I am gradually working my way through Jim Butcher's series of Harry Dresden novels, this some 17 years after watching and really enjoying this TV series which first aired in 2007. I can clearly see differences in some of the characterisations as well as the tone from one medium to the other, but I'm enjoying the books and they've encouraged me to rewatch the original series after many years.
I've not long completed the second book in the Dresden series "Fool Moon" where Harry pitched up against against werewolves and lycanthropes, but any resemblance between it and this, the the episode of the TV series pretty much ends there.
It was still a good episode though. Bob gets a bigger part, which is a good thing, Harry again puts himself in mortal peril trying to protect a young woman who, in connection with a complex legend I definitely hadn't heard of before, gets bitten by a werewolf posing as a female FBI agent, so that she can then be killed when she turns wolf to become its ninth victim which will free it / her from the curse and return her / it to humanity. The wolf has a partner masquerading as her FBI partner and together they have been setting up the previous eight victims in readiness for the 9th man or in this case 9th woman out.
However the toothy twosome haven't reckoned with Harry who's been brought on to the scene by Murphy to investigate death number eight, setting up a final confrontation at the climax.
This was an exciting episode, with Harry demonstrating some nifty new spells, one where he effectively turns a nightclub mirror into a backwards- time-traveling CCTV and another where he takes up his nose a powder which enhances his sense of smell so much that he can follow any trail. With some nice shock moments and effective transformation scenes, this darker episode, for all its contrived plot points, was a really good one.