'Last Act'

[ithildin]

Welcome to Forever Knight Episode discussion. We're starting at the beginning, and depending how it goes, we'll do one to two eps a week. You can last week's post for For I Have Sinned here. Next up will be Dying To Know You -- look for it next Tuesday.

Last Act, Air Date: May. 1992

A young woman dies, and all evidence points to suicide. Nick, however, has a gut feeling that it was murder, but seems unable to prove it. Added to his stack of unsolved crimes, it makes Nick question his own feelings of self-worth, especially after hearing about another, real suicide: that of one of his "old friends". Nick must search through his memories of their relationship of centuries past to determine why she killed herself, and why he shouldn't. ~ recap and quotes via tv.com

Schanke: Nick, don't drop him. Think of the paperwork.
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Schanke: Nice tie, Captain. Did your son make it?
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Stonetree: What's the matter? Is it a woman?
Nick: No.
Stonetree: Are you...constipated or something?

Comments

[midnight-reader.livejournal.com]

She doesn't have the strength to do that if he doesn't want to let her, after all.


I think that sorta hightlighted the lonliness of Nick's life - he possessed so much through his abilities yet there was nothing too positive to connect him to the world he existed... Natalie became his anchor to life and it seems to me, she was the only friend who was friends with him for who he was.

Could we say in all honesty that Janette would have given him her fully friendship if he had remained mortal? Natalie did regardless - well as regardless as she could without realising that she was in love with him.

[havocthecat]

I would say that Natalie was the only one who knew he was a vampire, but was friends with him for who he was. Because Don was sometimes jealous, occasionally derisive, but when it came down to it, Nick was his partner and his friend, and he's put his career on the line for Nick (like in the s2 opener).

I think that if he'd become mortal again, Janette would have broken off contact with Nick, but for multiple reasons. First, so that LaCroix wouldn't harm Nick (or just bring him right back across)--and the only way to stop that would be for Nick to be completely severed from the vampire community, even losing all contact with those he was closest to. Second, because it would have been too painful for Janette to watch him age and die, and she has a lot of mental energy invested in the 'mortals die, we don't' philosophy. I don't think she'd see Nick as lesser, but it would hurt too much to know that the one who's always been there for you--even if you don't see him for 100 years or so at a time--is no longer going to be around.