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switchbladeeyesIt's literally forward into the past over here on my journal as I backtrack to hit this episode after taking it out of order with "Capital Offense."
Unfortunately, it's another weak episode though it does have some bright spots.
We open with some absolute asshole torturing an older woman to find out from her the answer to the question, "Where is Katherine?"
And right after that, the homicide squad is on the scene because the woman has been murdered :-( We are zipped off to flashback land as Nick looks at her body (is this a record for how quickly an episode has jumped from the modern era into a flashback?)
A dark-haired woman is crying out the name Katherine and beating on a garage door she can’t open. Inside the garage, we see another woman inside passed out in a car with the motor running. Nick hears the dark-haired woman's cries and comes running out of the house. He tries calling out Katherine's name, but when she doesn't respond, he straight up vamps out (with the red eyes even!), frightening the dark-haired woman. Turns out, she is the murdered woman in the present. She is older, but Nick recognizes her face. Sad!
Schanke's pretty perceptive here when he sees the look in Nick's eyes and asks if he knew her, which, of course Nick denies.
But Nick wants to tell someone though so he tells Nat. The woman's name was Madelyn Pinchot and we learn she was an assistant/dear friend of Katherine Barrington, who was a close friend of Nick's. In 1950 something, Katherine summoned Nick urgently to Toronto because her husband, Gordon, who was also Nick’s good friend, died.
It’s too bad we couldn’t have seen anything of the Barringtons palling around with Nick in London in the 1950s. Even a brief little montage would have been nice over the exposition we end up getting in this episode. It's too bad because I actually love the set up that Nick had close human friends and everything wasn't Horribly Tragic. Anyway, I digress.
Turns out Madelyn had been working as a psychic by the name of "Madame Natasha" in Toronto. Her apartment has been totally turned over by someone looking for something. Madelyn's student, who I shall dub Unnecessary Psychic, greets the detectives, but gets a vision when she touches Nick's hand and psychically knows "Madame" was tortured and murdered. I'm like... why is the show going this way? Psychic powers are totally irrelevant to the story. I don't get it. It's just nonsense. Anyway, Unnecessary Psychic had previously heard Madelyn argue with some old guy with a very generic description.
This makes Nick again go back into the past where Katherine is thanking funeral/memorial-goers for coming by. Some pushy guy named Jeremy Stanton's being a dick and pressing Katherine to sign some sort of papers and insisting that the "board" wants an answer.
In the present, Unnecessary Pyschic has a vision of a dance that will become relevant much later in the episode, but really, there was zero need for a psychic. This shit is why I hate psychics in this show (there was one in a season 1 episode too and I didn't like it there either). Why have a police investigation when you can just have a psychic have a vision of the future? Ugh. It's not even important to this story! Nick finds a photograph of an older Katherine in Madelyn's apartment, which is a clue that will be important later.
Turns out Jeremy Stanton is someone known to even Schanke in the present as an important and successful businessman. Nick—totally out of the blue as far as Schanke should be concerned—says Stanton is a suspect. Nick just "knows." And for some reason, Schanke would like to nail that guy to the wall... why? How are we leaping to Stanton in the course of the police investigation? Whatever. In other news, Schanke has tracked down a number of very, detailed records about "Madame Natasha." A "record number of records" as he puts it.
We journey back to the flashback where we learn that Katherine is now a part owner of "Barrington-Stanton Industries." She's like, I don't know how to run a corporation, also, Stanton is just an exhausting individual. And Nick gives her the best advice of the entire episode: sell your interest and invest the proceeds elsewhere. But despite knowing nothing about running a business, she wants to keep her interest in it for emotional reasons: to honor her husband's memory and to spite Stanton. Okay. Anyway, she also really loves the car Gordon gave her. Reminiscing, blah, blah, this is a bit of a snoozer of a conversation, all kinds of exposition for things we never got to see. Then Katherine suddenly drops the following drama bomb: "Jeremy Stanton killed my husband and I'll be next."
What? Excuse me? Way to bury the lede!! Why didn't she open with this when Nick arrived at her house??? I can't believe there's been a whole funeral and dull conversation between them until she revealed this information!
After this flashback, we do get another flashback that is kind of fun: turns out Nick's been to the 96th precinct station before. Neat! He goes to talk to a detective about Gordon's death. Apparently, Gordon was in a car accident, drove off the road. Nick wants to know why the police didn't question Stanton with whom Gordon had had a falling out. The detective blows him off because Stanton is a "pillar of the community."
The next night in 1994, Nick goes to the Raven because he needs Janette's help with getting in touch with someone named Aristotle. (As ever, Janette's presence, no matter how brief and even if it's just to put vampires in touch with one another, is a highlight for me.)
Back in flashback land, we see how Katherine ended up in the garage with the car running. Someone knocked her out, tampered with the garage door, and left her there (in a death that would otherwise look like a suicide). This brings us full circle to the first flashback with Nick vamping out. He forces the door open and rescues Katherine from the garage. Madelyn's still freaking out having seen him with vampire eyes and using super strength.
We learn via a conversation with Natalie that Nick told them what he was. He made Madelyn forget, but not Katherine though he's "not sure why." It matters to him that he could have friends that he could trust on that level and he touches Natalie affectionately. For she too is such a friend. Awwwwwwe. It's a very nice moment in the episode.
In the past, Nick and Katherine are brainstorming what to do. It must have been Stanton that put the hit on Katherine. She's afraid he will try again, but they can't go to the police because Stanton has them in his pocket. Nick offers vampire resources to help her start over with a new identity. For some kind of Business Reasons, this means she won't have to give up her controlling interest in the Barrington-Stanton company. (Honestly, it sounds... odd, much like Science Reasons from Natalie that kind of gloss over things we’re meant to not question. We'll roll with it, but this doesn't make a lot of sense and makes even less sense later in the episode.) Also, even though the episode doesn't address it, I'm guessing that Stanton is a resistor or something?? Because the easier course of action would just be to whammy him to not murder Katherine. (And that’s, IMO, a fair use of the whammy.)
Meanwhile, in the present, Unnecessary Psychic turns out not to have been much of a psychic after all because she winds up murdered. She was shot in the head execution style (which is weird, because we actually saw a guy with a garrote lurking outside the apartment earlier in the episode; guess he changed his mind on murder weapon.) At the scene, Schanke's all, you can let the whole Stanton thing go, there's nothing on that guy. But Nick won't let it go. He’s also not going to loop Schanke in and just kind of blows him off. Why can't we have better clues connecting Stanton and his hitman here? Why do we have to freeze Schanke out? Dislike! There could have been a coherent police investigation in this episode, but we’re stuck with psychics and Nick just “knowing.”
Nick goes off on his own to see Stanton, who finds Nick familiar, but can't place him for obvious reasons. Stanton admits he had seen "Madame Natasha" thinking she looked like someone he used to know, but that's it. Nick puts the interrogation screws on Stanton, who apparently is one vote (Katherine Barrington's vote) shy of a merger that would make him a fuck ton of money, like even in Canadian dollars. So that's pretty strong incentive for him to torture people he thinks know about Katherine's whereabouts.
We finally get to meet the aforementioned Artistotle. This is a neat part of the episode, giving us a look into the machinery of maintaining vampire secrecy. Aristotle is kind of like season 1’s Larry Merlin with what he does (maybe they work together?). He creates identities, including records that construct a detailed backstory for the identity. This is why Schanke was able to track down a "record number of records" for Madelyn/Madame Natasha. Because it was Aristotle that constructed her identity and Katherine Barrington's new identity.
In the past, Aristotle didn't want to do it because creating identities for mortals is "against the rules" and the Enforcers might actually kill Aristotle for it. But Aristotle owes Nick for—BIG SIGH-–"that time at the Battle of Hastings." And while it certainly would have been rad if the timing were such that Nick could have been involved in the Norman conquest, he wasn't even born in the same century! This is an infamous gaffe. Continuity: not what FK is known for.
Aristotle also owes Nick "for that Inquisition matter." This one I like! And not just because it was possible without a TARDIS or time traveling DeLorean. We know Nick has been involved in an "Inquisition matter" from "Sons of Belial." I suppose Aristotle might have had nothing to do with that and it was a different Inquisition, but what if it was the same? What was his involvement? That would be a fun connection to make!
Apparently, the Enforcer threat must be a little overblown and "the rules" here might be more like "best practices" because Aristotle quickly agrees to help Nick relocate Madelyn and Katherine, but Nick is never to know anything about them after they've moved on.
In the present, Nick wants Aristotle to bend “the rules” again by giving him Katherine's whereabouts. But that's a bridge too far for Aristotle and he refuses.
Despite the "Battle of Hastings" thing, I actually love this bit of the episode. It's not unusual to see vampires with occupations. They've got to fill their time with something, I suppose. All three of our main vamps have jobs, but they're regular jobs. Aristotle has a vampire-specific job. The only other expressly vampire-specific job we ever see is Enforcer. Vampires seem to have some semblance of an organized society, even if only very loosely organized, that we rarely see since Nick keeps himself at the fringes. So it's neat to glimpse it here.
In flashback land, Madelyn and Katherine are packing up to go to their new lives with Aristotle's help. Katherine is bereft when Nick tells her that she cannot take her car with her. The rules are that she cannot take anything of her old life with her. She and Madelyn essentially leave with only the clothes on their backs. Oh, and Katherine’s 51% share of the company. Guess that's okay to keep.
In the present, Stanton confers with his henchman, who has apparently discovered a safe deposit box Madeline and Katherine were using to exchange messages or something. The episode makes no effort to help us understand how this helps Stanton track Katherine down and confront her later in the episode.
Because Aristotle will not help him, Nick’s on his own to figure out where Katherine is. He studies a blown up version of the photograph he found in Madelyn's apartment. I think the photo is a cool place to put a clue and how they did it with one of the shadows was pretty neat. Nick sees a shadow of a hood ornament of the car Katherine gave up. It seems likely she bought another one, which was a foolish move.
Remember the random dance hall Unnecessary Psychic saw in a vision? Time to go there. We finally find 1994 Katherine, who is dancing the night away with George, her subsequent husband.
Schanke has tracked down Katherine Barrington’s car. It's one of two. TWO. In all of Ontario. Does this woman want to be murdered? The car points right to her for anyone who knew her. Nick jets off on his own, leaving Schanke frustrated at the police station.
Stanton was not happy with Nick's snooping around so sets his henchman on Nick. He follows Nick's car, but Nick is wise to this and leads him to a deserted spot. Nick uses super speed and strength to easily subdue the henchman, who readily admits he works for Stanton and that Stanton knows where Katherine is. Why Nick doesn't just ask this guy where that is, I have no idea!! Instead, he throws the henchman in the trunk and calls Schanke to come and get him.
Nick flies off to the address where Katherine's car is registered and breaks into the house. He sees a flyer for a dance to be held that very night. And we get a quick flash of the time the Unnecessary Psychic predicted this very thing. So dumb! The flyer is a completely sufficient clue to point to Katherine’s location.
Back at the dance, Katherine and George are having a grand time. Katherine does not see an armed Stanton lurking in the shadows. Conveniently, the party breaks up and everyone leaves the ballroom while George “gets the coats.” This gives Stanton his chance!
Stanton confronts Katherine and lets her know how he had Madelyn tortured and killed. He's pissed at her obstinacy for blocking business deals he wanted. And she is like, I just disagreed with you. Just business. Nothing personal. She's not going to mention Gordon’s death and the attempt on her own life? Okay. At any rate, Stanton's in a real confessiony mood and admits he killed Gordon and is going to kill Katherine. In swoops Nick, who easily overpowers and disarms Stanton. Meanwhile, George sure is taking his sweet ass time getting those coats.
Sometime later, back at the loft, Nick is going through an old photo album with Katherine. She tells Nick about the life and family she's had since they last parted. She's ready to let the company go now that Stanton’s been arrested because he won't be able to profit off of Gordon's murder. I think this final scene is touching. It’s nice to see their friendship is still there.
Buuuuuut...
Is this supposed to be the same night? She's still wearing her sparkly dancing outfit. Doesn't Nick need to book some people in jail? Write a report? Get his car back? Nah, you know he made Schanke do all that.
Not a strong episode though we did learn a lot of neat little bits of information along the way.
If you want a way more fun and interesting story flowing from the events of Gordon Barrington's death, readpj1228's What Lies Buried.
Unfortunately, it's another weak episode though it does have some bright spots.
We open with some absolute asshole torturing an older woman to find out from her the answer to the question, "Where is Katherine?"
And right after that, the homicide squad is on the scene because the woman has been murdered :-( We are zipped off to flashback land as Nick looks at her body (is this a record for how quickly an episode has jumped from the modern era into a flashback?)
A dark-haired woman is crying out the name Katherine and beating on a garage door she can’t open. Inside the garage, we see another woman inside passed out in a car with the motor running. Nick hears the dark-haired woman's cries and comes running out of the house. He tries calling out Katherine's name, but when she doesn't respond, he straight up vamps out (with the red eyes even!), frightening the dark-haired woman. Turns out, she is the murdered woman in the present. She is older, but Nick recognizes her face. Sad!
Schanke's pretty perceptive here when he sees the look in Nick's eyes and asks if he knew her, which, of course Nick denies.
But Nick wants to tell someone though so he tells Nat. The woman's name was Madelyn Pinchot and we learn she was an assistant/dear friend of Katherine Barrington, who was a close friend of Nick's. In 1950 something, Katherine summoned Nick urgently to Toronto because her husband, Gordon, who was also Nick’s good friend, died.
It’s too bad we couldn’t have seen anything of the Barringtons palling around with Nick in London in the 1950s. Even a brief little montage would have been nice over the exposition we end up getting in this episode. It's too bad because I actually love the set up that Nick had close human friends and everything wasn't Horribly Tragic. Anyway, I digress.
Turns out Madelyn had been working as a psychic by the name of "Madame Natasha" in Toronto. Her apartment has been totally turned over by someone looking for something. Madelyn's student, who I shall dub Unnecessary Psychic, greets the detectives, but gets a vision when she touches Nick's hand and psychically knows "Madame" was tortured and murdered. I'm like... why is the show going this way? Psychic powers are totally irrelevant to the story. I don't get it. It's just nonsense. Anyway, Unnecessary Psychic had previously heard Madelyn argue with some old guy with a very generic description.
This makes Nick again go back into the past where Katherine is thanking funeral/memorial-goers for coming by. Some pushy guy named Jeremy Stanton's being a dick and pressing Katherine to sign some sort of papers and insisting that the "board" wants an answer.
In the present, Unnecessary Pyschic has a vision of a dance that will become relevant much later in the episode, but really, there was zero need for a psychic. This shit is why I hate psychics in this show (there was one in a season 1 episode too and I didn't like it there either). Why have a police investigation when you can just have a psychic have a vision of the future? Ugh. It's not even important to this story! Nick finds a photograph of an older Katherine in Madelyn's apartment, which is a clue that will be important later.
Turns out Jeremy Stanton is someone known to even Schanke in the present as an important and successful businessman. Nick—totally out of the blue as far as Schanke should be concerned—says Stanton is a suspect. Nick just "knows." And for some reason, Schanke would like to nail that guy to the wall... why? How are we leaping to Stanton in the course of the police investigation? Whatever. In other news, Schanke has tracked down a number of very, detailed records about "Madame Natasha." A "record number of records" as he puts it.
We journey back to the flashback where we learn that Katherine is now a part owner of "Barrington-Stanton Industries." She's like, I don't know how to run a corporation, also, Stanton is just an exhausting individual. And Nick gives her the best advice of the entire episode: sell your interest and invest the proceeds elsewhere. But despite knowing nothing about running a business, she wants to keep her interest in it for emotional reasons: to honor her husband's memory and to spite Stanton. Okay. Anyway, she also really loves the car Gordon gave her. Reminiscing, blah, blah, this is a bit of a snoozer of a conversation, all kinds of exposition for things we never got to see. Then Katherine suddenly drops the following drama bomb: "Jeremy Stanton killed my husband and I'll be next."
What? Excuse me? Way to bury the lede!! Why didn't she open with this when Nick arrived at her house??? I can't believe there's been a whole funeral and dull conversation between them until she revealed this information!
After this flashback, we do get another flashback that is kind of fun: turns out Nick's been to the 96th precinct station before. Neat! He goes to talk to a detective about Gordon's death. Apparently, Gordon was in a car accident, drove off the road. Nick wants to know why the police didn't question Stanton with whom Gordon had had a falling out. The detective blows him off because Stanton is a "pillar of the community."
The next night in 1994, Nick goes to the Raven because he needs Janette's help with getting in touch with someone named Aristotle. (As ever, Janette's presence, no matter how brief and even if it's just to put vampires in touch with one another, is a highlight for me.)
Back in flashback land, we see how Katherine ended up in the garage with the car running. Someone knocked her out, tampered with the garage door, and left her there (in a death that would otherwise look like a suicide). This brings us full circle to the first flashback with Nick vamping out. He forces the door open and rescues Katherine from the garage. Madelyn's still freaking out having seen him with vampire eyes and using super strength.
We learn via a conversation with Natalie that Nick told them what he was. He made Madelyn forget, but not Katherine though he's "not sure why." It matters to him that he could have friends that he could trust on that level and he touches Natalie affectionately. For she too is such a friend. Awwwwwwe. It's a very nice moment in the episode.
In the past, Nick and Katherine are brainstorming what to do. It must have been Stanton that put the hit on Katherine. She's afraid he will try again, but they can't go to the police because Stanton has them in his pocket. Nick offers vampire resources to help her start over with a new identity. For some kind of Business Reasons, this means she won't have to give up her controlling interest in the Barrington-Stanton company. (Honestly, it sounds... odd, much like Science Reasons from Natalie that kind of gloss over things we’re meant to not question. We'll roll with it, but this doesn't make a lot of sense and makes even less sense later in the episode.) Also, even though the episode doesn't address it, I'm guessing that Stanton is a resistor or something?? Because the easier course of action would just be to whammy him to not murder Katherine. (And that’s, IMO, a fair use of the whammy.)
Meanwhile, in the present, Unnecessary Psychic turns out not to have been much of a psychic after all because she winds up murdered. She was shot in the head execution style (which is weird, because we actually saw a guy with a garrote lurking outside the apartment earlier in the episode; guess he changed his mind on murder weapon.) At the scene, Schanke's all, you can let the whole Stanton thing go, there's nothing on that guy. But Nick won't let it go. He’s also not going to loop Schanke in and just kind of blows him off. Why can't we have better clues connecting Stanton and his hitman here? Why do we have to freeze Schanke out? Dislike! There could have been a coherent police investigation in this episode, but we’re stuck with psychics and Nick just “knowing.”
Nick goes off on his own to see Stanton, who finds Nick familiar, but can't place him for obvious reasons. Stanton admits he had seen "Madame Natasha" thinking she looked like someone he used to know, but that's it. Nick puts the interrogation screws on Stanton, who apparently is one vote (Katherine Barrington's vote) shy of a merger that would make him a fuck ton of money, like even in Canadian dollars. So that's pretty strong incentive for him to torture people he thinks know about Katherine's whereabouts.
We finally get to meet the aforementioned Artistotle. This is a neat part of the episode, giving us a look into the machinery of maintaining vampire secrecy. Aristotle is kind of like season 1’s Larry Merlin with what he does (maybe they work together?). He creates identities, including records that construct a detailed backstory for the identity. This is why Schanke was able to track down a "record number of records" for Madelyn/Madame Natasha. Because it was Aristotle that constructed her identity and Katherine Barrington's new identity.
In the past, Aristotle didn't want to do it because creating identities for mortals is "against the rules" and the Enforcers might actually kill Aristotle for it. But Aristotle owes Nick for—BIG SIGH-–"that time at the Battle of Hastings." And while it certainly would have been rad if the timing were such that Nick could have been involved in the Norman conquest, he wasn't even born in the same century! This is an infamous gaffe. Continuity: not what FK is known for.
Aristotle also owes Nick "for that Inquisition matter." This one I like! And not just because it was possible without a TARDIS or time traveling DeLorean. We know Nick has been involved in an "Inquisition matter" from "Sons of Belial." I suppose Aristotle might have had nothing to do with that and it was a different Inquisition, but what if it was the same? What was his involvement? That would be a fun connection to make!
Apparently, the Enforcer threat must be a little overblown and "the rules" here might be more like "best practices" because Aristotle quickly agrees to help Nick relocate Madelyn and Katherine, but Nick is never to know anything about them after they've moved on.
In the present, Nick wants Aristotle to bend “the rules” again by giving him Katherine's whereabouts. But that's a bridge too far for Aristotle and he refuses.
Despite the "Battle of Hastings" thing, I actually love this bit of the episode. It's not unusual to see vampires with occupations. They've got to fill their time with something, I suppose. All three of our main vamps have jobs, but they're regular jobs. Aristotle has a vampire-specific job. The only other expressly vampire-specific job we ever see is Enforcer. Vampires seem to have some semblance of an organized society, even if only very loosely organized, that we rarely see since Nick keeps himself at the fringes. So it's neat to glimpse it here.
In flashback land, Madelyn and Katherine are packing up to go to their new lives with Aristotle's help. Katherine is bereft when Nick tells her that she cannot take her car with her. The rules are that she cannot take anything of her old life with her. She and Madelyn essentially leave with only the clothes on their backs. Oh, and Katherine’s 51% share of the company. Guess that's okay to keep.
In the present, Stanton confers with his henchman, who has apparently discovered a safe deposit box Madeline and Katherine were using to exchange messages or something. The episode makes no effort to help us understand how this helps Stanton track Katherine down and confront her later in the episode.
Because Aristotle will not help him, Nick’s on his own to figure out where Katherine is. He studies a blown up version of the photograph he found in Madelyn's apartment. I think the photo is a cool place to put a clue and how they did it with one of the shadows was pretty neat. Nick sees a shadow of a hood ornament of the car Katherine gave up. It seems likely she bought another one, which was a foolish move.
Remember the random dance hall Unnecessary Psychic saw in a vision? Time to go there. We finally find 1994 Katherine, who is dancing the night away with George, her subsequent husband.
Schanke has tracked down Katherine Barrington’s car. It's one of two. TWO. In all of Ontario. Does this woman want to be murdered? The car points right to her for anyone who knew her. Nick jets off on his own, leaving Schanke frustrated at the police station.
Stanton was not happy with Nick's snooping around so sets his henchman on Nick. He follows Nick's car, but Nick is wise to this and leads him to a deserted spot. Nick uses super speed and strength to easily subdue the henchman, who readily admits he works for Stanton and that Stanton knows where Katherine is. Why Nick doesn't just ask this guy where that is, I have no idea!! Instead, he throws the henchman in the trunk and calls Schanke to come and get him.
Nick flies off to the address where Katherine's car is registered and breaks into the house. He sees a flyer for a dance to be held that very night. And we get a quick flash of the time the Unnecessary Psychic predicted this very thing. So dumb! The flyer is a completely sufficient clue to point to Katherine’s location.
Back at the dance, Katherine and George are having a grand time. Katherine does not see an armed Stanton lurking in the shadows. Conveniently, the party breaks up and everyone leaves the ballroom while George “gets the coats.” This gives Stanton his chance!
Stanton confronts Katherine and lets her know how he had Madelyn tortured and killed. He's pissed at her obstinacy for blocking business deals he wanted. And she is like, I just disagreed with you. Just business. Nothing personal. She's not going to mention Gordon’s death and the attempt on her own life? Okay. At any rate, Stanton's in a real confessiony mood and admits he killed Gordon and is going to kill Katherine. In swoops Nick, who easily overpowers and disarms Stanton. Meanwhile, George sure is taking his sweet ass time getting those coats.
Sometime later, back at the loft, Nick is going through an old photo album with Katherine. She tells Nick about the life and family she's had since they last parted. She's ready to let the company go now that Stanton’s been arrested because he won't be able to profit off of Gordon's murder. I think this final scene is touching. It’s nice to see their friendship is still there.
Buuuuuut...
Is this supposed to be the same night? She's still wearing her sparkly dancing outfit. Doesn't Nick need to book some people in jail? Write a report? Get his car back? Nah, you know he made Schanke do all that.
Not a strong episode though we did learn a lot of neat little bits of information along the way.
If you want a way more fun and interesting story flowing from the events of Gordon Barrington's death, read
pj1228's What Lies Buried.
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Date: 2024-01-23 11:42 pm (UTC)Of course! What are partners for, after all? Especially when you can whammy them.
As for the Battle of Hastings, there is actually a whole wiki articla about it in the Forever Knight Wiki. (I should know: I wrote it.) It has a section with some quotations from fan discussion on FORKNI-L, as well as a short list of fanfic that deals with the "Battle of Hastings problem" in a variety of ways. One of which I also wrote!
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Date: 2024-01-24 01:54 am (UTC)I kind of love the Agatha Christie angle one fan proposed in the FORKNI-L discussion referenced in the article.
A Poirot/FK crossover would be fun; heavily featuring Poirot’s buddy, Captain Hastings, of course :-D
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Date: 2024-01-29 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-01-24 10:44 pm (UTC)Also greatly enjoyed Siege of Hastingues by Greer! The historical detail is amazing, and it really gives a very authentic feel to the story. I loved seeing the best of Nick as well, something we don't always get to appreciate.
Definitely a weaker episode but much more enjoyable than Capitol Offense. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I do look for Real Life reasons behind what we see on the air. There are two writers credited for the script and is it the only episode on the 2nd season without Nigel featured at all?
Somehow I have a vision of a mad scramble to get this one made, leading perhaps to some of the weak spots.
I do like Katherine, both young and old. It's nice to see Nick with a mortal friendship that doesn't go completely sideways. I hope they continued the relationship.
I too love this little glimpse of 'vampire life'. Whether it's Aristotle, Felix Twist or even Danny the video editor, it gives the illusion that they really could be out there and we just don't know it.
It's interesting that Nick needs Janette to secure his access to Aristotle, even though Aristotle seems to be in the same space he was 40 years before. And the veiled reference to Nick being accused of being a communist in Spin Doctor is very clever. It almost makes up for the Battle of Hastings slip--almost.
Catherine has to give up her very distinctive vehicle, but Nick gets to hold on to his own? Seems like a bit of a mixed message there.
And I have to agree with you about the psychic angle. Not really sure why that was used. Young secretary Madeline doesn't really seem like the psychic type either, not sure I see her evolving into Madame Natasha.
It was fun to see Nick in an earlier version of the 96th! I suspect that it had more to do with keeping the show budget in check and reusing the same set, but it was still cool to see. Glad to see that the quality of policing has improved at well. Somehow I don't see Cohen reading the racing form at work!
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Date: 2024-01-25 12:43 am (UTC)re: whether this was the only season 2 episode without Nigel. I believe he was also absent for "Queen of Harps."
When did Nick acquire the Caddy? I assumed he bought it in 90s Toronto. Did he acquire it earlier? I just don't recall.
I also hope he kept up the renewed friendship with Katherine. If I remember right, he also kept up with the friends he made in "1966." Watching Nick and older Katherine, I kind of thought, that could be Nick and Natalie some day if the whole cure thing doesn't work. And also if the show's ending hadn't happened the way it did. And they agreed to keep it to friendship.
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Date: 2024-01-25 03:12 am (UTC)I'll gladly admit that's an incredible stretch! :-)
As for the Caddy, my original thought was the same as yours, that Nick had acquired it in his present life, perhaps to facilitate his need to interact with mortals so much. There is however the NYC driver's license from the '60s in the name of Nicholas Forrester which Schanke finds in the glove compartment in 'Close Call'. It's hard to argue that it could indicate that Nick owned the Caddy from the time it would have been a new car. Not that I believe that Nick would ever be that careless, or that sloppy, given how pristine the loft usually was, but it is canon.
I also agree that I could see Nick and Natalie very easily reflected in Nick's relationship with Katherine. It would have been a nicer--and probably more realistic way to end the series.