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8	->''He was brought across in 1228; preyed on humans for their blood. Now he wants to be mortal again, to repay society for his sins. To emerge from his world of darkness. From his endless... forever night.''
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10	Airing from 1992 through 1996, this series examined the plight of Nicholas Knight, an 800 year old vampire who is determined to reclaim his humanity. In the meantime, [[VampireDetectiveSeries he works as a homicide detective]] in UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, Canada; he is assisted in both by his [[TheCoroner coroner]] (and [[WillTheyOrWontThey sometimes-love interest]]) Natalie Lambert. His efforts are mocked and sometimes thwarted by his former cohort Janette [=DuCharme=] and their [[IHateYouVampireDad maker,]] Lucien [=LaCroix=].
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12	Each story has a FlashbackBPlot, usually taken from Nick's 800 years of backstory, relating thematically and occasionally directly to the main plot.
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14	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Bears no relation]] with the recurring antagonistic group from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' franchise.
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17	!!This show provides examples of:
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21	* TenMinuteRetirement: When Janette [[PutOnABus ups and leaves without telling him]] and a MadBomber [[spoiler:kills his partner Schanke]], Nick thinks it's time to move on and turns in his badge. Given that a HotterAndSexier vampire/cop duo have just been introduced, it's even plausible to the audience that he might do so. Fortunately the MadBomber strikes again, activating Nick's ChronicHeroSyndrome.
22	* ABNegative: They actually not only [[ShownTheirWork get the blood type info right]], saying Schanke, who is AB+, "can take anything but motor oil," while O- can only receive O-, it's involved in a plot point, too. [[spoiler:The killer's mother had died from hepatitis contracted from a blood transfusion, which slipped through the screening process; he was taking out only O- donors who could have been the source.]]
23	* AccidentalBid: Subverted; Nick really is bidding on the item, but his partner Schanke, who doesn't yet know that Nick is insanely wealthy, thinks he's doing it by accident.
24	* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Natalie tries to wean Nick off his vampirism (which she thinks is mostly psychological) by encouraging him to eat small amounts of food, take [[VampiresHateGarlic garlic pills]] and use a sunbed. He's also shown touching candle flames and exposing himself to religious symbols to deal with his fear of them. In the past just trying to touch a cross caused Nick's hand to burst into flame, whereas now he only gets a minor burn. This proves useful when he's able to ward off [=LaCroix=] by holding a cross; even though it should effect Nick just as much, [=LaCroix=] breaks and flees before he does. However in a later episode Natalie accuses Nick of not actually taking the supplements she's been recommending and only paying lip service to his desire to stop drinking blood, showing there are limits to this approach.
25	* ActionSeries: It's a crime drama so there's obviously a showdown with a mad bomber or a serial killer about once every episode or two.
26	* AddictionPowered: Natalie once found a drug that could cure Nick's vampirism, but it turned out to be addictive and only remained effective with greater and greater doses.
27	* AllInTheEyes: When vamped out, there is often a bar of light highlighting the eyes.
28	* AmnesiaEpisode: In "Night in Question", a head injury makes Nick forget he's a vampire. He eats regular food for a while, but when he goes out in the sun it still burns, and Natalie has to tell him the truth.
29	* AndYouWereThere in a NightmareOfNormality:
30	** "Curiouser and Curiouser". A woman is killed in The Raven when Nick botches taking down a pair of shotgun-armed robbers. Nick proceeds to hallucinate a world in which [=LaCroix=] has been murdered, The Raven is run by Cohen, Janette is his wife and the mother of his child, and Natalie is his captain and mistress.
31	** In the novel ''Intimations of Mortality'', a magical item gives Nick dreams of a world in which most people are vampires, including Natalie, and his vampire acquaintances are the human resistance.
32	* ArtifactOfDoom: The Black Buddah statuette which Nick thinks caused the sinking of the Titanic [[spoiler:and the airplane bombing that killed his partner and captain.]] We're [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane never given any evidence that this is true however]], but Nick decides to drop it in the middle of the Atlantic just in case.
33	* AscendedDemon: Your classic possession.
34	* AsideComment: In "The Human Factor", [=LaCroix=] addresses the fourth wall while speaking as the Nightcrawler. He appears to be doing the same in "Last Knight", but it's actually a speech he's giving to Nicholas and we're seeing events from his POV.
35	* TheAtoner: Nick has given up drinking from humans, and become a police officer to make up for all those he's killed.
36	* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Janette was PutOnABus at the beginning of season three, but [[TheBusCameBack came back]] to announce that [[SexChangesEverything being with a mortal lover had made her mortal too]]. She's fatally shot by the VillainOfTheWeek, and refuses Nick's offer of an EmergencyTransformation; [[SubvertedTrope he ignores her wishes]], causing her to cut ties with him permanently.]]
37	* {{Backstory}}: Provided in flashbacks of Nick's long life that relate to the present-day story of the episode.
38	* BadassLongRobe: Worn by Lucien [=LaCroix=] in flashback scenes, often with a HighCollarOfDoom (probably a Creator/BelaLugosi ShoutOut). In the present day he prefers a BadassLongcoat and [[ManOfWealthAndTaste loses the unfashionable collar]].
39	* BeenThereShapedHistory / InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous:
40	** [=LaCroix=] claims "I taught Nero the tune, and together we [[WhileRomeBurns watched Rome burn]]." He also ordered the execution of UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin to help bring about the Russian Revolution. Averted when [=LaCroix=] meets Adolf Hitler, briefly considers turning him, then [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth changes his mind]]--decades later he wonders [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct how history might have been changed if he'd gone ahead]].
41	** One of Nick's previous personas was as an archaeologist who discovered several artifacts that reshaped our understanding of ancient cultures and was brought before the House [=UnAmerican=] Activities Committee for suspicion of being a Communist. He was also on the Titanic when it sunk and at Woodstock with Music/TheGratefulDead.
42	** Nick met UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc at various stages of her life--as peasant girl, warrior and martyr. He implies that he helped Music/LudwigVanBeethoven write his symphonies when the composer started going deaf, and has a painting of Janette by Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.
43	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
44	** Rasputin is a vampire, which explains his [[RasputinianDeath legendary inability to die]].
45	** Jack the Ripper was also one. He was a monster who was TooSpicyForYogSothoth and Nick couldn’t drain him when [=LaCroix=] failed.
46	* BlatantLies: It's a bit ridiculous that almost ''nobody'' in the police ever suspects that Nick is a vampire, but the show is self-aware and pokes fun at that fact. A flashback to his early days as a police officer in Chicago show Nick basically hypnotised his way into the force.
47	-->'''Captain Stonetree''': Look, I've been doing you a lot of favors: You say you're allergic to sunlight, so I put you on the night shift. ''Then'' you say [[IWorkAlone you wanna work alone]]. My instincts are kicking in me in the face, but I say, "Okay, let him work alone." But I am ''not'' gonna postpone this investigation when the sun comes ''up!''
48	** Some of the excuses Nick and Natalie come up with for Schanke's benefit are this, like claiming that a body was drained of four pints of blood due to 'evaporation' from a nearby fire.
49	* BloodyHorror: When Nick tries to kick his addiction, he has a nightmare of himself confessing his BloodLust at a TropaholicsAnonymous meeting, whereupon blood starts oozing out of the podium.
50	* BreakingSpeech: [=LaCroix=] gives mini-versions of these several times throughout the show, then it gets inverted during the DownerEnding, when [=LaCroix=] tries to convince Nick [[spoiler: that he'll get over Natalie's death eventually.]] Needless to say, [[ShutUpHannibal it doesn't work.]]
51	* BusCrash: [[spoiler:Schanke and Cohen]] die offscreen between seasons 2 and 3.
52	* TheBusCameBack: Janette left the series after Season 2, returning to guest-star in the Season 3 episode "The Human Factor".
53	* ButtMonkey: Nick isn't above trolling Schanke, who in turn isn't happy over the way Nick keeps outshining him. In "Partners of the Month" he finally lets lose his resentment over being AlwaysSecondBest to Nick, who makes up with him by letting Schanke arrest the VillainOfTheWeek while keeping his own intervention secret.
54	* CanadaDoesNotExist:
55	** Perhaps an intermediate version that might be described as "Canada is just like generic US." The show is explicitly taking place in Canada with a lot of Canadian elements, but many of these are edited to downplay what might appear alien to the American viewers, or at least, accompanied by narrative devices to explain what they mean to the Americans. These include the following.
56	** The series ''was'' set in Toronto (and characters do talk about being in Canada often enough, with a lot of Canadian terminology, e.g. the "Crown" for the prosecutor, thrown in), but how prominent it was varied considerably episode to episode. Schanke casually asks Nick to lend him a loonie, but Nick clarifies for the American viewers by asking, "A dollar? Why?" Natalie's brother is referred to as a Crown Prosecutor. However, the police force is simply the "Metropolitan Police," without mention of Toronto. Police uniforms and badges are made to look generically American, with the distinct features of the Metropolitan Toronto Police uniforms (such as the red trim on the hats and red stripes on pants) left out. Interestingly, the Ontario provincial flag is far more visible on the show than the Canadian flag, presumably because Americans are not as familiar with Canadian provincial flags as with the national flag.
57	** The CN Tower is also used fairly regularly, including being prominently featured in the opening and closing credits sequences.
58	** The pilot episode includes homeless blood donors being paid for their donations, which would be illegal in Canada. This is a hold-over from the original pilot, which was set in Los Angeles and starred Music/RickSpringfield, as it was an element too vital to the plot to be changed.
59	** Honorable exception for "Capital Offense", which focuses on the issue of an escaped American convict facing the death penalty back home.
60	** Another (near) honorable exception in case of "False Witness" where the workings of the Canadian legal system are on full display, along with the flags of Ontario and Canada in the courtroom. However, unlike the normal practice in Canada, the accused and the defense counsel sat together (although this does sometimes take place). Usually, the accused would be sitting alone, sometimes in a "prisoner's box."
61	** RCMP (the Mounties) shows up quite a lot on the show, whenever the scope of the case goes beyond that of the local police department, but unlike their usual portrayal on American TV shows, they NEVER appear in their red dress uniform.
62	** Formal photographs of Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII (Canada's titular sovereign at the time) can be seen on the walls of the station's offices in several episodes. However, the queen's portraits and Canadian flags are usually located so that the viewer would miss them unless they were paying close attention.
63	* CantHaveSexEver: Nick and Natalie can't have sex; vampire/human sex generally ends with a dead human. [[spoiler: In the series finale, they try it anyway. Bad idea.]]
64	* CatapultNightmare: Nick seemingly hardly ever wakes up without blood-sweat on his forehead.
65	* CelebrityIsOverrated: In the episode "Dying for Fame", Nick and Schanke are watching rock star Rebecca at a concert. Schanke ponders what it must be like to be up there on stage with a thousand screaming fans; Nick says "lonely". [[spoiler:Rebecca later lets her record label claim that a backup dancer killed at a show was her so that she can have a normal life in obscurity.]]
66	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Even as a human [=LaCroix=] had embraced his own evil, but couldn't stand to see it reflected and amplified in his own daughter Divia.
67	* ChineseVampire: Nick Knight is captured by a Chinese acupuncturist who (incorrectly) believes he killed his mother years before. He identifies Nick as a Jiangshi.
68	* CityOfAdventure: Toronto has a serial killer for every day of the year.
69	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In one episode a woman whom Nick had dismissed as being a vampire because she'd been seen in daylight turns out to have a SplitPersonality, one vampire and the other human. Natalie sees this as a good sign, and in an AmnesiaEpisode she's hopeful that if Nick doesn't remember he's a vampire he'll be cured, but it doesn't work out that way; he can eat solid food but is still scalded by sunlight.
70	* ClipShow:
71	** "Close Call," in which Schanke starts putting together all the strange things he's noticed about Nick (and comes ''this close'' to confirming that Nick is a vampire).
72	** The final episode "Last Knight"--this, plus a monologue by [=LaCroix=], serves as filler, which doesn't help what would inevitably be a controversial episode.
73	* CoconutSuperpowers: Actually used on-screen flying effects in the first season, but because of safety and budget issues, decided to imply Nick's flight by just having him lifted up before cutting to an in-flight viewpoint and then to him "landing" at his destination.
74	* CoincidentalBroadcast: [=LaCroix=] is a late night radio host called The Nightcrawler; his {{Suspiciously Specific Sermon}}s often plug into what Nick is thinking or investigating. Given the close eye he keeps on Nick this is likely deliberate.
75	* {{Confessional}}: "For I Have Sinned" follows the [[ConfessInConfidence 'priest hears a confession of an upcoming murder' plot]], though the killer claims to be proud of his work rather than repentent. There's also the Fake Priest version when Nick takes refuge in the confession booth while staking out the church for the killer, and people start going into the other side to confess their sins. At first Nick pretends to be asleep, but then Schanke comes into the booth to confess, so he puts on an Irish accent until Schanke figures out what's going on and angrily pulls open the door to confront him. Nick maintains his Irish accent and reiterates his command to say his Hail Marys.
76	* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: In "Trophy Girl", Nick goes to see Christopher Scheer aka "The Mortician" in prison for insight into the SerialKiller of the week. Scheer pegs Nick as a killer and [[NotSoDifferentRemark suggests they are Not So Different]], and Nick is not inclined to disagree. Scheer also mentions a kindred spirit on the internet called [[Film/CitizenKane "Rosebud"]]. [[spoiler:Instead of being the killer, Rosebud turns out at the end of the episode to be [=LaCroix=]. Maybe Nick should have just asked his sire for advice and spared himself the trouble of a prison visit?]]
77	* CreepyChild: Divia, who is both [=LaCroix=]'s mortal daughter and later his maker, after being turned into a vampire by the Ancient One, who chose to bring her across because he recognised the evil in her, even as a human.
78	* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: An episode had a serial killer who escaped from a mental institution. He talks about killing in such an enticing way that he almost drives Nick (a vampire trying to "go straight") into killing again. Also, [[spoiler: his ranting has already gotten to his therapist: she kills one of her patients, and is about to kill another when Nick stops her]].
79	* CunningLinguist: Thanks to Nick's long life and extensive travels. He's shown speaking French (which is the language he originally spoke as a human) and Chinese in the pilot episode, and can usually speak whatever other language is needed.
80	* CurseThatCures: A blind woman regains her sight after being turned into a vampire, and vampire blood is used to increase the intelligence of a mentally challenged teenager.
81	* DaChief: Downplayed; Precinct Captain Stonetree (Season One), Cohen (Season Two) and Reese (Season Three) are the DeadpanSnarker ReasonableAuthorityFigure rather than MeanBoss type, probably because the audience wouldn't believe the latter could possibly intimidate a VampireDetective.
82	* DaddysLittleVillain: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. [=LaCroix=]'s daughter Divia became a vampire first and is the reason for him becoming one too, not the other way around. She's also far more amoral and embracing of her monstrous nature than even her Machiavellian father, which led him to [[SealedEvilInACan seal her away]] for two thousand years.
83	* {{Demonization}}: A flashback in which Hitler was portrayed as a man so full of evil that it made him [[EvenEvilHasStandards too evil to turn into a vampire]].
84	* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: In the episode "Hunted", a hunter shoots Nick with bullets stuffed with garlic.
85	* DirtyHarriet: Tracy goes undercover at an escort agency to find the serial killer-of-the-week in "Trophy Girl". [[FamilyFriendlyStripper As per usual for this trope]] she's snatched by the killer before she's forced to have sex with anyone to maintain her cover.
86	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Nick's vampiric dependency on blood is treated like alcoholism. It's said that he could even become human again like he wanted if he could just kick the habit. At one point, he even tries a 12-step program.
87	* DramaticHourLong: The first season aired with 40 minutes per episode on CBS, and 47 minutes on Canadian broadcasts. Fans were soon passing around videotapes of the "Canadian versions" and posting transcripts of missing scenes; while many of the longer episodes contained [[{{Padding}} filler scenes]] of Nick brooding, some contained important plot points or character development. The later two seasons only had one version.
88	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Cpt. Amanda Cohen and police detective Don Schanke]] were unceremoniously killed off off-screen in a plane crash, in the first episode of the series' last season.
89	* DueToTheDead:
90	** In season 3, [[spoiler:Vachon buries Screed after he's killed, and later, Tracy buries Vachon next to Screed, knowing they were friends. [=LaCroix=] also burns Divia's body on a pyre.]]
91	-->'''[=LaCroix=]:''' I shall wait until the flames go out, then I shall scatter her ashes to the wind. [[VillainousBSOD I may even say a prayer.]]
92	** In the final episode [[spoiler:after Nick accidentally drains Natalie beyond what he believes she can survive, [=LaCroix=] is willing to delay their leaving so they can bury her. Nick asks to be staked instead.]]
93	* EmergencyTransformation:
94	** Nick acceds to Natalie's request to vamp her brother when he is fatally shot. It doesn't go well.
95	** When it looks like an asteroid will cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, Natalie asks for Nick to bring her across as the only way of surviving (even though the vampires aren't sure they'll survive without any mortal life to feed on). When he refuses, she gets drunk and goes looking for a vampire who's less squeamish.
96	** Then in the final episode [[spoiler:Tracy gets fatally injured]], and a [[ItsAllMyFault guilt-ridden Nick]] is about to bring her across when Natalie interrupts. Natalie had earlier proposed using the method that worked on Janette to make him human, but as it could have killed Natalie or turned her into a vampire he refused. So she's not impressed that Nick was about to turn someone else without even knowing if they wanted it.
97	* EnigmaticMinion: Larry Merlin, a forger who provides vampires with fake ID's, and Miklos, a bartender at The Raven, are this due to being the only characters in the show aware of the vampire community whose status as vampires or mortals is never confirmed.
98	* EquivalentExchange: One episode featured a mystic healer that could take darkness out of people. However, said mystic happened to be a novice at her craft, and didn't know that this darkness had to be put somewhere, (usually into an inanimate object of some sort), and wound up absorbing it herself and being overwhelmed by it. The episode had a really sad end to it, [[spoiler: Nick was quite close to becoming human again, with most of his vampiric urges gone. But she herself was absorbing his darkness and becoming a vampire. She died from "OD'ing" on his evil, which he re-absorbed into himself.]] Her grandfather alluded that she might have been capable of fully healing Nick (or at least making his gains permanent) if she had been more skilled.
99	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
100	** Divia ''again''. What got her [[spoiler: trapped in a sarcophagus was her demanding that [=LaCroix=] [[ParentalIncest have sex with her]] -- which he refused to do, because she was, you know, ''his daughter''. (Did we mention that [[{{Squick}} she was physically 11 years old? And looked even younger?]]]]) During the episode, after she declares that she considers his refusal a betrayal, [=LaCroix=] invokes this trope: "I always thought evil was a finite entity until you showed me otherwise. Even ''I'' have my limits, Divia!"
101	** In another episode's flashbacks, Nick and [=LaCroix=] meet a young German soldier [[spoiler:named Adolf Hitler]] on a train. At first, [=LaCroix=] wants to bring him across, but he eventually decides not to: there's a kind of evil in him that "we don't need."
102	** When [=LaCroix=] bites UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper it seriously debilitates him, and he tells Nick to go finish the Ripper off. Nick, who doubts anyone could be more evil than his sire, doesn't bother doing so -- to his regret.
103	* EverybodyDiesEnding: Its DownerEnding. [[spoiler:After a season of killing off or sending away the supporting cast, Vachon is staked by Tracy to stop him turning completely evil after Divia bites him. Then in the following episode Tracy gets killed in the line of duty, with Nick facing an Internal Affairs investigation for killing the guy who shot her. Then, while preparing to make love to his mortal love interest Natalie, Nick drinks so much blood from her that she ends up near death. Instead of turning her into a vampire and a killer (she had previously said she was "not afraid of death, or an eternity in darkness" if it meant they would be together), he chooses to let her die, then asks [=LaCroix=] to kill him, as he can't live without her. [=LaCroix=]'s final line (the final line of the series) as he stands behind Nick with a stake, summed up many fans' reaction to this ending: "Damn you, Nicholas."]]
104	* ExpositionOfImmortality:
105	** Nick has incriminating evidence photos of him from previous time periods, mementos like Joan of Arc's cross, and plenty of memories that he likes to share, usually OnceAnEpisode.
106	** [=LaCroix=] too, when he's trying to convince Nick that LivingForeverIsAwesome.
107	-->"I taught Nero the tune, and together we watched Rome burn. I rode with Charlemagne, and taught Genghis Khan lessons in war."[[note]] Technically, all of these could be true, though its debatable whether one random army officer (as [=LaCroix=] was before his transformation) would have been that close to the Emperor.[[/note]]
108	* ExtraYExtraViolent: One episode centers on a legend that a (female) vampire who mated with an XYY male "higher than high, under the light of the full moon" would become human. The XYY human did have extra violent tendencies.
109	* EyeColorChange: Vampires' eyes turn golden when they vamp out.
110	* FaceYourFears: In "For I Have Sinned", the murderer is a religious maniac who goes to church, so Nick has to confront his fear of religious icons, while in "The Fire Inside" the murderer uses a flamethrower, forcing Nick to deal with his fear of fire.
111	* {{Fanservice}}: Albeit of the FamilyFriendlyStripper version--ToplessnessFromTheBack, lingerie and leather--but not much else. An especially notable example, when Nick flashing his badge blocks the view of a topless woman just as she turns around, made it into the opening credits.
112	* FantasticDrug: For vampires, blood seems to be this, or PsychoSerum (in the pilot, Lacroix says that Nick doesn't have the strength to defeat him unless he drinks human blood). Nick attempts to become mortal are [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything often played like someone kicking alcoholism]].
113	* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct:
114	** In "If Looks Could Kill", a vampire doctor used injections of her own blood as a "miracle youth-restoring treatment" marketed to rich elderly women. Unfortunately the users suffer from homicidal outbursts, and RapidAging if the treatments stop.
115	** "Fever" had a undeadly virus going about the vampire community. Originally contracted by sucking the blood of a lab rat which had been used to test an HIV vaccine, it can only be cured by sucking the blood of an AIDS victim.
116	* FateWorseThanDeath:
117	** When an extinction-level asteroid is predicted to strike the Earth causing a twenty-year long nuclear winter, [=LaCroix=] muses to Nick that even if their kind survives it would hardly be worth existing without humanity to draw sustenance from--not only as prey but as providers of society and culture. It's the only occasion when [=LaCroix=] admits that being immortal isn't as good as he makes out.
118	** Averted when Divia turns up for revenge on [=LaCroix=] for [[SealedEvilInACan sealing her away for millenia]]. At first it looks like she's planning LaserGuidedKarma on her father, but she decides that killing him so he'll suffer eternal damnation in the Afterlife is an appropriate fate.
119	* FeverDreamEpisode: In "Curiouser and Curiouser", Nick is suspended pending investigation into a robbery he tried to stop where an InnocentBystander was killed. He goes home and falls asleep, then wakes up to find that he's a human DefectiveDetective married to Janette (who's human as well because vampires don't exit) and having an affair with Natalie who's the precinct captain instead of the coroner, and AlwaysSecondBest to his partner Schanke instead of the other way round. The Murder of the Week is "The Nightcrawler" [=LaCroix=] who's been stabbed (with an ordinary knife) at his radio station. Things get weirder with {{Alice Allusion}}s galore and [=LaCroix=] speaking to him [[TheTelevisionTalksBack from the TV set]]. Turns out it's repressed guilt over how Nick has been treating his friends on top of his [[TheAtoner vampire issues]]. As per ''Alice in Wonderland'', he then wakes up to find that it's AllJustADream. Then word comes in about a [[TheEndOrIsIt murder at a radio station...]]
120	* FinalSeasonCasting: The third season sees Janette gone and [=LaCroix=] taking over her club, Nick's partner Schanke replaced with Tracy Vetter, Capt. Cohen replaced with Capt. Reese, and the introduction of a new vampire, Vachon, plus two recurring vampire characters, Screed and Urs.
121	* FindTheCure: [[RomanticVampireBoy Ostensibly]] the reason why Nick and Natalie stay together. Though Natalie calls out Nick on not sticking to her treatment regimen, implying he's not trying as hard as he could.
122	* FiremenAreHot: Janette gets together with a hunky firefighter. When she says, "He knocked down my door, swept me off my feet and carried me off," she is not speaking figuratively. She is, however, neglecting to mention that her apartment was on fire at the time.
123	* {{Flashback}}: Every episode has flashbacks to something in the past (usually of Nick, but sometimes one of the other vampires) that's related--directly or thematically--to the case being investigated. The flashbacks are sometimes happening InUniverse, as shown when Nick is called out over his ThousandYardStare or drifts into oncoming traffic.
124	* FlashStep: Used by vampires for a StealthHiBye, DeadlyLunge or just [[DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat scaring humans by appearing in their face suddenly]].
125	* FlatlinePlotline: The subject of "Near Death". Nick too crosses over, in order to find if he's damned forever.
126	* {{Flight}}: Vampires can fly in this series (and no, they don't have wings). Nick himself is often seen flying around the city when a car isn't fast enough. His partner is often puzzled as to how Nick always gets to the scene of crime ahead of him.
127	* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Natalie uses vampire blood to increase a mentally challenged teenager's intelligence to enable him to act as a witness in a murder investigation.
128	* ForTheEvulz: This frequently seems to be [=LaCroix=]'s motivation, as pointed out by Natalie in "Francesca":
129	-->'''Natalie:''' Maybe someone's messing with your head. [=LaCroix=]?
130	-->'''Nick:''' Why would he do that?
131	-->'''Natalie:''' Because he's evil?
132	** This ''is'' Divia's entire motivation, to an extent that even [=LaCroix=] is disgusted.
133	* FrameUp: At the start of Season 2, [=LaCroix=] turns out to be NotQuiteDead, and tries to drive Nick from his life by framing him a vigilante who's been killing drug dealers recently by planting his watch on a body. It's NotHelpingYourCase that Nick keeps bottles of blood in his fridge and has to break out of the van taking him to prison to avoid burning to death. [[spoiler:Then Natalie tries to fudge his DNA test only to inadvertently swap his DNA with the real killer, who's a morgue attendent. Fortunately he eventually confesses and it's assumed he swapped the DNA samples himself.]]
134	* FreudianExcuse: One episode featured a serial killer who was targeting women because of memories of his horribly abusive mother. They all reminded him of her in some way, but since they're not his actual mother he didn't derive any closure from it and had to keep on killing.
135	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Nick and Vachon; others not so much. Vampires don't ''have'' to kill when feeding, but their BloodLust means they have a good chance of draining the victim once they've started.
136	* FriendshipMoment
137	** In the pilot Nick and Schanke don't like each other much. After Schanke borrows Nick's vintage Cadillac without asking and crashes it, he thinks Nick will be furious. He is (not least because he was trapped in the trunk at the time), but admits that Schanke was right about the case they were investigating, so agrees to forgive him instead.
138	** Divia is killing off [=LaCroix=]'s friends, so everyone at the Raven is staying well away from him. Nick however promises to be there if he needs him, and [=LaCroix=] is visibly moved.
139	* FullyEmbracedFiend: [=LaCroix=] and Janette think that Nicholas is only going to hurt himself by clinging to his guilt and his human friends in a fruitless quest for redemption.
140	* GoIntoTheLight: A flashback to when Nicholas was brought across showed that after his blood was drained by [=LaCroix=], he saw a veiled woman standing in a glowing doorway. [=LaCroix=] then called on Nicholas to turn away from the light and return to him, while the veiled woman offers him the [[TwoRoadsBeforeYou choice]] of going on to the Afterlife, or returning to Earth to live as a vampire. That week's FlatlinePlotline involved Nicholas recreating his NearDeathExperience to see if the other choice is still an option or if he's eternally damned. [[spoiler:This time the {{Psychopomp}} looks like [=LaCroix=], which is explained as the evil within him changing the form of the guide (who is apparently the same being he met before). The guide explains that he can pass into the light but his soul will be judged for the thousands that he has killed over the centuries, or he can continue to atone for his actions on Earth. Fortunately Natalie and Schanke are able to revive him so he can.]]
141	* HerosClassicCar: Nick drives a 1962 Cadillac Series 62. It's because it has the most trunk space of any car from the last 30 years; in case he gets caught away from home during the day, he can just curl up in the trunk and wait until night. In the original TV movie, the car was a '59 Cadillac Convertible, but it was changed to the '62 for the series.
142	-->'''Vachon:''' Cars are sexier with fins, aren't they? More predatory.
143	-->'''Nick:''' To me it's a question of trunk space.
144	-->'''Vachon:''' [[BoringInsult Pragmatist!]]
145	* HemoErotic: WordOfGod states that male vampires can't have erections, so blood drinking is not just a part of sex, but a substitute for sex.
146	* HenPeckedHusband: Schanke is alway griping about--or trying to placate--his [[TheGhost unseen wife Myra]].
147	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Nicolas asks [=LaCroix=] to stake him after he takes too much blood from Natalie.]]
148	* HiredToHuntYourself: The pilot does a BaitAndSwitch where it looks like Nick is the 'Vampire Killer' he's investigating, especially when we see him drinking blood from the antique cup we saw being stolen during the opening murder. Turns out there are two such cups; [=LaCroix=] (the real killer) stole it because together they could cure Nick's vampirism.
149	* HolyBurnsEvil: Vampires are vulnerable to holy objects from any faith, not just crosses and Christian articles; Divia and The Ancient One are imprisoned in sarcophagi sealed with the disk of the Egyptian sun god Ra. Nick is able to hold a cross due to both [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity deliberate exposure]] and his attempts at redemption. The episode "For I Have Sinned" shows him fondly regarding a cross that belonged to Jeanne D'arc. In the flashback, the cross set his hand ablaze, meaning he could not hold it up for her while she was being burned at the stake. Now, he can hold it with only minor injury, as he demonstrates to Natalie.
150	* HotterAndSexier: The replacement of Nick's first partner--a balding, middle-aged guy--with his second, an attractive young blonde.
151	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In "Hunted", Nick and Schanke track a vigilante killer who offers two million dollars to any criminal who escapes her hunt alive. When she discovers that Nick is a vampire, she kidnaps Schanke and holds him hostage to force Nick to play along. And the FlashbackBPlot involves a VampireHunter.
152	* IHateYouVampireDad:
153	** Nick had a very... difficult relationship with his maker.
154	** Divia killed her maker The Ancient One because she refused to be controlled by him. Even [=LaCroix=] is shocked by this, if only because someone who has lived so long should be respected. Ironically he then tries to kill Divia, who is both his daughter and maker. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge She doesn't take this well.]]
155	* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: After realising that Nicholas and Natalie have fallen in love, [=LaCroix=] threatens to kill her (in payback for Nicholas [[MySisterIsOffLimits refusing to let his sister]] be brought across after [=LaCroix=] had fallen in love with her). Nicholas claims that [[ItDoesntMeanAnything he's only manipulating Natalie]] to give her added incentive to cure him, so [=LaCroix=] challenges Nicholas to bring her across. Nicholas vamps out and pretends he's about to do so, and fortunately [=LaCroix=] [[EvenEvilHasStandards changes his mind at the last moment]].
156	* IJustWantToBeNormal: One of Nick's driving motivations is the desire to be mortal. Unfortunately, his other driving desire is to make up for his centuries of killing by doing police work and he constantly uses his vampiric powers as a detective. If he ever lost them, he'd be dead within the week.
157	* ImmortalProcreationClause: Vampires cannot have children of their own. This leads a 200-year old vampire lover of Nick to kill herself by committing SuicideBySunlight because she can't bring anything new to the world.
158	* ImmuneToMindControl:
159	** Nick and other vampires use a JediMindTrick to keep up TheMasquerade, but some people are naturally immune--unrelated to any other character quality (intelligence, strong-mindedness, etc.). Those are the ones who become {{Secret Keeper}}s, get turned, or are killed. Several incidences where Nick tries to hypnotise an armed criminal into surrendering end badly because of this.
160	** Also the JediMindTrick won't work on someone who has proof of what they saw, such as a photograph or film, as they only have to look at the image again to remind themselves they weren't imagining it. This causes problems in "Unreality TV" when a documentary crew is recording Nick at work (while the FlashbackBPlot deals with a Civil War photographer who captured [=LaCroix=] flying on camera, with [[YouKnowTooMuch fatal consequences for him]]).
161	* ImmuneToBullets: Nick is often shot in the line of duty, but since he's a vampire he quickly recovers. He'll often use this to his advantage as well by [[TakingTheBullet making himself a shield for other people]] who wouldn't be able to survive it otherwise. Of course he always claims it was OnlyAFleshWound or he was wearing a BulletproofVest. Subverted in the final episode when Nick gets shot [[spoiler:and the bullet passes through his body and inflicts a fatal injury on Tracy.]]
162	* ImmunityDisability: If someone learns of vampires, a vampire will hypnotize them to forget. If they're one of the few people who are immune to hypnosis they'll usually be killed.
163	* ImprovisedCross:
164	** In the season two premiere, Nick puts two planks of wood together to ward off his former master [=LaCroix=]. His hands are smouldering from holding the cross, but [=LaCroix=] breaks and flees before he does.
165	** In "For I Have Sinned", even the sight of a corpse left in the crucifix position is disturbing to Nick.
166	** Played for laughs in "Hunters" when Schanke does the "cross my heart" gesture to Janette.
167	--->'''Janette:''' ''Please''...don't do that in front of me.
168	* IWorkAlone: Nick in the pilot episode, for entirely pragmatic reasons. However pressure to solve the 'Vampire Killer' murders means he's forced to take a partner who can work the day shift. This is Schanke, whom he's previously been shown butting heads with.
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171	[[folder:J-Z]]
172	* JediMindTrick: Vampires can do this to most humans, but there are limits. Some people are immune to hypnotism, and Nick was unable to hypnotise a photographer who caught evidence of vampires on camera as they just had to look at the recorded image to remind themselves they weren't seeing things.
173	* KillThePoor: One of the show's most despicable of its many killers-of-the-week was a businessman who considered the poor to be parasites and took the mantle of "Dragon" so he could [[ManOnFire exterminate them with a flame thrower]]. He even lured in one of his victims by promising the man some spare change.
174	* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: The vampire community has Enforcers who will kill vampires who break TheMasquerade, and any human who can't be hypnotised into forgetting. They only appear in "Unreality TV" though; although [=LaCroix=] and Janette are aware that Natalie is a [[ImmuneToMindControl Resister]] who knows about their existance, they leave her alone for the most part, [=LaCroix=] only threatening her in one episode because he thinks Nick has fallen in love with her.
175	* KnightTemplar: In "For I Have Sinned" the killer was a practicing Catholic who was killing women in his church who were committing sins like infidelity. He confesses this to his priest, who initially assumes he feels guilt for his crimes, but he's actually EvilGloating, convinced that he's doing God's work.
176	* LargeHamRadio: [=LaCroix=] as the Nightcrawler. He goes more for CreepyMonotone than LargeHam, but breaks out the latter after taking over the Raven and hosting an amateur strip contest there.
177	-->'''[=LaCroix=]:''' Let us peel back the layers, let us strip away the last vestiges of decorum and civility, and reveal our inner selves. ''[[GratuitousFrench Oui, mes amis]]'', it's Amateur Night at the Raven, and tonight our amateurs will reveal ''their'' inner selves by [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn GETTING NAKED!]]
178	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [=LaCroix=] has the ability to make [[ImmuneToMindControl "Resisters"]] forget, if not the existence of vampires, then certain memories. He uses this as a ResetButton on Natalie to forget Nick's LoveConfession, [[spoiler:and on Tracy to make her forget that she killed Vachon.]]
179	* LesbianVampire: Janette showed some interest in a young prostitute, planning, at one point, on making her a vampire. Briana, a vampire bartender at the Raven, can also be seen checking out the legs of a woman dancing on top of her bar in "A More Permanent Hell".
180	* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Why Nicholas wanted to become a vampire. He's changed his mind by this point, but he has problems convincing other people. [=LaCroix=] of course agrees with them, but in one episode when an incoming asteroid was going to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, he seems quite bitter when it turns out to be a hoax. "I have been delivered from death. To a more permanent hell."
181	* MissingReflection: Zig-zagged. Most vampires don't appear in mirrors, but Nick having a reflection was handwaved as being because of his progress toward humanity. In reality, budget issues prevented the editing out of every reflection.
182	* MonsterAndTheMaiden: Nick Knight is an 800 year old vampire working as a police detective in hopes of regaining his mortality and atoning for the people he killed. Natalie Lambert is a coroner whose slab he wakes up on after seemingly dying. She's a partial resister and he can't hypnotize her into forgetting, but she sets out to help him become human again.
183	* MustBeInvited: Averted for RuleOfDrama. Kinda inconvenient if a cop can't enter a perp's place without an invite. You could argue that a search warrant would apply, but [[CowboyCop it's not like Nick always waits for one]].
184	* NeverSuicide:
185	** An intern at a hospital is murdered in a way that makes it look like a suicide (slashed wrists in the shower when she was already depressed), but Nick correctly suspects that the woman was murdered.
186	** Averted when an astronomer shoots herself after discovering an extinction-level asteroid is going to hit Earth. Nick insists on digging into the case even though every cop is needed to keep order as society collapses, but his investigation shows she really did commit suicide. [[spoiler:The crime is that the data of the predicted asteroid impact was faked.]]
187	* NonResidentialResidence:
188	** Nick's loft was a converted warehouse. The building actually exists in RealLife Toronto.
189	** Vachon lives in an abandoned church.
190	* {{Nepotism}}: Tracy is the daughter of the police commissioner, and is very aware of the effect this has on her career and how people treat her. This makes her overly eager to prove herself, which often gets her into trouble.
191	* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Tracy and Natalie listen to a talk show psychiatrist describing a woman on a ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]''-expy who claimed that her boyfriend was a vampire, claiming that such 'fantasy' relationships are ultimately abusive, unrequited emotionally, and involve no sex (contrary to [[VampiresAreSexGods what the woman claimed]]). This can't help striking a chord even though the woman's boyfriend turns out to be entirely human.
192	* TheOlderImmortal:
193	** [=LaCroix=] was probably born circa 35 A.D. or so, has a millennium or so on Nick and Janette, who are already among the oldest vampires on the show.
194	** The oldest immortal mentioned in the show is a thousands-year old vampire known as "The Ancient One" who turned [=LaCroix=]'s daughter, who in turn turned him. Supposedly Egyptian, but hinted to be even older.
195	* OpeningNarration: Read by [=LaCroix=] during the TitleSequence (see page quote).
196	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Averted; our vampires are pretty much the 1800s classics. Garlic repels them, sunlight causes them pain but doesn't kill them particularly quickly (although it will still kill them), stakes or beheadings kill them, crosses repel them and so on. However MustBeInvited is averted for RuleOfDrama, and MissingReflection for budget reasons.
197	* PetTheDog:
198	** The vampire enforcers let Tay go after she is hypnotized and her evidence is destroyed.
199	** When Schanke begins to suspect that Nick and his friends are vampires, Nick and Janette worry that [=LaCroix=] will [[YouKnowTooMuch kill him]]. Instead [=LaCroix=] just talks through the situation with Schanke and, without even using a JediMindTrick, is able to convince him that he's stressed out and imagining things.
200	** Despite voicing some contempt for humans, Janette still acts to protect Nick's friends when they look like getting into trouble. When Schanke or Natalie have attracted the attention of vampires at the Raven she's stepped in to protect them, and she was willing to tolerate Schanke staying there when a CopKiller was hunting him.
201	* PhoneTraceRace: One episode had a serial killer phoning a radio psychiatrist, and killing his victims on the air; he knew about phone tracing, and was keeping his calls short enough to prevent a trace. He also specifically called from a public phone when he expects them to be running a trace for this reason. When he kidnaps the psychiatrist, Nick takes her place on the air, and starts playing mind games with the killer so that he stops watching his clock and stays on the phone too long.
202	* PilotMovie: ''Nick Knight'', starring Music/RickSpringfield as Nicholas, aired in 1989. Although it used almost exactly the same script as the show's actual pilot, the entire cast except for John Kapelos was replaced, including the coroner changing from male to female, and the setting moved from Los Angeles to Toronto.
203	* PoorCommunicationKills: In "Baby, Baby", Serena asked Nick to give her "eternity"; Nick interpreted this as a request to bring her across and uncharacteristically did so...after which it turned out she'd wanted to get ''pregnant''. Ooops.
204	* ThePowerOfBlood:
205	** Although Nick drinks cow blood, the human kind is implied to be more potent. In the pilot [=LaCroix=] tells Nick he won't be strong enough to defeat him unless he drinks from the DamselInDistress he's protecting. Natalie uses human blood to revive Nick when he's near death.
206	** Feeding on blood enables you to receive their memories, and vampires can use this to gain the skills and knowledge of the person being fed on. When vampires feed on vampires, both parties get the memories through cross contamination; Divia uses this to [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth kill other vampires]].
207	** Injecting humans with vampire blood uses its HealingFactor to cure disabilities or even reverse aging. However you have to keep up the treatment and SideEffectsInclude [[PsychoSerum unpleasant behaviour changes]].
208	* ThePowerOfLove: In "The Human Factor", [[spoiler:Janette returns to Toronto as a mortal. Turns out she fell in love with a human, and after revealing that she was a vampire he allowed her to feed on him. Janette says the love she felt calmed her bloodlust and she was able to take less and less. Then when he was murdered she tries to vamp out to save his life with an EmergencyTransformation, only to find that she had become human. Natalie is understandably skeptical; in a DaydreamSurprise she pins the cause on the surge of hormones caused by the shock of her lover's death. However in "Last Knight", Natalie gets tired of trying the scientific method to no avail, and is willing to risk it. Unfortunately Nick (probably because unlike Janette he hadn't drunk human blood for a long time) loses control and drains Natalie completely. Rather than bring Natalie across, Nick chooses to die so they'll be TogetherInDeath.]]
209	* PretendToBeBrainwashed:
210	** A vampire at the Raven uses the JediMindTrick to make Natalie take him to her house so he can feed on her. Natalie, as the audience knows, is immune to hypnosis so she just plays along until she gets to her house, then tries to lock the vampire outside. Unfortunately he has VillainTeleportation among his powers.
211	** Hilariously, when Tracy learns that Vachon is a real live vampire, Vachon pretends to hypnotize ''Nick'' into forgetting about the existence of vampires. Thus Nick manages to maintain TheMasquerade with his partner, giving her very good reason to believe Nick is just plain mortal rather than figuring out he's also a vampire.
212	* ProWrestlingEpisode: "Fallen Idol" involves the murder of a pro wrestler.
213	* PunnyTitle: Nicholas Knight is an immortal vampire, so the title references both his unending life and his lifestyle, as sunlight will kill him.
214	* {{Reincarnation}}: In "Francesca", a murder spree is traced back to a hypnotherapy patient who's the reincarnation of Nick's vampiric former lover (the titular 18th century [[AristocratsAreEvil Countess]]). Before the episode is over, the patient undergoes a full-blown SplitPersonalityTakeover (complete with [[CreepyCrossdresser creepy crossdressing]]) and must be killed by Nick (again). At the end of the episode, Tracy, who has been having nightmares about Francesca throughout the investigation, goes to the same hypnotherapist -- and is revealed to be the reincarnation of a violinist whom Francesca murdered.
215	* RaisingTheSteaks: One episode shows that even ''dogs'' can be turned into vampires.
216	* RefugeInAudacity:
217	** Nick usually vamps out when confronting the VillainOfTheWeek at the climax of the episode, knowing that no-one will believe a criminal who said his arresting officer can fly and has fangs like Dracula.
218	** Schanke gets an earful from a woman on the phone when he calls her "honey". When he's finished griping about this to Nick, the latter tells Natalie, "Goodbye, honey" and gives her a kiss on the cheek, to her complete bemusement.
219	** After Tracy learns Vachon is a vampire, Nick gets Vachon to pretend to hypnotise him in front of Tracy into forgetting the existence of vampires, thus solidifying in her mind that Nick is an ordinary human.
220	* RPGEpisode: "The Games Vampires Play" involved a MMORPG where the player character is a vampire.
221	* SadisticChoice: In the very first episode, Nick has a split second to decide whether to save an innocent woman from [[IHateYouVampireDad his maker]], or catch a falling cup that is the key to his [[ToBecomeHuman cure for vampirism]]. He picks the woman, so later he's presented with a choice of feeding on her to give him the strength to fight Lacroix, or refusing to and Lacroix will likely kill them both. The woman is [[LivingForeverIsAwesome actually willing to take the risk]], but Nick refuses only for Lacroix to kill her anyway (and in the final shot [[ShootTheShaggyDogStory it's shown she became a vampire as well]]).
222	* SceneryCensor: In a point-of-view shot in "Dance by the Light of the Moon", Nick raises his badge just in time to block our view of a topless stripper's below-the-neck-area as she turns to face him. This scene was used in the opening title sequence [[{{Fanservice}} for obvious reasons]].
223	* SecretKeeper:
224	** The coroner Natalie Lambert found out about vampires when Nick woke up on her autopsy table and was unable to hypnotise her into forgetting this.
225	** Ironically, Nick's third season partner Tracy Vetter knows that vampires exist but not that Nick is one. She thinks that she's keeping the secret of their existence from him.
226	* SeenItAll: In "If Looks Could Kill", when Natalie suggests that the mystery of the week involves "some kind of [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] thing" that Nick doesn't know about, Nick retorts, "Something I haven't encountered in 800 years on several continents?"
227	* SequelEpisode: The flashbacks in the Season 2 episode "A More Permanent Hell" introduce [=LaCroix=]'s vampire daughter Divia. The Season 3 episode "Ashes to Ashes" shows what happened to her.
228	* SheetOfGlass: DoubleSubverted in the PilotMovie. A runaway car, barreling down the hill. Guys carrying pane of glass across the road. Driver yelling and trying to wave them off. Frightened face of car's helpless driver reflected in the glass. Guys make it out of the way in time, saving the glass...except they're so busy watching the car, they walk into a nearby tree, smashing the glass anyway.
229	* ShootTheBuilder: Just to show us that [=LaCroix=] was evil ''before'' he became a vampire, he's shown as a Roman general, boasting of how he had the eyes of the sculptor of his bust put out, and ordered his legionaries to rape the Gaulish women after his victory.
230	* SinEater: "Blackwing" features a partially trained [[MagicalNativeAmerican Native American/First Nations shaman]] named Marian Blackwing who tries to take the "darkness" out of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Nick.]] While she doesn't cure Nick's vampirism, she does succeed in removing most of his hate and anger. Unfortunately, due to her lack of complete training, Marian is unable to transfer the darkness she took from Nick into a harmless inanimate object and winds up corrupted by it.
231	* SneakyDeparture: Their immortal lifestyle encourages vampires to just up and leave to avoid forming permanent attachments to humans. Janette disappears at the start of Season 3 with [=LaCroix=] citing this as the explanation, but it's later revealed she told [=LaCroix=] she was leaving because Nick's search for humanity was making her doubt herself as a vampire. In that same episode Nick wonders if he should move on as well as his attempt to FindTheCure doesn't seem to be getting results. After [[TenMinuteRetirement he turns in his badge]], Natalie gives him hell because she found out the news from a desk sergeant, implying he was intending to slip out on her as well.
232	* SpiderSense: Vampires can sense other vampires in their 'family'. Nick feels that he's BeingWatched when [=LaCroix=] comes BackFromTheDead, and [=LaCroix=] feels the same when Divia turns up. When Janette returns to Toronto, [=LaCroix=] rejects the idea that she's the murder suspect in the photofit Nick hands him because neither of them have sensed her presence, [[spoiler:foreshadowing for TheReveal that she's become mortal.]]
233	* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:In "Ashes to Ashes", after Vachon is bitten by Divia, the memories of the evil she has done threaten to overwhelm him, so he gets Tracy to stake him. Nick finds her [[CradlingYourKill cradling his body]], and asks [=LaCroix=] to hypnotise her to think Vachon just decided to move on elsewhere. Then in the episode after that [=LaCroix=] stakes Nicholas when he also choses to commit suicide.]]
234	* StarCrossedLovers: Nick and Natalie, due among other things to the human/vampire CantHaveSexEver factor and [=LaCroix=]'s declared intention to take vengeance on any woman Nick truly loves.
235	* StrongerWithAge: [=LaCroix=] surviving Nick staking and burning him in the pilot is put down to this; it's BlessedWithSuck when it looks like the world will end and older vampires like [=LaCroix=] will linger on, starving on a devestated planet. His daughter Divia, having been sired by The Ancient One, apparently recieved some of his powers as she can survive decapitation and [[SealedEvilInACan internment for millenia]]. [[spoiler:She's also staked and burned, and her father declares he'll scatter her ashes to the winds to stop her resurrecting again.]]
236	* SuicideBySunlight:
237	** In "Last Act", a female vampire friend of Nicholas does this; it's assumed to be SpontaneousHumanCombustion by a witness. Given that the case of the week involves an [[NeverSuicide apparent suicide]], it starts Nick wondering if [[SuicideIsPainless he should solve his problems this way as well]].
238	** In "Can't Run, Can't Hide", a Vietnamese vampire who [=LaCroix=] brought over so he could get revenge on the US Army squad who slaughtered his village does this after the last one is dead (also by suicide over regret of the massacre).
239	** The female vampire who turned Vachon and his enemy the Inca into vampires committed suicide by sunlight soon afterward.
240	** Nick attempted suicide this way once, only to pull back as he started to burn.
241	* SupernaturalGoldEyes: The vampires have shining gold eyes in [[GameFace vamp-face]].
242	* SupernaturalSoapOpera: Inverted. The show is not just a Supernatural Soap Opera which claims to be about [[Series/{{Angel}} a Detective who is a repentant vampire,]] it was an actual crime drama with mundane criminals and regular police work, that also happened to feature a repentant vampire.
243	* SuperSenses: Nick's super hearing is good for eavesdropping on suspects and hearing the screams of ongoing crimes, though not so good when you're [[PunkInTheTrunk stuck in a car trunk]] and your partner has turned the radio up too loud.
244	* TagAlongActor: In "Amateur Night," an actress shadows police detectives Nick and Schanke to research for a movie role. She ends up getting too involved in the case, putting herself and others in danger. In a humorous parallel, Schanke learns more about the movie business and decides he wants to purse an acting career.
245	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Schanke's old partner has some of this in the perhaps one minute he appears before being killed.
246	* TooSpicyForYogSothoth:
247	** Hitler and Jack The Ripper, who were too evil for even [=LaCroix=] to feed from.
248	** At least for younger vampires being bitten by Divia is fatal; implied to be because her evil overwhelms them so much they can't regenerate.
249	* TranslationConvention: Usually involves characters speaking a few lines in a foreign language and then switching to English, or switching back and forth between the two.
250	* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: DoubleSubverted InUniverse. In "Feeding the Beast", Schanke sees a painting Nick has been working on and delivers a flood of gibberish on its meaning, which just happens to fit the issues Nick is struggling with, and which he undoubtedly put into his art.
251	* TwoWordsICantCount: In the first episode, Nick Knight has been unwillingly partnered with Don Schanke, who is telling Nick he's a better cop thanks to his gut instincts. Just then Nick goes roaring up an alley because his vampire super-hearing has picked up a woman being murdered. When Schanke asks how he knew, Nick says sarcastically, "Three words: In-tu-ition."
252	* UnCancelled: The show was originally canceled during its first season, but was saved by a massive letter-writing campaign. Canceled and saved again after the second season.
253	* UnConfession:
254	** In "Be My Valentine", Nick and Natalie finally openly declare their love... except [=LaCroix=] doesn't like Nick being in love with a mortal because he had to give up his love for Nick's sister 800 years ago (which somehow never came up with any of Nick's previous mortal LoveInterests). By the end of the episode, Natalie has [[ResetButton lost her memory of the entire preceding day]].
255	** In "Feeding the Beast", Nick tells Schanke that he has an addiction, as part of a Twelve Step program he tries to use to cope with his BloodLust. Given that Schanke has seen the bottles of 'wine' Nick keeps in his [[EmptyFridgeEmptyLife otherwise empty fridge]], he naturally assumes that Nick is an alcoholic.
256	* UndeadTaxExemption: There are people who specialize in providing fake identities for the vampire community.
257	* UnexplainedRecovery:
258	** In the two-part pilot episode, [=LaCroix=] is impaled on a steel construction frame by Nick, only to give an EyeAwaken. So the next time they fight he impales [=LaCroix=] with a wooden length of timber that's on fire, to make sure he's really dead. [=LaCroix=] then just appears in flashbacks until Season 2, when he turns up to torment Nick again; his only explanation being that he's too old and powerful to be killed.
259	** Divia survived being decapitated and sealed up in a sacophagus for centuries. [=LaCroix=] theorises that the evil concentrated in her place of imprisonment sustained her, but admits he doesn't really know. [[spoiler:Nick in turn survives being bitten by her (which is fatal to Vachon) either because he's an older vampire or, as [=LaCroix=] suggests, he's becoming more human.]]
260	* UndeathlyPallor: Nick's tan is explained in the first episode as Nick exposing himself to the sun for strictly limited amounts, as part of his attempts to cure his vampirism (Season 2 has him using a sunbed). Other vampires play it straight.
261	* UnwittingMuggleFriend: Pretty much everyone on the police force, especially Schanke and Vetter.
262	* ValentinesDayEpisode: In "Be My Valentine" the SerialKiller-of-the-week is killing lonely women. In other news, Nick and Natalie decide to stop being JustFriends, but unfortunately [=LaCroix=] has other ideas.
263	* VampiresAreSexGods: Nick is certainly attractive to numerous women, but subverted in that as a vampire, he can't safely have sex with mortals.
264	* TheVamp: The villain in "Dance by the Light of the Moon" was a stripper who seduced various men and induced them to commit crimes for her before killing them, pretty much solely for thrills (she was already wealthy enough to live quite comfortably). Even Nick himself (a literal vampire) is tempted.
265	* VampireDetectiveSeries: Possibly the TropeMaker for television (P. N. Elrod's ''Vampire Files'' was published in 1990, too soon after the 1989 ''Nick Knight'' pilot to have taken any inspiration from it).
266	* VampiresOwnNightclubs: The Raven, the goth nightclub initially owned by Janette, which the vampires use for [[VampireDance dancing]], hunting (as humans go there as well) and sanctuary. When she left in the third season, [=Lacroix=] took it over and made it less goth and more HotterAndSexier.
267	* VampiresSleepInCoffins:
268	** When a PolicePsychic has a vision of Nick sleeping in a coffin he explains that he doesn't, though most of her visions are true. He just sleeps in a bed (and even a sunbed), or the trunk of his car when he's caught away from his home in daylight.
269	** While hiding out at the Raven, Schanke decides to check out the CreepyBasement and is surprised to find a coffin there. Janette stops him just in time from opening it, as there's a vampire lying in it (she explains away the coffin by saying that some members of her nightclub have unusual fetishes).
270	* VegetarianVampire:
271	** Nick drinks cow blood rather than feed off humans; [=LaCroix=] finds this disgusting. He's also shown trying various green chemicals that Natalie mixes up to wean him off blood; unfortunately Nick finds them disgusting. On one occasion Nick buys a burger to eat, and when Schanke tries it, ''he'' finds it disgusting. [[RealMenEatMeat It's tofu.]]
272	** Vachon's friend Screed also mainly drinks animal blood, but that’s more due to developing a taste for it because of how he was turned. This causes problems when a [[NoBiochemicalBarriers Cross Species Disease]] from a rat infects the vampire community.
273	* VehicularSabotage: In the pilot TwoPartEpisode, Nick hides in the trunk of his vintage Cadillac to shield himself from the sun. Schanke then borrows the car without permission, not knowing Nick is stuck in the back. They both have an OhCrap moment when it turns out the SerialKiller they're investigating has cut the brake lines.
274	* VillainOfTheWeek: Nick Knight generally faces a new criminal every week in his job as a metropolitan police detective. Recurring villains include his vampire sire [=LaCroix=].
275	* VillainousBSOD: [=LaCroix=] has one of these after [[spoiler:Divia is killed; despite the monster she became, she was still his daughter and it's clear he regrets never getting to know her better when they were human (he and her mother split up when she was young and his duties in the Roman army kept them apart for most of her life).]]
276	* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Nick and Natalie meet when Nick wakes up on her autopsy table. This is not shown in the pilot episode but via a series of flashbacks in "Only the Lonely".
277	* WarmBloodBagsAreEverywhere: Schanke jibes Nick over how queasy he looks over the sight of spilled blood despite being a homicide detective. Nick can't smooch with a woman without the risk of it turning into a DeadlyHug.
278	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
279	** Vachon’s companion Bourbon, who appears in his flashback episodes but never in the present day.
280	** Nick's nephew André, whom he was guardian to after his sister's death. We don't find out where he went or what happened to him after he saw his uncle feeding in the dungeons and ran away.
281	* WithFriendsLikeThese
282	** Some of the tricks Nick plays on Schanke via the JediMindTrick are a bit cruel, like getting him to wash his car or not giving him FakeMemories to replace his LaserGuidedAmnesia so he looks like an idiot--the latter after Schanke shot a woman ''to save Nick's life'' (plus any officer-involved shooting is investigated by InternalAffairs, with serious consequences for Schanke's career if it looks like he's hiding something).
283	** Lampshaded by [=LaCroix=] whose efforts to 'help' Nicholas often leave him suspected of crimes he didn't commit.
284	--->"When you have a friend in the Nightcrawler, who needs enemies?"
285	[[/folder]]

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