How do you bug out a warfare between vampires and werewolves ? If you ’re the Devil , you make for in a temptress . And what begins as a quiet episode about friendly relationship and betrayal turn into bloody chaos .
What ’s been interesting about this final serial publication of Being Human is that it feels less like a continuation of the previous level lines than a miniseries that happen to be set in the same universe . And it seems to have given the writer an opportunity to refine some of the show ’s longstanding idea . Last installment , we saw a existent return to the impression of ghost , vampires , and werewolves genuinely essay to be human , and this episode , along with an procession of the patch , we saw a few other item polished up .
Most important is the opinion , which has existed since the very beginning of Being Human , that lamia do n’t need human profligate for endurance , but are instead addicted to it . Granted , I have n’t gone back and watched the old Mitchell episodes in a while , but Hal feels more like a addict to me . We ’ve seen his self - enforced battery-acid crumble , and now he ’s exhibiting the behavior of an addict : becoming close , failing to notice the big tough things around him in his single - given obsession , risking his relationships with his Friend , and blaming others for his retroversion .
On Alex ’s end , there ’s a really adorable bit about her relationship to her eternal wearing apparel . The fact that ghosts are stuck in the clothes that they snuff it in has always been a pregnant detail , but there ’s an ocean of remainder between Annie trapped in her comfy tea cozy because she bump to die at home and Alex in her date dress . Alex has been complaining about her clothes all series , moaning and groaning that they ’re far girlier than her common raiments . But in this episode , we get a deeper reason for her discomfort : She wore them to impress Hal , and now she lives with Hal , bond with this permanent admonisher that she find him worth impressing . It ’s a nice use of Being Human ’s supernatural rules to emphasise an aroused situation .
Then there ’s Tom , who grant us a all different perspective on lycanthropy than George did . He ’s never seemed distraught about being a werewolf per se , but he ’s concerned about his ability to integrate with human lodge and live a glad , successful lifetime . And now that he has his assistant handler chore , he has his eye on a girl .
I was disappoint that , after last episode , Mr. Rook did n’t bring in that Captain Hatch was something more nefarious than he claim to be . But , like Hal , he seems to be focused on his own obsessions to the exclusion of regard real wickedness . So he beg Natasha , a girl he once rescue from a lamia nest , to stir up trouble between Hal and Tom . Natasha courtroom Tom while encouraging Hal to fertilise from her .
It ’s almost scriptural , sending a Delilah in to wrack the fragile Eden of the roommates . But Natasha proves a loth serpent , endeared by Tom ’s awkwardness and run into Hal as weak , but not wickedness . She ’s the one who finally face Rook and forces him to admit the Sojourner Truth to himself : That he has n’t had the powder keg explosion he hope for because the Trinity has always been around to keep a hat on things . With the Trinity in lieu , he ’s out of Book of Job , unfunded and useless . The Devil has inspired a specific kind of evilness , not one that causes near men to do nothing , but one that concentrate the exploit of good human in the wrong counselling . There are so many type of governance broker that Rook could be a metaphor for .
And Hatch ’s scheme work . He use his psychic influence to march Natasha into the roommates ’ house , where a fresh rueful Hal has allowed Alex to connect him up and break him of his blood lust once again . Natasha cuts him destitute before slice up her own throat . When Tom and Alex pass upon the scene , Tom believes at last that Hal is just like any other lamia , in want of destruction . After Alex recoil Hal out of the home , depriving Hal of his support net , Hal go full lamia , relishing in the violence he has denied himself of for all these class .
But it ’s Alex , who has been so fail by her roommates , who is literally inconspicuous to Rook , who discover the truth about what Hatch is . Despite being discouraged by Hal , Alex has put on her Scooby cap all episode and investigated Hatch and the inscrutable suicides . When she at last confronts him , Hatch , untroubled in his power , confesses that he is the Devil , and fling Alex back into her own grave . But now that Alex has see the on-key evil of the series , is it too late to pull back her friends — and Rook — back from their personal demons and distraction ?
After all , here ’s our deuce-ace at the close of the episode :
Tom , prepping for engagement with Hal .
Hal , eat on a saloon full of people .
Alex , in her own coffin .
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