WYNONNA EARP — The Saga of Kate and Doc

Chantel Riley was Doc Holliday’s wife Kate in nine episodes of WYNONNA EARP, and the character could easily be expanded. When introduced in “Blood Red and Going Down” (Season Three, Episode One), Kate is a vampire, but she wasn’t always that way. In “Waiting Forever For You“, Kate tells Wynonna: “My family is from Europe. And we weren’t vampires, we were nobility. And, God, don’t look shocked. We all know who wrote history and how they have a habit of leaving people who look like me out of official records…Both my parents died soon after we arrived. I was supposed to return to Hungary and my creepy Uncle Otto. But I knew what he was.” That would make Kate a not-too-distant relative of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914 was a principal cause of the First World War.

Kate was working in a Dodge City brothel circa 1880 when she met Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon), and her “specialty” got her the nickname “Big Nose Kate”. Kate became jealous of Doc’s relationship with Wyatt Earp, and bought a steamship ticket home, even though Doc was dying of tuberculosis. “I hoped he’d chase me for once,” she tells Wynonna. “Instead I left him thinking he had nothing left. Nothing to lose. So he went and made a deal with a witch. One last attempt to escape the disease.” Determined to search forever if necessary, Kate returned home to claim her “immortal kiss”.

Before leaving town in “On the Road Again” (Episode 4.1), Kate was getting flirty with Mercedes Gardner (Dani Kind).

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KILLJOYS – Lucy and Johnny

Lucy (Tamsin McDonough) is the snarky, quick-witted artificial intelligence of a ship that guided Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), D’Avin (Luke Macfarlane), and John (Aaron Ashmore) through five seasons of adventures. John was her favourite Killjoy, and he returned her affections. When she briefly took over the body of a robot in “I Love Lucy” (Season Two, Episode Six) she and John kissed for the first and only time.

Michelle Lovretta tweeted on 2 September 2018 about Lucy’s name. “Orig name was Betty, after the song (‘she’s so rock steady & she’s always ready’ -listened to that a lot writing pilot) Wouldn’t clear, so we asked writers and @AaronRAshmore to help pick from a shortlist. Almost named her after Aaron’s wife!”

In “Three Killjoys and a Lady” (Season Five, Episode Three) a virus infects ship’s systems Lucy tells John he needs to erase her. “All the data from the sample is on my 7-epsilon point 2-0 chip,” she tells John. “You need to take it and shut me down before the virus begins to replicate again. I will give you my system wipe codes.” When John is reluctant, Lucy continues: “My circuits are made of sand which was born from algae passed through a fish. I was something before me. Perhaps I will be something after.” (Unknown to John, Lucy has created an off-site backup of herself and does not die.)

Lovretta told Erin Conrad of Three If By Space: “Yes, having Tamsen be corporeal is something we’ve kicked around, partly because Lucy in my mind has been…modeled after a real person. So, that’s one way to do it, she may be a mechanic or the wife of a mechanic, or whatever, who created the ship.”

John Jaqobis went on a one-year sabbatical at the end of things. He might meet the woman after whom Lucy was patterned.

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From LOST GIRL — Tamsin’s Daughter

LOST GIRL’s final scene begins with Tamsin’s daughter Dagny (Olivia Scriven) making out with an unnamed girlfriend (Masa Lidzek) who alternates between doubts about having sex and enthusiasm about the idea. Dagny’s Valkyrie powers to sow doubt have clearly been activated, though she can’t control them yet. The makeout session is interrupted by Dyson’s son Mark (Luke Bylik), who is a cop just like his father was.

Mark brings Dagny to the Dal, where she meets Lauren (Zoie Palmer), Vex (Paul Amos), Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), and her half-sister Bo (Anna Silk). She recognizes them all from the stories her guardian Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) has told her. Then a hand print on the right side of her chest begins to glow.

DAGNY: “What is this?”
BO: “Evil. I don’t know how, and I don’t know when, but it’s coming for you.”
DAGNY: “What happens then?”
BO: “We’ll be ready.”

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