Flesh and Blood

For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).

The official logo for the Showcase TV Series Lost Girl

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

For further on Bo, the succubus of the series, see her article in the SuccuWiki here. For the series itself, see that article here. For a general discussion of Succubi and their mythos in the series, see that article here.

Flesh and Blood was the twenty-second episode of the second season of the series, and the thirty-fifth overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was also the season finale for the second season of the series. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on April 1st, 2012 at 9 PM Eastern time.

Production Data

• Series: Lost Girl
• Season: 2
• Episode Number: 22 (35th Overall)
• Episode Title: Flesh and Blood
• Directed by: Steve DiMarco
• Writing credits: Alan McCullough
• Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
• Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
• Country of Origin: Canada
• Originally Aired on: April 1st, 2012 on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada
• Number of Canadian Viewers: TBA

Cast

A promotional image of the Season Two cast of Lost Girl from the official website at lostgirlseries.com From left to right: Richard Howland as Trick, K.C. Collins as Detective Hale, Kristen Holden-Reid as Dyson, Anna Silk as Bo, Ksenia Solo as Kenzi, and Zoie Palmer as Lauren

Actor / Actress	Role
Anna Silk	Bo
Kristen Holden-Ried	Dyson
Ksenia Solo	Kenzi
Richard Howland	Trick
K.C. Collins	Detective Hale
Zoie Palmer	Lauren
Paul Amos	Vex
Raoul Trujillo	The Garuda
Erica Luttrell	Val
Alisen Down	Isabeau
Martin Julien	Alastor

Plot

Short Summary

Bo meets with Trick and he tells her of his concerns about her plan. He gives her a vial of life essence to protect herself that was given to him by Bo's grandmother, to be used in the event she feels herself slipping towards the dark side. A dark force enters and transports Trick away, Bo unable to stop it. Trick is taken to The Garuda and is shown his past which reveals that Trick was losing the war between the Fae and that Trick's wife went to try and broker a peace between Trick and the attacking armies. However, she was killed by a traitor in Trick's midst who sent an order in his name to have her and the opposing leader killed. This turned both the Light and Dark Fae against him and to save his life, Trick wrote the Fae Laws. Lauren gives Bo the remaining venom she has saved, enough for one dose only, and tells Bo that she is what they need, a leader, and Bo takes that to heart in her plan against The Garuda. Bo tells her friends that her solution to The Garuda's power is for her to enslave her friends with her blood in order to remove all strife between them. Lauren injects Bo's blood into everyone, but Vex manages to avoid being injected by diverting everyone's attention. Bo tells Kenzi that if anything goes wrong, she must release her hold on the others, even if that means killing her and Kenzi promises that she will do so if need be. Kenzi attempts to decipher Trick's notes and eventually figures out the location of The Garuda, and Hale's sister Val arrives to join the group in their fight. They confront The Garuda, who is holding Trick in an insane asylum. The group splits up to search for Trick and in the course of doing so, Vex is injured which causes both he and Lauren to be left behind as the others continue. Kenzi is severely injured in another confrontation, Hale and Val unable to stop it from happening and taking the three of them out of the fight as well. Dyson and Bo arrive as Trick is about to rewrite the Laws under the sway of The Garuda's powers. Dyson attacks but is severely injured. Bo then confronts it and the two battle. Vex's trickery is revealed and he is injected which adds to Bo's powers. Hale manages to use his powers to stop Kenzi bleeding to death. Kenzi demands to be taken to Bo and the others go to join her. The Garuda then enters Trick's body and attempts to use his body to rewrite the laws, but Vex delays this using his powers. Bo uses the venom on Trick's body and kills The Garuda, but in doing so, also kills Trick. Bo begins to slip away into darkness and insanity, but she gives the life essence to Trick which saves him instead of herself. She then continues to turn dark, but Kenzi performs the ceremony to unbind everyone from Bo and stops it from continuing. In the aftermath, something is effecting Kenzi causing her arm to glow with power, Trick is unsure of himself, Lauren is considering leaving since there is no Ash thanks to a comment by Dyson, and Bo seems to still be under the effects of the dark that is growing within her.

Detailed Summary

The episode begins with Bo (Anna Silk) watching Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) taking inventory of a collection of weapons, and a lucky stuffed teddy bear named Ziggy that Kenzi owns. Bo watches this but seems despondent and eventually tells Kenzi that they have all kinds of weapons, but none of them will work against The Garuda. Bo also tells Kenzi that she isn't sure that Lauren can save Lachlan's venom, and even if she does, Bo has no idea how she will be able to get close enough to use it on The Garuda. Kenzi tells Bo that she wants to help her, but she has no idea how to do that. The pair are silent for a moment and then Kenzi strikes Bo across the cheek, a surprised look on her face. A moment later and Bo strikes Kenzi back, Kenzi then crying out in pain. Bo turns away from Kenzi and calls out Vex's name. Vex (Paul Amos) appears from behind Bo's sofa and asks if he is disturbing them, then tells the pair it is the other way around. Bo asks what his problem is, and Vex tells Bo that the problem is that he isn't able to get a decent night's sleep for all of the whining that Bo and Kenzi are going on about. When Vex mentions that the whining is enough to make him want to cut his own ears off, Kenzi takes a knife and moves towards Vex. Vex takes control of Kenzi's body, turns her around, and then makes her stab the teddy bear with the knife she is holding. Bo suggests that Vex might sleep better back in The Morrigan's prison and Vex gives in telling Bo that: "it's your party and you can whine if you want to. I'll be here trying not to think about what's left behind on a Succubus' couch." Bo's cell phone rings and she finds that Trick is calling, asking her to meet him at the Dal Riata as he wants to talk to her as soon as possible. Bo agrees and leave to meet with Trick, but before he hangs up, Trick asks Bo to bring the cane sword he gave her for her birthday in the episode Masks as well.

Bo arrives in Trick's home at the Dal Riata, and sees Trick with maps, drawings and other pieces of information on their enemy throughout the room. Trick explains that some of the items are dispatches that reveal The Garuda has resurfaced in the city and is attacking, or making Fae attack Fae. Bo comments: "Let me guess. A trail of dead and a lingering smell of burnt chicken?" Trick tells Bo that he is getting close to pinpointing the location of their enemy, and that is why he calls Bo to this meeting. Trick tells Bo that he is concerned about her plan, that the extra power she is going to add to herself will be dangerous, that she could lose herself to the darkness that is within herself. Bo tells Trick that it is a risk she is willing to take if it means a chance for them to win the coming battle. Trick then asks for the cane sword and tells Bo that it once belonged to Isabeau, Trick's long dead wife. Bo smiles and is happy that she inherited her Grandmother's name. Trick tells Bo that she received much more than a name alone. Trick then unscrews the handle of the sword to reveal a small vial of liquid hidden within. Trick explains that what it contains is Isabeau's life essence. Trick explains that the liquid can cure illness, neutralize poison and "can stave off the darkness from within." Trick explains that it has amazing healing powers and is the source of Bo's own healing abilities. Trick tells Bo that he had hid the vial for a long time, waiting for the right moment to use it, and he believes that now is the right time for its powers to be revealed. Bo asks Trick for a promise that if they survive the coming battle, he will tell her all about her Grandmother, and Trick agrees after telling Bo to keep the vial safe. Trick tells Bo that if she feels the darkness overcoming her, she should drink it and it will restore her "to the Bo we love." Bo embraces Trick and tells him that she doesn't know what she would do without him and Trick answers "me too." A noise from upstairs in the bar gains their attention and they go to see what it was. The pair move through the bar for a few moments, seeing nothing but then a mass of black smoke, previously seen at the end of the last episode moves to attack Bo. She slices through it with her sword, stunning it for a moment, but then it moves over to Trick, surrounds him, and then both the black smoke and Trick vanish into thin air, Bo unable to stop this from happening.

Returning from the opening credits, Kenzi and Hale (K.C. Collins) have arrived at the bar. Hale tells Bo that he thinks the creatures that took Trick were UnderFae called Rabisu, creatures that hide in the shadows. Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) arrives and reports that there is nothing at the place where they battled The Garuda previously. Bo then turns to Kenzi and tells her that in Trick's home there are stacks of maps and papers which if she can figure them out, might tell them were Trick has been taken to. Kenzi tells Bo that she: "Got a D in geography babe" but Bo insists and Kenzi goes to see what she can figure out with Hale's help. Vex then asks what is so important about Trick other than he lets them drink for free as he opens a bottle and begins to drink from it. Bo bluntly tells Vex: "Trick is the architect of the peace" which makes him spit out the liquor he had been drinking in disbelief. He laughs: "You are trying to tell me that Imp is the Blood King?" Seeing the completely serious looks on Bo and Dyson, Vex recluses the bottle, places it gently on the bar and then says: "I never touched this" followed by: "Blimey... We really are buggered." Bo then tells Dyson she is going to talk to Lauren and will return. As she leaves Vex is in shock and says nothing as he looks at Dyson.

Kenzi in the meantime is looking through Trick's notes, commenting that they are a cross between hieroglyphics and a doctor's prescription pad. She gathers herself together and makes a plan to look for patterns in the symbols, assuming that it is a code of some kind and she should be able to break it. Hale asks if this is the best way to do it and Kenzi tells him that she created her own code to pass cheat notes in school and she will break this code given time.

Bo arrives in Lauren's (Zoie Palmer) laboratory, where she receives all of the venom from Lachlan that Lauren was able to save, but it consists of one single dose and nothing more. Bo is disheartened and apologizes to Lauren for this, but Lauren tells Bo to make her a promise that she will make The Garuda suffer for what it did to Nadia. Bo answers that her grandfather is being held and asks if she knows how powerful Trick is. Lauren's answer is that Trick is almost as powerful as Bo which shocks Bo. Lauren explains that Bo has faith in herself in her heart. Bo tells Lauren that she isn't worried about her heart because she: "loves you... all... so much." Lauren then tells Bo that what they need is a leader as she touches Bo's cheek softly.

Meanwhile at the Dal Riata, Kenzi walks into the bar and Hale asks how things are going. Kenzi moans that things are fine and asks if Hale knows any Siren tricks for a sore neck. Hale tells her that he doesn't but then gives her a neck massage which gives Kenzi some relief. Vex watches this for a moment and then asks: "Oh go and merge naughty bits will you already? Am I the only one seeing this?" Both Hale and Kenzi just look at him for a long moment and then Bo enters the room, telling them that she wants to talk to them about her plan. Bo explains that they lost the last battle with The Garuda because they were manipulated into fighting with each other. Her solution to overcoming this problem is to inject all of them with her blood, thus making them all single-minded in their support of her. Hale is confused and asks Bo if she wants to enslave all of them, but Bo tells him that by using her blood she can unite them in one common goal, eliminate individual conflicts and doubts, and that she sees it as their only hope. Vex is against this idea saying that he doesn't know where Bo has been. Dyson tells Vex that he isn't happy about it either, and when Dyson is called a dog, the two begin to fight. Bo stops them and points to what just happened as the reason why her plan is the only means to get close enough to use Lachlan's venom.

Elsewhere, Trick is delivered into the custody of The Garuda. Trick tells him that he will not rewrite the laws no matter what is done to him and The Garuda replies that he isn't planning to force Trick into doing anything because Trick will do so freely. The Garuda then casts a vision around himself and Trick which seems to transport them both elsewhere. Trick is shocked to realize that he knows where he is, the place being his castle at Edenderry, which The Garuda describes as being where Trick made his last stand during the Great Fae War. Trick then watches as his history begins to be played out again in front of his eyes, his past self appearing and acting as he did in the past, a reminder of what he did and what happened.

Returning from commercial. Trick asks what is the point of what he is seeing and is told that his claim of using his blood in the best interests of the Fae is a lie and The Garuda will prove that to him. If Trick is so sure he acted nobly, then there is no harm in seeing what he did in the past. Trick watches as his past self is advised by Alastor (Martin Julien) that the war is going badly for him, that the armies of his opponent, the Lady Almaith have defeats his army at Roscrea. Trick is enraged by this, but Alastor tells him that their armies are gathering at Port Laoise to attack once more.

Questions in this Episode

• How long has Kenzi had Ziggy the bear?
• Just how many weapons do Bo and Kenzi have lying around?
• How is it that Bo's blood can be injected into other people and it does not cause health problems? Mixing of blood types is normally a very bad idea.
• There appears to be no direct real world connection to Lady Almaith. Is there?
• All of the battles in the past seem to have happened in Ireland. Does this mean that the majority of the beings immediately around Bo are from that part of the world? Why is this?

Answers in this Episode

• Trick gave Bo a cane sword for her birthday in the episode Masks. The cane was once owned by Trick's wife Isabeau and in the hilt it contained a vial of "life essence" that was Isabeau's.
• Bo's real name is, apparently, Isabeau. This is the same name as Bo's grandmother, who was Trick's wife.
• There is an Isabeau in history. She was Isabeau of Bavaria, also known as Elisabeth of Bavaria-Ingolstadtand was the Queen consort of France from 1385 to 1422 as spouse of King Charles VI of France. She assumed a prominent role in public affairs during the disastrous later years of her husband's reign. You can learn more about her here.
• Bo's healing abilities are provided through the powers of her Grandmother. If this was given naturally or by consuming some life essence in the past is not made clear.
• Rabisu in Akkadian mythology are evil vampiric spirits or demons that are always menacing the entrance to houses and hiding in dark corners, waiting to attack people. You can find out more about this myth here. In the Lost Girl universe, they are UnderFae creatures made of what appears to be smoke that can shift in and out of existence, taking people with them and transporting them elsewhere that hide in the shadows.
• Lauren's opinion is that Bo is stronger than Trick is.
• During the Great Fae War, Trick made his last stand at his castle in Edenderry. There are several Edenderries in the real world and it is not known which of them this might refer to. The most likely possibility is the town of Edenderry, County Offaly, in the Republic of Ireland as it has a castle that was placed under siege during the 1599 Earl of Tyrone's rebellion.
• Roscrea is a small town in North Tipperary, Ireland. You can find out more about this town's history here.
• Port Laoise is the county town of County Laois in the Midlands region of Ireland. You can find out more about this town's history here.
• Alastor was Trick's war chancellor in the past and also was a spy. Alastor was banished to the underworld as a result of his actions.

Episodes

For a more detailed list see: List of Lost Girl episodes, or click on the individual episode titles for more in depth articles.

Season One Episodes

Episode 1: It's a Fae, Fae, Fae, Fae World
Episode 2: Where There's a Will, There's a Fae
Episode 3: Oh Kappa, My Kappa
Episode 4: Faetal Attraction
Episode 5: Dead Lucky
Episode 6: Food for Thought
Episode 7: ArachnoFaebia
Episode 8: Vexed
Episode 9: Fae Day
Episode 10: The Mourning After
Episode 11: Faetal Justice
Episode 12: (Dis)Members Only
Episode 13: Blood Lines

Season Two Episodes

Episode 1: Something Wicked This Fae Comes
Episode 2: I Fought the Fae (And the Fae Won)
Episode 3: Scream a Little Dream
Episode 4: Mirror, Mirror
Episode 5: BrotherFae of the Wolves
Episode 6: It's Better to Burn Out Than Fae Away
Episode 7: Fae Gone Wild
Episode 8: Death Didn't Become Him
Episode 9: Original Skin
Episode 10: Raging Fae
Episode 11: Can't See the Fae-Rest
Episode 12: Masks
Episode 13: Barometz. Trick. Pressure.
Episode 14: Midnight Lamp
Episode 15: Table for Fae
Episode 16: School's Out
Episode 17: The Girl Who Fae'd With Fire
Episode 18: Fae-nted Love
Episode 19: Truth and Consequences
Episode 20: Lachlan's Gambit
Episode 21: Into the Dark
Episode 22: Flesh and Blood

Episode Review on Succubus.Net

Tera, the owner of this website, posted a review of this episode on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on Friday, April 6th, 2012. You can find that review here. She gave it ? pitchforks out of 5.

External Links

• The Official site of the series Lost Girl
• Official Season Two website at Showcase.ca
• Into the Dark at the IMDb