Human Factor

Memo to Tracy:  It's a jungle out there in dateland.
  -- Tracy

Cold, barren, bleak.  Winter is the kindest season.
The heart will not melt in winter.  Chilled by the
cold, we are spared the grief, the sorrow, the messy
emotion of life.  Winter is solace for the lonely,
it's cool touch soothes the tattered heart.
  -- LaCroix

I've had a wonderful few years here.  This is my home.
It has sheltered me and allowed me to shelter others
who needed it.  To be a mother to the strays, as it were.
Ah yes the joys of parenting strays.  We really must
compare notes one day.
  -- Janette and LaCroix

And what is this?
The deed.
I'm giving the RAven to you.
Why?
Because I"m leaving.
Really.  
  -- LaCroix and Janette

Nicholas, We one of us decides to move on.  We disappear
ARe you asking me to accept that Janette has been in this
city without my knowledge?  I would have sensed her.
so would you.
  -- LaCroix

There's something more than 'It was just her time' isn't there?
IS there?  She did what she had to do.  It's that simple.
Nothing is that simple.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

You always told me that I would know when the time came.
And how do you know that your time has come?
Because the thing that you fear the most has happened to me.
Doubt...in what I am.
What you are is a vampire.  It's quite simple really.
No, it's not so simple anymore.
Nicholas!
I like what I am, and I don't want to change.  I don't want to
end up like him.  Drawn to mortals, to humanity.  I must get
away from him to reaffirm what I am.
I agree.
You go.  
Nicolas must not know.  He already has enough doubt in his mind.  LaCroix,
make sure that there is always a place where strays like us are welcome.
  -- Janette and Lacroix

She never told you why.
I never asked.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

Where has she gone?  Slipped away like a child at the fairground.
Lost in the crowd.  Does she wander through the noise, searching
for the hand that guides?  Does she embrace the heavenly alchemy
breathing liberty like the spring flower that brings summer?  But
summer soon fades into forever, and she is left forsaken, to face
the chill of winter...alone.
  -- LaCroix

Nicolas...
  -- Janette

Tell me the resemblance is just a coincidence?
I killed LaRouche.  Nicolas, I'm aware of the position I
put you in by being here, but I need your help.
Why?  You could have just gone away.
No.  No, there is evidence that I must find before
whoever shot at me tonight finds it.
Shot at you?
Nicolas, please.  Arrest me or help me.  You don't have
to decide now.  I need to rest.
  -- Nick and Janette

Where is your partner?
Not in yet.
  -- Reese and Tracy

How did you sleep?
I didn't.
So, will you help?
Yeah, I'll book off work.
Oh...
I said I'd help.
Janette tell me.  Did you really intend never to see me
again.  No explanations.
I thought it was best.
You were wrong.
Oh...Nicolas.  I left because of you.  Because of your
quest for humanity.  A vampire's heart must be cold.  Immortality
makes this so.  Death is always around us, but we must never allow
it touch us, so we cannot allow the emotion of loss to infect us.
LaCroix knew this, and I agreed with him.
But...?
But you after 800 years could no longer live without your humanity,
and I began to wonder if you might be right.  800 years is a long
time to live with a cold heart--only for yourself.
You should have come to me, I could have helped you.
Ah, but I didn't want to be helped.  I was accustomed to my immortality
and I was afraid.
Of what?
Look at the suffering your search has caused you.  So I went to 
Montreal.  A taste of Paris, but not too far from the family.
I thought I would reaffirm the vampire in me, but it seems I got
caught in the very dilemma I left to avoid.
Meaning?
Nicolas, we have to go.
  -- Janette and Nick

Well, mystery solved on Knight.  He just called in sick.
  -- Reese

So, should I just go where you tell me to and guess at everything else?
  -- Nick

Nicolas, I don't need your sarcasm, I need your help.  You are not
unaccustomed to taking injustices into your own hands.
  -- Janette

Janette said something about visiting her brother in the city.
Janette?
Janette de Brabant.
  -- Peggy and Tracy

You know I have to ask.
His name was Robert McDonagh and I was in love with him more than you
can imagine.
  -- Nick and Janette

Did Janette tell you why you were coming to Toronto?
To visit Uncle Nicolas.
Is his last name de Brabant?  Have you ever met him.
Neither of us have.  Frankly I didn't even know she had
a brother until she mentioned it when she dropped
Patrick off last night.
Got a picture of him she gave me.
Really.  Do you think it would be okay if you showed it
to me?
What exactly is the problem here?
Janette may be a material witness in a murder.
Does that mean you think that she's the killer?
That's them.
There's her brother right there.
  -- Tracy, Peggy and Patrick

By the time he got to me, he hadd already saved five others that night.
His heroism was beyond my comprehension.  A mortal risking his one
short life to save others.  I envied his courage, his mortality.  He
reminded me of you.  It was through him, that I realized your quest
to become mortal again is right.
It's strange hearing that coming from you.
Strange that I would run from the truth that I saw in you only to
find it again in Robert.  He and I were together from the night of the
fire.  He had been injured that night so he had been transfered to
the arson squad.  that's where it all started with LaRouche
But, how could the two of you be together.  Did you tell him what
you were?
  -- Janette and Nick

Patrick, don't make the mistake that a lot of men make.  Never
underestimate a woman's strength.
  -- Janette

I don't know what it is, but when you tell these stories, it's like
you were there.
What if I were to tell you that I was.  Robert, if we are to be
together, we can't have secrets, right?
Oh, the I have a deep dark past thing.  Forget it Janette,
everybody has a past.
Yes, but there is a past, and there is a past.
What are you getting at?
In the time that we've been together, you've never seen me in the
daylight, you've never seen me eating or drinking.
Well, no actually.
And we haven't made love.
That I've noticed.  I figured you'd let me know when you were ready.
Look, where's this going?
Come here.
All right.  Put your hand on my heart.  It's all right, it's all right.
What the hell are you talking about.  Your heart isn't beating.
Robert, I would never hurt you.  But you have to listen to me, please.
If you love me.
This is some kind of a joke, right?
No.  No.  I'm older and have seen more things than you can ever imagine.
(Vamps out)
  -- Robert and Janette

How'd he take it?
Well, um...it was a long night, but love, as they say, conquers all.
  -- Nick and Janette

Look Robert, you could retire in a few years tops.  Spend the rest of
your days with your lovely Janette, lying in the Florida sun.  You
know, she could use some sun, that one.
  -- LaRouche and Robert

I forgot to tell you...I'm...I'm mortal.
  -- Janette

Hey, you just missed some of my best work, that is if you are
into post-mortem cranial examinations.
Nat, I need a favor.
Makes me nervous, favors from you usually include a little more
than 'Can I borrow your car'.
I'll need that, too.
Hello Natalie.
She's been shot.
Nat, she needs something for the pain.  Can you clean the wound
and stitch it up.
Heart rate normal.  You can't be.
She is.
  -- Natalie, Nick and Janette

Anything on her friend?
Um...tall, blonde, dark coat.  Hustled her out after she was
shot.  Got the hospitals covered.
Okay, so we got a wounded murder suspect and an accomplice,
both of them being shot at by persons unknown for reasons unknown.
Kind of gives you the feeling that thing is a little more
complicated than we thought.
(Tracy pulls the pix)
Cap?
Yeah.  What?
Uh... nothing.  Forget it
  --  Reese and Tracy

Now I don't want anyone getting me wrong here. I think we all 
know that I'm not exactly against vampires regaining their mortality,
but how the hell are we going to explain this?  You are protecting
a murder suspect--correction--confessed killer, and here I am sewing
her up and what, forgetting to file a report?
Nat, take it easy.
Oh, I would love to take it easy, Nick.
I'm sorry I got you both involved.
How comforting.  So, how?
I don't know.
Don't you want to know?
Of course I do.
I fell in love with a mortal.  I think I knew the change was possible
the first time we made love.
  -- Natalie, Nick and Janette

What made you stop?
His blood was inside me.  YOu know that feeling, Nicolas.  It's unlike
anything a mortal can experience.  But there was something more.  Blood
calms our hunger, yes, but his blood calmed my heart.  I felt warmth.
And then each time we made love, he let me feed, and each time I needed
less and less.  I don't know, I don't...maybe we were simply meant to be.
Wait a minute, that can't account for what happened, can it?  I mean,
fate?  You're telling me that all it took for you to become mortal was
love and a little restraint?
No, no.  No.  For that to happen there was a price to be paid.
  -- Nick, Janette and Natalie

Patrick...take care of my son.
No, Robert now.  I can save you.  I can bring you across.
Robert!  NO!

I tried to bring him back.  I tried.  I don't know if it was our
love making, or if somehow taking in his blood had changed me, but...
it didn't work.
It was as though eight centuries of repressed emotion were being
released.  I thought was going to die, I hoped I would die.
Instead, you became mortal. 
The vampire in me lingered, or should I say, the killer in me.  But
after I killed LaRouche, I felt it vanish completely.  I'm willing
to confess and I'll accept whatever punishment I'm given.
What about Patrick?
He still has his Aunt and Uncle, and they love him deeply, as I do.
  -- Janette and Nick

I'll do it their way, don't worry.  No surprised.
Those people will kill anyone if it suits them...the way we used to.
  -- Nick and Janette

Nat.
Trace, what I can do for you.
Actually, I need your advice.
Well a pathologist's advice is freely given. Most of my patients don't
pay up anyway.
It's about Nick, I think he's involved with a woman whose a murder 
suspect.
What makes you think that?
I talked to her ward, a boy name Patrick.  Here's a photo-copy of
the picture he showed me.  Recognize her?
No, but then that isn't the best picture is it.  I mean the guy
I admit looks a bit like Nick, but it's hard to tell from this.
But the boy said he's her brother.
Ah, well there you go, Nick has no family...
But if it is him, and he's protecting a fugitive.  You know something
don't you?
Yeah, I know Nick and I know that he always tries to do the right thing.
  -- Tracy and Natalie

Just try to stay calm, I won't let anything happen to him.
  -- Nick

Janette!  Janette!
Get Patrick out... Nick.  Let me go.
No.  Janette I can bring you back across.
No. No.
Janette!!
No. No.  Don't, Nicolas...
AAAAAAAGGGHH!!!!
  -- Nick and Janette

I just got the test results.  What caused Janette to become mortal,
was a massive dose of beta-blockers and nora-epanephrine caused by
her emotional trauma.  It means we've been doing the right thing
all along, and I've got proof positive.  Nick, we're going to have
a baby.
 ....KNight, where the hell are you?  We've got a double homicide
our hands.  Civic Center.  I want you there ASAP, Knight.  Beep.
  -- Natalie (in the dream) and Reese (on the telephone)

Hey, you okay.  YOu look a little weird.
Yeah, I'm fine.  I want to thank you for covering for me earlier.
Look, I don't know what you were doing with this Janette person
or why.  Just please tell me it was the right thing and it's not
going to come back and haunt us.
No it's not going to come back to haunt us.  But as to whether or
not it was the right thing...I don't know.  
  -- Tracy and Nick

Nat, what Janette said about how much she loved Robert, about what
happened between them...I can't take that kind of chance with your
life.
I know.  I keep repeating to myself--extraordinary circumstances, 
and I think I'm okay with that.  How about you, are you okay?
So far.
Good, because your day just got off to one hell of a lousy start.
  -- Nick and Nat

Even Leonardo couldn't capture all of her beauty.  STrange how
things turn out, isn't it?  Through hellish circumstance she 
obtains what has proven so illusive to you, only to have that
one in a billion happenstance taken from her by you.  I don't
know whether to laugh or to cry for you Nicholas.
She must have left it here today.  You haven't told me everything.
No, but then neither have you.  It seems that I have lost a
daughter and regained a son.  Plus ca change, Nicholas, Plus ca
change.
  -- Nick and LaCroix