HIGHLANDER: SEASON THREE
“He is Immortal. Born in the Highlands of Scotland four hundred years ago… he is not alone. There are others like him: some good, some evil. For centuries he has battled the forces of darkness with Holy Ground his only refuge. He cannot die unless you take his head – and with it, his power. In the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. .. the Highlander. ..”
EPISODE 3.1: THE SAMURAI
Written by Naomi Janzen
Directed by Dennis Berry
Midori Koto is a young eastern woman whose affair is cut short when her domineering and ruthless husband, Michael Kent (Stephen McHattie) returns to Japan earlier than expected and kills her lover, reminding his ‘wife’ that she can never leave him. However she stabs him and runs…
Desperate Midori sets out to find the family of a man who is said to owe a generational debt to her family and had promised to help in times of trouble. The man was actually Duncan MacLeod and Midori has no way of knowing that the man she finds, newly returned to Charlie DeSalvo’s dojo, is not only the same bloodline, but also the very same man.
She presents him with an ancient spy-glass that is over two hundred years old and a sign of that old promise between the Kotos and the MacLeods. Long ago, shipwrecked in the Japan of the 1770s Duncan, had a fateful encounter with her ancestor, Hideo Koto (Robert Ito) – and his daughter Maia – who would be one of his greatest mentors and the man who originally owned the katana that MacLeod now carries with him.
But keeping that promise may be more difficult than he imagined. Koto’s supposedly ‘dead’ husband isn’t so easily killed. Michael Kent is an Immortal and is not easily dissuaded from retrieving his ‘possessions’…
Also featuring: Tamlyn Tomita (as Midoro/Maia), Terry Arrowsmith (as Haley), Hiro Kanagawa (as Akira Yoshida).
EPISODE 3.2: LINE OF FIRE
Written by David Tynan
Directed by Clay Borris
While playing basketball, Richie is surprised to see an old girlfriend, Donna, who says she needs to talk. She has a son, Jeremy… and she claims Richie is the father. Richie is stunned but pleased… Duncan, on the other hand, reminds him that the side-effect of being an Immortal is that they are unable to sire children. Richie wonders if it happening before his first ‘death’ makes it an exception, but MacLeod says that’s not the way it works. They get long lives but not without a cost – traditional ‘happy’ endings are not for them.
He knows that all too well having tried to be a family man in a Lakota Sioux camp of the American frontier of the 1870s, in love with a Native American Little Deer and helping raise her son Kahani – until tragedy struck in the form of the ‘bluecoat’ forces and their scout ‘Kern’, an Immortal called Kern (Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb) who rampage through their camp.
Across town, in the present, Kern wants a beer and the bar being closed is only a temporary inconvenience… especially when you have a motorcycle to make a dramatic entrance. As Richie ponders the responsibilities of the future, MacLeod actively wants to take Kern’s head for the sins of the past…
Also featuring: Chandra West (as Donna), Michelle Thrush (as Little Deer), Peter Bob (as Kahani), Andrew Wheeler (as Father Matthew), James and Matthew Harrington (as Jeremy), Richard Leacock (as Jamal), Rick Poltaruk (as Clerk)
EPISODE 3.3: THE REVOLUTIONARY
Written by Peter Mohan
Directed by Dennis Berry
In the Balkans, the war continues to rage with some people fighting desperately for survival and others merely profiteering from the chaos that the world is seeing from a distance. A prisoner is led in to a rebel stronghold and executed by a man named Karros (Miguel Fernandes), in an effort to underline his point that the soldiers are only fighting men… and any man can be killed.
The truth is that Karros would be more difficult to kill – he’s an Immortal. His reputation as a negotiator (though not his secret) proceeds him but Duncan has his doubts – especially as this man of ‘peace’ he knew was always capable of great violence in the name of his causes. Duncan met him during the Mexican Revolution of the 1860s when Karos spoke of his time as a Roman gladiator who fought alongside Spartacus… and who believes he carries on the ‘good’ fight even if others die around him.
During a speech to the press, an assassination attempt leaves a priest working with Karos in critical condition and rushed to the local hospital. The doctor, Anne Lindsey (Lisa Howard)says the priest will live. Karros wants Duncan to help his cause but ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ may be less defined than either man cares to admit…
Also featuring: Liliana Komorowska (as Mara), Bernard Cuffling (as Harry Wellfleet), John Novak (as Mason), Andrew Kavadas (as Anthony Dourcef), Lisa Vutaggio (as Elda), Robert Iseman (as Mike), L Harvey Gold (as Bourchek)
EPISODE 3.4: THE CROSS OF ST. ANTIONE
Written by Morrie Ruvinsky
Directed by Dennis Berry
Joe Dawson invites Duncan to the formal opening of his bar and is introduced to Amanda who has tagged along for the ride. But Joe is distracted and, as Amanda surmises, it’s because he’s in love. The object of his affection, Lauren Gale, can’t make it to the opening, but he’s meeting her later at her home.
However when Joe arrives he looks through the glass door and sees her being strangled. He is powerless to save her and is left only to mourn her and sing the blues. Duncan, more experienced than most, tells Joe that sometimes tragedies happen without rhyme or reason, but Joe doesn’t believe that it was a simple burglary gone wrong – noting that though he didn’t get a good look at the assailant’s face, he did note the expensive suit he was wearing.
Lauren was working with an art collector called Thorne and when Duncan and Amanda seek to help Joe investigate the truth, Duncan sees an ornate golden cross he last saw in Montana, circa 1817 when he saved it from being stolen from a priest by outlaws on the frontier. It was also at this point when he encountered John Durgan (Brion James) an Immortal who claimed to be a simple trapper but would eventually steal the same cross. Duncan made a pledge to one day return it to the church.
Now the once ignorant Durgan is back and going by the name of Armand Thorne… a more intellectual man who would still kill for that cross… and recently did.
Also featuring: Elizabeth Gracen (as Amanda), David Longworth (as Father Peter), Charles Andre (as Bellam), Lloyd Berry (as Billows), J B Bivens (as George), Jason Gray-Stanford (as Jonah), David Hauka (as Martin Blinder), Willow Johnson (as Miss Welsley), Gerry Rousseau (as Rafe).
EPISODE 3.5: RITE OF PASSAGE
Written by Karen Harris
Directed by Mario Azzopardi
Duncan meets up with friend, Craig, who is bemoaning the trials and tribulations of raising his adopted daughter, Michelle (Gabrielle Miller) who is acting her age – staying out all night and rebelling against whatever she can find. She drives off and Duncan pursues, but she’s not paying attention and the car crashes… and she dies later on the operating table, despite Doctor Anne Lindsey’s attempts to save her.
However Michelle is an Immortal and not long after she is pronounced dead and the news given to her family, she rises again. Unlike her ‘parents’, Duncan already knew the truth and now he must help her understand her situation. She can’t go home again, that life is over. At first Michelle revels in the possibilities – drugs and drink would be a ride that could never kill her but Duncan begins to tell her about the ‘downsides’ before he’s called away by Craig to assist with the fact Michelle’s body is ‘missing’.
While Michelle waits at the loft, MacLeod has a visitor… an Immortal called Axel Whittaker who entices Michelle with promises of fun. But despite his beguiling words – or maybe because of them – Axel has a history of using and abusing his protégés to his own advantage and has his own plans for the young girl.
Michelle may never grow old, but she’s going to have to grow up very fast… or truly die.
Also featuring: Elizabeth Gracen (as Amanda), Rob Stewart (as Axel Whittaker), Alan Scarfe (as Craig), Alexa Gilmour (as Sharon), Robert Iseman (as Mike), Lisha Snelgrove (as Singer), Marie Stillin (as Nancy Webster).
EPISODE 3.6: COURAGE
Written by Nancy Heiken
Directed by Charles Wilkinson
In his length of time on the planet Brian Cullen (John Pyper-Ferguson) was the ‘best swordsman in all of Europe’ but nowadays he’s an aggressive drunk, keeping himself going through a steady stream of alcohol and drugs. On a bender at Joe’s he drunkenly challenges Richie, but Richie’s not interested and Cullen passes out before any more damage can be done.
Meanwhile Duncan quite literally bumps into an off-duty Anne Lindsey and arranges to take her to dinner. Richie’s collision could have more ramifications when Cullen decides to pursue him on the open road and a bus full of innocents gets in the way. At the hospital, returning Anne’s pager, Duncan finds Cullen and helps him get out of the hospital.
However when they return to Duncan’s loft, Richie is there and Cullen immediately challenges him again. Cullen and MacLeod may have had many years of memorable drunken antics, but the last time Duncan saw him he was making the fastest getaway possible from having to face any Immortal and ending up in an opium den.
Duncan admired the man Cullen was, but will he have to end that friendship by facing down the shadow, paranoid and dangerous man he has become?
Also featuring: Jonathan Scarfe (as Kelly), Jennifer Copping (as Katherine), Mark Acheson (as Lazlo), Catherine Lough (as Marcia), Peter Bryant (as Orderly), Colleen Rennison (as Robin), Marc Bauer (as Mike), Stefan Arngrim (as Harry)
EPISODE 3.7 THE LAMB
Written by J. P. Couture
Directed by Dennis Berry
A young homeless boy, who can’t be more than ten years old, mugs an old drifter for his sandwich. Nearby, Duncan is trying to sell Richie on the spiritual rewards of sailing on the sea and injecting some culture into his life. They sense another Immortal nearby… and it turns out to be the young boy. His name is Kenny (Myles Ferguson) and he appears to be running for his life… after all normal Immortals are more than twice his height and strength.
He explains that he was in a car accident four years previously – his ‘mother’ and ‘father’ were the victims of a drunk-driver coming in the opposite direction. Eventually he met an Immortal called Frank who had protected him until his saviour was beheaded by a stranger. Duncan notes that such ‘young’ Immortals are rare as they are easy-pickings for more ruthless Immortals and they resolve to help him.
But when it becomes clear that someone is on the trail of Kenny, how far will Richie and Duncan go to protect him… and when Joe Dawson does some digging into Kenny’s much lengthier past, is it possible that the stranger they’ve taken in may be far from being the lost lamb he first appeared to be?
Also featuring: Eric Keenleyside (as Dallman Ross), Alf Humphreys (as Frank Brody), Linden Banks (as Commander), Jesse Moss (as Sean), Christina Jastrzembska (as Catherine)
EPISODE 3.8 OBSESSION
Written by Lawrence Shore
Directed by Paul Ziller
Duncan receives a phone call from an old Immortal friend, David Keogh who asks to meet Duncan on holy ground but it’s not a sign of distrust, quite the opposite… he tells Duncan he’s planning on getting married and wants MacLeod to be his best man. Duncan accepts, hoping that David’s impulsive behaviour towards women has settled over the decades.
He’s unaware that David still finds it very difficult to take ‘no’ for an answer. Earlier he’d demanded to see his girlfriend, Jill, after there’s been a ‘misunderstanding’ – she had seen escaped, knocking him over in the process – though he obviously survives. Jill’s now looking for Duncan for advice and help but only finds Richie and David at the dojo.
Richie quickly realises that David hasn’t been honest – either with himself or them and Davis threatens to kill Richie if he tries to interfere. Duncan realises that his old friend has gone from naïve and troubled to utterly delusional and dangerous …
Also featuring: Nancy Sorel (as Jill), Sherry Miller (as Sarah Carter), Laura Harris (as Julia Renquist), Duncan Fraser (as Mr Renquist), Kim Kondrashoff as Henry Carter, Nancy Sivak (as Ginny), John R. Taylor (as Jake)
EPISODE 3.9: SHADOWS
Written by David Tynan
Directed by Charles Wilkinson
An unusually pensive Duncan finishes playing the piano at Joe’s and heads out into the night… only to be confronted by a dark, shrouded figure with a sword whom he follows into a neighbouring building. They fight and Duncan loses… the victor taking his head.
Duncan awakes from the nightmare, screaming – scaring himself and Anne. It seems that this has been a recurring nightmare and it’s beginning to unsettle him during the day as well. Taking a break Duncan and Anne head to a stone-carving art exhibit by ‘old’ friend John Garrick (Garwin Sanford). Duncan remembers the paranoid England of the 1600s when the emotionally-devastated Garrick lost his entire family in a fire and was accused of witchcraft because of his apparent gift of ‘second sight’. In the modern era, he channels his own demons into his work.
Outside the exhibition, in broad daylight, the shrouded figure appears to Duncan again… and he leaps in to save Anne. But Anne can’t see anyone – Duncan is simply waving a sword into empty air. Anne’s quick-thinking saves him from being arrested, but now they are both worried for his sanity. Duncan talks with Joe for advice and the Watcher notes that he’s surprised more Immortals don’t have psychological problems with the amount they go through.
As Richie tries to manage a talented musician and kick-start his career, MacLeod is barely managing anything. Can Garrick offer a deeper insight into losing one’s mind and coming back from the edge… or do MacLeod’s problems and solutions lie elsewhere?
Also featuring: Frank C. Turner (as Official), Margaret Barton (as Hag), Catherine Lough (as Marcia), Dorian Joe Clark (as Cop One), Jonathan Palis (as Sherrif), James Timmins (as Merchant), Amy Adamson (as Margaret of Devon), James Rogers (as Cory).
EPISODE 3.10: BLACKMAIL
Written by Morrie Ruvinsky
Directed by Paolo Barzman
A couple, Robert and Lisa, are making their own intimate video when Robert, realises he’s late to be elsewhere. He’s a corporate lawyer and the woman he’s with isn’t his wife. On his way home, he spots two men fighting with swords in a nearby car-park. Peter Matlin (Bill Croft)is in a duel to the death with Duncan MacLeod who is the victor. MacLeod spots the man, but all too late as the Quickening takes hold. Duncan presumes it was a Watcher, but Joe denies it.
Robert realises that he’s onto something extraordinary…and potentially dangerous. But maybe it could also be profitable. When MacLeod finds him, Robert thinks he has all his bases covered – the video is in a safe place and will go out to the authorities and media if he’s harmed. He tells MacLeod that he’s willing to remain silent – if MacLeod will kill his wife for him.
Duncan has no intention of committing murder for Robert, but what can he do to ensure the tape doesn’t get into further wrong hands? If MacLeod didn’t now have enough to worry about, Matlin’s long-time partner-in-crime Lymon Kurlow (Anthony De Longis) isn’t far behind and looking for revenge…
Also featuring: Bruce Dinsmore (as Robert Waverly), Vincent Gale (as Lattimore), Justine Priestley (as Lisa Crane), P. Adrien Dorval (as Jailer), Gordon Tipple (as Hangman), Kelly Fiddick (as Johnny Sondringham), Barbara Tyson (Barbara Waverly).
EPISODE 3.11: VENDETTA
Written by Alan Swayze
Directed by George Mendeluk
Benny Carbassa (Tony Rosato) is a low-level criminal determined to save himself. Despite being Immortal he doesn’t relish the idea of being given a pair of cement shoes and sent to the bottom of the local river courtesy of dying gangland boss Simon Lang. He’s willing to trade information… and give the location of a man Lang thought long dead… Duncan MacLeod.
Lang kills Duncan – or the man whom he believes to be the loud-mouth grandson of his nemesis – and, surviving the drowning, Benny relates the reason Lang wanted him ‘vanished’. He was once Syd Langkofski a gangland accountant in the time of prohibition and with designs on the big life like his brother, Joey. When Duncan spent too much time with Joey’s girl, Peggy, it led to some… bad feelings.
In the present – and post ‘latest’ death – Duncan runs into Lang yet again and it seems that he can’t escape one last confrontation, especially when the secret of what happened to Joey con that fateful night decades ago could still be uncovered.
Meanwhile, Anne comes by the dojo trying to find a way to navigate through their recent lack of trust…
Also featuring: Ken Pogue (as Simon Lang), Tamara Gorski (as Peggy McCall), Stella Stevens (as Margaret Lang), Edgar Davis Jr. (as Joey), Aurelio Di Nunzio (as Sal), Ernie Prentice (as Grey-Haired Man), Michael Sunczyk (as Syd).
EPISODE 3.12: THEY ALSO SERVE
Written by Lawrence Shore
Directed by Paolo Barzman
Michael Christian (Barry Pepper) disturbs the swimming and diving practise of an Immortal named May-Ling Shen (Vivian Wu). He doesn’t challenge her to a fight but merely takes her head before she can even get out of the pool. He is being aided by a mortal woman, a lover who is helping to plan his kills. Joe is visited by Ian Bancroft, May-Ling’s Watcher, who informs him of the death. MacLeod knew May-Ling when she became one of his mentors – and much more – in the Outer Mongolia of the 1780s and mourns her loss.
As some of the Watchers gather for a card-game, they are joined by another Watcher, Rita Luce who passes on her condolences to Bancroft. What none of her colleagues know is she is the woman mentoring Michael Christian. But when suspicions are raised about Christian’s unlikely kill statistics and if Rita had any roll in them, Bancroft meets an untimely fate.
As Christian decides, with Rita’s help, to seek out MacLeod, Joe must take a long look at his own actions and whether he too has been compromised by interfering in the world of Immortals – and Duncan MacLeod specifically…
Also featuring: Michael Anderson Jr. (as Ian Bancroft), Mary Woronov (as Rita Luce), Marc Baur (as Mike), Oliver Becker ( as Justin), Lorraine Landry (as Maureen), Mina E. Mina (as Kahn)
EPISODE 3.13: BLIND FAITH
Written by Jim Makichuk
Directed by Gerry Ciccoritti
A religious leader named Kirin (Richard Lynch) is helping feed the homeless when one of his workers is nearly hit by a passing car. Kirin pushes the man out of the way but takes the full impact – subsequently dying on the operating table despite Anne Lindsey’s best attempts to save him. His followers refuse to believe he’s died and when Anne turns around to see him apparently live and well, despite having flat-lined minutes earlier, she’s mystified.
Duncan realises Kirin must be an Immortal but why the public show when he could have slipped out the back of the hospital without all the fuss? Though Kirin seems to be a genuine religious man, Duncan remains suspicious as to his motives… after all he originally met the man in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s when he went by another name, John Kage, a man more concerned with profits of war rather than prophets of peace. It’s a pattern Duncan has seen repeated over the years since, including leaving children to die in Cambodia.
As Duncan struggles to assess Kirin’s intentions, one of his followers decides to take the law into his own hands…
Also featuring: Conrad Dunn (as Matthew), Dave Cameron (as Todd Milchan), Nick Vrataric (as Tim Parriot), Alfonso Quijada Jr. (as Carlos), Celine Lockhart (as Nun), Ravinder Toor (as Cop), Robert Iseman (as Mike), F. Braun McAsh (as Derelict)
EPISODE 3.14: SONG OF THE EXECUTIONER
Written by David Tynan
Directed by Paolo Barzman
Duncan takes Anne to a show featuring the beautiful harmonic voices of a group of monks performing at Vanderbilt Hall– one of whom is an old Immortal friend of MacLeod’s Brother Paul. None of the friends realise they are being watched from the wings. Later Paul senses the presence of another Immortal… a man he recognises as Kalas (David Robb).
Anne remarks that she has a hard time picturing Paul and Duncan as friends… as Macleod hardly seems the celibate type. But though he’s not liable to tell her so, they spent time at an isolated monastery in Europe during the 1600s, a sanctuary for mortals and Immortals alike. MacLeod was looking for his friend, Peter Hale, but Brother Paul told him he’d left weeks previously. Instead he’s taught to read by Brother Timon and is introduced to Kalas, a man of a beautiful voice but a less impressive demeanour. It also turned out he had a murderous habit – one he still has today… along with a scar that MacLeod gave him.
As Richie heads off for motorbike trials in Miami, Anne has to deal with the death of her friend and colleague Marcia… and the hospital believing that her overdose was because Anne gave her the wrong medication. On the same day, Joe’s bar is raided and drugs are conveniently found behind the bar. MacLeod begins to realise his nearest and dearest are being targeted… but when will Kalas make his final move against him?
Also featuring: Eugene Lipinski (as Brother Paul), John Tench (as Max Jupe), Demetri Goritsas (as Timon), Vince Metcalfe (as Dan Tarendash), Lynda Boyd (as Karen), Catherine Lough (as Marcia), Paul Bittante (as Detective), Allixandria East (as Nurse)
EPISODE 3.15: STARCROSSED
Written by Jim Makichuk
Directed by Paolo Barzman
Having had to leave the US after Anne saw him ‘die’, Duncan heads back to the old haunts of Paris, met at the airport by none other than Hugh Fitzcairn (Roger Daltrey) ready for some fun on the town… at least if they can survive his driving and Fitz’s career in cooking. However a car tries, successfully, to run them off the road – were they after Duncan or Fitz?
As they remember their first encounter in Verona centuries before, Fitz and Duncan compare notes on the perils of their problematic love-lives, especially when it involves settling down with mortals rather than Immortals – and he advises Duncan to change his mind and reveal all to Anne. In his restaurant kitchen, Fitz’s new love Naomi is being pestered by her ex, Patrick. When Patrick is humiliated by the Immortal, a stranger offers him the chance of revenge… the stranger is Kalas.
As Fitz’s carefully (and not so carefully) constructed façade begins to fall apart, Patrick is killed and Fitz is framed for his murder. Kalas watches from the side-lines as his plans to hurt MacLeod and his friends continue and then he makes his move…
Also featuring: Michel Modo (as Maurice),Frederic Witta (as Patrick), Valerie Zarrouk (as Naomi), Gian-Franco Salemi (as Doge), Elodie Frenck (as Arianna), Guillaume Barriere (as Scribe), Gerard Touratier (as Watch), Fabrice Bagni (as Manservant), Virginie Peignien (as Inspector)
EPISODE 3.16: METHOS
Written by J. P. Couture
Directed by Dennis Berry
After the events of the last episode, Kalas (David Robb) is reconsidering his strategies on the best way to take his revenge on MacLeod. While walking through Paris he realises he’s been followed and ‘detains’ the stranger – ultimately learning that the man is a Watcher who eventually tells him all about the organisation. Kalas realises he can use their resources to his benefit… especially if can locate a legendary Immortal, said to be the oldest surviving to date… a man called Methos.
When Don Salzer, the owner of Shakespeare and Company and a senior Watcher, is murdered by Kalas in his quest to find Methos, Duncan finds the dying man and he and Joe try to fit the pieces together. Joe recommends that MacLeod talks to one of the organisations’ best historians, an enthusiastic young student who has been trying to chronicle the very rare sightings or activities of Methos over the years. The student goes by the name of Adam Pierson (Peter Wingfield).… and he may have more answers than MacLeod could ever have suspected.
Elsewhere Richie’s plans to conquer the world of motorcycling hit new heights, but also a few speed-bumps. ..
Also featuring: Carmen Chaplin (as Maria Campalo), Patrice Valota (as Marc Saracen), Olivier Marchal (as Phillipe), Jean Francois Pages (as Basil Dornin), Ken Samuels (as Roger), George Birt (as Don Salzer), Charles Maquignon (as Bartender), Denis Sylvain (as Inspector), Debbie Davis (as Danielle)
EPISODE 3.17: TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
Written by Alan Swayze
Directed by Paolo Barzman
Ceirdwyn (Kim Johnston Ulrich) and her mortal husband Steven are having dinner in Paris and arguing over whether he should take a job in Madrid. When he goes to get the car so they can discuss everything more privately, Steven is mugged and killed by a street-gang. Ceirdwn tries to intervene but also gunned down for her troubles. Being an Immortal she’ll live to fight another day – with a warrior-like promise of vengeance that dates back to her as a Pict against the Romans in England around 60 AD.
A younger member of the gang, not directly involved, happens to be stealing wallets at Richie’s racetrack the following day. Duncan ‘escorts’ him back into the city but senses another Immortal nearby – it’s Ceirdwyn already starting to track down her quarry.
Duncan has fought alongside her before – she aided him when he rode with Bonnie Prince Charlie – and he appreciates her loss, but as one who has been through it himself, he warns her against travelling too far down the road of vengeance. But even if she can be dissuaded, perhaps the gang themselves may make that decision for her?
And perhaps Ceirdwyn has her own words of advice about the worth of trusting one’s heart and taking risks…
Also featuring: Michel Modo (as Maurice), Marc Edouard Leon (as Paolo), Ben Pullen (as Bonnie Prince Charlie), Peter Semler (as Callum), John Charles Maratier (as Angus), Jean Francois Pages (as Basil Dormin), Ariane Le Roux (as Neva), David Gregg (as Steven), Frank Messin (as Gaston), Terence Leroy-Beaulieu (as Mario), Jonathan Zaccai (as Louis), Thierry Bois (as Blond Man), Antony Miceli (as Raoul), Olivier Siou (as Laurent)
EPISODE 3.18: TESTIMONY
Written by David Tynan
Directed by Dennis Berry
Anne arrives in Paris where Duncan is waiting with the story of a lifetime… in fact, several. But that particular drama has to be delayed when a woman, Tasha, collapses at the Customs gate and Anne immediately takes charge, realising that the traveller has some intestinal blockage. In truth Tasha is a drug mule for an Immortal named Kristov (Alexis Daniel) who is non-too pleased that the shipment hasn’t arrived intact – or that the woman is still alive to give the police details.
Duncan tells Anne the details of his very long life and shows her some of the souvenirs he’s picked up along the way. Though she realises it ultimately explains so much about the bizarre circumstances she came across in the last few months, she still admits it all sounds like a fairy-tale.
When Kristov sends one of his henchmen to kill Tasha, Annie is nearly hurt in the process, making it very personal for Duncan – especially when he realises who is behind it all. As Anne ponders the past and the present, Richie looks to the future – needing to leave France to avoid being recognised after his very public ‘death’…
Also featuring: Tasha (as Selina Giles), Xavier Schliwanski (as Alexei), Georges Keyl (as Bohdan), Bertrand Lacy (as Doctor Chandon), Lawrence Shore (as Man at Airport)
EPISODE 3.19: MORTAL SINS
Written by Lawrence Shore
Directed by Mario Azzopardi
A young immigrant is pursued through the Paris streets by a group of thugs, finally taking sanctuary in a church. When the gang’s leader Ernst Daimler (Andrew Woodall) follows them all into the church, the priest, Father Bernard, is horrified to recognise him as a Nazi officer who he presumed to have been dead for at least fifty years. Bernard also finds Duncan MacLeod, realising that he is the same man he encountered and helped during the occupation of France in World War II when Bernard was but a boy.
Now Bernard needs a favour from the man he knows to be Immortal – to stop Daimler, but is killing their old enemy really God’s work? Anne wonders why Duncan feels the need to put himself directly in harm’s way by choice, but he reminds her that all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing… and living through World War II taught him that in sharp detail.
Anne also has something else to tell Duncan, news that has the potential to change his world forever.
Also featuring: Roger Bret (as Father Bernard), Claude Berthy (as Father Guillaume), Jean Claude Deret (as Georges Dalou), Thierry Gary (as Iggy), Georges Janin (as Young Bernard), Laurent Deutsch (as Young Georges), Lyes Salem (as Aram), Pierre Rousselle (as Jean)
EPISODE 3.20: REASONABLE DOUBT
Written by Elizabeth Baxter
Directed by Dennis Berry
After being tricked into stopping by a ‘broken down’ car, an ambulance is hijacked ) on one of the urban side-streets of Paris by an Immortal called Lucas Kagan (Paudge Behan) and a woman, Simone (Geraldine Cotte). However, it’s not carrying medical supplies but a $3 million Da Vinci sketch and when the men in the ambulance have given up the art, Lucas guns them down any way, much to the dismay of Simone.
Art dealer Franklin Waterman is dismayed – the piece wasn’t insured at the time and the thieves want to sell it back to him. As his friend, Duncan MacLeod volunteers to help and be there when the money is exchanged. In the meantime, Maurice invites Duncan for dinner, just in time to meet his niece… Simone.
At the ‘drop’ Duncan recognises Simone and demands she take him to her partner… he isn’t expecting another Immortal, especially Kagan – with whom he has history.
Also featuring: Richard Lintern (as Tarsis), Robert Cavanah (as Franklin Waterman), Jacques Ciron (as Head Clerk), Didier Terron (as Claude), Rebecca Potok (as Madame Camille), Laurence Mercier (as Woman), Olivier Kandel (as Young Kagan), Pierre Alexis Hollenbeck (as Rudy), Azzedine Melliti (as Rene)
EPISODE 3.21: FINALE (PART ONE)
Written by David Tynan
Directed by Mario Azzopardi
Kalas (David Robb) is being held in jail and biding his time, planning his next move. After all, time is on his side. Months after his capture, he is contacted from the outside, a mysterious ‘benefactor’ helps him to escape. But once over the walls he finds that it wasn’t an altruistic move… it’s Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen) and she wanted to put an end to his life once for all. The convoluted plan naturally backfires and Kalas is free once more – quickly finding and killing an Immortal with which to ‘recharge’ himself.
Duncan is angry at Amanda, but remembers one of his own well-intentioned plans going awry when he tried to take on Xavier St. Cloud centuries before. Kalas eventually makes his presence known, once again using MacLeod’s friends to get to him, beginning with Maurice.
Meanwhile Joe Dawson comes calling… with Methos (Peter Wingfield). They have their own problem. Christine, the widow of the man Kalas killed at Shakespeare and Company months before is still bitter at the way he died and how the Watchers failed to protect their own. Now her intention is to expose the whole organisation and their remit in a national newspaper… but does she have proof?
Also featuring: Roland Gift (as Xavier St.Cloud), Sian Weber (as Christine Salzer), Michel Modo (as Maurice), John Suda (as Hamza), Debbie davis (as Danielle), Matthew Geczy (as Martin), Emmanuel Karsen (as Nino), Patrick Albenque (as Genet), Charles Maquignon (as Gerard), Mykhael Georges-Schar (as Business Man)
EPISODE 3.22: FINALE (PART TWO)
Written by David Tynan
Directed by Dennis Berry
Duncan and Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen) visit the Eiffel Tower and ruminate on how Immortals’ lives may be about to change if Christine’s plans to expose them come to fruition. In the end they decide thy might as well have some fun and reminisce about old times, dancing precariously on one of the higher levels – much to the shock of the crowd.
Meanwhile Christine’s proof – a plethora of photographs connecting various people through their various identities – has managed to convince the Tribune’s editor that there’s a story to be told, but just as he’s about to call in some favours in the security business, Kalas puts a stop to any further progress.
Now Kalas (David Robb) has the file and tells MacLeod that unless he willingly surrenders to him and allows his Quickening to be taken, Kalas will go public with all that information (and presumably editing his own entry). Methos points out that Kalas is merely playing to Duncan’s martyr complex, but what can MacLeod – and perhaps more importantly, his friends – do to stop him?
The stage is set for a moral quandary and a battle of strength and will in the heart of Paris… and a Quickening that will light up (or cast into darkness) the city itself…
Also featuring: Sian Weber (as Christine Salzer), George Harris (as Vemas), David Gilliam (as Jeremy Clancy), Matthew Geczy (as Martin), Emmanuel Karsen (as Nino), Karim Salah (as Sultan), Albert Pariente (as Guard)