‘Being Human’ Season 4 Premiere Recap — ‘Old Dog, New Tricks’

Josh is torn at how his wolf is controlling the lives of those closest to him while Aiden runs into a face he hasn’t seen in nearly 300 years…

By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer

Three months have passed since we last set eyes on the supernatural roommates — Aiden, Josh, Nora and Sally — but as we quickly find out as season three of Being Human kicked off on Monday night, the group wasn’t all the way together.

Josh is now in full on wolf mode for 29 days out of the month while Aiden and Nora’s job consists of keeping him fed, contained and running around the woods far away from the prying eyes of the city folks. When the full moon reaches its apex, Josh returns to his own humanity for 24 hours just a few moments before his new bride Nora makes her transformation into her own wolf.

While their time together is short, Nora and Josh waste very little time getting down to husband and wife business to make up for lost ground in their marriage. As soon as the horizontal romp is over, Josh wanders back to camp to meet up with his good friend Aiden while Nora wolfs out in a cage made for one.

Josh is extremely conflicted about his predicament — on one side he just wants to find the answers to stop transforming into a wolf for almost an entire month so he can finally spend time with the woman of his dreams but the other half of him is tormented by the fact that Nora and Aiden are both spending days upon days taking care of the wolf while watching their own lives suffer in the process. Josh shows shades of suicidal tendencies — he wants this nightmare to be over, but Aiden isn’t ready to let his friend go just yet.

Meanwhile, Sally is trapped in purgatory with her old friend Donna. As it turns out, Donna put them in this self-made prison after realizing that both of them had abused their power so much that they were doing the world much more harm than good. Donna pulled Sally down through her death hole to trap her in this new hell to keep her from puncturing more and more holes in the universe, which could eventually collapse down around her. Sally deduces (after some serious skin time from actress Meaghan Rath) that for her to escape this world she has to go through Donna’s death hole to find her way back to the friends she left behind.

A moment later, Sally finds herself hung by a rope in the middle of a Shopmart department store with flashes back to colonial times where she sees Donna strung up and chanted down by a group of people who have obviously deemed her a witch. Before the visions can continue, Sally frees herself and returns home to Aiden and an otherwise empty home. Aiden is happy to see his old friend back and quickly takes her to see Josh and Nora.

Nora is elated to see Sally, but Josh has already turned back into a wolf by this point and it seems his decision has finally been made. He failed to lock the cage before he turned, thus freeing himself in the woods. It means that someone will have to put him down, and as Aiden and Nora give chase they realize quickly that Josh set out on this mission so that they would be forced to kill him and stop this insanity. Before Josh can pounce and Aiden be forced to kill him, Nora conjures up some fire to trap the wolf so Nora can shoot him with a tranquilizer.

Sally has no idea how she made this mystical fire appear, but a second later she disappears. When she re-appears she’s in the same woods, on the same bridge where she left Aiden, Josh and Nora but they are no longer there. It appears as if Sally has been once again trapped between this world and another. Quickly enough she finds herself in a house and in a room where a group of women are chanting over a girl tied to the bed, who they then sacrifice with a rather large knife to Sally’s horror.  Sally has managed to escape to a new level of hell but where she is exactly we don’t know.

As for Aiden’s life — he’s juggling his care for Josh while still holding down a full time nursing job and a dating life with Kat. At the hospital he runs into his old vampire friend Blake who explains that the fanged kind are rebuilding slowly but surely and they have taken over the old funeral home that Aiden and Bishop once ran. She’s out recruiting dead bodies to be turned into vampires, but Aiden stops her cold and advises that she can do that anywhere but his hospital. He’s also torn between two worlds — part of him wants nothing to do with vampires, but then he immediately turns and offers to give Blake advice on whatever she may need to prevent from committing the same mistakes he did over the centuries.

When Blake returns back to the funeral home it’s clear that she’s not in charge, but another has taken over the reigns vacated by the vampire authority as well as Aiden. The surprise is that the new leader is Kenny — the sick child turned by Aiden last season who then became a monstrous mutant formed between vampire and wolf — except now he’s completely human looking again, feeding on cups of blood and ordering his ‘Aunt Blake’ to do his bidding. He promises to reveal himself to his father in due time. Seems like Aiden’s family is growing bigger this year.

In his personal life, Aiden and Kat seem as together as ever — Kat even springs an ‘I love you’ on Aiden, and while he’s taken back by the gesture, he smiles while still not returning her sentiment. At a party Aiden attends alongside Kat he spots a familiar face — a face that belongs to his supposedly dead wife Suzanna, who was drowned back in the 1700’s after she was branded a witch. Her death resulted in Aiden’s full vampire transformation as he ripped apart and butchered the town’s people that caused his wife’s death.

As the episode came to a close, Aiden opens the door to his house to find Suzanna staring back at him. He comes face to face with his wife for the first time in around 300 years as the reality washes over him like an ice cold bath — Suzanna (at least in some form) is alive and well and living in Boston and she’s there to see him.

All in all a solid kick off to Being Human season 4 as we get ready for the year ahead.