by Kimmie Chameleon:
Being Human Recap: “It’s a Shame About Ray”
Original Air Date (SyFy): Monday January 14, 2013
Season 3 Episode 1
Be Careful What You Wish For
After nine excruciating long months, Syfy’s Being Human has finally been delivered. The show’s fans were delighted with the east coast and west coast live tweeting from the show’s cast members via Twitter. The build up to the premiere presented viewers with the tagline, “Be careful what you wish for” and boy, are we starting to already understand its meaning.
Aidan-Napped
The opening of this episode did not include the insightful monologue that we have become accustomed to, but rather pushed us straight underground, into the claustrophobic space of Aidan’s physical and mental prison. Buried alive for fifteen months now, Aidan copes with the deprivation by hallucinating that he is back at home with his best buddies, Sally and Josh. Aidan just keeps reassuring them that they will not die.
While Aidan wastes away and grows a legendary beard, a grave robber named Mickey locates Aidan’s whereabouts and digs him up. Aidan is the prize. After he ties up Aidan, and puts his head in a metal contraption (or as Sam Witwer tweeted, “My Optimus Prime look”) he extracts blood from Aidan’s emaciated body. The Aidan-napper explains that there has been a mass pandemic of a human flu virus that has wiped out the vampire population. He is selling Aidan’s blood to whatever vampires are left because the theory is that Aidan’s blood is free from the virus that kills vampires, so perhaps if they drink his blood, they will be cured.
A buyer visits this blood shack, and kills the imbecile blood dealer. It is Atlee, and he looks infected. Atlee now abducts Aidan, and heads off with him to his Amish-Vampire community because they have all become stricken with the illness. Atlee confirms that Mother is dead and most of the other vampires. Aidan slinks back into his imagination and sees Sally and Josh sitting in the vehicle with him and Atlee. Surprising Aidan, Bishop pops into the conversation. (Twitter-sphere lights up with applause from fans excited to see “Bishop” played by Mark Pellegrino…or as Sam Witwer refers to him, “Pelledreamo” and “Pellegrizzly”.) Bishop somehow manages to convince Aidan to put up a fight against Atlee. Aidan is too weak, but Atlee causes his own death after he takes a bite out of Aidan. The vehicle crashes, and Aidan lays on the side of the road nearly lifeless, but determined not to die.
Add Some Witches and Zombies to the Mix
Fifteen long months have led Josh and Nora in a pursuit to find Sally. They find themselves, yet again, at the hands of another psychic. The psychic reads into Nora and Josh and sees the fight they had with Ray. We left off last season not knowing the fate of Josh and Ray, but this vision provides us with the answer. At the bare hands of Josh, Ray is bludgeoned to death with a boulder, and then buried in the forest. The psychic has seen enough and sends them on their merry way.
Turns out, if you kill your wolf maker, you end the werewolf curse. Josh is cured! Nora is still afflicted with her monthly monster and I can’t imagine that she would want to kill Josh to end her suffering. Josh and Nora are given a tip to contact a woman named Donna that works at a local homeless soup kitchen. Donna (named after the writer, Anna Frick, of the show’s mother, and played by the extraordinary Amy Aquino) is clearly a witch, and confidently proclaims that she can bring back Sally from the dead if Josh provides her with the heart of a person he has killed. Bound and determined to save Sally from wherever she is at, Josh and Nora head to the woods and dig up Ray. Josh bravely pushes through the atrocity he is performing and delivers the heart to Donna. Now Donna informs the two that they must recover Sally’s body for the spell. They are shocked that this witch is suggesting that Sally will return to her physical body. Nora convinces Josh that this has to be done because they have a feeling that Sally is in a really bad place.
And they are right.
Stevie Nicks?
Sally is in Limbo, but she is not alone. Stevie and Nick are with her. Every single day she attempts to open her door to the other side, and every single day Stevie and Nick try to convince her that it will never open. Until one day it finally opens! Sally urges Stevie and Nick to go through the door with her, and they do so.
Josh and Nora hunker over the lifeless shell of a corpse that once housed Sally. To their surprise, it begins to take shallow breaths. They unwrap the body and find Sally in beautiful, though weak form. She barely squeaks out, “Stevie…Nick…”and although Josh swears that she said “Stevie Nicks”, Nora puts it together that Stevie and Nick crossed over with her! They need to locate the graves of Stevie and Nick, because they just might be in their previous physical form as well.
Quotable Quotes:
Josh to psychic: “I’m not gonna buy a candle…or tea.”
Josh to Nora: “I’m dead inside. I swear, if we go to another psychic, you’re going to have to go to a psychic to contact me.”
Nora to Josh: “It’s like we’re preparing for a supernatural colonoscopy.”
Josh to Sally (regarding Bishop): “Yeah, I kinda get it now. He’s super compelling.”
Sally to Josh: “I kinda wanna make out with him.”
Sally to Josh: “Ex-sanguinated. Right? That’s what they call it?”
Aidan to Josh and Sally: “I am not going to die.”
Featured Music:
Originally performed by Bon Iver, but beautifully covered by Birdy, the song “Skinny Love” plays the melancholy lyrics “Come on skinny love/ just last the year/Pour a little salt/ we were never here/My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my/Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer” as Aidan lays nearly lifeless on the side of the road proclaiming to Sally and Josh that he will not die.
The song “Two Worlds Collide” performed by Josh Schroeder beckon our hearts with the lyrics, “If suddenly I/can take you to the sky” as Sally pulls Nick out of a lake and then observes Nick hanging from a tree watching his family while they are all in Limbo.
DarkMedia contributing writer Kimmie Chameleon was born and raised with a healthy appreciation for horror and science fiction. She currently covers Supernatural, Ghost Adventures, BBC’s Being Human, Syfy’s Being Human, and Sherlock. When she’s not out ghost hunting with her kids, you can find her stealing a moment to add to her own pieces of fiction. Follow her on Twitter @dvsduo and “friend” her on Facebook.
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