Series 3 is the best series of Being Human, the characters were at their emotional best, the writing was tight, the stories intelligent and the overall tone at its darkest.
George, Mitchell and Nina have moved into a defunct Bed and Breakfast in Wales, George and Nina are keen to move on with their lives, but Mitchell is severely depressed over the loss of Annie and racked with guilt over the box tunnel twenty, the name given to his mass murder at the end of the previous series. Mitchell travels to the other side to rescue Annie, and meets a ghost named Lia, who leads him through his memories, until he realises that she was one of the twenty and she predicts that he will be killed by a werewolf, a wolf shaped bullet, as she puts it. George and Nina end up transforming in the same place and they realise that they have had sex whilst in wolf form. Mitchell rescues Annie from purgatory and she starts living with them again. They meet a young vampire named Adam, and try to keep him away from drinking blood, they send him to some older vampires, who are weird sex fiends, so they end up rescuing him and sending him off into the world to figure out life on his own. They discover a zombie, who came about when Michell travelled to the other side and her soul could not pass, they try to help her, but she eventually dies for good. Mitchell meets a vampire named Graham, who is a fan of his exploits and keeps a scrapbook of news cuttings about the box tunnel twenty, Mitchell is forced to kill him before he commits a similar attorcity. At the same time, Nina and George discover that Nina is pregnant from the werewolf sex and Mitchell and Annie decide to try a relationship. George and Nina, concerned about their baby seek out McNair, a surly, vampire hunting, Werewolf and his son Tom, they stay at the B&B for a short while, and Mitchell is so concerned for his safety that he offers McNair to the vampire couple who adopted Adam for a wolf fight, where they put a human in a cage with a werewolf for sport. However they kidnap George, Nina and Tom as well and Mitchell and Annie get locked in the cage and nearly torn apart by the wolves. Then at the hospital they discover Herrick, who is back to life, but has no memory of his previous life; they take him to live in their house, with Mitchell desperate to kill him, but Nina and George, convinced of his new nature prevent Mitchell from doing so. Herrick discovers Mitchell's scrapbook of news cuttings and calls the police on him. Whilst George and Nina visit George's father's funeral, then try to help his ghost pass to the other side the B&B is visited by a young, female police detective, investigating Nina's report and makes Mitchell nervous, her presence also awakes Herrick's blood lust, confusing him massively. Annie tries to investigate the box tunnel twenty, and is shocked when she and the police officer come to the same conclusion that Mitchell is responsible and he is arrested. At the same time McNair and Tom have returned, and McNair, who was turned during a wolf fight that Herrick resided over tries to kill Herrick whilst in werewolf form, but Herrick stabs him. Then when the police officer enters Herrick's room his blood lust completely takes over and his true nature is revealed he kills her and then he stabs Nina. Herrick rescues Mitchell from prison, then puts him in a cage with George who nearly kills him in his anger over what happened to Nina, until Tom comes and rescues George. Herrick and Mitchell are talking about their future and Mitchell stakes him, killing Herrick for good. Later on, George, Annie and Nina, who has survived her stabbing and is massively pregnant much faster than a normal rate are at home when Mitchell comes back and asks George to kill him, George is about to when an one of the oldest vampires, an old one, enters and tells him that he won't allow Mitchell to die and that he wants George and Nina's child. George stakes Mitchell, turns and tells the old one that he has a fight on his hands.
This is a fantastic series because there is no real villain, but the emotional stakes had never been higher. The way they brought Herrick back was brilliant and allowed Jason Watkins to show his range as an actor. The loss of Mitchell was tragic, but they built it up well over the series, so it made sense.
In short, the best series of a great show, also the last good series of the show... it is all down hill from here.
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