by Kimmie Chameleon:
Being Human (SyFy) Recap: “Mama Said There’d Be Decades Like This”
Original Air Date on SyFy: Monday February 20, 2012
Season 2 Episode 6
Being Parents
Being a parent requires many sacrifices and hard choices that require a lot of love, understanding, and patience. When that ‘child’ is not your biological child, but rather something else altogether different, that role becomes even more difficult. This week we see Aidan struggle with his ‘fatherly’ devotion to Henry, Sally seeing her mother more than just being a mother, and Josh going against his better judgment to protect Nora.
Who’s Your Daddy?
Aidan has completely immersed himself back into the lifestyle of a reckless vampire. Engaging in sexually charged blood-sucking promiscuity. He is so completely blood drunk that he begins to hallucinate that Bishop is following him around. Even after he sobers up a bit, Aidan still hears and sees Bishop, and accepts it as a manifestation of his conscious and guilt. Aidan even flashes back to 1918, when he first introduced Henry to Bishop. Bishop wasn’t too impressed with Aidan’s choice of protégé. Aidan’s love for Henry was as passionate as a proud father, but Bishop tells him that Henry is a rebel.
Henry shows up unexpectedly at Aidan’s home and the two go for a walk. The two catch up, but Aidan is only interested in why Henry came back at all, even after banishing him 80 years ago. Henry answers that he had heard that Aidan killed Bishop and that he was now in charge of ruling the Boston area vampires. Henry wanted to come back and support Aidan. Aidan expressed his disappointment that Henry is helping out the orphan vampires. Henry counters back that he couldn’t just let them die and that he has now matured and wants to be back in the family. Through much egging on, Bishop warns Aidan that Henry is dangerous, and betrayed him with Suren…Aidan needs to kill Henry. Aidan ignores the pleas of Bishop, and just as he sternly warns Henry to stay away, Henry attacks Aidan. Aidan can’t believe that Henry has a stake, and intends to kill him. Now he is infuriated and holds down Henry with the stake an inch from entering his heart, but Aidan can’t do it. He releases Henry and promises to make things right. Full of doubt, Henry blurts out that Aidan has made that same promise to the orphans, but has failed to deliver. As Henry takes off, Aidan cries to Bishop that he just couldn’t kill his ‘son’…and Bishop agrees, saying that the ‘son’ always kills the father.
Girl, Look What You’ve Done to Me
Josh has been unable to reach Nora since the ‘change’ and is completely worried about her. While at work at the hospital, two detectives, Sherwood and Raimes question Josh about Nora’s whereabouts. They tell him that Nora’s ex-boyfriend, Will, was recently murdered and they want to question her about it. Josh truthfully tells them that he hasn’t heard from her. Now, even more concerned, Josh pays Brynn and Connor a visit at their house, and tells them that the police are looking for Nora. They admit that they, along with a willing Nora, killed Will. Josh finds this hard to believe, but agrees to leave Nora alone.
Desperate to cover up the crime, Josh asks Aidan if he will tell the new vampire police insider, Cecilia, to make the case disappear. Aidan refuses to help Josh because he reminds Josh that vampires don’t help werewolves, and that once the vampires get into this, they might discover that Nora was the one who actually killed Hegeman. Josh storms off, stunned that his best friend won’t help him.
Josh will not give up, and decides to ask Cecilia himself. When she refuses to help, Josh baits her by telling her that he will give her the location of two purebreds, Brynn and Connor. He interests her by claiming that they were the ones that killed Hegeman. Josh cannot believe that he just framed the twins, but makes his way over to his storage unit to clean up and dispose all evidence of ‘changing’. As he feverishly cleans the units, the two police detectives approach him. They see that there are suspicious cages and cameras and large dents inside of the units. It looks as though Josh can’t talk his way out of this one, but just then, Cecilia shows up and hypnotizes the two detectives into dropping the entire case. Josh is now indebted to Cecilia, and turns over the address of Brynn and Connor, along with a shotgun and some silver bullets that once belonged to Hegeman. Josh has just sealed their impending doom.
Grow Up!
Sally is thrown into mourning when Josh reveals to her that her mother is in the hospital dying. Sally sits next to her father, and tries to comfort him about the wonderful life that he had given her mother. He, of course, cannot hear her, but this talk comforts Sally. Just as her mother (Rena) passes, Sally sees her and Rena is overjoyed with being able to be free of her sick body.
While in attendance at the funeral, Sally sees Rena present, but she is canoodling with an old neighbor, Gerry. Sally confronts the two and quickly learns that Rena and Gerry had a secret relationship years ago before he died. The two are now overjoyed by their reunion, and Sally is completely disgusted with her mother. Rena tries to smooth things over by offering to come to Sally’s house later for some dinner, so they can all catch up.
Sally implores Aidan and Josh to be on their best behavior for the dinner with Mom and Gerry. Josh even makes lasagna. When Sally and Josh answer the door that night, they find Rena and Gerry making out on the front porch. Not at all what Sally wanted to see. They all sit down for dinner and Sally begins to confront Rena at the dinner table about why she would have an extra marital affair, even when her dad loved her so much. Obviously this conversation leaves everyone completely uncomfortable, so Rena and Sally are left to talk alone. Rena feels at a loss to help Sally, and Sally is hurt because she feels that Gerry is more important to Rena than she is. Sally later has a heart-to-heart conversation with Josh and tells him that she realizes that her mother had a life of her own and that she needed to accept that. It takes a lot for a child, no matter what age they are, to realize that they are something other than just a parent. Sally is heartbroken, but starting to understand how her mother must feel.
Quotable Quotes:
Bishop to Aidan: “We choose in our children what we think we see in ourselves.”
Sally to Rena: “And then the first free second you have you’re grinding on some gravestone with Gerry.”
Josh to himself: “Why am I yet again cooking dinner for people who don’t eat?”
Josh to Sally: “I think if you love someone, anyone, that much, you can surprise yourself by what you’d do.”
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[Photo Credit: Philippe Bosse/Syfy]
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