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"End of Faes"
Lost Girl episode
Bo opens the Jack-in-the-box from her father
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 8 Overall Episode 69
Directed by	Ron Murphy
Written by	Ley Lukins & Lauren Gosnell
Produced by	Wendy Grean
Featured Music	See Section Below
Cinematography by	Craig Wright
Editing by	Paul Day
Production Code	508
Original Air Date	January 25, 2015 (2015-01-25)
Length	60 minutes (runtime)
Guest Actors
Rachel Skarsten - Tamsin Paul Amos - Vex Eric Roberts - Hades Luke Bilyk - Mark Amanda Walsh - Zee Noam Jenkins - Hera Shanice Banton - Iris
Episode Chronology
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Short Summary List of Lost Girl Episodes Detailed List of Lost Girl episodes The Ancients try to have Bo sever her ties with her father, who then appears in a vision, and Bo decides to open the Jack-in-the-box her father gave her SuccuWiki Rating: (3.4)

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Lost Girl is a Canadian developed and produced television series which premiered in the 2010 season on the television channel Showcase.

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End of Faes was the eighth episode of the fifth season of the series, and the sixty-ninth overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It also was the mid-season finale for the fifth season. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on January 25, 2015 at 9 PM Eastern time.

Production Data

• Series: Lost Girl
• Season: 5
• Episode Number: 8 (69th Overall)
• Episode Title: End of Faes
• Directed by: Ron Murphy
• Writing credits: Ley Lukins & Lauren Gosnell
• Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
• Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
• Country of Origin: Canada
• Originally Aired on: January 25, 2015 on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada
• Number of Canadian Viewers: Not Released
• Number of American Viewers: 710,000

Cast

A promotional Image of the Season Five cast of Lost Girl from the official website at showcase.ca/lostgirl From left to right: Anna Silk as Bo, Zoie Palmer as Lauren, Kristen Holden-Reid as Dyson and Rachel Skarsten as Tamsin

Actor / Actress	Role
Anna Silk	Bo
Kristen Holden-Ried	Dyson
Richard Howland	Trick
Zoie Palmer	Lauren
Rachel Skarsten	Tamsin
Paul Amos	Vex
Eric Roberts	Hades
Luke Bilyk	Mark
Amanda Walsh	Zee
Noam Jenkins	Hera
Shanice Banton	Iris
Rothaford Gray	Frank
Catherine Burdon	Nancy
Josh Horvath	Cute Fae
Wes Berger	Police Officer

Music in this Episode

Song Title	Artist	Notes
Serve Chilled		Courtesy of APM Music
Starlight		Courtesy of APM Music
Club Piano		Courtesy of APM Music
East 34th Street		Courtesy of APM Music
Blue Sophisticate		Courtesy of APM Music

Plot

Short Summary

Bo is invited to a party being held by the Ancients in her honour, but the purpose is not known. Bo confronts Zee who offers Bo freedom from her father and to stop Hades from using her to end the world. To prove this, Zee has Bo take a sip of the drink of prophesy and Bo sees the future which seems to show her father destroying the world and Bo agrees to help Zee stop Hades. Before this can happen, Mark and Iris go missing and it is discovered that Iris is more powerful than the other Ancients. Tamsin confronts Zee and then is struck by lightning, seemingly fatally. Iris takes Mark to see her vessel’s human parents, which goes wrong, and Iris kills the father and then the wife stabs Mark. Iris removes her bracelet which reveals she has the power to end life, and when Bo encounters Iris and touches her, Bo realizes that the vision was Iris ending life and not her father. Mark is rescued by Vex, who takes him to Lauren and Dyson who attempt to save Mark’s life. Bo looks for a way to stop Iris and Trick tells Bo of a mysterious box that can contain evil which Bo realizes is the birthday gift her father sent her. Zee and Bo fight over the box until Bo gains control of it. Zee warns Bo not to open the Box, or her father will walk the earth, telling Bo that she will release a great evil on the Earth. Bo has a vision of her father, who speaks riddles, and then Bo decides to open the box which opens with a flash of light as the episode ends.

Detailed Summary

The episode begins with a series of flashbacks to previous episodes including: Bo standing in the middle of the symbol the Ancients carved into a street, Lauren commenting "someone is trying to send us a message" and Bo saying that the Ancients were behind the attack. Bo commenting that her father is Hades and he is trying to use her for something as she reads the birthday card from her father and looks at the present he sent her. Iris asking Mark what he can do, Mark replying he is a shifter as Iris demonstrates her powers and then commenting that she serves her keepers. Tamsin watching Bo and Lauren in bed, Tamsin stating that she knows that Bo's heart is with her, not Lauren, then Tamsin leaving Bo. Hera attacks Dyson and then Zeus' lightning kills Eros as Bo, Lauren and Evony look on. Cassie is seen asking Zee to let her go, then Zee pushing her off the balcony to her death. Finally, Bo telling Trick that it is about time to meet the other side of their family.

The episode proper begins with Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) packing her things to leave with Bo (Anna Silk) following as they walk down the stairs in Bo's home, Bo telling Tamsin that she is "part of the team" and she can't just walk away, adding that she needs Tamsin. Tamsin throws her suitcase on the floor and comments: "That's really nice of you, but we both know it's not true. And I don't need you either." Finding a pair of leather pants, Tamsin wonders if they are Bo's but then throws them at her, telling Bo to keep them, adding: "I know you like to reuse old styles." Bo replies: "Fashion snark, is that where we are now?" Bo again asks Tamsin to talk to her about what's happened between them but Tamsin tells Bo: "We don't need to. I was upset and now I'm not. I realize there's no winning with you." When Bo asks what game they were playing, Tamsin tells her: "Doesn't matter where your body is, your heart will always be with her." Tamsin tells Bo that she and Lauren will always be a couple, even where they aren't together. After finishing packing, Tamsin then breaks the roll-along handle to her suitcase, curses, and then throws the handle away before picking up her suitcase and starting to leave. When Bo asks where she will go, Tamsin replies: "Wherever the universe takes me. Motel 6. And then wherever the universe takes me." Just before Tamsin walks out of the room, she pauses, reaches into a side pocket of her suitcase and hands Bo an envelope, telling Bo it came for her. Bo takes the envelope, then tells Tamsin: "I lost Kenzi. I don't want to lose you too." Tamsin quietly replies: "It's better this way" and then walks out the front door leaving Bo alone. After Tamsin leaves, Bo looks at the envelope, which is addressed to Bo Dennis, turns it over, and then sees that it is sealed with wax, an imprint of the Ancient's symbol embedded in it. Bo opens the envelope, removes a card and looks at it for a moment.

The card is revealed to say: "Com join us for a gathering. Libations and fun. Dress to impress or you will be turned away." It is then shown that Bo has travelled to the Dal Riata where she, Lauren (Zoie Palmer), Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) and Trick (Richard Howland) all have received the same invitation, Mark (Luke Bilyk) working nearby and Vex (Paul Amos) at the bar drinking. Lauren comments: "It's always nice to be popular." Vex comments: "Well, speak for yourself. I didn't get an invite did I?" Trick tells Vex that he should feel lucky and then wonders why the Ancients are having a party and why at this moment. Dyson muses: "Human sacrifices, murdering a football player", then Bo continues: "Mutilating the Oracles, a storm that almost wiped out the colony." Lauren wonders: "They need a palate cleanser?" Bo comments about the Ancients being somehow related to Bo's father and Bo believes that her father is behind everything that has happened. Trick asks about Bo's vision from the Oracles, and what her father said to her. Bo replies that it was all a "bunch of riddles" and then repeats: "The greatest evil is the greatest mercy." Dyson tells Bo that the only way to find out what is going on will be to attend the party and see for themselves. Dyson then tells Mark: "And we're going to have to get you a new suit." Dyson asks if Mark wants to go on his first mission while Vex looks on in concern as Mark agrees to go. Trick tells the group: "Mythology states that even the Ancients have an Achilles heel" and Bo replies that they will found out what that is and then end them. Bo then leaves, the others following her, but Vex stops Dyson and asks him if Mark is ready for what Dyson is asking him to do, adding that Mark has not shifted as yet. Dyson replies: "He's got to become a man sometime" and then leaves. Vex strikes up small talk with Mark and then tells Mark to call him if he needs backup. Mark jokes: "I'll call you if I get bored."

The scene then moves to an elevator where Bo, Lauren, Dyson and Mark are waiting, dressed up for the party. Mark comments: "I hope they have an open bar" but Dyson replies: "Except you won't be drinking" and Mark answers: "No alcohol. Right." Dyson then prompts: "And?" Mark quickly replies: "Keep your back to the wall. Know your exits." Dyson nods, then continues: "Trust your gut. If something is off, listen to it. If the plan changes..." Mark breaks in: "Roll with it. Got it." Lauren then comments: "I hate to be a buzzkill but are we going to talk about the possibility that this is a trap?" When no one answers, Lauren sighs "No." as the elevator bell rings and the doors open to a darkened space, no sounds save for the elevator music that continues to play. Dyson exits first, followed by Bo, Lauren and Mark tails behind. Lauren whispers: "Now are we going to talk about the possibility that this could be a trap?" The lights come on in the room which reveals a large number of Fae, the room decked out with balloons and several large signs that read: "Welcome Bo" as the assembled crowd cheers "Surprise!" As Bo looks around the room she comments, a bit stunned: "Okay. I need a drink."

Following the abbreviated opening title sequence, Iris (Shanice Banton) is in her room and asks Hera (Noam Jenkins) if the bracelet goes with the outfit she is wearing. Hera replies: "Don't be silly, it's a one of a kind, it goes with everything." Hera approaches Iris, asking if she cleansed her skin as asked, to which Iris promises that she did so. As Hera fixes Iris' lipstick, and comments that Zee likes to show Iris off, and that she shouldn't upset Zee. Iris replies: "Because she would yell at you." Hera then pushes Iris back onto her bed, commenting that Iris might not be ready for the party, but Iris begs Hera to allow her to attend. Hera relents, adding: "Come along my pet." When Iris comments that she should greet the guests, Hera tells her: "Can't wait till everyone sees how special you are." Hera then starts to leave the room but adds: "Oh, and get the guests to try the clam dip. Zee's trying out a new recipe and... it's been a whole thing."

Meanwhile at the party, Bo takes a drink from a waitress, but before she can try it, Lauren stops her, dips a test strip in the drink, and then tells Bo it's fine. Bo comments: "Forgot how much fun you are at parties." As the pair walk through the party, a guest tells Bo that it is a great party and she replies: "Thank you, that's right, the party's for me" and Lauren adding "and no one seems to know why." Bo tells Lauren that the party "reeks of my father" and Lauren wonders if whatever brought the Ancients to Earth also brought Hades, Bo's father, with them and Bo comments: "Greek gods are throwing me a party so anything is possible." Dyson, Mark and Trick then approach Bo and Lauren, Dyson telling Bo there is no sign of the Ancients so far, Trick commenting that the clam dip is "amazing" and there "seems to be a fair number of Fae here." Bo doesn't like that fact and is concerned that the Ancients are planning something, Lauren adding that they "want an audience" and Bo deciding that they will "give them a show." Dyson tells Bo that he is on "Hera duty. Soon as I see his smug little face." Lauren then offers Dyson a syringe with chemicals designed to "reduce the possibility of bug showers" adding "it's bug spray essentially." Mark asks why Lauren cannot turn the Ancients human as she did with Evony, which Lauren explains took months to accomplish and then begins to explain the process, but Dyson quickly interrupts her and takes the syringe with thanks. Trick then tells the group that he will circulate through the party and look for any "unusual activity" and "I'll be by the clam dip." Mark asks what he should do and Dyson explains that he should find Iris and try to get information from her about her parents, adding: "I'm glad you changed your mind about wanting to help." Mark replies: "United force right?" Dyson smiles as he walks away, adding: "Just show me you can take it seriously." Lauren tells Bo that she will try to get samples from the Ancients, and Bo replies that she will look for "our Hostess, assuming I can find her." Before Lauren can leave, Bo stops her and tells Lauren: "About what happened between us in the blackout..." but Lauren interrupts and tells Bo that she knows it was a one-time thing and not to worry about it. Bo stops Lauren from leaving and explains: "Here's the thing. I'm not. There's always going to be a reason for us not to be together and I don't want to put this off any longer." Lauren whispers: "Oh boy." and Bo asks: "Oh boy yes or oh boy no?" Before Lauren can reply, Bo's attention drifts off into the distance as Tamsin is nearby and when Lauren sees Tamsin, she comments: "Annnd we're back. Although it is a very nice back." referring to Tamsin who is wearing a backless dress. Bo tells Lauren they will "finish this later" and Lauren agrees that they will. Bo approaches Tamsin and comments: "I didn't realize you got an invitation" and when Tamsin turns to look at Bo she replies: "It's nice to see you too." Bo tells Tamsin she's glad that Tamsin is there and that they need her, Tamsin revealing that Dyson told her about "Operation Ancients go history" as she has a drink and tells Bo "I'm game." When Bo suggests that she shouldn't drink so much, Tamsin tells her: "Look, I'll play superhero with you tonight, but there's no way I'm not having fun while I do it."

Bo then enters another room where she picks up a small music box and plays it for a moment before Iris appears in the room. Iris comments: "You look beautiful in that dress" and then tells Bo that she doesn't mind that Bo is in her room, adding that "it's nice to have company, Hera never lets me have company over." Bo tells Iris: "You and I aren't exactly friends." Iris seems not to notice Bo's reply and then asks to touch Bo's hair noting how shiny it is. Bo comments on Iris' bracelet, calling it pretty and Iris explains: "My parents make me wear it." Bo then reaches out her hand and tries to use her powers to persuade Iris to tell her where Zee is, but is interrupted as Zee (Amanda Walsh) walks into the room, commenting: "It depends who you ask" and Iris quickly runs off, leaving Bo alone with Zee.

Dyson is walking through the party when he sees Hera and approaches. Hera tells Dyson: "I'm happy you came. I thought after our last interaction you might be... bugged by me." Dyson replies: "I thought you might think that, so I brought you a little gift" and then injects Hera with Lauren's bug spray. When Hera asks: "What the hell was in that?" Dyson replies: "A little precautionary measure. What can I say? Every dog has his day, and then again some dogs just need to be neutered." Hera then taunts Dyson: "That reminds me. How is my bitch Alycia doing?" Dyson calmly replies: "She wanted me to give you this" and then punches Hera in the face, but to little effect, other than a bleeding lip. When Hera asks: "Is that all you got?" Dyson replies: "I guess I'm no match for a god" before walking off with Hera's blood on his hand.

The scene returns to Zee and Bo, Zee revealing to Bo: "In Egypt I was Amun. Odin to the Vikings. Jupiter to the Romans. But you would know me best as Zeus." Bo comments: "Zeus? As in white hair, thunder thighs plus... a dude." which brings Zee to comment: "Just like a patriarchal society to depict their most powerful member as male. I've had many forms, but currently... Zee... is a she." Bo sighs: "And my aunt. Question is, what kind are you? The cool aunt that buys you condoms or the crazy aunt who ruins Christmas?" When Zee chuckles, Bo continues: "Oh wait, you're the aunt that murders innocent people." Zee brushes this off as: "When you are trying to make your way in a new world, people are bound to get hurt." Bo replies: "Whatever helps you sleep at night." Zee insists: "My hands are clean. Mostly." Bo whispers: "Which brings us back to Daddy." Zee admits that Hades might have inspired the party but insists that "You and I are on the same team. You're on a sinking ship, the balance is quickly shifting and I don't want to see you go down." Bo replies: "I happen to be quite buoyant." Zee brushes this off as Bo deflecting things with humour, then Bo asks why Zee sent the Oracles to her, and Zee admits it was to find Bo's truth which Zee tells Bo is: "The thing you crave above all. Freedom from your father." and then Zee offers to grant that freedom to Bo. Why Bo asks why, Zee answers: "I want the same thing as you but we have to stop him first." When Bo asks what they have to stop Hades from doing, Zee tells Bo: "From using you to end the world."

After the first commercial break, Bo marches through the party and when she finds Trick, she tells him they are leaving and pulls Trick through the party in each of them. When Trick asks what the problem is. Bo explains: "My Aunt Zeus wants to emancipate me from Hades." Bo rants about Zee doing so after all that Bo has been through and when Trick asks why, Bo replies: "To stop the zombie apocalypse or whatever dramatic end of days daddy dearest has in store for us?" When Bo asks about Dyson and Lauren, Trick does not answer the question, but asks Bo to consider the idea, but Bo wants nothing to do with it and leaves. After Bo leaves, Zee appears and tells Trick: "I'm glad you could make it Trick." When Trick turns to Zee, he comments: "The Aegis shield. Mythology says you are never without its protection." Zee replies: "No glove, no love." Bo then calls out Trick's name and when he reaches Bo, she is standing by a drink bowl which Trick recognizes as the Drink of Prophecy in which can be seen the eyeballs taken from the Oracles. Trick again calls it: "The original original" and adds: "I never forget a drink" as Zee approaches. Zee pours out a drink, as she does so, Trick explains that by drinking, Bo will have a vision of the future. Zee insists "It is the only way you can see the pain Hade will cause if you remain bound to him." Bo is disgusted by the drink, reminding Zee that Cassie was her friend. Zee ignores this and replies: "I haven't got time to brush your hair. The longer you are connected, the stronger he becomes." Zee offers Bo the drink and when Bo looks at Trick, he seems to encourage Bo to do so. Bo and Trick then take a sip and the two see a vision of a park where everything turns to black, all life being destroyed by some unknown force. Bo then looks at her hand and watches as the same darkness covers her hand and then spreads down her arm. The vision ends when Bo drops the glass she was holding to the floor and it shatters. Bo whispers: "All those lives. Everything." Trick adds: "Gone." Bo whispers that she needs to sit down and Trick tells Bo that he has "never felt so much nothing. Complete and utter nothing." Bo turns to Trick and tells him that she has felt a similar nothing before when she was in Tartarus. Zee makes herself a drink as she sighs: "That's what I have been trying to tell you." Bo demands to know how this can be stopped and Zee reveals that Hades, being banished for thousands of years to the Underworld and the mark that Bo carries is his connection back to the Earth and it must be removed from Bo's body. When Bo asks if she has been feeding Hade, Zee replies: "an all you can eat buffet." Bo asks how Zee's plan will work to free her and Zee replies: "Some anointing, some chanting, the usual." When Bo asks about a sacrifice, Zee insists "No one is getting hurt unless you keep hemming and hawing. Tick-tock." Bo looks at Trick and whispers: "Time to divorce Daddy."

Elsewhere at the party, Iris is looking over the city from the balcony when Mark approaches her, and asks: "What is the most beautiful girl at the party doing here all alone." After trying to make some small talk and jokes with Iris, Mark asks what's wrong and Iris asks: "Do you ever wish you could fall asleep and wake up a whole new person?" Iris then complains about what her parents keep telling her, to be good, to wear the bracelet her parents gave her, and not to ruin the party. Mark replies that he thinks the party "sucks" and when Iris asks if he is leaving, Mark replies that might if Iris wants to go with him or not. When Iris suggests that Dyson would be mad, Mark insists that he wouldn't be as "He knows I can handle myself." Iris moans: "Hera doesn't I'm his divine Messenger. His bidding is my duty." Mark is shocked by this, telling Iris that she is not Hera's property. When Iris points out that he does what Dyson tells him to so, Mark explains that Dyson is not "my boss" and "I do what I want." Iris then reveals that there is a place she has been wanting to show Mark and moments later the two leave the party.

Dyson is with Lauren, who is taking the blood sample that Dyson obtained when he punched Hera. Lauren comments that she hopes that Dyson didn't contaminant the sample, Dyson smiles and replies: "You're welcome." Lauren rolls her eyes and tells Dyson that he "enjoyed it" and "if I didn't know better I'd think you were scrapping over some girl. Maybe the girl who's sleeping at the boxing gym." Dyson smiles and tells Lauren: "You know you're right. You don't know better." Dyson asks how they know that the Ancients are not lying and Lauren explains that Trick and Bo both saw the vision and that they have to try to stop it from coming true. Dyson then sees Hera enter the room and speak with a female Fae, which makes Dyson smile and comment: "There's no reason why we can't set up some collateral. Just in case."

Mark and Iris then walk into a house somewhere in the city, Mark commenting "When I told you to disobey your parents, breaking and entering wasn't what I had in mind." Iris tells Mark that going to jail for a day is better than living with Zee and Hera, also revealing that no one had been living in the house for a few days as well. Iris then kisses Mark, adding: "I bet they have a king-size bed" before she walks further into the house, Mark following her.

Back at the party, Zee enters a room, followed by Bo, Trick and Dyson, Zee calling out: "Let the emancipation begin!" When Bo asks if there is a book of chants or if she can choose her own, Zee brushes that off, telling Bo that comes later before removing a tablecloth and revealing an array of weapons to Bo and telling her that one of the weapons will be used to carve the mark from her body. Bo is then told she must choose one of the weapons. When Bo asks what happens if she chooses wrong, Zee replies: "You die."

After another commercial break, Zee tells Bo to "Pick your poison" and to choose the right weapon or the ritual will fail. Bo comments: "Can I phone a friend?" but Zee tells Bo that only she can decide and that she doesn't make the rules and Bo can "take it up with the Erinyes." Bo examines the weapons, starting with leeches. Zee tells Bo" Belonged to a Naiad. Lovely creatures." Dyson comments: "Used by water nymphs in cleansing rituals." Bo muses: "Pros. Painless won't leave a mark. Cons. Ew and Ew." Bo then picks up a sword which Zee describes as an Xiphos sword, calling it a classic. Bo comments: "Would get the job done, Sharp. Precise. Obvious." Bo then picks up a Minotaur horn and Trick explains: "Minotaur. Feasted on children. A sacrifice to hold off the plague in ancient times." Bo then picks up a short blade in a sheath, removing the sheath and looking at the blade, but before Zee can comment, Bo simply says: "This is it." Trick tells Bo the blade is unknown to him and Dyson asks how Bo knows it is the right weapon. Bo replies: "Because I just know." Zee then reveals the weapon is the Amethusto dagger, calling it an "interesting choice" as the blade is said to "keep its owner free of evil thoughts." Bo then resheaths the blade and when asked if she is sure replies: "Rusty dagger. Final answer."

Hera is then shown in Iris' room with Tamsin and Lauren, the two having tired Hera to a chair. Tamsin tells Hera: "You're an little insurance policy in case something happens to Bo." Lauren adds: "We find out first or you pay." Tamsin then picks up a magazine, commenting that it will "keep my mind off Bo." Lauren rolls her eyes and answers: "Okay. Ignoring me. That's mature." and when Tamsin says nothing, Lauren continues: "Or we could talk about it like two adults, you know there's a novel idea." Tamsin asks why she would "talk about Bo's emancipation with you?" Lauren confronts Tamsin, telling her that she's been wanting to "talk about this all night. Go ahead. You, me, Bo." Tamsin sighs: "Look Lauren, I entered the game late and I lost. That's life. The best woman won." Tamsin claims to be "over it" and suggests that Lauren should be as well. Lauren tells Tamsin "that's noble of you" and isn't sure what else to say. When Lauren takes a seat beside Tamsin, Hera comments: "Well this is nice." Lauren then notices that alongside Iris' bed there are a number of restraints and when Tamsin sees them, she stalks to Hera, anger clearly on her face. Hera attempts to ask them not to "overreact and let me explain." Tamsin asks: "Why you would want to restrain child that makes me not want to kill you?" Tamsin asks Lauren if that's possible, and Lauren replies: "No. No I don't think it is at all." Hera tries to explain: "We didn't do it to hurt her" as Tamsin and Lauren move threatening towards Hera. Hera continues: "We did it because we have to." Lauren asks why and when Hera does not answer, Lauren asks Tamsin, why such powerful Fae would tie up a child. Tamsin replies that it makes no sense, but Lauren wonders if Iris is far more powerful than either Zee or Hera are.

Bo is then seen laying on a table, Zee standing above her with the blade Bo chose in her hand. Zee promises the oil she is using will dull the pain and Bo "will barely feel a thing" and also comments that Bo has "gorgeous skin, flawless like Aphrodite" as well. Bo replies: "Especially since the scar has healed from your bolt." Zee calls this "impressive. You heal faster than most. Not even a blemish." Bo taunts: "Must be good genes." Zee claims to have "overreacted" when she attacked Bo during Clay's football game. Bo then asks if Zee is up to "facing big brother" and she is glad to be "an only child" as Hade's mark begins to glow against Bo's skin. Zee comments: And there he is now." Dyson asks Trick: "Are we really going to let this happen? Let her cut our girl?" Trick tells Dyson: "The fate of the colony depends on it. I saw it too Dyson." Zee places the blade against Bo's skin and is about to begin, gleefully calling this "the moment of truth" and when Dyson coughs, Zee replies: "What? I love this shit." when Lauren and Tamsin rush in and tell Bo to stop. Tamsin explains that Iris is more powerful than either Zee or Hera. Dyson is aghast, stating that Mark is alone with her, then calling out Mark's name, but he does not reply and Lauren tells Dyson that she looked for Mark already and neither he, nor Iris are there. Zee is unimpressed by this and Bo turns on her, telling Zee that: "The most powerful of you is with the least powerful of us. We need to find them. Now." As Bo leaves, Zee calls out that Bo cannot leave as she is not finished. Bo tells Zee: "There's a first time for everything and then walks away, intent on finding Mark and Iris. As Bo leaves, Zee angrily says: "Fine. Plan B."

Mark and Iris are then seen at the house in the living room after being intimate with each other. As they dress, the pair talk about all of the pressures on their lives, Mark talking about Dyson and Iris talking about Zee and Hera. When Mark goes off to look for something to eat, he finds a picture of the family that Iris' human body had been part of which frightened him. Iris then tells Mark about the person she had possessed, calling her CC and that she had a happy life. Iris also points out some of the events in CC's life before Iris reveals that CC still exists, and that she talks to her sometimes, adding that CC thinks that Mark is "really cute". Mark is shocked that CC is still alive and Iris asks that Mark not tell Zee and Hera as she was supposed to kill CC in the same way that Zee and Hera did in their cases. Mark begs Iris that they need to leave, but Iris is convinced that she can return to live with CC's family. Iris also reveals that CC misses her family and that she can hear CC crying as well. There is the sound of the front door opening and Mark panics, desperately trying to leave with Iris, but she refuses. Instead, Iris greets CC's father, claiming to be CC and that she has returned. Frank (Rothaford Gray), CC's father hugs her in disbelief, and calls out for his wife Nancy (Catherine Burdon) but then tells Iris that she is not his daughter. This upsets Iris and she asks "Why don't you love me? Does your heart not work? " before plunging her hand into his chest and killing him, his body falling to the floor in the front hallway as Mark watched from a short distance away. When Mark approaches Iris and asks what she did. Mark sees that the blood from Frank's body is making the mark of the Ancients in a similar way as what happened the to football player when he was murdered and whispers: "It was you that killed all of those people." Iris tells Mark: "They had to go to sleep Mark."

Following another commercial, Mark has been attempting to save Frank's life, but cannot do so. Iris tells Mark: "It's okay. Someday they are all going to wake up and they'll be better." Mark begins to panic and tells Iris that she has killed and when Iris tries to tell Mark that Hera told her differently, Mark tells her that Hera is evil and that both Hera and Zee used her. Iris then begins to panic, screaming for Mark to stop, that according to Zee and Hera: "This is what I was supposed to do! And they are going to wake up!" Iris also claims that "Everything that ends is going to start again!" Mark tries to have Iris calm herself, but she does not and then, in a fit of anger, removes her bracelet. Immediately after doing so, Iris tells Mark that something is happening to her, that Mark has to help her and when Mark yells at Iris to leave she runs away. As Mark attempts to drag Frank's body away, Nancy appears and then stabs Mark in the stomach, gravely injuring him. Mark then stumbles away while Nancy falls to her knees beside Frank's body.

Back at the Ancient's apartment, Zee is talking to Hera on the balcony, telling Hera: "She knows better than to remove it. Even Iris isn't that stupid." Tamsin then appears and Hera comments: "Well, speaking of stupid." Zee replies: "You're one to talk. Who let the cat out of the bag in the first place? Can you do anything without me?" Hera attempts to defend his action, but Zee will have none of it and tells Hera: "Once the Super Friends bring Mark and Iris back we'll get this show on the road." Zee then dismisses Hera, who leaves as Tamsin arrives on the balcony. Zee then makes some small talk with Tamsin, noting that Tamsin was left behind to watch them. Tamsin replies: "Yeah. Lucky me." Zee then tells Tamsin: "Report this back to your friends, Bo's emancipation is now or never." Tamsin asks why Zee seems not to care that Iris is missing and Zee replies: "Please. They're fine, they're kids. Meanwhile Hades is about to wipe us all out. We need Bo to complete the ceremony." Tamsin replies: "Good luck with that" and when questioned about this, she continues that she does believe that Bo should separate from her father, but also she should make "better relationship choices" as well. Zee comments: "Sounds like she's made a lot of bad choices about a lot of things. Care to share?" Tamsin says no, but then adds that she is relieved that their relationship is over and then tries to justify to herself that breaking up with Bo was a good idea. When Tamsin begins to cry, Zee comments that she's "never seen a Valkyrie cry" and Tamsin tells her: "That's cause it's against type. No emotions on the battlefield. Yes Ma'am. No Ma'am. Doubt. Kill. Repeat." Tamsin then whispers: "You'd think by my last life I'd have this figured out." Zee then tells Tamsin that it can "take centuries to figure it out" and when Tamsin asks "when do people stop hurting you?" Zee replies: "They didn't. I started hurting them and you're next." Tamsin replies: "I doubt that" Zee then comments: "Cassie tried to be brave too. Poor girl. Terrible eyesight that one." Tamsin coldly replies: "You know, the different between Cassie and me is that I can fly." Zee chuckles and then a bolt of lightning strikes Tamsin, she collapsing to the floor and unmoving. Zee looks at Tamsin and sighs: "Not anymore."

Elsewhere, Bo, Lauren and Dyson arrive at a park in Bo's car, Lauren mentioning that she spoke with Trick and that Mark and iris are not at the Dal Riata. Bo stops the car and Dyson comments that he had a report that there was a "disturbance at the south end of the park" as they leave the car and begin to search for Mark and Iris. Dyson picks up a piece of clothing and notes that it belongs to Mark, Lauren looks at the clothing and adds: "That's way more blood than I like." Dyson senses Mark and begins search for him with Lauren to the west as Bo turns to the south to find Iris. As they spilt up, Lauren calls out to Bo: "Oh boy yes." The two look at each other for a long moment and then Lauren turns away to run after Dyson. Bo then turns in another direction and comments: "Okay Iris. Time to find out what makes you so powerful."

Iris is then seen elsewhere in the park picking a flower. Moments after doing so, the flower turns completely black in her hand and then crumbles to nothing. A police officer then asks if Iris needs help, but she only asks: "Please sir, just go away." The police officer then reaches for Iris' hand, grasps it and then he begins to turn black in the same way that the flower did.

After still another commercial break, Bo approaches Iris and asks if she is alright. Iris asks Bo not to come too close to her, but not why. Bo sits beside Iris on a park bench and asks if she and Mark are alright, Iris replying that Mark is mad at her. When Bo attempts to touch Iris' cheek, Iris starts to walk away from Bo. Bo asks Iris to talk to her and promises not to touch Iris as well. Bo asks why Mark is mad at Iris and is told: "I'm not supposed to make you sleep. Zee needs you." Bo is confused, but jokes: "Lucky for you I'm a succubus. I don't need much sleep." Iris then tells Bo: "Mark's right. All I do is hurt people." Bo then tells Iris about her own past, when she was younger and didn't understand that she was a succubus and the harm that she did then. Iris replies: "They make me do bad things. I'm a murderer." Bo asks what "they" made Iris do and then Bo touches Iris' cheek, intending to use her powers to make Iris answer her. Iris then backs away and tells Bo: "I told you not to touch me." Bo then looks at her hand and sees it turn black exactly as was foretold in the prophecy that she had seen at the party. Bo then looks at the surrounding park, which is turning black and whispers: "The darkness wasn't my father. It was Iris."

Bo travels to the Dal Riata where she shows Trick her hand and tells Trick that the vision came true and Iris was responsible. Bo tells Trick: "There's something else inside of her. Something turning everything into nothing." This reminds Trick of something and he quickly searches through one of his books before explaining: "The Nix. A primordial force of evil born from chaos." Trick notes that Zee and Hera must have been waiting for the right moment to release it in Iris and wipe out the world. Bo calls Iris: "A ticking time bomb wrapped in a rainbow." When Bo asks how to stop it, both she and Trick watch the darkness continues to creep up Bo's arm, Trick unsure that they can stop it, but then remembers a story that his mother told him of a toy box that can contain evil. Trick calls it "the original Jack-in-the-box" and adds "only a box of Adamantine, the ore of Ancients, could contain such evil." Trick dismisses this as a possible metaphor, but Bo reveals that the box is real, that she has it, and it was "a gift from the Underworld... From my father," Trick asks where the box is and Bo tells Trick it is at the clubhouse, Bo leaving in the next moment to go there.

Dyson and Lauren are seen running through the park, Dyson unable to focus and find Mark. Lauren tells Dyson his feelings for Mark are getting in the way, calms Dyson down and after a few moments of concentration, Dyson turns and moves off in a new direction, certain that Mark is there. A short run later finds Vex carrying Mark as Dyson and Lauren arrive. Lauren asks Vex what he is doing there, and Vex explains that Mark called him for help. Dyson asks in a worried tone of voice if Mark will be alright, but Lauren takes charge and orders Dyson to put pressure on Mark's wound. As this happens, Vex tells them they he will try to get help and goes off in search of that. Dyson talks to Mark, trying to keep him awake and fighting for his life. Mark does not speak, but gasps for breath and slowly begins to fade away.

Bo arrives at the clubhouse to find Zee has searched for, and found, the toy box. Zee then attempts to leave with the box but Bo replies: "Over my dead hand." When Zee tries to use her lightning, it is attracted to Bo's blackened hand and is absorbed, Bo seeming to suffer no ill effects from Zee's attack. Bo then realizes: "That's why you sent the Oracles after me. You were after my box." Zee tells Bo she is "not leaving without it" and tries to walk past Bo which then devolves into a cat fight between the two, the box going from Bo's hands to Zee's and back again before Bo wins the fight, grasps Zee with her blackened hand and forces her towards the door. As Bo throws Zee out of her home, she growls: "Fashion and function. Black is the new 'Get the hell out of my house.'" Bo then slams the door shut, leans against it and then slides to the floor. Zee then bangs on the door and tells Bo: "You don't want to open that box." Bo asks for one good reason why and Zee replies: "You open that box and your father will walk the Earth."

After the final commercial break, Bo is still sitting on the floor as Zee tries to convince Bo not to open the box, telling Bo that she has a choice and she could start over, free herself from Hades and "reclaim what's your's." Bo looks at her hand, then the box, and whispers: "The Oracles deliver a truth to extract the truth."

Bo then sees her complete vision that the Oracles gave her previously which begins with her father Hades telling Bo not to be afraid. Bo whispers: "Dad" and then Hades (Eric Roberts) is seen for the first time. He tells Bo: "There's barely any time, we must be quick." Bo replies: "Leave me alone." Hades continues: "There are those far more wicked than I on this Earth. You, must stop them." Bo asks: "Who? The Ancients?" and Hades replies: "Only family can destroy them." Bo asks: "So what, I need you?" Hades continues: "Our power will decide the fate of this world." Bo answers: "Enough with the riddles. You just tell me what you want." Hades reveals: "You will do things you don't want to do. Lead our victory over night." Bo refuses, telling Hades: "I will never share your victory." Hades sighs and tells Bo: "Sometimes the greatest evil is the greatest mercy." Bo cries: "Nothing is ever simple with you is it? I need real answers." Hades tells Bo: I've given you all that I can. The answer lies with you. A gift."

The vision ends and Bo considers what the vision told her, whispering: "The answer is in a gift." Zee pounds on the door again as Bo looks at the box, then screams at Bo: "Oh you think you're special? Strong? Everything you have is because of him!" Bo calmly answers: "Well, maybe it takes evil to fight evil" and then starts to turn the hand crank of the box, it beginning to play music as Bo does so. Zee screams that Bo doesn't know what she is doing, but then suddenly stops as she hears the music playing. Zee stands up, a shocked expression on her face before turning away from Bo's door and disappearing.

The final scene of the episode is Bo continuing to turn the crank of the box until it opens with a flash of light, Bo gasping in surprise, as the episode comes to a close.

Questions in this Episode

• Where did Bo get the dress she wore in this episode? Has she always had it, and if not, when did she? Was Trick or Dyson responsible for it?
• As of this episode, Bo is living alone. Are Kenzi's things still upstairs, and if not, was Tamsin living in Kenzi's room?
• Who were all of the Fae at the party? Is there a specific reason those Fae appeared there? Are they all connected somehow to Bo herself?
• Being that bug spray is, for the most part, lethal, how is it that Hera's human body can take that injection and have nothing much happen?
• What was in the clam dip? Was there something in it that hooked Trick? Did it do the same thing to the other Fae at the party?
• Lauren has a sample of Hera's blood now, how long will it take for her to come up with a means to overcome the Ancients?
• The question must be asked if Zee prefers to be female over male. Based on her comments as she spoke about her past, it would seem as if her "core" form is female.
• Why did Bo not refuse the drink if she was so upset about Cassie and what was in the drink? The protest was fleeting and she seemed to cave in quickly.
• If things had gone wrong with removing Hade's mark from Bo, how exactly would Tamsin and Lauren kill Hera? For that matter, how would they stop Zee as well?
• How did Iris know that no one was home at the house she broke into with Mark?
• Why were there so many choices for Bo to pick from to remove Hades' mark? Some where obviously wrong and many didn't make a lot of sense.
• Could Hera free himself from being tied up? And what exactly was stopping him from just doing so in the first place? Could it be that Zee ordered Hera to do so?
• So how did Nancy, CC's mother, get into the house, walk to the kitchen, get a knife, return to the front hallway and then stab Mark? She didn't come in the front door it seems and if she did, she should have come running when Frank called for her when he saw Iris. It seems like too much time passes between Frank calling for her and she appearing.
• It seems clear that Zee isn't all that intelligent when she tells Tamsin to tell Bo and the others that time is running out and then strikes Tamsin down with lightning.
• Did the lightning really kill Tamsin? It's unlikely, but certainly Tamsin was injured, possibly gravely.
• As Iris didn't move from where she killed the police officer, how is it that Bo didn't notice the remains?
• Being that the toy box from Hades had such power, the question again is, how did it get out of the Underworld for one, and the other question is, is there anything in it?
• Considering the length of time that Mark was bleeding, how long it could have taken for Vex to arrive, and then drag Mark all over the park, it's amazing that Mark was still alive when Lauren and Dyson arrived. How does he survive the injury, if he does? Would shifting into his other form be enough to heal his injuries?
• The riddles that Hades gave Bo pushed her towards opening the box and releasing whatever was within it. So, what is in the box? Is it Hades as Zee seems to insist? Is it empty? How does the box work to capture The Nix and end that threat?
• What happens to Zee and Hera when the box opens? Are they sucked into it as well?
• When the box opens, does it do anything to Bo herself?

Answers in this Episode

• At the beginning of the episode, Tamsin has moved out from Bo's place, her current home not clearly stated, though Tamsin did comment that she was going to Motel 6 first, and then "wherever the universe takes me."
• Bo, Dyson, Trick and Lauren were all invited to a surprise party for Bo, Mark attended as backup for the group. Trick did not arrive with the others however. and Tamsin arrived later as well.
• Bo stated that the riddle her father gave in her vision from the Oracles was: "The greatest evil is the greatest mercy."
• Apparently, Zee's clam dip at the party was a big hit, at least with Trick.
• Lauren gave Dyson a syringe of "bug spray" to use on Hera to "reduce the possibility of bug showers."
• It appears that Hera recovered from being stabbed with no viable signs of being injured.
• Lauren confirmed that it took her months to create the elixir that she used on Eveny and in its current form could not be likely used on other Fae with the same effect.
• In spite of her breakup with Bo, Tamsin did attend the party with the others as backup.
• Dyson obtained a sample of Hera's blood for Lauren by punching Hera in the face. He also injected Hera with Lauren's bug spray which seemed to have some effect, but how much was unclear.
• Zee is revealed to be Bo's Aunt. However, she can also be considered Bo's Uncle when in the form of Zeus. It is unclear which is correct at the time of Bo's birth.
• According to Zee, she has been in: "Egypt I was Amun. Odin to the Vikings. Jupiter to the Romans. But you would know me best as Zeus."
• Apparently, Zee has changed forms and genders often over her existence.
• Zee offers Bo a means to be free of her father and warns that Bo needs to do so before she is used to end the world.
• To give Bo and Trick their vision, both have a sip of the Drink of Prophesy, which is made in part with the missing eyeballs of the Oracles.
• The vision was of a darkness passing over the lands and killing all life, Zee claiming that this was Hade's doing.
• It is revealed that the mark that Bo has on her shoulder from Hades has been sending power to him.
• Zee claimed that no sacrifice would be needed, but there world be chanting and oils involved.
• Iris referred to herself as Hera's divine Messenger.
• Mark and Iris went to the home of the human that Iris had possessed. While there they were intimate, then when the parents came home, and found Iris there things went very bad. When Iris was seen not to be their daughter, Iris took out the father's heart, killing him, and then the mother drove a knife through Mark's stomach, causing grave injury.
• Hera was used as a bargaining chip when it appeared that Bo would go through the ceremony to have her father's mark cut from her skin in order to make sure that nothing happened to Bo or Hera would suffer.
• It was discovered by Tamsin and Lauren that Zee and Hera had been tying up Iris every night. Through this it was discovered that Iris was, in fact, more powerful than either of Zee or Hera.
• The first part of Bo's ceremony is to choose the weapon that will be used to cut Hade's mark from her body, choosing the wrong weapon will kill her.
• Bo looks at leeches, which belonged to a Naiad, an Xiphos sword, a Minotaur horn, and finally chooses the Amethusto dagger. The myth told is that the blade is said to "keep its owner free of evil thoughts."
• Bo revealed that it took until this episode for the injury she suffered from Zee to heal completely.
• The ceremony was not completed when it was discovered that Mark and Iris were missing.
• The name of the human that Iris possessed was Cecilia Lawrence, also known as CC.
• Iris killed Cecilia's father before removing her bracelet and being changed as a result.
• Cecilia's mother shortly afterwards stabbed Mark in the stomach with a long knife, gravely injuring him.
• It appears that when Iris kills a human, their blood will form the mark of the Ancients.
• While Tamsin did break up with Bo, it's clear that she still has strong feelings for Bo.
• Zee attacked Tamsin with a bolt of lightning that, at least, stunned her, if not injured her, though killing Tamsin is unlikely.
• Bo expressed to Lauren that she wanted them to be together again, and Lauren hinted that she also wants it.
• When Bo encountered Iris in the park, she promised not to touch Iris, but then did so. In doing so, Bo cause the prophecy she had seen earlier in the episode to come true, revealing that she did not see Hades ending the world, but rather it was Iris' powers doing so.
• Iris tells Bo: "I'm not supposed to make you sleep. Zee needs you."
• Iris is, according to Trick, The Nix, which Trick describes as a primordial force of evil born from chaos. Nix in Greek mythology refers to the personification of the night and as well was said to stand at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of other personified deities such as Hypnos and Thanatos. Her appearances are sparse in surviving mythology, but reveal her as a figure of such exceptional power and beauty, that she is feared by Zeus himself. You can find out more about this legend here.
• Trick tells Bo that a toy box that can contain evil. Trick calls it "the original Jack-in-the-box" and adds "only a box of Adamantine, the ore of Ancients, could contain such evil."
• Adamantine likely refers to Adamant and similar words that are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. You can find out more about this substance here.
• This marked the first time that Bo told Trick of the box, he not being aware of it before this.
• Dyson, with Lauren's help in focusing, located Mark who was being helped by Vex, Mark having called Vex for help. After giving Mark to Lauren and Dyson, Vex left in search of more aid, leaving Lauren and Dyson to deal with Mark's injuries as he slowly faded away.
• Bo confronts Zee at the clubhouse and fights her for the box, winning that battle and then forcing Zee to leave.
• Bo has a flashback to the vision the Oracles gave her, which was not fully revealed when it happened previously. It begins with her father Hades telling Bo not to be afraid, adding they have little time to talk. He then tells Bo that she must stop the Ancients as only family can destroy them, and also adds that their power will decide the fate of the world. He also tells Bo that she will do things you don't want to do. When he tells Bo that she will lead their victory over night, Bo refuses. Hades tells Bo: "Sometimes the greatest evil is the greatest mercy." and his last words are: "The answer lies with you. A gift."
• This episode marks the first time Hades, Bo's father, is seen.
• Bo decided to open the box, and she does so, the only thing known is that when it opened a light came from it and Bo gasped in surprise.
• At the end of the episode: Trick's location was unknown, but can be assumed to be at the Dal Riata were he was last seen. Mark was close to death, Lauren attempting to treat him with Dyson's assistance, Vex having gone for help moments before. Tamsin had been struck by lightning by Zee and appeared to be either dead or close to death. Hera's location was unknown, but likely was at the Ancient's apartment. Iris was in the park near where Dyson, Lauren and Mark were. Bo had fought Zee for control of the Jack-in-the-box her father sent her, Bo winning that fight and deciding to open the box.

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Episode Review on Succubus.Net

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External Links

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