Episodes of Highlander (season 2)

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This article contains episode summaries for the second season of the American drama/adventure television series Highlander ; the season's episodes began airing 27 September 1993 and finished on 23 May 1994.

The original airdates (U.S.) are listed here for each episode.

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[edit] Episodes

# Title Original airdate
2x01 "The Watchers" 27 September 1993
2x02 "Studies in Light" 4 October 1993
2x03 "Turnabout" 11 October 1993
2x04 "The Darkness" 18 October 1993
2x05 "Eye for an Eye" 25 October 1993
2x06 "The Zone" 1 November 1993
2x07 "The Return of Amanda" 8 November 1993
2x08 "Revenge of the Sword" 15 November 1993
2x09 "Run for Your Life" 22 November 1993
2x10 "Epitaph for Tommy" 29 November 1993
2x11 "The Fighter" 31 January 1994
2x12 "Under Color of Authority" 7 February 1994
2x13 "Bless the Child" 14 February 1994
2x14 "Unholy Alliance" 21 February 1994
2x15 "Unholy Alliance Part 2" 28 February 1994
2x16 "The Vampire" 7 March 1994
2x17 "Warmonger" 14 March 1994
2x18 "Pharaoh's Daughter" 25 April 1994
2x19 "Legacy" 2 May 1994
2x20 "Prodigal Son" 9 May 1994
2x21 "Counterfeit" 16 May 1994
2x22 "Counterfeit Part 2" 23 May 1994

[edit] The Watchers

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. We are left with the knowledge that other renegade Watchers may be waiting to try for MacLeod's head.

[edit] Studies in Light

Immortal Greg Powers invites Duncan to his photography exhibition. At the gallery, Tessa and Duncan find Powers' photographs to be dark and violent, a mood reflected in the personality change of his old friend. At the exhibit Duncan sees a photograph taken of himself taken 50 years ago that makes him remember the photographer, Linda Plager, and the relationship he once had with her. When the 73-year-old Linda recognizes Duncan at the event, her nurse is convinced that she is senile. When he discovers that Linda is dying, MacLeod longs to tell her the truth. Meanwhile, Greg seems to befriend Richie and coaxes him into a dangerous motorcycle stunt. Duncan confronts Greg who snaps revealing his self-destructive frustration with the immortality and inability to feel real emotion. In the end he fights Duncan but when Duncan's sword is at his neck he finally breaks down and realizes that he doesn't really want to die.

[edit] Turnabout

Thirty years ago, evil Immortal Quenten Barnes was executed in the electric chair, and promised he'd be back. Escaping the tomb that he has been captive to for the last several decades, Barnes begins hunting down the people involved in his execution. Joe Dawson learns that he has returned and tries to get MacLeod involved in Barnes' apprehension. 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 long-standing 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. The story ends with an interesting twist as MacLeod must make a decision that will affect the "lives" of two different personalities.

[edit] The Darkness

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.

[edit] Eye for an Eye

When MacLeod and Richie are witness to a terrorist attack on an Ambassador, Richie dives in like a Super hero, 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.

[edit] The Zone

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 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 he and Charlie 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 Mac 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.

[edit] The Return of Amanda

Amanda, the beautiful Immortal cat burglar returns to town, telling MacLeod she's retired from her life of crime. He doesn't believe her - especially when two men start shooting at them. Mac thinks the men might be Watchers, but in fact they are FBI Agents. Amanda is in possession of some plates for counterfeit money, stolen in Germany before the War. 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.

[edit] Revenge of the Sword

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.

[edit] Run for Your Life

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.

[edit] Epitaph for Tommy

Tommy is an innorcent 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.

[edit] The Fighter

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.

[edit] Under Color of Authority

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 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.

[edit] Bless the Child

  • Original air date: 14 February 1994
  • Written by: Elizabeth Baxter, Martin Brossollet
  • Directed by: Clay Borris
  • Credited cast: Adrian Paul (Duncan MacLeod), Philip Akin (Charlie DeSalvo)
  • Guest cast: Michelle Thrush (Sara Lightfoot), Carolyn Dunn (Nora Fontaine), Ed Lauter (Avery Hoskins), Doug Abrahams (Luke Hoskins), Dean Wray (J.J.), Johanna Wright (Margaret), Jon Cuthbert (Billy 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.

[edit] Unholy Alliance

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, Mac 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. MacLeod goes after Xavier himself, and Charlie insists on coming along. During his battle with St. Cloud, MacLeod spots James Horton, the Hunter who killed Darius. Distracted, Mac 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.

[edit] Unholy Alliance Part 2

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.

[edit] The Vampire

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. MacLeod 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.

[edit] Warmonger

  • Original air date: 14 March 1994
  • Written by: Christian Bouveron, Lawrence Shore
  • Directed by: Bruno Gantillon
  • Credited cast: Adrian Paul (Duncan MacLeod), Michael Modo (Maurice Lalonde)
  • Guest cast: Angeline Ball (Beth), Tom Watson (Eli),Alexandre Klimenko (Bartov), André Oumansky (President Chescu), Jerzy Rogulski (Vice President), Daniel Breton (Bodyguard), Frederic Witta (Nikov), Anna Miasedova (Katarina), Julie Du Page (Nicole), Dominique Hulin (Ivan), Chinko Rafique (Cashier), Michael Modo (Maurice Lalonde), Angeline Ball (Elizabeth Vaughn), Peter Firth (Arthur "Drakov" Drake)

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.

[edit] Pharaoh's Daughter

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. Mac 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, MacLeod is forced to face a woman he loves in Immortal combat.

[edit] Legacy

  • Original air date: 2 May 1994
  • Written by: David Tynan
  • Directed by: Paolo Barzman
  • Credited cast: Adrian Paul (Duncan MacLeod), Michel Modo (Maurice Lalonde)
  • Guest cast: Elizabeth Gracen (Amanda), Emile Abossolo M'bo (Luther), Nadia Cameron (Rebecca), James Smillie (John Bowers), Pierre Martot (Raynaud), Roger Bret (Vendor), Joseph Rezwin (Paul Millet), Louise Vincent (Alice Millet), Alan Brandon (Retailer), Bernard Herve (Hooded Leader), Guy Dhers (Hooded Man)

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 Mac 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 after 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 confrontation, both Amanda and MacLeod take their turns battling Luther.

[edit] Prodigal Son

Richie returns, on the run, turning to MacLeod 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. Mac learns that 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. MacLeod must clear Richie of the murders and defeat the evil Immortal.

[edit] Counterfeit

  • Original air date: 16 May 1994
  • Written by: Brad Wright
  • Directed by: Paolo Barzman
  • Credited cast: Adrian Paul (Duncan MacLeod), Stan Kirsch (Richie Ryan)
  • Guest cast: Peter Hudson (James Horton) , Martin Cummins (Pete Wilder), Meilani Paul (Lisa Halle), Peter Rutherford (Denny Ponance), Godfrey James (Charles Browning), Roger Bizley (Sheriff), Bruno Raffaelli (Police Driver), Jean-Paul Solal (Alphonso), Less Clack (Doctor), Dominique Jephcott (Victim), Hugues Profy (Guard), Roger Bret (Brother Andre), Robert Hewett (Operator #1), Abraham Ferguson (Operator #2), Vivienne Avramoff (Coach)

Pete Wilder just saved Richie from an attack by some guys wearing Watcher tattoos. Or did he? Nothing is what it seems, and MacLeod becomes increasingly wary of Pete, despite Richie's protests that the guy is his friend. When MacLeod's mistrust gets the possibly innocent Pete killed, Mac becomes increasingly unsure of himself. Unknown to MacLeod, his old enemy Horton is pulling all the strings. Horton is secretly training escaped killer Lisa Halle to go after MacLeod while he's troubled and vulnerable.

[edit] Counterfeit Part 2

Joe Dawson arrives in Paris to let MacLeod know that Horton may still be alive and coming after him. However, when MacLeod 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 Mac is thinking clearly, goes to Dawson for help and winds up taking a bullet for him when Horton tries a hit. Lisa is kidnapped, and MacLeod 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 MacLeod, he is one step ahead of her, and Horton at long last gets what's coming to him.

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