Series 4 of Being Human certainly wasn’t short on shocking, memorable, and downright hilarious moments.

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So grab your crucifix, your stake and your baby stroller as we take a look back through ten of the best bits from a series that reinvigorated the show and gave fans plenty to talk about…

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In the blood-rush of the finale arrived a surprise; a moment worthy of noting because it piqued our already insatiable appetite for a fifth series.

As Hal and Alex bicker in the basement in walk a group of smartly-dressed men in grey suits who, in under a minute, clear away Alex’s body. And their time-keeping leader seems to be able to sense Alex’s ghostly presence.

Who are those Men in Grey – supernatural cleaners? If so, where’s their Henry Hoover? Consider our appetites whetted.

Start spreadin’ the news…

We certainly didn’t expect the series opener to start decades in the future, in an apocalyptic vampire-ruled wasteland.

However, it was a stirring and ambitious start that had us asking all sorts of questions, such as ‘who’s that woman?’ and ‘will the last pockets of Humanity be forced to listen to vampires murder Sinatra’s greatest hits forever?’.

Like a virgin

Vampire Recorder Regus (Mark Williams) wants to share a particularly ‘intimate’ memory of Annie’s in return for some information, the dirty git.

Unfortunately for him it all goes a bit wrong and he ends up having imagination-sex with Annie’s then boyfriend. He’s a handsome lad though, so it could’ve been worse.

Hal’s toilet habits

A priceless display of just how the relationship between Hal and Tom generated laughs as much as it did friction.

Tom asks where he’s been while the nosey doctor was examining baby Eve. “I was having a shit,” Hal curtly replies. It’s a tiny moment, but it’s so well executed in its timing and delivery that what could be a throwaway line becomes something hilariously awkward.

Cutler cooked

Andrew Gower’s Cutler had plenty of strong moments across the series. However, it’s the moment he gets desperate in the finale and crosses the threshold of Honolulu Heights uninvited that’s the most memorable, showing how desperate he is to be someone… anyone.

Straining forward against an invisible force, his skin begins to flay from his flesh and he starts to burst into flame. But still he presses on, heaving himself towards baby Eve and increasingly resembling an ambulatory pile of burning mince.

His reward for his efforts? A flying stake to the chest. Some guys just can’t catch a break.

Hal’s speech

It’s hard to believe there was a point when many doubted Molony could replace Mitchell, but by this moment in the second episode your fears should have all been dispelled as he stares down the barrel of the angry Welsh shopkeeper’s shotgun and gives a magnetic performance.

Hal calmly talks him through everything he’s feeling and everything he’ll feel after a kill. “He’ll be with you while you dream. You end his life, and he’ll invade yours,” he tells him.

It’s a powerful speech, made more so because Hal isn’t really talking about the shopkeeper: he’s talking about himself.

The eyes have it

The moment we see Mark Gatiss’s Mr Snow stalk into that portacabin we know the chap who’s been transporting Eve is doomed.

Toying with him like a cat with a Rubik’s Cube, Snow lulls him into a false sense of victory and then, just as he’s collecting his papers, oh, one final question…“What colour are your daughter’s eyes?”. Uh-oh.

You’ve got to have some guts to try to get one over on Mr. Snow, and we certainly got a good look at that fella’s.

‘Puppy Love’ montage

Adorable. Utterly adorable. There’s little more you need to add really.

Tom and Allison’s montage was the self-aware combination of sweetness and violence that you used to see in Joss Whedon’s shows, as the two bonded over books and staking practice, all to the strains of Donny Osmond’s ‘Puppy Love’.

Nicely balanced between amusing and romantic, the fact that it was a little tongue-in-cheek only helped make an already cute romance seem even cuter, without descending into the diabolically saccharine. Can we have Allison back in Series 5 please?

George’s death

George, in full-on Universal Studios Wolfman mode, comes to the aid of his apocalyptic baby daughter, tearing through vampires like tissue paper. But his fatherly heroism comes at a horrible price, as his body can’t cope with the change and he starts to die.

With his last breath, he names his daughter Eve (formerly Splodge), before passing through his door to be reunited with Nina.

Dark though it is, it’s a noble and, most importantly, meaningful end for a much-loved character. While also making space for the new protagonists, George’s death proved that no one was safe in Series 4, and that anything could happen. Including this…

“Give me back my fucking baby!”

Is that the greatest line in Being Human‘s history? Quite possibly, and it’s attached to Annie’s – and the series’ – greatest moment.

Across the run Annie had see-sawed between comic relief and serious motherly figure, and in one sentence her dual roles finally collide, with spectacular results. She faces down Mr. Snow, saves Hal, and then does the impossible by killing Eve. And as a reward for literally walking through fire, she’s finally given her door, and a happy ever afterlife.

Not only was it excruciatingly emotional – running the whole gamut from laughs to tears – it made sense that as the series began with an act of fatherly sacrifice, it should end with an act of motherly sacrifice. And if you’re going to go out, then go out with a bang.

What was your favourite moment in Series 4? Let us know below…

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