And so, last night’s episode has given us a depressing new
development – Hale died. But first – a word about “End of a Line” in general.
As always, this episode featured three plot lines. The smallest
one featured Mr. Trick trying to bond with Vex. Yes, the episode explains why –
Vex’s father (a Mesmer?) was one of Mr. Trick’s generals during the latter’s
reign as the Blood King, and now Mr. Trick wants to rekindle his relationship
with Vex himself. It also includes the last seed relating to the late Una Mens’
power, and Mr. Trick is relatively sure that Vex is the key to recovering it.
Vex disagrees and quickly leaves his interlocutor, clearly not Mr. Trick’s
new friend. Odds are, this discussion is going to haunt both men in the future
episodes.
Then we have the two main plotlines: Hale invites Kenzi’s
mother and cousin to visit while he proposes to Kenzi, and Bo & Tamsin
team-up with Dyson and Acacia, Tamsin’s bounty hunter friend and possible guru,
to stop an outbreak of revenants.
Acacia is an interesting character, and not just because she
has acquired a new hand ala Lindsey McDonald from AtS. She does her best to
come off selfish, or at least self-reliant, but she does appear to be genuinely
caring for Tamsin, even if the latter is less than impressed by Acacia’s clever
plot to get her to kill Rainer before it is too late.
Rainer...he wasn’t in this episode, which is a pity for him –
not only Bo has began to get over her crush on him, especially after the whole
revenant outbreak, which Rainer/the Wanderer may have masterminded (or Acacia
had set the whole thing up, as it was said earlier), he and the Wanderer-Tamsin’s-Boss
are two different people, according to Tamsin. This means, that there may be
more than one Wanderer...or Rainer has set Bo up and not just to kill the Una
Mens.
The other main development with Tamsin is that she just may
be in love with Dyson...who is a good-lucking man (werewolf?) and who is currently single, since Bo is with
Rainer and Kenzi (remember the first episode of S4?) was with Hale. That said,
since Bo has began getting over Rainer this situation will not make her happy,
not really. Lauren, of course, is another story altogether, but she is not in
this episode, so let us leave her out for now.
Finally, there are Kenzi and Hale. Firstly, we get to meet Kenzi’s
mother and cousin for the first time. They are ambiguous characters, to say the
least: on one hand, they appear to be mainly seeking their own gain (not unlike
Kenzi, actually), but on the other, they do
appear to be aware of what is going on around them (just not with the Fae), and
Kenzi’s mother did appear to connect with her – at least for a time. Kenzi’s
stepfather, whom we have not met yet, however, is another story
altogether – clearly Kenzi dislikes him to an unusual extent and as long as he does
not go, Kenzi shall not come.
This also explains Kenzi’s relationship with Bo – Bo is
Kenzi’s surrogate family, or at least a big sister, and when Bo isn’t there,
Kenzi begins to have issues...she really needs a good therapist.
This brings us to Hale. He has proposed to Kenzi, and she
was going to accept, but unexpectedly she decided that she was going to make
Hale wait and procrastinated. Consequently, “the druid” from the beginning of
S4, who acquired invulnerability (or part-time immortality) from an herb that
Kenzi got him, got in, beat Kenzi up (in her defense, this was a very surprising
ambush) and killed Hale using that magical herb. So, now Kenzi is desolate, Bo,
who could not save Hale due to shortness of available chi, is little better,
and Hale is dead.
Let us be fair. Unless K.C. Collins, who is playing Hale, is
leaving the show, Hale is likely to be brought back from the dead, if not Bo-style,
(as Dyson was in S3), then in some other way. Maybe Lauren will get in touch
with her inner Frankenstein and reanimate Hale thusly – after all, this episode
was in large part about revenants – Fae version of zombies...
Speaking of revenants – they are zombies. Period. Usually, a
revenant differs from a zombie by being better preserved, being actually more
nimble than during their life, and generally resembling their previous, living
selves, save from the mortal wound that actually killed them – unlike zombies,
who begin to decompose all over as soon as they’re dead (or undead)...which was
what we saw in this episode. Seriously, why not call a zombie a zombie and be
done with it?
So: Bo has begun to get over Rainer; Tamsin decided to
rekindle her thing with Dyson; Acacia’s back, as is “the Druid”; Mr. Trick’s
attempt befriend Vex has appeared to have failed; and Hale’s dead, leaving
Kenzi broken-hearted. In short, this is one of the better episodes of LG, and
there is no Disney, either.
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