Being Human Season 4 Episode 2 Recap: ‘Of Wolf and Man’

Aiden finds out what happened to his wife Suzanna when she didn’t die plus Sally has a plan to help Josh escape the wolf…

By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer

It’s probably a rather rattling experience opening your front door and being face to face with a wife that you thought had been dead for over 200 years, but that’s exactly what Aiden had to soak in when he laid eyes on Suzanna standing just outside his door when we last left Being Human a week ago.

It doesn’t take long to figure out a couple of things — first off this really is Suzanna and not some weird clone or witch casting a spell. Second, she’s a vampire.

Suzanna tries to step through the door to greet her husband and sure enough she’s blocked without an invitation. As we learn through flashbacks, after being drowned and Aiden went Rambo on the group that killed his wife, Suzanna was pulled from the drink by our old friend Bishop, who turns her into a vampire with the idea of pairing her back up with his ‘son’ in their new life.

Suzanna immediately rejects this idea as well as Bishop’s offer to go get some food. As she lays all this out for Aiden he’s shocked to find out yet another truth Bishop kept from him in all their years together. He’s also saddened by the fact that after leaving her in the water, he also left their son Isaac in the woods to fend for himself and never went back to see him again. Suzanna assures him that Isaac grew up happy and died a grandfather — well that’s what we know for now, come back on that in a bit.

The Book of the Dead

Sally’s odd disappearing and reappearing act continued this episode as she popped up in a field and somehow found an old book of witchcraft hiding among the ruins. This book was full of secrets — paramount among them a way for Sally to help bring Josh back from the wolf.

She runs home and interrupts Aiden’s reunion with his wife to share the good news. Off they go to meet with Nora, who is hesitant at first to allow Sally to use magic on her husband given her track record with this stuff is about as good as Wile E. Coyote catching the Roadrunner. Finally out of options to help save Josh, Nora gives in and that’s when Sally’s witchcraft wish list gets a little personal.

Turns out she needs some blood from a woman who has a visit from Aunt Flow currently. Thankfully Aiden is there to reveal he can smell it on a woman when it’s her time of the month and luckily Nora is there right now. Creepy new secret shared between roommates!

Sally does her magic and when they go in to see Josh still in wolf form, she tells them the next step of the incantation is to stab him through the heart with a dagger. Of course Nora and Aiden protest, but ultimately they give in. Aiden stabs his best friend, but when Josh falls to the ground and his wolf lays dead, everyone is pretty sure letting Sally play with magic was a bad idea. Oh and to top things off, Sally disappears again and when she realizes where she is, it’s a time traveling mystery because she’s back in the house on the first day when Aiden and Josh moved in.

Josh Resurrected

Just when it looked like Josh was dead, his hand pops out of the wolf’s rigor mortis mouth and Aiden helps him escape from a bloody mess that looked like Carol Anne when she got tossed out of the bad place in Poltergeist. Nora’s ecstatic to have her husband back, Aiden is happy to have his best friend back but when Sally finds her way back to this world she tells him that the spell wasn’t finished — Aiden should have never pulled Josh free of the dead wolf. Thanks for explaining that earlier.

At home, Josh is barely able to speak without someone doting about his return, most notably Nora who is bouncing off the walls with excitement. Sally’s visit doesn’t do much good either as Josh is clearly not himself after returning from wolf form. Obviously the spell didn’t complete and this isn’t the same Josh that we all know and love.

Suzanna’s Punishment

Aiden pays Suzanna a visit after the Josh-drama calms down, and they resign themselves to friendship in this new world. After he leaves, however, Suzanna strips off her clothes and proceeds in some flagellation to atone for her sins. It seems when she finally got so hungry that she couldn’t bear it any longer, she rushed off into the woods and ate the first person she came across — that person was her son, Isaac.

Horrified by her actions, Suzanna can’t handle what she just did and Bishop decides that she should have no place by his son’s side so she has to go. So for the last 200 plus years, Suzanna has been living with the murder of her own son and punishing herself for the sin.

Next week it looks like Josh’s struggle after escaping the wolf continues while Aiden reunites with his son, Kenny, who is now running Boston’s vampire underworld. Meanwhile, Sally runs back into her old friend Donna. Keep it locked here for more Being Human in one week!