Save the Something, Save the Something Something

So, last night, I got caught up on the latest season of Lost Girl, and having affirmed that I am not delusional, and that the show keeps getting sillier at an exponential rate, I turned my attentions to NBC's latest offering, Believe. 

TICKETS TO ONE DIRECTION ZOMG!!!!!

This show was heavily hyped during the Olympics in February, so I figured I would tune in so at least see what it was all about. After all, it's got pretty good cred, having been executive produced by J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón. I can see why The Peacock wants to get in on the sci-fi fantasy genre, given the success of shows like Orphan Black and True Blood, and the cult following of Joss Whedon. The show overall has potential, but I felt the pilot was formulaic, predictable, and its "touching" moments bordered on trite. 

The basic premise follows the exploits of River Tam, Bo (if this is an obvious reference to Lost Girl's Chosen One heroine, it was not lost on me). Bo has special abilities that she's unable to control, but the pilot was overly vague about what those abilities are. I guess she's some sort of mix of psychic, empathic, telepathic and and Aqua Man.

Take that, whale! That'll teach you to beat up on helpless plankton!

Bo's real parents are maybe dead, or unknown, or something, so she's been shuttled around to different foster families since their demise. Bo and her guardians are, of course, being hounded and pursued by an Evil Shady Corporate Bad Guy, whose company may have created her/owned her, but anyway, they are after her. The pilot opens with Bo in a car with her latest foster parents. An Evil Secret Agent Lady (she is unnamed, so I'll just call her Mila Jovovich from here on out) runs the car off the road, and then breaks the necks of foster mom and dad in a really unlikely fashion (Mila's secret power is she gets two improbable neck breaks per day) and Bo ends up in the hospital. Bo befriends a young doctor who is experiencing a lot of self-doubt after he was unable to save the life of someone's grandpa. D'awww. Bo helps him rediscover confidence in himself by telling him he will save the life of a singer named Senga. He finds out later that Bo was right and the singer's name was Agnes. Which is Senga if it's backwads. F'real. For effin' real. Doctor Guy notices this when he sees Agnes's get well balloons (which spell her name) in the mirror and it says, "SEGNA" but when I see и, all I see anymore is a vowel so it didn't have quite the same effect.   

Help me, Bastian! The Nothing is destroying Fantasia! 

MEANWHILE, the good guys, whom I have affectionately named The Multicultural A-Team, because I have no idea who they're working for and why, have hatched a plan to spring OUR HERO, Tate, from death row. Tate has been wrongfully convicted of murder and he's about to be executed, when the MAT's leader, Winter, enters his prison cell disguised as a minister. He offers Tate a chance to escape from prison if Tate agrees to help Bo. Tate hems and haws for a reason I'm not really sure about. I mean, he says he was wrongfully convicted of murder and this guy walks in and tells him he'll help him escape and Tate's all like, "Gee, IDK" instead of "Hells yeah!" Anyway, at he last minute, Tate agrees to help Winter rescue Bo, and Tate escapes with the help of Winter's associates, Channing and a couple of other dudes who die later so I don't know their names. 

My acting coach told me to channel McConnaughey.

So, Bo's in the hospital and Winter arranges for Tate to get into the hospital by posing as an accident victim who has really badly applied and eyeshadow bruises, and he finds Bo in her hospital room. It doesn't take much convincing to get Bo to leave with him, but that's when Mila Jovovitch shows up, posing as a nurse. 

Tate starts to wheel Bo out in a wheelchair, but her rescuer and kidnapper soon see through each others' ruses and throw down on each other in the hospital hallway. Bo shoots Mila in the butt with a syringe she randomly found, and that drugs Mila and gives Bo and Tate time to run away. Undaunted, Mila runs through the hospital shooting at them, but not before she puts a silencer on her gun. Hello? Even if the bystanders at the nurse's station can't hear you shoot at them, THEY CAN STILL EFFING SEE YOU. Mila, you are the worst assassin. Mila realizes she is shooting at people and has wobbly drugged person vision, so she randomly finds another syringe full of something else that will undrug her, and then shoots herself in the butt with that, but it's too late. Bo and Tate have escaped. On the bus. The bus. That's their escape plan. Route 10 at 3:15. I also think Tate had no bus fare, but hey, a minor detail. He might have a metro card. 

ANYWAY.

Winter is the former partner of Evil Shady Corporate Bad Guy, and they had some kind of falling out. Car chases in SUVs ensue, and Bo ends up in hiding at this abandoned warehouse/pigeon factory with the MAT. Unfortunately, Mila Jovovitch finds them and she shoots two members of the MAT and makes her way upstairs, where she finds Tate, Winter, Bo, and Channing. They are about to escape, when Bo decides it's a good idea to leave their panic room and go get her stuffed turtle. Which I can kind of understand. I would like to have a stuffed turtle.

I'm NOT Yulia Lipnitskaya! Let me gooooooo!!!

Mila knocks Tate down and is about to shoot at him. This is when Bo remembers that she can summon birds. HOLY SHIT SHE IS GANDALF. 

The pigeons all form this full-on Hitchcockian pigeonado (PIGEONADO!!!!) around Mila and that gives Tate and Bo a chance to escape. The MAT escapes this time, but Evil Shady Corporate Bad Guy will not give up in his quest to capture Bo for his own nefarious purposes.Again, it is unclear about what those actually are.  It's also revealed at the end that Tate is likely Bo's father, which wasn't that difficult to guess. As for Mila, our last glimpse of her is her getting a call from Evil Shady Corporate Bad Guy boss, after she's been outwitted by Tate, Bo and MAT.

You had one job.

All in all, I would give the pilot a C-minus. I guess there's potential here, but Believe hasn't done much to set itself apart from the Female Chosen One genre, and I feel at this point the production is taking itself a little too seriously. I get that they are trying to be inclusive with diverse casting choices, but the main characters are still a white male and a young white female. The non-white characters are ancillary to the white characters, so it's kind of feeling like people of color stunt casting/tokenism. The writing is kind of bleh and relies on some already hackneyed plot points. Again, if NBC wants to attract the Buffy crowd, and entice them to watch Believe instead of Orphan Black, they've got their work cut out for them. It's unclear if Bo is a mutant, alien, superhero, or angel and I feel like she needs to have more agency in the coming episodes, because right now she's as capable of saving humanity as the Wonder Twins.

I want to Believe, but the show has to iron things out more in order to attract its target viewership. 

Believe premiered on March 15, with a special subsequent episode which aired March 16. Its regular time slot is 9 p.m. Sundays on The Peacock.

You Lost Me at "Kitsune"

SORRY about the horrible delay in getting the Lost Girl finale recap posted. I know you've all moved on to Orphan Black by now (and if you haven't, you should do so posthaste). But, OMG but you guys! You guys!! You. Guys. Lost Girl has been picked up by Syfy for another season, and it will return in 2014!!!

So, let's get down to it.  Lost Girl has baffled me for most of this season. Bo nearly devolved into Under Fae and then she went through The Dawning, which on the whole, was rather underwhelming. Dyson volunteered to go in as her second and then he died but then Bo sucked out some chi from the Scooby Gang and gave it to Dyson and then he was no longer dead. Then Bo and Kenzi defeated a group of suburban moms who decided to be witches in addition to their weekly book club and yoga meetings (I just assumed witchcraft is common among suburbanite ladies). Before that, the Scooby Gang ran into a sorority full of Japanese fox demons. It turned out that that nasty rash Kenzi picked up at The Norn's digs allowed her kitsune twin to kidnap her and turn her into a rabid, snarling bitch. Then she got Bo locked in a cage. Then she tried to rape Dyson.

I'm Naruto??

Kenzi hasn't been around much most of this season and in the final two episodes, some totally racist Death Eater level Faes make it uber clear to Kenz that she's not wanted in the Fae world because she's human. It's like the writers all decided that Kenzi was more interesting and less whiny than Bo's girlfriend Lauren and so they pushed her to the side. For that matter, most of the interesting supporting characters are MIA this season. Kenzi hasn't been around that much; Vex, who is hilarious, has shown up about twice (and he went completely batshit and not in a fun way) and even The Morrigan has only been in two or three episodes. Dyson's former police partner Hale, who was elected Acting Ash,  has also been relegated to a minor role. Who did we get instead? The snoozefest that is Lauren. She left Fae-town a few episodes ago but you knew she would be back because she left in company with Isaac, who seemed interesting at first, then vaguely evil, then creepy and then you Solemnly Swore He was Up to No Good. 

And whatever. I'm sure we'd all rather see Bo with Dyson anyway. I get that there's probably a contingent of Lost Girl fans who like seeing a legit LGBT relationship taken seriously on teevee, but OMG Lauren is so awful. Like. She's just so, so awful. I feel like they tried this season to make her more likable and interesting, but now she's done gone gotten herself mixed up with this craycray Isaac, who's trying to do away with all the the Fae. 

Dude. What?

The Morrigan's peeps kidnapped Trick and threw him in the trunk of a car. I guess that was meant to be ominous, but since Trick is so short, it was actually pretty comical. The Morrigan tried to take over The Ash seat from Hale and denounced him as a human-lover. Which to be fair, is a legit concern. Hale is way in love with Kenzi (Fae on human? kinky) and I hope the relationship grows into next season and we actually get to see them do sex.  

Sadly, if the season finale is any indication, it looks like our girl Tamsin is on her way out. Tamsin is one of the most interesting characters on the show, and Rachel Skarsten is one of the better actors, so I was hoping they would keep her around and nix Lauren, but nay. Tamsin has been secretly working for a shady individual, The Wanderer, whom most Lost Girl-ites guessed about five episodes ago was Bo's father.  Tamsin's instructions are to weaken Bo and deliver her to The Wanderer, which she is super conflicted about since she is into Bo. So, since Tamsin was trying some Uber Bad Ass Dark Fae BS on the Light Fae PrincessHero, she might as well just kiss her sweet lil ass goodbye. Also, she's a super old Valkyrie and has some kind of Valkyrie-itis and so she's dying. Thanks.

I think my part's mostly filler.

I'm sure there's no way supergenius Fae healer Lauren could find a way to set aside her uselessness and passive aggressive bitchiness and find a way to help Tamsin out of her Valkyrie-itis, but we'll see what the writers have up their sleeves for Season 4.

Anyway, back to the plot. We learned that Isaac is an evil not-even-genius in the episode previous to the finale. Dr. Girlfriend Lauren dumped Bo and then took off with Isaac, bowing to his pressuring her to take a job with his company. She thought she would be safe leaving the Fae world (or so she thinks), even though she was warned that if she leaves Light Fae protection, the Dark Fae will try to kill her. That doesn't make a whole lotta sense to me. Obviously, Lauren knows more about Fae physiology than anyone else in the Fae world, and you'd think that the Dark Fae would want to keep her around. But whatever, So, Lauren leaves, but she discovers that Isaac has been experimenting on the Fae. He won't let her leave and it's not like she can call Bo because Lauren left all of her crap, INCLUDING HER EFFING PHONE, at her apartment when she went off with Isaac. 

Isaac, of course, has an Evil Secret Semi-Underground Lab that looks very much like an observatory. I'd love to be the location scout for this show. Like I'm pretty sure every filming site is on the main Toronto subway lines. He's keeping all of the Fae -- including Bo's succumom Aife -- and giant refrigerators, which are standard-issue to evil-doers everywhere. He's got Lauren working on a technique to splice human DNA with Fae DNA to create a Fae/human hybrid. 

This might sting a bit.

Isaac's girlhood dream was to be Fae. Apparently, the Fae attacked his brother and killed him and whiny bitch that he is, Isaac decided to spend the rest of his life plotting revenge upon the Fae. Cry me a river. Hence stalking Lauren. He's been kidnapping the Fae, keeping them in refrigerated isolation booths and then making him fight each other until he found the strongest among them. The strongest among them turns out to be Dyson (natch), and Isaac has some creepy ho-yay/Single White Werewolf thing for Dyson and wants Lauren to remove stem cells from Dyson and implant them into Isaac, which will of course kill Dyson to death. I'm not sure about the scientific accuracy here, but I'm pretty sure a stem cell transplant doesn't involve the unavoidable death of a the donor. Since, you know, most stem cells live in petri dishes or vats of culture medium. Anyway, I'm watching a show that claims fairies and water sprites are real, so if I'm concerned about the scientific validity of Lauren's Evil Secret Lab experiments, I guess maybe I should take up a hobby. 

You've escaped ho-yay on this show for far too long, Dyson. Far too long.

So, Bo figures out where Lauren is and she and Tamsin make their way to the Evil Secret Lab. They get caught by the guards and Tamsin gets her ass shot. Bo and Tamsin are put in a fridge and Bo works out A Plan. 

Bo supergirls her way out of her refrigerator and then frees all the other confined Fae. Aife jumps in front of a bullet to save Bo and that's all really noble and whatnot, but let's not forget that she is FUCKING DARK FAE and all she has to do to heal is suck out someone's chi. So, what does Bo do but SHE LEAVES HER ALONE WITH SOMEONE WHOSE CHI SHE CAN STEAL. Like, did it occur to ANYONE that that's NOT A GOOD IDEA?? Like. What the fuck?

Lauren goes ahead with the procedure, but not before she can tell Bo that she's all jealous of Dyson. Instead of using Dyson's stem cells, she splices Isaac's DNA with some other Fae DNA that makes him behave as though he has Bell's palsy. Dyson chases him into the woods, turns into a wolf and Isaac shits his britches. And that's the last we see of Isaac. So, that whole climax more than a little underwhelming, especially considering the hundreds of Fae that Isaac killed over the course of his little experiments.

Lauren could have done all manner of things to this tool. She could have mixed his human genes with any number of craycray Fae. Since she knew how to slow down The Dawning in Bo's case, you'd think she could use that knowledge to turn him Fae and turn on a gene to make his Dawning happen super fast. Then he would have been Under Fae and they could have kept him in a cage and fed him catnip and Whisker Lickins. See, that would have been an arc.

Lauren sort of disappears while the Scooby Gang rescues everyone, so her position in the Fae community and her standing with Bo are left up in the air. Tamsin disappears during this episode, too, so I'm unsure what happened to her as a result of all this world savin'. 

But let's not forget that Isaac was not the main villain of this season. Nope, that's The Wanderer, who wants Bo in his clutches, since Daddy misses his Little Girl. After the dust settles, Bo heads back to Trick's bar and "The Wanderer" plays on the jukebox. The Tarot card makes its appearance again, and Bo picks it up. She wonders aloud who he is and what he wants, and then she gets turned into a cloud of black smoke and disappears, leaving behind The Tarot card in her place. Cliffhanger!! What will happen to Bo? Will Mary be on her right? Will Bo accept her new stepmom, Runaround Sue? 

Lost Girl has been green-lighted for another season by the Canadian company that produces it. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring Tamsin back for another season! 

Episodes from this season of Lost Girl are available On Demand. Previous seasons are on Netflix. 

Hot Fae on Fae

So, I honest to shit sat through Ice Quake and Snowmageddon over the weekend.  No, those aren't bad '80s hair bands. They're Syfy original movies, the latter of which involved copious amounts of snow being on fire somehow. But I am not an exec at Syfy so clearly I'm not evolved enough to understand how that works. But it's a new week, and that means the return of Lost Girl, part of Powerful Mondays (RAWR).

Lost Girl, if you have not seen it, is actually a Canadian show and not an original Syfy production, no matter how much Syfy wants to pretend that it sprang fully formed from its executive board room loins.

Most of my exposure to Canadian TV has revolved around '90s classics such as Kids in the Hall and Road to Avonlea (and the stellar miniseries Anne of Green Gables adaptations), but our neighbors to the north have come up with a solid sci-fi (yes, that's how it's spelled; network take note) slash fantasy program that's engaging and a little addictive. The show is sort of like Buffy-Meets-Undergrad-Writing-Class-Fantasy-Story, but the concept is generally well-handled and the storylines are easy to follow and tend to be reasonably interesting. Also, there's all sorts of sex. Bo, the main character, is bisexual and fucks pretty much anything that moves, and even when she's in a relationship, she's distracted by shiny objects. Oh, those wacky Canadians. The acting is pretty decent, although you get a sense sometimes from some characters that the actors playing them are trying a little too hard. So, if that sounds remotely interesting, and you can deal with the fact that there's likely a large overlap in the Venn Diagram amongst Lost Girl fans, Twihards and Ren Fair nerds, I'd recommend that you give it a shot. There are also really cool lighting fixtures.

Wardrobe courtesy of Hot Topic

If you've been following the show, we begin this week where we left off – with unaligned succubus Bo preparing for The Dawning. If she fails, she will become what is known as an Under Fae, which I think is something like a cross between Sarah Palin and Nancy Grace, but I'd have to check my sources on that one. 

Join us!

Bo is being helped by kindly Lodestar Fae, Stella Nashira, who is like some sort of blonde, skeletal Mr. Miagi. As part of her training, Bo is busily looking for the Sandhae Cricket of Good Fortune, which is hiding out in the Light Fae bar that Bo's grandfather Trick owns (long story).  

Bo can't find the cricket, and she needs the cricket's luck for The Dawning. Trick tries to reassure Bo that she will be able to make it through Fae Puberty.  Bo now has to wait for her invitation to the Temple, which is apparently where her Dawning will take place.  Stella's done all she can during Bo's training and releases her for the rest of the day. Stella asks Trick out to dinner to apologize for getting all severe on him, and Trick readily accepts because he's hot for her. Aww. Trick gettin' some action.

Bo calls her girlfriend Lauren and tells her she has the night off. While talking on the phone to her lady love, Bo happens upon a huge object just randomly sitting in the middle of the bar, and so of course she starts absent-mindedly fiddling with it. Because it totally belongs there and has always been there. Cue ominous music. Then the scene cuts to some girl tied to tubes and crying into them (although her sundress is quite fetching, so at least she's dressed well).  Plot point!

So, this machine that's randomly in Trick's bar for no reason looks like the kind of thing that makes Steam Punk kids' butter churn. It even emits white smoke. Has it elected a new pope? No, it's just trying to kill Bo. We later learn from Stella that it's actually a "game" and Bo accidentally activated it. It's through this game that Bo will prove whether she's ready to enter the Temple and face her Dawning. It's like an invitation to an invitation to an event TBA. Apparently, it's extra super complicated this time because, as we've all been reminded countless times, Bo is "special."

Lauren shows up at the bar and tells Bo she has great news! Lauren is some kind of genius medical science lady doctor, and she's won an award (named after a Jewish guy, ofs) for her work on free radicals, and she wants Bo to come to the reception banquet, which is that night. I don't really care for Lauren personally. She's rather clingy and controlling.  She seems a little more likable in this episode, but I'm still shipping Bo/Dyson or Bo/Tamsin (more on that later). Fortunately, their relationship is doomed! Lauren is human and Bo is Fae, and that never works out. Bo is a succubus, and when she's not kicking someone's ass, she's fucking someone else as a means to heal her…succubus…genes or something. Anyway, Lauren doesn't do it for her because she isn't Fae, so Bo often has to sleep with other people in order to heal. Cue relationship awkwardness. Bo also found out last week from her human BFF, Kenzi, that Bo's former love interest, Emo Werewolf Dyson, got his love back after visiting The Norn (longer story).

Your simultaneous interest in me and Taylor Lautner has me concerned.

Supposedly Dark Fae Valkyrie Tamsin has been hiding out at the bar this whole time. Ostensibly, she works on the popo force with Dyson as his partner for some sort of Light/Dark Fae goodwill diplomacy bullshit, but we all know she was really placed on the force to spy for the Dark and maybe get some dirt on Bo (Bo is technically unaligned, but she spends the vast majority of her time with humans and Light Fae). Tamsin gets real with Bo. She invites Bo out to lunch (Bo of course thinks Tamsin is flirting) and Tamsin tells Bo that everyone has been lying to her about The Dawning.

Don't worry, boys, there will still be hot girl-on-girl to keep you glued to your screen. 

Tamsin takes Bo to a different Light bar, and this is where her trouble starts. Over Bloody Marys, Tamsin tells Bo there's a good chance she won't make it through The Dawning. Stella tells Trick that, since Bo isn't there and he's Bo's blood relative, he has to basically choose Bo's obstacle course. Some choices he makes can help her out, but other choices he makes will hinder her progress. 

Choose wisely. 

Fortunately, Bo has Tamsin there to help her through her tasks. I thought at the beginning of this season that Tamsin was being introduced as a romantic interest for  Dyson, but it became apparent through the ensuing episodes that Tamsin had the hots for Bo, going so far as to defy The Morrigan in favor of Bo. That's significant because Tamsin is Dark Fae, and so her allegiance should be to The Morrigan, who is basically the Dark Fae queen. 

Back to the plot. The game has begun. These thugnificent gentlemen approach Bo and Tamsin in the bar and give Bo a hard time about being unaligned. They are waved to a back exit by a character named Balzac, and escape after Tamsin "distracts" the thug party by sucker punching them. Balzac is a spriggin, which is some kind of pixie. Balzac says Bo has to help him find "that which he truly seeks." You see, Bo said she owed Balzac for helping her and then shook on it, and Tamsin explains that the deal is binding. 

Bo's first task is to retrieve a "Cookie" from a personage known as The Fang. They find Fang and interrupt his bowl of ramen to get said Cookie. Bo tries to extract the Cookie from Fang using her succucharm, but then the game interferes and forces Trick to add some obscure Fae root to its little pot, and Bo loses her ability to speak. Thanks, Trick. Then someone randomly shoots darts at them. The gang escapes after Fang is hit, Cookie in hand.

Bo feels like since Balzac nearly got her killed and she got his Cookie that she upheld her end of the deal. Oh, no, no, no, my dear. I am only the catalyst of this week's plotline. The Cookie will only grant them passage to what Balzac truly, truly seeks. Part two of the scavenger hunt  involves our heroes heading to the "landlady" to get a "prescription."

Lauren calls, and Bo promises to be at her place within an hour. We all know Bo is going to break her promise to Lauren, since Bo is busy saving the world and hanging with Tamsin.

They have to gain entrance into Brazenwood. Tamsin says it's a dark and lawless territory full of lost souls. By that, she means it's the Fae trailer park. Or maybe it's full of carnies. Whichever.  It's apparently somewhere in suburban Toronto.

Bo protests, but Balzac appeals to her Wonder Woman senses. The true reason for this mission is to save Hannah, an outcast Dark Fae who has been taken prisoner by this nefarious character named Whitman, who is exploiting her. Bo can't give up a chance to save someone in distress, so she agrees to accompany Balzac into Brazenwood.

My pigtails and sundress indicate that I am a helpless ploy in this man's wicked, wicked games. 

Bo makes it to the entrance of Brazenwood, not before she has to have a tarot reading by the landlady. Bo pulls The Wanderer out of the deck, but it turns out that the deck is entirely The Wanderer and she reveals the landlady to be a fraud. Balzac pays the landlady in a handkerchief soaked in tears (drugs, what?) and the landlady writes them a script. Remember when they were running from a random homicidal archer? Well, he appears fully formed this time, in the shape of an extra from Deadwood. Bo, Tamsin and Balzac team up, and lock the archer/bounty hunter in a trailer that sounds as though it is chock full o' rabid dogs. Good times. 

Bo gives the Cookie to the gatekeeper, and he lets them through the gate into Brazenwood. Tamsin volunteers to stay with Bo through her dealings with the redneck Fae. The invitation forces Trick to pour Bo's least favorite drink into its little pot, and Bo starts acting like she's had a few too many and babbles senselessly about Dyson until Tamsin smacks her. Lauren's back at her apartment getting sloshed on champagne all on her lonesome, and she calls Bo to ask her where the hell she is. Bo inadvertently insults her and instantly feels terrible, but Tamsin urges her onward. 

Tamsin and Bo find the "pharmacist," and it turns out he's just some wasted dude sitting outside a shack. Bo goes into the shack, where she finds Hannah, who is, of course, the girl from the earlier scene. She's hooked up to a machine that's collecting her tears. Hannah is a squonk, and this means her tears are valuable as a Fae drug. Bo gives Hannah the great news that Bo is here to rescue her! Sadly, Hannah has Stockholm Syndrome and doesn't want to be rescued. Another challenge for our heroine! Everyone is always so happy when Bo rescues them. These kids today. Tamsin tells Bo she can't move a squonk voluntarily or she will literally dissolve into tears. 

Bo finally convinces Hannah to leave by promising that at the special school for special kids that Balzac wants to take her to (River Tam, what?) that there will be "super weird boys."  Not so fast! Mr. Whitman and the archer/bounty hunter (apparently having escaped from the puppies) catch Bo and Tamsin trying to help Hannah escape. They got to settle this here thing, Dark rules-like. Back at Trick's, Stella reveals to Trick that the invitation is legit trying to kill Bo. That's likely because Bo decides to bring a knife to a gun fight. Oh noes! There's more than one of the bounty hunter! Bo remembers her cricket training, and realizes that, much like the cricket, the bounty hunter is behind her. She stabs the bounty hunter, and he dies huge. Happy that Bo passes the test, Trick and Stella make out. Then Tamsin and Bo make out. 

At Lauren's, there's a knock at her door. It isn't Bo, but tissue engineer Isaac Taft, who has never met Lauren before but knows where she lives. Isaac gives Lauren her award and tells her that the reception was boring, so she really didn't miss much. He invites Lauren out for drinks and she agrees.  He's a huge fan of her work and she's a huge fan of his, so we can assume that they will want to do science to each other in upcoming episodes.

My last girlfriend got turned to toast by some evil Dark Fae entity. It looks like I'm doing the dumping this time!

Balzac runs into Trick's bar, letting Trick and Stella know that he screwed up and completely lost track of Bo. On cue, Bo enters with Tamsin and Hannah in tow. This turns the invitation on again, and Stella pours some of Hannah's tears into the little pot. Bo has officially passed the initial stages, and now she only has to wait for her official invitation to the Temple for The Dawning to officially begin. Stay tuned for more mayhem.

Bo shows up at Lauren's apartment avec Tamsin, but Lauren has already gone. Tamsin leaves her, and as she goes outside, she finds a Wanderer card on the ground. She picks it up and says, "No, no. Not her." Then it's suddenly raining tarot for no apparent reason, but kudos to Lost Girl for utilizing a sinister tarot card without going with the obvious Death card. 

Lost Girl stars Anna Silk as Bo, Ksenia Solo as Kenzi, Kris Holden-Ried as Dyson, Rachel Skarsten as Tamsin, Richard Howland as Trick, Deborah Odell as Stella and Zoie Palmer as Lauren. It airs Mondays at 10 p.m. EST on Syfy.