Judgment Fae: Season 5, Episode 12

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Bo and Lauren seem to be really enjoying this new phase of their relationships where everyone’s a Fae (or at least mostly-Fae in Lauren’s case – she’s Fae as long as she’s touching one). And also, Bo is worried because Jack/Hades helped Lauren solve the equation that turned her this way.

Meanwhile, Zee is back! And murdering a bunch of people. She hands off that powerful shield to someone and moves on. Here comes trouble. It turns out that even though we all saw Zee disappear in that painting it seems like she and Hades might be in cahoots.

Dyson is still shacking up with Kevin’s fiancé, Alicia.

Lauren learns that “Patient X” is in the early stages of Parkinson’s and her cognitive decline is increasing: And Patient X turns out to be Lauren. Bo turns up to question Hades, and as always things are a bit fraught between the two.

And then there’s a surprise. After Bo learns that her father played her with the painting, Zee herself turns up in the lab. Although, it’s not Zee. It’s Elizabeth, the woman whose body Zee took over. And she’s both scared and very hungry. Elizabeth tells the gang that she was aware that Zee had hijacked her body, but she tried to close her eyes against it.

Trick says that Zee might be trading in her shield to Hephaestus, the most hideous guy around, for a favor. The plan is to find Hephaestus and figure this out. Except – in order to do that, Bo has to find the judge who knows how to find Hephaestus… and when they find the judge, Bo learns she has to pass a test.

The test is a courtroom. In order for Bo to get an audience with Hephaestus, she has to win a court case for a client she’s never met. If she fails, she’s going to be sent to Myth, a limbo-type place from which nobody returns.

Dyson denies to Trick that he’s falling in love with Alicia. Mainly because he clearly is. They have a hard time being in the same room without kissing each other, and when she burns dinner and things get super adorable, it leads to kitchen sex.

Bo does a pretty good job in the courtroom, but this is not necessarily her strong suit. The case involves a tech start up between two partners who used to be close but things went sour when one of the partners worried he was being cut out of the business…

When Bo figures out that the law doesn’t matter in this case, that what’s at stake is their relationship, they drop the lawsuit and become partners again. Turns out Bo was trying to learn about her inner justice – supporting someone is a form of protecting them. The judge grants an audience with the hideous Hephaestus…

And it turns out hideous is relative. Among the ancients, Hephaestus may be the ugliest, but that’s a pretty high bar. But there’s not a lot of time to dwell - it turns out that Zee has now taken over the body of Lauren. It’s a good idea; it means that Bo won’t hurt her. Further, Hephaestus is making a weapon for Bo.

Zee took over Lauren’s body and now she’s woken up Kevin (who has Hera still living inside of him). Except now he’s breathing out a bunch of bees. Yep, darkness is coming.

Lauren isn’t strong enough for Zee to take over, as it turns out, and the effort of fighting Zee off is starting to kill Lauren. When Hera returns, so does Elizabeth, who allows Zee back into her body, but this time, she’s going to pay closer attention rather than trying to close her eyes to it all.

That’s when Zee intervenes, and decides to send them back to Myth. Even though they were bored there, Zee has a plan. And Hera agrees to trust her. Zee’s parting words to Bo are that Hades evil comes in many forms. Sage advice for Bo.

Zeus and Hera leave Kevin and Elizabeth’s bodies. And that, as they say, is that.

Also? Bo gets the weapon that Hephaestus was making for her. And it’s a horseshoe. But…why?

Meanwhile, now that Kevin is alive and not in habited by an ancient goddess, he and Alicia are reunited. But that is a sad state of affairs for Dyson.

Lauren and Bo finally make up. It turns out that Lauren wanted to be Fae because she was sad that one day she will get old. So, despite Bo saying that she’ll love Lauren forever, Lauren took the Fae antidote. And then tells Bo that they can’t see each other anymore.

Blaming her father for losing Lauren, Bo tells him they will never have a relationship. She threatens him and tells him to go out and do his worst. He tells her he wants to be a family with her. Bo refuses and says she never will.

And, as per usual when Bo is feeling fragile, she turns to Tamsin. And makes a decision she’s sure she’ll regret.