LOST GIRL – Episode 412 – Origin – SPOILERS ⁓
Bo and Rainer
After the memorial service for Hale, Rosette (Casey Hudecki), arrives with dire prophesies. Rosette is a Knight of the Order of Raina, and pledges her loyalty to Bo (Anna Silk). “It was foretold,” the knight explains, “that with the death of the Una Mens, the Pyrippus would rise. It is you he seeks.” She doesn’t know what the Pyrippus wants, but says time is short because the death of the Una Mens also created the power of the Origin Seed.
Rosette
Meanwhile, in the Dark Archives, Lauren (Zoie Palmer) is researching The Wanderer. She finds pages with still-wet ink that describe Rainer. “Behold the demon beast, evil pure. Fanged teeth, horned. Him they call Rainer. Thousand years shall be ended, he shall be unbound to wreak torment beyond comparison, and betray the Fae.” Then she overhears The Morrigan (Emmanuelle Vaugier) tell Trick (Rick Howland) that “everything would be easier if the Succubus was dead,” and goes to warn Bo about both Evony and Rainer.
In an intense scene, Lauren explains to a less-than-receptive Bo: “I stayed with The Dark for you. I isolated myself for you. This was all for you. Everything I do is for you.” When Bo complains Lauren told her nothing of her plan, Lauren contnues: “I had to make you believe it, if I was going make The Morrigan believe it.”
BO: “Kenzi is hurting so badly and where were you? Playing around in the Dark archives digging up shit on the man somehow intertwined with my destiny.”
LAUREN: “So that’s it. You choose him?”
BO: “It is not like that. I chose you, and you broke my heart.”
Bo and Lauren have been on a break since “Delinquents” (episode 3.10).
Dr. Lauren Lewis
Undeterred, Lauren continues to implement her plan. She proceeds to seduce The Morrigan, and after they have sex, Evony tastes salt and wonders why. Evony is sweating, and perspiration is something she has never experienced. Lauren tells her she has been transformed and is now entirely human. Asked about the delivery mechanism, Lauren explains that the serum was administered via her vagina during oral sex. That Evony could be transformed so quickly might indicate that the Fae are a genetic offshoot of homo sapiens with certain normally dormant genes activated, and that Lauren’s ‘serum’ switched the Fae genes off.
The music playing as Lauren seduces Evony is Heart Killer by Gossling.
Lauren discovers that Massimo is Evony’s son.
Later in the episode, Evony tells her son Massimo (Tim Rozon) that she might be getting her period for the first time. This could mean that for them, ovulation is normally voluntary. Massimo is Evony’s son, and since he has no Fae powers, he might have a non-Fae father. In “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Fae” (episode 1.2), Michael Connell, son of a Will-o-the-Wisp, explained his lack of Fae powers. “Only my father was Fae,” he told Bo, “so I didn’t inherit anything.”
Raising the Devil
At the Dal, Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) shows Bo and Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) the Zamoran Family Code. The scroll contains a poem, the last line of which reveals itself when Bo touches it.
“Complexity, courage, strength, and beauty
Mindful always of your duty
To ties of blood and those we love
With gentle hands, wings of a dove
Ready thyself, on guard, be keen
To reunite with me, The Queen.”
Tamsin points to the Queen Bee
Tamsin identifies the crest on the other side of the scroll as that of the Order of Raina. From this, Tamsin and Dyson conclude that the queen referred to in the heraldry is Bo, and that she is “The One”, though the meaning of that is not made clear. Monarchies are usually passed on by inheritance. One wonders if Bo inherited the title from one or both parents.
Bo, Rainer (Kyle Schmid), and Rosette visit the Women of the Horse, whose leader, Sister Epona (Eve Harlow), tells Bo The Pyrippus is her father and warns against releasing him from his prison. “The handfasting. It cannot be,” says Epona, as she dies, run through by Rosette’s sword. The song playing while Bo and Rainer visit the Women of the Horse is “Sad Relationship” by Lars Kurz and Andreas Suttner.
Sister Epona and the Women of the Horse.
Bo mentions that she went through a previous marriage ceremony with a Loki (see
Fae-nted Love), and Rainer is not deterred by that revelation. Rosette marries Rainer and Bo in a handfasting ceremony, then breaks into maniacal laughter. “The prophecy has been written,” says Rosette. “‘She will rise, with The Wanderer as her soldier, and together they will release the Lord of Darkness.’ The Dark Lord rises from Hel. He will be here any minute.”
The unnamed cellist playing for the Women of the Horse.
Rainer explains that the Hel referred to is “the mirror of Valhalla”. In Norse Myth, Hel is one of Loki’s three children. The other two are the wolf puppy Fenrir, and the little serpent Jörmungandr.
The name Pyrippus likely means “fire horse” ( from the Greek: pyro + hippus). There are accounts of Odin riding his much-feared eight-legged horse Sleipnir to Hel. Women born in the year of the Fire Horse are, in many Asian cultures, often persecuted. The excellent 2005 film “Eve and the Fire Horse” deals with this topic. The next Year of the Fire Horse is 2026.
The Lord of Darkness fails to show up. Instead, an invisible force forces Rosette into the nearby bonfire, and she is consumed by the flames. In another place, a massive amount of energy descents into a portal blocked by rubble, and blasts the portal open.
Oedipus and Vex
Lauren pleads with Massimo not to eat the Origin Seed.
Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) wants revenge for Hale’s death, but expediency prevents anyone from killing Massimo for her. Vex (Paul Amos), is Massimo’s foster dad, and he lets slip an interesting bit of information as he plans an escape for himself and his ward. “I made a call to a friend in Warwickshire,” he says. “Bill. Famous Playwright. Nice guy. We’re going to stay with him until things blow over.” This implies that Shakespeare is Fae, and still alive. Warwickshire is the place where Shakespeare is believed to have been born.
Massimo gets a call from his mother (who is more similar to Jocasta than to Gertrude), and offers her the Origin Seed, and this would probably have restored Evony’s fae-ness, but The Morrigan rejects the offer, so Massimo eats the Origin Seed himself.
**– Revised. Originally posted on 19 April 2014
