To Thine Own Self Be True
LOST GIRL – Episode 507 – Here Comes the Night (SPOILERS) ⁓
Zee (Zeus in Elizabeth Helm’s body)
Zee (Amanda Walsh) awakens Pythia (Aniela Kurylo), Dedona (Sagine Sémajuste), and Cassie (Vanessa Matsui), the three oracles she has blinded. “Up,” she commands, “It’s almost time.Look alive, Oracles. Oraclettes, my little eyeless wonders.” The three women stand and say, in unison: “Only in the darkness can we see the light.” Zee summons a storm that darkens the sky. “Ready, set, Bo,” she says.
The oracles: Dedona, Cassie, and Pythia. Dodona was the home base of an oracle of Zeus in Northwestern Greece. Cassandra was a Trojan priestess of Apollo, fated to utter true prophesies and never be believed. Pythia was the title given to the Oracle at Delphi.
Bo (Anna Silk) and Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) arrive at Lauren’s clinic. They have seen Zee’s sign, a giant triskele, etched into the ground at the storm’s centre. A TV reporter (Houida Kassem) describes what’s going on outside: “The wind is constant and more rain is forecast, and lightning continues to touch down across the city. Meteorologists are still stumped as to why there were no warnings and so far no explanation for this bizarrely localized storm.”
Then the storm knocks out the power for the box containing “the most feared creature known to Fae”. Evony deposited the box at the clinic in “When God Opens a Window” (episode 504). It holds “the most feared creature known to Fae” that Evony inside. The former Morrigan left it there as an insurance policy to keep Lauren in line.
Bo and Lauren move Evony’s containment device to a safer location.
The container is about to lose power and free the creature that it holds, so Lauren (Zoie Palmer) and Bo seal it in a room and hope for the best But when it pops open, there is apparaently nothing inside. Relieved not to have a monster to deal with, they have sex. Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) accidentally sees this and leaves quietly. Afterward, Lauren finds that one of her employees has been killed, and realizes that the creature in the box was invisible.
Dyaon goes to see how Alicia Wells (Lisa Marcos), the wife of Kevin Welles, whose body Hera (Noam Jenkins) is inhabiting, and discovers that Kevin, whom Alicia had believed to be dead, has returned home. When Alicia leaves the room, Dyson tells “Kevin” he knows who she is. Hera sends a swarm of what are probably gadflies to distract Dyson while she tries to kill Alicia, but Alicia stabs her in the stomach. Hera staggers out in Kevin’s wounded body and Dyson takes Alicia back to his place for protection.
Alicia and Kevin (Hera)
At the clinic, Bo and Lauren use Evony (Emmanuelle Vaugier) as bait to lure whatever was in the box outside into the rain. This makes the creature visible, and Lauren, who began to develop her throwing skills in “Big In Japan” (episode 503), throws a fire axe into him.
The axe doesn’t do much damage, but it is metal, and attracts a lightning bolt which kills the creature, who turns out to be Eros, grandson of Hera and Zeus, who could only be killed by one of Zeus’ lightning bolts. (Zeus, aka Zee, caused the storm.) Evony was Eros’ lover, and when he left her for Psyche, she imprisoned him, with the help of Vex (Paul Amos), in the containment device.
Evony says goodbye to her true love Eros, shortly before he is killed by a lightning bolt
We incidentally learn that Evony has sisters, and had to share a room with them when she was growing up.
Meanwhile, as they search for Bo’s “truth”, the three blind oracles visit Vex, Dyson, and Trick (Rick Howland), appearing to each as the person they most desire. Dyson gets a visit from faux Bo, and from that he learns he does not love Alicia. Trick has a vision of his long-dead wife Isabeau (Alisen Richmond-Peck).
Vex is surprised to learn that his heart’s desire is Dyson’s son Mark (Luke Bilyk). This is one of only two scenes in Lost Girl depicting sexual ineraction between men. The other is in “Fae-de to Black” (episode 304).
Bo blows out Persephone’s candle
Then the oracles appear to Bo as the two people she loves, Dyson and Lauren. Afterward, when Tamsin asks Bo to clarify their relationship, Bo explains that she loves her, but “not like that”. Tamsin does not react well to this, and storms out. Bo figures out that the candle given to her by Persephone, daughter of Zeus and wife of Hades, in “Like Hell, Part 2” (episode 502) is what brought the ancients to Earth. She blows out the candle and leaves the room, but the candle’s flame returns.
The oracles report their findings to Zee who says “She has it. [meaning Bo] She has it and she doesn’t even know.”