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Highlander Season Five Episode Summaries

REGULAR CAST:
Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod
Stan Kirsch as Richie Ryan
Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson
Peter Wingfield as Methos/Adam Pierson
Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda

One Minute to Midnite
Prophecy
The End of Innocence
Manhunt
Dramatic License
Haunted
Little Tin God
The Messenger
The Valkyrie
Comes a Horseman
Revelations 6:8
The Ransom of Richard Redstone
Duende
The Stone of Scone
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
The Modern Prometheus
Archangel


One Minute To Midnite
Guest Cast
Adam Pierson/Methos: Peter Wingfield
Jacob Galati: Stephen Tremblay
Jack Shapiro: Jesse Joe Walsh
Irena Galati: Romina Mondello

In the stunning season opener, Immortals and Watchers are poised at the brink of war. On the orders of the Watcher Tribunal, every Watcher in Europe is hunting for MacLeod, to bring him in dead or alive. MacLeod discovers that the real killer is Jacob Galati, a Gypsy MacLeod once traveled with, who has vowed to destroy all the mortals who wear the Watcher tattoo, convinced they are all out to destroy Immortals.

Prophecy
Guest Cast
Cassandra: Tracy Scoggins
Roland Kantos: Gerard Plunkett
Young Duncan MacLeod: Jeremy Beck
Ian MacLeod: Matthew Walker

When Duncan MacLeod was but a wee lad in the Highlands, he thought Cassandra, the Witch of Donan Woods, was a fairy story told by crazy old men to scare the children -- until the night she found him alone in Donan Woods. Now, four hundred years later, Cassandra has found MacLeod again in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy -- that only Duncan MacLeod can challenge and defeat the voice of darkness.

The End Of Innocence
Guest Cast
Haresh Clay: Real Andrews
Graham Ashe: Chris Humphreys
Carter Wellan: Chris Martin
Delila:Rachel Hayward

The last time Richie Ryan saw Duncan MacLeod, MacLeod was about to take his head. He was stopped by Dawson's bullet, but Richie's world was shattered. Now Richie's back -- kicking butt and taking heads. One of those heads belonged to Carter Wellan, and now Wellan's good friend Haresh Clay is out to avange his comrade. MacLeod has his own long-time grudge against Clay, who humiliated and destroyed one of MacLeod's finest teachers. MacLeod must try to rebuild Richie's trust while they vie to be the one to face Clay in combat.

Manhunt
Guest Cast
Carl Robinson: Bruce A. Young
Matthew McCormick: Eric McCormack
Trey Franks: Eric Keenleyside

Carl Robinson, the former slave turned baseball player (from the second season episode "Run For Your Life"), has finally found the good life as a Major Leagues star -- but when Carl is challenged by another Immortal and witnesses find him standing over the decapitated body, Carl is forced to go on the run from the cops. He turns to MacLeod for help when he is pursued by lawman Matthew McCormick, who has more than just a professional interest in taking Carl into custody.

Glory Days
Guest Cast
Johnny Kelly: Ian Tracey
Betsy Fields: Marcia Strassman

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dawson's high school sweetheart Betsy walks into his. Meanwhile, MacLeod's got his hands full with Johnny K, a teenaged mobster wannabe when MacLeod knew him during Prohibition who's now a cold-blooded assassin. The only rules Johnny K knows are the rules of the street, and MacLeod's going to have to play by them if he wants to keep his head.

Dramatic License
Guest Cast
Carolyn Marsh: Sandra Bernhard
Terrence Coventry: Alistair Duncan

Carolyn March's latest best-seller is a hot and sexy romance novel featuring a smoky-eyed swashbuckling Highland hero named Duncan MacLeod. Both MacLeod and Terence Coventry, the Immortal depicted as the borish villain of the novel, are out to find the author --MacLeod to find out how much she really knows about him, and Coventry to kill her.

Money No Object
Guest Cast
Cory Raines: Nicholas Lea

MacLeod and Amanda are reunited with Cory Raines, the charming, smooth-talking "Clyde" to Amanda's "Bonnie" during their five state crime spree in the 1920s. Amanda, always ready for a little larceny, is tempted by the carefree and adventurous lifestyle Cory offers her and takes him up on the offer when she realizes MacLeod won't beg her to stay with him. But MacLeod rides to rides to the rescue when one of Cory's schemes goes astray.

Haunted
Guest Cast
Jennifer Hill: Kathy Evison
Alec Hill: Kevin Conway

Jennifer Hill believes the spirit of her dead husband Alec, an Immortal, is still with her. She comes to Alec's old friend MacLeod and begs him to appease Alec's spirit by whacking the son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head. Richie finds himself strangely attracted to the grieving young widow -- until he realizes he's the son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head.

Little Tin God
Guest Cast
Gabriel Larca: Andrew Divoff
Derek Worth: Roger R. Cross
Reverend Bell: Nathaniel DeVeaux

Derek's faith in God helped save him from a violent life on the urban streets. When the young gospel singer is killed in a drive-by shooting, he awakens in the arms of God and is given the gift of eternal life. But what's he to do when that God recruits him as a warrior in the Holy War against Satan -- and Satan turns up to be Duncan MacLeod?

The Messenger
Guest Cast
The Messenger: Ron Perlman

Richie's found a new teacher: an Immortal who preaches a message of peace; an Immortal who believes that all Immortals can lay down their swords and live together as brothers, an Immortal who claims to be the oldest of their kind still alive -- Methos. Will laying down his sword in the name of peace mean Richie will lose his head? And what does this mean for the friend MacLeod already calls Methos?

The Valkyrie
Guest Cast
Ingrid Henning: Musetta Vander
Nicolae Breslaw: Jan Triska

In 1944, Ingrid Henning had the chance to kill Adolf Hitler and failed. She's been atoning for that failure ever since by killing dictators, tyrants, racists, and fascists who might have the potential to become as dangerous. MacLeod has a chance to stop her before she kills more mortals, but by stopping her, does MacLeod commit the same evil for which he's judged her guilty?

Comes A Horseman
Guest Cast
Cassandra: Tracy Scoggins
Kronos: Valentine Pelka

MacLeod knew him as Melvin Koren, a desperado who left a trail of death and fire across the Old West, but Cassandra remembers him as an evil far older. He is Kronos, leader of the Four Horsemen, mounted Bronze Age raiders who murdered, raped, and pillaged their way across two continents. Never was a band of Immortals more cruel or more feared. He destroyed Cassandra's people and she's been hunting him across the millenia. But Kronos has a different target now -- Methos.

Revelations 6:8
Guest Cast
Kronos: Valentine Pelka
Silas: Richard Ridings
Caspian: Marcus Testory

One by one, Kronos is putting the Four Horsemen back together. Once they struck fear in the hearts of men with sword and axe. Today, their weapons of destruction are different, but their goal is the same: to bring mankind what it fears most, the Apocalypse. Only Duncan MacLeod stands between them and the end of the world. ***This is the series’ 100th Episode!

The Ransom of Richard Redstone
Guest Cast
Marina LeMartin: Sonia Codhant
Edward Cervain: Tom Russell
Carlo Capodimonte: Gary Hetherington

The Chateau LeMartin has been in Marina's family for generations, but now the slimy Carlo Capodimonte threatens to foreclose on an old loan and take the chateau for himself. Desperate to save the family heritage, Marina kidnaps an American millionaire in order to pay off the loan. Unfortunately for Marina, the rich and charming "Richard Redstone" she has tied up in the cellar is none other than Richie Ryan.

Duende
Guest Cast
Otavio Consone: Anthony DeLongis
Anna Hidalgo: Carmen DuSautoy
Luisa Hidalgo: Deborah Epstein
Theresa: Dolores Chaplin

Spanish swordplay, like Spanish dancing, is equal parts passion, skill, and strict discipline. The Immortal Otavio Consone is a master of both. An arrogant Spaniard who 150 years ago tried to teach MacLeod the sword art called "The Mysterious Circle," Consone vied with MacLeod for the hand of a beautiful senorita, with tragic results. Now MacLeod must protect a Flamenco artist and her daughter from Consone's revenge.

The Stone of Scone
Guest Cast
Hugh Fitzcairn: Roger Daltrey
Bernie Crimmins: Michael Culkin

According to official statements by the British government, the theft of the Stone of Scone, the legendary royal throne of Scotland, from Westminster Abbey in 1950 was simply a rowdy schoolboy prank. But was it? Or was it actually the bungled work of three rather hapless Immortals, attempting to fulfill a promise made centuries before?

Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Guest Cast
Steven Keane: Chris Larkin

After the Scottish massacre at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Duncan MacLeod was a man possessed, obsessed, with killing the English bastards who had destroyed his people. Now Immortal Steven Keane has come to make MacLeod pay for his murderous crimes. Amanda urges MacLeod to take Keane's head and be done with it, but in his heart MacLeod knows that Keane is right -- he is a murderer and that Keane is judging him just like MacLeod has judged so many others.

The Modern Prometheus
Guest Cast
Lord Byron: Jonathan Firth
Mary Shelley: Barbara Keogh

Lord Byron, the brilliant Romantic poet, is alive and well and living the decadent life of a rock star. He lives life way over the edge and has taken some promising young musicians over the edge with him. When following in Byron's footsteps tragically ends the life of Dawson's protege, MacLeod is faced with a decision -- is the beauty and genius that is Bron worth the cost?

Archangel
Guest Cast
Jason Landry: Edward Jewesbury

The dead are walking the streets of Paris. The forces of evil are coming. Is MacLeod being readied for some higher calling -- or is he simply losing his mind?


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