Killer Instinct

Hi, it's Nat.  Were we a good boy, Nick?  And did we do
as the Doctor order.  Cuz if you keep up that sunbed
routine, I guarantee people will be asking you 'which
way to the beach?'  And of course, I don't have to tell
you to stay away from the blood.  Real food, Nick,
you want real food, but then I don't have to tell you
this.  I know you obey my every command.
  -- Natalie

Is that who I think it is?
I think it's who you think it is.
It's his day off.
He's enthusiastic?
He's staining his nose brown.
  -- Cohen and Natalie

Nice speech.  Think the Captain heard you?
I thought we agreed that we were gonna let me look
good for a change.
  -- Nick and Schanke

Are these supposed to be elephant or raindeer?
  -- Nick

Where are you?  Why have you left me like this?
I haven't left you Nicolas.
I'm looking but I can't see you.
Then stop using your eyes.
  -- Nick and LaCroix

Frankly, I'd prefer you kept your bodily functions out of this.
  -- Cohen

Oh, and Schanke, nice deer.
No, no.  They're moose.  I think they're moose, at least that's
what the package said.
  -- Cohen and Schanke

Oh, Nicolas, you're more mortal now than ever.  I can see it in
your eyes and I barely felt you when you came in.
  -- Janette

Nicholas, these lives we make for ourselves are playthings.
Are they?
Of course, mortals age and we outgrow them.  Eventually 
we must all move on.
And what if we take these lives seriously?
Then we get hurt, Nicolas.  You know that.
We get hurt.
  -- Janette and Nick

Wake up Nicolas.  Wake up to what you are.  You've been asleep far too long.
  -- LaCroix

Oh right, Schank, if I was a killer cop, that's exactly what I'd do.  Wear 
department issue gear to my murders.  Maybe, drive away from the bodies
with the siren on in case somebody missed me?
  -- Nick

You know what it is?  It's old age setting in, buddy.  It happens to
the best of us.
  -- Schanke

Detective Knight.  Put your gun on the ground, place your hands on your
head.
What?
Do it!
What the hell's going on?
You lose a watch, Detective?  You have the right to remain silent...
  --IA Cop and Nick

This isn't happening. I'm telling ya, this isn't happening.
Hard to believe?
Try impossible.  I road a lot of miles with that guy in there,
and I'm telling you this is a terrible mistake!
  -- Schanke and Cop

I hope this isn't my pre-execution examination.
Would you settle for a DNA test?
  -- Nick and Natalie

Who is trying to set you up?  Another cop?
Another vampire.
  -- Natalie and Nick

It's as  if someone wants me to move on, Nat.  Wants to force me
out of the life, my job, my friends.  Look, I know if I don't
regain mortality, I'm going to have to leave eventually,  But
I'm not ready, not now.  I'm not ready to give it up.
You won't have to, not if I have anything to do with it.
  -- Nick and Natalie

You're not going to believe this.  He's got a sunbed up there.
He's got a sunbed?
I thought he was allergic to the sun or something.
Well, he is.  I'm sure there's a logical explanation for this and..
Look, Knight does have his eccentric side, but that still doesn't
make him...
Hey, does anyone know why this guy would have blood in his
refrigerator?
Blood?
Yeah, blood.
Blood?
  -- Cop, Schanke, Female Cop, and the IA Cop

They tell me you're not eating.
Uh, jail doesn't do much for my appetite, Schank.
  -- Schanke and Nick

Did you know that there was blood in your refrigerator?
I told the guys that there was  aperfectly good explanation
for it, and I've been trying to come up with one.
Cows blood.  I use it as a paint thickener.  Old European
techniqe.  Use it to thicken my oils.
Well there it is.  I knew there had to be an explanation
for it, it's just... I didn't doubt you are anything, but
you know it's blood.  Paint thickener, well, there it is.
  -- Schanke and Nick

It's paint thickener!
You serious?
  -- Schanke and Cop

Nicolas, you didn't know it was me?
How did you get in here?
Mon cher, have you forgetting everything about being a
vampire?
Someone might have seen you.
They didn't, or at least they won't remember that they did.
  -- Janette and Nick

Someone is forcing me out.
I don't know who it is Nicolas, but it's done.  You cannot
stay here.  You and this case are jeopardizing all of us.
  -- Nick and Janette

Mon cher Nicolas, how many years might it be before we
see each other again, how many decades?  I was almost 
beginning to grow fond of this morality, of this
particular incarnation as a vampire cop.
  -- Janette

Time to come out, whoever you are...
  -- Nick

Schank, I've got to talk to you, it's urgent.
Are you okay?
No, I'm not okay, I made a terrible mistake.  Look
is there some room we could talk?
Yeah, over here.
  -- Natalie and Schanke

You what?
I had to.  It seemed like the only way.  If the lab 
got hold of a real tissue sample of Nick's, well that
could be the end of his career.
Wow!  Wow!  I knew his sun allergy was serious, but I
didn't know it was that serious.  What did you call it
again?  Hemo-lolotolo..
...papsia.
Papsia.
  -- Schanke and Natalie

Follow the vibration.  It is the force that joins us,
and makes us what we are.  Just listen...
  -- LaCroix

What kind of trick is this?  A mortal!
  -- Nick

I didn't kill anyone Schanke.  
I know.  It was him, right.  The guy that just got away?
It was?
You must have known that he was the one Natalie switched
your sample with.  Isn't that why your here?
  -- Nick and Schanke

Oh, puleeze, don't go strange on me.
  -- Schanke

Now I've got you!
  -- Nick

Nicholas, I knew you still had it in you.  Well, you must
have had some idea it was me.  You didn't actually believe
that you had killed me, did you?  I'm much too old and
*powerful* for that.
  -- LaCroix

What am I?
My protege.
Your slave
  -- Nick and LaCroix

Your sham of a mortal life is ruined, Nicholas.  Like the
unicorn, it is the stuff of fiction.
  -- LaCroix

It's time to move on.  To reinvent yourself.
With you.
I've decided to take you back, to give you a second chance.
The only second chance I want is the one I've given myself.
The only anything you get, is what I give you.  I *made* you.
What you made was a mistake.
  -- LaCroix and Nick

Come on buddy, this is no way to spend a Friday night.
  -- Schanke

By the way, SChanke, where's your partner?
Nick?  Geeze, I don't know.  I haven't seen him all night.
  -- Cohen and Schanke

Where's the lasting value, Nicholas?  Blink and they'll
all be ghosts.  Blink, and they'll all be gone.
  -- LaCroix

As for you, Knight, I think you are very lucky, to have
such very good friends.  Appreciate them, Knight, it's
what makes life worth living.
My thoughts exactly.
  -- Cohen and Nick

Janette.
You felt me.
Yes.
That's very good, Nicolas.
Is it?
The threads of our connection have strengthened lately.  That
can mean only one thing.
LaCroix has returned.
  -- Nick and Janette