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Masks
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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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Masks was the twelfth episode of the second season of the series, and the twenty-fifth overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on December 11th, 2011 at 9 PM Eastern time.
Production Data
- Series: Lost Girl
- Season: 2
- Episode Number: 12 (25th Overall)
- Episode Title: Masks
- Directed by: Lee Rose
- Writing credits: Grant Rosenberg
- Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
- Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
- Country of Origin: Canada
- Originally Aired on: December 11th, 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 |
| Anthony Lemke | Ryan Lambert |
| Athena Karkanis | Nadia |
| Philip Akin | Tshombe |
| Pragna Desai | Peggy |
| Denis Akiyama | The Preta |
| Steve Cochrane | Bartender |
Plot
Short Summary
The Ash reveals to Lauren that the old Ash cursed Nadia in order to have Lauren find the cure the Fae needed at that time. He also reveals that he knows which Shaman set the curse, but refuses any of her requests to find him and she is returned to the lab to continue the research he wishes her to do. Kenzi plans a surprise birthday party for Bo, but the Ash calls Bo to a meeting and tells her where the Dark Fae Shaman they are seeking is located, and sends her away to lift the curse. Bo is transported to where the Shaman is and discovers him and a large block of wood with hundreds of cursing nails in it. He reveals that the former Ash paid him handsomely for the curse on Nadia, but will only remove the nail if Bo completes a quest for him. He sends Bo on a search for a healing mask that he requires to save his life, and if she returns with it, then he will give her the means to remove the nail. Kenzi, as she prepares for the party, meets an old boyfriend that is part of a band, and she finds herself falling in love with him again. Dyson reveals to Trick that Ciara is looking for a house for them to live in, but he tells Trick that he isn't sure what he wants, or who he wants. Bo asks a favour of Trick, and he gives her something valuable to trade for the mask the Shaman wants, and Dyson leaves with Bo to find the mask. They meet with the Fae that holds the mask, and after making the trade and completing a test, they leave with the mask. Bo then returns to the Dark Fae Shaman and saves his life and then she removes the nail, thus releasing Nadia from the curse. But she also destroys the means for the Shaman to curse others as well. When Bo returns to Lauren, she finds her and Nadia together and leaves them to return home. She walks into the surprise birthday party Kenzi has been planning and receives gifts from her friends, but also one that comes from someone that no one knows. In return for Nadia being freed from her curse, which Lauren thinks was the Ash's doing, Lauren returns herself to the Ash's control and pledges herself to him once more.
Detailed Summary
The episode begins with Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) and Bo (Anna silk) together at their place. Kenzi is working on something at a table when Bo enters the room, getting ready for a morning jog. She explains to Bo that she is working on a family get together which she isn't thrilled about, but is doing it anyway. Kenzi then invites Bo to the so-called party, but she declines and leaves for her jog. After she leaves, Kenzi calls someone on her phone and tells them that Bo doesn't suspect anything.
The scene then shifts to Lauren (Zoie Palmer) as she is brought into the Ash's (Vincent Walsh) chambers after being placed in the dungeons last episode (Can't See the Fae-Rest). She asks the Ash what he plans to do to her next, suggesting torture, but the Ash asks her if she is willing to go back to work again. Lauren reveals that she has been in the dungeons for four days and that she isn't interested in returning to work. Lauren threatens to leave the Ash and go to the Morrigan because she knows mor about what has happened to Nadia that he does. The Ash tells Lauren quite bluntly that if she attempts to see the Morrigan she will be punished severely. When Lauren defies him again, the Ash changes tactics and tells Lauren that he has been reading the journals of the previous Ash and reveals to her that the one that cursed Nadia was in fact the old Ash.The Ash did so because he needed a cure for the Fae that were dying, Lauren could provide it, and by cursing Nadia he could insure that Lauren would be drawn into the world of the Fae permanently. The Ash tells Lauren that she needs to get over that fact and move on, but Lauren tells him that she would rather burn the Ash's home to the ground. Then the Ash tells Lauren that he has located the Shaman that set the curse, and that they are located in a small village in the Congo. He also tells Lauren, when she wants to go there and see the Shaman, that she cannot because he is Dark Fae. The Ash tells Lauren that he will do everything in his power to have the curse removed, but in return Lauren must return to her work. She does not actually say she agrees, but does leave the Ash to, it appears, return to work.
Returning from the opening credits, Kenzi enters the Dal, and sees Hale (K.C. Collins) there. She starts to butter him up and then he just asks her how much money she needs. Grudingly, he agrees to give her ten dollars to "Bo's Special Day" and as well he agrees to bring a cake along to the party. Then Trick (Richard Howland) appears, and he confirms to Kenzi that he will be bringing the beer and other fine spirits to the party. She and Trick continue to talk about the party arrangement but then stop as Bo enters the Dal. She makes small talk with all of them, and each makes excuses about what they are planning to do on the weekend, trying not to reveal to Bo what they are planning for her, which is a surprise birthday party. Trick asked Bo what she is planning and Bo tells him that she hasn't talked to Lauren in a while, is planning to call her and perhaps they can spend a night together. Then Bo's phone rings and it seems to be Lauren. But it turns out not to be, the Ash wants to see Bo immediately.
Bo and the Ash meet in his lair, he offers Bo some tea but she refuses and asks him to get to the point of why he called her. He tells her that she is so impatient and that she needs to learn to "enjoy the moment or life will pass you by." When Bo asks if he called her to give fortune cookie advice, the Ash reveals that he has information about Nadia. He tells Bo that he knows were the Shaman is and that he wants Bo to go there and persuade him to lift the curse. He tells Bo that the Shaman is a Dark Fae mystic called Tshombe (Philip Akin) and that he lives in a small village in the Congo. As Bo is unaligned in the Fae world, and she has an interest in the problem, she is the right person to go there. He also tells Bo that she can never tell Lauren that she did go. The reason for this is that the person that removes the nail must do so out of compete and utter selfless love sand this is shown by doing a favour for them and never letting the other person know about it. The Ash tells Bo that she must accept this as fact or she will not be successful. Bo tells the Ash that she doesn't need credit for helping a friend. She then asks to see Lauren, but the Ash refuses telling Bo that Lauren is in the middle of something that is very critical and she cannot be disturbed. When Bo asks how she will get to the Congo, the Ash gives her a business card and tells her that it is his personal travel agent and that all arrangements will have been made.
Kenzi is at Bo's place speaking Russian on the phone when Hale comes in carrying a box. Kenzi tells Hale that one of her relatives is arranging "party favours" for the guests, being digital camera right off the boat, and when Hale asks how, Kenzi turns her attention to the box Hale carried in. Opening it, Kenzi finds a heart shaped cake with the words: "Happy Brithday Bo" written on it. As she admires it, Bo storms in and Kenzi quickly hides the cake from sight. Bo goes to her room, grabs a knife, and then starts to leave. When Kenzi asks what is going on, Bo tells her that she is going to Africa and as she leaves Kenzi asks if she will be home for dinner.
The next scene takes place at the travel agency the Ash sent Bo to which is called the Tayyalard Travel Agency. Bo enters and before she can ask anything, the woman that runs the agency asks if she has a number. Bo is confused since there is no one else there, but takes a number anyway and eventually the woman calls Bo's number out. She takes Bo's number and then addresses her by name and introduces herself as Peggy (Pragna Desai). When Bo asks how she is getting to Africa, assuming a plane, Penny tells her that what she does is "fold the Earth." When Bo is confused, Penny understands why she would be as she is the only Fae travel agent sanctioned by the Ash in the city. She explains the Bo that instead of her moving to her destination, the destination will move to her in the blink of an eye. In Peggy's words: "You merely stand still and the world is displaced under your feet. When Bo asks if it is safe, Paggy laughs a bit and then says: "There are the normal risks, headaches, swelling of the joints, nose bleeds and in some very limited cases death." She then hands Bo an accident waver and has her sign it in various places. Then as Bo signs Penny also offers her travel insurance with "excellent death benefits." But Bo declines. After she finishes signing, Bo asks what's next, Peggy says "Happy Trails" and in the next moment she is standing in a small village in the Congo outside of the place where Tshombe lives. Bo enters the house to find Tshombe laying on the floor and he seems to be unresponsive to Bo as she calls his name. He stirs slightly and she tells him that she is in search of a cursing nail he placed in a block of wood. Tshombe raises one hand and Bo's sight is drawn to a large pillar of wood in the room that has hundreds of nails placed in it.
Returning from commercial,
Questions in this Episode
- What is the research the Lauren is doing for the Ash?
Answers in this Episode
- Nadia's curse was ordered by the first Ash in the series. The Ash did so because he needed a cure for the Fae that were dying, Lauren could provide it, and by cursing Nadia he could insure that Lauren would be drawn into the world of the Fae permanently.
- The Shaman that set the curse was located in a small village in the Congo, is a Dark Fae, and set curses on people when he was paid to do so.
- The Tayyalard Travel Agency is based on the concept of the Tayy al-Arḍ (Arabic: طيّ الأرض "folding up of the earth"), which is the name for thaumaturgical teleportation in the mystical form of Islamic religious and philosophical tradition. The concept has been expressed as "traversing the earth without moving"; some have termed it "moving by the earth being displaced under one's feet". It is a concept widely familiar to the Sunnis, Shī‘īs and Sufis, each group having a different interpretation on it. You can find out more about this concept here. In the Lost Girl universe, Fae can travel from place to place almost instantaneously by visiting a specific, approved Fae travel agent and being sent on their way by them by folding the Earth around the Fae that wishes to travel. It is not explained just how a Fae returns when they are ready to however in the series.
- There is only one Ash approved travel agent in the city.
- There is a Goddess named Ama to whom In Dogon sorcerers, in central Mali (both male and female) claim to have communication with, who advises them on healing and divination practices. There is some information here.
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 16th, 2011. You can find that review here. She gave it ? pitchforks out of 5.