The One Where They Go On A Break
LOST GIRL – Episode 310 – Delinquents – SPOILERS
Della (Brittany Allen)
Bo (Anna Silk) and Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) are tasked with finding who or what is killing residents of a summer camp for wayward youth. A Tikbalang, a shape-shifting Jersey Devil-like Fae from the Philipines turns out to be the killer. Tikbalang are often described as reverse-centaurs, having the head of a horse and the body of a human. This one doesn’t look like that, but Lauren (Zoie Palmer) does say such creatures have the strength of a horse. This one masquerades as a Lares named Jolene (Kerry LaiFatt). Dyson at first identifies Jolene as a relatively harmless Lares and she goes along with it. Bo encountered a similar creature, a Land Wight, in “(Dis)members Only” (Episode 1.12).
Acacia and Tamsin talk over old times.
Acacia (Linda Hamilton) shows up and reminisces with Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) about the War of 1812.
ACACIA: “You lead one battalion astray and suddenly the entire War of 1812 goes to the Canadians.”
TAMSIN: “Well, they wanted it more. Plus you were the one who brought the maple syrup whiskey.”
ACACIA: “Yes, and I also brought Tecumseh.”
TAMSIN: “Mmm, Tecumseh. Now there was a general.”
ACACIA: “Mmm, There was a man. They don’t make warriors like that anymore.”
Camp Counsellor Bo
The Wanderer, who is as yet unidentified, knows that Tamsin has found Bo and is wondering why she has not brought Bo to him, as she was contracted to do. To move things along, Acacia gives Tamsin a container made of rune glass and told to get one hair from someone Bo loves, two hairs from someone Bo trusts, and three hairs from Bo. Once the hairs are placed in the container, Bo (Acacia explains) should be putty in her hands. The Valkyrie at first refuses, but later, when a package arrives with Acacia’s severed hand inside, Tamsin decides she must cooperate. She collects the necessary hairs from Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), whom Bo trusts, and Lauren, whom Bo loves, and places them in the bottle. Then she visits Bo and awkwardly manages to get three strands of her hair.
Bo is puzzled by Tamsin’s visit, but after the Valkyrie departs, a visible change comes over the succubus. Her eyes glow bright blue, just as they did when she was looking at herself in the mirror at the beginning of the episode, but then she was happy, and at the end she appears cross. Acacia says that the rune glass spell was provided by “The Druid”, who will not turn up until “Hail, Hale” (Episode 3.12).
Acacia’s severed hand is delivered to Tamsin along with a replacement for the rune glass she threw away.
Acacia’s employer is not named, but Valkyries in Norse myth reported to Odin, a god described in The Prose Edda as The Wanderer. He is also in charge of the Valkyries. Some think the god Odin developed from an eight-legged horse deity originally called Echwaz but later stories separated Odin from from the horse, making them two different entities and calling the horse Sleipner. So that engraving of the winged and hooved creature that Trick (Rick Howland) dug out of storage at the end of “The Ceremony” (episode 3.9) may have been Odin’s horse. (Sleipner was sometimes depicted with only four legs.) Zeus, who will show up in the Lost Girl episode “Like Hell, Part II” (episode 5.2), is, to oversimplify a little, the Greek version of Odin.
Camp residents Trudy (Shaida Ali) and Nelson (Justin Kelly). Kelly will be Jeremy’s boyfriend Robin Jett in six episodes of WYNONNA EARP
After her Dawning, Bo seems to have adopted the softball bat as her weapon of choice. Bo was a camp counselor during her teen years, and may have developed softball skills while doing that. Tamsin apparently drives an old pickup truck of indeterminate make and model. (Valkyries are supposed to ride flying horses, and a Mustang might have been more appropriate, or perhaps a Bronco.) We find out that Lauren knows how to make a pipe bomb, something that will be elaborated upon in “Turn to Stone” (episode 4.4).
This is a rough episode for Lauren. When Tamsin collects some Lauren hair for the spell, she makes a point of telling Bo about the time she and Bo kissed, and Bo did not use the opportunity to feed. Lauren slaps her and tells her to get out. Tamsin fails to mention the context of that kiss, which happened in “Fae-ge Against the Machine” (episode 3.8) during Bo’s rather complex invitation to The Dawning, and clearly had something to do with that very complex machine at the Dal. When Trick and Stella, who were feeding the device, kissed, Tamsin was somehow compelled to kiss Bo.
The slap.
Bo is attacked by the tikbalang during a video call with Lauren. Later, after Bo and Dyson subdue the renegade Fae, Jolene’s mate shows up at Lauren’s place and tries to kill her because she had his girlfriend arrested. Bo saves Lauren (using that softball bat) but an exhausted Dr. Lewis tells Bo that she needs a break from their relationship, and explains why: “It’s just I’m so tired, Bo. These last few years with the Fae, The Garuda and Nadia, I feel like I’m losing myself.”
All this leads to a scene in which she commiserates with Dyson at the Dál, and this is the start of a friendship between Lauren and Dyson. “Did you know,” she tells him, “that I thought you were the enemy for a while there? That you were going to swoop in, take her away. Turns out I’ve done a fine job of screwing it up all by myself.”
** — Revised. Originally posted on 29 March 2013.