BlackWing

And where do you stand on this issue.
The Missisauga Indians claim to this land is valid.  
But that hasn't been proven yet.
It will be.  And whn it is you'll see that they have every right to be
fully fledged partners in this mega mall.  Its not like they are trying
to stop the project.  I think the big problem in all of this is Robinson and
his greed. Well believe me there's a lot of people out there who won't want to
patronize this mall until the land claim has been settled.
Thank you.
You're welcome. 
  -- Report and Mr. Concerned Citizen Vachon

Nick, I'm thinking this is a clue.  Throat slit, knife missing from
matched set.  Made of obsidian.  Volcanic glass.  It's very sharp and
very very brittle.  If one like this was used on him, it might have
left shards in the wound.
Aackk.  
What?
Uh...Nothing I think it was just a static charge.  What is it?  A Raven.
Yeah.  A power animal, the medicine man.  It told me the trickster
bird, was a very powerful icon in native culture.  He stole the sun
from his uncle and gave it to the world.  Sixth grade.  Girl guide.
Merit badge in Native American Culture.
  -- Natalie, Nick, and Tracy

Mr. Blackwing...did he have a lot of enemies?
You saw him, would you say that was the work of a friend?
  -- Nick and Jess Nevins

Why do you think he was murdered with a ritual Raven knife?
Probably because it was sharp and it was handy.
  --  Tracy and Jess Nevins

I saw my Grandfather die.
What did you see?  You're here Marion and nobody called you.
Somebody cut is throat.  I saw it on the spirit walk, Jess.
  -- Marion and Jess

In the spirit walk we are young forever.  Good deal, huh?
  -- Jess

This is a new one on me.
  -- Reese.

It's not what you'd call admissable, Doctor, is it?
No.
No.
  -- Reese, and Natalie

Even now, you see with Gary Blackwings eyes.  Aren't you?   What do you see.
Darkness.  He's surrounded by it.  There's this light that I sense that's trying to
break free of the darkness, but it can't.
That's part of the power.  You can take the darkness away.  You can
heal.
  -- Jess and Marion

She's sees you with her grandfathers vision, Detective.  Says a great
darkness iencases you, it strangles your spirt.  You're not married are
you, Detective?
No.
Couldn't be that then.  Whatever it is, she can heal it.  I'm certain
of it.  Goodnight, Detective.
  -- Jess and Nick

I think Marion's got a little crush on you, NIck.
  -- Tracy

You're here.  Why.  What's happening to me, to us?
I was hoping you'd know.  Maybe we could help each other.
I want to help you, I mean I feel like I can, but I'm not sure how.
They say that a medicine man looks for heat to learn where the trouble
lies.  My grandfather could do it with a single touch.  But you,
you're so cold.
I know where my trouble lies.
The sun
Shh, it can't harm you.It's all right.  This was my grandfathers
gift.  The power to heal.  Let it heal you....
  -- Marion and Nick

I just feel better, okay.  I'd like to see you.
With what I charge for housecalls you'd be better off to wait til
dark.
I think it worked.  I don't really know what she did to me.
Well, if I were you, I'd still stay out of the sun.
You don't believe me.
Let's just say that I am really skeptical about this whole thing,
Nick.  I have studied you every which way from Sunday and if there
is anything that I do
know is that your condition is not a meta-physical disorder.
I wish you could feel what it feels like.  It's like I've been freed,
like the past has been erased.
That easy, huh?
(Nick sticks his hand into the sunlight and burns it)
Nick, you okay.
Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.  Look Nat, all I'm saying is, I don't know what,
but something's changed.  Something's definitely changed.
  -- Nick and Natalie

I don't feel guilty, that's what it is.  For the first time in my
life, I don't feel guilty.
Really, so how much does it cost to get your soul dry-cleaned these
days, maybe I'll send mine out too.  I'm sorry I just think your the
victim of the placebo effect.
So I just feel better because I want to feel better, is that what your
saying?
Exactly.  
What about the visions.
I don't know maybe by-products of sleep deprivation.  Vivid daydreaming.
Basically, you need to get more sleep.
You have a scientific explanation for everything, don't you, even if
you don't believe it.
I don't mean to burst your morning-after bubble
you still don't tan, you boil.  And you had three pints of donated
plasma this morning for breakfast.  You are still a vampire.
But I don't feel like one.  Maybe that's progress enough.
  --  Nick and Natalie

Look at it this way.  I'm probably the only woman in town with a
master's degree in fine arts...and can skin a deer.
  -- Marion

But you know what.  I am a good cop.  Sometimes I think we're just
meant to do what we're meant to do.
  -- Tracy

Hello, anyone there.  Geez why do you do that?
Cuz I can.  Do like what I've done with the place?
Let's talk Mr. Concerned Citizen.
Saw me on television.
This was a side of you I was not aware of.
Let's just say I have a personal stake in the proceedings.
I thought you didn't get involved.
I know the Mississagua claim is 100% valid.
You've seen the proof.
The surveyors letter.  You forget I've been around.  It was more than
200 years ago.  The Queen Anne's Campaign.  
The French Indian Wars?
And more, on and off for 75 years.  You know me.  I love a good
fight.  At least that's how I used to be.  Sometimes fighting for a
losing cause no matter how right it is can frustrate you.  Wear you
down.
So who's side were you on?
Whoever's losing.
  -- Tracy and Vachon

I was there when the Missisaga tribe negotiated a land settlement
treaty with the government of upper Canada. 
  -- Vachon

Anyway, it's not my fight anymore.  It never really was.
Well, in that case, you might want to light one of those candles for
Gary Blackwing.  He was murdered last night.
  -- Vachon and Tracy

I helped you.  Help us now.
  -- Marion to Nick (on the spirit walk)

Don't get comfortable Nick.
You've got something?
Warm body.  26th precinct picked it up.  Go over and take a look at
it, will you.  It's Robinson's lawyer, Timothy Wade.  Eye for
an eye, looks like.
  -- Reese and Nick

Always the same isn't.  A crime is committed.  Round up the ususal
suspects.  That lawyer didn't have any white enemies?
  -- Jess

It's good that Marion has someone to share her spirit with.  She's too much
of a loner.  I always tell her that.
Yeah, Nick's the same.  He's a secretive guy.  Keeps to himself a lot.
Not anymore.
  -- Jess and Tracy

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel good.  There's something
to it.
I helped you.  Now help us now.
  -- Nick and Marion

Please tell me you have nothing to do with this.
It's not my fight anymore.  I told you.
And you'll stay out of it?
Absolutely.
How am I supposed to trust you?  How am I supposed to know that
anything you tell me is true?
Find the letter, you'll see.  When you find the letter.
  -- Tracy and Vachon

Knight.  In here a sec.
  -- Reese.

What's going on with you and Marion Blackwing?
It's not what you think.
You don't want to know what I think, but I'll tell you anyway.
  -- Reese and Nick

It's Indian legend time.  A native american fairy story for children
of all ages.  Legend has it that when the world was young and
unfinished, the great spriti father made the mistake of leaving his paints
where his children could get them.  Raven, begged eagle to paint him
as beautiful and grand as the great spirit had made eagle himself.
And so he did, or so he tried.  But when Raven looked at his
reflection in the water.  He didn't like what he saw.  Raven became
angry.  He and eagle fought, and the great spirit father's paints were spilled
over Raven and made him all black.  Black wings, black eyes, black
breast.  Raven ran into the river and flapped his wings against the
current.  But the color was indelible.  The water wouldn't wash it
away.  This is your punishment, said the great father for interfering
with my work.  Black you are and black you will stay.  You will never
come clean.  Not much of a legend at that, is it children, but I
rather like the moral.
  -- LaCroix

I guess were both troubled.
Where's Marion.  
Don't know.  I came here a little while ago.  Can you tell me why I
feel as if she's in trouble?
I'm sorry.  No.  I need to find her.
She cured you didn't she?
I don't know.
She took away your darkness?
Strange things have been happening to me since.  Visions.
The spirit plane.  YOu've been there.
I saw the murders.
Did You see Gary Blackwing?
No, but I saw Marion.
You two have forged a powerful bond.  If she has opened your heart and
sould to
the spirit plane, then you share her gift.  The power of the elders
are within you now.  You can use them.  And You needn't look for her
anywhere else, you can find her there anytime you wish.  Open yourself
to the spirtis again.  They will guide you to her, and if you should see
Gary Blackwing, tell him I miss him and love him like a brother, but he
still owes me money.
  -- Jess and NIck

I showed up.
Are you all right, everybody's looking for you.  There's been another
killing.
I know.  I think I did it.
  -- Nick and Natalie

It's the perfect irony isn't it.  She took away the guilt.  She took
away the very thing that kept the vampire in check and now it killed
without remorse.
There has to be some other explanation.
Im telling you i was there.  It was real as talking to you.
The spirit plane
Or something, I don't know.  But I was there when Wade was murdered
too.  I saw blood on my hands
You saw the murders.
I saw the knife.
What else?
Their faces.
Are you holding the knife?
I know this is ridiculous.
It's not ridiculous Nick, not if you're right. Are you holding the knife?
I don't know.   I'm looking through my eyes, but not my eyes.  Not
mine.  Marion.  She took the killer out of me and into herself.
  -- Nick and Natalie

Blackwings dying wish was for vengeance.
It wasn't blackwing Marion, it was me.
What have you made me do.
It was what you took from me.  It was the darkness that made you
kill.  It wasn't your fault.
It will die with me.
No.
  -- Marion and Nick

It's not your fault, Detective.  This was fate.  Tragedy is always
close to my people.  It's almost a birthright.  Tell me, Nick, Marion
did help it didn't she
Oh there was something I'm sure of it.
But you took it back, all of it
Marion didn't have time to learn all the ways of the elders.  She
didn't know that a wise healer takes the pain not into themselves, they
transfer it.  They put into an animal sometimes or a mountain
or a stream that carries it to the ocean.  She didn't have time to
learn.  There was no one to teach her when Gary Blackwing died.  My
heart is too heavy tonight.
  -- Jess and Nick