LOST GIRL Recap: “Mirror Mirror”

Be very careful what you wish for especially when you have imbibed a bit too much. This is a valuable lesson that Kenzi and, unwittingly (at first), Bo learn when they drink to excess because of Dyson. After seeing Dyson with a date at Trick’s bar, and despite putting on a brave face, Bo (as well as Kenzi) drink too much not only at the bar but also back at the apartment, hitting the bottle one time too many.

The main topic while they talked during their stupor was Dyson and how Kenzi would like nothing better than to settle the score with him because of what he is doing to her best friend. She tells Bo about Baba Yaga, a very scary, hideous witch who kidnaps small children and eats their bones clean. This is a Russian story that has been used for decades (maybe even centuries) to keep young children (especially young girls) “in line” growing up. This is a story that was seemingly burned into Kenzi’s mind, causing her countless nightmares as a young girl and even still affecting her as an adult.

As Kenzi explains to Bo, you say Baba Yaga’s name three times in a mirror, then say the name of the person you want to curse and it happens. [NOTE: For those of us in the states, Baba Yaga could be seen on the same level as Bloody Mary.] Even in her drunken state, Bo tells Kenzi that she “wants to take the high road” where Dyson is concerned, telling Kenzi NOT to do anything. But, Kenzi being Kenzi, she wants Dyson to “understand what if feels like to be rejected”. So, before going to bed, Kenzi speaks the witch’s name into the bathroom mirror and then in Russian she asks for the witch to cast a spell on Dyson on behalf of Bo. Without Kenzi realizing it, she just awoke a danger that neither she nor Bo will be ready for, as the request is granted with an image appearing in the mirror just before it shatters.

The next morning Bo finds the broken glass all over the bathroom sink and on the floor. She yells at Kenzi, asking what in the world did they do last night to break the mirror with neither of them remembering much of anything from the night before. But, soon enough they realize something is terribly wrong because Bo finds a tattoo scratched on her backside that is burning her skin. Meanwhile, the curse is taking its hold as every woman who encounters Dyson becomes violently angry with him, causing problems with the female informant for who Dyson and Hale are protecting. She is the key to a huge organized case for which the detectives are working on. These incidents lead all four of them to Trick for answers.

While Trick asks Bo if she has had any recent run-ins with herbalists or if she has “communed” with any unusual Fae, he jokes that at least they didn’t try to contact Baba Yaga, which sets both Kenzi and Bo off kilter because they vaguely remember their conversation about the witch from the night before. Realizing that the tattoo is the witch’s mark and that she has claimed Bo as her own, and that Dyson has a matching tattoo, Trick tells them that he cannot help them as Baba Yaga lives in her own realm, one that the Fae can’t enter. But, given how much trouble this will cause Bo and Dyson, and how angry Dyson is with Kenzi, Kenzi says that she “will take care of it” even though they all doubt exactly how she will do that.

Enter Kenzi’s Aunt Ludmilla – a fake psychic – who hasn’t heard from Kenzi in two months but bear hugs her and Bo regardless. As Kenzi slowly explains to her aunt what she has done to Bo and Dyson, some truths about Kenzi’s childhood are revealed – she was a dancer as a child, had quite an imagination (something that hasn’t changed into her adulthood) and had a horribly strict step-dad, who would “lock me in the closet if I laughed too much”.

At first Aunt Ludmilla doesn’t believe that Kenzi really summoned the witch’s curse until Bo uses her succubus kiss on her, then Aunt Ludmilla becomes a believer. Using some of Bo’s blood, Ludmilla performs a chant that summons Baba Yaga in a nearby mirror; but this visit isn’t a pleasant one because the witch attempts to pull Bo into her realm, but Kenzi offers herself instead and before Bo or Aunt Ludmilla can do anything, Kenzi disappears inside the mirror that breaks once she is gone, stopping anyone from entering the witch’s world.

Baba Yaga's Prisoners

Kenzi wakes up on the floor of some kind of hut – the witch’s lair – and finds several other young girls in wooden cages; girls who also enacted the curse of Baba Yaga and have been trapped there for years. They are forced to perform chores and are prisoners of the witch and her human dog who is chained to the wall in front of a spooky hallway.

Kenzi and the other prisoners not only have to make the witch her food while they have to eat slop, but also each of them is forced to pick a stone out of a sack. Whichever girl has the purple stone is sacrificed as the main course to the witch; and sadly Kenzi has to witness the sacrifice of a young girl named Elena and watch the pleasure Baba Yaga takes in consuming her.

This, of course, upsets Kenzi and she attempts to stand up to the witch who throws the other girls back in their cages and moves menacingly on Kenzi, telling her that she will be dessert. But Kenzi uses her imagination, temporarily tricking the witch into believing that she can “train” her human ‘dog’ to behave properly and giving herself a little bit of time to find a way out of the hut. While the witch is collecting items that Kenzi said she would need to “train the dog”, Kenzi gives the human dog a bone to distract him while she enters the spooky hallway, finding nothing but a small trunk with a mirror inside, which she keeps in the hopes that it will help her get out of the witch’s hut.

Meanwhile, Bo consults with Trick about how to get Kenzi back and is told that there is only one way to enter Baba Yaga’s world: through the Ash. In order to save Kenzi’s life, Bo agrees to work for the Ash; but she’ll have to survive getting into the witch’s world, which will be extremely hazardous. A water nymph named Chloe – who had a past relationship with Dyson – is brought in by the Ash to help Bo crossover to the witch’s realm. Mirrors and water are the only portals into the witch’s world so Bo will have to be drowned in her own bathtub, held down by Dyson, in order to save Kenzi’s life. (No problem, right?!)

While under water, Bo is transported into the hut, but her first attempt fails when the witch returns to find her unwanted guest trying to rescue Kenzi. The witch knocks Bo against one of the wooden cages, breaking the connection and making Bo rise out of the bathtub abruptly. Bo tells Dyson and the nymph Chloe that she has to go back in, but before she makes Dyson hold her under again she tells him, “I’ve lost you, I’ve probably lost Lauren, I will not lose Kenzi” and back she goes for another fight.

Kenzi Wishing Into The Mirror

The second attempt goes only slightly better with Bo backing the witch toward the fire pit used for the prisoner sacrifices, but when Kenzi reveals she has the witch’s mirror; Baba Yaga claims she will let them leave if only the mirror is returned. But, Kenzi wants to save the other girls and quickly realizes that the mirror is the only way to save them so she breaks it into pieces, giving a sliver to each girl and telling them to think of home, which is the only way to break Baba Yaga’s hold on them. They disappear to their own worlds while Bo is once again knocked out by the witch, leaving Kenzi to fight the witch on her own and Bo unconscious and not breathing back in their own realm.

Just as it looks like Kenzi will end up in the fire pit, the human dog breaks loose from his chain, forcing the witch into the fire pit, breaking the witch’s hold on Kenzi and transporting her back into her own realm via the water in Bo’s bathtub. As she springs out of the water, Kenzi sees that Dyson is performing CPR on Bo, but it’s not until he does mouth-to-mouth that Bo’s succubus power kicks in and she is brought back to life from that “kiss”.

Thankfully the curse is lifted allowing the informant to help Dyson and Hale win their big case against the organized crime family while Bo and Kenzi celebrate their triumphant against Baba Yaga; but this time, they control their consumption with Bo reminding Kenzi “no more invocations,” and Kenzi telling Bo to not give up: “fight for Dyson, fight for Lauren, fight for what makes you happy.” But, the witch isn’t gone, as her burned hand reaches out through the mirror in the apartment as Bo and Kenzi go to their bedrooms.

Mirror Mirror is the fourth episode of the second season of Lost Girl. The next new episode will air in Canada on Sunday night (October 2) on Showcase at 9 PM.

What did you think of this episode? Were you, at first, rooting for Kenzi and Bo with the curse against Dyson? Were you cheering for the women who were yelling at Dyson (even if they were under a spell)? What did you think of the deal that Bo made with the Ash? Will that come back to bite her in the ass? Were you proud of Kenzi for standing up to her greatest fear? Do you think Baba Yaga will prove to be a problem for Bo and Kenzi later in the season? Please share your thoughts about this episode below.