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"Dark Horse"
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Bo mourns at Kenzi's grave
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 13 Overall Episode 61
Directed by	Ron Murphy
Written by	Emily Andras
Produced by	Vanessa Piazza
Featured Music	See Section Below
Cinematography by	Craig Wright
Editing by	Paul Day
Production Code	413
Original Air Date	February 16, 2014 (2014-02-16)
Length	60 minutes (runtime)
Guest Actors
Rachel Skarsten - Tamsin Emmanuelle Vaugier - The Morrigan Kyle Schmid - Rainer Tim Rozen - Massimo
Episode Chronology
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Short Summary List of Lost Girl Episodes Detailed List of Lost Girl episodes Bo defeats Massimo, but Rainer is killed. To stop the arrival of The Priapus, Kenzi sacrifices her life to save the world and Bo's life is shattered. SuccuWiki Rating: (3.5)

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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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Dark Horse was the thirteenth episode and season finale of the fourth season of the series, and the sixty-first overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on February 16, 2014, at 10 PM Eastern time.

Production Data

• Series: Lost Girl
• Season: 4
• Episode Number: 13 (61st Overall)
• Episode Title: Dark Horse
• Directed by: Ron Murphy
• Writing credits: Emily Andras
• Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
• Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
• Country of Origin: Canada
• Originally Aired on: February 16, 2014 on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada
• Number of Canadian Viewers: TBA
• Number of American Viewers: TBA

Cast

A promotional Image of the Season Four cast of Lost Girl from the official website at showcase.ca/lostgirl 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
Kris Holden-Ried	Dyson
Ksenia Solo	Kenzi
Richard Howland	Trick
Zoie Palmer	Lauren
Rachel Skarsten	Tamsin
Emmanuelle Vaugier	The Morrigan
Kyle Schmid	Rainer
Tim Rozen	Massimo
Casey Hudecki	Rosette

Music in this Episode

Song Title	Artist	Notes
You	Keaton Henson	Written by Keaton Henson

Plot

Short Summary

Massimo holds Lauren hostage and decides that the only way to make The Morrigan happy is to bring her Bo’s head. Massimo attacks Bo and kills Rainer in the attempt. Kenzi and Dyson find the Morrigan and she reveals that Massimo is, in fact, her son. Bo discovers that she is being transformed by her father into The Dark Queen and when she arrives at the portal where her father will appear she begins to change, but Dyson saves her. Bo asks Dyson to stop the coming armies of her father while she rescues Lauren from Massimo, Trick and Tamsin helping him to slow the tide. Bo tricks Massimo into taking the Chi from The Morrigan and then kills him, freeing Lauren. Kenzi figures out the prophecy to close the portal and to do so, she must sacrifice herself and does so. Tamsin claims Kenzi’s soul and takes it to Valhalla with Rainer’s. Afterwards, Tamsin warns Dyson not to allow Bo to find the second Hel shoe and Bo visits Kenzi’s grave and promises, somehow, to bring Kenzi back.

Detailed Summary

The episode opens with a series of flashbacks to earlier episodes which include: Hale's death at the hands of Massimo followed by his memorial service, Dyson speaking while Kenzi grieved. An image of the Origin Seed with Massimo speaking of its powers and then being seen eating the Seed. Lauren tells The Morrigan that she is 100% human, followed by Bo telling Kenzi that she is part of everyone, but Kenzi demanding that Bo unclaim her. Tamsin is then shown telling Bo that being the Queen means more than Bo knows. Bo examining the book that Lauren found with the image of Rainer as a devil is shown with Lauren telling Bo of the prophecy that either the Queen or the Warrior will die. This is followed by Lauren confronting Bo over her choosing Rainer. Finally, Bo and Rainer are shown after Rosette tricked them into releasing the seals on the prison that holds Bo's father, the marks on their chests glowing, Rosette telling of the prophecy that has just been fulfilled.

The episode begins with Bo (Anna Silk and Rainer (Kyle Schmid) walking, Rainer attempting to tell Bo that his "intentions were true" but the length of his imprisonment clouded his judgement and he did not see that Rosette had been lying to them. Bo angrily tells Rainer that she "stood in front of my friends and choose you." Rainer continues that Rosette was his "most loyal General and we loved each other" and is shocked that she was turned against him. Bo reminds Rainer that "he" made Rosette walk into a fire and die. Rainer asks who "he" is and Bo replies: "Someone that even the Blood King fears. My father manipulated all of us." Rainer then claims: "There is one advantage, one thing your father could never foresee. We share something real. Something good." As Rainer finishes speaking the mark on Bo's chest glows and she moans, then doubles over in pain. Bo asks him what is happening and Rainer replies: "Our marks?" Bo answers: "No. His mark." Rainer then tells Bo that they will fight against whatever is happening, Bo continuing to gasp in pain.

After the opening credits, we return to see Rainer laying Bo on one of the tables in the Dal Raita. Trick () enters in the next moment and demands to know what Rainer has done to Bo, adding: "I knew you were poison." Rainer angrily tells Trick: "This from the King who separated children from their families and watched as their parents were burned at the stake if they didn't choose from Light or Dark." Bo weakly tells them both to stop fighting and then tells Trick is was The Priapus. Trick is shocked to learn that Bo is aware of The Priapus and Bo continues to explain: "We ran into these warrior nuns, lots of white, even more crazy. Trick they worship a horse god, a demon, they think it's my father." Rainer adds: "We bound to break your curse. Instead we opened a gateway to Hel." Trick tells Rainer he never should have left the train, Rainer telling Trick that: "You were the one that put me there in the first place." Trick angrily reminds Rainer that he "dared to challenge the Blood Laws" but Rainer brushes that off, asking Trick when he would: "Take responsibly for the chaos you have caused?" Trick warns: "You forget who you are talking to" but Rainer tells Trick that he wasn't scared of the Blood King and he is not scared of Trick in the here and now. Bo begs the two to stop fighting as she knows her father is "close" and then Trick asks how Bo can know this, she tells him: "I can feel him! He's trying to cross the bridge. He's trying to bring her out. He needs needs her Trick." At Trick's question of who Bo means, she answers: "The Dark Queen. Me." Taking Trick's hand, Bo continues: "I've always known this. But now I need you to tell me everything you know about my blood.

Elsewhere, Massimo (Tim Rozen) is suffering the effects of consuming the Origin Seed which seems to be causing him great pain as Lauren (Zoie Palmer) watches nearby, shackled and unable to escape. Massimo seems to be deranged as he answers Lauren's comments with confused answers. When Massimo mentions the Twig of Zamora, Lauren tells him that it's power is "diminishing now that you have killed Hale, the last Zamoran heir" and then taunts: "Now your only chance of being immortal is someone writing as shitty pop song about you. About a villain that cries about his mommy. That his hair goes prematurely grey." Massimo tells Lauren: "The only thing awaiting you is this grave." He then screams in pain: "I swallowed the Origin Seed and now it's trying to devour me!" Lauren reminds him: "It took a council of six Fae to control the Una Mens power. The human brain can only take so much" but Massimo refuses to listen to Lauren's warning. He exclaims: "I am the man I am supposed to be. A man that will make my mother proud!" Lauren questions Massimo, not believing that The Morrigan would be proud of what he has done but Massimo goes over all of the things that he brought with him to her when she called and then decides that the thing that The Morrigan really wants is Bo's head and he tells Lauren that is exactly what he will get.

After a commercial break, Bo, Rainer and Trick are at the Dal Raita as Trick explains to Bo: "I swear, the identify of your father remains shrouded from me." Rainer comments: "Much like your own guilt" but Bo tells Rainer to stop as they "have no time for petty bickering." Rainer tells Bo that Trick was responsible for the deaths of thousands, Trick interjecting "many more will die if we do not close the gateway." Bo demands that Trick speak of her father and Trick reveals: "When the Blood King's daughter attacked the Dark to avenge her mother's death the King had to set an example to prove his Blood Laws were infallible. I had no choice but to hand her over to the Dark." Rainer is shocked and asks Bo:"Aife is your mother?" Bo says nothing, but Trick continues: "I prayed she would be executed. She wasn't." Bo comments: "All of those years in the black dungeons. Centuries. They used her." Trick then reveals: "Aife has my Light blood. The blood of a mage. The blood that drains blood for nourishment or self-survival. But the blood of your father, whoever he may be, allows you to draw life from many victims and more importantly to transfer that life force to someone other than yourself. You've inherited the abilities of both your mother and your father." Bo sighs: "I have hybrid blood" and Trick continues: "Blood that I fear will help your father escape." Rainer adds: "Not only can your blood lift curses but you can lead armies. Resurrect the fallen as they die on the battlefield. Free the masses!" Trick quietly interjects: "Or enslave them. If she is coursed by the wrong hand." Bo angrily tells them to "not talk about me like I am not here. Nobody is going to use me for anything. Understand?" Rainer then asks what they will do next, Bo suggesting that they go to the portal and see what is there. Trick warns Bo that her father wants her to be there so that she will help him to escape, and Bo asks where she should go instead, but before Trick can answer, Massimo appears and calls out: "Why no swing by my place? It's where I've got your blond box. Though she's more of a walking medical kit really." Bo demands to know what Massimo wants with Lauren, but he does not answer the question, only saying that "all I want is you. Dead at The Morrigan's feet."

Elsewhere, Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) is looking through The Morrigan's bedroom, looking for clues as Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) barges in. He asks what is going on and Kenzi explains: "Her blood is everywhere. She left her cellphone behind and she was obviously looking for something in the Dark archives." Kenzi then shows Dyson a painting which has an image of Bo within it as well. Dyson asks about Lauren, but Kenzi cannot answer that question. The Morrigan (Emmanuelle Vaugier) then enters and comments: "I goosed her sweet berries. Right where you are sitting." Kenzi leaps from the bed in disgust: "Ew. Graphic and confusing." The Morrigan then complains about the temperature swinging wildly from cold to hot for her and she does not understand why. Kenzi asks: "Fae menopause?" Dyson stares at The Morrigan and whispered: "No. She's human." Kenzi looks at Dyson for a moment, then punches The Morrigan in the face, making her reel from the hit. Kenzi shakes her hand adding: "God I have been waiting three years to do that." The Morrigan asks: "What is it about all of the punching? I finally get what 'not in the face' means." Dyson demands to know how she is human, and she explains: "The good doctor and her miracle snatch. Normally I would have her incinerated, but my son took her. And I need Lauren. Alive. She's the only one that can fix... this." Kenzi asks who The Morrigan's son is, wondering if it is Vex, and when she is told it is Massimo, Kenzi moves to attack The Morrigan, but Dyson stops her. The Morrigan explains: "What can I say? Wall Street in the 80s was totally gnarly. A weak moment with a human and I'm birthing an infection who has become more dangerous than a mutating plague." Dyson insists that he locked Massimo up in Trick's dungeons, but Kenzi tells Dyson that Vex released him. Dyson demands to know where Massimo would have taken Lauren and The Morrigan tells them that Massimo goes only one place "To lick his wounds when things don't go his way. To learn to be like us." Dyson puts the puzzle together and asks what Massimo wants. The Morrigan replies: "What all the boys want darling. Me."

Questions in this Episode

• If Rosette and Rainer loved each other, what does that mean exactly? Were they a couple long ago? Where has Rosette been in all of the time that Rainer was imprisoned? Did she have contact with him?

Answers in this Episode

• The mark that both Rainer and Bo have on their chest is that of Bo's father.
• According to Rainer, when Trick was the Blood King he: "separated children from their families and watched as they were burned at the stake if they didn't choose from Light or Dark."
• Trick learned at the beginning of this episode that Bo was aware of her father and what he might represent.

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 February 21st, 2014. You can find that review here. She gave it 3.5 pitchforks out of 5.

External Links

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