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Something Wicked This Fae Comes
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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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Something Wicked This Fae Comes was the season two premiere, and the fourteenth overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on September 4th. 2011 at 9 PM Eastern time.
Production Data
- Series: Lost Girl
- Season: 2
- Episode Number: 1 (14th Overall)
- Episode Title: Something Wicked This Fae Comes
- Directed by: Robert Lieberman
- Writing credits: Michelle Lovretta
- Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
- Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
- Country of Origin: Canada
- Originally Aired on: September 4th. 2011 on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada
- Number of Canadian Viewers: TBR
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 |
| Paulino Nunes | Zael |
| Dennis O'Conner | Elder "Buzz" Porter |
| Bruce Beaton | Marvin |
| Ho Chow | Tesso |
| Daveed Louza | Bruno |
| Hayley Nault | Nain Rouge |
| Sarah Jurgens | Gaia |
| Ted Ludzick | Geek |
| Izaak Smith | Clerk |
Plot
Short Summary
It is three weeks after Aife's attack on the Light Fae elders. The Ash is close to death. Trick with the help of Bo, Kenzi and Hale are trying to keep things under control as the Dark Fae try to take advantage of the situation. Dyson returns after being missing since seeing the Norn, but seems aloof to Bo and their relationship suffers. A cursed group of Fae disguised as a travelling circus arrive and using a traitor in the midst of the Light Fae, break the connection between The Ash and the land in order to claim it for themselves. By using a human rave as a source of power, they attempt to force the representation of the land to bond with their leader. Bo, with the help of Dyson, Hale and Kenzi, manage to stop their plans from succeeding. Afterwards, Dyson admits to Bo that the Norn took his love for her and that they cannot be together. At the end of the episode, a strange young Fae warns Bo that something old and evil is coming for her, but gives no specific information.
Detailed Summary
The episode opens with a flashback to the events of last season's finale. Aife tells Bo that she knows that she hates the divide between the Light and Dark Fae as much as she does. Then the scene with Aife's suicide bomber attacking the Light Fae Elders is shown, obviously maiming or killing them. The Ash is then seen in critical condition as Lauren attempts to save him. Kenzi confronts Trick demanding that he use his powers to help Bo. Lastly, the Norn is seen taking that which is most precious to Dyson, his love for Bo.
And then the new season begins...
Bo (Anna Silk) and Hale (K.C. Collins) begin the episode at night moving through a sewer pipe looking for an Underfae that had once been owned by one of the Light Fae Elders, but has escaped. Their conversation reveals that The Ash is on life support and that Aife's attack did in fact kill all the other Light Fae Elders. It also explains that Bo is part of the search for the missing Underfae as she is being held at least partly responsible for what her mother did. Hale states that it also has been three weeks since Dyson had last been seen, thus placing this episode three weeks after the events of the season finale. Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) then appears behind them giving them both a scare for a moment. Bo chastises Kenzi for not staying in the car as she was told to which Kenzi explains that in all horror movies that's where the monster always attacks.
The Underfae then attacks the trio, it's talons striking Bo and injuring her before she and Hale, using weapons that resemble flamethrowers, stop the creature. We then see Bo placing the Underfae in the trunk of her car for safekeeping. Kenzi comments with the question, "is it weird that I'm craving fried chicken?" Bo however seems to be injured and weak after the claws from the Underfae cut into her throat. Kenzi gets her into the car commenting that Hale should call Dyson and tell him to come home as she is tired of "getting Bo take-out." That take-out being in this case, a clerk (Izaak Smith), from whom Bo feeds from in a very dirty bathroom in the back of, we assume, gas station somewhere in the middle of the night.
The scene then moves to a caravan of trucks, buses and trailers stuck in the mud on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. A tow truck appears and the driver, who appears to be a Fae of some kind, based on the tattoo that is shown on his hand, approaches the group there asking how he can help them as they had called for assistance. One of them leads him towards one of the trailers, the tow truck driver commenting that the group appear to be some kind of travelling circus. That person opens a curtain covering the side of it, and a large Fae attacks him as the opening credits begin.
We return to see Trick (Richard Howland) being examined by Lauren (Zoie Palmer) at The Dal Riata. She comments that he has healed remarkably quickly to which Trick comments that at least he can now continue writing his novel. Regardless of how well Trick may appear, Lauren is still concerned about him and tells him so. Bo, Hale and Kenzi then appear and confirm that that have captured the Underfae they were tracking. Hale indicates that the Underfae was a Piwichen, which looks very much like a flying snake. Lauren then examines Bo to check her wounds from the creature's attack. She notes that Bo had not fully healed and in response Bo notes that she didn't want to kill the person she had been feeding from. Bo then asks Lauren when the last time was she rested. Lauren explains that she can't rest as she cannot trust anyone else to watch over The Ash in his coma. When Bo points out that she had left him to come to see her, Lauren's answer is "I heard you needed me. I came." Her phone then rings and she answers it.
Hale notes that with the Piwichen, they had captured a total of eight Underfae and Trick confirms that, according to his best knowledge, their hunt should be over as all of the creatures are accounted for. Hale then comments that with The Ash deathly ill that the Light Fae have no real leadership and that he expects that more dangerous "baddies" will be testing them soon. Lauren interrupts with the news that a Light Fae was found flayed. Kenzi asks what that means and Bo explains that it means that something ripped off all of the skin on the body. Bo and Hale play rock, paper, scissors to decide who deals with this problem and Bo loses. She asks Lauren to go with her and Kenzi to the scene of the murder as they could use the help to figure out what happened.
The next scene has Bo, Kenzi and Lauren at the side of the road were the Fae had been killed, a wet stain in the road marking where the body had been found. Lauren examines the stain, noting that various fluids and other items are there, calling the evidence "neat." Kenzi refutes that idea. Bo asks if it is possible that whatever did this had taken the skin to eat and left the body behind to which Lauren suggests that it is possible, depending on which kind of Fae did it. Bo and Kenzi walk around the scene and Bo tries to figure out what happened. She notes that there are a lot of footprints and tracks on the ground which probably means that whatever did the murder wasn't travelling alone. Kenzi suggests that they contact Hale for a tracker Fae and then goes on a small rant with Bo about Dyson vanishing for so long. However Kenzi tells Bo that she doesn't believe that Dyson would just leave them and that there has to be a good reason.
We then see Dyson (Kristen Holden-Reid) brought into an office by two police officers. Hale is sitting on the other side of a desk with a bemused look as he comments on what Dyson has done. Apparently Dyson got into a bar fight with several humans and was arrested afterwards. Hale has him released, thanks the officers, and then chews out Dyson for a while before relenting. Hale then brings Dyson up to date on what has happened noting that half of the Elders are dead and The Ash is in a coma. Hale also tells Dyson that the temporary acting Ash is Elder Porter to which Dyson comments that he is a drunk.
Questions in this Episode
- Did the Norn actually take Dyson's feelings for Bo? The evidence of that is unclear as Dyson's normal attitude and character seems to make that difficult to say exactly. Hale notes that "a magic kiss" might be the cure, but the kiss that is shared by Dyson and Bo in this episode did not seem to be the answer. Perhaps it's not a kiss, but that the two of them have to be more intimate?
- If there were eight Underfae that had to be found after the events of Aife's attack, does that mean that the entire Light Fae Elder council is eight members? Or is that The Ash and severn others?
- Kenzi has been providing Bo with emergency feeding opportunities since Dyson vanished at the end of the last episode. As she and he are not together, that would likely mean that Bo has been going out on the town and feeding on others. Or is she going back to the same people over and over again? The clerk she feeds from in the beginning of the episode was human, but has she fed from any other Fae in the meantime?
- Lauren has been helping Trick to heal, but we do not know who found Trick after he injured himself trying to help Bo nor is it clear how exactly it is that Trick heals so quickly either.
- At the beginning of the episode, Hale notes that all of the Elders save The Ash are dead and yet when Dyson appears, only half of them are dead. So which is it? This is probably a continuity error but this question needs to be answered.
Answers in this Episode
- Aife's attack, according to Hale, killed all of the Light Fae Elders except for The Ash who is on life support.
- Apparently, the Elders keep Underfae as pets.
- The episode can be placed in the timeline exactly three weeks after the events in Blood Lines by Hale's statements at the beginning of this episode.
- Trick has the ability to heal quickly, possibly as quickly as Bo, but the means to that healing is not explained.
- A Piwichen, the Underfae that attacked Bo in the beginning of this episode, comes from a Patagonian myth of a flying snake that originally was first noted in the late 1700s in Chile. It was described as having a body the shape of a elongated cylinder, like a snake. It has wings and flies, but it lacks feathers on the wings. It sucks the blood of people and animals sucking the life from the bodies of its victims.
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: TBA
Episode 4: TBA
Episode 5: TBA
Episode 6: It's Better to Burn Out Than Fade Away
Episode 7: Fae Gone Wild
Episode 8: TBA
Episode 9: TBA
Episode 10: TBA
Episode 11: TBA
Episode 12: TBA
Episode 13: TBA
Episode 14: TBA
Episode 15: TBA
Episode 16: TBA
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 9h, 2011. You can find that review here. She gave it ??? pitchforks out of 5.