Between Worlds

A brutal murder puts Nick and Tracy on the trail of a mortal ex-vampire, whose newly regained mortality has not freed him of his urge to kill, but has increased it.

 

This could be our "Phantom of the Opera" or "Beauty and the Beast" show. The killer, a vampire for a little longer than Nick, has regained mortality. To his horror, he has developed an insatiable desire to murder. He's more a monster than ever, and it disgusts him.

 

He has taken to living underground, a hell-hole that mirrors his revulsion at what has happened to him. His centuries-old dream of becoming mortal has come true ... in an immeasurably cruel way. His sadness and disappointment are all but unbearable. He hates what he is.

 

He "hunts" at night, drags his victims away and rips them apart. He despises humans now, where once he envied them.

 

Nick's dilemma is crystal clear: he's seen Janette as a mortal, and she was everything he'd ever imagined being mortal again would be. But now he sees the other possibility. What's happened to the killer could also happen to him. Does he end his quest to become mortal?

 

And this gets us to the theme: That turning away from your path is a mistake, no matter what the consequences of arriving at your destination might be. There's always the chance you might not find what you expect to find. But that's just the way it is.

 

The FB will mirror this in some way, of course. Perhaps a bittersweet story about Nick helping an old man find his long-lost son ... only to find that the son has become a heartless tyrant ... who must be killed.

 

Natalie's involvement in the case sees her eventually taken by the killer and held captive ... the killer is a tormented soul in need of company; someone to tell his story to ... before he kills them, of course.

 

And so we see the other, "human," side of him, the torture he's going through, the self-loathing ... and come to pity him, if not forgive him.

 

When Nick kills him in the end to save Natalie, both Nick and Nat have a sense of sorrow for him. And there lingers the disturbing possibility that Nick will wind up like this.