Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Lost Girl Season One, Episode Seven: Arachnofaebia

Two senior sisters live together and for some reason one takes her knitting needles and stabs the other in the chest.  The camera then pans down to the ball of yarn and we see a spider perched on top of it.  I think that I should say right now that the producer should have spent some money on the spider. It looked like a cheap Halloween gag. Kenzi gets a gig to clean out the house where the sisters died through the real estate agent, before it goes on the market.  She pretends to be a gypsy and then lights sage and wonders around the house with it chanting nonsense.  Really?  The burning of sage this way is outright appropriation, but hey, whatever makes the plot work.

Dyson and Hale are canvassing the neighbourhood, because Dyson feels that there is something not right about these deaths.  It seems that there have been 4 murder suicides recently within a very small radius. They meet Bo and Kenzi and agree to go back to the fae bar.  Once at the bar, Dyson asks Bo to help him with the investigation by speaking to her dark fae contacts, to see if something is up. Lauren shows up  to have a drink with Bo, but when Dyson learns that it is not doctor patient related, he decides to stay. Bo asks Dyson to move over so that Lauren can sit, but he refuses and she is forced to squeeze herself into the corner. Bo attempts to make small talk with the three of them, but Lauren and Dyson are far more interested in verbal sparing. 

At the bar, Hale and Kenzi sit together.  Kenzi tells Hale that Bo really needs to choose. She then reaches into her bag and is bitten by a spider.  When she complains of being bitten, Hale reaches into her bag and removes a series of weapons, and tells her that she probably cut herself on one of them.

At home, Kenzi is clearly getting irritated. She even throws the laundry basket across the room.  Bo decides to take a shower, but while in the shower, the spider sneaks up on her and bites her.  When she gets out, Bo immediately starts to show symptoms, and begins to bicker with Kenzi.

Hale finds a huge spiders web and tells Hale about it.  When he learns that other houses had the same web, Dyson decides to give the sample to the fae lab. Once at the lab, Lauren and Dyson engage in yet more verbal sparing. When Lauren asks him why he is so tired, he tells her that if she and Bo were so close, she'd already know. This if Dyson's way of letting her know that he is sleeping with Bo. Can't have a supernatural relationship without a little possessiveness and marking of one's territory.

After a night of not being able to sleep, Bo heads off to the police station and tells Dyson that she has not been able to find out anything from her sources, but intends to keep looking. She asks him if he could run a background check on Kenzi.  This throws him for a loop, because Bo has never suggested anything but the greatest of faith in Kenzi.  When he expresses this, she tells him never mind because all she needs to know is that Kenzi is a thief.