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Being Human Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 0
Pilot
Sun, Jan 25, 200960 mins
George Sands, a young porter at a Bristol hospital, has an unenviable secret. Some years ago he was attacked by a pack of werewolves and is now one himself. His friend and co-worker John Mitchell, whilst he looks very young, is a centuries old vampire, though he is trying to resist his blood lust, placing him at odds with the vampire leader Herrick. The pair rent a house and are surprised to find a third occupant whom only they can see - Annie, a young woman who died after falling downstairs in the house and is now a ghost.
Episode 1
Flotsam and Jetsam
58 mins
George needs to transform quickly when he finds the hospital basement closed for refurbishment and does so in the house, which he trashes in the process. Mitchell explains to the landlord, Annie's ex-boyfriend, that they are courting the minimalist look and he is delighted. Mitchell has greater problems resisting the demands of Herrick, the vampire chief, to join in the revolt against humans and coping with the fact that the girl he once vampirized has killed his new squeeze.
Episode 2
Tully
Sat, Aug 1, 200958 mins
George is not pleased to find that Mitchell has asked the neighbours round in his efforts to make the two of them seem more human. He is even less happy to be followed home by Tully, another, more experienced, werewolf, who gives him handy survival hints. Tully is also a ladies' man who shows George how to score with a frosty nurse and George is eventually won over. Mitchell resists the urge to bite a neighbour with a cut finger but Herrick is in the locality, herding away Lauren, Mitchell's ex-. George is deeply shocked when Tully confesses his real reason for coming to see him and they part for good.
Episode 3
Ghost Town
60 mins
When Annie gets depressed at what should have been her wedding anniversary to Owen, the boys take her to a club, where she meets Gilbert, a ghost who died in 1985, and who tells Annie she is in a ghostly state because she has unresolved business in her life, though he does not know what it is. He is sweet on Annie and moves into the house, almost ruining George's date with nurse Nina, but George is later overjoyed to find that, despite being a werewolf, he can still function sexually. Mitchell is stalked by the troubled Lauren, frightened by her own blood-lust, and he lets her drink his blood, as well as stealing hospital supplies for her. Gilbert eventually passes over, having learned that his purpose was to give Annie information, but Annie, who has mistakenly believed that her 'business' was to please Owen, remains in limbo, having discovered, to her horror, what really killed her.
Episode 4
Another Fine Mess
56 mins
Mitchell confronts Herrick over his encouraging Lauren's blood lust - including a DVD of her killing a young man after sex - but Herrick taunts him for not sticking to his own kind and trying to be human. Later Lauren appears to tell Mitchell she is happy with her lot and wish him good-bye. Going home he befriends Fleur, a single mother and her twelve-year-old son Bernie but they accidentally watch the fatal DVD and the neighbours persecute the boys as child molesters. Locals attack the house and Bernie is nearly killed with Fleur and Mitchell facing a huge responsibility as to his future though the decision leaves the boys' tenancy secure. Annie's reaction to the true nature of her demise sparks off poltergeist activities.
Episode 5
Where the Wild Things Are
57 mins
Disillusioned by his efforts to be human, Mitchell returns to the company of his fellow undead to help recruit new vampires from the terminal wards at the hospital. George lures Owen to the house where Annie tries to haunt him, but he scorns her efforts. Mitchell meets up with Josie, an ex-girlfriend who now has incurable cancer. She rejects his offer of immortality through vampirism as unnatural, and Mitchell himself is shocked to learn that several of the 'recruits' are unwilling victims. The three housemates invade the vampires' lair and are rescued by Lauren whom Mitchell finally dispatches out of pity. Back at the house Annie has her final revenge on Owen, driving him mad; but, just as the door appears for her to pass over, Herrick turns up.
Episode 6
Bad Moon Rising
57 mins
After Herrick attacks him with a stake, Mitchell is hospitalized and Annie refuses to pass over in order to stay with him. Two vampires come to the hospital, but George, helped by a nervous chaplain, sees them off, and the dying Josie sacrifices herself by donating her blood to cure Mitchell. Discharged, Mitchell challenges Herrick to a dual, one to one, with an amnesty for Annie and George; however, Annie and George stand by him. She literally blows away several blood-suckers, and George repays Mitchell for once saving him from a pack of vampires two years earlier by taking his place and destroying Herrick (an act watched by Nina). Herrick is vanquished but Kemp, Owen's psychiatrist, becomes a new threat, expressing an interest in locating the trio.
