Lost Girl Recap Bloodlines: The Hand of Fate

Lost Girl 1.13 Bloodlines

The Season Finale! The Season Finale! The Season Finale! Aoife has returned. Trick’s secrets are revealed. Dyson pays the consequences for the keeping Trick’s counsel since day -1. And Bo makes some tough decisions about who on her team she can trust and who she can’t. Plus, it’s sacrifice day in Fae Town. Enjoy the ride, ‘cause it’s a bumpy one.

When we open with the romantic background song and Dyson and Bo having happy sexy time in a big purple bed, I am for one second hopeful that we’ve skipped time again and those crazy kids have worked everything out.

Unfortunately for all of us, I’m not that lucky. When Dyson comes to screaming, I think we’re going to address some heavy sexual themes in a usually much more lighthearted show. Aoife practically raped Dyson last episode, and obviously, he is still reeling from it. For a guy that much in control and used to relying on his strength to get him through pretty much anything, being forced into such a vulnerable position has to have had an impact. Right? Nope. Dyson is apologizing to Bo, partly as a preemptive measure for what he has to tell her about Aoife, but also for the whole sex with her mom thing. While I don’t approve of the secondary apology, he is a guy and after 1000 years has probably learned that it’s better to start off with an apology and then move into why it wasn’t his fault. Bo forgives him while riding the high of her new succubus power. He says they need to talk. But Bo doesn’t like the sound of that. And frankly who would with that tone. Finally, after months and months of keeping it all in, Dyson tells Bo the secret: Aoife is her mom and they’ve been expecting her to come for Bo. Kaboom!

While we wait for Bo to process the whole season-long revelation, it’s time for a closer look at just what Aoife’s master plan is. Hint: it doesn’t involve sleeping with Bo’s friends and getting skewered with a piece of chair. It does involve murdering a light fae elder to ignite a war between the sides. Great, she’s not just a slut. Those crazy eyes go all the way down. 

This is going to be one heck of an episode because all this happened before the main credits! Wowser.

We couldn’t leave Bo alone with Dyson’s big reveal for long, so we’re back at the clubhouse. Bo storms out of her room interrupting Kenzi’s private time on the couch with romantic pirate Sven. (Thanks to Jenny for leaving that one behind. I don’t think the girls are big Barnes and Nobles customers.) Dyson is chasing after her begging her to listen, to talk to him, to stop slapping him away. He’s only got two arguments right now and one of them is pretty shaky. 1) He’s known about Aoife since before he met Bo. Now, we can take this two ways: a) he been lying from the beginning and should be drawn and quartered for not coming right out with it immediately or b) Bo was an unknown quantity, her mother is certifiable, and there was no way of predicting if Trick and Dyson should have trusted Bo at the beginning or how she would react later on. I mean how to you tell a girl you are trying to get to trust you that you sent her mother away to be executed? Which actually brings us to the more reasonable of Dyson’s rationales. 2) It wasn’t his story to tell. It was Trick’s.

Meet Trick: Blood King, light fae blood sage, whatever he writes in his own blood comes to pass, likes to serve alcohol to random people, has lots of fun toys. Once upon a time, there was a war. The war was long and bloody. The toll on the fae was heavy. Trick grew weary of fighting. He forced a peace by writing all the fae laws in his own blood, and so they came to pass. But peace demands forgiveness, and he forgot to write that one down. Aoife refused to forgive. She led a rebellion, killed a dark fae clan leader, was captured, escaped, and ran to Trick, her clan leader, for help. Trick did not help her. It would have destroyed his hard-written peace. He handed her over to the dark to be executed. “Well, they need to go back to executioners’ school because they totally didn’t kill her.” Thank you, Kenzi. She is a bright, shiny beacon of hope in this episode, so I’ll try to keep tabs on her for you.

So, Aoife’s not dead; plus, she has a vendetta against Trick, fae laws, and apparently sexy wolfmen. Bo thinks it sounds personal. I think Trick is still hiding something more despite his assurances to the contrary. Still, none of it really adds up. Why is Aoife coming after Bo? Why now? And why do it through Dyson? What does screwing wolfboy to death get her? Trick doesn’t know the answers to any of this either, but he has prepared a way to get Bo out of town, if they move now. Bo’s not having it. She wants to get to know her mom and her mom’s side of the story. Totally reasonable. Except, Bo has already met her mom, weighed her, measured her, and found her wanting. Plus, the argument that she rebelled against her king’s peace and was imprisoned for it doesn’t really justify raping your daughter’s boyfriend a thousand years later. Not really the 1:1 correlation I am looking for in a logical argument. But hey, Bo follows it up with better reasoning. “Good or bad, whatever answers she has, I need them. I am ready to know who, or what, I really am…whatever the cost.” Well, Lost Girl, go get yourself found. Best of luck now, but I guessing Bo’s not the one picking up the tab.

Bo storms off home with Kenzi at her heels. She is in shock, Kenzi can’t believe Dyson pulled the wool over her eyes, and neither is sure of what to make of Saskia as Bo’s mom. “I mean I know she’s kinda a big crazy bitch, but, ah, still, she’s my mom and she’s alive.” Bo is ready to start calling the shots (who’s been calling them before?) and try to find Aoife on her own. Since she has no idea how to go about that, Kenzi gently reminds her that they are private investigators. In fact, they find missing fae all the time. Bo does have a good thought though, protect herself with knowledge first. They head to Lauren’s lab to see if she has any information on succubae that for some reason she hasn’t already told Bo.

While they trek across town or whatever, we get a check in with Trick and Dyson just to confirm that Trick is still hiding something. Dyson tries to console him, telling him that he did what he had to do, as a king, and that not having any more secrets is a relief. Both rationales fall flat though—it is pretty obvious that Trick is still keeping something from everybody, and he is very worried about Aoife’s plans for Bo. He wants Dyson to convince Bo to leave, but Dyson being the only one besides Kenzi still thinking with his brain, knows he doesn’t much of a chance getting Bo to listen, not even if he was telling her he had a fire extinguisher and the building was aflame. Trick comes out of his own problems long enough to see the heartache keeping his secret has caused and apologizes to Dyson for asking him to keep things from Bo. It is hard to say if Dyson regrets his decision, but he does fear for Bo’s safety, “Trust me. I know exactly how strong Aoife is.”

Bo and Kenzi finally arrive at Lauren’s lab. The place is in busy bee mode. Lauren is signing clipboards and sending people on errands. The light fae elder Aoife killed earlier is on the gurney, and his death has caused an uproar. Lauren doesn’t understand Bo’s plight and has a mountain of paperwork so the being dismissive of Bo’s concerns probably doesn’t mean much.

Her complete lack of intel, however, continues to annoy. Bo: “How do succubae fight each other?” Lauren’s got bubkiss. Kenzi’s theory sounds intriguing though, “Slow motion pillow fights? Crotch lasers?” It kinda feels like we showed up to give Lauren some screen time and reiterate that the light fae are not at all as concerned with the Aoife threat as Team Trick is. Lauren blackmails Bo with the promise of future info if she agrees to sit down for the “talk” they never had. Bo agrees while Kenzi gets a text message. She promises to reconnect with Bo at the clubhouse and heads out for her important phone call.

Sidekick solidarity rules! Hale meets Kenzi on the street (Outdoors! Yay!) and starts using his “I’m sucking up to women” voice. “Wow, mama, look at you. Look at your hair, it’s nice a streaky and relaxed and forgiving.” In the middle of this sucking up, Dyson steps out of the ally wearing leftovers from a local production of the Music Man. And again we see how being nice to the other people in Bo’s life has its privileges. Lauren has been calling Bo for months and getting nowhere with being forgiven. Dyson calls Hale who calls Kenzi, and Dyson’s got a shot at a way back in. Now, I made this mistake once, I was 12, not my smartest age, and my older sister’s boyfriend called me trying to win me to his side after a breakup. Yeah, never side against family let me tell you. Kenzi’s smarter than I was. She starts out on the right track, “Liar, liar, wolf pants on fire. Damn it man, we trusted you.” However, Kenzi, unlike Bo, doesn’t trust Aoife anymore than she could throw her, and she knows that sometimes Bo needs to be protected from herself. So when Dyson says he had Bo’s best interests at heart and that Bo is in danger, part of Kenzi wants to think she wasn’t wrong to trust him in the first place. And even if he beat her bullshit detector once, when he says he loves Bo, she believes him. The exchange between Kris Holden-Ried and Ksenia Solo is pitch perfect. Between his small head cock and her slow blink you see the entire story pass between them. Relenting or not, Kenzi still gets in the final word, “You make me regret this I swear to God I will sell you for parts.”

Bo comes home to the smell of cookies baking and crazy about to boil over. Aoife is there to greet her, and she’s wearing an apron.

Bo finally wizens up. “What’s with the Betty Crocker?” Aoife is a drama queen: She likes the symbolism of baking cookies for her little girl. Bo nicely reminds her that she has a mom, who isn’t, you know, a murderous, rapist slut. Plus, she made afghans. I bet Mary never drugged her daughter and kidnapped her back to her palace o’ man slaves.

Kenzi brings Dyson home for a parlay, but Bo is already gone. They head to the Dal to decide their next move. Trick feels that he can no longer keep knowledge of Aoife’s presence from the council. This problem is bigger than the three of them, bigger than Bo. What? Shocking news from Galileo again! Bo isn’t the center of the universe either. Wowser, I gotta sit down. Well, she’s the center of something that for sure. Aoife has plans for her, and we still don’t know what they are. But we are going to find out.

Aoife is chillaxin’ at the pool being served by her buff, shirtless thralls, when Bo comes down to meet her, wondering why it was necessary to drug her and kidnap her. Aoife was worried about what Trick might have said. I am still wondering what Trick could have said that would have poisoned the water between them. But I guess we’ll never know. We do know, now, that the dark failed to execute her because the sadistic dark king wanted a succubus sex toy to play with. Heavy. So yeah, she really hates Trick. “Hate is like beauty, baby. The real stuff fades, but it never dies.” Aoife turns on the bonding charm and wins Bo right into her arms.

Not so easily swayed is the Ash. Trick has come to warn him, and he doesn’t want to hear it. He is concerned about the slaying of the light fae elder, but doesn’t think Aoife was involved and isn’t interested even if she was. He wants to get at Trick, aka the Blood King, who may have stepped over a line by not telling the light about Aoife. But since they don’t seem to care at all, I’m not sure what harm he’s done by hiding it. Regardless, the Ash is going to go after Trick at the meeting of the High Elders.

Back at Beefcakes ‘R Us, Bo is learning more about being a succubus, Aoife’s backstory, and her ultimate plan. Aoife tells Bo that siphoning chi is an art form. Once you master it you can control just about anybody, so long as they don’t have an amulet that binds chi to your body. Bo wonders why Aoife didn’t just say who she was in the first place. Aoife wanted to see her in action first, get a feel for her little girl’s potential. 

“Is this the part where you tell me to go to college?” “This is the part where I tell you we’re going to take down the fae.” Ruh ro. Bo is perplexed. Aoife goes on to talk about getting rid of the divide, eliminating light and dark, and for a split second you forget that she’s bat crap crazy with an ambitious turn, until head beefcake on loan from Passions walks into the meeting of the light elders with a bomb strapped to his chest and blows them all sky high. Bo finally catches on: murder, assassination, and anarchy. “When we first met you said you didn’t want to choose sides, you wanted to be free.” Season 1 has occasionally touched on the freedom issue, and we gloss by it here again. Picking a side is like picking an owner. The lemmings can’t have ideas of their own. And Bo seems to be about supporting the right to choose how to live your life, but she can’t take it as far as Aoife. “And then, we let the world burn.” While I agree with Bo, getting rid of the establishment wholesale can’t be a good idea. The notion that slaves need masters because they can’t take care of themselves isn’t a new one. In my opinion there are a number of wholes to Aoife’s plot and it is one of the weaker parts of the episodes, so suffice it to say, she wants to rule in place of light and dark and wants Bo to rule with her, and somehow blowing up the light fae is going to get her that. Bo finally jumps on the Aoife is crazy bandwagon and hightails it outta there and back to Dyson.

After a little healing plus power-up, Bo is ready to fight her mother. Dyson wants to clear the air first, but Bo isn’t willing to forgive or trust him in battle. Really? You just life sucked the poor boy, you aren’t angry, but you don’t trust him. Mixed signals much? He moves to tell her he loves her, but she stops him. And as much as I want to hear that declaration, I hate it when guys play the I-love-you card to get out of a fight. Still, when he drops his hand and swallows the rejection, my heart shatters. It’s just a little turn of the wrist, but I’m in tears. Whatever is or isn’t left between them, he still wants to be there when she fights Aoife. “Dyson, you have to let me fight my own battles.” Bo claims, in an “I’ll forgive you eventually, but not yet, I need you to jump through some hoops first” voice, that if he does that when everything calms down again, they’ll see where they stand. Bo’s illogical stubbornness here in the face of a fight she can’t possibly win on her own, really irks me. But Dyson lets her go to a musical cue that tells us that the smoke is not going to clear for a really long time for these two. And I’m mad at Bo about it. Whatever happens now is because on the surface she is pouting and she doesn’t even have a clearly defined sense of what she is mad about. If she were really angry with Dyson deep down, she wouldn’t have come home and slept with him. She would have yelled at him to get out of her house. She can trust him in her bed but not in a fight? Fully clothed at war seems less intimate if you ask me. She is in monkeys at the typewriter mode, and it is upsetting to see the royal hand of plot swoop in to destroy my favorite couple without even a good back and forth on the issues.

Kenzi is luckier. The plot fairy hasn’t made her incapable of saving Bo from herself, yet. She’s installing a GPS tracking app on Bo’s phone. Bo walks in and finishes arming up before heading back to see if Lauren has found out anything useful about how to fight a succubus. The light fae labs are at Fae Con 1 as Lauren tries to keep the Ash alive and the light tries to evacuate the rest of the VIFs. Lauren stops long enough to tell Bo about a chi blocking amulet that she can find in the Ash’s storehouse and give her a kiss. It definitely has more heat than some of their other ones, but it is no less out of place between the feuding parties. Apparently Bo can only be annoyed at one lover at time, so by default Lauren is now off the hook, no reconciliation necessary. Handy that is, like a possession arrow in college hoops.

On the other side of the triangle, Dyson has his marching orders. He stops by Trick’s to tell him the plan. He’s going to see the Norn. “You know the ancients adore trickery. Their favors come at a high price,” Trick warns, but ultimately approves of the plan.

I really don’t like the sound of this. With Dyson headed off to do something stupid, Kenzi and Bo go after the chi blocker. As they look through shelves of special fae toys, Kenzi wonders what they are going to do when they find Bo’s mom. Unlike Bo, Kenzi remembers that Aoife is fifteen times stronger than Bo, has an army enslaved to her will that she intends to use to take down the fae, and is a ruthless insane person. “What are we going to do when we face Mommy Dearest? Other than pee our pants—a lot. Also, I think I might cry.” Bo thinks she can reason with Aoife to turn herself in, before the fae come after her. I’m not sure why it would matter. The lady just blew up a room full of the Ash and elders and other VIFs. That’s got to be an executing offense. They were going to kill Dyson without a trial for maybe killing a liability only Vex liked. But Bo’s owes something to anarchist, kidnapping, rapist Mommy and she’s willing to die to prove the point. Kenzi, ever loyal, says she’s got Bo’s back even if it is a suicide mission. “No offense babe, but if Aoife scares Trick and got the drop on Dyson, I’m thinking she’s like a grade 10 succubus.” Bo’s hurt and looking for a little reassurance, “What grade am I?” “Kind-y-garten, with pigtails and a Muppet lunch box.” Not only is Kenzi speaking truth to power today, she’s also found the amulet. They try a trial run, and Bo pulls black smoke into her into of chi. “You just got succu-busted!” quips Kenzi. But really, it’s Kenzi who’s been had. Bo handcuffs her to the shelving and leaves to fight the nonsensical good fight alone.

             

Well, at least Kenzi was prepared for it. Hale gets her out and she goes to see Trick to recruit some help. “Where’s your book, Blood King?” Trick begs off. He’s tried before, rooms filled with books of his blood trying to undo the wrong he’d done to Aoife, but always the same: terrible consequences. Kenzi calls him a coward leaving Bo to fight his fight, pay for his sins.

Trick takes her words to heart, and we can see he too is gearing up for something major.

The Big Fight

Unfortunately, this section can’t be summarized fast enough. Bo walks into Aoife’s place and immediately calls out to her. Luckily, Aoife is waiting, unarmed, and without her minions. Why? We’re not sure. Bo says one last chance to turn herself in. Aoife laughs in her face—as I would. Bo pulls a sword from her back and Aoife picks up a handy spear she had sitting in the corner. Since neither is really trained, they ineffectually hit at each other until Aoife disarms Bo and grabs her by the neck. She wanted Bo to join her, which explains why Bo isn’t dead yet, but if she won’t come willingly, Aoife will enthrall her. The chi blocker works its magic. Aoife can’t enthrall Bo and is momentarily disabled. Bo wants Aoife to calm down because she doesn’t want to hurt her. Just you know turn her over to be executed? Logic? Guys? Anywhere? “I didn’t want to have to kill you. Shit changes.” I’m actually liking bug-eyed crazy lady—she’s the one making sense. On threat of death, Bo turns and escapes down the hall. Apparently a little sword play was all she had in her. Good fight guys. We cut away, leaving you hoping for a bigger standoff. Before that can happen, Bo needs a little help from her friends.

The Big Sacrifices

Dyson, still looking like he plays trombone in marching band, enters a stuck-in-time house on a nondescript road somewhere. He’s there to see the Norn.

Meet the Norn: ancient, fae (?), has a big tree, time passes differently for her, knew Dyson a few centuries ago, she can grant what someone wants most in exchange for that which he/she holds dearest.

Well, the best thing that the Norn does besides cackling in a clearly evil and vindictive manner is get Dyson out of that horrid jacket. But she better hurry, because back at casa de crazy, Aoife has caught up with Bo and is choking her to death against the banister of a very tall, very ornate circular staircase.  Enter Trick. In his lair, he sweeps his desk clear and pulls out his very special pen. “Gods help me.” We switch back and forth between these three scenes. Bo’s friends sacrificing everything for her while she almost dies in a futile attempt to…what is she trying to accomplish?...whatever…while Bo fights for her life. The Norn asks about their last meeting. She asked for his wolf—his essence, leave him a normal man. It was too high a price then, but now Dyson is ready, he will give up his wolf for Bo. If she gives his strength to Bo, she can take whatever she needs. The wording changing is not lost on anyone, least of all the sneaky, creepy Norn. She quickly accepts. “I will take from you that which you value the most. I will take your love of HER.” Crapballs. We could maybe have worked with a human form of Dyson, it would have been like mortal Cole on Charmed, emasculated sure, but redeemable. I hate the Norn.

While Dyson is screaming in pain and dismay, we see Bo’s eyes go all shifter-y, she forces her way off the edge of the railing, grabs Aoife, throws her through. But she doesn’t let her fall. She grabs hold of her hand and tries to pull her up. “Don’t let go.” “Why would I when I can take you with me?” Kenzi arrives to try to pull Bo back to sanity.

Bo refuses. She’s strong enough now to pull her up, but the banister isn’t. It’s falling away. Yes, I’m sure that’s what Dyson intended to sacrifice his wolf for—you failing miserably to save the life of you mother so the light fae can execute her. This is not going according to plan. Maybe Trick can help. He cuts his palm and blood pours out into the ink bottle, and he starts writing runes.

The runes appear on Aoife’s forehead. Immediately a change comes over her. In this sweet voice, she tells Bo to let her go. Trick has all the answers, just ask him. She grabs Bo’s arms with her other hand and forces Bo to drop her.

Bo is devastated, but by the time they get to the bottom of the stairs, Aoife is gone without a trace.

The Wrap-up—Cliffhanger Edition

The girls head back to the clubhouse to summarize the season. “The pay’s shit. It’s dangerous as hell, but life with you is never boring.” Aw, Kenzi. She also wants to know where things stand with the other members of their posse. Aoife said that Trick knew more, meaning he still hasn’t told Bo everything. But since we cut to a shot of him bleeding out in his desk chair, you kind of immediately forgive him. Even if Bo’s radar is so off that she doesn’t think he is one of the good guys protecting her from the fae. I mean, we just did a rundown of baddies, and Bo didn’t defeat any of them on her own or clean up the mess after without help from Trick and/or Dyson. Bo did register Dyson’s assist with her mom, and she is glad he did whatever he did. She is looking forward to a fresh start. Dyson, however, is running through the woods howling in pain and headed for parts unknown. Wrong again, sweetheart. How can such a likeable main character be so wrong about so many things? Yep, baby, Bo is happy that Aoife isn’t dead. “She sacrificed herself for me.” What? If she hadn’t been trying to kill you in the first place, she never would have…oh nevermind. How about a Kenzi quip to cheer you up? “Like a cockroach after the apocalypse, baby. Evil never dies.” And luckily, neither does Lost Girl. Come back next week. SyFy is going straight into season 2.  

Quotes:

“Oh, Sven you romantic pirate bastard, you.”

“That’s my girl, cynical and protective. I’m so proud of you. It’s like my baby’s all grown up.”

“The secret ingredient is love.”

“Bo, the UN voted and it is considered rude to kill the messenger.”

“Oh you mean my thralls. I think they class up the place, don’t you?”

“Pretty sure I was speaking English.”

“As they flee from us and our male models?” “Oh, honey. They do more than just mix momma drinks.”

“I thought it was rather elegant, but I’m open to better ideas. We can go halfsies.”

“Fae Con 1, huh?”

“I’ll play it just like you. General cowardice with moments of crazy bravery.”

“Good. I thought there’d be guard dragons.”

“What if it’s a booby trap? Payback for ignoring Lauren’s hot, hot lady love?”