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"Here Comes the Night"
Lost Girl episode
The Ancients leave their mark on the city
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 7 Overall Episode 68
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	507
Original Air Date	January 18, 2015 (2015-01-18)
Length	60 minutes (runtime)
Guest Actors
Rachel Skarsten - Tamsin Paul Amos - Vex Emmanuelle Vaugier - Evony Vanessa Matsui - Cassie Aniela Kurylo - Pythia Sagine Semajuste - Dedona Luke Bilyk - Mark Noam Jenkins - Heratio Shanice Banton - Iris Amanda Walsh - Elizabeth Helm/Zee Lisa Marcos - Alycia Welles
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Short Summary List of Lost Girl Episodes Detailed List of Lost Girl episodes The Ancients create a disaster which reveals Evony's past and the Oracles go in search of Bo's truth for their Mistress SuccuWiki Rating: (3.8)

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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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Here Comes the Night was the seventh episode of the fifth season of the series, and the sixty-eighth overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on January 19, 2015 at 9 PM Eastern time.

Production Data

• Series: Lost Girl
• Season: 5
• Episode Number: 7 (68th Overall)
• Episode Title: Here Comes the Night
• 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: January 18, 2015 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: Anna Silk as Bo, Zoie Palmer as Lauren, Kristen Holden-Reid as Dyson and Rachel Skarsten as Tamsin

Actor / Actress	Role
Anna Silk	Bo
Kristen Holden-Ried	Dyson
Richard Howland	Trick
Zoie Palmer	Lauren
Rachel Skarsten	Tamsin
Paul Amos	Vex
Emmanuelle Vaugier	Evony
Vanessa Matsui	Cassie
Luke Bilyk	Mark
Noam Jenkins	Heratio/Vincent Welles
Shanice Banton	Iris
Amanda Walsh	Elizabeth Helm/Zee
Aniela Kurylo	Pythia
Sagine Semajuste	Dedona
Lisa Marcos	Alycia Welles
Gabe Grey	Sam
Alisen Down	Isabeau
Sarah Robichaud	Mother #1
Kathy Maloney	Injured Mother
Gabriel Browning Rodriguez	Injured Boy
Houida Kassem	News Reporter

Music in this Episode

Song Title	Artist	Notes
Tell It Like It Is	Aaron Neville	Written by George Davis and Lee Diamond
Lullabies	Yuna	Written by Yunalis Zarai and Chris Braide
On The Shore	Slow Skies	Written by Karen Sheridan

Plot

Short Summary

A tornado, created by the Ancients, smashes through the city, doing massive damage and destruction. As a result, Evony’s doomsday device runs out of power and it seems to be empty when it opens. Evony appears at the Dal Riata and collects Vex to help her deal with the creature that was released from Evony’s device, which is invisible. Bo and Lauren confront Evony who reveals that at one time she dated the god Eros, who she trapped in the device with Vex’s help. Evony, Bo and Lauren confront Eros and he killed by lightning, seemingly by Zeus. Dyson visits the wife of the possessed human and finds that the Ancient is there, acting as her husband as if nothing had happened. Dyson questions him and when he reveals he is not the wife’s husband, she stabs him, making him flee, but promising to take her life. Dyson brings her to his home and then Bo appears, but it turns out not to be her, but the three Oracles in search of something. Eventually the Oracles find Bo and give her visions of those she loves trying to find Bo’s truth, but Trick stops them. Bo reveals her father is Hades to Trick and that she was born in Hel. The Oracles give the Ancient what she wishes to know and then she kills Cassie. Tamsin confesses her love to Bo, but Bo tells Tamsin she does not love her the same way which breaks Tamsin’s heart. At the end of the episode, Bo blows out Persephone’s candle, but it relights.

Detailed Summary

The episode opens with scenes from the previous episode which include: Dyson discovering the mark of the Ancients that was left at the murder scene of the football player, Bo looking at the images of the three dead humans and Dyson commenting that they were all possessed by some kind of Fae. Trick is then shown serving Zee, the female Ancient, her drink at the Dal Riata. Alycia Welles meets with Dyson, telling him about her late husband who she saw very much alive, and then Bo meeting Heratio, the possessed husband and confronting him and the other Ancients. Iris tells Mark that something will happen at the football game, Bo realizing that the Ancients are feeding from the crowd and then Zee attacking Bo with lightning. Trick then calls the Ancients the most powerful Fae family that every lived while Iris is shown drawing their mark and then the three Ancients looking out their window at the city as lightning strikes and thunder crashes.

The episode begins with images of a rubble covered street, many wrecked cars and many walking wounded and injured crying out in pain as emergency vehicle sirens wail. Bo (Anna Silk), Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) and Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) walk through the street, appearing to have been caught in the disaster as it happened, but not seeming to be injured. Bo and Dyson approach a wrecked car and after a short struggle with debris, help free the trapped passengers and driver. Tamsin tells Dyson and Bo that the tornado is continuing east through the city and that there are ambulances in a safe zone nearby. Tamsin tells Bo that the scene "is a battlefield and I've seen my share" Bo replies that she has never seen anything like what has happened and Tamsin comforts Bo, telling her "As long as we are together we can take on anything. You're my girl" as she embraces Bo. Bo begins to speak to Tamsin, saying her name, but when Tamsin replies: "Yeah girl?" Bo turns away and comments: "Never mind." Bo then notices something in the distance and begins walking away from Tamsin. Approaching an oddly bare section of road which some kind of pattern marked into it with dirt, Bo walks to the centre and then stops. As Bo whispers: "Oh my Gods" it is shown that an enormous triskele has been left behind in the aftermath of the tornado's wake.

The scene then switches to the apartment where the three Ancients have taken up residence, Zee (Amanda Walsh) standing on the balcony and gloating at the destruction she has caused. She calls out the names of the Oracles Pythia (Aniela Kurylo), Dedona (Sagine Semajuste) and Cassie (Vanessa Matsui) before striding towards them. She attempts to rouse the three who are laying on a sofa mumbling to themselves, Zee telling them: "It's almost time." and then pulls on each of their chains calling them "Oracles" and "Oraclettes" and "My little eyeless wonders" Zee then walks away from the three, looking out the window to see dark clouds forming over the city and blocking out the sun as they do so. As the room darkens, the three Oracles gasp, stand and then pronounce in unison: "Only in the darkness can we see the light." Zee then smiles and replies: "Ready. Set. Bo." as lightning strikes and thunder booms in the city.

After the abbreviated opening sequence ends, Lauren (Zoie Palmer) is seen working at her clinic as vast numbers of walking wounded arrive seeking treatment. A news report catches Lauren's attention which reveals that lightning is continuing to strike over the city and that there is no answer to why the disaster has occurred. Bo's assistant Sam (Gabe Grey) comments: "Apocalypse anyone?" and Lauren replies: "Someone is trying to send us a message." and Sam jokes: "Oh good because we're not equipped for the end of the world." Sam then tells Lauren that Cassie is missing and that they have room for only one more patient as another patient arrives and then Bo, Dyson and Tamsin appear, Bo commenting: "How about three?" Lauren asks Bo what is happening and she tells Lauren that the Ancients are behind the disaster, that they saw the Ancient's symbol which Tamsin describes as "like a big ass crop circle. At least we know they aren't subtle." Dyson reminds Tamsin that they do not know where the Ancients are, and tells Lauren that he is working on that problem. Tamsin then suggests to Bo that they "recheck the streets to make sure no one is left behind" and when Bo looks at Lauren, she tells Bo to go. However, Dyson stops Bo and expresses his worry that "someone is going to use this chaos to try and take Lauren's serum." Bo then decides to stay, and tells Tamsin and Dyson to be careful. Before Dyson and Tamsin leave, Tamsin kisses Bo, Dyson just nodding at Bo before he follows Tamsin out of the clinic. Bo then approaches Lauren who is looking at a patient, the two sharing a look as the power fails in the clinic and darkness falls. A moment later the emergency power comes on, Sam comments "About that apocalypse" and Lauren calls out that they have everything under control and no one should panic. Lauren then tells Bo: "It's Evony's cryobox."

Elsewhere, Trick (Richard Howland), Vex (Paul Amos), and Mark (Luke Bilyk) are at the Dal Riata as the storm continues, Mark commenting "I love storms" and Vex replying" Oh! Enthusiasm!", Trick calling for a bucket as the roof begins to leak on the bar. Trick then reads from one of his texts: "Zeus was so frustrated with the human's piety that he flooded the Earth to destroy mankind. He used Hera's messenger Iris, the rainbow god to do it." Vex asks Trick: "When you mean Gods you actually mean..." Trick continues: "Fae. So powerful that, a long time ago, humans worshipped them." Vex asks: "Hold the lift. If Zeus and his Ancient bunch are reeking havoc on our colony skies, why am I stuck here in Cheers with you lot? I feel like I've picked the worst lane in the shittiest traffic of all time." Trick calls Vex fickle and then tells Vex to go and get him some candles. After grouching about this, Vex then goes off to find Trick some candles.

Vex is then seen in the depths of the Dal Riata, examining some of Trick's wine cellar before taking one of the bottles and drinking from it. Mark then appears, warns Vex that he will be blamed for the missing liquor and Vex puts the bottle back. What follows next is a series of sexual innuendoes referring to the length and size of candles before Mark drops out of sight and gives Vex oral sex, Vex gasping and moaning as Mark does so. After he finishes, Mark kisses Vex as the scene comes to a close.

Dyson is then seen at his gym, wondering where the Gods would be as Tamsin enters and comments: "Big fluffy white cloud in the sky duh." and also asks: "Do you have any cream cheese?" which makes Dyson chuckle. Dyson comments that Tamsin "smells good wet" and hands her a towel. Tamsin tells Dyson: "Streets are under control, surprisingly no fatalities" and Dyson muses over why the Ancients would send a tornado over the city. Tamsin wonders: "Maybe it's not about the tornado, it's about the aftermath." When Dyson wonders about the "destruction and chaos" Tamsin replies: "Blackout. Not the wakeup on Saturday morning at the Four Seasons kind." Dyson notes that he has checked the previous addresses of Zee's human body and the PR firm the Ancients had taken over, but both were empty. Tamsin then shows Dyson a flyer she found which Alycia Welles had posted asking for information should anyone see her husband alive. Dyson comments that he told her to leave town, but Tamsin tells him she saw her husband alive after an elevator crash, it if was her, she'd be looking for answers as well. Dyson then asks Tamsin to find all of the posters and take them down as well as looking for any evidence of the Gods and removing them as well. Tamsin comments that she is going to "check the clinic" first, but when Dyson begins to comment, Tamsin blurts out: "I'm not jealous of Lauren!" Dyson then explains: "Bo's a succubus. There's always going to be other people. It's in her nature." Tamsin replies: "It's not the other people I am worried about. It's just the one." Dyson gives Tamsin a long look, then starts to leave, Tamsin asks where he is going and Dyson tells her that he is: "Going to see about a girl."

Back at Lauren's clinic, Bo watches Lauren as she frantically tries to keep Evony's cryobox working in spite of the lack of power. Lauren cannot understand how the device cannot keep working when it is on three backup generators, Bo tells her: "With Evony nothing is ever enough." Bo then asks: "Please tell me this thing is about to unleash a lifetime supply of FroYo." Lauren, in a frightened voice tells Bo: "Try one of the oldest and most dangerous Fae ever to walk the Earth." Bo sighs: "Lovely" and asks what they should do. The device then announces that it will shut down in ninety seconds and orders an evacuation. Bo looks at Lauren and says: "Evacuate it is."

Following the first commercial break,

Questions in this Episode

• Couldn't the Ancients been a little more focused in what they destroyed in order to cause the blackout? Why go and wreck a good portion of the city when the same thing could have been accomplished by levelling a power station, main hydro lines, or something similar. As well, if the Oracles needed darkness to "find the light" how is it they are able to do so in areas that have a good deal of light in them? As well, how is it that the blackout didn't effect the entire city as parts of it were shown to have power for lights clearly at various points in the episode.
• Considering that at every disaster there is some kind of news helicopter hovering over the aftermath, how is it that the mark of the Ancients wasn't seen? It was, after all, pretty obvious. More so, how is it that no one else saw the mark before Bo did?
• The news report that Lauren saw was obviously set at the same location as the scene with Bo. And no one saw anything? Really?
• The chances of mass destruction as described in the episode not resulting in a massive number of injuries and deaths is highly unlikely.
• How is it that Bo, Dyson and Tamsin were in a situation where they got run over by the tornado? Assuming that the events in this episode follow on right behind the last, which is likely, they were all at the Dal Riata meeting with Trick and Lauren.
• We find out in this episode that the female Ancient is named "Zee". Could she possibly be Zeus in female form? She has the ability to throw lightning from her hands and control it.
• Dyson asked Tamsin to go through the city and remove all evidence of the Ancients and as well take down all of Alycia Welles' posters. Considering the size of that task, there is no possible way that Tamsin could do so on her own. So, did she do it or not?
• How is it that with all of the backups that Evony's device failed? More importantly, considering what was in it, and how long it had been in there, how did she keep it under control before the technology was around to create the cryobox?

Answers in this Episode

• Apparently the plan of the Ancients from the previous episode was to create a massive power failure such that the Oracles could go in search of those with Bo's blood, and eventually her. This was necessary because the Oracles could no longer "see" except in darkness.
• The words spoken by the Oracles: "Only in the darkness can we see the light" referred to being able to locate Bo's light among all of the other sources of light but only in darkness alone.
• Several of the encounters in the episode between characters were not actually happening, but were visions created by the Oracles in order to gain a truth from those they sought out. To do so, they were required to reveal a truth about each person they encountered, then they were allowed to take from them what they desired in return. In each case, the truth of their heart was revealed by the Oracles.
• In the case of Vex, his truth was that he was smitten by Mark.
• Mark indicated that he had encountered his dream girl, but this is highly unlikely as he did not have any of Bo's blood within him. While he was intimate with Bo, this was not explained as being enough to attract the attention of the Oracles.
• For the first time in quite a while, Dyson gave Tamsin the "Bo's a succubus" speech.
• When the blackout occurred, Evony's device failed and at first it seemed that nothing was in the device, but it was soon clear that something had escaped.

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 January 23, 2015. You can find that review here. She gave it 3.8 pitchforks out of 5.

External Links

• The Official site of the series Lost Girl
• Official Season Five website at Showcase.ca
• Here Comes the Night at the IMDb