Let No Man Tear Asunder (38)


So it's not mutilation...it's open heart surgery.
  -- Nick

It's a match.  Cinderella has both her slippers.  Warm feet...
Cold heart.
  -- Natalie and Nick

I swear, my dear Hans, it becomes more intoxicating with each session.
Call it a mortality cocktail.
  -- Nick and Hans

Personally, I would give my fortune for your vitality, Nicholas. 
So, you would step into my boots, would you, Hans.  You'd have to 
give up the women.  Your lovely Veronica.
It would be easier to excise my own heart.
  -- Hans and Nick

Rare blood type, same as mine...AB negative. 
  -- Natalie

Hey, it's not what you're thinking.  I don't have one hidden
somewhere.  It's a friend of mine, he's really into tattoos.
  -- Tracy

So, if someone needed this young lady's heart to replace their own,
they're out of luck.
Yeah, and back on a long waiting list.
  -- Nick and Tracy

Yeah, the waiting is the hard part.  I myself am due to go under the
knife as soon as my doctor can find an opening.
...That's your bad knee, right?
Okay, okay, I know it's not as drastic as open heart surgery, but I
understand the stress.
  -- Natalie and Nick

You know, if someone actually stole another person's heart, as
ridiculous as that sounds...
It would be a tremendously complex conspiracy, that's for sure.
I mean obviously you can't condone something like that, but if they
did if for someone they really loved, it's almost understandable,
isn't it?
Almost.
  -- Tracy and Nick

It looks like no one's home.
Someone's inside.  I think someone's in trouble.  You stay here, 
watch the front.  I'll go 'round the back.
   -- Tracy and Nick

NICK, back here!  Wow!  Adrenaline.  Amazing stuff...
  -- Tracy

He had twenty grand in a box under the floorboard in his truck, and he
didn't get it doing tattoos.
Why the hell did he go back to the tattoo parlor?  He should be on his
way to South America by now.
Maybe he's trying to cover his tracks?
I think he's a little bereft in the IQ department.  Come on, let's join
this criminal genious in the barbi pit, shall we?
  -- Nick, Reese and Tracy

Is there nothing I can do?
There is...something you can do, Nicholas.  I've done what I can for
her wounds.  The injury has severely tramautized her heart.  It's
weakening by the minute.  The pulse is fading and irregular. Bring her
over, make her into what you are.  
  -- Nick and Hans

You must bring her over, before it's too late.   Oh, she's slipping away.
Hans.  I cannot do that.
DO IT NOW!  I beg you!  I am losing her.
The choice to become what I am is Veronica's alone. I cannot make that
decision for her Hans.  
  -- Nick and Hans

I will not inflict my condition on her.  I will not condemn her.  I 
have sworn it.
Sworn to who?  To a God that you have scarely obeyed for centuries.
You owe this to me Nicholas, to Veronica.
It was because of you, because of what you are, that the horse
reared and bolted.  He sensed what you are.  Bring her back to me.
Bring her back...
  -- Nick and Hans

Mmmm, my Savior beckons.  Dr. Freeman, my orthopedic surgeon.  I
guess she found an opening for me.  I suppose I should bite the bullet
and get this over with.  I've been putting this off for years.
I suppose that means you'll be laid up for a bit?
  -- Natalie and Nick

Just let me know if you need anything after, okay?
Some flowers?
Yeah.
Seriously?  I could use a ride home after the procedure.
It's a done deal.  I'll stop by after my shift.  Just tell me where I
have to be.
Dr. Valerie Freeman, Mount Pleasant and Grover.  Don't worry, I'm in
the best possible hands. 
  -- Nick and Natalie

The best deal you're gonna get is life.  Help us out and we'll see if
we can get you a room with a window.
  -- Reese

Too sick for me.  The idea of someone being kidnapped and murdered for their
internal organs...I cannot wrap my brain around that one.
  -- Reese

There's one thing we know for certain.  Someone still has a desperate
need for a human heart.
  -- Nick

You have a problem with going under?
It's not my favorite thing in the world, no.
  -- Dr Freeman and Natalie

Black market...what?
Organ transplants.
  -- Vachon and Tracy

So what is this now? Every time you run across something really weird
you run to your supernatural chum, Vachon for the inside dope.
Well, you're the only supernatural friend I have.  Look all I'm asking 
is, just keep an ear to the ground...ask around.
What kind of friends do you think I hang around with, anyway.
Hey, I've met them, remember.
  -- Vachon and Tracy

For a fee...an astronomical fee, of course, they find you what you
need, and you know...take care of the particulars.
Find it?  Where do they find it?
Do you want me to draw you a picture?
  -- Vachon and Tracy

Do you suppose they celebrate death days on the other side?  Will the
day we give up the ghost be a cause of celebration in heaven?  Or are we
just another log on the fires of hell?  The only extraordinary thing
about birth, it seems to me, is that we are no longer dead, which we
presume to be an inferior predicament.  How fiercely we struggle to
avoid death. How the death of our loves ones pains us.  How
desperately we hold on, hold on...for dear life.
  -- LaCroix

Hans, what are you doing?
I will not allow death to cheat me of my only reason for living.
She's almost gone, Nicholas.  I will bring her back.  I can 
reanimate her.
  -- Nick and Hans.

I need a human heart.  One that is still warm from pumping blood.
For what?
I believe that I can surgically replace it with a healthy one.  I want you
to bring one to me.  You will help me Nicholas.  Yes you shall or you
will forfeit the reversal treatments.  Refuse to help me to bring
life back to Veroncia and you live on interminably with bloodthirst
and fear of the sun.
Hans you are mad with grief.
  -- Hans and Nick

You have no choice.  I hold the key to your future.  Your only hope
for a normal life.  Go.  Do as I say, there is no time to waste.
This is insanity, Hans.  This insanity, pure and simple.  I will not
be a party to this.
  -- Hans and Nick

How can you deny me?  You come to me to restore your mortality, to
give you life.  But you draw the line when I beg you to help me.
What you are contemplating is murder.
Then bring me the heart of a murderer.  I don't care.  Look around you,
Nicholas.  Hundreds to choose from, evil men and women who prey on
the decent people of this city, criminals who kill for pleasure and profit.
I'm not judge and jury.
  -- Hans and Nick

You are meddling where you should not.
You're interfering with the natural course of life.
And you never have?  How many Nicholas, how many lives interrupted 
to feed your bloodlust through the centuries?  How much beauty lost?
What have you ever brought to the world but pain and darkness?  How
many hearts stopped cold, how many fates interrupted, Nicholas?  Or
can you even count them?
  -- Nick and Hans

It's done then.  It's over.  Let it be.
  -- Nick

Nick, its Tracy.  Listen...they've got Natalie.
What?  Who's got Natalie?
  -- Tracy and Nick

Where's Vetter?  You know I really wish you two would stay in sync.
Just put out an APB.  I don't know where Tracy is now, but I know who
she was with.
Nick?  Nick?  NICK?  I'm going to have to set those two down and show
'em what the word partner means.
  -- Nick and Reese

I was just looking around.
And you saw the wrong thing.
  -- Tracy and Dr. Walters

She went alone.  Of course, she did.
Hey, look, I'm sorry, I thought I was helping.  What else can I say?
I'll come along.
No.  Thanks.
  -- Nick and Vachon

We've done it Nicholas, we've actually done it.
This is so wrong, Hans.  It's all wrong.
  -- Hans and Nick

They doing anything interesting in there?
Only if you like watching cellular mitosis as much as I do.  And
people say that I'm a boring person.
Imagine that?  What do you have there anyway?
Hair follicles.
  -- Nick and Natalie35

We all know that medical science does occasionally still come up with the
odd miracle now and then.
All I'm saying is that I like your knee the way it is.  And I'm glad
that you're in one piece.
Well, thank you.  Thank you from the bottom of my...well, never mind.
Am I to take this to mean that you..idolize my knee?
Oh, absolutely.  It's my personal choice for the body parts hall of
fame.
Anything else?
Everything.
Hmmm?
I like the whole package the way it is.
  -- Natalie and Nick