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The effects of injecting a normal person with vampire blood were established in two separate episodes of Forever Knight, “If Looks Could Kill” (in Season I) and “Fallen Idol” (in Season III).

In the former, Nick met once again a baroness whom he had refused to bring over in the eighteenth century.  It had been Janette who had understood the woman’s despair at aging, as the loss of her youthful beauty led to the loss of her husband’s attentions.  She agreed, therefore, to turn the woman into one of their kind.  Once vampire, the Baroness accrued a group of protegées—women who similarly feared the effects of aging.  To them, she offered immortality and youth without the disadvantages of vampirism.  This was achieved through regular injections of her own blood.  However, when they failed to receive this “medication” on time, they rapidly reverted to their proper ages.

Natalie saw the corpse of one such protegée put into a body bag for transfer to the morgue.  But, when she unzipped the bag to do the autopsy, she discovered the body of an old woman inside.

Naturally, she initially suspected that it was simply a mistake in label­ling two dif­fer­ent bags, each con­taining a dif­fer­ent corpse.  When she in­vest­i­gat­ed, how­ever, she real­ized that the young and old woman were, in fact, the same person.  Nick was unable to explain the transformation until he learned the effects of injections of vampire blood.

In the later episode, “Fallen Idol”, Natalie took advantage of this discovery to try to reverse brain damage in a young man who had been affected by a high fever in his childhood.  Natalie had withdrawn a vial of Nick’s blood in order to perform tests on it.  Over Nick’s objections, she used some of it to inject the boy, hoping that it would impart to him some of the remarkable healing powers of the vampire.  And, indeed, the retardation was reversed.  The boy regained the intelligence level that he would have had if he had not become ill as a child.  However, having vampire blood in his system had side effects:  he became progressively moodier, irrational, and then violent.   Regretfully, Natalie had to admit that—despite her good intent­ions—the cure had become worse than the brain damage.  She let the effects of the injection wear off; and the boy’s intelligence returned to its previous level.

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