F O R E V E R  K N I G H T

Review by LeeRecord                                         May 15, 1996

LAST KNIGHT
Episode #FK3-22  (1st Run)
Last episode of the season
Third Season     (05/17/96)

Written by Michael Sadowski 
Directed by Geraint Wyn Davies

Guest Starring -Flash Backs-  Anna Pappas as Dr. Laura Haynes, Roger
Honeywell as Dawkins


PROLOGUE:
Lacroix dressed in black, expresses his feelings about how precious ones life
is and how he doesn't understand why anyone would want to snuff out their own
existence. As he speaks, a woman gets into a bathtub and commits suicide. Her
crimson blood slowly mixes with the water!

THE STORY:
At the scene, Nat discovers the dead woman is one of her close friends. She
has left Natalie the suicide note and her diary. After reading the diary, Nat
becomes unsatisfied with her life. She tells Nick she used to think suicide
was a sacrilege, but she's not so sure anymore.

She talks about their relationship of six years and how empty it is because
they can't be together. She wants him to bring her across, but he won't do
it.

A hysterical man, Dawkins, is being moved to a place that he doesn't want to
go. He grabs a cop's gun and runs into a locker room. Nick leaves Nat and
flies to the precinct. He goes into talk to Dawkins. He almost has him
completely under his control when Tracy moves behind Nick with her gun
pointed at the man. Dawkins freaks and fires at Nick! The bullets go through
him and hit Tracy. She sees Nick vamp out as he throws Dawkins against the
wall. She tells Nick that he could have trusted her, just before she passes
out.

At the hospital, Tracy is in a coma and probably will die. Nick decides to
bring her across, but Nat walks in. She's angry that he is willing to bring
Tracy across, but NOT her.

After all that has happened with Lacroix and the bodies Divia left laying
about, he decides that it's time to move on. He tells Nick that they have
stayed long enough. Nick thinks about Natalie and decides there are too many
loose ends to tie up. Lacroix tells him that he has left looser.

At the loft, Nat tells Nick that Tracy died. He blames himself for all the
deaths of his mortal friends. Nat tells him that it wasn't his fault and to
think about all the lives he's saved because of what he is.

Natalie tells Nick that she wants him to make love to her. She convinces him
that all he needs is faith and to believe that no matter what happens they
will be together. He begins to love her and take just a little blood like
Janette and Robert did, but once again he can't stop.

He holds Nat as he cries out that he couldn't stop. Lacroix tells him that
she is on the brink; he must bring her across or let her die. Nick chooses
not to bring her into his world of eternal darkness, but he also has faith
that he will go to the light if he dies. Lacroix tries to talk him out of his
want for self destruction, but ends up being the one to send him to the light
and his Natalie.. after Nick tells him that he is his closest friend.

QUOTE:
"Well, all that remains, now, is to turn out the lights and lock the door
 on our way out.." -Lacroix to Nicholas


Review **** (of four) After all the rumors, complaining and waiting, Last
Knight has come. All I want to know is.. who the heck insisted on Closure? I
hope you're happy.. even Lacroix leaves town.

Natalie is having suicidal tendencies again, and she wants Nick to find a lot
of faith and come with her. Nick should listen to Lacroix and get the Hell
out of town. But I guess it's true love, because he stays around long enough
to botch another embrace.. so it seems. After all that has happened to
Lacroix, he decides it's time to move on. How sad it is that Divia gets her
wish, that he would be all alone. I'm going to anger the Nat Packers, but I
was more emotionally disturbed when Nick told Lacroix that he was his closest
friend, than I was when Natalie fell to the floor.

Kudos to all the writers.. Michael, Phil, Larry. It must have been hard to
stick to the vampire family relationship. This could have been a Nick and Nat
goodbye episode, but it really wasn't. Forever Knight has always been about
Nicholas, Lacroix and their disharmony, *Not* harmony, with mortals. Friends,
lovers, trust and faith are mere props on the stage. Nicholas and Lacroix are
left in the spotlight as the final curtain falls.

There *is* uncertainty. The fans will be asking; is Nat really dead, did
Lacroix really do what Nick wanted and how/when are they going to make a FK
movie? Was Ger's use of floating camera, slow motion scenes and off beat
lighting his way of telling us that someone was having a Knightmare?


Promo: 00:30 sec
Narrator -"On the next Forever Knight.. death knocks! It's the final
           chilling chapter!  On  -Forever Knight-"

Promo: 00:10 sec
Narrator -"Knight falls.. on -Forever Knight-"