Trick’s Earthquake, A Fae Cemetery, and Crows
LOST GIRL – Episode 409 – Destiny’s Child – SPOILERS ⁓
The Blood King
Over the objections of her friends, Bo (Anna Silk) opens the jar of smoke she found in that box she got in the mail, and Hugin (Jonathan Watton) materializes. Though humanoid in form, Hugin is a crow. He and Bo vanish from the Dal together and appear again in a Fae cemetery where they meet his brother Munin (Joris Jarsky).
When Tamsin picks up the book Kenzi wrote in with Trick’s blood, her name appears three times on the page.
Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) and Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) ask Trick (Rick Howland) to help Bo, but he seems preoccupied. “I don’t have time to explain myself to a human and a lowlife,” he tells them, then apologizes. “I’m sorry. Just leave it be. I’m begging you.”
Left alone in Trick’s lair, Tamsin and Kenzi locate a Japanese Tamatetebako (folding box) which Tamsin says is the same box mentioned in the story of Urashima Tarō. They discover that the box contains two phials of Trick’s blood, ready to use to rewrite history. Kenzi uses some of the blood to fingerpaint Bo’s name on a page of a blank book found nearby, which has no immediate effect. Then Tamsin grabs the book. Her own name appears three times on the page, and she remembers making a deal with the Blood King.
Hugin, Munin, and Bo
Meanwhile at the cemetery, Munin summons five other crows with a verse.
“One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a funeral
Four for birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
And seven is the devil
His own self”
This verse warns that a few crows are harmless, a bunch of them can be dangerous, and seven of them means you’re in for a devil of a time. Hugin and Munin are the anglicized names of Odin’s advance scouting birds, and in Old Norse they mean ‘thought’ and ‘memory’. Hugin’s wife, whose name is never mentioned, is played by Glenda MacInnis. The other four crows are played by Jason Gosbee, Adrienne Kress, Cris Mark, and Alain Moussi, and all four are credited as stunt doubles.
Glenda MacInnis as Hugin’s wife and Adrienne Kress as an unnamed crow
They are surrounded by graves all of which are portals to the underworld. Bo escapes the crows by calmly falling backwards onto one of these portals. She lands in Irkalla, the Babylonian underworld, and meets Leviathan (Jennifer Dale), the keeper of that place. In that she enforces the laws of Irkalla, Levi resembles Ereshkigal, the Babylonian Queen of the Dead. Leviathin challenges Bo to a Sphinx-like riddling contest, which Bo wins, even though she could not answer her own riddle. Leviathin lets Bo leave, but tells her that someone very close to her will be dead soon, and that she will be back.
Leviathan
Bo is returned to the graveyard where she quickly reduces the number of crows to three. She remarks “Three for the girl” which is a reference to another version of the nursery rhyme that goes this way:
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret, never to be told
Crows in this version were a predictive omen regarding pregnancies.
Lauren (Zoie Palmer) and Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) show up to even the odds. With their help, and again over their objections, Bo forces the crows to help her get back on The Wanderer‘s train.
Meanwhile, Trick is trying to uncover memories that he himself has blocked. He goes to Dao Ming (Jadyn Wong), a Luduan (truth fae), whose sister Wai Lin (portrayed by Kyra Harper in “Barometz, Trick, Pressure“) is an old acquaintance. Dao Ming requires the Blood King to truthfully answer one question ask as a condition of her assistance, and the first question she asks is “Why did you choose my sister over me?”
Dao Ming
Forced to describe the first time he used his blood to rewrite history, Trick said: “It was The Dāmghān Earthquake. The Dāmghān leaders became defiant and unruly. They needed to be taught a lesson.” Asked how many were killed, he responds “over 200,000 souls”, and justifies the deaths by saying that his actions avoided a larger catastrophe.
According to Brittannica: “In 856 CE, Dāmghān, Iran was the epicentre of a powerful earthquake that destroyed the fortified walls of the city and caused extensive damage to a 200-mile (320-km) radius.”
Trick gets a nosebleed as Dao Ming forces him to remember.
Trick discovers that it was he who turned Rainer into The Wanderer, and he had concealed this fact from himself using his power as a Blood Sage. He wrote Rainer out of history and bribed Tamsin, who was down on her luck at the time, not to take Rainer’s soul to Valhalla.
“If only I had more time, I would do things so differently,” Tamsin told the Blood King. “I would cleanse my soul. And wipe my sins away.” The King responded: “I will give you what you desire, but for payment I must have his soul, so that I may curse him with the words of my blood for his defiance…so that his soul will wander in eternity.”
A disheveled Tamsin makes a deal with the Blood King
Bo materializes on the train behind a man making repairs, and asks: “Are you The Wanderer?” Rainer (Kyle Schmid) turns and removes his mask. “Oh,” she says. “Not really what I was expecting.” Rainer and Bo each have a glowing handprint below the right shoulder, and they connect through these markings. This somehow frees Rainer from the train.
Bo brings Rainer to the Dal and introduces him. “Just listen. All of you,” she says. “I did all this because he is not my enemy, and he is definitely not my father. He’s my destiny.”