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|The following is the guides to Highlander : The Series |
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Highlander - The Series: Second Season
Regular Cast:
Adrian Paul as Duncan Macleod
Alexandra Vandernoot as Tessa Noel (last episode #4)
Stan Kirsch as Richie Ryan
Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson
Philip Akin as Charlie DeSalvo
The Episodes:
The Watchers
Writer: Marie-Chantal Droney
Director: Clay Borris
Guest Stars:
Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson
Peter Hudson as James Horton
Keli O'Bryne as Lynn Horton
Cameron Bancroft as Robert
Summary:
Determined to investigate the death of his old friend Darius (in
the first season finale, "The Hunters"), MacLeod follows a lead
back to his old stomping grounds in the Pacific Northwest. He
meets JOE DAWSON, a bookstore owner with a secret; he soon learns
that Dawson is a high-ranking member of an ancient secret
organization known as THE WATCHERS, who observe and record the
lives of the Immortals, passing their archives down from
generation to generation. Unbeknownst to Dawson, his brother-in-
law, JAMES HORTON (the man who killed Darius), has been
recruiting Watchers to kill Immortals. Horton dies in a battle with
Duncan where Duncan 'dies', too. We are left with the knowledge that
other renegade Watchers may be waiting to try for MacLeod's head.
Studies in Light
Writer: Naomi Janzen
Director: Peter Ellis
Guest Stars:
Joel Wyner as Gregor Powers
Sheila Moore as Linda Plager
Gillian Carfra as Young Linda
Summary:
MacLeod's old friend GREG POWERS has become a photographer, and
invites Mac to see his work. Mac is disturbed by the violent
images in his friend's work, and is distressed to find that the
sensitive Gregor he knew has been replaced by a hardened cynic.
Another photograph in the exhibit, taken of MacLeod 50 years ago,
triggers a flashback of his meeting young photographer LINDA
PLAGER. Then, the now-73-year-old Linda recognizes Duncan as her
old mentor and lover, convincing her nurse that she's thoroughly
senile -- after all, Duncan MacLeod would be an old man by now,
wouldn't he? Learning that Linda is dying, MacLeod longs to tell
her the truth, but isn't sure how. Meanwhile, Greg seduces
Richie into his destructive lifestyle -- fascinated by the rush
of fear that accompanies near death, he coaxes Richie into a
dangerous motorcycle stunt. After a confrontation with MacLeod,
Greg snaps -- frustrated by his inability to feel any real
emotion because of the insulation from death his Immortality
gives him, he attacks Richie, then Linda, then fights MacLeod on
the roof of the hospital. Only when MacLeod's sword is inches
from his neck does Greg break down and face the truth that he
doesn't want to die.
Turnabout
Writer: David Tynan
Director: Clay Borris
Guest Stars:
Geraint Wyn Davies as Michael Moore
John Tierney as Old Father Morton
Alan Robertson as Judge Marvin Singer
Gaetana Korbin as Jeanette
Summary:
Thirty years ago, evil Immortal QUENTEN BARNES was executed in
the electric chair, and promised he'd be back. He's been trapped
in a tomb ever since; but now, Joe Dawson informs MacLeod, he's
out, and killing the people involved in his execution. Mac
declines to get involved unless Barnes gets in his way, but when
his old friend MICHAEL MOORE comes to town, a Flashback shows us
that Barnes killed Michael's wife and has a longstanding grudge
against Michael. Now Mac is involved. He convinces Dawson to
share the Watchers' surveillance file on Barnes with him.
However, the file isn't much help. As the prosecutor and priest
who were at Barnes' execution are killed off one by one, it
becomes clear that Barnes will come after Michael next. However,
it is only after Mac finds the body of the man Dawson sent with
the file that the penny drops and he realizes that Barnes, a
multiple personality, is Michael -- and Mac left him home with
Tessa and Richie! In the end, at Michael's tortured urging,
MacLeod must kill Michael to kill Barnes.
The Darkness
Writers: Christian Bouveron & Lawrence Shore
Director: Paolo Barzman
Guest Stars:
Philip Akin as Charlie DeSalvo
Traci Lords as Greta
Andrew Jackson as Pallin Wolf
Frank C. Turner as Harry
Lisa Vultaggio as Carmen
Adrian Hughes as James
Summary:
A mortal named PALLIN WOLF, one of the renegade Watchers who
believes the Immortals must be eliminated, lures an Immortal to
his house and kills him, getting the advantage by tricking him
into a sealed room that is completely dark, then stalking him
with night vision goggles. Meanwhile, a Gypsy fortuneteller they-
meet in a restaurant, GRETA, warns Tessa that she is in danger.
When Tessa is kidnapped by Wolf, MacLeod returns to Greta, asking
for her help. But she's mostly a hustler, and not accustomed to
getting actual visions, so the clues she is able to provide are
meager. Finally, Mac finds Wolf's house, where Wolf is waiting
for him. He meets Wolf in the dark room and all seems hopeless
until he remembers a matchbook Greta gave him with her phone
number in it. Lighting the matches, he regains the advantage and
kills Wolf. However, as Tessa and Richie are heading for the
car, a young junkie accosts them for money, and in an act of
senseless violence, shoots them both. As Mac mourns, Richie
tentatively sits up, healing -- he is an Immortal. But Tessa is
gone.
Eye For An Eye
Writers: Elizabeth Baxter & Martin Brossellet
Director: Dennis Berry
Guest Stars:
Sheena Easton as Annie Devlin
Philip Akin as Charlie DeSalvo
Summary:
When MacLeod and Richie are witness to a terrorist attack on an
Ambassador, Richie dives in like a Superhero, cocky with
Immortality. In the resulting confusion, one of the terrorists
is killed, and another, ANNIE DEVLIN, an Immortal, is captured.
She swears revenge on Richie, and when she escapes from custody,
MacLeod takes on the task of educating Richie so that he will
have a chance in combat against her. Meanwhile, Flashbacks
reveal an earlier friendship between MacLeod and Annie. Mac
renews the friendship, and the two Immortals who have both
recently lost their lovers find solace in one another. In the
end, Richie defeats Annie but can't bring himself to kill her,
and MacLeod convinces her to pursue the blood debt no further.
The Zone
Writer: Peter Mohan
Director: Clay Borris
Guest Stars:
Santino Buda as Canaan
Sandra P. Grant as Asia
Alphonso Quijada as Tio
Leam Blackwood as Tom McGee
Summary:
The Zone is a burned-out urban wasteland, abandoned by the
police, who figure it's easier to just 'let the animals kill each
other.' Now the Zone is being taken over by CANAAN, a
charismatic leader who urges his followers to take the material
possessions that have been denied to them. JOE DAWSON comes to
MacLeod for help -- one of his men, who was observing Canaan, has
been killed. Charlie accompanies MacLeod down to his old
neighborhood in the Zone and introduces him to ASIA, a nurse at
the local clinic, one of few people who haven't given up on the
neighborhood. After MacLeod learns that Dawson was mistaken, and-
Canaan is not an Immortal, Dawson is ready to drop it. But
MacLeod has seen the misery in the Zone, and is determined to
break Canaan's hold. He convinces Asia that it's time to stand
up for their rights, and she helps him arrange a meeting of
neighborhood residents who want to take back their streets. But
Asia is involved with Canaan, and she's used as bait to lure him
to his apparent death. Canaan busts up the neighborhood meeting,
but when MacLeod arrives and defeats Canaan hand to hand, the
cult leader's hold on the people is broken.
The Return of Amanda
Writers: Guy Mullaly and David Tynan
Director: Dennis Berry
Guests Stars:
Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda
Don S. Davis as FBI agent Palance
Robert Wisden as FBI agent Werner
Jano Franden as Rutger
Joe Maffe as Harry the Jeweler
Michael Puttonen as Lev Arkin
Summary:
AMANDA, the beautiful Immortal cat-burglar from the first season
episode THE LADY AND THE TIGER, returns to town, telling MacLeod
she's retired from her life of crime. Who can blame Duncan for not
believing her? -- especially when two guys start shooting at them.
Duncan thinks the guys might be Watchers, but in fact they are FBI
Agents. Amanda is in possession of some plates for counterfeit
money, stolen in Germany before WWII. She's looking for an
engraver to change the dates, figuring since she's sworn to give up
stealing money, she'll have to print some up. PALANCE, one of the
FBI Agents, sets MacLeod and Amanda up to take the fall for his
partner's murder, and demands that they turn the plates over. Mac
and Amanda are forced to "die" on videotape to catch Palance.
Revenge of the Sword
Writer: Aubrey Solomon
Director: Clay Borris
Guest Stars:
Dustin Nguyen as Jimmy Sang
Debbie Podowski as Lisa
Robert Ito as Johnny Leong
Summary:
JIMMY SANG, a former student of Charlie's, is an up-and-coming
martial arts movie star. His latest movie is filming some scenes
in the dojo. When a stuntman is "accidentally" killed, MacLeod
is the first to realize that Jimmy's life is in danger. It turns
out that the movie is based on Jimmy's youthful experiences as an
enforcer for a powerful gang, and now his former boss wants to
see him dead.
Run For Your Life
Writer: Naomi Janzen
Director: Dennis Berry
Guest Stars:
Bruce Young as Carl Robinson
Geza Kovacs as Carter
Roman Podhora as Kenny
Biski Gughese as Ricky
Summary:
CARL ROBINSON is an Immortal who MacLeod first met in 1929 when he
rescued him from a KKK lynch mob. Back then, Carl was full of plans
-- to be a Major League Ballplayer, to be President. But today Carl
has given up hope. He and MacLeod meet up again when Carl steals
Charlie's car. Mac tries to rekindle Carl's belief in himself, but
Carl doesn't want to listen. When a white cop named CARTER tries to
kill him, Carl attributes the incident to racism, until MacLeod
explains about the Watchers who are hunting them. After Carter's
partner (also white) helps Carl and MacLeod bring Carter down, Carl
decides to give the world another chance.
Epitaph For Tommy
Writer: Philip John Taylor
Director: Clay Borris
Guest Stars:
Roddy Piper as Gallen
Andrea Roth as Suzanne
Ken Camroux as Honniger
Jan D'Arcy as Betty Bannen
Summary:
TOMMY is an innocent bystander who's accidentally killed during a
swordfight between MacLeod and the Immortal GALLEN. Haunted by the
unnecessary death, MacLeod tries to find out more about the dead man
-- and discovers he isn't exactly the innocent bystander he
appeared.
Bless The Child
Writer: Elizabeth Baxter and Martin Brossollet
Director: Clay Boris
Guest Stars:
Michelle Thrush as Sara Lightfoot
Ed Lauter as Avery Hoskins
Doug Abrahams as Luke Hoskins
Summary:
Charlie and MacLeod come to the aid of SARA LIGHTFOOT, an Indian
woman on the run with a baby. She tells them AVERY HOSKINS is
trying to steal her baby. Hoskins and his brothers come after
them, and they are forced to flee overland. After a rugged
flight through a mountain canyon, MacLeod learns that the baby is
in fact Hoskins' son, taken by Sara in retribution for her own
child, killed by runoff from Hoskins' mines.
The Fighter
Writer: Morrie Ruvinsky
Director: Peter Ellis
Guest Stars:
Bruce Weitz as Thomas Sullivan
Wren Roberts as Belcher
Calli Timmins as Iris
Nicholas Lea as Rodney
Summary:
MacLeod's old friend TOMMY SULLIVAN is a scrappy little Irishman,
a one-time boxer turned trainer, who can charm anyone into
anything. He charms MacLeod into backing his current boxer and
charms Charlie into playing Cyrano to help him woo a shy
waitress. But when a rival manager who was trying to steal
Sully's fighter turns up dead, MacLeod's opinion of his old
friend begins to be altered forever.
Under Color of Authority
Writer: Peter Mohan
Director: Clay Borris
Guest Stars:
Johnathan Banks as Mako
Deanna Milligan as Laura
Lochlyn Munro as Tim
Summary:
Richie wants to protect LAURA DANIELS, a young woman who's on the
run from an Immortal bounty hunter, MAKO. MacLeod has met Mako
before and doesn't like his methods, but he knows the other man
is lawful. He questions whether Laura is necessarily innocent.
Richie doesn't care, he wants to help her anyway, no matter what
it takes. MacLeod is torn between doing what's right and helping
his friend. Richie defeats Mako and receives his first
Quickening, and he and MacLeod realize it's time for him to move
on.
Unholy Alliance part I
Writer: David Tynan
Director: Peter Ellis
Guest Stars:
Roland Gift as Xavier St.Cloud
Peter Hudson as James Horton
Stacy Travis as Renee Delaney
Summary:
XAVIER ST. CLOUD returns, killing Immortals with the help of
mortal mercenaries who shoot his prey, making his kill easy. His
next target is Duncan but, warned by Dawson, Duncan and Charlie just
manage to escape death -- though the dojo is all but destroyed in the
gunfight. RENEE DELANEY, a CID agent investigating the mercenary
angle, gets on the case. Duncan goes after Xavier himself, and
Charlie insists on coming along. During his battle with St. Cloud,
Duncan spots JAMES HORTON, the Hunter who killed Darius. Distracted,
Duncan is 'killed' and falls down an elevator shaft out of beheading
range, and Charlie is badly wounded and lies near death. Blaming
Dawson for helping Horton escape alive, Duncan warns him not to cross
his path again.
Immortals are showing up dead by strange means, first shot by
mortals then beheaded by an Immortal.
-Xavier St.Cloud lost a hand in a fight with Duncan last season in
the episode 'For Tomorrow We Die'). In this episode he shows up
sporting a hook where his hand should be.
-James Horton was presumed dead after a battle with Duncan at the
close of "The Watchers" (second season premiere).
-During the flashback to the Scottish Highlands we discover that
(by an inadvertent camera shot) Scotsmen wear white spandex
bicycle shorts under their kilts. :-) This goof sparked a lot of
off-color jokes about what Scotsmen wear and where on the HIGHLA-L
mailing list.
-Renee's apartment number is 1593 which also happens to be the year
of Duncan's birth.
-One more instance of definite time-stamping of the series:
Horton's tomb gives the year of his death as 1993.
Unholy Alliance Part II
Writer: David Tynan
Director: Peter Ellis
Guest Stars:
Roland Gift as Xavier St.Cloud
Peter Hudson as James Horton
Stacey Travis as Renee Delaney
Michel Modo as Maurice
Summary:
As Charlie regains strength, Duncan accepts help from Dawson one last
time, and barely misses catching Xavier and Horton. He then follows
their trail to Paris -- accompanied by the persistent Renee Delaney.
They track down Horton, and when he almost escapes, he is shot by Joe
Dawson. Duncan, with the help of his humorous new neighbor MAURICE,
then tracks down Xavier and finally takes his head. In a coda,
however, we learn that Horton still lives.
-Duncan beheads Xavier with Xavier's sword.
The Vampire
Writer: J.P. Couture
Director: Dennis Berry
Guest Stars:
Jeremy Brudenell as Nicholas Ward
Denis Lill as Baines
Trevor Peacock as Jacom
Tonya Kinziger as Juliette
Nathalie Presles as Helene
Duncan comes up against NICHOLAS WARD, an Immortal who conceals
his murders by disguising them as popular hysterias. In the
1840's, Ward created a vampire myth in order to conceal the true
motive behind his killing the owners of a business he wanted.
Mac managed to prevent Ward from marrying (and murdering) the
heiress, but Ward escaped. In the present, Duncan teams up with Joe
Dawson to discover what Ward is up to and protect the young woman
he's set his sights on this time.
-An goofup: the phone number used was 555-4286 but the episode was
set in Paris. An example of a French phone number would be
something like 12.34.56.78.
-A blooper: If you watch closely in the fight scene in the arena,
Duncan's sword falls out of hand onto the floor with a clang. He
then picks it up off the stadium bench. There is no shift of
camera during the fight. Not only can Immortals hide a sword in
wondrous ways, but their sword is mysteriously near their hand
whenever needed.
Warmonger
Writers: Christian Bouveron & Lawrence Shore
Director: Bruno Gantillon
Guest Stars:
Peter Firth as Drake
Angeline Ball as Beth
Tom Watson as Eli
Michel Modo as Maurice
Summary:
In 1918 in the Soviet Union, Duncan promised the Immortal DRAKOV
that he would not fight him, in return for seeing lives spared.
Today Drakov, now called Arthur Drake, still operates behind the
scenes of international politics, a cruel puppet master who is
dragging Eastern Europe toward anarchy. Eli Jarmel, an old man
whose family was destroyed by Drake, urges Duncan to recant his
promise, while Beth Vaughn, a reporter, puts her life in danger by
investigating both Drake and Duncan.
-Blooper: Duncan's scarf kept disappearing and reappearing when he
was coming home from the opera.
Pharaoh's Daughter
Writers: Elizabeth Baxter & Martin Brossollet
Director: Dennis Berry
Guest Stars:
Nia Peeples as Nefertiri
James Faulkner as Constantine
Summary:
Duncan feels the Buzz coming from an ancient sarcophagus and opens
it to find NEFERTIRI, Cleopatra's handmaid, buried 2000 years ago
with her mistress. Now revived, she pursues a vendetta against the
Immortal MARCUS CONSTANTINE, who was her lover and her enemy. Duncan
believes Constantine, who claims that he no longer wishes to fight
Nefertiri -- this former Roman General has turned his back on battle
and is now a curator, working to preserve history and its lessons.
But Nefertiri can't let go of the old grudge, and for the first
time, Duncan is forced to face a woman he loves in Immortal combat.
-First time that we see Duncan behead a female Immortal.
-This episode ran quite a bit overtime and the editing staff had to
really work at getting it down to the standard time limits. This is
evident especially in the final battle between Duncan and
Nefertiri. When he takes his final stroke it looks like he's
taking her off at the knees instead of the head.
Legacy
Writer: David Tynan
Director: Paolo Barzman
Guest Stars:
Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda
Emile Abossolo-M'bo as Luther
Nadia Cameron as Rebecca
James Smillie as John
Summary:
When her mentor REBECCA is killed, AMANDA is determined to avenge
the death, even though it means going up against the formidable
Immortal LUTHER, and very possibly losing her head. She comes to
Duncan for a final fling before her likely death, and when he
discovers that she's after Luther, he tries to take the battle on
himself, feeling he has a better chance of survival. Together they
discover that Luther is hunting the pieces of an ancient crystal
that Rebecca divided among her students, believing that the whole
crystal will make him invulnerable and ensure that he is the Last
Immortal. In the final confrontations, both Amanda and Duncan take
their turns battling the ascetic Luther.
-Amanda's first death (in 853 AD) was due to a blow to the head
just before she is thrown into the cart, not of the Plague. She
might have been clubbed because she was caught stealing or because
she was seen leaving a house marked as a Plague house.
-Notable quote reminiscent of Monty Python: "Bring out your dead."
Prodical Son
Writers: Christian Bouveron & Lawrence Shore
Director: Dennis Berry
Guest Stars:
Michael Siberry as Hyde
Valerie Steffen as Inspector Bardot
Nicholas Chagrin as Segur
Summary:
Richie returns, on the run, turning to Duncan for help. An Immortal
has been following him, refusing to confront him, but committing
grisly murders wherever Richie goes. Richie is arrested for the
murders. Duncan learns that the Immortal Hunter MARTIN HYDE is
behind the murders: considering the Quickening of a green Immortal
like Richie not worth the taking, Hyde has been hounding him in
order to drive him to his teacher. A tactic that he has used before
-- once when Duncan was the student and Connor MacLeod was the
seasoned Immortal to be hunted. Duncan must clear Richie of the
murders and defeat the evil Immortal.
-In the scene where Duncan and Richie are passing the bottle of
cognac back and forth, when the two crack up it's actually a goof
by Stan Kirsch and Adrian Paul but the director liked it so much
they kept it in.
-The famous white spandex shorts show up again but now they are
black with white trim. Look for them when Hyde pushes Duncan to
the ground during their fight in the flashback.
Counterfeit Part I
Writers: Story by David Tynan & Teleplay by Brad Wright
Director: Paolo Barzman
Guest Stars:
Martin Cummings as Pete
Meilani Paul as Lisa
Peter Hudson as Horton
Summary:
PETE WILDER just saved Richie from an attack by some guys wearing
Watcher tattoos. Or did he? Nothing is what it seems, and Duncan
becomes increasingly wary of Pete, despite Richie's protests that
the guy is his friend. When Duncan's mistrust gets the possibly
innocent Pete killed, Duncan becomes increasingly unsure of himself.
Unknown to Duncan, his old enemy HORTON is pulling all the strings.
Horton is secretly training escaped killer LISA HALLE to go after
Duncan while he's troubled and vulnerable.
-The voice coach prompting Lisa was actually portrayed by the
Highlander staff voice coach.
-The actress playing Lisa, Meilani Paul, is Adrian Paul's wife in
real life.
-Reportedly, Martin Cummings was also up for the role of Richie
Ryan along with Stan Kirsch when they were initially casting the
series.
Counterfeit Part II
Writer: David Tynan
Director: Dennis Berry
Guest Stars:
Alexandra Vandernoot as Lisa
Peter Hudson as Horton
Summary:
Joe Dawson arrives in Paris to let Duncan know that Horton may still
be alive and coming after him. However, when Duncan meets "Lisa
Milon," a dead-ringer for Tessa (Lisa Halle after plastic surgery),
all thoughts of Horton and the Watchers go out of his head. Richie,
unsure if Duncan is thinking clearly, goes to Dawson for help and
winds up taking couple of bullets for him when Horton tries a hit.
Lisa is kidnapped, and Duncan insists on going after her even though
his friends warn him it may be a setup. He can't take a chance on
burying her again. When Lisa finally tries to kill Duncan, he turns
the tables on her and Horton at long last gets what's coming to him.
-Masterful performance by Alexandra Vandernoot portraying
essentially three characters, innocent Lisa Milon, psychotic
killer Lisa Halle, and, in the flashbacks, Tessa.
-Horton is now really dead, silencing forever the endless
speculation by fans that he might actually be an Immortal.
-Tessa's tombstone gives her birth year as 1958.
-Memorable dialog: Dawson -"I'd say you were dying." Richie -
"Oh no, not again. Stick around. I'll be right back."
-Duncan sells the barge, the second home that he and Tessa shared
on the Series. (We don't know yet if he still has the cabin)