It’s easy to feel sorry for Felix after we watch his peers whip him for what they see as a dereliction of duty and then have him fall prey to Sam’s manipulations masked as friendship.
But we don’t know Mohamad’s pre-Sam backstory, or in what state of mind Sam found the young man. Is Felix the Mohamad we never got to see – the frightened young man trying to navigate the post-eruption landscape? The Mohamad we meet in the show’s pilot “Help Me” already exudes self-confidence and his relationship with Sam appears on solid footing. Felix recognizes that he is, in fact, a proxy for this person from Sam’s past, but aside from the physical resemblance, comparing the two boys, while fascinating, doesn’t get us much closer to understanding any of the Sam’s we’ve encountered. Felix sits terrified on the bottom of the empty pool, and the long shot accentuates the boy’s isolation as he contemplates Sam’s unnatural fixation on Mohamad. In the opening scene, the camera moves slowly past the bloody corpses Sam left in his wake at the Randolphe Juvenile Detention Center, ultimately focusing on him as he constructs a necklace made of his victim’s fingers. Season two’s fourth episode “A Home” introduces the theme of control, as writers Jeremy Smith and Matt Venables (“Fear Her”) deftly set up a number of well timed parallels to highlight Vanessa’s struggle to retain her humanity and ultimately rebuild her life.
Van Helsing Season 2 Episode 4Īs Van Helsing opens, Vanessa and Julius take a break after a one week vampire killing spree, and though she may not admit it, having him by her side is the only thing keeping her from going off the deep end and totally losing herself. This Van Helsing review contains spoilers.
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