Due South: North

Air Date

Thursday November 9, 1995

Production Code

223

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  10 Perfect

  In the follow-up to "Letting Go," Ray and Fraser head to Canada to re-build Fraser's father's cabin. Of course, things don't go quite as planned... hide show

  This could be possibly my favorite episode of the whole series. It has everything that made the show popular to begin with. Great dialogue. Action. The buddy-buddy relationship between Vecchio and Fraser. And the bickering between them that amuses us.
  
  Fraser and Ray's plane is hijacked on their way to the Northwest Territory and they crash in the woods. Fraser recieves a head-wound in the accident and is left temporarily blinded. And very soon, he begins to act very strange. He becomes more determined than usual to bring the hijacker to justice, despite the fact that they have no weapons, little water and that he very soon loses the ability to walk, forcing Ray to carry him slung over his shoulder.
  
  The best part of the episode are when Ray is trying to build a fire, and Fraser keeps calling him "Steve." Ray's father's ghost shows up (and Fraser's too, of course) and each ghost tries to convince their son that they should abandon the other and save themselves...despite the fact that Fraser can't see or walk, and that Ray is still reeling in guilt for shooting his partner just two episodes previous.
  
  This is the episode that really solidifies the two men's relationship for me. Both made mistakes in the two part "Victoria's Secret" episodes, and although they really don't talk about what has just happened, we know when we see Ray carrying Benny through the woods while they both sing the Mamas and the Papas that they're going to be okay.

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  sherlock7369 Added May 2, 2007 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  The synopsis: Ray and Benton stuck in the woods after a plane crash. hide show

  This episode is full of heart. It proves the bond between Ray and Fraser and how they do not give up on each other: especially when Ray does not abandon Fraser. It shows Fraser pushing forward even after he is badly injured. He still puts his duty first and of course, shows his smarts while at it. The thing that REALLY got me though was the sequence when Ray had to carry Fraser over his shoulder, and then they started singing "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas. It was hilarious, and every time I need to get cheered up, I remind myself of that scene and I laugh. Also, Fraser's opera sequence right after that was very funny as well.
  
  Just excellent.

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  oliviatocali Added Oct 8, 2005 All my reviews

• Stars

  • Paul Gross Const. Benton Fraser
  • David Marciano Det. Ray Vecchio

• Guest Cast

  • Andrew Jackson Hogan
  • Red Green Hamish
  • David Calderisi Vecchio, Sr. [ghost]
  • Brian Smegel Jack
  • Barry Stilwell Cop

• Recurring Roles

  • Ramona Milano Francesca Vecchio
  • Kevin Rushton Hunter
Episode Cast and Crew Details

• Ray uses an axe to cut down trees, yet when they fall, they don't break where he was chopping [edit]

• Music used in this episode includes California Dreamin' by the Mamas and the Papas. [edit]

• Benton Fraser: Listen! A search plane! Someone's in trouble!
  Ray Vecchio: Yeah! Us! [edit]
• (Diefenbaker is howling at the moon.)
  Ray Vecchio: Very funny! What, do you think you're a wolf or something? [edit]
• Benton Fraser: Being lost is usually accompanied by a feeling of panic, Ray.
  Ray Vecchio: Are you saying I'm panicking?
  Benton Fraser: No, on the contrary. You see, Ray, people who are lost panic and then they walk aimlessly in the woods. Very often they walk in circles until eventually they die, either from starvation or from lack of water. Now, we by comparison we've remained calm and you see Ray, this is he secret to survival in the woods, remaining ... (sniffs) Ray, I smell something. I smell fuel, burned plastic, metal ... what is it?
  Ray Vecchio: It's a plane crash.
  Benton Fraser: Oh, my God, Ray! Another plane crash! What are the odds?
  Ray Vecchio: It's our plane crash, you moron, we've been going in circles the whole time. [edit]

• Benton Fraser: Freude schoner Gotterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium. Deine Zauber binden wieder ....
  
  Fraser is singing Friedrich von Schiller's "Ode an die Freude" (Ode to Joy) in the original German, as set to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The poem was written in 1785; Beethoven's symphony premiered in 1824.
  
  Fraser actually skips a section of the verse during his rendition. [edit]
• Benton Fraser: You know, Ray, Sam Steele patrolled the Northwest Territories his entire career without ever firing his weapon -- it was a point of honor with him. Rumor has it he was buried with the weapon, unfired.
  
  Sam Benfield Steele was born in Ontario on January 5, 1849. He joined the RCMP (at that time, the North West Mounted Police) in 1873 as a Troop Sergeant Major (due to his prior service in the Canadian Militia). He died in London, England, in 1919.
  
  He did not spend his entire career in the Northwest Territories, however; he also spent time in Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon. During the Second Boer War, he commanded a light cavalry unit in South Africa. [edit]
• Benton Fraser: "There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who --"
  Ray Vecchio: "Toil for gold." Yeah, yeah, yeah, I heard that one. And then they shot that Sam McGee guy. I told you, I went camping before.
  
  Fraser is quoting the opening line of the Robert Service poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee." The poem appeared in Service's first book of poetry, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, in 1907. [edit]