Trivia / Forever Knight

• Actor Leaves, Character Dies: John Kapelos left in the third season because he wasn't interested in Schanke becoming the next Captain; it would have cut his screen time back too much. Instead, his character and Captain Cohen (Natsuko Ohama) were killed offscreen in a contrived explosion. In Allison Pregler's recap of the show, his death is parodied with a clip taken from the B-classic Miami Connection.
  "Ahhh nooo, SCHANKE was on that plane."
• Executive Meddling: Season Three was going to shift attention away from Nick's quest for mortality. Natalie was going to be written out along with Janette. USA felt that Catherine Disher was neither young or attractive enough for their target demographic. Wyn Davies threatened to quit if all of the changes were put in place.
• Fandom Nod: The writers made a habit of putting the names of online fans into stories, most prominently a dead hooker named after Julie Beamer whose name was repeated several times. At the end of the last season, a suicide victim was given the name of the president of the fan club.
• Hide Your Pregnancy: Twice with Catherine Disher. She lost the first, and the second time, the show ended before it could hinder filming.
• International Co Production: Between Glen-Warren Great Entertainment^note the production arm of Baton Broadcasting, a major player in the CTV network that eventually bought out everyone else and subsumed the network into itself, becoming the current CTV and Paragon Entertainment of Canada, a German broadcaster, and TriStar Television of the US.
• Older Than They Think: Divia, Lacroix's sire (and human daughter), was believed by some viewers to be inspired by Claudia from Interview With The Vampire (due to both characters being vampiric little girls and having names and appearances that were somewhat similar). However the idea of a vampire child is a pretty obvious one and Claudia was not the first eternally-a-child character in fiction. Additionally, Claudia is not nearly as evil as Divia, and their backstories and personalities are completely different.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • The boy in "The Human Factor" was Geraint Wyn Davies's son, Galen.
  • Almost-relative: The vampire hunter in "Bad Blood" was Catherine Disher's boyfriend at the time. She was actually pregnant with his child during part of season 2, but lost the baby. By the series' end, she was again pregnant, this time with a son.
• Rerun: The first season ran on CBS's "CrimeTime After Prime Time" late-night time slot, with the same 22 episodes being rerun for over two years until David Letterman took over the hour.
• Throw It In!: The ending of "False Witness" was not scripted, it was a prank played by Geraint Wyn Davies. Nick is 'vamped', hence the fangs, but the giveaway is that he isn't wearing his telltale yellow contact lenses.
• What Could Have Been: Originally, the final episode was going to end with the closing lines of Romeo and Juliet spoken by LaCroix. This was cut because of fears it would hurt the show's chances in syndication.
  A glooming peace this morning brings
  The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
  Go hither, to have more talk of these sad things.
  Some shall be pardoned and some punished
  For never was there tale of more woe
  Than that of Juliet and her Romeo.
• You Look Familiar: Lisa Ryder, who plays Nick's partner Tracy Vedder in season 3, guest-stars in a season 2 episode as a girl in one of Nick's flashbacks.

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