'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

[havocthecat]

Really, I adore Stonetree and Schanke. (My favorite captain is Cohen, though.)

The Neck of the Week, Erika, is played by Torri Higginson--Elizabeth Weir on Stargate: Atlantis. :)

I adore the Natalie/Nick scene where she comes to tell him Marian was pregnant. It's the epitome of early Nick and Natalie, where both of them are pushing at each other fiercely, and she never once backs down--and he lets her push him out of the sunlight. She doesn't have the strength to do that if he doesn't want to let her, after all.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Really, I adore Stonetree and Schanke. (My favorite captain is Cohen, though.)

I always got the impression that Stonetree might have suspected Nick was a vampire. I can't recall off hand what ep I got that from, but thought I'd toss it in there.

The Neck of the Week, Erika, is played by Torri Higginson--Elizabeth Weir on Stargate: Atlantis. :)

Yeah, that's right!

I thought the vampire sitting on the bench waiting for the sun was incredibly sad.

I liked Stonetree and also........

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

thought that he knew about Nick being a vampire.

I really loved this episode and it was interesting to see how vampires also contemplate their mortality.

[elycia.livejournal.com]

This is definitely one of my favorite episodes, even if it does bog down a bit in some of the flashback scenes. That ten seconds of Nick and Erica getting it on in frilly nightshirts pays for all. :-) This episode is also the first one where I began to find Schanke bearable and possibly even endearing instead of endlessly annoying. His investigation in the fiance's apartment is exceedingly well done; he appears to the suspect to be benign and even a bit bumbling, but in reality, he doesn't miss a THING.

Perhaps most significantly, this episode single-handedly makes Last Knight a travesty. "Suicide is never the answer," indeed.

Re: I liked Stonetree and also........

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I really loved this episode and it was interesting to see how vampires also contemplate their mortality.

I agree.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

That ten seconds of Nick and Erica getting it on in frilly nightshirts pays for all. :-)

LOL!

[midnight-reader.livejournal.com]

This episode is also the first one where I began to find Schanke bearable and possibly even endearing instead of endlessly annoying.

Yeah...before we just see him as the comic relief but given the serious nature of the topic, we are able to get a better glimpse of a man who has his own mask to wear - the easy going, loud mouth hides a man that's street smart and not too easily frightened to do what needs to be done to uphold the law and protect the innocent...

Luicia

[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.

Re: I liked Stonetree and also........

[midnight-reader.livejournal.com]

thought that he knew about Nick being a vampire.

Was there ever any official stand on this? Was Stonetree supposed to have a 6th sense about reading people that was more than just police training?

I don't know if there was an official stand but........

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

the comments about Stonetree in the first episode of FK hint that he knows Nick is a vampire. You might want to read fan's comments about episode off of this site http://www.danaknight.com/EpGuide/season1/comments.html
and http://www.danaknight.com/EpGuide/season1/101.html

I don't know if there was an official stand but........

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

the comments about Stonetree in the first episode of FK hint that he knows Nick is a vampire. You might want to read fan's comments about episode off of this site http://www.danaknight.com/EpGuide/season1/comments.html
and http://www.danaknight.com/EpGuide/season1/101.html

[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.