Bitten Recap 'Settling'

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Season 1 Episode 11

Settling included two distinctive but both very good fight scenes, one in Logan’s house and the other at Philip’s flat. Logan’s approach to fighting Marsten and LeBlanc was almost surgical. He poured perfume all over the house to camouflage his scent, then quietly went after Marsten, then LeBlanc. He was not able to kill either of them, though he certainly tried, at the very least, to render them unconscious. LeBlanc managed to wound him seriously enough so that Logan asked Rachel to drive him to Stonehaven. This fight scene showed why Logan, the son of a mutt who grew up with a human mother, was a member of the inner circle, the feared Pack --- he was smart, and he held his own against two attackers. 

Bitten Recap 'Descent'

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Season 1 Episode 10

There was much simmering anger in this episode, and most of them from a human. Most understanding boyfriend ever Philip suspected based on the photograph he saw at Logan’s place that Elena had a relationship with her ‘cousin’ Clay. Meeting him pretty much confirmed his suspicion. Clay was sent by Jeremy to Toronto to protect Elena. Philip, being Philip, invited Clay to stay with him and Elena at their apartment. Clay, being Clay, accepted. 

Bitten Recap 'Vengeance'

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Season 1 Episode 9

Why did Koenig, a former Pack enforcer, decide to go against Jeremy at Daniel Santos’s bidding? The episode ended without an answer to this question, but it did show some interesting bits. Antonio left the Pack when he was young, but he returned after the birth of Nick and never spoke of or to Nick’s mother again. Koenig made Antonio kill a mutt for kicks, when he was sent to bring Antonio back into the Pack. Jeremy was physically strong and a good fighter, despite his injury. This was the second time we were shown Jeremy fighting an enemy, which was good to see since the alpha status was attained and maintained by virtue of strength. Jeremy risked his life and almost allowed Koenig to kill him to give Nick a chance to finish off the man who once had brutal fun at the expense of his father. Werewolves could not stop the transformation when they were already mid change, except for Elena, who was able to do it. Daniel Santos must know something about Elena, because he was furious when LeBlanc went after her. 

Bitten Recap 'Prisoner'

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Season 1 Episode 8

Did Zachary love his human girlfriend Amber more than Clay loved Elena? Elena certainly seemed to think so. She could appreciate Zachary’s mode of loving, steadfastly refusing to bite Amber, rather than Clay’s. I am not certain whether who was right or not mattered because at this point, I feel that Elena was just fighting Clay for the sake of fighting. She needed to find ways to stay mad at him to stop herself from falling in love, or in lust, with him again. 

Bitten Recap 'Stalking'

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Season 1 Episode 7

Based on what we have been told so far, Jeremy was a powerful alpha, either the most powerful alpha in North America or the only alpha in North America. Yet, with a few moves, Daniel Santos was able to wound him grievously, both metaphorically and literally. Daniel proposed a meet, then staged an ambush hours before the meeting, whilst Clay and Elena surveilled what was supposed to be neutral ground. Antonio wanted to drive past the scene of what appeared to be an accident but Jeremy insisted on helping the injured woman. She turned out to be the human girlfriend of Zachary Cain. Antonio succumbed to his wounds, but not before telling his good friend and Pack boss that the time for half measures was over. Jeremy’s wound did not appear that serious at first, but the blade was poisoned. The Danvers Pack had Zachary in a cage, but its alpha was now fighting for his life. 

Bitten Recap 'Committed'

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Season 1 Episode 6

The previous strikes against Jeremy’s pack were just probes. Now, there was a sense that war was coming to Stonehaven. Finally, the pack already knew who the true enemy was. It was not just Zachary Cain or Karl Marsten, or their army of mutts. It was Daniel Santos. 

Bitten Recap 'Bitten'

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Season 1 Episode 5

On this episode we were shown how Elena Michaels became a werewolf. She was a broke college student when she applied for a typing job with Dr. Clay Danvers. The two of them became a couple after months of working together, and they eventually got engaged. Jeremy was not happy that Clay brought his fiancée to Stonehaven. Stonehaven was a sanctuary to the pack; outsiders like Elena were not welcome. Seeing that his happily ever after with Elena was not going to happen whilst she remained human, Clay transformed into a wolf and bit her. 

Bitten Recap 'Grief'

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Season 1 Episode 4

Karl Marsten, international mutt of mystery, and Zachary Cain, the mutt that Clay beat up months ago, appeared to be turning murderers into werewolves. Three were mentioned to have escaped a prison facility in Tennessee. We already met two, the mutt who killed the women and one child, and the mutt who killed Pete. 

Bitten Recap 'Trespass'

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Season 1 Episode 3

With the bodies dumped right outside and on Stonehaven property, there were indications from the beginning that someone was coming for the Danvers pack. Now, with Pete’s death, that was almost a certainty. After Elena and Clay tracked the killer mutt to a club, and the mutt was killed by the sheriff, the Danvers pack began to disband. Elena and Logan returned to Toronto. Antonio wanted to investigate another mutt, Karl Marsten, with his son Nick. Pete was supposed to catch up with his band’s tour. 

Bitten Recap 'Prodigal'

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Season 1 Episode 2

The second episode of Bitten delved more into the show’s mythology. We were already shown that werewolves had super hearing, and needed to eat a lot. Now, we were told via Nick that werewolves also had prolonged youth. With Elena’s comment that their old age would also be prolonged, I took that to mean that werewolves age, but very slowly. Packs create and enforce the rules on mutts. Werewolves were prohibited from changing in front of  humans and killing humans, unless the change occurred in front of a human. The only way a woman could become a werewolf was to be bitten. According to the lore, it was long thought that women were not strong enough to handle the change (*grits teeth*). Elena was the only woman known to have survived the bite. 

Bitten Recap 'Summons'

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Season 1 Episode 1

As could be expected with a Pilot, Summons was a table setting episode, tasked to introduce the story and its characters. Elena was living a good life in Toronto with her hot, successful, often shirtless boyfriend Philip when she received a message from home. Unbeknownst to perfect boyfriend Philip, Elena was part of a werewolf pack, and Jeremy the alpha had summoned the whole family back to their estate called Stonehaven to deal with a crisis.