Nigel Weinstein
Names: Nigel WeinsteinNigelDr. Weinstein
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 16 (15)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 16Nigel is a graduate assistant at the Parapsychology Unit basing his doctoral thesis on Jamie; he came to find Jamie on Arthur's Seat, apparently guided by psi.
- Ch 16Nigel agrees to stay on at the university after his degree and work with Jamie on training their clairvoyance and on useful psychic experiments.
- Ch 37Nigel, Jamie's loyal colleague, rejected a CIA offer of two million pounds; his creative metafaculty then set the agents' attaché cases on fire.
- Ch 40Nigel is Jamie's friend and colleague of twenty years and Associate Professor of Parapsychology at Edinburgh; Soviet thoughts recall someone named Weinstein targeted in an April assassination attempt.
- Ch 40An American scientist who, in a trance in Edinburgh, correctly remote-viewed three sealed cards held by witnesses in California.
- Ch 50Nigel can heat liquids by metapsychic coercion and proposes courting Alana, who refuses him; he is a theorist of temporal lattices and seeing.
- Ch 50After the shooting Nigel sets the gunman afire, attacks Jamie in rage, and is arrested for culpable homicide; he is acquitted as 'Not Proven' in February 1995.
- Ch 52Acquitted with a 'Not Proven' verdict in Scotland after incinerating an unarmed lunatic clergyman who had murdered Jean MacGregor and Alana Shaunavon.
Connections
- member ofDr. Graham Finlay Dunlapgraduate assistant under Dunlap
- friend ofJamie MacGregor
- ally ofJamie MacGregorworks for him
- partner ofAlana Shaunavonhe courts her; she declines
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 16Nigel rescues Jamie and they discuss psi research
Nigel finds Jamie in the fog and drives him back. Jamie argues psi research is futile until strong psychics evolve, and persuades Nigel to work with him on training clairvoyance after his degree.
- Book 1 · Ch 37CIA approaches Nigel
CIA agents offered Nigel two million pounds and veiled threats; he refused and set their cases alight, prompting Jamie and Nigel to decide on an early public EE demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 40EE demonstration begins
Watson introduces MacGregor, who explains EE and Nigel Weinstein, then a live San Francisco link shows Kemp endorsing parapsychology.
- Book 1 · Ch 40California card experiment
Nigel Weinstein in Edinburgh remotely views and writes down three sealed cards held in California; all three are confirmed correct to the audience's uproar.
- Book 1 · Ch 50Nigel burns the gunman
Nigel sets the assassin ablaze in the churchyard; Jamie smothers the flames, and Nigel attacks him before being flung against a tree. Nigel is arrested.
- Book 1 · Ch 50Nigel's trial
Nigel is charged with culpable homicide, then acquitted in February 1995 with a 'Not Proven' verdict, though publicity damaged metapsychic standing.