Lost Girl Recap The Mourning After: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Fae-nemies?

Lost Girl Episode 1.10 The Mourning After

Another week, another night in with wine and weapons. It’s Friday night at the clubhouse, and our hot, hot single ladies Bo and Kenzi are cleaning their weapons. Kenzi questions whether Bo wouldn’t rather be waxing Mr. D-man instead of a machete, thereby letting the audience know that we’ve time jumped again and Bo and Dyson are back together, sorta. They are in limbo. Bo says, “We’re great together and everything, but we’re also a LOT of work.” Yeah, they always do seem to get a good workout in. Bo asks Kenzi to “hand her the six inch.” “Honey, if I could give you the six inch, all our problems could be solved.” Yes, Kenzi scores before the opening credits, and the quipy Gods are smiling. They take aim at a practice dummy they stole from Urban Outfitters, and work on knife throwing while holding a nice glass of merlot—this is a skill they definitely use on a regular basis. Kenzi thinks they should get out more, but Bo feels like she’s tried, and let’s face it, “The dating scene is killer.”

And to prove her point, we meet a nice girl who is about to be killed. Sad, all she wanted was a drink and “workout” with a nice man she met outside a bar who doesn’t spend the night. Men. She goes to take a bath and is starting to look out of it. Ominous music plays as she writes slut, whore, and more in lipstick on her bath window to nowhere before turning on her hairdryer and “dropping” it into the bathtub. Don’t they have special plugs on those now, so you can’t, like, do that exact thing?

Now for the ten thousand dollar question: suicide or murder? Well, our favorite fae detectives are here to say, suicide. Door was locked from the inside, no signs of forced entry, not a whiff of foul play. “Still that’s one hell of a suicide note.” Hey, they are running a human case for once—or are they? Because graffiti girl’s sister says no way, murder. Sis was happy, strong, and mentally stable. Well as stable as normal people get, and normal people just don’t go scribbling on the bathroom wall before getting up close and electrical with their hairdryers. The sister begs Bo to help her prove Dyson & Co wrong because Bo’s flyers say she’ll take cases no one else will. Bo is guilted into accepting the case, after all she did put those flyers out in the first place. And the dynamic duo is off to the police station to visit Mr. Dyson.

He tells them not to get their hopes up—he did the workup himself (no wonder he’s been too busy for Bo) and the crime scene was pretty clean. He shows her the police file including shots of the killer hairdryer with a broken shaft. Kenzi gets a good chuckle out of it, but because Hale is nowhere to be found for the rest of the episode, no one is there to jest with her. Bo wonders if someone could have forced graffiti girl’s hand, and Kenzi reminds her that mysterious stranger would have been electrocuted as well. Kenzi brains and banter. Bo pushes for fae involvement. And Dyson leaves the door open for her, barely. It’s been ruled a suicide, the humans are happy, and he ain’t pushing further to make a case that’s he’s just going to have to turn around and bury. He’d “love” to help Bo out, but best he can do is send his evidence off to the fae labs. “That means you’ll have to talk to Lauren.” It is pretty easy to see who is on the shit list and who isn’t at this point. Dyson is comfortable, chewing gum and grinning at Bo. Bo is squirming at the thought and looks to Kenzi as buffer. Kenzi doesn’t even make eye contact, “No, no, that is just way to awkward without beer. You’re on your own, sista.“

Bo puts on her big girl pants and goes to Lauren’s lab. When she gets there, she stands as far as away as the camera shot will let her, making it perfectly clear all is not right in the world between Bo and Lauren. Onto the case, Lauren’s lab techs say suicide, but fae feeding isn’t totally impossible. Oh yeah and graffiti girl had sex before she died. It “appeared” consensual. Bo isn’t letting the opportunity pass her by, “Not so sure I trust your judgment on sexual matters.” And Lauren has the audacity to sound surprised, “Pardon?” Really girl? How is the view from that high horse of yours? “Let’s say, hypothetically, one party thought the connection was real, and then found out that the other party was just manipulating them into to bed to impress their controlling ass-hat of a boss?” Well said, Bo. Now, if I were Lauren, I would start with an apology for messing with Bo’s feelings and manipulating her in the Ash’s name. But, so it goes, I’m not Lauren and apologies aren’t on the menu. “Do you really think we weren’t headed that way on our own anyway?” Bo isn’t having it and goes to leave, but Lauren tries to squeeze in the final word, “I don’t know how many different ways I can tell you that I’m sorry.” I would personally start with the words “I’m sorry” and follow that up with taking responsibility for my actions for once, but I’m not Lauren and Bo is out the door.

Kenzi is at the Dal, hilariously pleading with Trick for alcohol, but Trick is too distracted to be more than passingly annoyed. He hands over the bottle as a little man in a long coat walks in and calls him out. “Fitzpatrick McCorrigan of clan Finn Arven.” Kenzi downs her first shot and looks concerned, “Uh oh, trouble in the Shire!” The troublemaker is here early to get something, and Trick isn’t letting go. Trouble “I know your full name” Valentine is coming back tomorrow, “Midnight, then, and don’t be late. You know the consequences.” Kenzi is wicked curious, but the newly arrived Bo drags her out of the bar screaming to go investigate the case of the week.

Kenzi finds a credit card pattern and they head to a local douche bar, where they divine that graffiti girl was speed dating there on Friday nights. Undercover they go. Kenzi is trying to “meet nice man” so she can “send chicken back to momma,” when another succubus sits down across from Bo and gives her a kiss. Kenzi: “Brrr-gina.”

Meet Saskia: succubus, dark fae, knowledgeable on all things succubi, new in town, and not interested in turf war. After a few bumps explaining her lack of protocol, Bo makes a new friend. Kenzi is not feeling the newcomer, and it is hard to say whether it is all because Saskia is an unknown, sketchy, catty slut or if a bit of it is jealousy at how quickly Bo bonds with the new girl. It doesn’t help that Bo instantly starts sucking up to Saskia and downplaying her current life. Bo stays behind to get to know Saskia, and Kenzi goes looking for a friendlier bar. Again she’s back to bother too-busy Trick with her woes. “Are you listening to me?” “No, Kenzi, shocking news from Galileo, you’re not actually the center of the universe.” Kenzi moves to storm off, but Trick quickly apologizes and asks for her help.

Trick and Valentine have a timeshare arrangement with a mystical, bring you luck in business coin, but before Trick can turn it over to Valentine, he has to find it. And to do that, he needs help from a human female. Don’t worry it’s not a virgin sacrifice thing, Kenzi just has to “talk” to a certain fae that only likes human females. I’m sure Kenzi will charm the faents off of them.

Bo enlists Saskia’s help with the case and with her succubus learning curve. Bo shows off her succubus skills to get the list of speed daters from Bertram at the bar, who seems really helpful and fond of graffiti girl, and they head back to the clubhouse. Bo sends over the list to Dyson and asks for a favor. She asks nicely, and he says he’ll take a look. Saskia is not fond of Bo’s house. “What is your box broken?” She also drops an interesting bit of fae science on her, Bo’s mother or father or both were probably sex chi eaters. Genetics is tricky. Kenzi comes out and breaks up the party. She can’t figure out why Bo is so quick to trust Saskia with the case and, well, everything else. Poor Kens, Bo replaced her lickety-split with the first fae she found ‘cause Saskia is going to meet up with the client tomorrow, and no Kenzi is not invited.  Before they can get there though, someone else is knocking on the client’s door. We don’t see who it is, but the terrified scream tells you pretty much what you need to know.

Bo starts her day with a coffee and bit of Dyson. He looked into her leads and found nothing, but he’s not without resources of his own and he trusts her instincts. He kept digging and identified several more cases with similar graffiti, not a coincidence. Since it’s probably fae, his help would have to be off the books. “If you need my help, I’m there.” Dyson is a smiley cutie today—his eyes are even crinkling. This whole happy relationship thing is really good on him. She turns down his offer, though. “You need me, you call.” You know we will.

Bo and her new bestie head to meet the client, who based on her visitor last night probably isn’t going to have much to offer. In fact she doesn’t, she’s OD’d. Saskia recognizes the graffiti and tells Bo to hightail it outta there. They’re facing an albaster. Albasters are the natural enemy of succubi: they generate and feed off of sexual shame and like to target women. Suck! Better find this one stat. Baby fae like Bo is totally outmatched. Kenzi throws out some helpful investigation skills that put Bo and Saskia on the track of “nice guy” we last graffiti girl with and heads out to work her own side storyline.

In Trick’s lair, Trick has assembled all his ingredients for the spell to find the coin, and all Kenzi’s got to do is talk a lightning bird out of one of her eggs. Kenzi will do her best because Trick’s collateral for the coin is the Dal Riata itself. Lock up your shiny objects, it’s about to thunder and lightning in here. But before the bird arrives, Kenzi decides to negotiate a little something for herself. After some excellent back and forth, they settle on free drinks for life—a unicorn just wasn’t in the cards. Kenzi plays the Jamaican lightning bird perfectly while an incredulous Trick looks on. The lightning bird is so comfortable with Kenzi that before she leaves she drops some information Kenzi probably wasn’t meant to know. “He could get anything he wanted if he just started writing in his book of blood again. The most powerful are always the most stubborn.” The Blood King thing isn’t going away anytime soon.

Bo and Saskia find “nice guy” pickup artist and pick him up without much trouble. They succubus the heck out of him and decide he’s human and he didn’t kill graffiti girl #1. Saskia shows Bo that you can blow chi back into someone, thereby blowing Bo’s mind, but won’t tell her how to do it.

Trick casts the spell and locates the coin in a cemetery, but calls in Hale for backup muscle before they go. They go looking but can’t find it. Kenzi realizes that the spell told them where the coin was at that exact moment, but since it isn’t there now, it must be on the move. A wreath of flowers on the crypt is the final clue she needs. When Valentine comes into the Dal, Kenzi stops him, “Admit it you pulled a Dutch heffer.” Valentine is confused. “A Boston fandango?” She looks for help from the audience, but con language is beyond them. Kenzi’s exposition will have to be done without the appropriate jargon then. Valentine pulled a fast con. He gave Trick a disappearing fake a hundred years ago and kept the real coin for himself. Valentine relents before Hale can manhandle him for the coin. Kenzi saves the day. It is really nice to see her holding her own in the fae world and making friends outside of Bo. She has great vibes with Trick and Hale and Dyson that are totally independent of Bo. Yay, Kenzi.

Meanwhile, Bo’s arrived home only to discover that Bertram is the albaster and he’s come for her. Bo isn’t a match for him, but Saskia stops by when Bo didn’t answer her phone. They attack him together and tie him up. There’s a lot of discussion about shame and hypocrisy, but it doesn’t really go anywhere. Bo goes to call Dyson, but the minute her back is turned Saskia succubuses Bertram to death. She hangs up and begs Saskia to bring him back. “He’ll die.” “Gee I hope so, otherwise I’m losing my touch.” He’s dark fae, Dyson can’t touch him, and Saskia will be in trouble for attacking one of her own clan without permission. Bo feels like it’s murder and doesn’t want any part of it but won’t narc on Saskia. Saskia won’t fix it and goes to leave, but she wants Bo to come with her, “when you are ready to learn more about yourself come find me.” This is really the point where Bo starts to question her nature. She’s finally realizing that Saskia might not be what she wants to be when she grows up. Dyson calls back and Bo begs for help.

The Wrap-up

In Lauren’s lab, we find that Bertram is dead, Bo is taking responsibility for the kill, Lauren is holding a medical file, and Dyson is thinking practically. Since Bertram is dark fae, it is complicated, but even the dark agree that you have a right to defend yourself in your own home. Dyson will make that clear to the Morrigan. He’s worried for her, but he doesn’t have all the information. “I’ll handle this, Bo. I’ll make it all go away,” he says softly. Bo isn’t worried about the political ramifications though, “I wish you could,” she says and hugs him briefly. This is the first time we’ve seen her look to him for comfort, but it is short-lived. She pushes him away and leaves him confused and worried about her.

At the Dal, Trick finally has time for Kenzi. He comes to ask her what’s going on. Kenzi says Bo is making new friends. Trick recycles some Kenzi wisdom and advises her to not let Bo take her for granted. Kenzi drops the info the lightning bird told her and Trick plays it off. She’s wise to his play though, “Takes a con to know a con. You have secrets, Trickster.”

Kenzi goes home to remind Bo why she needs her, but Bo has already realized that Kenzi is more important to her than she was giving Kenzi credit for. Bo starts to listen to Kenzi’s story but is quickly pulled back into her head and thought of Saskia. Something tells me we haven’t seen the end of Bo’s little succubus playmate.

Questions:
1. What was your favorite Kenzi/Trick line of the night?
2. Chest waxing: instant douche or a nice sign of grooming?
3.  Is Saskia someone you would like to party with?