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"Like Hell, Part I"
Lost Girl episode
Bo finds Kenzi in Valhalla and it isn't what she expected
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 1 Overall Episode 62
Directed by	Paolo Barzman
Written by	Micheal Grassi
Produced by	Wendy Grean
Featured Music	See Section Below
Cinematography by	Craig Wright
Editing by	Paul Day
Production Code	501
Original Air Date	December 7, 2014 (2014-12-07)
Length	60 minutes (runtime)
Guest Actors
Ksenia Solo - Kenzi Rachel Skarsten - Tamsin Michelle Nolden - Freyja Katie Corbett - Stacey Michael Ayres - Clerk Gabe Grey - Sam
Episode Chronology
← Previous "Season Four Dark Horse" Next → "Like Hell, Part II"
Short Summary List of Lost Girl Episodes Detailed List of Lost Girl episodes Bo recovers the Hellskor and finds Kenzi in Valhalla, but dreams turn into nightmares SuccuWiki Rating: (0.0)

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Like Hell, Part I was the premiere episode of the fifth season of the series, and the sixty-second overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on December 7, 2014 at 9 PM Eastern time.

Production Data

• Series: Lost Girl
• Season: 4
• Episode Number: 1 (62nd Overall)
• Episode Title: Like Hell, Part I
• Directed by: Paolo Barzman
• Writing credits: Micheal Grassi
• Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
• Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
• Country of Origin: Canada
• Originally Aired on: December 7, 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 Five 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 and Zoie Palmer as Lauren.

Actor / Actress	Role
Anna Silk	Bo
Kristen Holden-Ried	Dyson
Ksenia Solo	Kenzi
Richard Howland	Trick
Zoie Palmer	Lauren
Rachel Skarsten	Tamsin
Michelle Nolden	Freyja
Katie Corbett	Stacey
Michael Ayres	Clerk
Rachel Bair	Lost Woman in Portal
Gabe Grey	Sam
Christopher Kelk	Patient
Tyler McMaster	Redneck #1
Trent Pardy	Redneck #2
Zach Apostoleris	Redneck #3
Alyssa Veniece	Riley

Music in this Episode

Song Title	Artist	Notes
Piano Bar Special		Courtesy of APM Music
Romantic Nights		Courtesy of APM Music
Stylish Dinner		Courtesy of APM Music
Twilight		Courtesy of APM Music

Plot

Short Summary

Bo finds the missing Helskor shoe and enters Valhalla, which appears like a vast hotel, to find Kenzi which Bo does after masquerading as one of the staff, finding Kenzi in one of the hotel rooms. Kenzi receives a note from Hale that tells of their upcoming wedding, and she prepares for that joyfully. Lauren, after seeing Bo vanish into thin air when she puts on the Helskor demands answers from Tamsin, but instead of answering her questions, she gives Lauren a book of her experiences there which explains the purpose of the Helskor, that for the wearer of them to bring a dark army from Valhalla to Earth. Tamsin sees Freya, the Queen of the Valkyrie, and is made to do the bidding of Bo’s Father. However, Bo manages to overcome Tamsin and returns Tamsin to normal where she admits that for the first time, she has a family in Bo, Kenzi and her friends. At the moment of Kenzi’s wedding, Freya stops Kenzi’s wedding, saying that Kenzi belongs to Bo’s father and intends to send her to Bo’s Father rather than to Hale. Bo intervenes and takes Kenzi’s place, which appears to have been her father’s plan from the beginning. Kenzi is returned to her body, which is buried in her grave while Bo is sent on her way to face her father.

Detailed Summary

The episode opens with a series of flashbacks which include: Bo (Anna Silk) telling Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) that they are family, and Kenzi telling Bo that family sticks together, Trick (Richard Howland) telling about the Helskor and what they are capable of, including leading to the end of days, Bo telling Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) that she needs to find the missing Helskor, Hale (K.C. Collins) proposing to Kenzi and then being killed by Massimo, then Bo refusing to save Hale, Kenzi telling Bo that she would never forgive her. Bo telling Lauren that she chose her and then Lauren broke her heart, Kenzi demanding that Bo unclaim her and then Bo doing so, Bo crying out that her father was close by and that she could feel him, Dyson claiming reality to Bo, and Bo warning Lauren that she was going to be a target as she was able to turn Fae human. Kenzi reading the prophecy about Bo's heart being able to close the portal and stop Bo's father from returning to Earth, Kenzi stating that she would wait in Valhalla for Bo to rescue her, Bo grieving at Kenzi's grave, and finally Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) warning Dyson that he could not allow Bo to find the second Helskor.

The actual episode begins with an image of a rocky desert landscape, Bo climbing up a desert peak and singing the words to She'll be coming round the Mountain as she does so. Reaching the top of the peak, Bo pauses, looking around at the landscape, having a flashback of Kenzi's death at the Portal, and then rummaging around a bird's nest that rests there. eventually removing the second Helskor that she was seeking. As Bo holds the shoe, the ground shakes and she comments: "Like I wasn't expecting a booby trap." Bo then begins her descent, but then loses her grip at one point, commenting to herself "Oh, come on." and then falls to the ground a long distance below her. The scene then moves to Bo laying on the ground and three hunters finding her there unconscious, badly injured, but alive. After they comment about "taking her home and taking turns taking care of her", one of them leans in close to Bo, and in the next moment Bo takes the Chi from that hunter and then the other two immediately afterwards. Bo is healed, then comments to one of the hunters: "How sad, you don't get to take care of anyone ever again." before setting foot on his privates, picking up the Helskor and then walking away, continuing to sing to herself as she does so.

Following a very abbreviated opening title sequence, which consists of the Lost Girl show title and a few bars of the theme, Bo is then seen back at her home where she rummages around looking for something before calling out "Roommate!" and storming off. Bo enters another room where Tamsin is eating cereal and demands to know where Tamsin hid the other Helskor that Bo had possession of. Tamsin attempts to lie about where it is, replying "Where'd I hide what shoe?", Bo commenting: "Oh lying is not your strong suit milk mouth, cough it up." When Tamsin comments that Bo has found the other shoe and asks how, Bo replies: "Eagles. Climbing. Very 'I'm not a girl. Not yet a woman.' So now I can put on both shoes and skip into Valhalla to get Kenzi back. Kenzi? You remember? She raised you when you were a wee reborn Valkyrie?" Tamsin pleads with Bo, telling Bo that she cannot go to Valhalla, but when Bo asks why, Tamsin can only reply that Bo cannot go, but not the reason why she cannot, other than Bo will never come back, adding: "There's a why, a really good why." Bo is unimpressed commenting: "Good stuff, very convincing." Tamsin begs Bo to trust her and not continue on the path she is choosing, but Bo replies: "I can hear you in your sleep. Screaming. What happened when you delivered Kenzi's soul?" Tamsin tells Bo that she wishes she could explain, but she cannot do so. Bo begs Tamsin to tell her what happened no matter how awful or horrible it is, mentioning "Hellfire, evil dragons, sexy dragons, I don't care", but Tamsin refuses to answer. When Bo asks Tamsin to go with her to Valhalla, Tamsin again refuses to answer and Bo resigns herself to go to Valhalla alone. Bo demands the shoe again, Tamsin comments that it belongs to the Una Mens, Bo noting that they are all dead and wanting to know what Tamsin's point is. Tamsin then tells Bo: "It's with the next in charge." before continuing to eat her cereal.

The next scene begins at the Dal Riata where Bo places the Helskor shoe she recovered on the bar in front of Trick and Dyson. Trick tells Bo that they need to talk, but Bo replies: "This is the part where you tell me I'm making the wrong choice and putting myself in grave danger." Trick answers: "Well, sort of." Then Bo continues: "And in dealing with matters of the Afterlife there are unknowns, rules. Everything has a price." Trick asks if Bo is willing to pay the price and her answer is: "Nailed it." Bo explains that Kenzi is in danger and alone and she was "held back from saving her once and I will not let that happen again." Dyson tells Bo that they will do what they can to ensure her return and that he would go with Bo if he could do so. Bo asks if that choice is because Dyson pledged fealty to her. but Dyson replies: "Because I love Kenzi too." Trick then offers Bo the shoe he had in his possession with the words: "For the worthy hero. Bring her home. And if you happen to see Isabeau, your Grandmother, tell her..." Trick does not finish that sentence, but Bo nods in understanding, picks up both shoes, and comments: "Let's hope they fit."

The next scene begins with Lauren in a medical clinic looking after patients. A coughing patient attracts Lauren's attention and she comments to another doctor: "He's code you know what. We'll take him in." Lauren then sees Bo standing nearby, holding the Helskor. They move off to a private room where Bo begins with: "Worst case? I loose all control and go on a murderous spree like the last person that put on these shoes and the only way to stop me is to..." Bo then makes a throat cutting motion with her hand, then continues: "That's code for slit my throat" and Lauren replies: "Very clear thank you. I'm assuming that's what happened to the woman from Dyson's past? The one that your subconscious depicted as me?" Bo teases: "You sang in French you know." Lauren asks if she was good and Bo comments: "A plus." Bo tells Lauren that she doesn't want to hurt anyone and Lauren promises that Bo will not. Lauren then walks towards some of her equipment, explaining as she does that she will be watching for anything "abnormal." As Lauren looks at tablet, Bo puts one of the shoes on and when Lauren returns, Bo grips Lauren by the throat, giving her a slightly evil look before laughing and letting go of Lauren, she commenting: "Oh. We're joking." Lauren then asks Bo not to put the other shoe on until she has done some tests and has calibrated her equipment, including using an anal thermometer on Bo. When Lauren walks away, Bo mumbles to herself: "I have to get to Kenzi" and puts the other shoe on. After a moment, both shoes vanish leaving Bo in her bare feet. Bo gasps out Lauren's name and Lauren comes running over to Bo, asking what she did. Bo explains that she "had to, I couldn't wait." Bo has just enough time to tell Lauren that something is happening inside of her, reach out to touch Lauren's hand, and then Bo vanishes in a burst of light. Lauren looks to where Bo had been moments before and says: "Other worst case? You disappear."

Bo is then seen in what appears to be the lobby of a vast hotel, climbing up a circular staircase. She walks around the lobby for a short time and then pauses to look at some flowers and touch them. A woman (Michelle Nolden) later to be revealed as Freyja, walks up to Bo and comments: "You're late." Bo asks what she is late for and the woman replies: "The shitstorm. Welcome to my hell."

After the first commercial break, Freyja continues, as she fiddles with a flower arrangement: "Two hundred and six arrivals, thirty-nine events and a disaster of a reno in the Turkish spa." Bo asks: "A spa? In Hell?" Freyja answers: "Only I am allowed to call it Hell, it's Valhalla to you." before then going on a rant about what kinds of flowers she wants to see in the lobby and elsewhere in her realm. When Bo comments that filler is "blah." Freyja looks at Bo, realizes that she is not "the florist" and asks "Why in the name of my glorious afterlife were you fondling my flower?" Bo pauses, then answers: "That's a great set up for a joke really but lady." Freyja interrupts with: "Mistress." Then continues: "What am I supposed to do now? My florist is stuck in Tartarus till Tuesday." before storming off. Bo rushes after her, saying that she is looking for a friend to which Freyja replies with no interest at all: "How refreshingly earnest of you. Check in first, make friends later." before walking off again.

A women stands at the check-in desk for Valhalla, and is told that she "isn't in our system" by the clerk there before being ignored by him. She then walks past Freyja who comments in a disgusted voice: "Ugh. A stray." Freyja then gestures towards the woman who then vanishes into a black portal surrounded by fire that Freyja summoned. As a bellhop cleans up some ashes on the floor, Freyja comments: "Always book ahead" and then asks Bo what her name is. Bo then diverts Freyja's attention towards a group of female athletes. As they walk past, Freyja comments: "Warriors truly. They would kill to win. Until a bus killed them. Large groups are the worst." As Freyja walks off, Bo comments: "Speak for yourself." before turning her attention to the front desk clerk. Bo attempts to use her powers to influence him in order to obtain some information, but he refuses to allow Bo to touch him and she is unsuccessful, leaving moments later, looking for another way to find Kenzi. Bo notices a maid cleaning a railing above her and shortly approaches the maid, touches her, and draws her away from her duties.

The scene shifts to Tamsin, who is watching television at Bo's place. Lauren enters the room and comments: "Wow. This is sad." Lauren then asks Tamsin to tell her everything about the Underrealms, but Tamsin's response is: "Eat a sack of tits." Lauren asks Tamsin why but the answer she gets is: "Because then your mouth would be full of tits and I wouldn't have to listen to your dumb ass voice." Lauren presses Tamsin for information. Lauren calls Valhalla Tamsin's home, she calls it "more like our head office." Lauren tells Tamsin that she can help and she has to. Tamsin tells Lauren that she has no idea why she can't but Lauren presses on telling Tamsin: "You claim to be part of this group, that you love Kenzi and Bo? I don't see it." Tamsin angrily tells Lauren: "Well, maybe you should wear some glasses." Lauren isn't moved, telling Tamsin: "You kind of peaked at 'Sack of tits.'" Lauren presses on, demanding to know what Bo is facing in Valhalla, but Tamsin does not answer. Instead she picks up a knife and then cuts into the couch she is sitting on. Tamsin then removes a diary, handing it to Lauren with the warning: "If they find out this diary exists I'm dead." Lauren takes the diary and asks: "How is documentation of your first Valkyrie kiss supposed to help me?" As Tamin fixes up the couch again, she tells Lauren: "It's less first finger bang and more... just more. Trust me. Plus I never kiss and tell."Lauren tells Tamsin to "sprout some wings and fly to Bo" but Tamsin refuses, saying that she needs a soul to go to Valhalla. Lauren notes that she has a far who is dying in her clinic and offers that to Tamsin. Tamsin replies that Lauren is human and "you'll never understand." Lauren tells Tamsin: "Maybe not. But we have all made sacrifices except for you. It's time to get your Valkyrie on Tamsin."

We return to Bo who is now dressed like one of the maids as she enters an elevator. There are literally hundreds of buttons on all of the walls of the elevator and for a moment Bo looks at them in confusion. She then pauses at one button, looks at it, smiles, and comments: "Kenzi prints." Using the maid's keycard, Bo activates the elevator, presses the button and then exits the elevator on one of the hotel's floors. After passing two women in the hallway, Bo wanders the hallway until she reaches a hotel room door, opens it, and goes inside. A woman is seen kneeling on the floor by the bed in a black dress, her face is not shown, but she is eating chocolate. Bo approaches her and calls out: "Kenzi?" Kenzi turns to look at Bo with wide eyes and says: "Bo-Bo."

After another commercial break, Kenzi and Bo rush towards each other, screaming happily and their words to each other frantically spoken until there is a pause and Bo asks: "You don't look dead" and Kenzi replies: "I don't feel dead." Kenzi tells Bo that she's missed her and Bo tells Kenzi: "I've missed you. Not since you walked into the portal, but before then. I was distant and selfish and..." Kenzi stops Bo, telling her: "Bo. I'm here, you're here. In couture apparently, but that's all that matters." Bo tries to ask Kenzi if she has seen Hale but Kenzi stops her, shouting: "Safety test!" Bo asks: "Mother's name?" Kenzi answers: "Birth, Aife. Adopted, Mary Dennis. Dream, Tina Turner." Kenzi asks: "Wing sauce?" Bo's answer is: "Half extra hot, half honey garlic, all blue cheese dipped." Bo then asks: "Middle name?" Kenzi replies: "Trick question, you don't have one." Kenzi's last question is: "Favourite alias?" Bo struggles with that question, noting that Kenzi has had so many of them, but finally answers: "Toni with an 'i' Soprano." Kenzi then joyfully sits on the bed with Bo and wants to "tell you all about how this place is hell, but first, do you want a Belgium waffle?" Bo looks at the offered waffle, commenting: "Yeah. It looks totally hellish" before taking a bite, being amazed how good it is. Bo then asks Kenzi if she has been hurt, Kenzi says that she hasn't been and that "it's been five star everything since I got here. Anything I want? Mine. Watch this!" Kenzi then picks up the room phone and comments that she doesn't like the view, which had mountains in it. There is a sound like the room moving and the scene out of the room windows changes. As Bo looks out the window, Kenzi continues: "You know how many emojis I've wanted to text you about this place? Any Ben and Jerry's flavour I want, including the discontinued Oatmeal Cookie Chunk!" Kenzi then rushes off, gathers a small collection of movies, showing them to Bo: "I've got Clueless 2, Sister Act 3 Rosemary's Baby's Got Back, a prequel to Goonies... And they're all super watchable." Then Kenzi shows Bo a card that indicates that Kenzi is hosting a party, also noting that "they keep sending me dresses in my size in hard to pinpoint style." Then, after a short pause, Kenzi continues: "But I am so glad that you are here to save me from this trash hole." The room phone then rings, a blue circle glowing around where the rotary dial would be on an old phone. Kenzi walks over to the phone, answers it: "Hello mouth breather. If you want to play stalker from The Bodyguard, try Whitney's room! I'm busy!" After Kenzi hangs up the phone, Bo asks what the call was about, Kenzi replying: "Blue light hotel perv calling once a day. Another reason for you to get me out of here." Kenzi then offers Bo some Chunky Monkey ice cream, the two enjoying it, as the scene ends.

Meanwhile, at the Dal Riata, Lauren, Dyson and Trick are looking through Tamsin's diary. Lauren frets: "For all we know they are being tortured, or burned alive or worse buried alive over and over again. Hellshoes? Emphasis on the 'hell'? Why couldn't Tamsin tell us herself?" Trick explains: "A Valkyrie's blood is bound by secrecy. If they discuss details of other worlds they die." Lauren comes to grips with this and understands that the only way Tamsin can talk about Valhalla is through a secret journal. Dyson reads a passage of Tamsin's journal where she writes: "Thomas thinks my job is so simple. Heaven, Hell, so much more than that. I have to run along now, sneaking into Tartarus with Nismat today." When Lauren asks about Tartarus, Trick replies that it is an afterlife that he thought was fiction. Trick then explains that folkfore says that souls are assigned to different realms." Lauren asks if Kenzi is in Valhalla, then wouldn't the Hellskor take Bo there but Dyson interrupts with another passage of the diary which reads: "How silly. Everyone is chattering about a pair of shoes created for non-Valkyries so that they could enter Valhalla on the Bifrost." Lauren hears "Bifrost" as being "Beef Roast" when Trick says the word and asks Trick if he is hungry. Trick then explains that Bifrost connects the different realms like the branches of a tree or a bridge. Dyson then ominously continues: "The wearer of the shoes can collect souls to build a dark army. The army to end all life." Trick asks: "The real question: Why do they only work on Bo? Someone or something wants her to bring hell on Earth." Lauren comments: "This is bigger than bringing Kenzi back isn't it." Trick replies: "It's bigger then all of us," Dyson then shares an image and explains that he knows where the place is, having found Tamsin there after she took Kenzi's soul to Valhalla, but that the gate only reveals itself to Valkyries. Lauren wonders if there is a way for them to mislead the gate and trick it into appearing because she has a lock of Tamsin's hair that she took from Massimo's things after he was killed by Bo. Dyson comments that usually he is against using anything from Massimo, but: "if this is the only way? Let's go and open some gates." as he and Lauren leave the Dal Riata and Trick behind. As they do so, Trick continues to look through Tamsin's diary, pausing at some evil looking images.

Back in Valhalla, Freyja is ranting over the efforts of some interior decorators as Tamsin enters the room. Freyja asks Tamsin what colour she thinks a chair is, Tamsin answering: "Um... Not Lame′?" Freyja nods: "Good answer." After the interior decorators leave, Freyja comments that Tamsin has come home, Tamsin tries to brush that off, saying that she was just delivering a soul and wanted to see her and "Thank you for being so.... great." Freyja replies: "You are a suspicious little thing. A Valkyrie with an extra seven lives."

Questions in this Episode

• Dyson originally gave one of the Helskor to Angel back in 1800s France to hide them and to give them only to the one they were meant for. How is it then that the shoes found their way to a nest in the middle of a desert mesa?
• What was the point to the mesa shaking as it did? That didn't actually result in anything happening, Bo lost her grip, so what was the point?
• What kind of cereal is Tamsin eating anyway? Is it Honey Berry Crunch, the cereal of the Fae or so it seems considering how many have been seen eating it at Bo's place.
• Tamsin told Bo that the shoe she hid was "with the next in charge." As the Una Mens are no more, that would mean that she gave the shoe to Trick, which means that he is, it seems, still the Acting Ash in this episode at least. However we've not seen Trick actually fulfilling the role of Ash or even making mention of it for a very long time in the series. So is he or isn't he? Will there be yet another contest to find an Ash or, with what's happened to The Morrigan, is that all over and done with? If it is, then does that mean that Trick is technically in control of all Fae again?
• Lauren was seen at the Marquise Medical Clinic at the beginning of the episode. It isn't clear if this is a Fae medical clinic, a human one, or something else. So what is it and why was Lauren working there?
• Upon putting on the Helskor, Bo was barefoot. This was obviously quite different from what happened when the shoes were worn by the "wrong" person in the past. What exactly does make Bo the right one to wear them in the first place?
• Who is Nismat? Is this Tamsin's twin? Brother? Sister?
• Trick asks an important question: "The real question: Why do they only work on Bo? Someone or something wants her to bring hell on Earth." Which refers to the Helskor that Bo possesses.

Answers in this Episode

• At the beginning of the episode, Bo had possession of both Helskor.
• Tamsin was at odds with Bo from the beginning of the episode, trying to stop her from having both Helskor and going to Valhalla.
• Bo had only one focus it seems in the time after Kenzi's death and that was getting her back no matter the cost in doing so.
• Much of this episode was filmed at the Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto.
• Freyja appears to be, more or less, the equivalent of a hotel manager, or owner in this version of Valhalla. While she is a deity in her own "hell" as she describes it, she is aloof, self-centred, and, as a whole, has a very biased view of what sort of souls belong in her midst. However, it is also clear that she isn't exactly in control of all of the events that happen in Valhalla.
• Freyja's florist was "stuck in Tartarus" which, according to Plato, was where souls were judged after death and where the wicked received punishment. You can read more about this myth here.
• Apparently, Bo's dream mother would be Tina Turner.
• Apparently, Kenzi's favourite wing sauce is: Half extra hot, half honey garlic, all blue cheese dipped.
• Apparently, Bo does not have a middle name.
• Apparently, Kenzi's favourite alias is: Toni Soprano.
• The movies that Kenzi shows Bo: "Clueless 2, Sister Act 3: Rosemary's Baby's Got Back, a prequel to Goonies" do not exist.
• When the phone rings in Valhalla, and there is a blue glow around the rotary dial, the call seems to be from Bo's father.
• Tamsin could not talk about Valhalla because, according to Trick, a Valkyrie's blood is bound by secrecy. If they discuss details of other worlds they die.
• Nismat is Tamsin spelled backwards.
• According to the passage in Tamsin's diary that Dyson read: "The wearer of the shoes can collect souls to build a dark army. The army to end all life."
• Lauren took a lock of Tamsin's hair from Massimo's collection of items after he was killed by Bo.
• According to Freyja, Tamsin had an extra seven lives through her deal with Trick.

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 December 12, 2014. 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 Five website at Showcase.ca
• Like Hell, Part I at the IMDb