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"Fae-ge Against The Machine"
Lost Girl episode
Bo and Tamsin share an awkward moment
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 8 Overall Episode 43
Directed by	George Mihalka
Written by	Alexandra Zarowny
Produced by	Wanda Chaffey
Featured Music	See Section Below
Cinematography by	David Greene
Editing by	Ben Wilkinson
Production Code	308
Original Air Date	March 10, 2013 (2013-03-10)
Length	60 minutes (runtime)
Guest Actors
Deborah Odell - Stella Nashira Rachel Skarsten - Tamsin Shawn Doyle - Doctor Taft Ryan Belleville - Balzac Allie MacDonald - Hanna
Episode Chronology
← Previous "There's Bo Place Like Home" Next → "The Ceremony"
Short Summary List of Lost Girl Episodes Detailed List of Lost Girl episodes Trick is forced to play a game with dire consequences when Bo activates it accidentally SuccuWiki Rating: (3.5)

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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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Fae-ge Against The Machine was the eighth episode of the third season of the series, and the forty-third overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on March 10th, 2013 at 9 PM Eastern time.

Production Data

• Series: Lost Girl
• Season: 3
• Episode Number: 8 (43rd Overall)
• Episode Title: Fae-ge Against The Machine
• Directed by: George Mihalka
• Writing credits: Alexandra Zarowny
• Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
• Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
• Country of Origin: Canada
• Originally Aired on: March 10th, 2013 on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada
• Number of Canadian Viewers: TBA
• Number of American Viewers: TBA

Cast

A promotional Image of the Season Three cast of Lost Girl from the official website at lostgirlseries.com 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, Zoie Palmer as Lauren and K.C. Collins as Hale.

Actor / Actress	Role
Anna Silk	Bo
Richard Howland	Trick
Zoie Palmer	Lauren
Rachel Skarsten	Tamsin
Deborah Odell	Stella Nashira
Shawn Doyle	Doctor Isaac Felt
Ryan Belleville	Balzac
Allie MacDonald	Hannah
John Tench	Pharmacist / Sheriff
Lauren Ash	Jane
Brian Frank	Whitman
Adrian Nguyen	Fang
Toby Proctor	Pike
Steven John Whistance	Gatekeeper

Music in this Episode

Song Title	Artist	Notes
Machouse	The Black Box Revelation	Written by Jan Paternoster
Dummy	Angel/Devil	Written by Gooding and Jesse Reichenberger
Tijuana Taxi		Courtesy of APM Music

Plot

Short Summary

Bo accidentally activates a game that is part of her tests for The Dawning. Bo and Tamsin are forced into helping a Spriggan to find a missing Fae. As Bo is involved in that search, Trick is forced to play the game for Bo. Each choice Trick makes affects Bo at some point in her search. Bo and Tamsin go to Brazenwood, a place where outlaw Fae live and find the missing Fae who is a Squonk and free her. Lauren wins an award for her work and wants Bo to go with her, instead going out with a fellow scientist when Bo cannot do so. Bo passes her test and receives an invitation to attend The Dawning and Tamsin has a disturbing revelation about Bo.

Detailed Summary

The episode opens with Bo (Anna Silk) blindfolded and stumbling through the Dal Riata with Stella (Deborah Odell) watching as she searches for a cricket that can be heard in the background. Stella asks Bo if she wants to find the Zambi cricket of good fortune as she bumps her shins for the umpteenth time. Bo continues to search, complaining that the sound of the cricket is bouncing off the walls around her and Stella's only help is to tell Bo that she is "warmer." They enter another room where Trick (Richard Howland) is looking around in amazement at what Hale (K. C. Collins) did to the room he has been using commenting that: "Hale went full speak-easy. Ridiculous." Stella tells Trick to be quiet as Bo stumbles past him. Bo suddenly stops and Stella tells her to concentrate before Bo ducks down and grabs at something. Standing up again she gleefully cries out "Gotcha!" but opens her hand to find that she has not captured the cricket.

Stella disappointedly tells Bo that the cricket had been behind her the entire time she had been searching for it as she scoops the cricket into a small box and takes it away telling Bo that this had been her last chance to "secure the cricket's good fortune. Something you desperately need for The Dawning and you failed Bo." Trick comments that Stella is being harsh and she snaps at him before walking away in a huff. Bo crumples into a chair and tells Trick that she wishes Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) was there. Trick reminds Bo that Stella told her that "humans taint this part of the process." Bo tells Trick that she will never make it through but he tries to tell her that she is speaking nonsense. Trick adds that The Dawning "is not all horror shows and near death experiences and it is something we all go through." Bo recites what Trick has said and adds "and it is manageable." Trick is pleased that Bo has been listening to what he has been telling her. Bo tells of Hale having to drink seven pints of sour Lochness and that Dyson had to suffer through fleas. Bo agrees that she does have a chance and her mood becomes slightly better. Stella returns and Bo asks what she must do next, but is told that she must be given the invitation to enter the temple and now she must wait until that happens. Bo asks: "Please tell me that means sitting on my tired little ass." Stella's answer is: "The day is yours" which makes Bo happy and she rushes off. Stella apologizes to Trick for her outburst earlier in the episode and offers to take him to dinner which Trick manages to agree to in surprise. As she turns away and leaves, she adds: "Wear something nice."

Elsewhere in the Dal Riata, Bo answers a phone call from Lauren (Zoie Palmer). As she speaks with Lauren, Bo sees an odd machine sitting on a table and walks over to it. Idly, as she continues to talk to Lauren, Bo plays with some of the parts of the machine before turning a crank several times. After finishing her call with Lauren she walks away. but as she does so the device begins to make noise and then unfolds as it activates. The scene then switches to a young girl somewhere else sitting and crying with some kind of device on her face as she does so.

After the opening credits, we return to the Dal Riata where Bo is getting ready to leave. Someone sneaks up behind her and covers her eyes and Bo calls out: "If you are a cricket I will totally kill you." It is revealed to be Lauren who is massively excited about something. Lauren asks Bo how things went and starts talking to her incredibly fast and being very hyperactive. Bo is taken aback and asks: "Are you on crack?" Lauren then shows Bo a letter in which Lauren has been given an award for her work and the banquet is that evening. Lauren admits that she wasn't their first choice but the other person is a fraud and they caught him in one. Lauren is beside herself and asks Bo if she will be Lauren's "plus one" and Bo agrees to do so. Bo tells Lauren to "go home and crack some bubbly" and Lauren rushes off in a panic as she tries to figure out what she will wear, what speech she will make and worries that Bo needs a dress as well. As Lauren rushes away, Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) appears and comments that Bo and Lauren look "cute" together. Tamsin then tells Bo that she is taking her out to lunch. When Bo asks why, Tamsin tells Bo that everyone has been lying to her.

The scene switches to a Dark Fae bar where Tamsin and Bo are sitting down at a table together. Bo questions Tamsin choice of lunch which Tamsin explains is: "Tomato juice, celery, vodka. Looks like lunch to me." Bo comments that she always thought that a Dark Fae bar would "be more leather and spikes and peanut shells on the floor." Tamsin's answer is: "But we have more attitude. Serious attitude." When Bo asks why there are there, Tamsin explains that there is a good chance that Bo will not make it through The Dawning. Bo tells her that Trick, Hale and Dyson have said that she can make it through the test. Tamsin dismisses this saying that "I have listened to them bullshit you all week. The Dawning is the most brutal thing you ever go though time infinity." Bo does not believe her, but Tamsin insists that she is trying to help Bo. As their conversation continues, across the bar a man watches the two and sips at his drink.

Elsewhere, at Trick's place he is trying to decide between two jackets, one of them being leather when Stella walks in all dressed up for the evening and tells Trick "Leather. When in doubt, always go with leather." As she walks over to Trick, Stella notices the device that Bo had activated earlier in the episode and is concerned about it. Trick looks it over and comments that it is a strange device and it might be Hale's. When he moves to touch it, Stella stops him and explains that she has seen something like this device before, but never one so complex. She goes on to explain that the device is Bo's invitation to The Dawning and that it is in the form of a game. When she comments that Bo must have activated the game, it begins to move and change startling them both. Stella tells Trick that the game is ready and that they will have to play the game for Bo. Stella explains that wherever Bo is and whatever she is doing, the game will effect her is some way. Stella tells Trick that since he is Bo's closest blood relative, he will have to play the game for her and that: "Bo's immediate future depends on you" as Trick approaches the game and prepares to play it.

Back at the bar, Bo is upset over whatever Tasmin has told her and asks why no one has told her what Tamsin has. Tamsin explains that they are all trying to protect her. Tamsin tells Bo that once she is inside the Temple, it is only her and she is the only one she can depend on. Tamsin tries to explain that Bo has to talk to herself and make herself believe that she can get through the test, but before they can talk about it further, a Dark Fae approaches the table and asks if Bo is, in fact, Bo. He introduces himself and tells Bo that he has wanted to "meet the unaligned Succubus" for years. Tamsin interrupts telling him that if he's trying to pick up Bo, that it isn't going to work for him. Two other Dark Fae approach Tamsin and Bo and he continues to talk to Bo asking how she can call herself unaligned when she is: "clearly Light and think that you can walk into one of our bars and play in our sandbox." Tamsin and Bo stand to defend themselves and off in the distance, the Fae that had been watching them waves to get their attention. Bo tells Tamsin that they need a distraction and Tamsin, with one punch, knocks all three men to the floor as she and Bo run for where the other Fae is waiting for them revealing an exist through which they all escape into the alleyway behind the bar. Outside, the Fae introduces himself as Balzac and Bo thanks him for his help, saying that she "owes him one" as they shake hands. Tamsin tries to stop Bo but is too late to do so and can only say "crap." Balzax explains that Bo said that she owed him one and they shook on it. He also tells Bo that: "I'm going to have to call in that favour now. You must help me to find that which I truly seek." Bo is confused and Tamsin rolls her eyes before explaining to Bo that she has made a deal with a Spriggan and it is binding.

After a commercial break,

Questions in this Episode

• Bo posed a question to Kenzi at the end of the previous episode There's Bo Place Like Home trying to find out why Kenzi went to see The Norn. In this episode, we are told that Kenzi isn't there because Stella told Bo that "humans taint this part of the process." This still does not resolve the cliffhanger at the end of the last episode, nor does Bo's reaction hint at what happened. As well, if humans taint this part of the process, how is it that Lauren could arrive, talk to Bo, and make arrangements to go with her to the awards ceremony? None of this makes any sense.

Answers in this Episode

• The Zambi cricket of good fortune refers to the Gryllotalpa africanus cricket which in Zambia is held to bring good fortune to anyone who sees it.
• During their Dawning, Hale had to drink seven pints of sour Lochness and Dyson had to suffer through fleas.
• In order to enter the Temple of The Dawning, an invitation to enter the temple must be given, but the time and place of that is not in the control of the one facing The Dawning and they must wait until that happens before they can progress.

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 Friday, March 15th, 2013. You can find that review here. She gave it 3.5 pitchforks out of 5.

External Links

• The Official site of the series Lost Girl
• Official Season Three website at Showcase.ca
• Fae-ge Against The Machine at the IMDb