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. 

 Clay’s fight against Santos and Victor Campos was brutal and chaotic, and very well staged. Clay did his best to protect Philip, who tried to take on Campos, and of course lost. Philip was in great shape, but Campos had the strength of a werewolf. Clay was the Pack enforcer, however. For a while, it almost seemed like Clay was going to win.

Elena was on her way to the flat when Santos and Campos attacked. She changed into her wolf form and was able to save a wounded Philip from Campos. When she shifted back to human form in the bathroom, Philip saw her silhouette.

We were already shown that Elena was a capable fighter even in human form. Why did she feel the need to shift to her wolf form? Yes, as a wolf she easily bested Campos, but from what we have seen of Elena, she could best Campos as a human as well. I am asking this, because her wolf form prevented her from helping Clay when Santos managed to stab him with a tranquiliser. Campos locked wolf Elena in Philip’s room. Human Elena would not have been stopped by a door.

There was a narrative imperative for Philip to find out the woman he loved was a werewolf. Clay fired Checkov’s gun early in the episode, when he explained to Elena his theory on why James Williams sent Philip the video of wolf Elena and wolf Logan. If Philip were to find out that Elena was a werewolf, the Pack would have to kill him. It was Pack law. This would then turn Elena against the Pack. Elena would have no one else to turn to except Daniel Santos and his crew.

Elena was special. Even Logan knew that in Jeremy’s eyes, the rules were different for Elena. Elena could get away with more than other Pack members could. There had to be more to Elena’s place in the werewolf world, for Santos and James Williams to spend so much energy and money trying to get to her.

Strays

■ Jeremy’s trip to Toronto was delayed because the FBI was all over his property. Braxton’s murder was traced to Thomas LeBlanc, a known serial killer. The FBI left only when LeBlanc was spotted in Canada.

■ The Sheriff likes Jeremy, no?

■ Logan was so freaked out about Marsten’s visit to Rachel at the gallery that he tried to convince her to go with him to Jamaica immediately.

■ Marsten, about Santos’s car with LeBlanc and Campos: ‘It’s like a crime scene in here.’ Marsten is so entertaining, it’s a shame he’s on the side of the bad guys.

■ Marsten: ‘That’s the problem with hand grenades. You have to throw them far enough that they don’t blow back on you.’

■ Nick was pissed about the problems Logan and Elena’s attachment to humans was bringing to the Pack. Jeremy told him it was Antonio who advised him to relax the rules.

■ Before Antonio died, he whispered to Nick the name of his mother.

■ Philip asked Elena to marry him. He wanted to run away with her, even if it meant never seeing his family again.

■ When Philip was injured, Elena told him, in a better world, she would have married him.