SEASON SIX
“He is Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander.
Born in 1592 in the Highlands of Scotland and he is still alive. He is immortal. For four hundred years he’s been a warrior, a lover, a wanderer. Constantly facing other Immortals in a combat to the death, the winner takes his enemy’s head and with it, his power.
I am a Watcher, part of a secret society of men and women who observe and record but never interfere. We know the truth about Immortals. In the end… there can be only one.
May it be Duncan MacLeod: the Highlander…”
EPISODE 6.1: AVATAR
Written by David Tynan
Directed by Dennis Berry
It’s a year after Duncan accidentally killed Richie and it appears that the demonic presence of Ahriman has been biding its time. Duncan emerges from a period of solitude in a Malaysian monastery, returning to Paris to confront his past and work out his future. But Ahriman sets about manipulating not just MacLeod but those who can affect his decisions.
A young girl called Sophie Baines plunges from a bridge into the Seine and MacLeod saves her – or does he? Her brother Andrew seeks to protect her but his actions may actually lead him in to direct conflict with Duncan. Elsewhere Duncan has visions of Horton, Sophie’s choice seems fated and Joe Dawson considers if he can put the Watchers at the disposal of an Immortal he still wants to trust, but…
Also featuring: Rachel Shelly (as Sophie Baines), Danny Dyer (as Andrew Baines) Odile Cohen (as Anna), Peter Hudson (as Horton/Ahriman), Fethi Zouaoui (as Flower Vendor), Léonard Guillain (as Mover),Nathalie Gray (as Morgue Employee)
EPISODE 6.2: ARMAGEDDON
Written by Tony DiFranco
Directed by Richard Martin
Duncan looks through ancient texts to try and find out how Ahriman was defeated before, but can find few answers. There doesn’t seem to be any physical way to defeat the demonic presence. As the casualty list increases, Joe begins to question the decision to involve the other Watchers in the search and comes to a decision about helping Duncan.
But as Duncan tries to persuade Father Robert Beaufort, the archivist at Darius’s old church to keep his faith in the face of temptation and torment, Ahriman makes Joe an offer it will be difficult to refuse, Will anyone be able to find peace?
Also featuring: Valentine Pelka (as Kronos/Ahriman), Peter Hudson (as Horton/Ahriman),Dudley Sutton (as Father Robert), Terence Beesley (as Jackie Beaufort), Jean-Yves Tual as Ahriman
EPISODE 6.3: SINS OF THE FATHER
Written by James Thorpe
Directed by Dennis Berry
Alex Raven (Dara Tomanovich) lost a lot she cared about in the Warsaw ghettos of 1942 but ever since has been helping the child of the man she loved in tracking down those who stole Jewish gold. When a car bomb kills banker, a friend of Duncan’s, the Highlander becomes very personally involved, testing not just his moral mettle but his decision to put his sword away for good.
Faced with the fact that Alex and Max’s cause, if not their methods, may have been more righteous than he first thought, Duncan is faced with a moral quandary – a problem that Alex Raven has less of a problem with. She’ll protect Max and help find the stolen millions whatever it takes – even if that means killing MacLeod if she has to.
Also featuring: Ian Richardson (as Max Liener), Charles Daish (as Grant Thomas), John Scarborough (as George Thomas), Joe Searby (as Gerard LeBlanc), Aaron Schwartz (as David Liener), Dean Cook (as Young Max), Jay Simon (as Cameron)
EPISODE 6.4: DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY
Written by James Thorpe
Directed by Richard Martin
Willie Kingsley (Jasper Britton) has made a lifetime – several in fact – of using his immortality to his advantage, frequently ‘dying’ at moments to his advantage. He meets the love of his long life in the 1960s when a young woman called Molly Kingsley successfully picks his pocket and they frequently repeat the con of Willie being mortally wounded by an errant driver and getting paid off for their silence.
In modern day Paris the couple repeat the scam but do not expect Duncan MacLeod to be walking down the same road at the time. Willie and Duncan catch up and reminisce about their past (including attending a duel in a scene that feels a little like a nod towards the scene in the European version of the first Highlander film). But when Willie and Molly repeat the scam, the driver of the car also kills Molly, presuming there will now be no witnesses.
The driver was Steven Banner, the troubled son of Edward Banner, a diplomat and another friend of Duncan’s, but one wanting to protect his son. With Willie on the warpath to find the truth, what will Duncan do?
Also featuring: Ed Bishop (as Edward Banner), Alexis Denisof (as Steve Banner), Anita Dobson (as older Molly) Edward Hamilton-Clark (as U.S. Guard), Martin Jaubert (as Butler), Malcolm Rennie (as Smythe), Cameron K. Smith (as Thug), Paula Jane Ulrich as Younger Molly)
EPISODE 6.5: PATIENT NO.7
Written by David Tynan
Directed by Dennis Berry
Kyra (Alice Evans, appearing in one of her first television roles – later to appear in The Vampire Diaries and its spin-off The Originals) is a patient in a Parisian psychiatric institution who survives an assassination attempt by two East European assassins. But who sent them and why was she there at all? Suffering from amnesia, she wanders the streets of Paris only to encounter Duncan MacLeod who tells her that not only does he know her, but they first met in 1640 France where she was a bodyguard to the Queen.
As she starts to recover, not entirely convinced by Duncan’s story, a recent tragedy is remembered and Kyra sets out to exact her own kind of revenge…
Also featuring: Michael Halsey (as Milos Vladic), Mark Leadbetter (as Man in 17th Century Inn), Donald Standen (as Richard Albright), Steve Lyon (as Zep), Stéphanie Petit (as Lazlo), Emile Ambossolo M’bo (as Jocko), Nabil Massad (as Vendor), Antonia Corrigan (as Little Girl), Michael Morris (as Businessman), Robert Bradford (as Hospital Guard)
EPISODE 6.6: BLACK TOWER
Written by Morrie Ruvinsky
Directed by Richard Martin
Duncan is enjoying an evening on his barge when his date, Margot, is kidnapped by Devon Marek (Andrew Bicknell). Marek is now a wealthy manufacturer but he’s never forgiven MacLeod for making him give up the family fortune in Scotland when Marek’s first ‘death’ became publicly known in 1634. It was Duncan’s first attempt to be a mentor, but Marek was ever a pompous, self-obsessed individual who immediately used his new ‘power’ for his own amusement.
Now Marek has Duncan trapped in a skyscraper, with a team of bounty-hunters tracking him in the ultimate game of survival. Upstairs, a programmer, Dice, thinks it’s all just a simulation he’s controlling and testing for Marek, but now Duncan really is fighting for his life…
Also featuring: Rochelle Redfield (as Margo), Alain Creff aka G.Z.U (as Benoit), Julius D’Silva and Luke D’Silva (The Brothers Montoya), Adam Henderson (as William Robert Shemp), Alexi Kaye Campbell (as Dice)
EPISODE 6.7: UNUSUAL SUSPECTS
Written by Morrie Ruvinsky
Directed by Dennis Berry
England, 1929… and Hugh Fitcairn (Roger Daltrey) is throwing a private party on his estate (or as he likes to call it ‘the annual grouse shoot and executive witch-hunt…’) for a few select – and not very impressed – business colleagues. However, the evening is about to take a more dramatic turn when Fitz’s musical interlude is cut short by his sudden death.
As Immortals don’t get heart-attacks, Fitz knows that this was a case of attempted (and technically successful) murder. Duncan attends the ‘funeral’ and is reluctantly drawn in to Fitz’s plan to find out which of his guests was the person who killed him.
Also featuring Cleo Rocos (as Juliette) Hugh Simon (as Tynebridge ), Nicholas Clay (as Loxley ), Malcolm Rennie (as Drimble ), Claire Kiem (as Marie), Christophe Guybet (as Pierre)
EPISODE 6.8: JUSTICE
Written by Michael O’Mahony and Sasha Reins
Directed by Richard Martin
While taking part in a fencing match, Duncan makes the acquaintance of Armando Baptista another expert with an epee. But after getting an invite to join him for drinks later, Duncan senses another immortal – this one armed with a crossbow. The immortal is named Katya (Justina Vail) and she has very particular reasons for wanting Armando dead. She says he killed his wife, Katya’s adopted daughter Elaina – whom she’d raised from a child but who she know pretended was her older sister.
But MacLeod quickly finds that the truth is a little more complicated and that he’s landed himself in the middle of a more complicated story of tempestuous love and betrayal within one family. Katya, no stranger to abuses of power by powerful men – but when she arrives to finally kill Armando, will Duncan try to stop her, save her or kill her?
Also featuring: Grant Russell (as Armando Baptista),Rita Gosh (as Mia Baptista), Tobias Raineri (as Ramone Castillo), Godfrey James (as Frederick of Godfrey), Matthew Radford (as William of Godfrey) Bernard Chabin (as Jose), Franck Boclet (as Private Investigator)
EPISODE 6.9: DEADLY EXPOSURE
Written by James Thorpe
Directed by Dennis Berry
Reagan Cole (Sandra Hess) has decided to take a long overdue holiday – her first, she claims, in two hundred and fifty years – from her bounty-hunting duties and spend some quality time in Paris, catching up with a fellow immortal Duncan MacLeod.
But Reagan witnesses the shooting of a street fashion photographer who has caught someone in one of her images that she shouldn’t have and finds herself looking after another possible witness.
Also featuring: Christian Erickson (as Jack Kendall) Bob Cryer (as Murphy), Sam Douglas (as Baxter), Brian Protheroe ( as Bannock ), Dave Hill ( as Rowan Mitchell), Bogdan Marian-Stanoevitch (as Sears), Gunilla Karlzen (as Celine), Michel Albertini (as Raphael Vega), Doug Rand (as Comic), Valerie-Anne Wyss (as News Reporter)
EPISODE 6.10: TWO OF HEARTS
Written by James Thorpe
Directed by Richard Martin
Immortal Katherine (Claudia Christian) and her mortal husband Nick (Steven O’Shea) are a couple who take the jobs that others won’t. Done for a sense of justice rather than any financial gain, they use Nick’s training and Katherine’s ‘abilities’ to gain an advantage.
But though they love each other dearly, Nick still has a major problem with the ‘rules’ of the game when it comes to Katherine dealing with any other Immortal threats. But receiving a lead from a grateful customer, Katherine is determined to settle an old score with Bartholomew (Jack Ellis). He’s an Immortal she first encountered when he came to her English village in 1270, demanding that people follow him on his crusade to Jerusalem and unfairly tithing half the village’s crops. The modern Bartholomew is still using God’s work (and now a big corporation) to line his pockets and he has limited use for faith, hope and charity.
Nick, on the other hand, is determined to keep his wife safe at all costs…
Also featuring: Oliver Picasso (as Checco), Mike Sarne (as Baron), Boris Anderssen (as Mr Faith), Veronique Baylaucq (as Secretary), Rowena Cooper (as Berta Symes), Patrick Rameau (as Betrand), Norman Chancer (as Caruso)
EPISODE 6.11: INDISCRETIONS
Written by James Thorpe
Directed by Dennis Berry
On an isolated airfield two models are expecting to take the trip of a lifetime, unaware of the more salacious role they’ll be required to undertake as they’re trafficked out of the country under the orders of ruthless fashion designer Morgan Walker (Benedict Blythe). He’s unaware that everything is being observed by a trainee watcher named Amy.
Later Benedict comes across the man he knows as Doctor Benjamin Adams, but whom we know as Methos. Their last confrontation was in New Orleans in 1808 when Walker catches Adams with one of his slaves, Charlotte– whom he immediately kills. Methos decided that discretion was the better part of valour but Walker has compulsively wanted a rematch for hundreds of years.
When Walker catches Amy spying on him, her only hope may be for Joe Dawson and Methos to put aside any differences they may have with each other’s tactics and join forces to save her. Like Mulder and Scully… or Sipowicz and Simone… Caligula and Incitatus?
But Joe has a more personal stake in the outcome than he’s revealed…
Also featuring Louise Taylor (as Amy Brennan Thomas), Paulette Williams (as Charlotte), Paris Jefferson (as Toni), David Saracino (as Beck), Deborah Steele (as Marisa), Kenan Raven (as Stein), Marc Andréoni (as Sailor)
EPISODE 6.12 / 6.13: TO BE / NOT TO BE
Written by David Tynan / Morrie Ruvinsky
Directed by Richard Martin/ Dennis Berry
Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen) is having a… ‘lay-over’ in Paris when she is snatched by Liam O’Rourke (Martin McDougall), a militant Irishman who bombed a London pub and killed civilians in the years after World War II and was handed to the police by Macleod.
Now out of jail and mourning his girlfriend who died in prison, he is laying a trap for Duncan, including taking Joe and forcing a final confrontation as payback. Duncan has always been a man who will fight to the death, but after so many recent sacrifices is he now willing to finally lay down his own life if it is the only way to save those who mean the most to him? Methos knows that Duncan’s sense of fair play may not be enough against a man with no rules, but will his friend listen?
As the trap closes around him and all hope seems lost, shots ring out and a familiar face from the past guides Duncan through what life might have been like for the people he knew if the world never had Duncan MacLeod and his principles…
A world where Watchers went on the offensive…
Where horsemen were still to be feared…
Where friends chose mentors they might not have lived long enough to regret…
Also featuring: Roger Daltrey (as Hugh Fitzcairn), Alexandra Vandernoot (as Tessa Noel), Stan Kirsch (as Richie Ryan), Valentine Pelka (as Kronos), Peter Hudson (as Horton),Thierry Langerak ( as Allan),Kathleen McGoldrick (as Tara), Olivier Vitran (as Tom), Lisa Butler (as Jillian O’Hara), Alexandre Zambeaux (as Terry), Dave Hoskin (as Andres Seguy), Eva Gord (as Customer)