Francesca 

The first sip is like..an explosion.  We taste...everything.
I know his dreams, his fears, his loves.  I feel myself 
against him.  Taste my own blood through his.  He's younger
than me.  A crusader, turned away from the light.  I taste
Jerusalem in his veins.  Sweet...his hunger for me.  I died
a hundred times in his arms.  He dies in mine, he dies in
mine, he dies in mine...
  -- Frank/Francesca

Could it have been some kind of cult ritual?
I don't know, but she certainly left a distinctive
calling card.  Clear as a fingerprint, if you can find
a suspect to compare it to.
  -- Tracy and Natalie

Lucien, it's been so long.  And who is this fair traveler?
Nicholas Chevalier.  Nicholas, allow me to introduce one
of your sisters--the Comtesse du Montaigne.
  -- Francesca and LaCroix

There, you see, did I not tell you.
You did.  What he did not tell me how beautiful you are.  In truth,
I would not have believed him. 
  -- LaCroix and Nick

Do you ever have the feeling of deja vu?
I beg your pardon?
I just feel like this is all familiar somehow.  I don't know
what it is, but I don't like this somehow.
  -- Tracy and Natalie

The kiss print--a mixture of blood and lipstick.  The victim's
blood.  She's drinking their blood.  Nick, look I know that there
are no fang marks--
There wouldn't be.  Killed with a knife to the heart.  Sudden death.  Sweetens
the blood, but it stops the circulation.
  -- Natalie and Nick

We need the beating heart to feed, to bring the blood to the neck.  
If the victim's dead, the body has to be drained.
So this is a vampire.
I've seen it done before.
  -- Nick and Natalie

Must all of your guests sing for their supper, Comtesse?
All my guests must earn my approval, Monsieur.  You, will
not have to sing.
  -- Nick and Francesca

So, Vetter, you got another one?
Go swallow a sock, Fuller.
  -- Tracy and Fuller

Friend of your's.
Reporter, putting two and two together and getting five.
I dated him once.
Oh yeah, anything serious?
No.  I mean, I dated him once.
Oh.
  -- Nick and Tracy

It's quiet in the halls. I can hear every heartbeat.
Who's here?
Francesca.
What year is it Francesca?
I'm not sure.  17...1755.
And where are you?
In my home on the Cote du Rhone.
  -- Frank/Francesca and Dr. Kadlec

I'm moving to the bed.  He's here.  Fast asleep
Whose there.  
The face.  the man from my dreams.
Do you know who he is?
I can still taste him on my lips, feel him in my veins.
I can see him. No.  
Frank, it's okay.
I know who he is.  I know who he is...WHO HE IS!
Who his he?
My lover, and my killer.  Nicholas de Chevalier
  -- Frank/Francesca and Dr. Kadlec

We are drawn together, from the first time I see him.  Even
in the shadow of our Master, he's the one I see.  I have to
have him.  
  -- Frank/Francesca

Drink.  Delicious, isn't it?  I believe he's at the height of 
his talent.
My God, Faubert.
Yes, drink more.
  -- Francesca and Nick

So you could tell who it was from just one sip?
Who it was, what he thought, who he loved, how he died.
You have to understand that every drop of blood has your
whole life in it.  It's not just our food.  It's the way
we feel life.  Imagine if you could know someone's soul
just by sharing their blood.  Everything you know, everything
you are transformed into touch and taste.  Imagine the
tempation to take just one sip, one sip and then another,
then another.  To take them inside you and know every secret.
To let them know yours.  To be them.  That's why it's such
a tough habit to break.
  --Natalie and Nick

You can always find people who will cater to any request,
for a price.
  -- VAchon

Even an actor brings a premium, if you have the right customer.
  -- Vachon

I've lived here, almost four-hundred years.  It is my home.  The
bed is walnut, with ivory linen sheets and a square cornered
canopy with sheer curtains and a green velvet that matches the
drape.  I keep the curtains drawn in the daytime.  But at night
I can see the moon from the window over the bureau.  I keep the
men downstairs, but the others like me, I bring here.
  -- Frank/Francesca

Apparently he thinks he's the reincarnation of some eighteenth
century countess--a vampire.
  -- Reese

The knife slides home in a single stroke, and freezes time,
pouring everything they're feeling into their blood.  They're
caught between lust and fear.  When I taste their blood, I 
taste that.  The lust for me, the fear of me.  There is
nothing sweeter.
  -- Frank/Francesca

Which one of you decided he'd been a woman in a former life?
  -- Reese

Frank's stories are all from a female perspective.  The perspective
of Francesca du Montainge.  A vampire who lived and died and killed
250 years ago.
  -- Dr. Kadlec

Francesca, how could you do this?   Why?
I thought you appreciated artists as I do.  Appreciated art.
I don't appreciate it by killing it.
What other way is there for us?  Can't you feel it coursing
through our veins?  His talent, his essence.
His genius, his passion--wasted.
Not wasted, savored.  Immortalized with us!
  -- Nick and Francesca

He sublimated his hunger for sexual attention into this vampire
fantasy.  Complete with the mysterious lover, the dark and
dangerous Nicholas Chevalier.
  -- Dr. Kadlec

In the vampire myth--killing is sexual.
Sexual freedom, becomes the freedom to kill.
If he believed he was a vampire, then he would believe 
he had the permission to kill, as part of his nature. 
Or uh, anyway that's of they myth.
Yes, but then myth can be very powerful.
  -- Dr. Kadlec, Nick and Tracy

Francesca du Montaigne is dead.
I think she's back.
Reincarnation?  Is that what you are suggesting?  Well
I have seen stranger things in my time.  Men who walk
through fire, children born speaking long dead languages.
And Harry Houdini had rather a nifty trick with handcuffs
and a tankful of water.
  -- LaCroix and Nick

This isn't a trick LaCroix.  I don't know how it happened,
but somehow this man knows Francesca.  Has her soul.
Or her soul has him.  Yes. Which means that she is truly
immortal.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

Defying the corporeal laws that are supposed to bind
even those of our kind.
So, whose laws will you use against this killer, Nicholas,
and who will you arrest.  Him? Or her Soul?  
  -- LaCroix

If this is
Francesca reincarnate.  I doubt that she remembers you
fondly.
  -- LaCroix

Do we return to this mortal coil, unfettered by our sins?
Or burdened by them.  Perhaps we are not forgiven as easily
as some would believe.  Perhaps to be immortal in this way
is eternal judgement.  A true life sentence, from which we
as sinners--can never be absolved.
  -- LaCroix

Not everyone is ready to face their own secrets.  To take a glimpse
their inner selves.
  -- Dr. Kadlec

Reincarnation?
Is it so hard to believe?
Nick, I'm in the habit of believing ten unbelievable things 
before breakfast everyday, starting with you.
But I admit I'm having a little trouble with this one.
  -- Natalie and Nick

He remembers me.  He remembers Francesca.  Nat, you didn't
hear the tape, you weren't in that room.  
How could he know what he knows, if it's not true?  He knows
my name, he knows what I am.
I don't know, maybe someone's messing with your head.  LaCroix?
Why would he do that?  
Because he's evil?  Uh...Sorry
  -- Nick and Natalie

What if this is real.  This is Francesca.  What does that say
about vampires?  About our souls, that they go on forever.  
That the evil in me will just infect someone else if and when I 
die.  That evil can't be destroyed?
No, I don't believe evil can be destroyed--controlled maybe
like we're trying to do with you.  But never destroyed.
Then why are bothering?
Because evil is a part of the human condition, Nick.  Curing you
won't eradicate the evil you, but it will help you to control it.
  -- Nick and Natalie

Does the name Nicholas de Chevalier mean anything to you?
Uh, where did you hear that?
LoPietro said they were lovers in 1755 when he was Francesca.  
Maybe this Chevalier guy is still around?  Maybe he's the 
connoisseur we're looking for.
I don't think so, Trace.
But he is a vampire?  Huh?  Is he?  Do you know him?  So 
there is something to this guy's story.  He was a vampire in a past
life.
Uh, maybe there's another explanation.
  -- Tracy and Vachon

I don't those composites are going to do the units much good.
  -- Nick

I think he becomes Francesca when he kills.
  -- Nick

Are you Francesca?
I'm all that is left of her.  Her body died long ago, but I
still her beauty, her passion, her needs.
  -- Dr. Kadlec and Frank/Francesca

Come away Nicholas, the chef does not spend his time in the
slaughterhouse.
Is that what they are to you, Francesca?  Cattle?
Each one fed on the finest steak and gooseliver.
They are human, Francesca, as we once were!
They are no more to us than cattle are to them!
  -- Francesca and Nick

You Nick, if this is Francesca, she could be just a little
annoyed with you.
That's what LaCroix said.
  -- Natalie and Nick

I wonder, what do you taste like, Doctor?
  -- Frank/Francesca

Chevalier!  You killed me!
Let her go!
I know who you are, and I know how to kill you.
It's not the first you've killed me, Chevalier.  There
will be another time.
  --  Frank/Francesca and Nick

So?
It was Francesca, I'm sure of it.
And now?
He's dead.  She's gone, for now.
But her soul will come back.
  -- Natalie and Nick

It's a possibility that these things exist...vampires.
  -- Tracy

Do you hear music?
  -- Tracy