LOST GIRL – Episode 508 – End of Faes – SPOILERS
Dr. Lauren Lewis
Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) stops being Bo’s roommate. She tells Bo: “You and Lauren, you two will always be a couple, even when you’re not.”
Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), Trick (Rick Howland), Lauren (Zoie Palmer), and Bo (Anna Silk) all get invitations from Zee (Amanda Walsh) for a party at her place. Dyson persuades his son Mark (Luke Bilyk) to come along even though Vex (Paul Amos) who is in love with Mark (but hasn’t told anybody), and did not get an invitation, warns against it.
Tamsin moves out.
When they arrive at Zee’s soirée, a mix of Fae and humans yell “surprise” and display a sign that reads “Welcome, Bo”. Bo wonders aloud why Greek gods would throw her a surprise party. Zee persuades both Trick and Bo to drink a coquetel, the drink of prophecy (see episode 506) purportedly to show them what Bo’s father Hades is planning.
Each has an apocalyptic vision that persuades them to allow Zee to “emancipate” Bo from Hades. Then Bo awkwardly tries to clarify her relationship with Lauren.
BO: “Lauren, wait. About what happened between us, during the blackout.”
LAUREN: “Let me save you the trouble. We slept together. One time thing. I get it, and I’m okay with it.”
BO: “Okay. But here’s the thing: I’m not. I mean I was — and look it’s just — There’ll always be another reason not to be together. I don’t want to put this off any longer.”
LAUREN: “Oh boy.”
BO: “‘Oh boy; yes? Or ‘oh boy’ no?”
Tamsin, who also got an invitation, shows up unaccompanied, and her arrival interrupts the conversation. Bo tells Lauren: “We’ll finish this later, okay?”
Mark and Iris
Iris (Shanice Banton), who is inhabiting the body of Cecilia Lawrence (Cece) and inside whom Hera has put Nyx, gets together with Mark. The two of them leave the party together without telling anyone, and Iris takes him to Cece’s house. After they have sex, Mark goes to the kitchen and notices a card on the fridge that says “In loving memory of Cecilia Lawrence”. He realizes that Cece is Iris’ host. She explains that she didn’t kill Cece, although Hera instructed her to do so. This indicates that other humans being used as vessels by the ancients might still be alive as well.
Then Cece’s parents come home and Mark tries to leave, but Iris approaches Cece’s dad (Rothaford Gray), possibly in the hope of replacing Hera and Zee with Cece’s parents. When Cece’s father backs away from her saying she’s not his daughter, Iris somehow causes his death. Mark tells Iris to leave, and tries to move the body, but Cece’s mother (Catherine Burdon) stabs Mark in the stomach, and he staggers out of the house.
Bo chooses The Amethusto Dagger
Back at Zee’s place, Bo begins the ceremony that will emancipate her from her father after selecting a weapon to cut away Hades’ handprint. The weapon she selects is The Amethusto Dagger, which is said to keep its owner free of evil thoughts.
Hera’s powers are reduced because Dyson injected her earlier with Lauren’s “bug spray” concoction — a mix of D-phenothrin, prallethrin and deltamethrin, and because of this, Tamsin and Lauren are able to bind her to a chair for questioning. In the process, Tamsin surprises Lauren by telling her that “the best woman won” indicating that Bo chose Lauren over her. The two discover the restraints used on Iris when she slept, and conclude that Iris is more powerful than either Zee or Hera.
Tamsin and Zee (aka Zeus) chat on Zee’s balcony.
They interrupt the emancipation ceremony with this news just as Zee is about to cut the handprint from Bo’s chest. Saying the ceremony will have to wait, Bo, Dyson, and Lauren go in search of Mark and Iris. Before they split up to cover more territory, Lauren has an answer for Bo’s question from earlier. “Oh boy, yes,” she says.
Bo locates Iris, who has discovered that her touch turns living things into amorphous black powder. Iris warns Bo, but the succubus touches her face. This turns Bo’s hand black, which was part of the vision Bo had after drinking the coquetel and she realizes the danger is not from her father, but from Iris.
Iris means “rainbow” in greek. She was messenger to the gods, and gave birth to Eros, whose fate we learn in “Here Comes the Night” (Episode 507).
Bo consults Trick about how to stop the black from spreading up her arm. He looks up, first Nyx, then the box, in his reference library, then he tells Bo a story: “There was one story my mother told me. A toy box that can contain evil. The original Jack in the box. Only a box of Adamantine, the ore of ancients, could contain such evil. Unless the box is a metaphor.”
In Virgil’s Aeneid, the gate of Tartarus is framed by “pillars of solid adamant”.
Vex and Mark
Left behind, Tamsin tells Zee her relationship woes. “You’d think,” she says “by my last life I’d have this figured out.” and asks: “When did people stop hurting you?”
ZEE: “They didn’t. I started hurting them. And you’re next.”
TAMSIN: “I doubt that.”
ZEE: “Aw. Cassie tried to be brave, too. Poor girl. Terrible eyesight that one.”
TAMSIN: “The difference between Cassie and me is I can fly.”
“Not anymore,” says Zee, and a bolt of lightning strikes Tamsin just below the right shoulder, an area which, while she is speaking to Zee on the balcony, is covered by long Valkyrie tresses. In “Turn to Stone” (episode 404), Massimo cut a lock of Tamsin’s hair and it survived his fall into a fiery furnace, so the hair is durable and might insulate against lightning strikes, even those hurled by Zeus.
Zee’s lightning strikes Tamsin.
Bo goes home and finds Zee trying to steal the box. The two wrestle and Bo uses her blackened hand to subdue Zee and push her out the door. Zee pleads with Bo through the closed door not to open the box. Bo does that anyway.
Dyson and Lauren find Mark bleeding out in the park.