FK Season 2 Episode "The Fix"
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switchbladeeyesThe last two Forever Knight episodes I went through were fairly meh. So I found myself pleased to get to "The Fix," a much better episode (on the vampire side of the story, at least; the cop side, not so much).
A cure! At last! But... not really. Ups and downs. And Nick eats another guy's lunch. Rude!
The episode starts out atypically during the day where we see a man in his car looking at a photo of him and his buddies, one of whom is Don Schanke. Unfortunately, the man is suicidal and shoots himself in the head with a handgun.
Meanwhile, at the morgue, Nick's casually laying on the slab, as one does, while Natalie draws blood samples from him. She takes two samples outside. One starts boiling with exposure to the sun, but the other does not. Hmmmmmm...
The suicidal man's body is quickly found. Schanke's on the scene, upset about his friend, not finding it believable that he would commit suicide. Internal Affairs (IA) is also on the scene poking around. Later, at the precinct, Schanke further voices his disbelief that his friend, who we learn was named Sykes, committed suicide.
But the IA officer is not going to beat around the bush here: Sykes was a dirty cop and a man who beat his wife. Schanke refuses to believe it and steps out of the room. Nick steps out as well and tells Schanke he thinks they should look into it because Nick "has a feeling" there's more to it. This is PRIME Nick playing at being a cop instead of actually being a cop. Hunches and feelings instead of actual evidence.
But Schanke seems now to be accepting the possibility that his friend was not who he thought he was, and if that's true, he doesn't want to know more. What can give him peace is remembering Sykes as Schanke knew him and leaving the rest well enough alone. I'm sure the ever reasonable Nick who listens to others instead of just doing what he wants as a police officer is going to respect that. Lol, no, that's not Nick at all.
Back at the morgue, Natalie has made a scientific breakthrough. For Science Reasons, she has pinned vampirism to likely be a genetic abnormality or virus, which can be neutralized. She has tested a drug known as Lidoveuterine-B on Nick's blood for that very purpose and SUCCESS, as demonstrated by the blood sample sun exposure. Treating Nick with this drug may be the cure!
We're whisked to flashback land where Nick is chatting with an 1800s scientist of some kind. He knows what Nick is and is willing to help correct his condition, for a price. That's great to Nick, he can afford it.
I think this might be the first time we see, chronologically, Nick trying for a cure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think until now, it's just been the occasional feelings of regret for what he is and what he has done. This is the first time that I recall when he actually tries to do something to reverse his physical condition.
In the present, Nick agrees to try the Lidoveuterine-B. Natalie gives him a small dose, but it makes him collapse to the floor in pain. When the pain subsides, he can feel that the vampire in him is gone. Whoa. Nick rushes outside and doesn't start burning up in the sun. WHOA.
Nick and Nat go for a ride in the Caddy, top down, in the sun. Glorious. Nat's going on about how they need to be careful, how they need to run tests, but Nick is like, yeah, yeah, sure, whatever, mind if we make a stop?
Well, the stop is to Janette. As if she'll be excited by this development. She's not only unimpressed, but seems pretty certain that this cure is not going to hold. She also makes an oblique reference to the Enforcers, who might not take this very well, viewing it as an existential threat for vampires.
During this conversation, we realize that Natalie doesn't know about the Enforcers. I find it a Big Deal that Nick has kept that information from her. Maybe he didn't want her to be frightened (because nothing can be done about her knowledge of vampires; she's a resistor). But still, I think she has a right to know, to be fully informed about the threats out there that she may be exposed to if she continues helping Nick.
Annnnnnyway, turns out Nick wants to share in the discovery with Janette so she can be human again too. Thinking she would want this is quite a reach, a total miscalculation! (Or was it? Consider that next season, we find out that Janette has actually been harboring doubts about what she is. Could Nick have been picking up on that, even unconsciously, at this point?)
Nick takes Nat back to the morgue, dodging her questions and adamantly insisting she give him some of the drug to take with him "just in case." She hesitates because he "sounds like a junkie" 😬 (I'll just say this because I think I should get it out of the way: personally, I don't think FK has ever dealt with the topic of addiction well. Not going to dwell on it though.) But she relents and sends him off with some doses, but remains Concerned.
A mourning Schanke visits the park where Sykes killed himself, find something on the ground that gives him pause, and picks it up.
We zip on over to the Raven again solely for the purpose of Janette having a flashback (which is kind of fun, usually flashbacks belong to Nick, but sometimes the others get to have them as well). 1800s Janette, stunning as ever in period costume, isn't happy with what Nick's been up to, exposing that he's a vampire and messing around with a cure, and is very worried about the threat of other vampires learning about that. In the present, we can see she is experiencing the same distress over Nick's latest shenanigans.
Nick takes more of the drug then goes to meet Schanke, who shows Nick what he found, a lens cap, which is a pretty innocuous thing to find in a park. Nick pushes Schanke into investigating the death further even though Schanke doesn't want to.
The detectives go off to meet a Wish brand Italian mobster in a stereotypical Italian mobster setting, an Italian restaurant. They question the mobster about Sykes but then Nick starts drinking the mobster's wine and eating off his plate. Both the mobster and Schanke are thrown for this breach in etiquette. What is this? A weird power move? No, Nick's just experiencing human hunger for the first time in nearly 800 years lol. Anyway, the mobster denies he had Sykes on his payroll, but says Sykes did try to shake him down for money.
Nick's ready for second lunch though and he and Schanke visit a hot dog stand while Nick spouts off wild conspiracy theories about the case. Maybe IA is dirty too! Maybe IA and Sykes were in cahoots! Nick then starts having vampire symptoms, imagining preying on a young woman he sees, and he vamps out. Nick scurries off as Schanke expresses concern about him.
Back at his loft, Nick's symptoms intensify and he drinks some blood before taking yet another dose of the drug while having flashbacks to his time with the scientist in the 1800s. Nick has a painful response to taking the drug, like the first time he took it, but then seems euphoric. He's getting some kind of high from it.
Meanwhile, LaCroix steps into the scene. He's here during the day somehow (I credit the clean and well-lit sewer system depicted in "Hunted"). LaCroix is in top tier snarky, creepy, possessive form, just how I like him.
Back at the police station, Schanke tells Nat about Nick's bizarre behavior and paranoid theories about Sykes's suicide. Nat realizes, crap, it's the drug.
At the loft, Nick thinks Janette called LaCroix and told him what Nick has been up to. LaCroix's like, no, no, Janette didn't call me (imo, she totally did), I "sensed" you were in pain, which could also be true since we know he's attuned to Nick on some psychic level.
Nick's like, bruh, it's not your problem anymore, I'm cured, I'm free of you. He opens the blinds and stands in the sun to demonstrate. LaCroix's all, dude, you're delusional and the Enforcers are gonna come for you if you keep this up. Also, you will NEVER be free of me. To punctuate his point, he steps into the sun too, even though it burns him. Now THAT is a way better power move than eating another guy's lunch.
Nick goes to the morgue for more of the drug, but Natalie cuts him off. The drug's effectiveness is rapidly fading and warping Nick's thoughts and behaviors. Nick objects vehemently, paranoid that Natalie is trying to control him. Schanke arrives and expresses his concern about Nick, which Nick, in his state, interprets as Schanke turning on him.
Back at home, Nick has more flashbacks to the 1800s. The scientist drains him of his blood to remove the "contamination," which weakens Nick to a point that he can't move. The scientist straps Nick down over Nick's objection. The scientist insists that they must carry on.
Meanwhile, Nick gets a voicemail from the mobster who tells him to meet him in an hour if he wants to know the whole story about Sykes. Soooooo, there is more to it? Nick goes back to the morgue and breaks into the locked cabinet containing the drug and steals some. At the meet up, the mobster has Nick shot by the IA officer on the Sykes case! Nick's unhinged conspiracy theory was true? Omg. One of the mobster's goons dumps Nick's body in the trunk of the Caddy.
Nat and Schanke go to the loft to confront Nick and hear the message on the answering machine. When they're back at Schanke's car, more mafia goons arrive and take shots at them, I assume because the mobster thinks Schanke also knows too much.
In flashback land, Janette is on the scene, having killed the scientist, she frees Nick from the restraints. She tells Nick the scientist just wanted to use him, have him as a specimen in his collection. I'm... not actually sure about that. I find Janette a dubious source of information. She has her own agenda. I mean, the scientist restraining Nick against his will was not great. But at the same time, I'm not convinced that his goal was anything other than curing Nick. LaCroix's also on the scene 'cause Janette totally told him about what Nick was doing, which is why I believe she did the same in the 1990s. LaCroix smirks and I think it was his idea to tell Nick the scientist was using him. Anyway, buckle up, LaCroix and Janette, because Nick is not going to stop doing this kind of thing.
One of the mobster's goons drives the Caddy to the lake. I presume the plan is to get rid of the body and the car here. But Nick is alive! And gets the drop on the goon. The corrupt IA officer arrives with the mobster to pick up the goon, but when the officer sees Nick is alive, they try to escape and crash the car. Somehow, Schanke knows where Nick is? He and Nat and squad cars pull up. Nick flashes his fangs at Nat and the look on his face is that he is back to normal.
Anyway, the corruption inside the police department is taken down! Thanks to Nick's drug-induced paranoid delusions!
None of that does Schanke any good as he is still mourning the loss of his friend and the kind of person he thought his friend was.
The End.
A lot of the time, FK struggles when trying to tell both a good police mystery and a good vampire story. Sometimes the show pulls it off. This... is not one of those times. I actually love the vampire story in this one because Nick feels so strongly that he has finally, FINALLY found his way back to his humanity. Sunshine! Food! The vampire is GONE! It's painful to watch as that unravels for him.
The police mystery though... sigh. The general concept was really good (IA gone corrupt!), but I wish there had been actual clues rather than Nick, once again, just "having a feeling." I also think Schanke should have been the one to solve this one. It would have been better if Nick's behavior had been a real liability nearly compromising Schanke's ability to expose the truth about the IA officer. I'll just let that little AU version of the investigation play out in my head because it's a better version.
Anyway, next on deck is "Curiouser and Curiouser," possibly my favorite episode of the show.
A cure! At last! But... not really. Ups and downs. And Nick eats another guy's lunch. Rude!
The episode starts out atypically during the day where we see a man in his car looking at a photo of him and his buddies, one of whom is Don Schanke. Unfortunately, the man is suicidal and shoots himself in the head with a handgun.
Meanwhile, at the morgue, Nick's casually laying on the slab, as one does, while Natalie draws blood samples from him. She takes two samples outside. One starts boiling with exposure to the sun, but the other does not. Hmmmmmm...
The suicidal man's body is quickly found. Schanke's on the scene, upset about his friend, not finding it believable that he would commit suicide. Internal Affairs (IA) is also on the scene poking around. Later, at the precinct, Schanke further voices his disbelief that his friend, who we learn was named Sykes, committed suicide.
But the IA officer is not going to beat around the bush here: Sykes was a dirty cop and a man who beat his wife. Schanke refuses to believe it and steps out of the room. Nick steps out as well and tells Schanke he thinks they should look into it because Nick "has a feeling" there's more to it. This is PRIME Nick playing at being a cop instead of actually being a cop. Hunches and feelings instead of actual evidence.
But Schanke seems now to be accepting the possibility that his friend was not who he thought he was, and if that's true, he doesn't want to know more. What can give him peace is remembering Sykes as Schanke knew him and leaving the rest well enough alone. I'm sure the ever reasonable Nick who listens to others instead of just doing what he wants as a police officer is going to respect that. Lol, no, that's not Nick at all.
Back at the morgue, Natalie has made a scientific breakthrough. For Science Reasons, she has pinned vampirism to likely be a genetic abnormality or virus, which can be neutralized. She has tested a drug known as Lidoveuterine-B on Nick's blood for that very purpose and SUCCESS, as demonstrated by the blood sample sun exposure. Treating Nick with this drug may be the cure!
We're whisked to flashback land where Nick is chatting with an 1800s scientist of some kind. He knows what Nick is and is willing to help correct his condition, for a price. That's great to Nick, he can afford it.
I think this might be the first time we see, chronologically, Nick trying for a cure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think until now, it's just been the occasional feelings of regret for what he is and what he has done. This is the first time that I recall when he actually tries to do something to reverse his physical condition.
In the present, Nick agrees to try the Lidoveuterine-B. Natalie gives him a small dose, but it makes him collapse to the floor in pain. When the pain subsides, he can feel that the vampire in him is gone. Whoa. Nick rushes outside and doesn't start burning up in the sun. WHOA.
Nick and Nat go for a ride in the Caddy, top down, in the sun. Glorious. Nat's going on about how they need to be careful, how they need to run tests, but Nick is like, yeah, yeah, sure, whatever, mind if we make a stop?
Well, the stop is to Janette. As if she'll be excited by this development. She's not only unimpressed, but seems pretty certain that this cure is not going to hold. She also makes an oblique reference to the Enforcers, who might not take this very well, viewing it as an existential threat for vampires.
During this conversation, we realize that Natalie doesn't know about the Enforcers. I find it a Big Deal that Nick has kept that information from her. Maybe he didn't want her to be frightened (because nothing can be done about her knowledge of vampires; she's a resistor). But still, I think she has a right to know, to be fully informed about the threats out there that she may be exposed to if she continues helping Nick.
Annnnnnyway, turns out Nick wants to share in the discovery with Janette so she can be human again too. Thinking she would want this is quite a reach, a total miscalculation! (Or was it? Consider that next season, we find out that Janette has actually been harboring doubts about what she is. Could Nick have been picking up on that, even unconsciously, at this point?)
Nick takes Nat back to the morgue, dodging her questions and adamantly insisting she give him some of the drug to take with him "just in case." She hesitates because he "sounds like a junkie" 😬 (I'll just say this because I think I should get it out of the way: personally, I don't think FK has ever dealt with the topic of addiction well. Not going to dwell on it though.) But she relents and sends him off with some doses, but remains Concerned.
A mourning Schanke visits the park where Sykes killed himself, find something on the ground that gives him pause, and picks it up.
We zip on over to the Raven again solely for the purpose of Janette having a flashback (which is kind of fun, usually flashbacks belong to Nick, but sometimes the others get to have them as well). 1800s Janette, stunning as ever in period costume, isn't happy with what Nick's been up to, exposing that he's a vampire and messing around with a cure, and is very worried about the threat of other vampires learning about that. In the present, we can see she is experiencing the same distress over Nick's latest shenanigans.
Nick takes more of the drug then goes to meet Schanke, who shows Nick what he found, a lens cap, which is a pretty innocuous thing to find in a park. Nick pushes Schanke into investigating the death further even though Schanke doesn't want to.
The detectives go off to meet a Wish brand Italian mobster in a stereotypical Italian mobster setting, an Italian restaurant. They question the mobster about Sykes but then Nick starts drinking the mobster's wine and eating off his plate. Both the mobster and Schanke are thrown for this breach in etiquette. What is this? A weird power move? No, Nick's just experiencing human hunger for the first time in nearly 800 years lol. Anyway, the mobster denies he had Sykes on his payroll, but says Sykes did try to shake him down for money.
Nick's ready for second lunch though and he and Schanke visit a hot dog stand while Nick spouts off wild conspiracy theories about the case. Maybe IA is dirty too! Maybe IA and Sykes were in cahoots! Nick then starts having vampire symptoms, imagining preying on a young woman he sees, and he vamps out. Nick scurries off as Schanke expresses concern about him.
Back at his loft, Nick's symptoms intensify and he drinks some blood before taking yet another dose of the drug while having flashbacks to his time with the scientist in the 1800s. Nick has a painful response to taking the drug, like the first time he took it, but then seems euphoric. He's getting some kind of high from it.
Meanwhile, LaCroix steps into the scene. He's here during the day somehow (I credit the clean and well-lit sewer system depicted in "Hunted"). LaCroix is in top tier snarky, creepy, possessive form, just how I like him.
Back at the police station, Schanke tells Nat about Nick's bizarre behavior and paranoid theories about Sykes's suicide. Nat realizes, crap, it's the drug.
At the loft, Nick thinks Janette called LaCroix and told him what Nick has been up to. LaCroix's like, no, no, Janette didn't call me (imo, she totally did), I "sensed" you were in pain, which could also be true since we know he's attuned to Nick on some psychic level.
Nick's like, bruh, it's not your problem anymore, I'm cured, I'm free of you. He opens the blinds and stands in the sun to demonstrate. LaCroix's all, dude, you're delusional and the Enforcers are gonna come for you if you keep this up. Also, you will NEVER be free of me. To punctuate his point, he steps into the sun too, even though it burns him. Now THAT is a way better power move than eating another guy's lunch.
Nick goes to the morgue for more of the drug, but Natalie cuts him off. The drug's effectiveness is rapidly fading and warping Nick's thoughts and behaviors. Nick objects vehemently, paranoid that Natalie is trying to control him. Schanke arrives and expresses his concern about Nick, which Nick, in his state, interprets as Schanke turning on him.
Back at home, Nick has more flashbacks to the 1800s. The scientist drains him of his blood to remove the "contamination," which weakens Nick to a point that he can't move. The scientist straps Nick down over Nick's objection. The scientist insists that they must carry on.
Meanwhile, Nick gets a voicemail from the mobster who tells him to meet him in an hour if he wants to know the whole story about Sykes. Soooooo, there is more to it? Nick goes back to the morgue and breaks into the locked cabinet containing the drug and steals some. At the meet up, the mobster has Nick shot by the IA officer on the Sykes case! Nick's unhinged conspiracy theory was true? Omg. One of the mobster's goons dumps Nick's body in the trunk of the Caddy.
Nat and Schanke go to the loft to confront Nick and hear the message on the answering machine. When they're back at Schanke's car, more mafia goons arrive and take shots at them, I assume because the mobster thinks Schanke also knows too much.
In flashback land, Janette is on the scene, having killed the scientist, she frees Nick from the restraints. She tells Nick the scientist just wanted to use him, have him as a specimen in his collection. I'm... not actually sure about that. I find Janette a dubious source of information. She has her own agenda. I mean, the scientist restraining Nick against his will was not great. But at the same time, I'm not convinced that his goal was anything other than curing Nick. LaCroix's also on the scene 'cause Janette totally told him about what Nick was doing, which is why I believe she did the same in the 1990s. LaCroix smirks and I think it was his idea to tell Nick the scientist was using him. Anyway, buckle up, LaCroix and Janette, because Nick is not going to stop doing this kind of thing.
One of the mobster's goons drives the Caddy to the lake. I presume the plan is to get rid of the body and the car here. But Nick is alive! And gets the drop on the goon. The corrupt IA officer arrives with the mobster to pick up the goon, but when the officer sees Nick is alive, they try to escape and crash the car. Somehow, Schanke knows where Nick is? He and Nat and squad cars pull up. Nick flashes his fangs at Nat and the look on his face is that he is back to normal.
Anyway, the corruption inside the police department is taken down! Thanks to Nick's drug-induced paranoid delusions!
None of that does Schanke any good as he is still mourning the loss of his friend and the kind of person he thought his friend was.
The End.
A lot of the time, FK struggles when trying to tell both a good police mystery and a good vampire story. Sometimes the show pulls it off. This... is not one of those times. I actually love the vampire story in this one because Nick feels so strongly that he has finally, FINALLY found his way back to his humanity. Sunshine! Food! The vampire is GONE! It's painful to watch as that unravels for him.
The police mystery though... sigh. The general concept was really good (IA gone corrupt!), but I wish there had been actual clues rather than Nick, once again, just "having a feeling." I also think Schanke should have been the one to solve this one. It would have been better if Nick's behavior had been a real liability nearly compromising Schanke's ability to expose the truth about the IA officer. I'll just let that little AU version of the investigation play out in my head because it's a better version.
Anyway, next on deck is "Curiouser and Curiouser," possibly my favorite episode of the show.
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Date: 2025-11-18 10:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-19 09:28 pm (UTC)Anyway, I love this episode. There are a few contestants, but I have to rank them, I think this would be #1 for me. I like the way that all the central characters have something significant to say or reveal to us. Not sure if that makes sense, but I feel that even though Janette and Lacroix have fairly limited screen time, they each have something to add. It feels more balanced to me then some episodes.
Of course, I am thrilled to see Nick get his day in the sun. I do think it would be a grimmer, sadder series overall if this never happened. And due to a little drug induced mania he makes the most of it. He gets to tool around in the caddy with the top down, run around in the sun, and he gets to eat. The scene in the restaurant is priceless, and Ger plays it to the hilt, with a great job by JK as well with his growing sense of incredulousness as Nick continues to push the boundaries of polite behavior.
Natalie finally gets some success scientifically, after a couple of years of trying at this point, It doesn't last for long, but at least she was able to effect a change.
It could not have felt good that the first thing Nick does is run to Janette. Unfortunately, I think in a way that tells us a lot about where his heart is. She is dismissive and skeptical, but maybe there is something there that Nick has sensed. Interesting that he cast her as a mortal in the following episode, C&C as well.
Absolutely! I'd love to come up with a good explanation for this, but I can't, other than Nick being selfish and not wanting her to stop her working on a cure. Since he had a brush with said Enforcers the year before, we can't even justify the threat as remote. Bad Nick!
Lacroix certainly weighs in with his feelings on the matter. "We are each other." It's a little too creepy and possessive for my taste, but he is who he is, that's for sure. And Nigel, as always, is pitch perfect.
(Happy Birthday, Nigel, btw!)
And poor Schanke. Another friend down. His loyalty to his friends and family is one the important hallmarks of his character. He probably knows his friend is on the take, and maybe even know he hits his wife, but Schanke still hangs in there for him, right or wrong. You can kind of extrapolate that to Nick and how he would respond if were to find out the truth about Nick. Most likely it wouldn't matter at all. In fact, if I were watching this episode for the first time in a linear manner, this is one of the episodes where I'd wonder if Natalie was going to spill the beans. She's pulling him in, not pushing Schanke out, I assume believing that Nick will moderate his behavior with Schanke around.
I love this flashback! I do enjoy when FK brings in a little classic horror/vampire myth and this the 'resurrection doctor' fits the bill. Extra points for Nick and Janette having the same fb! The dialogue between them in front of the building is brief but loaded. Nick, "I can't be this anymore. I can't." Is really the core of the show in many ways. It also tells me he won't be bringing Natalie across, not in the asteroid scare, not in LK. He loathes what he is too much.
And Janette's, "there are no secrets among us, not for long," is very informative as well. It reinforces what we are told about the information sharing that goes along with the sharing of blood.
I think the doctor/friend in LNMTA, with the opera singer, predates this by 20 years or so if the timelines are correct. Both are good, both are examples of Nick turning to science only to be tricked or used in some manner. It gives him some basis of his wariness of Natalie at times.
I do agree that Janette almost certainly looped in Lacroix, whether to stay in his good graces, or if she truly felt she might need backup, it's hard to say. Interesting idea about the motives of the scientist. I hadn't considered that she could be lying here, but you may be right.
I'm more forgiving in the lapses of police work, just as I have to ignore the fact that none of the medical stuff ever makes any sense. I think Nick's ability to make these leaps is supposed to be based on his very long exposure to human behavior as well as his own history as a murderer. In this case it is magnified by the manic effects of the drug, so he doesn't even bother to try and put the pieces together in a disciplined manner. YMMV
I'm not sure Schanke was in an emotional state to put it all together, he was pretty shaken up by his friends death.
I do wonder about the cleanup. The bodyguard full on knows he shot Nick, and then sees him pop out of the trunk in vamp mode. It's also unlikely that Berman (IA guy) and Vinetti are dead from the fender bender, and they saw Nick fly up and over the car. Some memory work seems in order and quickly.
I do love the flash of fang that Nick gives Natalie to reassure her that all is back to baseline. Cute way to do it!
Again, definitely one of my favorites! Thanks!
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Date: 2025-11-21 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-21 01:27 am (UTC)No worries! These posts are always open :-) Hope you're doing well.
Of course, I am thrilled to see Nick get his day in the sun. I do think it would be a grimmer, sadder series overall if this never happened.
I hadn't thought about that, but that's a great point! It was so nice to see him get this, even if it was short-lived.
It could not have felt good that the first thing Nick does is run to Janette. Unfortunately, I think in a way that tells us a lot about where his heart is. She is dismissive and skeptical, but maybe there is something there that Nick has sensed. Interesting that he cast her as a mortal in the following episode, C&C as well.
Poor Nat, kinda stuck with her feelings for Nick while he is right there with feelings for his old flame. And also so interesting that he casts his relationship with Natalie in C&C as one of infidelity to Janette. (Imma have A LOT to say about that episode.)
Absolutely! I'd love to come up with a good explanation for this, but I can't, other than Nick being selfish and not wanting her to stop her working on a cure. Since he had a brush with said Enforcers the year before, we can't even justify the threat as remote. Bad Nick!
I'd love to know what was going on in his head and how he justifies it to himself. And what does Nat think when she realizes there is something he's holding back from her that seems important. Is this going to come up between them again? Someone should write about it!
You can kind of extrapolate that to Nick and how he would respond if were to find out the truth about Nick. Most likely it wouldn't matter at all.
This is such great insight into Schanke and how he might react! We never see what he would *do* with what he put together in "Close Call" because it was so focused on him putting it together (and then talking himself out of it with an assist from LC). I would really love a canon divergent AU where Schanke absolutely finds out and how he and Nick navigate that. Maybe someday...
I think the doctor/friend in LNMTA, with the opera singer, predates this by 20 years or so if the timelines are correct.
That one is still living in the land of season 3 episodes I didn't rewatch and don't really recall. Thanks for clarifying the timeline!
I'm not sure Schanke was in an emotional state to put it all together, he was pretty shaken up by his friends death.
Yeah, I get that. But on a show where one of these two has to solve it, I think from a mystery-solving perspective, I would have enjoyed Schanke more putting it together with clues than how it played out.
I do wonder about the cleanup. The bodyguard full on knows he shot Nick, and then sees him pop out of the trunk in vamp mode. It's also unlikely that Berman (IA guy) and Vinetti are dead from the fender bender, and they saw Nick fly up and over the car. Some memory work seems in order and quickly.
Ha! Good point! I didn't even think about the coverup. Now I'm imagining long-suffering Janette and LC rolling in to save Nick's ass once more so the Enforcers don't get wind of all this.