Being Human recap: Season 2, episode 4 (8/14/10)
Gaining control over your life is a noble pursuit (and a difficult one)--but for a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire, it’s particularly problematic. Here’s our summary:
Freaky flatmates:
Annie keeps meeting ghosts who try to help the men behind death’s door by dragging her through it. This time, when an overdosed addict attempts to pull her in, she’s saved by another ghost, Sykes. Sykes died during World War II, and though he’s half as cool, cute, or lovable as season one’s Gilbert, he serves a particular purpose: He’s going to teach Annie how to read auras and keep the underworld at bay. This involves being able to shut the television off with her mind (as you know, the men use the TV news, among media outlets, to send messages) and facing the gatekeeper's taunts head on. And guess what? Annie wins.
George is determined to get over Nina by improving his life, so he's making a to-do list (“lists solve everything...order is achieved and the world is a better place”). First up: Buy a new cage for the nights he turns into a werewolf and sedate himself with tranquilizers stolen from the hospital. Second: Get a new job as an ESL teacher at an adult learning school. Then flirt like mad with his boss’ secretary, Sam. All goes well, until George realizes that keeping the werewolf’s rage under wraps during the one night a month he wants to go wild, means he'll want to come out during George’s normal life (“I thought I could put the wolf to sleep...I didn’t let him out, didn’t let him rage..he wants to rage so very much”). As a result, George starts to develop Tourette’s-like symptoms that scare Sam, then he ends up beating his jerk boss’ teeth in (and losing his job).
Mitchell is disgusted when his assistant brings him a girl from the Internet who wants to be bitten by a vampire (oh, Twilight, what are you doing to the world?) and invites him to feed on her. So he starts a Narcotic Anonymous-type group for blood-addicted vamps and asks Ivan to be its poster boy (If a vampire who’s been sucking hemoglobin for 195 years can go clean, anyone can). Ivan is such a legend that nearly everyone joins the group, and Mitchell thinks he can finally get their killing down to a minimum. But he's got one, very bit, problem: Ivan can’t really kick the habit. He agrees to keep pretending he's off the blood in order to help the other vamps, but only if Mitchell can get him fresh juice on the sly--so our fearless leader gets him a secret drink from Internet girl (Mitchell: “I’m a fucking hero. Enjoy your meal.”). We’d simply like to say, that Ivan is our new favorite freakin’ character--just an aside.
Nosy Neighbors:
Nina has left George and is out doing “something wonderful” with Kemp and Professor Jaggat (aka Mitchell’s love interest, Lucy)--which, in reality, means she’s letting them experiment on her. We want to say Jaggat is pure evil, but from the flashback to when she met Kemp, it’s clear that he’s the crazier one. She also believes Mitchell can change his bloodsucking ways--which, we guess, is sweet and could mean she won’t kill him. It’s also Jaggat that saves Nina from the Kemp’s pressure chamber, which has killed four previous werewolves--though we don’t know if it’s because Lucy Jaggat has a heart, or because she wants to keep Nina alive in order to trap George.
Roommates’ to-do list:
- Keep the other vampires from finding out Ivan (their blood-abstaining hero) is feeding again.
- Keep death’s door shut (tight).
- Bin the werewolf cage--and the tranquilizers--and let loose once a month.
Quotes:
Mitchell: “She’s a doctor, she can steal her own drugs.”
Sam: “What were your powers?” George: “Extreme hairiness.”
George (to cage builder): “i was obviously embarrassed to say that I wanted a sex cage.”
George: “Is there anyone left in Bristol who can have a shag without being tied up first?"
Sykes: “Better they think you’re a nonce than a werewolf, surely.”
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