If you find Mike Celluci interesting and appealing, "Wild Blood" is the episode for you. As it happens, I'm in that select group, so I'd like to note that if Mike Celluci smiled at me the way he smiled at the suspect in the interrogation room when they were not-really-flirting...I'd not only confess to the murder in question, I'd confess to anything he wanted.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, let's move on. Although there were some great moments with Henry and Vicki (especially the meaningful discussion of territoriality), "Wild Blood" was really a turning point in Mike's story.

Near the end of the episode, Mike tells Kate to trust him, but I suspect that the trusting times are almost, if not completely, over. Crowley's pissed, Kate's apoplectic, and Mike's made the transition from the guy who doesn't believe in this spooky stuff to the guy who enlists Vicki's help because he suspects something spooky is going on.

And it's not a transition Mike is pleased about. (Of course, Henry loves it because it makes Mike uncomfortable, and Vicki is glad because she wants Mike back on her side.)

Deep down, Mike believed that eventually all this weird stuff would go away and things could go back the way they were. And by the end of "Wild Blood," he's starting to see that it's not going to happen that way.

In fact, if Mike was observant, he might have noticed that, emotionally, he connected better with the werejaguar than he did with his own partner.

Speaking of said jaguar, I was impressed by Ellen Dubin's acting as Felicia Bannock, but I thought that her father and sister were played somewhat...stereotypically. Maybe it's an American thing, but I kept expecting the two of them to stand in front of their farmhouse with a pitchfork and a matching set of frowns. I never really worked up any feelings for them, even when Alyssa was telling the story of her brother's death.

But the scenes with Mike and Felicia were definitely one of the highlights of the episode, full of tension as both of them danced around the topics of lycanthropy and murder.

Oh, and I can't forget another highlight: the early scene in which Mike asks Vicki and Henry for help. Très sexy and filled with flirting and sheer adorableness. That scene alone was worth the price of admission, capped by the fabulous final snark between Mike (bowing, "Your lordship") and Henry ("Constable").

I do have a one quibble: If the werejaguars had control over the change and their behavior, why would Felicia have a storage locker to lock herself in? Why not just curl up on her bed whenever she felt like changing?

I also wondered why Henry was lying on a table to draw, but I suspect that's simple fangirlservice. However, there's no way I'm touching Henry's fantasy of Mike being eaten by hellhounds or werewolves.

The real meat of the episode (if that's not too unfortunate a pun), of course, was the werejaguar's dilemma: hide and allow her brother's death to go unavenged, or take the law into her own claws? I think this tied very nicely into last week's episode, in which Vicki starts to wonder about what side of the law she's really on.

This week it's Mike's turn to wonder, as he lets a confessed murderer go free, knowing that he can't punish her and he's not entirely sure he'd even want to.

What we have shaping up is a situation in which Vicki, Henry, and Mike are becoming the go-to team for supernatural folk who are in trouble. They're going to start to get a reputation for helping ghosts, goblins, and werewolves in trouble. Of course, that also means that more of the bad guys are going to start going after them, don't you think?

This week's take-home message seems to be about justice, and how hard it is to find when you're an oppressed minority. Especially if you're a minority that nobody even believes in!