Lost Girl 3.11: All Hail The Mysteries

This week’s “Adventures in Fae-bysitting” hark back to the investigative days of team Bonzi. With Lauren and Bo “on a break,” Bo and Kenzi are spending much needed girl time together when a young girl comes to them with their old flyer and a request for help.  All the main players are still separated, each person, human or fae, doing their own thing. We catch a glimpse of Hale (warning: it’s not pretty), and Dr. Isaac (Shawn Doyle) is baaaaack! Not many thought he was a one-off, and we’ve been proven right.

The opening of tonight’s episode was fun, mimicking (and poking fun at) the scary movie theme. After that, things got weird and there are not one, not two, but three mysteries. That’s a lot for one 45 minute show to handle, and Lost Girl handled it beautifully. Including the handy touch of foreshadowing that is Bo believing, and stating to Kenzi, that she and Lauren will be back together.

A young woman is babysitting and gets the creep-breathing-in-the-phone call. It’s the dad of the kid she’s babysitting and after a few tense moments, it’s also the man she sees hanging from a noose in the foyer. The young woman wakes up and it’s a dream. Or is it? She visits Bo’s Private Investigation Services because strange things are happening in Shady Grove.

Shady Grove is a wealthy suburban community where the numbers of the dead – or missing – are piling up. Bo and Kenzi agree to go desperate housewife to check out Lisa’s claims. Just like old times!  They get dolled up and pay a visit to Shady Grove, where an overly bubbly realtor shows them around a vacant house that the previous owner just happened to have left with all his belongings. It’s pointed that  Bo doesn’t feel comfortable discussing her female-female relationship, instead calling her ‘on a break’ partner ‘Laurence.’

Weirdly, the realtor gets a phone call and abruptly leaves Bo and Kenzi, telling them to lock up when they leave. That’s a neighborhood that enjoys a ridiculous amount of security if they’re not worried about strangers just hanging around. Which Bo and Kenzi don’t do anyway, instead following Mrs. McChipper to another house where she’s sitting, gabbing and drinking margaritas with two other women. Her departure was for her all-important book club, a group of three gossipy privileged women.

The neighborhood loner, Sam, seems to be who the evidence of the creepy points to. After book club, Bo goes for a walk with Lisa. It’s a beautiful day, they’re talking out some of the details of what’s going on, when strange music starts out of nowhere, drawing Bo to the carousel it’s coming from. This carousel is out of place and old. It looks more suited to a carnival or fair. Lisa, hears something too, and walks away. When Bo shakes out of the reverie, she realizes Lisa is gone and goes to find her.

Kenzi and Trick are doing the research on seeing if any of their info points to fae. And it does! Only it’s not Sam. It’s the babysitter, Lisa Allan. Who is a Duppy. Kenzi’s right when she says that’s too cute  a name for a dead fae whose purpose is to be summoned and controlled by someone else.

Bo realizes that clearly something isn’t right with Lisa as she watches her kill Eleanor, one of the book club members. And when Eleanor up and vanishes in fiery red sparks, Bo takes the Duppy to the Dal. Later at the Shady Groves’ afternoon barbeque, Bo questions Sam, but the guy is just lonely and has figured out something’s wrong. No one has realized Eleanor is gone just yet.

It’s Caroline, the leader of the book club who’s behind all the disappearances and death. She catches Bo using her powers on Sam and is thrilled at this, taking Bo to the park where the carousel is, along with the talkative realtor. “You bitches are witches!” exclaims Bo, as they demonstrate their power and gleefully discuss who Lisa’s taken out and who’s next. They link with Bo to use her power, but Bo wants no part of their machinations and turns them against each other, breaking the circle. As this happens, Susan intones with daddy’s voice (full-on assumption this is possible because Susan is magically linked to Bo): “You know not, your true strength, child. But soon you will. And the world will bow down before us.” Not “you.” “Us.” The two witches burn and disappear the same way Eleanor had, and Bo is left in the grass by herself, with the pendant used to control Lisa.

Meanwhile, Kenzi had been playing babysitter to Sam’s son in order to keep Lisa at the Dal.Kenzi would have been the best babysitter, ever. Her swearing and storytelling were telling. Particularly when telling the story about SuperKenz. But the Dal flooded, and Trick misplaced the Duppy who is at Sam’s house, having been ordered to take him out. Bo’s breaking of the circle brings Lisa back to herself, just in time.

Lisa, returned to herself, whatever that really means, doesn’t wish to exist any longer, to be used over and over again. Bo promises to protect her, but LIsa wishes for something more permanent. To accede to these wishes, Bo burns the amulet; no one can use Lisa again.

Dyson, hard at work, is visited by a previous victim’s twin sister. The victim was Riley, the sexy woman everyone believed Bo had killed in an reverting-to-underfae moment. Anita had felt the death of her twin and the Ash sent her to Dyson. It’s evident it shakes him; Dyson doesn’t like having cases going unsolved, especially one involving Bo. When he notices that the dead fae, Riley, was killed by six fingers, he gets Tamsin to go with him to the crime scene again. Tamsin who looks like hell. Tamsin who is drunk. Tamsin who is not following Wanderer’s orders and looks like she’s going to pay for it.

At the scene, Dyson follows the scent to a field where it smells obscenely of death. Tamsin tries to warn Dyson of… something. But not paying attention, he tells her to call in the fae crew for a bit of digging. Bodies upon bodies are found. All fae. All murdered by each other. Including the Corina, a rare Egyptian fae whose kill signature looks a lot like succubus. What – or who – killed all these fae is the second mystery, one that needs solving. One that’s observing from a surveillance camera in the tree.

And Lauren is being visited by Dr. Isaac again. He’s the human we met in “Fae-ge Against the Machine.” He has a surprisingly intense interest in Lauren, going so far as to research her background. Finding another surprise that this time isn’t a dying girlfriend being kept alive by the fae. She’s got a record. She also isn’t Lauren. Isaac is offering her freedom and she sure doesn’t take long to decide. But who is Isaac? Wanderer? Dark fae? Innocuous human? Mystery number three hits hard. When Lauren leaves, she leaves her cell phone and the necklace, the token of the Ash’s protection. Each Ash has treated Lauren like human property. And with Hale’s visit to her, nothing looks to be changing, which is a surprisingly deep betrayal.

I’ve undying hope that next week’s “Hail, Hale,” will explore what Hale’s been up to, and hopefully excuse, or at least explain, his abysmal behavior.  Whatever next week brings, it also looks to be providing a little more something for Kenzi.

What the what?
1. Why is Hale being such an…. Ash?
2. What is Bo going to do with no Lauren and no healing?
3. What’s happening to Tamsin? I’m not taking about her obvious disdain for having to take Bo out, but of her hair falling out. She’s looking… deathly.
4. Who’s behind the video camera?
5. Why hasn’t Trick discussed what he found with that image with Bo – viewer want to know what it means!
6. Kenzi’s story to Sam’s son… seems she’s feeling the brunt of not being supernatural in more ways than one.
7. Bo WANTS to find her papa now. The music from the carousel is akin to the music from her memory.

Episodes of Lost Girl air Monday nights on Syfy and viewer discretion is highly advised. But watch it, it’s great supernatural, sexy TV.

Author’s Note: As always, please remember that SyFy’s airing of Lost Girl is approximately a minute and a half shorter than Showcase’s.  I tend to watch Showcase’s because I like the extra swearing.

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