Highlander Season One Episode Summaries
REGULAR CAST:
Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod
Alexandra Vandernoot as Tessa
Stan Kirsch as Richie Ryan
The Gathering
Family Tree
Road Not Taken
Innocent Man
Free Fall
Bad Day in Building A
Mountain Men
Deadly Medicine
The Sea Witch
Revenge is Sweet
See No Evil
Eyewitness
Band of Brothers
For Evil's Sake
For Tomorrow We Die
The Beast Below
Saving Grace
The Lady and the Tiger
Eye of the Beholder
Avenging Angel
Nowhere to Run
The Hunters
The Gathering
GUEST STARS:
Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod
Richard Moll as Slan Quince
Wendell Wright as Sgt. Powell
Duncan MacLeodis roused from his peaceful existence with the love of his life, Tessa Noel, when he is confronted by two fellow Immortals from his past. Connor MacLeod, an old friend and fellow clansman, finds Duncan after many years and attempts to convince him to join the fray in the battle of Good vs. Evil. Connor also has plans to finish off the likes of Slan Quince, an evil Immortal who has tracked down Duncan after many years with plans of combat. Realizing that he can be a threat, Duncan confronts Richie and later befriends the boy. The threats of Slan Quince come to an end on a bridge when Duncan saves the life of his comrade Connor and gains a powerful Quickening at the expense of Slan.
Family Tree
GUEST STARS:
J.E. Freeman as Joe Scanlon
Peter Deluise as Clinch
Tamsin Kelsey as Mrs. Gustavson
Matthew Walker as Ian MacLeod
Richie Ryan attempts to learn more about his parents, whom he has never known. As he moves forward with the information about his parents, he falls prey to a con man who needs a place to hide and a lot of money. While MacLeod and Tessa try to keep Richie from being hurt, Duncan relives his own painful experiences when he first learned that he was an Immortal and was renounced by the man he had always believed to be his father.
Road Not Taken
GUEST STARS:
Dustin Ngyuen as Chu Lin
Soon-teck Oh as Kiem Sun
Wendell Wright as Sgt. Powell
Christianne Hirt as Angie
A deadly herbal drug takes the life of Richie's friend and MacLeod suspects the drug comes from another Immortal. This once Good Immortal had long sought to perfect this herbal drug and remove its lethal side effects for the betterment of mankind but became enchanted in the power that such a substance can give him. MacLeod must match wits and swords with this clever Immortal in order to find the drug and destroy it before it consumes more lives. This episode underlines the saying that "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." A cautionary tale fro all, mortal and Immortal.
Innocent Man
GUEST STARS:
John Novak as Sheriff Howard Crowley
Victor Young as Lucas Desiree
Vincent Schiavelli as Leo Atkins
Amanda Wyss as Randi McFarland
Wendell Wright as Sgt. Powell
An Immortal friend of MacLeod's has been beheaded in his isolated mountain retreat where he had hoped, like Duncan, to retire from the fights for awhile. A brain damaged, homeless veteran is charged with the grisly murder. MacLeod must try to clear this innocent man and unravel the mystery of who has killed his friend.
Free Fall
GUEST STARS:
Joan Jett (rock star) as Felicia Martins
Eli Gabay as Devereux
Jay Brazeau as Commissioner Comanski
A beautiful young woman throws herself to her death, only to revive with the realization that she is an Immortal. Through her Immortal senses, she seeks out Duncan as her mentor and becomes amorously involved with Richie. Unknown to Richie and Duncan there is more to this "ingenue" than meets the eye. She is in fact a long-time Immortal, engaged in a wily scheme to trap MacLeod, behead him, and acquire his immense power through the Quickening. MacLeod must see through her deception in time to protect not only himself but also Richie.
Bad Day in Building A
GUEST STARS:
Andrew Divoff as Bryan Slade
Amanda Wyss as Randi McFarland
Jay Brazeau as Commissioner Comanski
While visiting a courtroom to clear up some of Tessa's traffic tickets, MacLeod, Tessa, and Richie are taken hostage by a desperate band of men, bent on freeing their leader, Slade, from imprisonment. Slade runs his gang with paramilitary precision, and when his demands are not met, he chooses a hostage to sacrifice. MacLeod makes sure the hostage is himself, and "returns from the dead" to haunt and hunt down the killers one by one.
Mountain Men
GUEST STARS:
Marc Singer ("Beastmaster") as Caleb
Wes Studi as Sheriff Boston
John Dennis Johnston as Carl the Hermit
Tessa is kidnapped by a band of primitive survivalists who live off the land in the vastness of the Pacific Northwest. MacLeod must utilize his own skills, honed a hundred and fifty years earlier, when he roamed the same mountain vastness. Duncan trails these land pirates while the leader, Caleb, falls in love with Tessa. When Duncan confronts Caleb, he soon learns that the only way to resolve his own claim on the woman he loves is a fight to the death of the most elemental kind.
Deadly Medicine
GUEST STARS:
Joe Pantoliano as Doctor Wilder
Amanda Wyss as Randi McFarland
MacLeod is the victim of a hit-and-run auto accident which would take the life of any mere mortal. After a remarkable recovery in the hospital emergency room, Duncan is discovered by a doctor who becomes obsessed in seeking out Duncan MacLeod's secret of regeneration. Meanwhile, Tessa and Richie, unaware that Duncan is being held captive, search for the missing Highlander.
The Sea Witch
GUEST STARS:
Stephen Macht as Alexei Voshin
Johannah Newmarch as Nikki
When an old friend accidentally involves Richie in a drug deal, MacLeod and Tessa become the targets of a malicious drug dealer. Duncan locates the drug smuggler's hideout in an old steamer called "The Sea Witch II." Duncan has flashbacks of a time when he smuggled refugees out of Stalinist Russia.
Revenge is Sweet
GUEST STARS:
Vanity as Rebecca Lord
Christoph Ohrt as Walter Reinhardt
Christianne Hirt as Angie
Tim Reid as Sgt. Bennett
Seeking revenge for the apparent death of her lover, a woman toys with Duncan before she attempts to kill him by the same means...the ancient sword. Unbeknownst to her, the lover is an Immortal and is using her in a cat and mouse game to draw out MacLeod for their final confrontation.
See No Evil
GUEST STARS:
John Hertzler as Marcus Korolus
Dee McCafferty as the Scalper
Moira Walley as Natalie Ward
Amanda Wyss as Randi McFarland
Tim Reid as Sgt. Bennett
There is a mad, vicious serial killer loose in the city and no woman is safe from his demented taste for murder. MacLeod's interest in this case grows as he notices that the serial killer's pattern for murder is similar to that of the famous "Scalper Murders" back in the 1920's. Then the Scalper was an Immortal who, betrayed by the woman he loved, became a killer. To end the carnage, Duncan was forced to confront and kill the Immortal back in 1921. Now the killings have started again, the modern day killer mimicking the 70-year-old M.O., killing in the same locations as the previous murders. It falls to Duncan and Tessa to stop this madman.
Eyewitness
GUEST STARS:
Tom Butler as Andrew Ballin
Amanda Wyss as Randi McFarland
Tim Reid as Sgt. Bennett
Tessa witnesses the murder of a painter, Anne Wheeler. The absence pf a body leads everyone but MacLeod to doubt her story. MacLeod supports Tessa in her quest to obtain justice for the woman. He soon discovers that the killer is an Immortal on the police force and that Tessa is in imminent danger.
Band of Brothers
GUEST STARS:
Werner Stocker as Darius
James Horan as Grayson
Earl Pastko as Victor Paulus
Amanda Wyss as Randi McFarland
A warning comes from MacLeod's old friend Darius, a monk over 2000 years old. He explains to Duncan that he may be stalked by a powerful Immortal, Grayson. Both MacLeod and Grayson were proteges of Darius. Grayson, using the knowledge and power he learned from Darius, became a ruthless arms merchant. Meanwhile, Grayson plots to assassinate Victor Paulus, a mortal student of Darius, and it is up to MacLeod to protect him. Duncan later rejoins Richie and Tessa in France where they live while Tessa takes up her new job as curator of a special collection of 18th century art.
For Evil's Sake
GUEST STARS:
Peter Howitt as Kuyler
Huges Leforestier as Inspector Lebrun
An Evil Immortal, Kuyler, has hired himself out down through time as an assassin...the most successful killer in all of history. He strikes again in modern day Paris using his signature disguise as a mime. A French police detective, Lebrun, suspects Duncan is connected to Kuyler, but of course cannot imagine that Kuyler once killed a seventeenth century baron under MacLeod's protection. When the policeman is wounded saving Tessa from Kuyler's men, MacLeod hunts down this Immortal assassin and puts an end to his centuries-old reign of terror.
For Tomorrow We Die
GUEST STARS:
Roland Gift as Xavier St. Cloud
Werner Stocker as Darius
Huges Leforestier as Inspector Lebrun
MacLeod stumbles across the trail of an Immortal, Xavier, who has lived in hedonistic splendor down through the ages by ruthlessly robbing and killing innocent men and women. MacLeod had nearly fallen victim to this remorseless killer behind the front lines during World War One, when Xavier first began using poison gas. In modern day Paris, MacLeod must track down him before he kills again.
The Beast Below
GUEST STARS:
Christian Van Acker as Ursa
Dee Dee Bridgewater as Carolyn
Werner Stocker as Darius
A mysterious death at the Paris Opera re-acquaints Duncan with Ursa, one of the strangest Immortals he has met. Ursa is a hulking giant that is more beast than man and has lived in a cave in the vast empty wilderness of the Alps. Persecuted by men, Ursa was taken to an abbey as a place of refuge by Duncan centuries ago. Ursa now makes the sewers and mysterious catacombs under the streets of Paris his home. Over the years, Ursa has listened to the music that emanates from the opera and fallen in love with the beautiful singer, Carolyn. Carolyn, however, is not the Beauty to his Beast nor Christine to his Phantom. She is a vindictive, ambitious woman that tries to use Ursa's innocent soul to murder her rival. MacLeod must keep this sometimes dangerous giant from being exploited by this woman, who uses all her wiles to turn Ursa against Duncan.
Saving Grace
GUEST STARS:
Julia Stemberger as Grace
Georges Corraface as Carlos
Werner Stocker as Darius
Grace Chandler, a good Immortal, has been working for the betterment of mankind as a scientist over the centuries. Her tragic flaw is another Immortal, Carlos Sendaro. A former conquistador and intrepid explorer, Carlos possesses an obsessive love for Grace which will admit no rivals. Sendaro, in modern day Paris, slays Grace's lover. When she refuses to run off with him, he pins the murder on her. She turns to Duncan for help and although she realizes that there may be only one in the end, she wants no harm to come to either of these two Immortal men.
The Lady and the Tiger
GUEST STARS:
Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda
Jason Isaacs as Zachary Blaine
A day at the circus becomes a high wire act for MacLeod when he is reunited with an Immortal femme-fatale, Amanda, who has always meant big trouble for him. This time he is in a deadly triangle as Amanda plots a daring, high stakes burglary and tries to avoid the vengeance of her former partner who has escaped from prison and wants her head.
Eye of the Beholder
GUEST STARS:
Nigel Terry as Gabriel Piton
Katia Douvalian as Maya
Richie meets a beautiful young woman who leads him into the world of Haute couture. His youthful jealousy causes him to run afoul of a world-class fashion designer, who is actually a deadly Immortal.
Avenging Angel
GUEST STARS:
Martin Kemp as Alfred Cahill
Sandra Nelson as Elaine
A brand-new Immortal turns vigilante, obsessed with the idea that he has been chosen to wage a crusade against "perversion," cuts a bloody path through Paris, menacing an old friend of Tessa's. MacLeod alone knows this killer and can stop him.
Nowhere to Run
GUEST STARS:
Peter Guinness as Colonel Everett Bellian
Anthony Head as Allan Rothwood
Jason Riddington as Mark Rothwood
Marion Cotillard s Lori Bellian
The step-daughter of an Immortal mercenary is raped by the son of a diplomat, and Duncan must protect Tessa, Richie, and the guilty young man from the mercenary's vengeance.
The Hunters
GUEST STARS:
Roger Daltrey (The Who) as Hugh Fitzcairn
Werner Stocker as Darius
Peter Hudson as Horton
Duncan teams up with another Immortal to find out why their Immortal friends are disappearing without a trace--including Darius.
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