Marquise (Emmanuelle Vaugier), who says she can’t do anything about it. Evony likes the idea of Bo being Dark, and invites her to a ceilidh. Then she reveals that Lauren Lewis (Zoie Palmer) is now in the Dark’s employ. (Lauren makes a dramatic entrance, walking barefoot across the lawn in a little black dress. She and Bo are very happy to see each other again.)

Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) and Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) accompany Bo to the ceilidh, and they find Bruce (Rob Archer) acting as a sushi table as punishment for having helped Kenzi escape in “Those Who Wander” (episode 3.13). Bruce is owned by Kai the Makishi (Judi-Anne Olivia Lopez) so Tamsin needs to defeat Kai in a “dance-off to the death”. The music they duel to is ‘She Hurt My Head” by Dylan Berry. Tamsin “doubts” Kai into a neck-breaking miscalculation.

Bruce is uncertain what do do with his newfound freedom, and Kenzi tells him he needs to “find his wings”. The camera pans slowly to the sleeping Tamsin, who grew wings in the previous episode.

In exchange for her help with Bo’s contract issues, The Morrigan requires Bo, Lauren, and Pietra (Samantha Espie) to capture the fugitive mesmer Vex (Paul Amos), so she can deliver him to the Una Mens. To disable Vex, Lauren makes “Nectar of Violet” which she says was the preferred hallucinogen of Socrates, and might be “Mad Honey“. (When bees feed on the pollen of rhododendrons, the resulting honey contains grayanotoxin. The effects of Mad Honey were described by Xenophon of Athens, a student of Socrates.)

The Una Mens have infected Vex with a fungus that is causing his right hand to turn black and will eventually kill him if left unattended. Bo locates Vex at Jackson’s Boxing Club where Dyson, who is away searching for Lauren, usually hangs out. Bo accidentally injects herself with the hallucinogen, but all she can think of when under its effects is Lauren.

Vex amputates his own infected appendage. Two other hands have been severed on LOST GIRL. In “Fae Gone Wild” (episode 2.7), the hand of a murderer was severed for spell-casting purposes. In “Delinquents” (episode 3.10) Tamsin gets a severed hand in the mail. Vex tells Bo that despite her suspicions, he had nothing to do with her Dark Fae contract.

At the Dal, Bo asks her grandfather: “What about my so-called sponsor, Rainer?” Trick says there’s only one sure way to find out who he is – The Kings’ Book of Records, and assures her they will find it, but as they speak, The Keeper is examining the contract that Bo signed with the Dark. She notes the sponsor’s name is Rainer, and looks him up, most likely in the book Trick mentioned. The result upsets her. “No,” she says, “it cannot be. Never again.” (Rainer will make his first appearance in “Destiny’s Child” (episode 4.9)

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Miscellaneous Info

Kirsten Comerford is live-in nanny Melissa Juneau in the Lifetime movie MY HUSBAND’S KILLER AFFAIR. The film, directed by Roxanne Boisvert and written by Audrey C Marie, will premiere on LMN Thursday 6 June at 8/7c.

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All episodes of LOST GIRL can be streamed on The CW.

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** — Revised. Originally posted on 1 January 2013