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An OK Review by LeeRecord January 18, 1996
FEVER Episode 3-13 (1st Run)
Written by Gillian Horvath
Directed by Alan Simmonds
Post Production Release: 12/21/95
Guest Starring Greg Kramer as Screed, Bruce Hunter as Calvin and Sarah
Orenstein as Linda Wyatt
Prologue:
A lab technician tries to steal a research doctor's files and a lab rat that
she was working with. She accuses him of stealing her work and they get into
a scuffle. The rat gets away and the doctor falls down a flight of stairs and
dies. Outside; Screed is looking for his favorite snack, when he spots the
lab rat. He takes a bite and drinks the deadly blood.
The Story:
Nick and Tracy arrive on the scene and Nick spots the lab rat. While putting
it into an evidence bag, the rats blood gets onto Nicks hand. Nick questions
the technician about the accident and he tells him that the doctor probably
slipped on the waxed floor. He explains that Dr. Wyatt was always working
late and she was close to finding a cure for AIDS.
One of the last people to see the doctor was Calvin Tucker, a friend of
Natalie's that she went to med school with. He was going to be a surgeon, but
he became infected with AIDS. The doctor was testing her new drug on the
desperate Calvin. He tells Nat that you will do anything when your time is
running out.
When he tells her that when you stare death in the face, you'll try
anything, Nick recalls the panic stricken time when the black death swept
through London in 1665. LaCroix was making the best of it, but wanted to
move on, because they were beginning to stand out (not being affected by
the plague). He tells Nicholas:-- "..besides, they closed the theaters. I
despise a city with no culture."
A doctor works frantically to help the people as a priest preaches and
wonders why our friends don't seem to be too concerned about the disease. The
doctor asks Nicholas and LaCroix that if they have some special physic that
wards off the black death; he would like them to share it with him, no matter
what the cost. Lucien tells Nicholas that the doctor has given free consent,
so Nicholas puts the bite on him. Later Nicholas discovers that the doctor is
killing his patients for blood. The doctor enjoys his new immortality, but
becomes a bit too cocky. He thinks nothing can hurt him, until the good
Father pulls out a cross and then sets him on fire. Nicholas takes flight and
leaves London.
Tracy and Vachon go to see Screed about the lab rat. He jumps at Tracy and
babbles about her smelling like fruit and that a hungry man will take
anything.. first kill.. any kill. Tracy asks what he's talking about and V
man tells her that the first night, first feeding..you wake up so hungry for
blood you will take anything; enemy, friend, lover..and if your first kill
isn't human you don't hunger for humans. Screed says he got himself a
squealer that first night! Tracy questions why he went for her. Vachon
discovers that he is starving and is sick. He lets him feed on his blood. The
bad blood is passed to JV.
Vachon goes to Nick and tells him about how Screed has become sick from the
rat and wants to know if he can get Natalie to help. Nick goes to see Nat and
he tells her that no disease has ever touched the vampire. Nat says that God
or nature has just changed the deal. Nick says that Screed was infected by
Linda Wyatt's rat and whatever it is, she made it.
Our vampire friends become very sick. When LaCroix sees his people dying, he
gets edgy, then when he gets sick, it looks like it might be the end of the
vampire world. When Nick tells Nat that maybe nature has had enough of
unnatural creatures feeding on the world and it is divine justice, she says
don't you dare say that God sends sickness to punish the wicked; to wipe the
unnatural from the Earth. God does not choose! Nick says he doesn't claim to
know what God does, because he stepped out of that light too long ago.
Natalie is angry with him because he doesn't seem to care if he lives or
dies.
LaCroix's lament:-- "They say the ages of man are denial, awareness and
acceptance. A young man believes he will live forever, a middle age man knows
he will not, and an old man is ready. What then of those taken out of
sequence.. how to prepare them for the bitter end? A man who knows he will
not die is a young man.. he is kept young by the knowledge that death will
have no dominion. //Cough// There's nothing so hard, as watching that die! A
dozen in a single night.. my children and my people who should have lived
forever.. living their last! Who would ever believe that they will die? My
people, my children.... one short sleep past, we wake eternally and death
shall be no more. DEATH, thou shalt die.. we WILL survive!"
What will happen to our friends of the night?
Will LaCroix live long enough to revenge his people?
Will Natalie find a cure?
Will Dr. Wyatt's killer be brought to justice?
Episode Quote: "Stay out of the sun, keep away from sharp sticks; you'll live
forever. That is supposed to be the deal!" -Nick
Review **** Gillian Horvath has done it again. She has written a great
vampire story; and it's about time somebody has. This time the vampires are
the victims of man. A possible cure for AIDS becomes a plague that could
end the vampire's immortality. Gillian gets on a soapbox with this story,
but she does it in a way that you don't feel you've been preached to. A
comparison is made of the way the church looked upon the black plague as
God's way of punishing the wicked of 1665 London to the thinking that AIDS
is God's way of punishing all that the church conceives as being wicked
today. In both cases, only the righteous will be chosen to survive.
All the characters are in this story; and they are used very well. A
friendship of hundreds of years comes to an end. We grieve as though we have
known him those many years, too.
There are a few chilling encounters between the vampires and their mortal
friends, but what will have you on the edge of your seat, is the one between
Natalie and a very angry, scared LaCroix.
If there had been more episodes like this one, this season, we might not be
concerned about the shows future. Thanks, Gillian, for a great play.
Promo: 00:30 sec
Narrator -"Victims of a deadly plague, born by the very thing that gives them
life. The fate of all vampires is in the hands of Nick Knight. On the next
-Forever Knight-"
Promo: 00:10 sec
Narrator -"Victims of a deadly plague.. on the next -Forever Knight-"