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So the second episode of Being Human‘s second season, “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” picks up right where last week’s cliffhanger left off, with Josh getting shot in the arm by one of those Dutch vampire guys whose names I can never remember. To be honest it wasn’t really that suspenseful of a cliffhanger; obviously they’re not gonna kill one of the series’ main characters. So this werewolf-hunting vamp is getting ready to finish Josh off, but then werewolf Nora leaps out from the underbrush and totally kills him! And then runs back into the woods. Ohhhhh goshhhhhhhh.
The next day Josh and Nora have to deal with the aftermath, and it was super interesting and a little darkly humorous to see Josh try to reassure her and try to teach her to cope with being a werewolf when he still can’t really cope himself. He doesn’t tell her that she killed a guy when she was in wolf form, which is obviously gonna come back to bite him in the ass later.
Meanwhile, Sally makes ghost friends! Suicide Stevie from last episode’s reunion and a couple of his teenage boy ghost pals come hang out at the house, which mainly serves to distract Josh and Aidan from Sally’s big reveal that she might have accidentally released a terrifying dark spirit into the world.
Even without the extra house guests, they’d probably be too wrapped up in their own immediate problems to care a whole lot about the vague, abstract threat she describes: Josh is trying to motivate Nora to retain some semblance of normalcy by accompanying him to the new med student mixer that night, while Aidan has his hands full with babysitting the new Head Vamp In Charge of Boston, and oh man you can tell right away that this chick is gonna be trouble. A couple of ambiguous flashbacks show that she and Aidan have a history, but the main point of them seems to be showing Aidan looking very Clark Gable-esque in his period garb, yum.
Anyway, HVIC thinks it’s hilarious that Aidan doesn’t “drink live” anymore, and takes it upon herself to try to get him to break his commitment to vegetarianism ASAP. She brings him this cop lady to turn, ostensibly to give the vamps an in on the police force, but really to test Aidan’s boundaries and see how far he’s willing to bend for her. Things get interesting fast when Aidan refuses to turn the cop lady and HVIC threatens to investigate the Dutch vampire’s mysterious disappearance in the woods, implying that she not only knows about Aidan’s werewolf friendship connection, but thoroughly disapproves.
All this leaves Aidan feeling even more broody than usual, so he goes to the bar to drown his sorrows and just so happens to run into a pretty lady he saw earlier at the hospital when she was on her way to interview for an internship. It seems pretty suspicious to me, mainly because of her “someone’s thirsty” comment when she catches Aidan raiding the blood bank, and even more so when she initiates a hook-up almost immediately at the bar. Yeah, this lady is definitely shady.
Sally’s new ghost friends–with the exception of Suicide Stevie–turn out to be equally shady, taking her to a college “raver” and teaching her the new trick of inhabiting the bodies of the living. Her exuberance at her success is a little bit much for me; fortunately it’s cut short when horny teenage ghost boy tries to have his way with her while they’re both possessing other people’s bodies. Suicide Stevie intervenes and pulls her out, then gets into a huge fight about the incident with horny teenage ghost boy and ends up like, liquidating him with his supernatural ghost power or something, which really freaks Sally out.
Sally and the ghosts aren’t the only ones spending the night getting driz-unk; at the med student mixer, Nora partakes of the wine pretty liberally and Josh starts freaking out that she’s gonna spill their werewolf secret, but instead she just starts talking about her lost pregnancy, which is enough to make the other med students super uncomfortable. So the next day Josh is like, “I’m not gonna go to med school, I’m gonna find a cure for werewolfism!” and you can tell that Nora is totally not gung-ho about that idea so there are prolly a lot more problems in store for those two.
Basically, everything is awful for everyone and it will probably only get worse. Hooray!
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