We start with a very upset man questioning the ill
Vampires-of-the-Corn about his son. They don’t say anything – but he sees the
wolfhead on the wall and goes berserk, staking all of them. He goes to the head
and wails over it, swearing to find who did it and to kill his sons, daughters
and everyone he loves and even worse if anything happened to his sister he will
teach the leeches to run when they see a pure bred. I suspect we may be dealing
with the
father of Brynn and Connor, the pure bred werewolves.
Aidan, meanwhile, is in very poor shape, dragging himself
to the crashed car and lapping up any blood he can find, including the bottles
of blood Atlee managed to salvage last episode.
At the house, Sally, Stevie and Nick are embodied,
apparently alive again (and Nick and his living girlfriend, Zoe waste no time
in taking advantage of his new found tangibleness). Nick and Zoe leave – but when
Stevie starts to leave sally and Josh remind him that he can’t see anyone he
knew from before he became a ghost. He assures them he isn’t, he wants to hitch
hike across the country. Which Josh thinks is a great way to be chopped up into
little pieces. Sally agrees with Josh and points out with no money and nowhere
to stay he’s going to be homeless and resorting to prostitution (not her
language). Since he got out of limbo, he’s sure he can handle it and Sally
presses him to take $200 from Josh at least (I love the look Sally and Josh
exchange – looks like that underscore their friendship more than anything
else). Sally and Stevie say their goodbyes and Josh gets a phone call.
And drive to pick up Aidan! Who Sally greets with a big
hug which he accepts before he has a “hey wait, fleshy human sally” moment. “Is
she possessing a twin we didn’t know she had?” (oh I love when these three get
together – so much better than apart). More hugging and great emotion. Sally tells
Aidan all about the blood magic with massive glee, Aiden freaks out and Josh
insists they not talk about this in the parking lot. Oh and Josh is human!
Back home and Josh is planning a big reunion dinner (and
Aidan has shaved his massive beard) but Sally wants to go out and hit the town
instead and there’s lots of fun back and forth (Josh can fit 10 minutes of
dialogue in one facial expression).
Aidan still has reservations about raising the dead but Josh points out
a) vampire and b) they intended to bring a ghost back, not living breathing
Sally. Josh was more concerned with Aidan – since he couldn’t find him and
every month there were less vampires, he thought Aidan was dead.
Josh has been switching out blood bags in the fridge and even offers to let Aidan feed on him since he’s fully human, but Aidan can’t be sure if any of it is clean of the virus. Aidan tells him about the flu – which Josh had – and how it kills vampires. Lots more rebonding and emotion and a real sense of how much they’ve missed each other. But Aidan’s hunger rises and he has to leave –Josh doesn’t want to let him go, not alone, but Aidan doesn’t (there may also be an issue of Aidan’s appetite seeing Josh as viable) want him to see everything involved in being a vampire.
Meanwhile, menacing pure blood werewolf guy is trying to get
Nora’s address from the hospital – which, naturally, they refuse to give out.
Nora and Josh are getting ready for the evening, Josh
going out with Sally and Nora ready for the full moon – and Nora reveals that
she knows that Josh spends every full moon night sat outside the unit. She tells him that, while it’s a comfort, he
doesn’t have to protect her and killing Ray means nothing if he still lives
like a werewolf. It’s another wonderful, emotional scene. Being Human has been
doing them extremely well this season.
Aidan goes to see one of his old blood contacts who tells him how few vampires there are these days – and that her blood isn’t safe, she had the virus. But she does know where there’s someone who may be safe to feed from. Aidan goes – and the contact gives him baby blood. And 3 werewolves attack him (on the night of the full moon when they’re strong) announcing that it’s their time. They beat the hungry Aidan – but then are driven off by another vampire who kills 2 of them. Henry which gets Aidan all weepy again. He helps Aidan home to his place and introduces him to Emma – his human girlfriend.
He fills Aidan in on what’s happened in the city – it’s
crawling with wolves and every full moon they try to pick off the remaining
vampires, who have become a very close knit community. And the black market of
blood isn’t guaranteed anyway – Henry was lucky that he found Emma who never
caught the flu. He offers Aidan just enough blood to get him home and stop
collapsing
When he takes Emma into a private room to feed on her, he
notices the windows are barred. She tells him she never goes out – she could
catch something out there. When he looks at her wrist he sees scars, she’s
tried to kill herself. He asks her if Henry lets her out and she believes she’s
going to die in the house, as a cage. She has been held captive a long time and
as she talks she panics and tries to leave. Henry intercepts her and uses his
vampire compulsion to calm her down and believe she’s happy, calm and loves
Henry.
Aidan is furious – especially with his own experiences
being trapped under ground, and rejects any comparisons with his relationship
with Celene – since he never trapped her or forced her. Henry protests that he
has to, eating on the street is a death sentence. Aidan won’t accept it – and leaves.
Josh and Sally are being immensely cute and fun out on
the town. And, in among the celebrating, Josh reveals he wants to ask Nora to
marry him. He talks about how they bonded since they were alone but he also
adds that if she were human he would have asked her already and, since he’s
become human, it’s the most human thing to do. Even Sally seems to think these
are poor reasons and suggests he waits a while. Things get complicated when
Trent, an old friend of Sally’s and someone who attended her funeral, notices
her.
Sally makes up a story of having to fake her own death to
escape her abusive husband and becomes interested in Trent when he reveals how
cut up he was at her funeral. Josh desperately tries to make an excuse for them
to leave, but Sally won’t co-operate since the cat’s already out of the bag.
Josh goes to the bar, having odd werewolf images and Sally approaches him
telling him that she’s taking Trent back to the house to have sex. Josh is
several kinds of worried, what with Donna’s warning, but quickly understands
and agrees to wait before going home.
Sally takes Trent home but he declines coming in with her
– suggesting a date instead. It’s not the “faked her own death” thing, it’s the
gin that’s making him feel odd.
At the storage unit, the pure blood werewolf goes to see
Nora and confirms that he is Connor and Brynn’s father – and that he’s looking
for her. Nora talks about running with Brynn, but says she couldn’t keep up
with her, so left. The pure blood werewolf stands very close to her, smelling
her fear. He closes the door of the unit – forcing them to change together. He claims
the wolf will know if she can be trusted or not.
At the house, Sally talks to Aidan about her date and how
being there doesn’t even feel real yet. Seeing that Aidan has that “waxy heroin
chic” going on she realises he’s hungry and offers up her arm (I kind of like that
both Josh and Sally trust Aidan so much that offering him blood is no big deal
to them) but Aidan thinks that feeding from the reanimated dead won’t keep him
going. Sally’s suspicious and checks that he’ll tell them if he’s in trouble –
and calls him a liar when he says he will. She points out he always does this,
thinks he can handle everything himself until it falls apart and he worries
Josh sick (he points out she does the same – including worrying Josh sick). And
that, after her experiences, she can handle whatever badness is going on in his
life. They have a moment where they touch and how they’re not used to that and…
uh-oh, was that sexual tension? That was sexual tension! Uh-oh
Next morning, Sally extols the virtue of a big pork human
breakfast – but Josh (who spent all night walking in the moonlight because he
can) has to let Nora out – and ask her to marry him. Sally thinks it’s a very
bad idea and a very bad moment (and the way she describes it doesn’t sound
ideal). Josh is insistent, adamant about
going through with it – when they’re interrupted by a siren. They run outside
to see what happened and find Trent being loaded into a bodybag. Instantly Josh
thinks it could be what Donna warned them about.
Henry bursts out of his flat screaming for Emma – and finds
Aidan waiting for him, telling him he let her go. Henry is not amused, his
Aidan and asks if he has a death wish. Aidan talks about his own experience
underground, about how he drove himself to the edge of madness with his
constant desire for revenge until he started hallucinating about Josh and Sally
and he can’t live as he did the year before he was buried – killing all those
people. He urges Henry to do the same.
We end with Josh arriving at the storage unite – there’s
a thick trail of blood on the ground, the door is ripped open – he sticks his
head in and calls for Nora.
I’m uncomfortable with Henry keeping a human slave for
food – but I’m happy that Aidan called it out for how bad it was, even though
he’s starving and even with Henry’s protests of necessity. And I love that he
rescued her. I also loved that, with Aidan’s little speech we have a clear
reset of season 2; Aidan is going back to being who he was in season 1, trying
to make the “normal life” work.
We’ve got some storylines heating up and, so far, the
friends are staying at least partly together, which I love. They have amazing
chemistry and an excellent friend dynamic. Do you know what could ruin that?
Sally and Aidan as a couple – no no no no don’t go there.
My other vague worry is Sally’s opposition to Nora and
Josh getting married – it’s only a tiny fear but I worry that it could be a precursor
to tension between Nora and Sally.
The acting continues to be superb and full of emotion and
drama. It’s maintaining the standard.
