FIRST SEASON COMMENTS

FIRST SEASON COMMENTS

Comments, tidbits, bloopers, and other interesting info about the episodes.

Dark Knight (Part 1)

Nick uses a semi-automatic handgun while Schanke uses a revolver.
Vampires see normally except for when they use their heightened senses, and their eyes change to yellow or red. The infrared vision, which helps them, to see clearly at night. Gives a red cast to everything, yet allows the vampire to see as clearly as daylight.
Stonetree is pretty sure that Nick's a vampire but doesn't tell anyone. He even convinces Schanke vampires are only legends.
Lucien LaCroix means light of the cross.
The scenes that are only in French are because Canadians speak English and French so there is no need to translate it.
Billy Buttery is a Gaffer, Bryan Renfro is a stuntman, but here they are on the other side of the camera.

Dark Knight (Part 2)

Nick's address is 101 Gateway Lane with 3,7, and possibly 9 as the first 3 alarm code digits.
First season ID card is for Nick Knight, the address on it is 9 Curity Ave, 27th precinct and has the month of October on it (probably the month of issue) and gives his age as 34. Birth date of 1/90. There is no signature on it.
Caddy's license # 35H MV6 says keep it beautiful under the plate number.
They can be killed by fire, sunlight, a wooden stake through the heart. Steel spikes will not kill, just hurt really badly.
Badge # 72748
ID # 8072 (on his Metropolitan Police Dept. ID card)
Precinct phone # 555-4762
Department 314 Homicide
ID card is signed N. Knight
96th Precinct is located at 27 Lockwood Rd. Toronto, Ontario, Zip code M4L 3M7
The ways to kill a Forever Knight vampire are
fire, sunlight, (wooden) stake through the heart, and decapitation.

For I Have Sinned

The Myra from the Raven is not the same Myra as Schanke's wife.
Joan of Arc was the first famous person we see Nick interacting with.
Tracey Cook returns as Rebecca in Dying for Fame.

Last Act

We see that Nick did at some point enjoy his life as a vampire. That he was not always the angst and guilt filled person we see today.
That his first season wardrobe was more casual than the other two seasons. This is the only season he wears colorful clothes and blue jeans.
We learn Natalie believes suicide is never the answer.
Just because you are a vampire doesn't mean you don't have the same problems mortals do: are they contributing to society or are they a burden? Do they love life or are they just there because they see no way out. Even the ones that pretend they do not care.
Nick spent time with the circus.
Natalie is not afraid to confront Nick when he really needs it. And he respects her enough to listen. This is another example of their strong friendship being beneficial to both of them.
Nick hurts because he cares. He cares about mortals, about his own kind. He has never lost that part of himself.
And as a former Knight he likes to see justice done, the guilty hurt and the innocent protected.
Nick was indeed in the Crusades, that he saw a Moorish castle during his time there. And that he was wounded and nearly died.
The Factory Theatre is where Erica's play was put on. It is a real theatre in Toronto.

Dance By the Light of the Moon

We learn a bit more about the characters.
We learn what turns Schanke on, as well as a little about his past.
There's some on Nick's past as well. Mainly about how he was seduced by a beautiful woman and wound up a vampire.
It is a good look at the differences between the sexes, and how easily one can be seduced. How some people will do anything for a beautiful woman.

Dying to Know You

Nicholas J. Gray is one of the stuntmen on the episode. He is also the second Unit Director as well as an Associate Producer/Production Manager.
Rick Forsayeth who is the stunt double for Nick Knight and was the stunt double on MacGyver, for Mac. Rick is also the stunt co-ordinator.
Yet another description of Myra. This one is probably one of the more different and the least nice of all the descriptions.

False Witness

This is the episode with the infamous popcorn scene. The one that is a practical joke Geraint played on Catherine.

Cherry Blossoms

Natalie's lines about them cutting her budget all to hell and having to lose two of the attendants from her shift leaves the impression that she is in charge. At least in charge of the night shift. Responsible for hiring and firing, scheduling, etc.

I Will Repay

Natalie's comment that she's known Nick for a year and a half makes this one set about six months before Only the Lonely.
We learn a lot about just how much Nick and Natalie would do to help each other, and how deep their friendship is. How much they truly trust one another.
We also learn a bit about Natalie’s life, her family, and her past. We see a new side to her, one that is not pleasant but makes her all the more real, all the more human.
We see that it is not that Nick does not want to help Natalie, it is that he cannot. That he was never taught how to bring someone across successfully.
It is possible that the true character of a person remains hidden. It is a gamble when you bring someone across. Just like in normal human life, you don’t know how they will react. It might not be about Nick being able or not able to bring someone across. It is about the hidden motives of the person he does it to. Which is a possible reason why the vampire is not entirely capable of assimilating the complete nature of a person through the blood. The vampire experiences a high when drinking a person’s blood that makes him think he knows everything. And we find out in a later episode, Francesca, that this high only lasts about 2 hours. This also accounts for the fact that Nick can be surprised about people’s motives even after he has tasted their blood.
Nick gave Elizabeth a lot more information about what she would become than either Janette or LaCroix gave him. He also gives her more of a choice, as she gets to say yes or no.
It seems that Janette also was not taught how to bring someone over. She admits that she never can stop in time. She promises them forever but can never stop in time to keep the promise, but there's no one left to apologize to.
We learn that the vampire heart beats a couple of beats once every ten minutes (approximately). This makes them marginally alive, but still living beings.
The comment right above this one is a continuity mistake, because we learn in a later episode, If Looks Could Kill, Janette brought the baroness across. This is something that may have been cut in American versions, as many fans tell us Janette cannot bring anyone across.
Jorge Montessi was the director of False Witness.
Natalie's license plate reads NTX 738.

Dead Air

This is Diane Cary's first of two appearances on the series. The second is in the third season episode Avenging Angel where she plays a completely different character.
We learn that LaCroix's cruelty was not from his vampirism, or Nick not being the perfect son. That it was actually bred into him, back when he was mortal. That it was from an extremely brutal childhood, physically, psychologically, and emotionally.
The colorful cards Nick is playing with are Tarot cards. They almost look like photographs.

Hunters

If the writers had developed it, there could have been a very interesting friendship between Schanke and Janette.
Larry Merlin is introduced in this episode.
Alan Smithee is the name that directors use when they want their name removed from a project.
This shows there is more to Schanke than just the bumbling exterior. He is much smarter and on the ball than people realize.
Schanke took off his tie in the motel room, yet at Memory Lane it was back around his neck. I doubt Schanke put it on before the explosion and did not have it afterwards.

Dead Issue

George Kapelos is John's brother, and is playing Arthur, one of the forensic technicians. He is the one that Schanke calls Artie, and picks on.
The music on the videotape is the same as from the strip club in Dance By the Light of the Moon when Ann is dancing.
Nick gives Schanke the Caddy keys much easier than he usually does all through the episode.
Nick has a different, a more informed view of women in the flashback. One that's a bit ahead of it's time.
The apartment exterior used for the Fiori's apartment building is the same one used for many different apartments, including Natalie's first season one. It is known by fans as the Apartment Building of the Damned.
This season shows Natalie to be friends with Schanke as well as Nick. She has scenes with just her and Schanke, as they have known each other longer than she and Nick have. -Who is the boy that Schanke is talking to at the end? It has been established that Schanke has one child, Jenny. But he was talking to the little boy as a father does.
Nick's quickly kissing Nat on the lips in front of the Captain is not in the Canadian version.

Father Figure

They never were consistent with Nick's image in the mirror. It was either because of time or budget constraints. The first season was filmed on a shoestring budget and did not have spare shooting or post-production time like some large budget shows did.
We see Nick's desire for children is part of the reason he wants to become mortal. He desires the whole wife, children, and house with picket fence dream. Most of the time he keeps this hidden from everyone.
Watching Natalie grab the Janie Jinx comics and Schanke grab the others is amusing. It shows that even though they're grown up professionals, they still enjoy comic books.
Lisa's not the only one to call the loft Nick's fortress of solitude. Schanke has done it as well.
LaCroix admits he is deranged.
This is the only episode where we see a scene shot from inside the lift looking into the main room. There are brick walls on the inside of the lift rather than the standard steel box.
There's a downstairs bathroom behind the main stairs, next to the mural, almost in the corner.
The flashback scenes were filmed at Casa Loma.

Spin Doctor

The pendant says Make Luck on one side and Steer Fate on the other.
The National Intruder's headline
Deceased Rock Star Alive
He's a 400 year old Vampire
obliquely refers to the Nick Knight movie with Rick Springfield.
The Hotel Perceval is really the Novatel Hotel. And there is no convention center as part of it. The convention center is several blocks away, by the CN Tower. The exterior seen right before the camera cuts into the crime scene is the Flat Iron building which is close to the Novatel.
The scene in the loft where Nick is playing with the candle was previously used in Hunters with different voiceovers. It is very rare for a scene to be reused without it being a flashback.
Did Natalie get hurt in the crash? Stonetree comments for them to make headway without anyone else getting hurt, which makes it sound as if she might have. Also, it's apparently the next night as she's talking with the Captain, as she tells him that last night Hiatt tried to put a stop to the investigation. Why didn't she do it the night of the crash?
Nick's a cop in Chicago ten years later in the Amateur Night flashbacks. Does this mean he goes from Associate Professor, with his picture in the paper as a Communist/Communist supporter, to a police officer with no one noticing? He is still a Chicago police officer in the flashbacks for Beyond the Law, which is set in 1968, where he is working convention security.
What would elections be like without spin doctors, fancy publicity, rumors, gossip, massive war chests, etc? Would it make things fairer? Would the most qualified, most honest person get in?

Dying for Fame

Tracy Cook was already in one episode as Alma, For I Have Sinned.
The bizarre diner scene looks more like it belongs in Feeding the Beast but was used here instead, for some reason.
Lori Yates sings Dark Side of the Glass.
For the younger people
an album is a vinyl record. It is like a CD only it had fewer songs and had them on both sides of the round piece of vinyl. It was larger and more fragile as they could be scratched. Album covers were often known for their artwork. They were also called 33's for the 33 rpms (revolutions per minute) they were played at on a record player. They were cheaper than CD's are now.
Another musical history note: the 8-track came before the cassette tape. It was a primitive and clunky box about the size of the original handheld Gameboy. You stuck the cartridge into a slot like you do a game on any game machine today, only this one went in horizontally like a floppy disk or CD does on a computer. It had eight songs on it and you used a button to pick which of the four sets of two songs you wanted to hear. There was no way to go directly to the song you wanted as there was no forward, no rewind, no skipping to the next track, or back a track. The tape was almost as wide as a videotape and was rather fragile. It wound around inside the hard plastic shell.
Dark Side of the Glass is on the first Forever Knight Soundtrack (available from Cresendo Records).

Only the Lonely

This is the only season that Natalie has that bright orange apartment, the cat, or that particular apartment.
From what we have seen of her vehicle, she does not own a convertible, so it would be quite hard to drive with the top down.
This is the only episode she has flashbacks.
According to the flashbacks, she's known Nick between eighteen months and two years at the time of this episode.
Nick and Natalie really need some lessons on how to communicate. If they knew how, they would not have had half the problems they did in this episode.
Her forehead injury moved from over her eyebrow to the end of it so it wouldn't be as noticeable and mess up the looks of the next scene, with her, Nick and Stonetree. It is also much smaller than it was.
For a while one of the well known fans was giving out home made brick pins to anyone who told her that they'd watched the episode more than three times, back during it's CBS run. All you had to do was email her with the statement that you'd seen it more than three times, give her your name and address, and send her a SASE.
Brick was a nickname that Nick earned for being a bit on the dense side at times, especially when it came to dealing with women. Some of the fans, Nick's in particular, did not like the nickname, while others, Nick fans included, did not mind it. And there were those that didn't pay it any attention.
Grace is in her late thirties.
The Humber Nursery is located an hour outside of Toronto.
Originally, there was supposed to be much more of a chase, with Nat defending herself, crawling under tables, etc to escape before she trips over the hose, hits her head on the table and is motionless on the ground. He is armed with a pickaxe as he is hunting her. He was going to use garden lyme on her while she's unconscious. After Nick's arrival, Roger goes after Nick, even after Nick breaks the head off the axe, and knocks the stake out of Roger's hand, and Roger to the ground. Roger gets a hold of the gun and fires three shots into Nick, asking what the hell is he, and when he sees that he can't stop Nick he aims the weapon at Natalie, threatening to shoot her. This is what causes Nick to fully vamp out furious, grab and toss Roger into the manure pile, leaving his broken body there for the other cops to deal with as he tends to Natalie.
Originally, we were supposed to see Nick tell her that she will not remember him and try to whammy her.
Some of the dialog after Natalie tells the person on the telephone that Eddie just brought the body in, the no, not yet is adlibbed.
If it is a morgue, why is there a hospital gown on a hanger hanging up, over by the cooler door? It looks wrinkle free and unworn.
The fan named Apartment Building of the Damned is seen as Natalie's apartment building.
Natalie's notes in her research journal consist of chemical formulas, a graph and notes. There's a shot of a two page spread with neat, block letters on one of the pages which says simulates blood plasma, gives a date of August 14, 1991. Subject was unable to ingest… Note: Try increasing synthetic lipids.

Unreality TV

It's a good thing that Nick shows up in pictures and videotape, even if he can't always see himself in the mirror.
Schanke's comment about how every cop should have a video camera with them has pretty much become a reality in real police cars.
LaCroix purposely did not teach Nick how to shield his thoughts so that he can keep control over him.
This may be the first mention of the Enforcers and the code.
Notice how Schanke did not take the camera crew to his place. Myra probably told them that if he did he would be either dead or divorced, maybe both.
Either someone at the hospital does not know their medicine or Schanke got confused when he tells Nick and Tawny that the bullet shattered Bobby's Tibia, and if it had gone a little higher it would've made him a permanent soprano, or killed him. The Tibia is not in the thigh. It is one of the two lower leg bones. And for a broken tibia, the cast stops below the knee, unless it's broken up by the knee.
This is the second time Natalie, Nick, Schanke and Stonetree have gathered off-duty, at least from what we've seen, and it's the only time at Nick's loft.

Feeding the Beast

Schanke's bowling is referenced in a few other episodes
Unreality TV, The Fix and probably one or two others.
This is probably the longest Nick has gone without blood, and without growing weak like in Dark Knight where Natalie had to give him a transfusion to prevent him from starving to death.
We see just how powerful the bond between Nick and Natalie is. How deep it is. She can talk to him, calm him, when Janette cannot.
Vampirism seems to be partly the physical addiction to the blood, the psychological addiction as well as the actual virus and physical changes to the host's body. Is Natalie right? Is it the blood that keeps Nick from coming back across?
If Monica had not disillusioned Nick, would he have stayed with the Twelve-Step program?
There are more Schanke and Natalie scenes first season.
We see just how much Nick truly cares for Schanke. Just how deep the friendship, partnership is.
The same thing goes for Natalie and Schanke's friendship.
This was the second confrontation between Natalie and Janette.

If Looks Could Kill

The Apartment House of the Damned exterior is used in this episode to be the exterior of where Norma Dean lived. It is the same exterior they use for Natalie's apartment.
This is the first of several different descriptions of Myra we get over the course of the series. In the first episode of the third season, we get our only brief look at her.
Natalie knows quite well that bullets do not kill vampires as she has dug numerous ones out of Nick over the years. One such time was in Father Figure.
Natalie's hairstyle, makeup and wardrobe changes about halfway through this episode. Gone are the frizzy hair and the overdone makeup. A more natural look starts here, which is much more flattering to her. The start of the style that will be seen through the second season and parts of it are still seen in the third season.
CDC is the Center for Disease Control, which has its headquarters in the United States, in Atlanta, Georgia. It has branches in other places.
This is the first time we see that there are at least two cells, opposite each other.
The white medical cabinet will later find a new home in Natalie's lab. One of the episodes it's clearly seen in and used for a few scenes is the second season episode The Fix.
The fact that Janette successfully brought over the Baroness contradicts Janette's statement in I Will Repay that she can't bring anyone over because she can never stop until they're drained dry and by then it's too late.
This episode has an alternate title
To Die For which was probably a working title.

Fatal Mistake

Alexandra is sometimes referred to as the dingbat barmaid.
A vampire's blood sweat gives new meaning to the phrase do not let them see you sweat.
They should have done more scenes like the one with Grace, Natalie and the chicken. At first, you were not sure what they were doing and then once you saw it was dinner it became quite amusing.
We get a very different description of Myra in this episode. It seems that every episode she is mentioned in, she has rarely described the same way twice.
Stonetree's badge number is 8623.
Nick's obviously not the only one who thinks being a vampire is a hellish existence. LaCroix thought it was just Nick, but now he has two children that despise what they are. Alexandra hates it as much, and probably more than Nick does.
It looks like Alexandra missed the lesson on vampires going poof when they die. Which makes it impossible to put Nick's head on her mantel.
If she is looking for the one who made her a vampire then she should be going after LaCroix, not Nick. Nick did not even know she was a vampire until she showed up that night.
Someone finally noticed the holes in Nick's clothes from being violently attacked. In Father Figure he told Natalie that sometime, someone was going to notice and he was right.

1966

This is one of few episodes that contain more flashback than current day story line. This flashback has a more complete story to it than the main story line does, or than most of the flashbacks do.
Nick was not doing much, if any driving in 1966, at least according to his comment to Bernard. Was the comment a satirical reference to the speed and recklessness with which he drove the car? If not… it makes one wonder when did he start driving? How long has he had the Caddy? Has he had it in more than one life?

Love You to Death

-This season's Schanke tended to be the more crass version, but he was still quite interesting, even when you wanted to smack him for being a jerk.
One of the reasons Myra would not leave the catalog lying around was they had a young daughter and it was not appropriate material for her to see.
The music played during the beginning of the photo shoot in the Raven was the same music used for Ann in Dance By the Light of the Moon.
Myra's mother is alive in this episode. Throughout the series she has been alive and dead a couple of times.
It is scary how good a LaCroix/Nigel impression John can do. And here wasn't even trying to when he said Nicholas' name in a dark, raspy tone.
There would be a ton of questions if anyone learned that Nick actually had 478 million dollars, once they recovered from the shock of it. Among the ton of questions would be why he took a paycheck, why he worked, especially as a cop. And of course everyone, Schanke in particular, would be hitting him up for money all the time. They would want to know why he pretended to be a working stiff. Why not live somewhere nicer. In addition, of course they would want to know where and how he got the money.
When Nick walks into the darkroom near the end one of the sounds is that of a transporter beaming someone either onto a ship or off land.
Nick's telling LaCroix he hated him is similar to a scene in Star Wars where Luke tells his father, Darth Vader, the same thing. Both fathers' tell their sons that is good, that they've taken the first step in the right direction. Both fathers keep baiting their sons to draw them further down that dark, Evil path. Moreover, both sons are tempted but something inside them keeps them from choosing that path.
The last scene was supposed to be a cliffhanger for season two. -This episode was supposed to be set one year after the events in Dark Knight part two.
LaCroix was a very messy eater as it seems half of his dinner was flowing down the guy's arm and dripping off his fingertips.
Nick had started killing only the guilty about 400 years earlier, around 1590.

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