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"Big in Japan"
Lost Girl episode
Bo finally understands she'll never be alone
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 2 Overall Episode 64
Directed by	Ron Murphy
Written by	Alexandra Zarowny
Produced by	Wendy Grean
Featured Music	See Section Below
Cinematography by	Craig Wright
Editing by	Ben Wilkinson
Production Code	503
Original Air Date	December 21, 2014 (2014-12-21)
Length	60 minutes (runtime)
Guest Actors
Rachel Skarsten - Tamsin Scott Yamamura - Emily Piggford - Amanda Walsh - TBA
Episode Chronology
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Big in Japan was the third episode of the fifth season of the series, and the sixty-fourth overall episode of the Canadian television series Lost Girl. It was first shown on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada on December 21, 2014 at 9 PM Eastern time.

Production Data

• Series: Lost Girl
• Season: 5
• Episode Number: 3 (64th Overall)
• Episode Title: Big in Japan
• Directed by: Ron Murphy
• Writing credits: Alexandra Zarowny
• Production Company: Prodigy Pictures
• Running Time: 60 Minutes (Including Commercials)
• Country of Origin: Canada
• Originally Aired on: December 21, 2014 on the Showcase Television Channel in Canada
• Number of Canadian Viewers: TBA
• Number of American Viewers: TBA

Cast

A promotional Image of the Season Five cast of Lost Girl from the official website at showcase.ca/lostgirl From left to right: Richard Howland as Trick, Rachel Skarsten as Tamsin, Anna Silk as Bo, Kristen Holden-Reid as Dyson and Zoie Palmer as Lauren.

Actor / Actress	Role
Anna Silk	Bo
Kristen Holden-Ried	Dyson
Richard Howland	Trick
Zoie Palmer	Lauren
Rachel Skarsten	Tamsin
Amanda Walsh	TBA
Scott Yamamura	Musashi
Emily Piggford	Tomoe
Jake Michaels	Patron
Mercedes Leggett	Musashi Girl #1
Bethanie Ho	Musashi Girl #2
Tig Fong	Big Tak'o
Nadine Djoury	Lisa
Steven Park	Craig
Richard Zeppieri	Mr. Keats
Yoko Kawashima	Council Member

Music in this Episode

Song Title	Artist	Notes
Bangalore		Courtesy of APM Music
Ring My Bell		Written by Frederick Knight
One For The Body (Instrumental Version)	Wildlife	Written by Wildlife
Reel Wrecka		Courtesy of APM Music
I've Been Expecting You		Courtesy of APM Music
Lost In Shanghai		Courtesy of APM Music
Dublin Nights		Courtesy of APM Music
Meditation		Courtesy of APM Music
Tea Ceremony		Courtesy of APM Music

Plot

Short Summary

Bo and Tamsin encounter a Fae hero who asks for their help as he is being targeted for assassination before he can ascend to the head of his family, becoming a God. It turns out that his sister is trying to stop his ascension because he holds a lie about his past which would doom him. Bo and Tamsin stop the event and the truth is revealed that the hero was his sister all along. Lauren is receiving death threats and asks Dyson to help her learn to defend herself and in the end, Lauren finds that the way to defend herself is by using her medical knowledge to do so. Bo attempts to feed from Dyson, Tamsin and Lauren, but finds she cannot do so, seemingly being repelled each time she tries and it seems that her sex drive doesn’t exist. Bo is attacked by the now disgraced hero and suffers a fatal wound. Lauren manages operate on Bo, but she needs to feed to heal. Bo reveals that she does not wish to live because she will be alone eventually as one by one everyone leaves her. Tamsin, Dyson and Lauren tell Bo she will never be alone, she regains her ability to feed once more, and feeds from Dyson, healing herself. In the aftermath of an elevator crash, several bodies are found undamaged, almost preserved, but the reason why is unknown and the woman possessed at the end of the previous episode in the elevator comes back to life seemingly possessed by Persephone.

Detailed Summary

The episode opens with a recap of the previous episode including: Bo arriving in Tartarus and meeting Persephone, Bo finding her nursery in Hel and realizing she was born there. Bo encountering her father and telling him is a coward as well as taking Persephone's candle from him and then lighting it when she returned to Earth, then the elevator scene is shown with the woman holding the candle. Finally Kenzi tells Bo that she must leave the world of the Fae as she cannot be a lost human any longer.

The episode begins with Bo (Anna Silk) at home pouring green paint and then staring to paint the walls of her place with a very small paint roller. Dyson (Kristen Holden-Ried) then enters the room and asks Bo if she shouldn't use a bigger roller. Bo replies: "Size isn't everything and you have to admit this one's pretty cute." When Dyson asks if Bo realizes that she should have primed the wall before painting, Bo's answer is: "And take time away from picking out the perfect painting outfit?" Dyson replies: "You know you're right. Time well spent." Bo then adds: "Every occasion is an occasion so you might as well dress for it." When Dyson comments: "Sounds like wise Kenzi words" Bo pauses for a moment, then begins to paint in wild strokes which drives Dyson crazy and he exclaims: "Okay! You're killing me!" Taking Bo's painting hand in his she guides her hand adding: "It's a W." Bo wonders if Dyson will next teach her to shoot pool and he answers: "I don't think we've actually used a pool table... to shoot pool." Bo turns to face Dyson and as she attempts to kiss him, she seems to be repelled from doing so, their lips never meeting. Bo looks confused and Dyson asks: "There's no strings attached here if that's what you are worried about." Bo quickly replies: "I'm not worried. I have a headache. Paint fumes." Dyson smiles: "Well, that's nothing I haven't helped cure before." Bo tries again to kiss Dyson, but again she is unable to do so, seemingly repelled once more from him. Bo asks Dyson if he is thirsty and then she rushes away, leaving Dyson confused and holding the small paint roller in his hand. Bo is then seen looking into a mirror and thinking to herself about something, not saying a word at all.

The scene then shifts to the Dal Riata, which is having a Karaoke night. A man and two women are trying to sing "Ring My Bell" but completely off key while another man looks at a picture of the man and then back at the three singers while Trick (Richard Howland) winces in pain at the off-key singing. When the singers finish, the crowd in the room clap in appreciation of their performance, and Trick comments: "Thank you Musashi and Ivettes. Just because you are Fae doesn't mean you can sing." Leaving the stage Musashi (Scott Yamamura) bumps into another bar goer who asks if Musashi would like to apologize. Musashi gives the man a bag of gold coins which he refers to as: "For your dry cleaning, the next round of drinks and a down payment on your mortgage perhaps." As this unfolds, the man that had been watching Musashi drops something into his drink which disappears from sight. Turning back to his rink, Musashi picks it up and then seems to sense something is wrong with it. A wave of his hand freezes the liquid in the drink and when he is asked what the object in the drink is, Musashi comments: "New cocktail. It's deadly." Musashi then looks around the Dal Riata seeking out who might be responsible, but does not find them.

After the new shortened opening theme, we return to find Lauren (Zoie Palmer) opening a storage drawer in her lab and commenting to Dyson: "Three unharmed bodies, all from the elevator crash, three blood types, all human." Dyson then interrupts: But there was a fourth blood type. Fae." Lauren gestures behind her and comments: "Could you just try to be surprised? That machine cost a hundred thousand dollars." Dyson taps his nose and replies: "Priceless." Lauren removes the sheet from the body which reveals it to be the woman that seemed to have been possessed in the elevator and explains: "Three bodies, all like this, completely unscathed." Dyson mulls: "Aside from being dead." Lauren identifies the woman as "Elizabeth Helm. Junior lawyer. Healthy. She's pretty too." When Lauren asks Dyson if there is any connection between Elizabeth and the other two bodies, Dyson notes there is not, one of them being a vice-president, the other being a bike courier, but he also notes that the key must be the Fae blood that they found, Lauren noting that she will try to figure out the blood type. Lauren's cellphone then begins to ring, which makes her startle. Dyson asks if Lauren is on edge and she tries to laugh her reaction off> As the phone continues to ring, Dyson asks if Lauren is going to answer the phone, and Lauren attempts to ignore the continually ringing phone until finally she answers it. Lauren listens for a moment, replies: "Not interested" and then hangs up, telling Dyson that it was "a free Caribbean cruise." Dyson asks: "That was a death threat wasn't it?" Lauren answers in a slightly irritated voice: "Yup." When Dyson comments that Lauren must have been getting a lot of threats after turning The Morrigan human, she replies: "It's good to have fans right?" Dyson answers: "The kind that want to kill you?" Lauren tries to brush off her situation saying: "It's not a big deal" but Dyson refutes this telling her: "It is to the Fae. With the Light and Dark in flux the lines are being blurred. Especially those of the law." Dyson tells Lauren she has created a powerful weapon and that many want that weapon for their own ends and she is a "bit of a walking target" as a result. Again Lauren brushes this off, noting that she has always been a target and she is "used to it." Dyson warns Lauren that the Fae are scared of what she can do, but Lauren asks why she must be scared as well. Dyson replies: "Not scared. Ready." Lauren thanks Dyson for worrying about her, but asks if someone was serious about killing her if they would call and warn her. Then Lauren asks about Bo, how she is coping and if Bo is still renovating. Dyson replies: "Yeah. Still renovating." and then walks away. When Lauren asks: "What? That's it?" Dyson stops, shrugs, and replies: "That's it." After Dyson leaves, Lauren covers Elizabeth's body once more and returns it to storage.

Bo is seen at home looking at her laptop which shows a website that talks about "low sex drive", commenting to herself "it's so not okay" when Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) enters the room, surprising Bo. Bo slams the laptop closed and asks: "What if I was doing something important?" Tamsin replies: "Like porn?" Bo asks Tamsin what she is carrying with her, Tamsin answers: "Post workday nosh! Let's get our night on Bo-Bo." After Bo comments that Tamsin seems already to have started, Tamsin agrees and tells Bo that she needs to catch up with her. When Bo tries what Tamsin has made, Bo calls it "like eating something out of a frat boy's mouth." When Tamsin muses over Kenzi being able to make edible things out of the "disgusting food in that kitchen" Bo becomes angry and tells Tamsin: "Put that tube cheese away." When Tamsin insists that she will figure it out, Bo tells her: "No! We're going out!"

Bo and Tamsin are then seen walking down the street. Tamsin asks Bo if she is hungry and Bo doesn't say anything for a long moment before walking to a hot dog cart and ordering two sausages. Tamsin's comment is: "Not the kind of sausage I had in mind, but who am I to turn down free food?" Nearby Musashi calls out from a car: "North of the Border. What would it cost to get the two of you there?" Bo tells him that they are not prostitutes, and Tamsin agrees, but then asks "How much do you got?" Musashi explains that 'North of the Border' is a club, also known as 'NOB' and he thought Bo and Tamsin might be interested in a nightcap. Bo answers: "At the nob club? No thanks." Tamsin pushes Bo to go with Musashi, Bo asking if Tasmin is serious about "going with could be Ted Bundy" and Tamsin says she is serious about going. Musashi calls out that he isn't a serial killer as he is "too much of a neat freak and I'm also not funny." He then asks if he can make amends for insulting Bo and Tamsin, adding please in Japanese. Bo refuses and Tamsin replies in Japanese "thanks." Bo is surprised by Tamsin's answer and when she asks if Tamsin can speak Japanese, she asks Bo "Where's the toilet" in Japanese. Tamsin then tells Bo they are out together to have fun and Bo caves in, agreeing to go with Musashi, followed by Tamsin who demands to drive as her condition to go as well. Musashi agrees to this, they all get into the car and drive off together with a man watching from the shadows as she gets on a motorcycle to follow them.

Elsewhere, Lauren is working in her lab when her assistant Lisa (Nadine Djoury) enters and startles her. Lisa tells her that she and Lauren's other assistant Sam are leaving for the night. Lauren is hesitates at this, but then wishes Lisa a good night and she leaves. Shortly afterwards, the lights go dim in the lab and Lauren hears a noise outside of her lab which frightens her. Picking up a broom she creeps outside to see what the noise is, which then is revealed to be a cleaning man at work. Lauren makes some excuses, puts the broom down and then turns back to her work again.

The scene then shifts to Bo who is seen at home in bed with Tamsin. As she wakes up, Bo mumbles: "Tell me again why I took the boards off the windows" and Tamsin mumbles: "Something about maturity and growing up and..." but the rest is lost in mumbles as Tamsin is not fully awake. Bo comments "I am so wrecked" and holds her head a moment before asking Tamsin "Did we?", Tamsin's answer is "No." Vo then asks Tamsin if she can feed from her, but Bo's attempt fails as it had with Dyson earlier in the episode. Bo wines: "I can't" and Tamsin answers: "Well, your breath isn't exactly a minty fresh explosion either Chosen One" before turning away from Bo again. When Bo rolls over the other way, she then sees Musashi sitting in a chair nearby and flicking a knife in his hand. Bo tries to get Tamsin's attention, but Tamsin thinks Bo wants Chi from her and mumbles: "Make up your mind." Bo answers: "No. Tokyo Police club is still here" then comments to Musashi "Nice knife. I thought you weren't a serial killer." Tamsin mumbles about cereal and then seeing Musashi asks: "Do I know you?" Musashi's answer is: "Harsh. A first for me." Bo tells Musashi "It's common for the guy to take off in the morning" and he replies: "I can't do that." Bo then reaches under her pillow for a knife and asks: "Care to explain why?" Musashi explains that an assassin is out to kill him to which Tamsin comments: "Sucks. Looks like you need a bodyguard." Musashi smiles as he answers: "Good thing I have two."

Following a commercial break, Bo, Tamsin and Musashi are at a Japanese restaurant having a meal. When Bo asks if the fish she is thinking about eating is the one the assassin tried to use, Musashi tells her that it isn't and the assassin used a rare kind of piranha. Tamsin explains to Bo that doing so is the mark of an assassin called Big Tak'o (Tig Fong). Musashi then freezes a glass of liquid and Bo comments: "Those are some hands" and Musashi explains that his grandmother was a Yuki-onna. Bo asks what they are facing and Tamsin explains that Tak'o was her main competition when she was a bounty hunter. Tamsin then sees a mural on the wall and freezes in shock before asking: "Wait. You're not... that Musashi?" When Musashi just smiles, Tamsin turns all fan-girl and tells his story to Bo. Apparently Musashi fought one of the greatest battles in Fae history. Tamsin then recites: "From within the darkness, evil spread across the land. And the great Musashi rode in on a ray of sun. Musashi called forth the wind commanding a great blizzard to destroy the army. Though miles away Musashi leap over the army and landed at the warlord's feet and put a blade to his throat." Bo then asks: "And then I suppose he slept with the village's thirty virgins?" Musashi shrugs: "Forty." As he tells of this, a tea server spills tea on him and he berates her, the woman asking for forgiveness, but adding that: "If my girls were not so hung over from accompanying you last night they could pour your tea instead." before walking away. Musashi then explains that the woman is Tomoe (Emily Piggford), his sister. Bo asks if Tomoe is his only sibling, but Musashi mentions three brothers as well who are standing nearby, they being Haru, Osamu and Craig. Bo then asks why someone is trying to kill him and Musashi hands a school over to Bo and Tamsin. Tamsin reads the scroll and whispers: "He's ascending. Becoming King of his ancestors. A God."

Dyson is seen working out at his gym as Lauren enters. Dyson asks why Lauren is there and she explains that she wants Dyson to train her like he did Kenzi, but Dyson tells her: "You don't exactly scream Shadow Thief." Lauren replies: "I was thinking less panty removal and more self-defense." Dyson challenges Lauren, noting that she told him there was nothing to worry about, but Lauren admits: Last night's tango with a broom gave me time to rethink." Dyson agrees to help Lauren and when he wants to start immediately, Lauren seems shocked at this turn of events, but Dyson asks: "You want to wait until after you are attacked?" Lauren moves to step into the ring, but pauses to ask Dyson if he wants to put his shirt on. Dyson replies: "I'd hate to offend your delicate sensibilities Doc" and then puts his shirt on before entering the ring as well. Dyson asks if Lauren is happy, she replies: "Delighted." and then Dyson asks Lauren to show him how she defends herself. Dyson then begins to throw slow punches at Lauren as she protests and pushes his hands aside before asking "can we start with something simpler?" Dyson tells Lauren: "You turned a Fae into a human. Your life isn't simple anymore Lauren." Dyson then continues to press Lauren to defend herself until Lauren cries out: "Does it have to be so extreme?" Dyson again forcibly tells Lauren: "Extreme is your new reality whether you like it or not." Lauren then was away, telling Dyson she made a mistake in seeing him for help. Dyson calls out for Lauren to stop, explaining that he wanted to see how she moved and that they "will find something that works for you."

Questions in this Episode

• In all of the other times that Bo had to deal with her fear of being alone, she never had a problem feeding. So why now?
• Why are there three bodies that survived the elevator accident with no harm? Who are the other two meant for? Is one of them for Bo's Father? Then who is the third meant for?
• How does it work that Persephone has possessed one body?
• How long can she hold it?
• Can she jump bodies?

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 December 26, 2014. You can find that review here. She gave it ??? pitchforks out of 5.

External Links

• The Official site of the series Lost Girl
• Official Season Five website at Showcase.ca
• Big in Japan at the IMDb