LOST GIRL – Episode 502 – Like Hell (Part 2) – SPOILERS
Persephone
The elevator takes Bo to Tartarus, and the first thing she encounters is the goblin Puca (Alex Appel), who takes a bite out of her leg. Then Persephone (Hannah Emily Anderson) arrives. Persephone and Bo have sex.
STACEY TO DYSON: “Holy Odin, your jawline is insanely distracting.” Lots of sparkage between Stacey the Valkyrie (Kate Corbett) and Dyson, who is now a lone wolf.
Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, is the wife of Hades, and Bo’s stepmother. Zeus is the brother of Hades and married to Hera, Hades sister. Zeus may have assisted in Hades’ quest for Bo. Anyway, Bo’s dad is Hades, and that might give her something in common with Xena (Warrior Princess). In a 1998 article by Margaret Matthews, titled IS XENA’S FATHER A GOD? YES! IS IT ARES? NO!, put forward a well-thought-out theory that Hades was Xena’s father.
Bo offers to help Persephone escape from the underworld, but when that becomes impossible, she takes Persephone’s moon candle and uses it to light the path home. “The Artemis Moon Candle was the last thing my mother gave me before the earth swallowed me whole,” Persephone explains. “Demeter knew that Hades abhors light, and that it could illuminate my way home.”
In what might be described as quantum sexual entanglement, Lauren (Zoie Palmer), who is napping, has sex with an unidentified spirit at the same time that Bo is doing Persephone. Later in the episode, Lauren tells Bo that the ghost had some of Bo’s patented moves. This incident calls to mind the bit in “Fae-ge Against the Machine” (episode 3.8) where Trick and Stella share a kiss and Tamsin, far away in Brazenwood, is inspired to kiss Bo at the same time.
When Lauren has ghost sex she is wearing the same bra that she wore in Fae-de to Black
Drawing (by Aife?) found behind some wallpaper in what was once Bo’s nursery.
Lauren and Dyson dig up Kenzi. They revive her at the clinic, and after Dyson leaves, they discover that Kenzi has been followed to Earth by an invisible spirit who writes ‘help’ on a steamy glass pane. For a while, at least, they believe it is Bo. The mystery spirit follows Kenzi and Lauren home, and neither woman has any idea how to deal with it.
Dyson has returned to Valhalla’s gates to prevent them from closing and trapping Bo inside. He meets Stacey (Kate Corbett), a Valkyrie with whom Tamsin went to school. Stacey has been sent by Freyja to replace Kenzi’s soul with something similar. She and Dyson have chemistry, and Dyson convinces her he can help her find what she seeks, but Tamsin sends Stacey back to Valhalla empty handed.
Alex Appel as Puca, a goblin who bites Bo in an effort to keep her in the underworld
When Kenzi tried to make the ghost she thought was Bo visible, she inadvertently gave it physical form. Later, when it attacks Lauren at the Dal, Kenzi shoots it with the shotgun Trick keeps behind the bar.
Kenzi is off to Spain to live a Fae-free life because Hale left her some land. After she leaves, Bo removes boards from a living room window and lights the candle Persephone gave her, causing a lawyer (Amanda Walsh) in an elevator somewhere to be possessed by a powerful Fae, just before the elevator crashes.
Amanda Walsh as unnamed lawyer in the ill-fated elevator with candle. Her name is later revealed to be Elizabeth Helm.
The lawyer, played by Amanda Walsh, brings to mind Celesta from Xena: Warrior Princess when she’s holding that candle. In the Xena episode “Looking Death in the Eye“, Celesta (Theresa Healey) was Hades sister and the goddess of death, and was entirely invented. In Greek myth, Hades had no sister called Celesta. His sisters were Hestia and Hera, and the Greek god of death was Thanatos.
** — Revised. Originally published in 2015.
