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.------------------------------------------------------------------------. |The following is the guides to Highlander : The Series | |Files downloaded and converted to Amiga ascii by Kei/Carnage 1996 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------· 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disturbed by the violent images in his friend's work, and is distressed to find that the sensitive Gregor he knew has been replaced by a hardened cynic.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)