Episode 14: IT'S A WONDERFUL DEATH

Crow Rating: 4 Crows

Written By: Andy Baker & Brent Friedman

Directed By: Gilbert Shilton

Originally aired on WGN: 2/7/99

Music in this episode from: Delerium and Garrison Star.

Story Line
Awaiting his sentance, Draven mulls over the events that led him to a jail cell when the Skull Cowboy reappears, sending him back to the day of his and Shelly's murders. Trying to alter the tragic chain of events, Draven discovers that fate, and the origins of a Crow, are unalterable.

After being judged guilty of Shelly's murder Eric is languishing in jail awaiting his sentance. As he begins reliving the events that brought him so low, he starts to imagine how he could have prevented this nightmare. The Skull Cowboy (Kadeem Hardison) appears and, despite warning Draven to be careful about what you wish for, allows Draven to go back in time to the day that he and Shelly died. Suddenly transported back to the Blackout and a band rehearsal Draven blissfully reunites with Shelly, elatedly believing he can put everything right. The problem is that in changing one event everything else shifts. By traveling back to the time before he was a Crow, Draven has no special powers, and no relationship to Albrect, who instead of helping him, arrests him as a violent lunatic. Only Sarah believes his strange story - but that makes her vulnerable. Draven turns the clock back twice, and with each vain attempt events dramatically worsen and more people die. In the end Draven is back in jail, reconciled to his fate, but warmed by his brief reunion with Shelly.

Personal Thoughts
Thought it was great having Skullcowboy give Eric the chance to change the events of the night he and Shelly died. He learns that changing the events does not necessarily mean things are better.