LOST GIRL – Episode 311 – Adventures in Fae-bysitting – SPOILERS ⁓
Two witches and a succubus: Caroline (Gabrielle Miller), Bo (Anna Silk), and Susan (Sadie LeBlanc)
Bo (Anna Silk) and Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) are watching the film WHEN A STRANGER CALLS on TV. Just as Jill the babysitter picks up the phone, the scene switches to somewhere in suburbia where Lisa (Kate Ross) who is babysitting the Parker’s daughter Ashley, gets a call from Mr. Parker, who is always traveling. Lisa’s situation begins to resemble what happened to the sitter in the movie, then Mrs. Parker (Gabrielle Miller) wakes her up. Next thing we see, Lisa is at Bo’s place with a very old flyer for Bo’s detective agency asking them to investigate strange happenings at a place called Shady Glen. It could be that they fell asleep watching the film, and one of them dreams the Shady Glen story. Mr. Parker could be said to be something of a Wanderer.
On the flyer advertising Bo’s detective agency, Kenzi is pictured with a hairstyle she wore only in “Vexed” (episode 1.8)
Trick (Rick Howland) is consulted, and finds a hundred year old missing person poster for Lisa Allen, who “disappeared from her home on the afternoon of August 10th, 1912.” and was “last seen wearing a dark brown linen dress and a small gold ladies’ wrist watch with a black band.” The flyer instructs people to wire information to the B.P.O.E. (Benevolent Protective Order of Elks?), or to the K of C (Knights of Columbus?) – and finishes with: “If located, hold if possible.” Trick explains that Lisa is a duppy, the spirit of a dead Fae who lives in the earth. Duppys are assassins who can be summoned every hundred years. They have no chi of their own, but run on the energy of whoever invokes them.
Eleanor
At Shady Glen, Bo and Lisa walk by an empty carousel, which begins to spin, and an instrumental version of Dion DiMucci’s song The Wanderer plays. Bo is puzzled by this, but Lisa is transfixed. The duppy stares skyward, then turns and walks back to the house, where she finds a kitchen knife. By the time Bo catches up with her, she has killed Eleanor (Melinda Daines) whose body almost immediately turns into red sparkly particles and vanishes.
While questioning another local whose wife recently disappeared, Bo is interrupted by Caroline Parker who takes her to meet Susan (Sadie LeBlanc). Both women turn out to be witches who have been using Lisa the duppy to dispose of inconvenient people.
Karen Beatty’s height is 153 centimeters (5’2″). Zoie Palmer is 167 centimeters (5’6″) tall. Karen/Lauren’s birthday is 5 June 1981. The Congo is where tragedy befell Nadia, resulting in Lauren’s indenture to The Ash (see Episode 2.12 – “Masks“).
When they join with Bo (invoking the power of three?) The carousel begins to spin and play The Wanderer again. Bo manages to break the circle and the two witches vanish just like Eleanor did, but not before an ominous male voice speaks through Susan and says (to Bo): “You know not your true strength, child, but soon you will, and the world will bow down before us!”
Meanwhile, Dr. Taft (Shawn Doyle), who wants Lauren (Zoie Palmer) to work for him, has found out that Dr. Lewis is wanted by Interpol for unspecified political activities under the name Karen Beatty. When Taft tells her that despite the advice of his lawyers he still wants her to join his research staff, Lauren takes the job. She packs light, removes the necklace that signifies her allegiance to The Ash, and doesn’t take her phone with her. Lauren will elaborate on the Karen Beatty story in “Turn to Stone” (episode 4.4).
Kenzi’s babysitting assignment Ethan Evans (John Paul Ruttan), the son of Sam Evans (Ryan Scott Greene), who lives next door to Caroline.
Once the duppy has been laid to rest, Bo tries to explain what she is feeling.
BO: “When I was in the temple during the dawning, I saw something. I felt something.”
KENZI: “More dead people?”
BO: “Love. It was a vision. Or maybe a memory. I don’t know, I didn’t see his face. [pauses] It was my father.”
KENZI: “Are you serious?”
BO: “I can’t stop thinking about it. I feel different. it’s like I have this power I didn’t have before, and I think my dad has something to do with it.”
KENZI: “Wow. Your dad, that’s huge.”
BO: “I have to find him, Kenzi.”
KENZI: “I think we need to deal with one thing at a time. Enough with this dance. A break up, or not a break up? That is the question.”
Anita, whose twin sister Riley was Bo’s lover at the beginning o “Faes Wide Shut” (episode 3.5).
Anita (Miriam McDonald) goes to the police station looking for Riley, her missing twin sister. Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) re-examines the evidence around Riley’s death, and determines that a Qarinah (a six-fingered Egyptian succubus), was responsible. Returning to where Riley’s body was found, Dyson sniffs out a field where a wide variety of Fae are buried. He does not notice a video camera positioned high in a nearby tree, watching him. All the while, Tamsin keeps trying to tell him that The Wanderer is coming, but Dyson ignores her.
Miscellaneous Info
This episode was written by Sandra Chwialkowska, whose debut novel, “The Ends of Things”, is a feminist thriller centered around a woman’s mysterious disappearance from a resort in the Bahamas. It is available in hardcover, paperback, audio book, and Kindle edition from Amazon Prime, and from other booksellers.
** — Revised. Originally published on 5 April 2013.