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Highlander Season Two Episode Summaries

REGULAR CAST:
Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod
Alexandra Vandernoot as Tessa (first 4 episodes)
Stan Kirsch as Richie Ryan
Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson
Philip Akin as Charlie DeSalvo

The Watchers
Studies in Light
Turnabout
The Darkness
Eye for an Eye
The Zone
The Return of Amanda
Revenge of the Sword
Run For Your Life
Epitaph for Tommy
The Fighter
Under Color of Authority
Bless the Child
Unholy Alliance, Part 1
Unholy Alliance, Part 2
The Vampire
Warmonger
Pharoh's Daughter
Legacy
Prodigal Son
Counterfeit, Part 1
Counterfeit, Part 2

The Watchers
GUEST STARS:
Peter Hudson as James Horton
Keli O'Bryne as Lynn Horton (daughter of James Horton)
Cameron Bancroft as Robert
Determined to investigate the death of his old friend Darius (in the first season finale, "The Hunters"), MacLeod folllows a lead back to his old stomping grounds in the Pacific Northwest. He meets Joe Dawson (Jim Byrnes), a bookstore owner with a secret; he soon learns that Dawson is a high-ranking member of an ancient secret organizatino 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
GUEST STARS:
Joel Wyner as Gregor Powers
Sheila Moore as Linda Plager
Gillian Carfra as Young Linda
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disturbed by the violent images in his friend's work, and is distressed to find that the sensitive Gregor he knew has been replaced by a hardened cynic.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--facinated 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
GUEST STARS:
Geraint Wyn Davies as Micheal Moore
John Tierney as Old Father Morton
Alan Robertson as Judge Marvin Singer
Gaetana Korbin as Jeanette
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 Micheal Moore comes to town, a Flashback shows us that Barnes killed Micheal's wife and has a longstanding grudge against Micheal. Now Mac is involved. He convinces Dawson to share the Watcher's 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 Micheal 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 Micheal--and Mac left him home with Tessa and Richie! In the end, at Micheal's tortured urging, MacLeod must kill Micheal to kill Barnes.

The Darkness
GUEST STARS:
Traci Lords as Greta
Andrew Jackson as Pallin Wolf
Frank C. Turner as Harry
Lisa Vultaggio as Carmen
Adrian Hughes as James
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 fortune teller 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.

  • The song played while Duncan grieves for Tessa is "Dust in the Wind," by Kansas.

    Eye for an Eye
    GUEST STARS:
    Sheena Easton as Annie Devlin
    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
    GUEST STARS:
    Santino Buda as Canaan
    Sandra P. Grant as Asia
    Alphonso Quijada as Tio
    Leam Blackwood as Tom McGee
    The Zone is a burned-out urban wasteland, abandoned by 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 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 MacLeod 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
    GUEST 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
    Micheal Puttonen as Lev Arkin
    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
    GUEST STARS:
    Dustin Nguyen as Jimmy Sang
    Debbie Podowski as Lisa
    Robert Ito as Johnny Leong
    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, an now his former boss wants to see him dead.

    Run For Your Life
    GUEST STARS:
    Bruce Young as Carl Robinson
    Geza Kovacs as Carter
    Roman Podhora as Kenny
    Biski Gughese as Ricky
    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
    GUEST STARS:
    Roddy Piper as Gallen
    Andrea Roth as Suzanne
    Ken Camroux as Honninger
    Jan D'Arcy as Betty Bannen
    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.

    The Fighter
    GUEST STARS:
    Bruce Weitz as Thomas Sullivan
    Wren Roberts as Belcher
    Calli Timmins as Iris
    Nicholas Lea as Rodney
    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
    GUEST STARS:
    Jonathan Banks as Mako
    Deanna Milligan as Laura
    Lochlyn Munro as Tim
    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.

    Bless the Child
    GUEST STARS:
    Michelle Thrush as Sara Lightfoot
    Ed Lauter as Avery Hoskins
    Doug Abrahams as Luke Hoskins
    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.

    Unholy Alliance, Part 1
    GUEST STARS:
    Roland Gift as Xavier St. Cloud
    Peter Hudson as James Horton
    Stacy Travis as Renee Delaney
    Xavier St. Cloud returns, killing Immortals with the help of mortal mercenaries who shoot his prey, making his kill easy. His next target is MacLeod, but, warned by Dawson, Duncan and Charlie just manage to escape death--though the dojo is all but destroyed in the gunfight. Rennee Delaney, a CID agent investigating the mercenary angle, gets on the case. MacLeod goes after Xavier himself, and Charlie insists on coming along. During the battle with St. Cloud, MacLeod 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, MacLeod warns him not to cross his path again.

    Unholy Alliance, Part 2
    GUEST STARS:
    Roland Gift as Xavier St. Cloud
    Peter Hudson as James Horton
    Stacy Travis as Renee Delaney
    Michel Modo as Maurice
    As Charlie regains strength, MacLeod 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. MacLeod, 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.

    The Vampire
    GUEST STARS:
    Jeremy Brudenell as Nicholas Ward
    Denis Lill as Baines
    Trevor Peacock as Jacom
    Tonya Kinziger as Juliette
    Nathalie Presles as Helene
    MacLeod 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, Mac 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.

    Warmonger
    GUEST STARS:
    Peter Firth as Drake
    Angeline Ball as Beth
    Tom Watson as Eli
    Michel Modo as Maurice
    In 1918 in the Soviet Union, MacLeod 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 puppetmaster who is dragging Eastern Europe toward anarchy. Eli Jarmel, an old man whose family was destroyed by Drake, urges MacLeod to recant his promise, while Beth Vaughn, a reporter, puts her life in danger by investigating both Drake and MacLeod.

    Pharoh's Daughter
    GUEST STARS:
    Nia Peeples are Nefertiri
    James Faulkner as Constantine
    MacLeod 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.

    Legacy
    GUEST STARS:
    Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda
    Emile Abossolo-M'bo as Luther
    Nadia Cameron as Rebecca
    James Smillie as John
    When her mentor Rebecca is killed, Amanda is determined to avenge her 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.

    Prodigal Son
    GUEST STARS:
    Michael Siberry as Hyde
    Valerie Steffen as Inspector Bardot
    Nicholas Chagrin as Segur
    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.

    Counterfeit, Part 1
    GUEST STARS:
    Martin Cummings as Pete
    Meilani Paul (Adrian Paul's wife) as Lisa Halle
    Peter Hudson as Horton
    Pete Wilder just saved Richie from an attack by some guys wearing Watcher tatoos. 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 MacLeod's distrust 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.

    Counterfeit, Part 2
    GUEST STARS:
    Alexandra Vandernoot as Lisa Milon
    Peter Hudson as Horton
    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 a 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.


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