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Lachlan's Gambit
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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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Lachlan's Gambit was the twentieth episode of the second season of the series, and the thirty-third overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on March 18th, 2012 at 9 PM Eastern time.
Production Data
- Series: Lost Girl
- Season: 2
- Episode Number: 20 (33rd Overall)
- Episode Title: Lachlan's Gambit
- Directed by: Steve DiMarco
- Writing credits: Steve Cochrane
- Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
- Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
- Country of Origin: Canada
- Originally Aired on: March 18th, 2012 on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada
- Number of Canadian Viewers: TBA
Cast
| Actor / Actress | Role |
|---|---|
| Anna Silk | Bo |
| Kristen Holden-Ried | Dyson |
| Ksenia Solo | Kenzi |
| Richard Howland | Trick |
| K.C. Collins | Detective Hale |
| Zoie Palmer | Lauren |
| Vincent Walsh | Lachlan (The Ash) |
| Lina Roessler | Ciara |
| Raoul Trujillo | The Garuda |
| Greg Bryk | Cleasby |
| Martin Julien | Alastor |
| Glenn Cross | Berserker #2 |
| Vincent Rother | Berserker #3 |
| Jack Sansome | Lachlan's Guard |
Plot
Short Summary
Trick tells Bo about some odd events that are happening to animals in the city and that they are hiding because The Garuda is coming soon, but Trick has no idea where The Garuda is. Trick is attacked by a gang of Berserkers, sent by The Garuda, but they are repelled by Bo, Hale and Ciara. Trick figures out there is a mole in their midst and learns through the mole where The Garuda might be. Dyson returns from being away and explains that the Wolf spirit told him that he will kill The Garuda, but in truth it didn't explain exactly what he must do except in a riddle. Dyson tells Bo he must do this in order to have his love for her returned to him. The Ash calls Trick to a meeting where he tells Trick that his blood could stop what is happening and demands that he use it to write a new future, but Bo and Dyson manage to stop him from doing so. Ciara comes to Dyson and asks for one more night with him before the battle begins and he agrees, during which he learns from Ciara some truths about himself that he wasn't aware of. Bo returns to Lauren in the aftermath of killing Nadia and finds that Lauren is very cold as a result of what Bo did. Bo and Lauren talk finally, Lauren asking Bo if she can spend the night with her, Lauren telling Bo that she wants to leave the Fae forever, and Bo tells Lauren that she will support her. Trick meets with Hale and tells him that no matter the cost, he must bring Bo back to him alive after the coming battle is over. Bo, Dyson, Hale, Kenzi and Ciara go to confront The Garuda, but find themselves captured instead. The Garuda then taunts them all before striking Ciara down. Dyson sacrifices himself to allow the others to escape, falling to The Garuda's Beserkers. While this happens, The Garuda attacks The Ash and kills him while Trick watches, but Trick manages to force him away when The Garuda attempts to kill Trick. When Bo and Hale arrive, they learn that although The Ash is dead, his venom was taken by Lauren and they have a slim advantage now. Kenzi does not escape with Hale and Bo, and Bo searches for Kenzi. She finds that Kenzi went back to save Dyson. Dyson is alive, but close to death and Bo finally accepts that she is the one to face The Garuda for the lives of her friends and everyone else.
Detailed Summary
The episode begins with Bo (Anna Silk) arriving at Trick's (Richard Howland) home in the Dal Riata. Trick tells Bo of several events involving animals in the city that concern him. An entire team of horses electrocuted themselves, bats flying out of their cave in the middle of the day, and every snake at the local zoo has vanished. Trick explains that the snakes are hiding because they can sense that The Garuda is close by and that it is only a matter of time before it strikes. As they pause for a moment in their conversation, part of the floor disappears and a Fae crawls out of the floor. Bo, thinking that it is attacking Trick, draws her knife and defends Trick, but he tells Bo that everything is alright. Bo asks: "This thing with all of the lovely smells is a friend of yours?" Trick tells Bo that he wouldn't call this person a friend as such, but nonetheless he needs to speak to him alone. After Trick adds that this person works for him, Bo releases the intruder and tells Trick that she will be waiting in the bar. After Bo leaves, Trick asks: "What news mole?" The mole claims that The Garuda is nowhere to be found, but Trick does not believe him and says that he must be lying. The mole tells Trick that he isn't lying because he has a debt to the Blood King that he must repay. Trick presses the point that he needs to know where The Garuda is so that Trick can attack first. Trick then forces the mole to leave by blowing a whistle that repels the mole back underground again.
Trick enters the bar moments later to find Bo waiting there. There is a loud noise outside of the Dal Riata and immediately afterwards a trio of men enter. They look around the bar and then one of them picks up a chair and asks Trick if it is of good quality before breaking it into pieces over the back of a customer in the bar and then, holding one of the pieces in his hand tells Trick that it is "crap." The man then tells Bo in response to a question that they are there to "fetch" someone, and then he points at Trick. Bo moves to defend Trick and from the shadows Ciara (Lina Roessler) moves to help Bo. Hale then appears and tells the intruders that "At this way station there is a three ass-whooping minimum." Trick then announces that anyone that does not want to join the fight should leave and several customers do so before the fight begins in earnest. Bo battles in hand to hand combat with one, Ciara is attacked by another, but she uses her powers to shift away from him and then thrusts a blade into her opponent's eye. Hale uses his Siren voice to disable the third attacker, but is then knocked out before Bo uses a part of the broken chair that Trick gives her to take out the leader of the attackers herself.
After the opening credits, Bo is giving Hale an ice pack for his injuries as Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) arrives. Kenzi asks what happened and Trick explains that they had been attacked by Berserkers, who and minions of The Garuda. Kenzi tries to comfort Hale, telling him that she did warn him to protect his face, but only manages to have Hale scream in pain when she touches Hale's chin and cheek. Kenzi then looks at Ciara and comments that she is back, Ciara's reply being that she heard that a war was brewing and she wasn't one to pass up a good fight. Bo thinks that the Berserkers tired to kidnap Trick because they thought he was vulnerable, Kenzi wonders if "we have a rat" but Trick answers "Not a rat. A mole." Next we see Bo and Ciara holding the mole from earlier in the episode down in a chair while Trick attempts to get answers from him, including where The Garuda is. At first the mole refuses to tell Trick anything, but Trick uses a device on the mole that Trick calls his version of the Archimedes Heat Ray. It burns the mole with a bright light and begins to harm him. Bo confronts Trick about what he is doing, telling Trick that it isn't right. Trick tells Bo that the war is coming, they have little time, and that in the coming days there will be a lot of hard choices to be made and that Bo needs to find a thicker skin to deal with it. Eventually the mole tells Trick that The Garuda is located at the old abattoir. Trick then releases the mole telling him that this wasn't the first time he had betrayed Trick before using the whistle again to send him away. Moments after this happens, a trio of The Ash's guards arrive to escort Trick to him. Bo protests this, but Trick tells her that it is alright before warning the guards that next time they can wait upstairs and not enter his home. After Trick leaves, Ciara asks if Bo is alright, and Bo tells her that The Garuda was seeing through Nadia's eyes and spying on them. Ciara asks if Nadia is alright and Bo only manages to say no. Ciara just says "You?", Bo nods in shame and then Ciara tells Bo that they have to find out what Nadia has learned for their own protection.
The next scene begins with Bo entering Lauren's home and calling out to her, but Bo receives no answer. She walks further inside and finds herself standing over the spot where she killed Nadia in the previous episode. As she looks at the blood stain on the floor, she hears Lauren's voice and relives what happened there. Bo then hears a noise behind her and spins around, drawing her knife and finds Lauren (Zoie Palmer) standing there in a dishevelled mess. Bo apologizes for drawing her weapon on Lauren and puts it away. Lauren is obviously in shock and acts very cold to Bo brushing off all of her concerns and questions about her. Lauren tells Bo that she is leaving to help Hale and Bo asks if she is really up to doing so, but, again. Lauren is abrupt and cold towards her. When Bo tells Lauren that she is worried about her, Lauren turns ice cold and just says: "Yeah. I appreciate it." Lauren tells Bo that she doesn't want to talk about what has happened, that she just wants to go back to work and be useful. Bo then confronts Lauren and asks her if she told Nadia anything about them. Lauren is defensive and angered by Bo's question. Lauren does not answer Bo's question, tells Bo that she needs to get ready, and then opens the front door motioning Bo to leave. Bo walks past Lauren, but Lauren refuses to talk any longer with her or even look at her before Bo leaves, Lauren closing the door when Bo is outside.
Bo returns to the Dal Riata to find Kenzi, Hale and Ciara there. A loud noise again occurs outside and Ciara believes that the Berserkers have returned, Bo commenting that it is: "the best day ever." Bo, Ciara and Kenzi prepare to fight, but then Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) walks in. Dyson stops short and looks at the three women before saying: "Missed me?" Kenzi runs over and embraces Dyson telling him that she is happy to see him. Bo looks at Dyson for a moment before turning away, leaving Ciara standing there facing Dyson. Dyson tells her that he is glad she is there, her answer is: "that sentiment is a bit late don't you think?" Dyson is taken aback by this for a moment before Ciara tells Dyson that she: "is joking you dumb wolf. I had to come back. You know that." before the two embrace.
Trick has arrived in The Ash's compound, The Ash commenting that The Garuda finally made a serious move against the Blood King to which Trick just answers that he is fine. Lachlan tells Trick that they need to have a serious talk, to which Trick tells him that they did so already. Lachlan tells Trick that they have been ignoring their most powerful advantage, and when Trick asks what that is, Lachlan tells Trick that it is his blood. Trick turns to leave, but Lachlan's guards stop him from leaving as Lachlan tells Trick that he won't be going anywhere.
At the Dal Riata, Dyson talks to Hale, telling him that he has looked better, Hale response being: "that's what happens when your partner skips town." Dyson tells Hale that he didn't run out on him or anyone else, he left to find answers that he needed. Bo and Kenzi then guide Dyson away from Hale, telling him that Hale needs some time as Lauren enters. She looks at Bo and the others for a moment before going over to Hale and starting to work on him. Dyson comments to Bo: "Is it just me, or are things tense around here?"
Trick is having an argument with Lachlan over the plans they have made to defeat The Garuda. Lachlan tells of their plan, to bring The Garuda to him and then Lachlan will use his venom to stop him. Lachlan attempts to convince Trick that they cannot ignore the powers of the Blood King, but Trick refuses saying that if he did so, then they would have to face something worse as that is the cost of his power, telling Lachlan that he has no idea what he is asking. Lachlan then kicks the lockbox containing his severed head to Trick's feet and opens it. He tells Trick that he has no idea what Trick is asking him to ignore. Dyson asks where Trick is and Bo tells Dyson that Trick is with The Ash but he should have been back by now. Bo then talks about all of the odd things that have been happening of late until she has a sudden realization and tells Dyson to drive her to The Ash. Trick is refusing all of Lachlan's demands to use his power and tells Lachlan that his power only works when he does so with free will, but will not. Lachlan tells Trick that knowing that he could end everything, can he live with not doing so when The Garuda arrives. Trick tells Lachlan that he is playing into their enemy's hands and that the last time he wrote with his blood, Trick awakened The Garuda and he feels the weight of that on his shoulders. Lachlan demands that Trick prove this to be true, but he refuses again. Lachlan then draws a knife which glows with power from behind his back. Moments later he takes hold of Trick's hand and tells Trick that he is a coward before he begins to cut into Trick's hand with the knife. However, before he can do so, Dyson and Bo arrive, Dyson taking out one guard while Bo places a knife to Lachlan's throat stopping him from harming Trick.
Returning from commercial,
Questions in this Episode
- Are all of the actions of the animals that Trick noted actually caused by Lachlan? While Trick assumed that the actions were caused by The Garuda, Lachlan admitted that he was responsible for at least the disappearance of the snakes from the zoo. Could all of the events be his attempt to fool Trick into doing something rash?
- How many Berserkers are in The Garuda's employ?
- Just how much information does The Garuda have on Bo and everyone else?
- Nothing is explained about the Wolf Spirit, save that it is female in nature. However, is it possible that Dyson never actually talked to the Wolf Sprit and instead the events of the episode Fae-nted Love are coming back to haunt him?
- Is dying or being severely injured a requirement of being The Ash? One has died in this series and the other was blown up.
- Will the Ash's venom be saved from becoming useless?
Answers in this Episode
- As a note, the newspaper that Bo reads telling of the snakes disappearing, has only the headline of the article being correct. Nothing else in it has anything to do with the story.
- Apparently, in the Lost Girl universe, there are Mole Fae. They appear to live underground for most of their lives and have the ability to cause the earth to disappear and reappear in order to allow them to move freely underground. Nothing else is known about this kind of Fae, nor is it clear if these are Fae or UnderFae in nature.
- The Garuda employs Berserkers as his henchmen. They are brutish, have little control, and seem to be angry all of the time. They seem to be based on the Norse warriors called Berserkers (or berserks) who were reported in the Old Norse literature to have fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word berserk. Berserkers were attested to in numerous Old Norse sources. Most historians believe that berserkers worked themselves into a rage before battle, but some think that they might have consumed drugged foods. You can learn more about them here.
- Ciara returned because she sensed that a war was about to start and she wanted to be part of it. Whether it is part of her abilities as a Fae, or simply a means to an excuse to return, is unknown.
- The Archimedes Heat Ray is a legendary device created by the Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer Archimedes of Syracuse. He was credited in legend that during the Siege of Syracuse (c. 214–212 BC), Archimedes destroyed enemy ships with fire. Centuries later, Anthemius of Tralles mentions burning-glasses as Archimedes' weapon. The device, sometimes called the "Archimedes heat ray", was used to focus sunlight onto approaching ships, causing them to catch fire. You can find out more about this legend here.
- Bo states that The Garuda was seeing through Nadia's eyes and spying on them.
- Trick's power of blood writing only works if he does so by his own free will.
- Apparently the Wolf Sprit came to Dyson, but whether it did not not to Stephan is unclear.
- Ciara is killed in this episode by The Garuda. She takes a sword slash to her chest and dies almost instantly.
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
References
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 23rd, 2012. You can find that review here. She gave it ? pitchforks out of 5.