SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E08: Trophy Girl

SGRoA post 58 of 119

Snowflakes! Did you miss me? I’ll be honest, I am still tired from last week. I am eagerly anticipating my paycheck at the end of the month, however: Holy Week is lucrative. Let’s get recapping!

There’s a woman in lingerie on a slab, and someone dressed like a doctor starts cutting her clothes off. Side note: She’s wearing a garter belt over her underwear, which means it’s just for sexytimes. If you wear actual stockings for function, you know the belt goes under the knickers, or you’ll never be able to pee.

Anyway, the “doctor” is all sexily undressing her, and I’m pretty sure she’s dead, and this is so, so very creepy. Also, she has toenail fungus. He marks lines around her wrist and her neck, takes out a saw, and then he’s bagging her up and throwing her off a bridge. So…he just needed her for parts?

Oh, great. This’ll be the one where Nick knew Frankenstein. McKayla Maroney

After the credits, some guy is running through the city, but Nick catches him. Tracy’s after a dude with a gun, and gets in a shootout. She kills him, and she looks really broken up about it. She’s still having trouble after backup arrives at the scene, and Nick tells her it won’t be a problem with IAB. Clearly she’s not cut out to be an American cop.

Nick offers to stay with her at home, if she wants company. She declines. She does seem to want to open up about it, but dispatch calls them to a body in the river, and she tells Nick just to go to the scene.

Oh, the vic lost both hands, and her head. Tracy has to walk away from the body – or maybe it’s Nat’s truly heinous blouse, which was ugly even in 1994.

Nick takes her home and then goes to the lab. He thinks maybe someone cut stuff off to hide the identity of the vic – like the mob does, or drug cartels. Nat disagrees, and tells him he’s looking for someone with surgical skills. No sexual assault. Vic also had a scar on her back, probably from recent surgery, so Nat’s going to check records to see if they can ID her.

Tracy comes back to the station dressed like a nun, and tries to convince Reese she doesn’t need three days off to process the shooting. Reese is unmoved, for once, and sends her home. Reese then goes on a rant about terrible pervert murderers and how awful they are. Nick mostly ignores him, and then says that he’s going to go see a guy in jail – who’s there for hoarding body parts.

Nat comes in, and her search of surgery records has been fruitful. Their vic is Deena Ellis, who worked at an escort service. They don’t know what killed her, because the dismemberment was post-mortem.

Oh, Tracy’s decided to ride a desk for three days instead of taking them off. Nat offers to be a sounding board for her, but Tracy brushes her off, because she’s all about proving herself to the guys in the squad. She can “handle” it. Except of course she can’t, because she’s not one of the many, many, many police officers these days who just shoot and then claim they were “threatened” by things like service dogs and babies and pregnant women. She’s having flashbacks and crying in the locker room. Poor Tracy. Get some help, girl.

Nick goes to notify Deena’s boss, who had reported her missing. He requests a list of the clients and the employees, and she’s resistant. She says she runs a legit business, and Nick’s all, “Yo, I don’t care about the prostitution. I’m homicide,” and she gives up the lists. But she looks like she knows something she’s not saying.

Cut to the next day, when the boss lady is interviewing Tracy, who’s apparently decided to go undercover all on her own.

JokerGenius

Nick goes to the psychiatric prison to interview the body parts guy. It goes about how you’d expect.

HannibalLecter

Someone’s watching Tracy snoop through BossLady’s office from across the street. BossLady comes back in, though, and gives Tracy a client. She’s supposed to go meet him at the Raven. Because of course.

Also, Tracy’s dress is one of those mid-90s, not-really-a-cocktail-dress, but we all pretended they were, because…I don’t know why, really. Because at least we couldn’t wear them with Doc Martens? This whole episode is really just the worst of 90s fashion. I’m expecting scrunchies any minute.

Hannibal tells Nick that he had an online penpal, but before he talks about him, he wants something in return. He’s also impressed that Nick isn’t afraid of him, but, dude. Nick is the more dangerous person in that cell. Hannibal surmises that we don’t fear that which we recognize – clearly, Nick is a killer, just like he is. Hannibal asks for his computer privileges back. Nick asks why he did it: because he wanted to preserve something precious to him. Hasn’t Nick ever wanted that?

Of course he has, and it’s Flashback Time, and seriously? It doesn’t look like Frankenstein’s anywhere near this!

yaykitten

Nick’s staring through a window at some girl in a nightgown with a Bump-It in her hair. That’s how I go to bed. She’s pacing, and then Lacroix comes in, and OMG IS THIS FLEUR AGAIN? I don’t remember any of this. Anyway, Nick creepily watches as she kisses Lacroix, and then Lacroix glares at him, and then we’re back to Hannibal complaining that he has a copycat.

Vachon and Urs watch Tracy walk in and meet her “date”. Vachon thinks it looks totally weird, so he follows them out of the club and interrupts to pull Tracy away about a “private matter”. The date tries to hustle Tracy into the car, but Vachon mojos him into driving away. Tracy’s understandably pissed and yells at him about being undercover. He says she could have been in trouble, and she’s all, “Why does everyone assume I need their help? I’m a COP, for God’s sake!”

She stalks off to her car, which of course has a flat. She goes about changing it when a creepy dude in a suit offers to help her. She demurs at first, but then lets him help. He asks her to hold his jacket, and sticks her with a syringe as she takes it from him.

keep-calm-you-saw-it-coming

Nick speaks with the warden. If Hannibal’s information results in an arrest, he can have his computer back. So Hannibal profiles the guy for Nick.  He’ll move around a lot, but he’ll need tools and a facility, so that should help. The victimology isn’t random – it’s probably about proximity.

Back in the past, Nick has on a terrible, terrible wig, and Lacroix is lecturing him about how to enjoy grooming and killing victims. It’s not Fleur, thank God. Nick says her death seems like such a tragedy, and Lacroix’s all, “LOL, no.”

There’s a boring interlude with the Nightcrawler babbling about prizing things and being unique, and then in the past, Nick’s waking up the girl and telling her to run, but she just hits on him, instead of Lacroix. Hey, I’m not going to begrudge a girl her fun, but perhaps being super slutty for 12th-century “gentlemen” is not the world’s best idea? Like, all she gets is eaten, but it could have been a stake and a pile of kindling in her future, you know?

Lacroix’s pissed that Nick ate his dinner, but he doesn’t do much besides posturing.

At a stoplight, Vachon hops into Nick’s car to ask about Tracy. Nick tells him that she’s off-duty because of the shooting. Vachon tells Nick that Tracy said she was undercover, and Nick’s worried. Vachon flies off – he thinks he should stay out of things. Nick goes to the precinct and calls Tracy’s cell, but she’s passed out and tied up somewhere, being petted by a dismembered hand wielded by Creepy Suit Guy. (Hannibal 2, Electric BodyPartsALoo?)

Nick tells Reese that Tracy went undercover, with a totally insincere “Sorry, Cap. She doesn’t tell me anything.” Reese tells Nick that they’ve found missing girls at a bunch of escort services, and Tracy’s probably in trouble. They discuss the case, and how they have no leads. Nat comes in with the tox screen results, and she hasn’t seen Tracy either. Then a uniform comes in and says they found Tracy’s car, abandoned with a flat.

How many people fit in this office?

How many people fit in this office?

Nick goes to check Tracy’s place. Or, at least, that’s what he says, but he drives around the corner and then takes off flying.

Meanwhile, Creepy Suit Guy is going through her purse, commenting on all her stuff. He says he “doesn’t have any” homicide detectives, and he has to let that sink in for a minute. He’s very reasonable, this guy, and it’s one of the few interesting performances from a guest star we’ve seen. I mean, it’s not a new take on serial killers, necessarily – not even in ’94 – but CSG does it well. Good job, CSG!

Oh, wait, Nick does go to Tracy’s. But he flew there? Because…? Anyway, he checks her answering machine, and BossLady called, so Nick goes to the escort office. He’s all mad that BossLady didn’t tell him she added a new girl to the roster, despite his asking her to keep him apprised of changes when he got the lists from her in the first place. And then he asks the question he should have asked to begin with: Were any of the girls stalked or threatened?

No. But Nick remembers Hannibal saying it was about proximity, and he uses his vampire vision to find a telescope in the next building and search the apartment of a real estate agent, who has pics of all his listings on the wall. Nick decides one of them is the guy’s “facility”, and heads off.

This is Forever Knight, so of course he’s right. But Tracy’s not totally useless, and she gets out of her bonds and gets to her gun, praying for a round in the chamber – and there is one. She leaves her dungeon and finds CSG’s shelves full of heads in jars. She’s still woozy from the knockout drug, though, and having a tough time getting out. CSG finds her and they tussle, just as Nick comes in. He throws CSG into – I don’t even know, some sort of cage wall thing? It’s electrified, and they think he’s dead, but Nick turns to Tracy and CSG grabs a knife and moves to stab him. Tracy shoots CSG, and it’s all over.

In the coda, Nat gives Tracy a sedative for the hospital ride, on top of an unknown dose of a knockout drug, so, you know.

professionalcat

And we learn the identity of Hannibal’s email penpal: Lacroix.

Next week: More Tracy in distress! With bonus Nat in distress! And human organ smuggling! About which I have opinions!

Show SGRoA Post List
  • Super Giant Recaps of Awesome: Forever Knight S01E01: Dark Knight Part 1
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E02: Dark Knight Part 2
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E03: For I Have Sinned
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E04: Last Act, Gladiator Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E05: Dance By The Light Of The Moon
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E06: Dying To Know You
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E07: False Witness
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E08: Cherry Blossoms
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E09: I Will Repay
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E10: Dead Air: Thumbs Up Gif Party Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E11: Dead Issue
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E12: Hunters
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E13: Father Figure
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E14: Dying For Fame: Science Channel Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E15: Spin Doctor: Cute Kitten Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E16: Only The Lonely: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E17: Unreality TV
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E18: Feeding The Beast
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E19: 1966
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E20: If Looks Could Kill
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E21: Fatal Mistake
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S01 E22: Love You To Death
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E01: Killer Instinct: Basic Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E01.5: Killer Instinct, Commentary Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E02: A Fate Worse Than Death
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E03: Stranger Than Fiction
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E04: Bad Blood
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E05: Forward Into The Past
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E06: Capital Offense
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E07: Hunted
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E08: Faithful Followers
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E09: Undue Process: Trigger Warning Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E10: Father’s Day
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E11: Can’t Run, Can’t Hide: Kermit Face Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E12: Near Death: Stargate Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E13: Crazy Love: Beyonce Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E14: Baby, Baby
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E15: Partners Of The Month
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E16: The Fire Inside
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E17: Amateur Night
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E18: The Fix
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E19: Curiouser and Curiouser
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E20: Beyond The Law
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E21: Queen of Harps: Amazing Babies Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E22: Close Call: Star Trek Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E23: Be My Valentine: TV Dick Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E24: The Code
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E25: A More Permanent Hell
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S02 E26: Blood Money
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight Special Features Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E01: Black Buddha, Part 1
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E02: Black Buddha, Part 2
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight: S03 E03: Outside The Lines
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E04: Blackwing: WTF Edition
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E05: Blind Faith
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E06: My Boyfriend Is A Vampire
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E07: Hearts of Darkness
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E08: Trophy Girl
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E09: Let No Man Tear Asunder
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E10: Night In Question
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E11: Sons of Belial
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E12: Strings
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E13: Fever
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E14: Dead of Night
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E15: The Games Vampires Play
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight, S03 E16: The Human Factor
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight, S03 E17: Avenging Angel
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E18: Fallen Idol
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E19: Jane Doe
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E20: Francesca
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E21: Ashes to Ashes
  • SGRoA: Forever Knight, S03 E22: Last Knight
  • Moonlight, S1, E1: No Such Thing As Vampires, Triumphant Return Edition
  • Moonlight, S1 E2: Out Of The Past
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, s1 e3: Dr. Feelgood
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E4: Fever
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E5: Arrested Development, Arrested Development Edition
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E6: BC
  • SGRoA: Moonlight: S1 E7: The Ringer
  • SGRoA: Moonlight S1 E8: 12:04 AM
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E9: Fleur de Lis
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E10: Sleeping Beauty, Fully Vaxxed Edition!
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E11: Love Lasts Forever, Picard Day Edition
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E12: The Mortal Cure
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E13: Fated To Pretend
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E14: Click
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E15: What’s Left Behind
  • SGRoA: Moonlight, S1 E16: Sonata, Final Edition
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E1: Blood Price, Part One, Triumphant Return Edition
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E2: Blood Price Part 2, Electric Boogaloo
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E3: Bad Juju
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E4: Gifted
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E5: Deadly Departed
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E6: Love Hurts
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E7: Heart of Ice
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E8: Heart of Fire
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E9: Stone Cold
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties S1 E10: Necrodrome
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E11: Post Partum
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E12: Norman
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E13: DOA
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E14: Wild Blood
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E15: 5:55
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties S1 E16: Bugged
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E17: The Devil You Know
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E18: Drawn and Quartered
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E19: Wrapped
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E20: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties: S1 E21: We’ll Meet Again
  • SGRoA: Blood Ties, S1 E22: Deep Dark
  • SGRoA: VAMPIRE DIARIES, S1 E1: Pilot
  • SGRoA: Vampire Diaries, S1 E2: Night of the Comet
  • SGRoA: Vampire Diaries, S1 E3: Friday Night Bites
  • SGRoA: Vampire Diaries, S1 E4: Family Ties
  • SGRoA: Vampire Diaries, S1 E5: You’re Undead to Me
  • SGRoA: The Vampire Diaries, S1 E6: Lost Girls
  • SGRoA: Vampire Diaries, S1 E8: Candles
  • SGRoA: Vampire Diaries, S1 E9: History Repeating
  • SGRoA: Vampire Diaries, S1 E10: The Turning Point


  • 2 thoughts on “SGRoA: Forever Knight S03 E08: Trophy Girl

    1. This is, in so many ways, a MarySue/GaryStu fanfic episode.

      Let’s have Nick encounter the FK version of Hannibal Lecter, but Nick is more than a match for him because I’m … I mean HE’S … awesome.

      Let’s have Tracy kidnapped by a serial killer but she’ll be the one to kill him because I … I mean SHE … is smart enough to leave a chambered round in the gun.

      I was never sure if the clothes on everyone really were that ugly all season or if the camera filters and such made them look even worse.

      Tracy’s reaction to killing in self-defense here is a fanfic-killer for all those people who wanted Tracy to become a vampire. Imagine if she had to kill as a vampire, to survive. She is, and is destined to stay, human.

      re: Frankenstein flashback – I can’t remember. Did we do that one already or is it still coming up?

      I was annoyed at the “look at the younger, hipper cast member” banter in the Caddy where Vachon is all about the fins and predators and Nick is all about trunk space. Vachon calls him a pragmatist, as an insult.

      Over all, this was a generic, third-season, lets-rip-off-a-movie kind of episode with no real surprises and, except for Tracy’s tears, no character development. Basically, it’s someone’s fan fic turned into canon by being filmed. It’s pretty enough to watch but, like most fan fic, it doesn’t really stick with you.

      And I really miss Janette in the flashbacks. She provided a counterpoint to both Nick and LaCroix, which is sadly missing in most of the third season flashbacks, especially in this one.

    Leave a Reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *