5.4 The Greater Good The two new guests at Honolulu Heights come courtesy of Rook, as he tasks Tom with babysitting a previously contained werewolf while he goes to negotiate funding with the Chinese government. Bobby is even more clueless and naive than Tom was when he first lost McNair, and it’s hilarious to see Michael Socha’s character look down his nose at someone such a hair’s breadth away from his own experience. Soon, he takes Bobby under his wing and trains him up in the art of hotel management, before all hell breaks loose courtesy of Captain Hatch’s covert manoeuvring of the various pieces on the board. Hal’s charge for the hour is Crumb, who has been on a nasty killing spree with rogue Men in Grey-employee, Alan. Alan is annoying, so I was pleased to see him killed off within the first twenty minutes of the episode. Ordered to deal with the situation as repayment for Rook’s favour last week, Hal decides that he’d rather try to rehabilitate Crumb than kill him outright. This is despite the fact that he’s let him go twice to disastrous and bloody consequences, but I guess third time really can be the charm. Crumb actually wants to get clean, and refuses blood even when it’s laid out in front of him. But now we can really get stuck into Hal’s darkness, witnessing the real vampire within him for the first time. Although he’s had his various slip-ups since meeting Tom and Annie, we haven’t really seen what he’s capable of when in full vamp mode, and I bet that the next few weeks will be boat loads of fun in that respect. It’s a shame if we end on a sad note like with series three – as seeing a vampire who can truly overcome his instincts would be a nice switch-up – but Being Human wouldn’t be the show we know and love without some real, dark, gritty moral dilemmas. I’m not so sure how I feel about the split personality Hal seems to possess, as it would have been more interesting had his descent been more gradual. The episode did a great job of lifting us up before crushing ours, and the characters’, expectations of salvation, so the lack of subtlety with Hal’s final shift felt a little clumsy. It seems that an ending that includes Hal and Alex rekindling their romance is becoming more and more likely and, with Hal and Tom’s bromance being an undisputed highlight of the last couple of series, my guess is that they’re dimming the lights just early enough to resolve with a happy-ish ending for our trio. Read Caroline’s review of the previous episode, Pie and Prejudice, here. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
