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"There's Bo Place Like Home"
Lost Girl episode
Bo meets her adoptive human mother Mary
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 7 Overall Episode 42
Directed by	Gail Harvey
Written by	Brendon Yorke
Produced by	Wanda Chaffey
Featured Music	See Section Below
Cinematography by	David Greene
Editing by	Paul Day
Production Code	307
Original Air Date	March 3, 2013 (2013-03-03)
Length	60 minutes (runtime)
Guest Actors
Deborah Odell - Stella Nashira Nola Augustson - Mary Dennis Christopher Kennedy - Doug
Episode Chronology
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Short Summary List of Lost Girl Episodes Detailed List of Lost Girl episodes Bo returns home to confront her human mother and come to terms with her past SuccuWiki Rating: (TBA)

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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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There's Bo Place Like Home was the seventh episode of the third season of the series, and the forty-second overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on March 3rd, 2013 at 9 PM Eastern time.

Production Data

• Series: Lost Girl
• Season: 3
• Episode Number: 7 (42nd Overall)
• Episode Title: There's Bo Place Like Home
• Directed by: Gail Harvey
• Writing credits: Brendon Yorke
• Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
• Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
• Country of Origin: Canada
• Originally Aired on: March 3rd, 2013 on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada
• Number of Canadian Viewers: TBA
• Number of American Viewers: TBA

Cast

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

Actor / Actress	Role
Anna Silk	Bo
Kristen Holden-Ried	Dyson
Ksenia Solo	Kenzi
Richard Howland	Trick
Zoie Palmer	Lauren
Deborah Odell	Stella Nashira
Nola Augustson	Mary Dennis
Christopher Kennedy	Doug
Tara Wilson	Jessica
Philippa Domville	Lady Polly
Jeff Pangman	Brad
Cherisse Woonsam	Leslie
Andrew Bushell	Cherry Wine Guy
Brookelyn Leonard	Double Dutch Girl #1
Belinda Bijan	Double Dutch Girl #2
Brooke Pastuch	Double Dutch Girl #3
Matt Purdy	Kyle (Flashback)

Music in this Episode

Song Title	Artist	Notes
Like An Animal	Sunparlour Players	Written by Andrew Penner
T-Bone's Jig	Samantha Robichaud	Written by Samantha Robichaud
Lucky Lola	Derek And The Darling	Written by Samantha Garett and Derek Anthony
On The Other Side (Underscore)	Hungrytown	Written by Ken Anderson and Rebecca Hall
Kitty Lie Over / Swallowtail	Pint Of Blarney	Traditional, Arranged By Les Agnew, Edith Hawkins, Chris Herlihey and Tom Lucas
Dance D'alayna		Courtesy of APM Music
Love And Other Disasters (Underscore)	Rebecca Hosking	Written by Rebecca Hosking
Real Men Live In Trees	Vandarth	Written by Nathan Snyder

Plot

Short Summary

Trick trains Bo to face her first challenge but she fails. A Lode Star tells Bo that she must return home to her human parents and settle her past with them. Bo finds her father has passed away and her mother is suffering from dementia. Bo discovers that an UnderFae, called Lady Polly by the locals, is killing off those in her home town that had released it in the past as they return for a cherry festival. Bo collects the remainder of her high school friends together to trap the UnderFae with the help of Kenzi in a well ending the threat. Bo speaks with her mother, apologizes to her, forgives her and manages to come to terms with her past at last. Bo passes the first test and discovers there is much more to come and she confronts Kenzi asking her why she went to see The Norn.

Detailed Summary

The episode opens with Bo (Anna Silk) being taught by Trick (Richard Howland) in one of the lower rooms of the Dal Riata to pass the first of her challenges. It involves her passing through an archway to reach Trick who waits on the other side of it. Trick asks her to try again, and Bo does so, but as she reaches the archway, a force field of some kind violently throws her back from it. Trick asks what she did and Bo's answer is, in a very irritated tone: "Beg the invisible threshold to knock me on my ass obviously. Was I not supposed to?" Trick explains that most Fae have years to prepare for the rites of passage, but Bo has only days before she devolves "into something that I have to keep in a cage." Bo's retort is: "Haven't you always wanted a pet?" as she storms around Trick and begins to flip through a book nearby. Trick comments: "I see that impending doom hasn't effected your sense of humour." Bo continues to focus on the book and asks why the book doesn't tell how to pass the test. Trick explains that much is left to interpretation which only irritates Bo further. Trick tells Bo to "focus on the now" and Bo mimics his words and adds: "shift consciousness and achieve an effortless merging of effort and awareness" and Trick finishes the lesson by adding "to allow yourself to cross the threshold." Bo slumps in defeat and answers: "So, I'm on my own then." Trick can only shrug and say nothing in return. Bo takes a deep breath and then tries a mantra of: "Focusing. Shifting. Merging. And I Bo Dennis allow myself to pass." Bo then reaches out a hand which is repelled, her anger overcomes her, and she storms out of the room telling Trick that she needs a break and is going home.

Elsewhere, a couple is stranded on the side of a road with a flat tire. The two argue for a time, the woman complaining about being in the country with him, he explaining that they are there "for the best cherries in the world and I thought my fiancée would have liked to know where I grew up." They continue to argue until the woman walks out into a field looking for a place to relieve herself while he continues to fix the flat tire on their car, crawling underneath the car to try and break the tire loose. As he does so, the sun becomes blinding and a strange woman dressed in rags appears nearby. Winds whips around the area and the scene darkens before the jack holding up the car slips and it falls killing the man beneath it. The strange woman vanishes in a whirl of black smoke and the scene returns to normal again. The woman returns to the car to find her fiancé dead and screams in horror.

After the opening credits, we return to the Dal Riata to see Trick speaking with a Fae named Stella Nashira (Deborah Odell) at the bar about Bo. She asks about signs of devolution, Trick indicates there is, and she notes that Bo's condition could become grave at any time. She asks if Bo is still unaligned, Trick's answer is: "Stubbornly so." At a question about Bo's parents, Trick's answer is: "Father unknown, mother a Succubus." The next question is: "And the rumours about Bo's potential?" Trick just looks at her and her answer is: "Oh dear" as she continues to make notes. Trick asks: "Oh dear as in great news?" But her answer is that Succubi need more preparation and are at greater risk of failing the rites." She also notes that the speed of a Fae's devolution is in direct proportion to their abilities and since Bo's powers are extraordinary, that means she could cease to exist as the person that Trick knows completely and become an extremely monstrous being. She then goes to leave, but Trick asks her to please help him help Bo as she is all that he has left in his life. She thinks about this for a moment and then returns to the bar asking for Trick to bring her some tea and that she needs to evaluate Bo as soon as possible. She also comments about the music in the Dal Riata and Trick turns the music down as he rushes off to get Stella her tea.

Back at Bo's place, she is asleep and suffering through a nightmare from her past when she took the life of her first love Kyle (Matt Purdy). The nightmare is a flashback to the night where she took his life by accident and intermixed with the events are the voices of her parents telling Bo that she was the devil and casting her out of their lives. There are also images of a monstrous Bo feasting on the remains of someone or something. Bo is awakened by her phone ringing and she answers it to find it is Trick calling her. She berates him for calling her at two in the morning, but she does calm herself and tell him that she had a weird nightmare. Trick asks Bo to come to the Dal Riata and she agrees half heartedly.

Bo returns to the Dal Riata and after drinking a cup of something she comments is: "chunky." Trick watches as Stella reads the remains in the cup and asks Bo some questions. The first is why Bo denies her fear. Bo's answer is: "Because it's scary." Trick coughs and Bo apologizes saying that she is a little on edge. Stella then introduces herself as Stella Nashira, adding that: "A Lodestar's work cannot be rushed." Trick explains to Bo that Stella has given guidance to hundreds of Fae to prepare for The Dawning in the past. Stella continues telling Bo: "You harbour great rage and great regret. These two negatives are making it very hard for you to know yourself. Embrace your true identity." Bo's answer is: "Everyone has hangups." Stella explains that such issues are usually from childhood and Bo throws up her hands commenting that: "It's always mommy issues with you guys." She then explains that she and Aife worked their issues out in hand to hand combat which confuses Stella until Trick explains that Bo was not raised by her Fae mother and that Bo's adopted human mother Mary and Bo had a falling out as well. Bo's comment is: "Twice the mommies twice the baggage." Stella tells Bo that she must confront Mary over this but Bo refuses to do so. Stella explains that Bo's anger is hurting her, but Bo retorts that her mother hurt her. Stella is firm on this point and tells Bo that she must return home and forgive her mother. Bo is enraged and tells Stella and Trick that she will not return to her mother who she describes as a "warped bigot." Trick tells Bo that he must or she will become an UnderFae, Bo's answer is: "Let's hope it's a nice cage" as she storms away.

Following a commercial break, Bo has returned home and is talking to Lauren (Zoie Palmer) about what Trick and Stella want her to do. Bo tells Lauren that she could use some of Lauren's nerdness, but Lauren tells Bo that: "In this case your Faeness trumps my nerdness." Lauren explains that she can treat the symptoms, but not the cause. Bo whines that she cannot go back and Lauren comments, as she looks at a tablet, that it's a shame that Bo would miss the cherry festival. Bo is surprised that Lauren would Google her hometown and moves to sit beside her and look at what Lauren has found. Lauren turns off the tablet and tells Bo that she knows why Bo left home, that it was because she killed her first love Kyle. Bo tries to explain that if someone had understood what was happening she might have stayed, but Lauren interrupts her noting that the people in Bo's hometown are simple people and she shouldn't blame them for their ignorance. Bo tells Lauren not to defend them, saying that her mother "cast me out like I was some kind of deviant." Lauren tells Bo that she understands, but also tells Bo that this could be her only hope and she has to try. Bo is silent for a time and then says that it is a five hour drive.Lauren tells Bo that she will go with her as Bo cannot go by herself in the condition she is in. Bo's answer is that she wants Lauren to remain behind to see if she can find an answer and she thinks that Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) could use a road trip. Lauren asks hoe Kenzi is and Bo tells her that: "With every week comes another brave face." Lauren notes that they do not know why the Kitsune targeted Kenzi in The Kenzi Scale and Bo tells Lauren that she didn't ask Kenzi either. Lauren then opens a case and gives Bo three injector pens explaining as she does so that they contain inhibitors that will freeze the UnderFae cells in her body and render them temporarily sterile and if she starts to lose control she must inject herself with one. Bo takes them and comments that even if she had to inject herself in the eyeball is sounds better than talking to her mother. Lauren stops Bo and tells her that she only has three uses of this inhibitor and no more because with each use it becomes less effective and these are the last three she can ever use. Bo and Lauren kiss before Bo asks Lauren to wish her luck and she leaves.

Back at the Dal Riata, Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) confronts Trick over his allowing Bo to return to see her human parents. Trick tells him that Bo has to go as part of her preparations for The Dawning, but Dyson is engaged telling him that he cannot allow Bo to lose everything. Haltingly he tells Trick that: "I can't afford to lose Bo." Trick asks Dyson when he got his love back, but Dyson's answer is that Bo has Lauren now. Trick tells Dyson that Lauren is human and that their relationship can: "only be... short-term." Dyson's answer is: "In the short-term I am not going to interfere. I love Bo too much to screw it up again." Trick tells Dyson that his feelings be cannot make vanish unless he wants to see The Norn again. Dyson tells Trick that: "These feelings will never go away." Not from me." Trick becomes a little boisterous and tells Dyson they shouldn't have a conversation like they are without booze and goes off to get some for the two of them. Dyson asks about Bo's guide and Trick tells Dyson that Stella is the best there is and also: "She's quite the looker too." Trick tells Dyson not to worry and that Bo will make it through the tests and that: "There will be a long-term." Dyson asks: "Promise?" Trick tells him to have his shot and Dyson does so.

The next scene shows Bo and Kenzi driving Bo's car through the backroads towards Bo's hometown. They arrive at a gas station to fill up and Bo attempts to get Kenzi to talk to her about what has been going on with her as Kenzi tries to pump gas into Bo's car and comments that: "Pepperoni sticks and one pint of candy corn the Kenzi is awesome. Bloated, but awesome." She struggles with the pump nozzle for a few moments and Bo asks if Kenzi figured out where she got her rash but Kenzi ignores Bo until the owner of the gas station appears and gives Kenzi a hand before seeing Bo and recognizing her as Beth Dennis. He introduces himself as Doug (Christopher Kennedy), but Bo calls him Dougie, which was his name in high school. Bo introduces Kenzi to Doug and Kenzi is confused when Doug keeps calling her Beth instead of Bo until Kenzi realizes what is going on and clues in. Doug tells Bo that they didn't expect to ever see her again, but they found the the person that killed Kyle so Bo must be happy about that. The look on Bo's face is anguished as he does so. Bo explains to Doug that a lot of things have changed since the last time they have seen each other and tells Doug to call her Bo. Doug takes that in stride and then asks if Bo is back home for the cherry festival. Bo explains that she is in town on personal business and plans to be out of town: "Before the pie-off." Kenzi is crushed by what Bo has said and gives her a look as Doug talks about all of the bad things that have happened in town over the past ten years since Bo left town. He also tells Bo that there was an accident the day before that killed a friend of theirs named Brad when a car fell on him. Kenzi asks who Brad was and Bo tells Kenzi that Brad was the high school quarterback. She also mentions that Doug was picked on by Brad all the time, but Doug says that was: "Eons ago." Bo's eyes change as Doug talks and she almost collapses before Kenzi stops her from falling. Kenzi ushers Bo off to the bathroom in the gas station and as Kenzi talks to Doug, the strange woman seen earlier in the episode before Brad was killed appears in the middle of the road.

Bo and Kenzi arrive at the home of Bo's parents, a small farm house outside of town. Kenzi asks Bo if she is ready, Bo's comment is: "Maybe I'll just write a letter" as Kenzi gets out of the car. Kenzi tells Bo that she has taken on The Morrigan and "your old lady should be child's play." Bo tells Kenzi that her mother taught Bo that she was evil as Kenzi pulls Bo out of the car. When Bo is upset that she has to tell her mother that it was okay, Kenzi tells Bo that: "It's called being the bigger person. Which reminds me I want to scarf down twenty pies on the way home." Bo tells Kenzi that she is sick and tired of being the bigger person, that he can still hear her mother's voice telling her how evil she is. As she does so, Kenzi pulls out one of the injector pens and then jabs Bo in the rear with one. Bo yelps in pain and asks: What the hell?" Kenzi is confused as she answers: "I assprovised. Oh, that wasn't one of your monster fits? You seemed really angry! God did I waste one of these?" Bo's irritated answer is: "Not if you wanted to help me refocus my rage." Kenzi looks pleased as she says: "Well you're welcome. Now, get your head in the game and it's time to face the mom music." Bo relents telling Kenzi: "Okay, but then we get the hell out of here." Kenzi answers: "Does a horse shit in the barn? No, seriously, is that where they poop?" Bo looks at Kenzi and as she walks towards her parent's home tells Kenzi to keep the car running. Bo walks to the front door, hesitates, and then knocks before looking inside to see if anyone is there. As she does so, Bo's human mother Mary (Nola Augustson) approaches from the side of the house and calls out where she is. Mary comes closer and then realizes that it is Bo, or rather as she knows her, Beth. Mary is overjoyed to see Bo, telling her that she is so happy that Bo has finally returned home and embraces Bo tightly which confuses Bo and all she can say in a questioning voice is: "Mama?" before hugging her back.

After another commercial break,

Answers in this Episode

• Bo's home was in Grimley County which is famous for its cherries and has a festival celebrating them annually.
• Trick revealed at the beginning of the episode that Bo has "only days" before she devolves into an UnderFae.
• According to Stella, Succubi need more preparation and are at greater risk of failing the rites of The Dawning.
• Bo's problem with passing the first test was her anger towards her mother. Forgiving her allowed Bo to pass the first test.
• The distance from the city where Bo lives to her hometown is give hours by car.
• Trick is aware that Dyson has his love for Bo back again.
• Bo's name as given to her by her adoptive human parents was Beth Dennis.
• According to Doug, Bo left town about ten years ago at the time of this episode.
• Mary Dennis, Bo's mother, suffers from dementia and Bo's father has passed away.

Episodes

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

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, March 8th, 2013. 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 Three website at Showcase.ca
• There's Bo Place Like Home at the IMDb