THIRD SEASON COMMENTS

THIRD SEASON COMMENTS

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

Black Buddha (Part 1)

The series moved to a new network (USA) and they insisted on many changes. Schanke was out. In came the younger, "hipper" characters of Tracy, Vachon and Urs, to hopefully attract the younger demographics. The Nick and Natalie relationship was all but destroyed as they were the "old" guys.
The SciFi Channel showed the episodes after USA showed it as they had some deal where both networks had the rights to show it, but USA got it first.
USA dropped the show halfway through the season, not happy with their retooling of the show. SciFi Channel finished the season.
Deb Duchene wanted to pursue other things so they had Janette sell the club to LaCroix and leave for parts unknown, except maybe to LaCroix.
The budget for the third season was slashed quite a bit, and it was already a rather low budget show.
It has been said that USA tried to get rid of Catherine Disher because they said she was too old. Geraint Wyn Davies told them that if she left he left, so they had to keep her. After this there were drastic changes in Natalie. She was always cranky and was dressed in not so flattering costumes.

Black Buddha (Part 2)

This changes the whole dynamics of the show. The triangles have now become: Natalie, Nick, Tracy. Vachon, Tracy, Nick. Natalie, Nick, LaCroix. Vachon, Screed, Urs. Vachon, Tracy, Urs. Nick, LaCroix, Vachon. The influences on Nick are different. There are more vampires. Nick can no longer go to Janette when he needs that kind of release.
Natalie is no longer the only mortal to know vampires exist and to befriend one.

Outside the Lines

Reese's question about what was wrong with the old walls shows that the writer apparently forgot about the bomb that went off at the end of Black Buddha.
Not only that but the Captain's office is in perfect shape for having been blown up at the end of Black Buddha part one.
When you are the new detective, it's not smart to question the coroner's competency without a very good reason, especially in front of others. When you know each other, it is even less smart.
The writers and continuity people seem to have forgotten that a person's whole life is in every drop of their blood.

Blackwing

There were a lot of fan complaints about Nick being unfaithful to Natalie in this episode, but he was not. The shamanistic healing procedure implied in this episode could involve touching another person very intimately and all over the body. However, it would not require sexual intercourse. That would be why Nick tells people during the episode his relationship to Marian is not what they think. It would, however, be a very sensuous experience and would create a very close spiritual connection between the people involved. People who do not believe in this type of healing might consider it sexual. It is not considered sex by the participants.
We also see that Nick is affected by religious items outside of his native religion.

Blind Faith

This was a good Tracy episode because we got to see beneath the surface. See what insecurities, fears and problems Tracy has. We got to see her secure enough with Nick as a friend to tell him what was bothering her. He felt secure enough with her to offer advice.
There was some useful information about Multiple Sclerosis offered in a way that worked well with the plot.
The fact that Perry, a dog, brought Jody across is a little odd, but otherwise the plot worked.
It is too bad that Tracy and Jody didn't get to spend more time together once Tracy overcame her fears and guilt and reunited with her friend.

My Boyfriend is a Vampire

Geordi Johnson (Jerry) played Dracula on Dracula: The Series. Geraint Wyn Davies played Klaus, one of Dracula's executives at the company headquarters.
Reese's battle with the water cooler becomes a running joke for the season. The poor guy never does get a drink from it.
Everyone wanted to know what the card said, but no one was able to find out. The unknown contents caused major discussions with everyone putting in their guesses.
Nick uses humor and misdirection to keep people, Tracy especially, from taking the whole vampire thing too seriously. It is obvious he’s an expert at camouflage.
Maggie Dwyer lived in the Apartment Building of the Damned, named that by fans because of all the bad things that happened in it. It was the apartment building exterior used in many episodes for different interiors.
In the flashback where Vachon is talking about women being as virtuous as a mountain stream the background music is the same music that was used in Dance by the Light of the Moon for Ann's theme.
LaCroix was again a little too cheerful. He is not acting like he has throughout most of the series.
This could be what LaCroix is like when we are not seeing him through Nick’s point of view. All the vampires probably are perfectly charming, outwardly cheerful and intelligent conversationalists. That is what makes them such perfect human predators. They can attract their prey far more easily that way. That is what is so very spooky about this show. All the villains are beautiful and charming, until you meet the fangs. Part of what Natalie falls for is the charm of the vampire, as well as the fact that Nick is naturally the kind of person anyone would want to know and spend time with. That is why LaCroix needs Nick so badly, and it is so very hard for Natalie to resist Nick.

Hearts of Darkness

LaCroix is just too cheery in this episode. Too happy to be mixing with the women in the club, talking with Nick and Vachon. And that whole "getting naked" speech is right at the top of the oddness list.
Perhaps LaCroix is so terribly cheery precisely because his place is so very tacky and offers a perfect backdrop to attract/antagonize Nick and collect the kind of crowd that offers prey.
Ellen's apartment number is 12.

Trophy Girl

Seeing Tracy kill her first perp was interesting, especially the delayed reaction to it. It added a nice extra dimension to her character. She learned an important lesson, that sometimes you have to do the thing you most do not want to do, take a human life.
Tracy's breakdown in the locker room when she picks up her gun showed her growth in this episode. It showed her learning that being a cop could be painful at times.
Tracy's saving herself and Nick at the end shows that she is a good cop, even if she needs a little more street experience.
It is also evidence of her and Nick's growing partnership.
Tracy learned another important lesson, running off without telling anyone what you are doing can get you killed.

Let No Man Tear Asunder

Tracy's license plate reads either GHY 916 or GHI 9I6.
In this episode the horses are spooked by vampires, yet in other episodes, Nick, Janette and LaCroix ride horses with no problems.
The organ donation list is full of in-jokes. Some of the names are crew members like Bert Dunk (Director of Photography), who's waiting for a kidney. And Fred Mollin (Music), who's waiting for eyes.
The exterior used for the 336 Church Lane clinic is the one nicknamed the Apartment Building of the Damned by the fans and is seen in a few episodes as various different locations.
Tracy answered the question about the tattoo artist too quickly and seemed too nervous not to have one hidden somewhere. She seemed to know too much about them.

Night in Question

I heard the script had Natalie setting up a tape to rig the machines so that they registered normal human vital signs.
Vampires can regenerate themselves, even limbs. We saw that Vachon's severed hand reattached itself in Black Buddha.
Would anything have changed if Nick listened to Natalie and stayed out of the sunlight?
Geraint does the innocent, emotionally, mentally challenged, and confused personality so well. As well as the lost little boy look and attitude.
According to this, Nick is the one who created Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. That Beethoven jotted down the notes.
LaCroix's comments about Nick staying with him out of choice do not seem true. From all we have seen, every time Nick left LaCroix, LaCroix hunted him down and tortured him in one way or another.
The stake in LaCroix's chest took a small piece of his heart, which would kill him, but slowly. He had to inform Nick that he needed vampire blood in order to heal that serious of a wound.
I heard that the script had Tracy at Nick's bedside while he was still comatose and in tears told him how sorry she was.
One of the biggest debates over this episode is whether or not Natalie and Nick made love. The people that say they did use her deep sadness and depression over not being able to be together like that anymore, Nick's having to be told what he was, before he was ready to know as reasons. The people who think that they did not make love use her sleeping on the couch as the reason. Why would she be sleeping on the couch alone if they had made love. And the other side says that she was down there because she knew his vampire nature might resurface and being that close to him when it did would not be good for her health, especially if she was asleep then. She knew he could roll over and sink his fangs into her before he realized what he was doing.
I think that the two romantic, passionate scenes between Nick and Natalie were some of the steamiest I've seen and it shows that you don't have to be naked, rolling around in a bed to show passion and love.
At least one of the mug shots belongs to the production staff. The last one seen may be Nicholas J. Gray himself.
Did Nick get all of his memories back? Any of them? The last two scenes seem to indicate that there are still holes. How much is he still missing? And doesn't he realize how dangerous it is to ask LaCroix to help him fill them in and tell him who he is? Doesn't he realize that LaCroix will try to reshape his mind the way LaCroix wants it?

Sons of Belial

Geraint Wyn Davies played an immortal with a split personality on Highlander whose two names were Michael Moore and Quentin Barnes.
Nick and LaCroix are forced to face their faith, and question it in the flashback. Nick is also forced to face it again, and once again question it due to the present day case.
LaCroix refuses to believe Nick's comments about being possessed until he sees the proof for himself, and then has two choices
take Nick to the exorcist or lose his son to the darkness.
The vampire Nick is rough with in the Raven's back room has been nicknamed Ms. Snarl, Thud, Hiss.
LaCroix is forced to counter everything he's beaten into Nick's head over the last 800 years in order to save his son's life. He has to tell Nick that there is good within, and to use that to fight off the demon. To use God within him to win the battle. And he has to do it strongly, forcefully enough for Nick to believe him in order to save him.
Natalie seems to have tackled her fear of fire as she comments it's her worst nightmare, yet doesn't seem as terrified as she was in Fire Inside. In the earlier episode, she was terrified to the point that she could not do the autopsy. The fear came from seeing a family burn to death in their car when she was a child on a family vacation.
When Natalie tells them she did a dental cast of the burned woman to confirm her identity, Tracy asks if she had to go into the woman's mouth. This is one of several comments Tracy makes over the season that she most likely should have known the answer to. At least she didn't question Natalie's competency this time.

Strings

If everyone in Corporate Crimes Division has a degree in Business, how is Tracy, a homicide cop, qualified to work there, especially doing forensic accounting?

Fever

Janet Dornhoff is the name of a fan that was used for a character.
It is an interesting look at HIV/AIDS and how the search for a cure could actually prove as deadly for the vampires as the disease is for the mortals. The vampires are not as invulnerable as they have always believed they were.
It presented some facts without being too preachy or judgmental.
Cal lives in the Apartment Building of the Damned (as named by the fans).

Dead of Night

How does Tracy know so much about the afterlife, and portals into it?
It was interesting to see what ghosts each person has. To see inside the deepest parts of their minds, hearts and souls.
The precinct scene with everything looking normal and then Tracy seeing everything so bizarre was done in one shot. The stuff was actually happening like that on stage, no off-screen faking nor cuts away to add things in later.

The Games Vampires Play

Someone forgot to make her look professional doing an autopsy. Usually her hair is tied back when she's in her gown and gloves.
The ROM balcony was also seen in Dark Knight (both parts). ROM = Royal Ontario Museum.
This is where the jokes about the Evil Pink Shirt come from. I have never seen a shirt that bright pink. Natalie had a jacket during one of the earlier seasons that came very close in intensity.
Don't they realize how many toxic gasses are released by burning plastic and whatever else was with it?

The Human Factor

Galen Wyn Davies is Geraint's son. He asked Galen if he wanted to do it and Galen said he did. Galen's laughing behind the duct tape over his mouth, and couldn't stop laughing even though he was supposed to be scared.
Lucy Peacock was in Taming of the Shrew with Geraint in Toronto in 1996. They had they lead roles.
For someone who claims to always know what his children are up to, LaCroix gets taken completely by surprise when Janette turns over the Raven to him and tells him she's leaving.
Why didn't Nick either sense Janette as a vampire or hear her mortal heartbeat when she was in his loft. He should have long before she told him she was mortal. Either you feel a connection to a vampire or you hear a heartbeat.
Janette's 1,000 years old, so why is she talking about 800 years being too long to live with a cold heart?
Patrick's black and white Polaroid picture of Nick and Janette has the exact same pose of the two of them from the end of Close Call where they were silhouetted against the shadows of the hallway outside LaCroix's studio. It is probably a production shot taken to make sure that if they had to redo the scene, that it would match.
Geraint and Catherine hated the freezer "I'm going to have a baby" scene and hoped it would be cut. They tried their best to get it cut.
Some people had the ending cut when the episode first aired and missed the fact that Nick brought Janette back across. The conversation between him and LaCroix at the end is one of the major clues, the others are the dead people at the Civic center with fang marks in their necks.

Avenging Angel

Tracy's mom is wrong when she says that Tracy never tried anything else. In Blackwing it was established that Tracy did try other things. Tracy tried pre-med and pre-law but still liked being a cop better.
The reporter cannot understand that he is responsible for why the safe house is no longer safe. He shoots all three of his reports about it, from in front of it, then shifts the blame to the police.
Despite Tracy and her mom fighting, they do love each other, As do Tracy and her father. The only ones not willing to try and work things out between them are her mother and father. Tracy wants to work things out with her mother, and the same goes for her mother and Tracy. They both know it will take time, and her mother knows that now is not the right time.
The case hits too close to home for Tracy, especially when she's horrified when she slaps her mother for her nasty comments. Tracy cares enough that she apologizes later, and means it. Her mother accepts it, not wanting it to cause friction between them.
Natalie comments on the rise in abuse as well as abuse murder cases and that it is beginning to get to her. I wonder if the writer of this episode realized that in Dead of Night it was established that Natalie's Nana used to hit her when she was a child. Natalie resented her Nana for that, So much so that she could not visit her when she was dying and Nat was a teenager. If so, then Natalie should have a stronger reaction to this case. If not, then the reaction is about right. Natalie's reactions at the end of the case are consistent with her reactions in other episodes dealing with abuse and murder such as Undue Process and Dead of Night.

Fallen Idol

This is the episode that spawned the Pit of Condemned Bimbos mentioned by various fans.
Just where is Natalie supposed to sleep during their joint custody time? The bed and the couch are taken.
Natalie's problems with the computer go against other episodes where we see how good she is with them. Undue Process comes to mind as one of those episodes.
It is quite interesting to see what happens when a mortal gets a little vampire blood into them.
This is somewhat backed up by the events in If Looks Could Kill where the Baroness was giving injections of small amounts of her blood to them as a youth serum. When it wore off they too exhibited violent, psychotic behavior.

Jane Doe

It is interesting to see that there are people who are so evil that they scare LaCroix. He is not an easy man to scare off. At least this time he knew it without having to bite the man first, and get poisoned as a result (Bad Blood)
Too bad they did not show Tracy's sudden faint.

Ashes to Ashes

The line where LaCroix says that if he didn't know better, he'd almost swear Divia had grown was because the actress did grow between her appearance in A More Permanent Hell and this one.
Since the stake was removed from Vachon's chest there is rampant speculation that he is not dead. That the stake has to be left in for the vampire to die. Adding to the speculation was the fact that Vachon did not disintegrate after being staked (and the stake removed).
If there had been a fourth season and the next episode had not happened, what would the relationship between Nick and LaCroix have been like? Would this have changed anything or would they return to their centuries old pattern? Or if the next episode did happen… what would their relationship be like in a fourth season?
Nick asks a couple of good questions when he asks LaCroix how Divia regenerated and how she survived all those years. Those questions caused a lot of discussion. As did the question of how did she reattach her severed head. One suggestion was crazy glue.
Reese's comments about ghosts or aliens, and tells Nick that the truth is out there, which sounds like he has been watching the X-Files.
Blu who plays Reese, has been on a few X-Files episodes. He is played a federal agent and a cop.

Francesca

Chevalier is French for Knight. Yet, no one puts 2+2 together without getting 5 for an answer.
This was filmed before Ashes to Ashes yet aired after it. Which explain Vachon's seeming reappearance. If it had been aired in the proper order with this being the third to last episode rather than the second to last there would not have been all the confusion and upset people over the inconsistencies regarding Vachon.
Tracy being connected to Francesca, Chevalier, and the musicians just seemed too coincidental. Especially since she could not figure out that Nicholas Chevalier was her very own partner.

Last Knight

Nick's "I love you" to Natalie was cut. The director, Geraint, did not know this until someone told him months later. He was quite surprised to learn about that.
This is the most discussed episode of the series. Many fans believe that the entire episode had everyone acting out of character. It is one of the least liked ones, and many fans disavow its existence.
The episode was filmed in the two days they had allowed to them.
The original ending called for Natalie and Nick to be very dead. A telephone call from the powers that be at the literal last second changed that. The Powers-That-Be decided they should leave the end vague. Since they were filming the end of the very last scene and were out of time they could not do much to vague it up. Catherine twitched to show Natalie was still alive and we never saw the stake hit Nick.
LaCroix was supposed to stake Nick in the original version.
Natalie's birthday is given here as April 14th but it cannot be because in Toronto in April it is often snowing. This would make the birthday more like the one originally figured out from other clues as June 24th where the weather would be warm enough for people to be out without coats and to enjoy flying kites and having picnics.
The fuzzy dreamlike quality of the crucial Nick and Natalie scenes shows that this is most likely someone's nightmare or possibly premonition. Even the Nightcrawler's monologue is off. Not to mention that it has been hinted at by those in the know that everything is not as it seems.
The episodes the flashbacks are from are: Only the Lonely (Nick and Nat's first meeting.), Last Act (Erica), Black Buddha parts one (Schanke and Cohen dying in the plane explosion.), Be My Valentine (Nick and LaCroix discussing Fleur), Black Buddha part one (Nick and Nat in the loft), Human Factor (Nick and Janette), For I Have Sinned (Joan of Arc).
The stick Nick gives LaCroix to stake him with has been called the Sheleighle of Death (Doom) by numerous fans because they needed some sort of name for it.
Everyone's hair looks like someone forgot to brush it, or they just woke up. Even the makeup is more muted than normal, almost as if it was not applied. They all look really tired, worn out.
Geraint does not think Nick and Natalie are dead.
Nick's clear tears at the end were Geraint's as it was the final scene shot and him saying goodbye to Nigel with regards to the show.
When Geraint was asked how he would write the final Forever Knight episode, he said that Nick and Natalie would get together and LaCroix would be toast.
Why can Nick offer almost anyone eternal life but cannot make the same offer to the woman he loves more than anything?
Nick and Natalie have their most open, honest talk near the end of this episode, in the loft.
The bust of LaCroix was damaged when Vesuvius erupted but at the Raven it is perfect.
Nigel is trying to hold it together and stay in character.
Catherine said she twitched, as she lay on the floor, to show her character was not dead yet.
To lighten the dark mood on the set, a goldenplaid set of pages were created by Bedard and Lalonde and handed to the actors as real ones. After the initial groans, and once they had started reading the pages, the tension was lessened. They were real scenes with joke lines and actions inserted in place of some of the real lines and actions, with the sole purpose of making the cast and crew laugh.
The images Natalie saw:
1. A dark haired woman is being bitten by Nick.
2. The ballerina LaCroix tricked Nick into biting.
3. Either the ballerina or Alexandra being bitten by Nick.
4. Some blonde Nick is viciously biting.
5. Alyssa and Nick in their wedding bed, being bitten by Nick, but more seductively than the others. - Dead of Night
6. Nick jumping through the fire to save Magda - For I Have Sinned.
7. Nick is lying on the concrete floor of the slaughterhouse growling up at LaCroix, shaking his head. - Dark Knight 2
8. Nick is pulling the stake out of LaCroix in a flashback. LaCroix is in a military uniform and Nick gets his freedom for saving his master, who was near death.
9. Nick is writhing on Han's table as he is being zapped with electricity during a treatment.
10. Pilgrim Nick is upset as he sees his friend Matthew has hung himself, unable to deal with what he saw.
11. Nick's head is being cradled on Tracy's lap right after he has been shot in the head. She is stroking his hair as he's unconscious. - Night in Question
12. Nick's kneeling down beside the oriental, female, concubine whose throat has been slit.
13. Nick is a mortal knight on horseback in the sun. - Queen of Harps
14. LaCroix is vamped out and growling.
15. Nick in a flashback standing by the huge cross that Joan of Arc had been standing in front of, his hand extended out towards the cross. It is not yet on fire. - For I Have Sinned
16. Nick's determined and angry face as he trusts the two by four at LaCroix, staking him, pinning him to the lift door. - Dark Knight 2
17. Nick and Janette on their first night. He is lying on a slab and has pulled her head down to him. They are hungrily, passionately kissing as LaCroix looks on from the side.
18. Very similar to the above.
19. Once again very similar, but this time Nick's arm is draped across Janette's neck, making sure she's not going anywhere until he releases her.

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