I Will Repay (IWR)

Ein Zweites Leben

Week starting September 13th, 1992

Brad Wright

Jorge Montesi

Lindsay Merrithew as Richard Lambert & Shelley Young as Sarah Lambert

A struggling suspect at the 27^th precinct grabs an officer's gun, shoots a cop and takes another hostage. As Nick tries to negotiate with the gunman, Richard Lambert - Crown prosecutor and Natalie's younger brother - enters the building. He is there to take the deposition of Vanessa Delgado, the only witness in a murder case against Saul Craven.

Richard attempts to jump the gunman and is critically wounded for his efforts. Outside, Nat hears the gunshot and rushes in to find her brother on the floor.

At the hospital, the prognosis is not good. Richard wakes for a short time but lapses back into a coma.

Nat walks into the loft as Nick is playing a rather somber piece on the piano. She tells him Richard is dying and begs him to make Richard immortal. This is very upsetting to Nick, he obviously doesn't want to do as she asks. When he points out she isn't being rational, that she's not thinking of the consequences, she gets angry and demanding. "You owe me!"

Nick goes to the Raven and asks Janette for her advice. She admits she's never brought anyone over because she can't stop herself at the proper moment. She warns him to take the responsibility if he does it.

Back at the hospital, Natalie is sitting at her brother's bedside. When Nick walks in, she pleads with him again to bring Richard across, and he finally complies with her wishes.

Richard wakes in Nick's bed and Nick starts teaching him about being a vampire. It's a matter of control. He warns Richard not to make him sorry.

While Nick is at work, Richard listens to the crime report on the radio, and loses his control. He starts flying the streets, killing anyone he finds committing a crime.

Investigating the first death scene, Nick becomes alarmed when the witness claims the murder did it with his teeth. He begins looking for Richard, starting at the Raven. Janette is dismayed and angered by the events. Nick has put the community at risk. He must find Richard before everyone is exposed.

In the meantime, Saul has Vanessa tied to a chair, about to have her killed, when in walks Richard, who kills them all, including the witness.

Nick and Nat return to the loft, where Richard is waiting. He doesn't want to control himself. He's going to put people away permanently! He and Nick start to fight. Richard tosses Nick aside, and knocks Nat over a chair. Grabbing a broken table leg, Nick stakes Richard with it, asking for his forgiveness as Nat's brother discorporates.

(circa early 1800's)

A leprous woman steals a couple fish to survive and is attacked and stabbed by the fishermen. Nick comes across the dying woman and feels compassion for her plight. Elizabeth is glad she's dying because death is preferable to life as an outcast. She asks him to bury her. Instead, he offers to make her a vampire and she accepts. Reveling in her refound beauty, she takes her revenge on the fishermen. Nick is dismayed by her cruel behavior toward those who should be beneath her notice. Realizing the mistake he made, he knocks her into their campfire and destroys her. As her remains burn, he asks for her forgiveness. Not for killing her, but for bringing her across in the first place.

I particularly liked certain aspects of this episode. It showed us a part of Natalie's life we had never seen before: her brother, his family and career. It also showed us that she's just as human as everyone else when it comes to personal tragedy. She saw a way to fix God's "mistake" and did everything she could think of to have that mistake corrected, whether it was right or not.

A lot of emotion and conflict pass between Nat and Nick as she asks him to bring her brother across. We see Natalie behave in a manner totally foreign to anything we've seen in the first eight episodes. She begs, cajoles and finally threatens Nick to try and get what she wants.

It's interesting and unfortunate that Richard cannot control what he really wants to do to stem crime, once Nick has brought him over. It shows how even the best of intentions can go terribly wrong. The end of the vampire fight scene is also particularly powerful. The play of emotions on Nick's face after destroying Richard - weariness, resignation, regret - is quite compelling.

Dark Knighties will enjoy watching Nick be true to his vampiric nature as he brings two people across.

For the Nick&Natpackers, there are several powerful scenes between the two as Nat tries to persuade Nick to make Richard a vampire.

Ravenettes should get a kick out of the way Janette nonchalantly admits she has no willpower when it comes her attempts to bring others over.

There isn't much for the Cousins. Only one tiny scene where LaCroix tells Nick he's a blessed man.

Schanke has several great lines in this episode, which should be pleasing to the FoDs.

Nat and Nick:	Nat: "Don't you have any humanity?" Nick: "I don't know. You're the only one who ever thought I did."
Nick and Janette:	Nick: "Have you ever brought anyone over?" Janette: "...No. I've never been able to stop myself at the right moment... I guess I'm just too much the glutton... My promise of eternal life is broken, but by then there is no one left to apologize to."
Nick and Schanke:	Nick: "Problem?" Schanke: "No thanks, I've got one."
Schanke:	"Just another sweaty day in paradise."
Doctor and Nick:	(As Nat and Nick are wheeling her "dead" brother out of his hospital room) Doctor: "I'm doctor Grey, with the organ donor program, and this man's a donor." Nick: (flashing badge) "He changed his mind."
Schanke to Nick:	"Man, I thought you were supposed to be the sensitive one."

• Another scene of Nick and Natalie in Richard's hospital room.
• Additional footage in the scene where Richard wakes up in his hospital bed.
• After Nat asks Nick to bring Richard across, he goes to the Raven and asks Janette if she's ever brought anyone across. She seems to find it quite amusing that she doesn't have the willpower to stop in time.
• As Nick and Nat wheel Richard out of the hospital room, a doctor shows up to harvest the deceased's organs.
• Expanded phone conversation between Richard and Sarah.
• After giving Nat flowers to express their sympathy, Schanke calls Myra to tell her Natalie liked the flowers.
• A map on the wall of the precinct with pins marking the spots where a murderer (Richard) has left three victims. Stonetree warns his people to be careful of the killer, who has been tearing people apart with his bare hands.

• Nick chews out the officer who lost his gun to the suspect that shot Richard.
• (Flashback) The fishermen decide to let the woman keep the fish she stole, in exchange for "payment."
• Expanded scene in loft between Nat and Nick. "God made a mistake!", "I've never asked you for anything." (both Nat to Nick)
• (flashback) Nick carrying woman to sheltered campfire.
• Nat saying: "Let me tell Richard's wife" (just after his "death.")
• Richard dreams Saul Craven has Sarah captive and wakes up covered in bloodsweat. This seems to be the factor which convinces him he really is a vampire.
• After Schanke gives her the flowers, he asks Natalie when the service will be. Nat tells him they've already had it.
• (Flashback) Nick looking over the fresh graves of the two fishermen.

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