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Barometz. Trick. Pressure.
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Barometz. Trick. Pressure. was the thirteenth episode of the second season of the series, and the twenty-six overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was also the mid-season finale of the second season. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on December 18th, 2011 at 9 PM Eastern time.
Production Data
- Series: Lost Girl
- Season: 2
- Episode Number: 13 (26th Overall)
- Episode Title: Barometz. Trick. Pressure.
- Directed by: Paolo Barzman
- Writing credits: Steve Cochrane
- Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
- Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
- Country of Origin: Canada
- Originally Aired on: December 18th, 2011 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 | Lochlyn (The Ash) |
| Aaron Ashmore | Nate |
| Lina Roessler | Ciara |
| Athena Karkanis | Nadia |
| Raoul Trujillo | The Garuda |
| Alisen Down | Wife |
| Kyra Harper | Wai Lin |
| Phil Nessel | Teague |
| Richard Willis | Wendell |
Plot
Short Summary
Lauren and Nadia leave on a trip, but before Lauren leaves, she tells Bo that the Ash saved Nadia and that she has given herself back to the Ash again as a result. Elsewhere, Kenzi and Nate's relationship continues to grow, and he asks her to leave town with him, and Kenzi agrees. Trick intends to use the coming of the Blood Moon, an event that happens once every twenty years, to see into the future, but needs a ring that a shifter Fae stole for him. Bo goes to see the shifter in order to collect the ring, but the shifter becomes a doppelgänger of Bo and attempts to double-cross her and Trick. Bo overcomes the shifter and takes the ring to Trick. Trick sees an old friend and has to answer four questions truthfully in order to obtain to obtain a drug he also needs and they reveal some of his secrets. She also forces Dyson to admit that he cannot ever truly love Ciara. Trick then passes into trance and divines the future. He sees his wife, who tells him that he made a mistake in ending the Great Fae War which was caused by a being that fed on the rage of all Fae and she demands he end the peace for the good of the Fae. Trick sees through this lie, and then faces the Evil One foretold by the Nain Rouge which is a being called a Garuda. He is attacked by it in the vision and is badly injured, also injuring Dyson and Hale who were guarding him in the real world. Bo goes to confront the Ash about what he has done to Lauren, and she discovers a series of his own severed heads that he keeps in his chambers. The Ash then attacks her and they battle each other. Bo eventually has the chance to kill him, but she refuses to do so and discovers that the Ash has been testing her. The Ash then reveals to Bo that he is a Nāga and he tells Bo about the Garuda, its threat, and asks her to battle the Garuda for the Fae, telling her that she is the only one who can possibly destroy it and save the world.
Detailed Summary
The episode begins with Lauren (Zoie Palmer) at Bo's place borrowing Bo's (Anna Silk) car. Lauren wants it in order to travel away from the city with Nadia (Athena Karkanis) for a while. Bo tries to give Lauren some helpful advice about the car, including that it uses a lot of gas, making both of them somewhat uncomfortable with the situation. Lauren has second thoughts about borrowing the car, but Bo insists and Lauren eventually does take the keys. Nadia then comes into the room, and asks if Lauren is ready to leave. Bo tells Lauren to call her if she needs anything, but Lauren tells her that she will not be calling Bo while they are away, and she doesn't want Bo calling her either. When Bo expresses the fear that Lauren isn't coming back, Lauren tells Bo that she has to. She has Bo's car. Lauren then also tells Bo that she has recommitted herself to the Ash (Vincent Walsh) because, as far as she knows, the Ash was the one that saved Nadia. Bo cannot believe that Lauren did so, but does not reveal the truth, that she was the one that released Nadia from her curse in the last episode Masks. Lauren then leaves with Nadia, leaving Bo behind.
Elsewhere, what appears to be a married couple is talking in their kitchen. The husband (Richard Willis) complaining about working a double shift and also complaining about various other parts of his life working at the Royal Celtic Museum as his wife (Alisen Down) watches him from behind. His complaints grow and become more directed at his wife until she picks up a frying pan and hits him over the head with it. Knocking him unconscious. Moments after that happens, his wife's body shimmers and then shifts into a copy of the husband's form.
Returning from the opening credits, we return to Bo's place to see Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) reading a text message on her phone, when Bo walks into the room. Kenzi asks Bo what they will be doing today, and Bo casually mentions that she was going to see Trick (Richard Howland), but instead wants to figure out a way into the Ash's compound so that she can "force feed Lochlyn a buffet of right-hand burritos and stiletto boot tacos." When Kenzi says that sounds delicious, Bo smiles and adds "and the sun is shining." Kenzi asks Bo why she wants to go and start a war, and Bo reveals to her that he tricked Lauren into recommitting herself to the Light Fae. When Kenzi asks how me managed that, Bo stumbles over herself trying to tell, but not tell Kenzi what happened and finally gives up trying to explain. Bo then tells Kenzi that one day she will stop being so naive and when that happens she will: "sleep in." Kenzi tries to comfort Bo, and at the same time send a text on her phone. Bo grabs the phone from her and reads out some of the texts, which are from Nate (Aaron Ashmore) which embarrasses Kenzi to no end. Bo tells Kenzi that she loves Nate, to which Kenzi tries to deny, and then Bo suggests that Kenzi got "lucky", Kenzi is incensed and denies anything happened. Bo then tells Kenzi that she'll go solo today and that Kenzi should get with her boyfriend as she leaves, Kenzi frustrated over Bo's cavalier attitude over what is happening.
Meanwhile, at Dyson's (Kristen Holden-Ried) apartment, he and Ciara (Lina Roessler) are packing up their belongings to move to their new home. Dyson reminds Ciara that he needs to do something from Trick, and she questions why he spends so much of his time running errands for a bartender. Dyson's answer is that she hasn't seen his bar tab. Ciara finds a T-shirt which reads "10th Annual Metro Police Darts Tournament - Take You Best Shot" and also has a drawing of Hale (K.C. Collins) on it. She makes fun of it, and Dyson tells her that it is his favourite shirt. Her answer is that the shirt will not be coming to their new home. Dyson tells her, with a smile, that if the shirt doesn't come, then he isn't coming either which results in a mock fight between them for a moment before Ciara dumps the shirt into a trash can and Dyson tells Ciara that she's in trouble now.
Bo arrives at the Dal Riata and finds Trick studying some books very carefully. She asks him if the Ash should die, would there be another Stag Hunt as in the episode I Fought the Fae (And the Fae Won) or would Hale become the new Ash. When he asks Bo if this is just a hypothetical question, she tells him what the Ash has done, that Lauren has recommitted herself to the Light Fae and that she feels like she was used and lied to. Trick tells Bo that he would like to help her, but he has problems of his own to deal with at the moment. Trick explains that the Blood Moon will rise that evening and during this event occurs every twenty years or so, he can go into a trance and divine the future. He also explains to Bo that the trance can be dangerous to him personally as when he is in the trance, but not if he possesses one particular ring called the Kingmoor ring. It possesses the powers of the material it was made from and the one he needs will stanch the bleeding that comes as a result of the method of entering the trance. Trick asks Bo to put her issues with the Ash aside for the moment and help him obtain the ring. Bo agrees to help and Trick tells her that the ring is normally kept at the Royal Celtic Museum, but she doesn't need to go there and steal it as Trick hired someone to do that already for him, a shifter named Teague (Phil Nessel), but Trick has been double-crossed by him. Trick doesn't have the time to negotiate with Teague, nor can he afford the time to confront him as he has to see someone he calls an "old friend" about a hallucinogen he needs to enter the trance. Trick explains that the drug, called Barometz is a plant that is also part sheep. You grind the bones and boil the blood and then inhale the fumes from the resulting potion which then will place Trick into the trance. However, the side effect of the Barometz is severe bleeding and thus Trick's need for the Kingmoor ring. Trick stresses that the trance is their last chance to find out what the Great Evil is and he must do this to find out what they are all facing. Dyson and Hale then arrive to accompany Trick to his old friend. Trick gives Bo the payment that had been agreed upon by Teague, which is two gold bars, and asks her to convince Teague to accept the payment with her powers and Bo agrees to do so. She then leaves with the payment and goes to meet Teague in a hotel somewhere in the city. Bo arrives at the room where Teague is and discovers the door is open. She enters the room and Teague watches her from behind a slatted door. After Bo places the payment on a table, Teague enters the room, his form shifted into a copy of Bo herself, but wearing men's clothing, and holding a gun on Bo.
After a commercial break, Bo and the shifter Teague are sitting at a table together. Teague, still in Bo's form seems to be unstable and rants about all of the people that have made their fortunes on his work, but he has almost nothing to speak for it himself. He also tells Bo that he has been so many people that he can't remember what he looks like anymore. He also tells Bo that now he plans to use Bo's form to steal as much as he can from Trick after he gets rid of her. As this continues, Bo slowly removes one of her boots and eventually manages to touch Teague's skin with one of her toes. This allows Bo to calm him down to the point where he is no longer a threat, and then he shifts back into what appears to be his true form. Bo then takes the Kingmoor ring from him and leaves Trick's payment behind as she leaves.
Elsewhere in the city, Dyson, Hale and Trick enter what appears to be the store of an elderly Chinese woman. She seems to be confused, if not slightly deranged at first and greets Trick as "Fitzie". Trick calls her Wai Lin (Kyra Harper) in reply. She tells of a time in the past where apparently, she and Trick made love under the eyes of the Terra Cotta army in China. She asks Dyson and Hale if they have come to raid her, and Hale makes a flippant comment about wanting to buy a Mogwai in reply. Wai Lin then makes a motion with her hand and Hale tells her that they are there for the Barometz that Trick needs. Trick then explains that Wai Lin is a Luduan and has the power to force others to tell the truth. Trick then warns Wai Lin to put the shotgun she has away and to behave herself or he will have Dyson and Hale destroy her. She does so and then tells Trick that the price for the Barometz will be Trick answering four questions truthfully. After a pause, Trick agrees to her terms.
Kenzi is still at Bo's place, and then Nate walks in. He produces a guitar and then begins to sing a song to Kenzi which turns out to be a song that she wrote when she was six and that Nate had kept along with some old notebooks he had. Kenzi is embarrassed by this revelation, tells Nate that she is worried about Bo and thinks that: "this is not the time to finish the Ponies are Awesome song." But Nate presses on and adds that he thinks Kenzi is pretty.
Wai Lin starts to ask her questions of Trick, the first being: "1419. We were onboard a Song Dynasty Jucket heading to the Americas. You were carrying a box. You were very protective over it. What was inside that box?" Trick warns her that he cannot tell her what it was just like he couldn't tell her in the past, but Wai Lin angrily insists that he tell her or she will force the truth from him. But then she adds that since Trick is the Blood King, he might be immune to her powers. Hale laughs at this revelation, but when he sees the serious look on Dyson, Hale is shocked by the news. Trick answers: "In the box was the skull of a very dangerous man. I will not say who or where it was buried. And if you try to force me to tell you, I will give Dyson permission to use whatever force is necessary to make sure those fingernails make their last clack." Wai Lin's second question is: "Your wife. She died. How?" Trick answers: "She was killed. During the Great Fae War. Her throat was slit in battle." Trick then demands the Barometz and Wai Lin removes a vial of it from a small safe on her desk. She then asks Trick a final question: "Since you wouldn't give me the truth about the box, was it your fault that your wife died?" Trick tells her that: "If I had opened my veins, to write the laws that brought us peace. Maybe she would still be alive. Still be with me. But I didn't. If that means it is my fault, then so be it." Trick then takes the Barometz from her and leaves, Hale following him and Dyson remaining in the room for a moment. Before he can leave, Wai Lin flirts with him but Dyson tells her that he is spoken for. She asks him if he loves her, and when he does not answer she uses her power on Dyson and forces from him the words: "I can't love Ciara." Then he leaves.
Trick returns to the Dal with Dyson and Hale to make preparations for his trance, and Bo returns carrying the Kingmoor ring and gives it to Trick. In a round-about way Bo asks Trick if it is a good idea for him to go under the trance with the threat of bleeding for "someone like you." Hale stops them and asks if Bo knows as well, and when Trick nods, Hale is shocked at that revelation. Trick explains that he is the only one that can manipulate the visions he will see to find out what he needs to know. Bo then talks to Dyson, asking him if he is okay, and he tells her that he is. Bo tells Trick to have fun in the future and then starts to leave, but Trick stops her and asks that she leave Lochlyn alone. Trick warns her that they do not want to alienate their most powerful ally. Hale tells Bo that the Ash's compound is locked down and that they are also legally bound to warn the Ash about threats on his life. Bo asks if anything would change if Lochlyn was the evil thing coming their way, but Trick's answer is only that they will know soon enough. Trick tells Bo again that there is too much at stake and that she must: "stand down." Bo tells him that she will "leave it alone." As Trick continues to make his final preparations, Bo asks if she can borrow some light reading and Trick agrees. As Bo looks through some books and picks one, Dyson picks up a small scroll and looks at it, revealing that it is a map of the Ash's compound. Bo starts to leave, but Dyson stops her and takes the book she chose, replacing it with the map and says: "Happy Hunting." Bo thank him and kisses him on the cheek before leaving the room.
Back from commercial again, Kenzi is playing drums as Nate plays the guitar. Nate tries to get intimate with Kenzi, and she warns him that: "I have a Ninja sword." They kiss and then Nate reveals to her that he is leaving tomorrow, which upsets Kenzi until Nate explains that he wants her to come with him while he is on tour away from the city. Kenzi shares a long kiss with him and then tells him that she will leave with him as the two of them move towards Kenzi's bedroom.
Trick is strapped into a chair by Dyson and Hale with various pieces of equipment around him including a gas mask that they place on him. A device is activated and then the vapours from the Barometz flow into the mask, Trick lets out a scream, and then passes into trance.
Questions in this Episode
- Trick mentions that the Blood Moon happens every twenty years or so. What makes it change?
- Just what does Barometz look like in its natural form?
- Wai Lin suggests that she and Trick are at least several centuries in age when she tells of them making love in front of the Terra Cotta Army who's statues are dated from the 3rd century B.C. Just how old is Trick?
- Wai Lin only asked three questions of Trick. She was entitled to having four answered. Does the one question that Dyson answer count as the fourth or can she confront Trick and ask the last question in the future she was not able to?
- Trick never says his wife's name. What is it?
- Was the scene playing on the movie screen in Trick's vision what he was actually seeing?
- The telling of why and what happened in the Great Fae War and the assertion of Trick interfering with a "true destiny" by the image of his wife likely cannot be trusted to be real. But what if it was?
Answers in this Episode
- The Blood Moon is also known as the Hunter's Moon. It is traditionally the first full moon after the harvest moon, which is the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox. You can learn more here. In the Lost Girl universe, the Blood Moon only occurs every twenty years or so and allows Trick to have a vision of the future.
- Barometz in the Lost Girl universe is a plant that is also part sheep. The bones are ground up and the blood is boiled. One then inhales the fumes from the resulting potion which then will place them into trance. However, the side effect of using Barometz is severe bleeding. There is a plant in the real world called Cibotium barometz, or golden chicken fern, or woolly fern, that is a species of tree fern native to parts of China and to the western part of the Malay Peninsula. The fern's woolly rhizome was thought to be the inspiration for the mythical "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary". You can find out more about this plant here.
- The Kingmoor ring in the Lost Girl universe is a ring that has the property of being able to stop severe bleeding in the one that wears it. There is an actual Anglo-Saxon ring with this name in the real world. You can find out more about this ring here.
- Mogwai are a species of fictional creature in the film Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
- A Luduan, in Chinese mythology, was a beast which could detect truth. You can find out more about this myth here. In the Lost Girl universe, Wai Lin is called a Luduan and has the ability, by moving her hand in a certain way and clacking her nails, making others tell her the truth when she asks them a question.
- It would appear that until Wai Lin revealed that Trick is the Blood King, Hale was not aware of this fact.
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: TBA
Episode 16: School's Out
Episode 17: TBA
Episode 18: TBA
Episode 19: TBA
Episode 20: TBA
Episode 21: TBA
Episode 22: TBA
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, December 23rd, 2011. You can find that review here. She gave it ? pitchforks out of 5.