Plot Your Course!


 

Highlander Season Three Episode Summaries

REGULAR CAST:
Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod
Stan Kirsch as Richie Ryan
Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson
Lisa Howard as Anne Lindsey
Philip Akin as Charlie DeSalvo

The Samurai
Line of Fire
The Revolutionary
The Cross of St. Antoine
Rite of Passage
Courage
The Lamb
Obsession
Shadows
Blackmail
Vendetta
They Also Serve
Blind Faith
Song of the Executioner
Star-Crossed
Methos
Take Back the Night
Testimony
Mortal Sins
Reasonable Doubt
Finale, Part 1
Finale, Part 2

The Samurai
GUEST STARS:
Tamlyn Tomita as Midori Koto
Stephen McHattie as Michael Kent
Robert Ito as Hideo Koto
Hiro Kanagawa as Akira Yosida

After Midori Koto sees her husband, rich industrialist Michael Kent, murder her lover, she kills Kent and runs to Duncan MacLeod for protection. She reminds Duncan of a vow of protection his 'ancestor' (actually Duncan himself) made to her family over 200 years before. Flashbacks tell the story of Duncan coming to the aid of the samurai Hideo Koto after Duncan is shipwrecked in Japan (1778). Hideo befriends Duncan--even though the penalty for helping a 'gaijin' (foreigner) in isolationist Japan is death. When Hideo is forced to commit 'seppuku' (ritual suicide) by his feudal overlord for that crime, Duncan serves as his second. He vows to Hideo he will always protect the Koto family and was bequeathed the dragon-head katana sword he uses to this day. Back in the present, Duncan discovers that Kent is an Immortal and he's still alive. Over Duncan's protests, in order not to further dishonor her family's name, Midori returns to Kent. When Duncan interferes, Kent challenges him, whereupon Duncan fulfills his vow to the Koto family and frees Midori from her loveless marriage.

Line of Fire
GUEST STARS:
Randall "Tex" Cobb as Kern
Chandra West as Donna
Michelle Thrush as Little Deer
Andrew Wheeler as Father Mathew
Peter Bob as Kahani

Donna, a girl Richie dated briefly several years ago, returns with her 18-month old son--who she claims is Richie's! While Duncan reminds him that it's impossible, that Immortals are unable to have children, Richie sees this as an opportunity to have the family he never had and never will be able to again. When Kern, and evil Immortal, rides into town, Duncan is reminded of his own foster son, Kahani. Kahani and his Sioux Indian mother, Little Deer, were massacred over a hundred years ago by US soldiers led by Kern, then a mercenary scout. Duncan is eager to even the score. When Donna finds Richie's sword and demands to know what it's for, Richie is at a loss to tell her. Duncan advises Richie that it would be safer and kinder to Donna and the baby to leave them. When his new-found family is threatened by Kern, Richie realizes Duncan is right. While Duncan rids the world of the evil Kern, Richie lets go of the only family he'll ever have.

The Revolutionary
GUEST STARS:
Miguel Fernandes as Paul Karros
Liliana Komorowska as Mara
Lisa Howard as Anne Lindsey
Bernhard Cuffling as Harry Wellfleet
John Novak as Mason
Andrew Kavadas as Anthony Dourcef

The people of a tiny Balkan nation are rising up in arms against an oppressive dictator. The freedom fighters are led by Paul Karros, a vibrant, charismatic leader. Karros is an Immmortal who once served as a slave under Roman oppression and fought his way to freedom with Spartacus. Since that time, whenever the common people have been fighting against oppression, Karros has been at their side. Karros and his assistant, Mara, have come to the US to drum up support for their cause. Duncan and Karros fought together in the Mexican Revolution and Karros tries to convince Duncan to fight with him in this just cause. Duncan turns him down, but Charlie is tempted both by the cause and by Mara. When Father Stephan, a local liason, is critically wounded in an assassination attempt, Duncan realizes that Karros is determined to fight the war at any cost--even at the cost of sabotaging peace negociations by killing those who trust him. When Mara discovers the truth, she threatens to expose him. Karros responds by attempting to kill her. Duncan is forced to challenge his old comrade. When Mara returns home to the Balkans, Charlie goes with her to help the people.

The Cross of St. Antoine
GUEST STARS:
Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda
David Longworth as Priest
Brion James as Armand Thorne/John Durgan
David Hauka as Martin Blinder
Jason Gray-Stanford as Jonah
Lloyd Berry as Billows
Gerry Rousseau as Rafe
Willow Johnson as Miss Welsley (school teacher)

Dawson has a new girlfriend, art historian Lauren Gale, and a new attitude on life. Unfortunately, after the sucessful opening night of his blues club, he, Duncan, and Amanda arrive at Lauren's house to find she's been murdered. We discover the murderer is Armand Thorne, benefactor of the Thorne Museum of Antiquities, who was being investigated by Lauren. Duncan finds an ancient gold cross on display in Thorne's museum, a cross that had been stolen out from under his protection nearly two hundred years before. Armand Thorne, Duncan discovers, is actually John Durgan, the Immortal trapper who murdered a frontier priest and stole the cross. Duncan persuades Amanda to come out of cat-burglar retirement and help him to steal the cross from the museum in order to lure Thorne out of his heavily protected fortress. Duncan confronts Thorne, taking his head, and finally gets to return the Cross of St. Antoine to the Church, its rightful owner.

Rite of Passage
GUEST STARS:
Rob Stewart as Axel Whittaker
Gabrielle Miller as Michelle Webster
Alan Scarfe as Mr. Webster
Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda
Marie Stillin as Nancy Webster
Alexa Gilmour as Sharon

Michelle Webster, the rebellious teenage daughter of a friend of Duncan's, drives away from her parents' house in a rage and right over a cliff. Trama surgeon Anne Lindsey tries her best to save Michelle, but it's too late. Duncan rushes to the hospital to comfort his grieving friends--and sneak their newly Immortal daughter out of the morgue. He tries to train her in the arts of Immortality, but Michelle just wants to have fun. She meets Immortal Axel Whittaker who promises her all the fun and adventure she could imagine if she stays with him. In flashback, we see that Axel uses beautiful new Immortal women as bait to trap other Immortals and take their heads--Duncan barely escaped with his in 1894 Boston. Axel uses Michelle to lure Duncan to his yacht, where they continue the battle they started a hundred years before. Duncan defeats Axel, and Michelle, witnessing the fearsome power of the Quickening, agrees to be trained as an Immortal under the protection of Amanda.

Courage
GUEST STARS:
John Pyper Ferguson as Brian Cullen
Jonathan Scarfe as Kelley
Jennifer Copping as Katherine
Mark Acheson as Laszlo

Cullen, an old friend of Duncan's and once known as the greatest swordsman in Europe, is burnt out from centuries of playing The Game and has turned to drugs and alcohol to get the courage to keep playing. After having a catastrophic run-in with Richie, Cullen 'awakens' to find himself in a hospital emergency room. And he still is determined to have Richie's head. Duncan (who was at the hospital visiting his favorite doctor) tries to convince Cullen to stop using the drugs, which reminds Duncan how he once tried to help Cullen overcome his opium addiction a hundred years ago in San Francisco. Deluded by his progressive loss of confidence and his drug habit, Cullen believes Duncan is just trying to render him helpless. Finally, Duncan has no choice but to confront his former comrade.

The Lamb
GUEST STARS:
Myles Ferguson as Kenny
Eric Keenleyside as Dallman Ross
Alf Humphreys as Frank Brody

What happens to a kid who hits Immortality before he hits puberty? Duncan and Richie take in 10-year-old Kenny, who asks for their protection after the fatherly Immortal who was protecting him is beheaded. Kenny, we discover, is not the sweet little lamb he appears to be. He has been Immortal for nearly 800 years, and has survived all that time by convincing other Immortals to take him in and protect him--and then taking their heads.

Obsession
GUEST STARS:
Cameron Bancroft as David Keogh
Nancy Sorel as Jill Pelentay
Sherry Miller as Sarah Carter
Laura Harris as Julia Renquist
Kim Kondrahoff as Henry Carter

Immortal David Keogh, once an indentured servant, is a noted craftsman with his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, Jill. Unfortunately, Jill does not agree. Although she loved Keogh once, she was unable to handle it when he confided the secret of his Immortality. Now Keogh won't leave her alone and she's coming to Duncan, whom Keogh respects and might listen to, for help. But Keogh won't listen, convinced that Jill needs him as much as he needs her.

Shadows
GUEST STARS:
Garwin Sanford as Garrick
Frank C. Turner as Official
Margaret Barton as Hag
Catherine Lough as Marcia

Duncan is tormented by frighteningly real visions of his own death, beheaded by a mysterious dark-hooded figure. Anne tries to convince him to seek medical help, but instead he turns to his old friend Garrick, who has spent centuries studying the mind. Duncan last saw Garrick in the 17th century, when Duncan barely escaped being burned as a witch. What Duncan didn't know was that Garrick was not able to escape as well. Garrick convinces Duncan that the dark-hooded figure haunts all Immortals and that the way to defeat it is not to fight it, to accept it for what it is. When Duncan, haggard and exhausted, faces the specter for the last time, he puts down his sword and refuses to fight the specter as it goes for his head--until at the last moment Duncan discovers what the figure really is.

Blackmail
GUEST STARS:
Bruce Dinsmore as Bruno Wylie
Barbara Tyson as Barbara Wylie
Anthony de Longis as Lymon Kurlow
Bill Croft as Peter Matlin
Kelley Fiddick as Johnny

Bruno Wylie is leaving his mistress' apartment with his camcorder when he sees Duncan in combat with another Immortal. Bruno makes sure he gets it all on tape--the fight, the death, the Quickening. He then tries to cut a deal with Duncan; if Duncan kills Bruno's wife, then Bruno won't go to the police. When Lymon Kurlow, partner of the Immortal Duncan killed on the tape, comes after Duncan, Bruno, unaware of what he's dealing with, proposes another deal. A la "Strangers on a Train," Bruno will kill Kurlow and Duncan will kill Bruno's wife, and no one will suspect a thing. Bruno challenges Kurlow, who kills Bruno easily and Duncan is left to save Bruno's wife and get rid of Kurlow.

Vendetta
GUEST STARS:
Tony Rosato as Benny Carbassa
Ken Pogue as Simon Lang
Stella Stevens as Margaret Lang
Tamara Gorski as Peggy McCall

To save his own hide, petty hoodlum Benny Carbassa, the Nathan Detroit of Immortality, turns Duncan over to an aging gangster determined to see Duncan dead before he dies.

They Also Serve
GUEST STARS:
Mary Woronov as Rita Luce
Barry Pepper as Michael Christian
Vivian Wu as May-Ling Shen
Michael Anderson Jr. as Ian Bancroft

Recent Immortal Michael Christian has been on an incredible string of luck, taking a number of heads from unarmed and vulnerable opponents, including May-Ling Shen, who taught Duncan the martial arts. Christian's Watcher, Rita Luce, has been supplying him with classified information on the other Immortals and their weaknesses. The race is on for Dawson to figure out Rita's secret before Christian sets his sights on Duncan.

Blind Faith
GUEST STARS:
Richard Lynch as John Kirin/Cage
Conrad Dunn as Matthew
Dave Cameron as Todd Milchan
Nick Vrataric as Tim Parriot

When a religious leader, John Kirin, dies on Anne's operating table and then returns from the dead, his believers know a miracle has occured. Duncan knows better. He watched as Kirin, then known as Cage, massacred POWs in the Spanish Civil War and left a band of Cambodian refugee children to die at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Kirin swears that experience changed him forever, turning him from a man of war to a man of peace. When a tabloid reporter trying to get the goods on Kirin winds up dead, Duncan is certain he knows who is responsible.

Song of the Executioner
GUEST STARS:
David Robb as Kalas
Eugene Lipinski as Brother Paul
Demetri Goritsas as Brother Timon
John Tench as Max Jupe
Vince Metcalfe as Dan Tarendash

In the 1600's, Duncan sought refuge for a time in a monastery founded by Paul, another Immortal. There he encountered Kalas, an Immortal monk with a heavenly singing voice. When Duncan discovered that Kalas was routinely taking the heads of Immortals as they left the sanctuary, Duncan had Kalas expelled from the monastery, destroying the life that Kalas loved. Now Kalas is determined to return the favor by destroying the lives of those close to Duncan--Paul, Dawson, and Anne.

Star-Crossed
GUEST STARS:
Roger Daltrey as Hugh Fitzcairn
David Robb as Kalas
Michel Modo as Maurice
Frederic Witta as Patrick
Valerie Zarrouk as Naomi
Gian-Franco Salemi s Doge
Elodie Frenck as Arianna

Duncan, forced to leave the States by Kalas, returns to France where he is reunited with his old friend Hugh Fitzcairn. For the first time in the 300 years Duncan has known him, Fitz has settled down with the love of his life, Naomi. When Naomi's jealous ex-lover is murdered and the clues point to Fitz, Fitz goes on the run from the police. Duncan realizes that Fitz is being framed by Kalas, who has followed him from the U.S., intent on destroying those around him.

Methos
GUEST STARS:
David Robb as Kalas
Peter Wingfield as Methos
Carmen Champlin as Maria Campolo
Patrice Valota as Marc Saracen
Olivier Marchal as Philippe

Kalas is looking for Methos, the mythical "oldest Immortal." Duncan knows that, with Methos' Quickening, Kalas would finally be strong enough to defeat him. Kalas and Duncan race to be the first to find Methos. In flashbacks to the world of opera in Paris in the 1920's, we see a previous battle in which Duncan inflicts the throat wound, destroying the singing voice that had been Kalas' life since the Middle Ages.

Take Back the Night
GUEST STARS:
Kim Johnston Ulrich as Ceirdwyn

When Immortal Ceirdwyn and her mortal husband are gunned down by a street gang, she calls upon her skills as an ancient Celtic warrior to exact her revenge on the members of the gang, one by one. Duncan, who has known Ceirdwyn since before they helped smuggle Bonnie Prince Charlie out of Scotland in 1746, must stop Ceirdwyn and make her see that revenge is not the answer. In return, Ceirdwyn helps Duncan see that, although loving a mortal can be dangerous for the mortal, it is the mortal who must choose whether to take the risk.

Testimony
GUEST STARS:
Alexis Daniel as Kristov
Selina Giles as Tasha

Duncan decides to tell Anne the truth about his Immortality and she flies to Paris to be with him. En route, Anne helps save the life of a young woman, Tasha, who turns out to be smuggling drugs for the Russian Mafia. Tasha is the lover of Kristov, the head of the Russian gang and formerly the leader of a band of Cossacks Duncan encountered on his way to the Orient in 1750. Duncan and Anne try to convince Tasha to testify against Kristov, while Kristov is determined to make sure Tasha dies before she can testify. Kidnapped by Kristov as a pawn in this game, Richie must grow as an Immortal--or die.

Mortal Sins
GUEST STARS:
Andrew Woodall as Ernst Daimler
Roger Bret as Father Bernard
Jean Claude Deret as Georges Dalou

Father Bernard has a secret he thought he'd buried 50 years ago at the bottom of the Seine. When Ernst Daimler, the Nazi major who Bernard killed as a young boy in the French Resistence, appears at his church looking not a day older than the day he died, Father Bernard realizes he's like Duncan. When the Nazi starts looking for revenge, Bernard, who has kept Duncan's Immortality a secret all these years, goes to Duncan for help. Meanwhile, Anne has some secrets of her own that could change the course of Duncan's life.

Reasonable Doubt
GUEST STARS:
Paudge Behan as Lucas Kagan
Geraldine Cotte as Simone Tomas
Richard Lintern as Tarsis

When a valuable DaVinci sketch is stolen from a friend of Duncan's in a robbery that kills two guards, Duncan offers to act as a go-between to ransom it back. He discovers the sketch was stolen by Kagan, an Immortal he faced once before, when Kagan was a bank robber in 1930 Paris and Duncan killed his mentor. Meanwhile, Maurice asks Duncan to help his troubled niece, Simone, who turns out to be more than Maurice knows.

Finale, Part 1
GUEST STARS:
Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda
David Robb as Kalas
Peter Wingfield as Methos

Kalas returns, escaped from prison and determined to finish Duncan for good. He goes after Maurice and kidnaps Amanda to use as bait for Duncan. Meanwhile, the widow of a Watcher killed by Kalas decides to get her revenge on Immortals and Watchers alike by exposing their secret to the media. Dawson and Methos team up to try and stop her--any way they can.

Finale, Part 2
GUEST STARS:
Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda
David Robb as Kalas
Peter Wingfield as Methos

Immortals and Watchers face the end of the world as they know it. Kalas manages to get his hands on the Watchers' database before it can be spread to the media and he offers Duncan a deal--Duncan offers up his head to Kalas or the contents of the disk are made public ("We'll all be on CNN,"). They meet on the Eiffel Tower to settle things once and for all.



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