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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    sensitive Gregor he knew has been replaced by a hardened cynic.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)