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Season 1


"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Immortal Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) leaves tranquility when kinsman Connor (Christopher Lambert) asks him to battle evil Slan Quince (Richard Moll).

Season 1, Episode 1: The Gathering

Original Air Date—3 October 1992
Duncan MacLeod is an immortal who has been out of the game for many years. Duncan and his girlfriend Tessa are targeted by Slan Quince, an evil immortal. Duncan is convinced by his friend and fellow immortal Connor MacLeod that he must return to the game to protect Tessa, and to keep from losing his head.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 2 -- Duncan's protege, Richie, falls for a con when he tries to locate his parents.

Season 1, Episode 2: Family Tree

Original Air Date—10 October 1992
Duncan bails Richie out of jail after he was caught stealing files from an adoption agency in an effort to find out who his parents are. From what Richie read in the files before he was caught, he and Duncan are able to find a man who claims to be his father. Duncan senses that something isn't right, so he hits the streets to find out who this man really is.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 3 -- MacLeod matches wits and swords with a power-obsessed Immortal.

Season 1, Episode 3: The Road Not Taken

Original Air Date—17 October 1992
A friend of Richie's dies suddenly after being captured during a diamond heist. The police believe it to be a drug overdose, but Richie insists his friend would never have done drugs. Duncan believes it to be the work of a potion developed by Kiem Sun, an immortal he once knew.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 4 -- When an Immortal is found beheaded, a homeless veteran (Vincent Sciavelli) is accused of the murder.  Now Duncan must uncover the real killer and battle an old enemy.

Season 1, Episode 4: Innocent Man

Original Air Date—24 October 1992
Sensing danger, the immortal Lucas Desiree requests a visit from his old friend Duncan MacLeod. Lucas is beheaded just before Duncan arrives, and the murder is pinned on a shell shocked Vietnam veteran. Duncan knows this man to be innocent, and that another immortal is to blame. To avenge his friend and to prevent an innocent man from going to jail, Duncan sets out to find the real killer.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 5 -- After a naive Immortal (Joan Jett) leaps to her death from a skyscraper, she seeks out MacLeod as her mentor.  But this innocent student may not be what she seems...

Season 1, Episode 5: Free Fall

Original Air Date—31 October 1992
After a naive Immortal leaps to her death from a skyscraper, she seeks out MacLeod as her mentor. But this innocent student may not be what she seems.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 6 -- When Tessa, Richie and MacLeod are taken hostage by armed mercenaries led by a convincing killer (Andrew Divoff), their captors discover that nobody dies harder than an immortal.
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Season 1, Episode 6: Bad Day in Building 'A'

Original Air Date—7 November 1992
Duncan, Tessa, and Richie are held hostage at a courthouse by a convicted killer and his gang.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 7 -- While hiking in the Pacific Northwest, Tessa is abducted by a group of mountain men lead by crazed survivalist Caleb Cole (Marc Singer) who plans to make her his wife.

Season 1, Episode 7: Mountain Men

Original Air Date—14 November 1992
When Tessa's ramble in the great outdoors leads to her kidnapping by a group of lawless mountain men, Duncan must find and rescue her before a forced "wedding."

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 8 -- After he's 'killed' in an accident, MacLeod is held captive by a deranged trauma surgeon (Joe Pantoliano) who may force him to reveal the secret of the Immortals.

Season 1, Episode 8: Deadly Medicine

Original Air Date—21 November 1992
On his way home from the grocery store, Duncan is the victim of a hit and run. He is rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but due to his remarkable recovery time he is able to check himself out shortly after he arrives. This is noticed by a doctor who drugs and kidnaps Duncan so that he can experiment on him. Meanwhile, reporter Randi MacFarland is hot on the trail of Duncan's disappearance.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 9 -- Richie and his ex-girlfriend anger a ruthless Immortal mobster (Stephen Macht) whose history with MacLeod includes a murderous betrayal on the docks of Russia.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Sea Witch

Original Air Date—5 December 1992
Richie saves an old friend from Russian mobsters after a drug deal goes bad. Unbeknown to him, she takes the drugs and the money with her. It is up to Duncan to protect her and her daughter from the mobsters, who are now looking for her.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 10 -- A master swordswoman (Vanity) seeks revenge for the murder of her lover, a man she believes was slain by MacLeod.  But are she and Duncan just pawns in a deadly game?

Season 1, Episode 10: Revenge Is Sweet

Original Air Date—12 December 1992
While browsing Duncan's antique store, a mysterious woman named Rebecca Lord inquires about a sword that he once took from a rival immortal named Walter Reinhardt. Duncan agrees to let her test the sword, and he is shocked to find that she uses the same style as Reinhardt. Having never taken Reinhardt's head, Duncan fears that the two may be working together to defeat him.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 11 -- When a serial killer called "The Scalper" copies his crimes from an Immortal beheaded by Duncan in 1925, only MacLeod knows the clues that can catch the fiend.

Season 1, Episode 11: See No Evil

Original Air Date—19 December 1992
A friend of Tessa's is assaulted and nearly killed by a serial killer who scalps his victims. Duncan believes him to be a copycat killer who is basing his crimes on those of an immortal whom Duncan confronted years ago.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 12 -- Tessa witnesses a murder, but the police can find no body.  Will her own investigation make her and MacLeod the target of an Immortal who is above the law?

Season 1, Episode 12: Eyewitness

Original Air Date—6 February 1993
Tessa witnesses the murder of a woman she met at an art exhibition, but the police don't believe her. She and Duncan take it upon themselves to investigate.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 13 -- MacLeod is warned by Darius of the arrival of Grayson, a feared Immortal warlord who plans to murder both Duncan and an international humanitarian.

Season 1, Episode 13: Band of Brothers

Original Air Date—13 February 1993
An immortal named Grayson is targeting the friends and disciples of his old friend Darius, an immortal who was once a great warrior but is now a Catholic priest. Darius sends Duncan a message warning him of Grayson's treachery, and Duncan must protect Grayson's next target.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 14 -- When a troupe of mimes murders three Paris officials, Duncan recognizes the slayings as the work of Kuyler, an Immortal assassin with a flair for flamboyant mayhem.

Season 1, Episode 14: For Evil's Sake

Original Air Date—20 February 1993
Duncan witnesses a murder committed by a mime, and he recognizes it as the MO of the assassin Kuyler, an immortal responsible for the death of a French baron Duncan once protected.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 15 -- MacLeod must destroy Xavier St. Cloud (Roland Gift), a hedonistic Immortal with a taste for poison gas, ruthless crime and centuries of cold-blooded murder.

Season 1, Episode 15: For Tomorrow We Die

Original Air Date—27 February 1993
An immortal thief named Xavier St. Cloud visits Darius and confesses his crimes to him after a robbery during which he murdered six people. According to the laws of the Catholic Church, Darius cannot reveal to the police what he learned during St. Cloud's confession. Duncan, who suspects that St. Cloud was responsible for the crime, then takes it upon himself to find him.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 16 -- A murder at the Paris Opera House reacquaints Duncan with Ursa, a gentle giant Immortal who now lurks in the catacombs while worshipping a manipulative singer (Dee Dee Bridgewater).

Season 1, Episode 16: The Beast Below

Original Air Date—6 March 1993
During a rehearsal, the manager of a band is thrown from a balcony and killed while having an argument with the band's lead singer. Duncan, who is there with Tessa and Richie as guests of the backup singer, believes the manager was killed by a mentally handicapped immortal he once befriended.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 17 -- Duncan must protect Dr. Grace Chandel, a benevolent healer of mortals who is being stalked through the centuries by an obsessed ex-lover (Georges Corraface.)
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Season 1, Episode 17: Saving Grace

Original Air Date—13 March 1993
Grace, an Immortal who has focused on healing rather than fighting, is framed for the murder of her mortal husband by an obsessed ex-lover, the Immortal Carlo Seandaro. Duncan must step in to protect her from her own weakness.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 18 -- A day at the circus reunites Duncan with his larcenous ex-lover Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen). But will this femme fatale sacrifice MacLeod's head to save her own?

Season 1, Episode 18: Lady and the Tiger

Original Air Date—24 April 1993
Amanda, an immortal thief and former lover of Duncan, is confronted by the immortal Zachary Blaine, her former partner in crime. She convinces him not to kill her in return for providing him with the chance to take Duncan's head.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 19 -- An unstable new Immortal (Martin Kemp) becomes convinced that God has chosen him for a one-man crusade of religious fanaticism and evangelical murder.

Season 1, Episode 19: Avenging Angel

Original Air Date—1 May 1993
An insane man, newly turned immortal, believes he has been reborn in order to do God's work by killing sinners.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 20 -- Richie's attraction to a French fashion model angers a famous designer (Nigel Terry), a charming yet lethal Immortal with a penchant for stealing beauty...and killing to keep it.

Season 1, Episode 20: Eye of the Beholder

Original Air Date—8 May 1993
Gabriel Piton, an immortal fashion designer, kills one of his models after she finds a stash of stolen artifacts in his apartment. Now the girl's roommate, who is an acquaintance of Richie's, is in danger of the same fate, and Duncan, who is an old friend of Piton's, must step in to prevent his friend from killing another innocent person.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 21 -- In a countryside siege, Duncan must protect the arrogant son of a friend (Anthony Head) when he is accused of raping the stepdaughter of a vengeful Immortal.

Season 1, Episode 21: Nowhere to Run

Original Air Date—15 May 1993
Mark Rothwood, the son of diplomat Allan Rothwood, rapes the step-daughter of the immortal Colonel Bellian. Duncan, Tessa, and Richie go to the Rothwoods' house to visit Allan, who is an old friend of Tessa's, and Bellian shows up for revenge. Believing that Rothwood deserves a fair trial, Duncan must guard the house against the siege of Bellian and his team of mercenaries.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 1: Episode 22 -- Duncan and Hugh Fitzcairn (Roger Daltrey) must avenge a tragic and shocking loss: the horrific murder of Darius by a secret organization who seek to destroy all Immortals.

Season 1, Episode 22: The Hunters

Original Air Date—22 May 1993
Duncan receives a visit from an old friend, the immortal Hugh Fitzcairn. Fitzcairn informs him that several immortals have gone missing recently, and that he thinks something isn't right. When Darius is killed in his church they know that it isn't the work of another immortal, so they vow to avenge Darius by finding who is responsible.

Season 2


"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 1 -- Determined to investigate the death of Darius, MacLeod follows a lead back to Seacouver. He meets Joe Dawson, a bookstore owner with a secret.

Season 2, Episode 1: The Watchers

Original Air Date—27 September 1993
Still grieving over Darius' death, Duncan tries to elicit the meaning of the numbers Darius left him. He meets Joe and learns about the Watchers, who record the facts about Immortals but never interfere. Joe insists the Watchers would never have killed Darius. Duncan recognizes Horton as his attempted killer, and their conflict pulls Joe between them.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 2 -- An Immortal with a death wish endangers Richie's life while Duncan meets an old mortal lover.

Season 2, Episode 2: Studies in Light

Original Air Date—4 October 1993
Duncan, Tessa, and Richie attend a photographic exhibit featuring Immortal Gregor, and Duncan discovers that the other exhibitor is someone he loved decades earlier, who had sent him away in order to focus on her work. She recognizes him, but he doesn't know how to tell her that he is the same man she loved. Meanwhile, Gregor appears to have changed since Duncan knew him, as he appears to have become disillusioned and can no longer feel emotion.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 3 -- Duncan must handle the return of the old friend and the Immortal serial killer who is stalking him.
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Season 2, Episode 3: Turnabout

Original Air Date—11 October 1993
Duncan takes on Charlie DeSalvo to prove he's good enough at martial arts to work out at the dojo. Dawson tells Duncan that Quenten Barnes is free and killing mortals, but Duncan refuses to get involved. Then Duncan's old friend Michael Moore turns up, determined to take Barnes' head. In flashback, Michael was unable to save his mortal girlfriend Jeanette. Barnes beats Duncan to the priest who attended his execution, as Duncan tries frantically to prevent more killings.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 4 -- A Watcher-Hunter is stalking Immortals, kidnapping their loved ones to force them into a fight on his terms... and Tessa is the next one to be kidnapped.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Darkness

Original Air Date—18 October 1993
Duncan proposes marriage to Tessa, but can he escape a long-ago curse as well as an Immortal who uses her as bait?

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 5 -- Richie must face his first Immortal opponent when he opposes an Immortal Irish terrorist who is one of Duncan's former lovers.

Season 2, Episode 5: An Eye for an Eye

Original Air Date—25 October 1993
When Richie interferes with Immortal Annie Devlin and her IRA gang, she vows revenge. Meanwhile, Duncan starts teaching Richie. In flashback, Duncan rescues Annie from a massacre but refuses to help her crusade.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 6 -- Duncan comes to the aid of a neighborhood plagued by crooks.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Zone

Original Air Date—1 November 1993
Charlie alerts Duncan to a mysterious man who may be able to reduce violence in "the Zone," a dangerous slum neighborhood.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 7 -- Amanda returns and announces her retirement, but it soon becomes clear she's involved in something nefarious.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Return of Amanda

Original Air Date—8 November 1993
Amanda shows up at the dojo with a suspicious offer of friendship. Then Duncan helps Amanda escape from two attackers that she insists she doesn't know. In flashback to 1930s Germany, Duncan is trying to help a scientist escape when Amanda attaches herself to him to get away from police chasing her. In modern day, Duncan tells Amanda about the Watchers but they discover the men chasing her are FBI.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 8 -- Jimmy Sang, a martial arts movie star, is filming in the dojo. When a stuntman is killed, MacLeod realizes that Jimmy's life is in danger.

Season 2, Episode 8: Revenge of the Sword

Original Air Date—15 November 1993
Duncan allows the dojo to be used for a karate movie starring Jimmy, a former student of Charlie's. When one of the stunt men is poisoned, Duncan and Charlie think someone may be trying to kill Jimmy and suspect the Tong are involved.

Season 2, Episode 9: Run for Your Life

Original Air Date—22 November 1993
Duncan saved Immortal Carl Robinson from lynching in 1926 Louisiana. Carl became a famous colored league baseball star with aspirations of becoming a politician, but he has since become disillusioned after seeing years of racism and corruption. He now lives on the streets and steals to get by. When he steals Charlie's car to get away from drug dealers after stealing their money, Duncan tries to help him overcome his longstanding hatred of and distrust for whites, and he helps him deal with a racist cop who is after him.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 10 -- Tommy is a bystander accidentally killed during a fight between Duncan and Immortal Gallen. MacLeod tries to find out more about the dead man.

Season 2, Episode 10: Epitaph for Tommy

Original Air Date—29 November 1993
Immortal Anthony Galen attacks Duncan in a deserted amusement park. Losing, he tries to escape and hits mortal Tommy Bannon with his car, killing him. Duncan feels guilty over Tommy's death and tries to console his mother. In flashback, the fiancé of Duncan's current bed partner challenges him to a duel, but accidentally stabs the girl instead. Tommy's mother asks Duncan if Tommy's death was really an accident, telling him that Tommy was an investigative reporter and he had been scared of something. Duncan decides to find the connection between Tommy and Galen.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 11 -- MacLeod's old friend Sully can charm anyone into anything. But when Sully's rival turns up dead, MacLeod's opinion of him begins to alter.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Fighter

Original Air Date—31 January 1994
Duncan's old friend Tommy Sullivan wants Duncan to buy a piece of his fighter George, and help him win pretty Iris.
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"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 12 -- Richie protects a young woman from an Immortal bounty hunter.

Season 2, Episode 12: Under Colour of Authority

Original Air Date—7 February 1994
Richie rescues a young woman being chased by Immortal Mako. In flashback, Mako shows up to capture Tim, a friend of Duncan's. Is she innocent or is she using Richie?
Next US airings:
Thur. Dec. 311:00 AMSYFY

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 13 -- Charlie and MacLeod come to the aid of Sara Lightfoot, an Indian woman on the run with a baby.

Season 2, Episode 13: Bless the Child

Original Air Date—14 February 1994
While camping in the woods Duncan and Charlie help a frightened young woman and her baby flee from an abusive father-in-law.
Next US airings:
Tue. Jan. 51:00 AMSYFY

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 14 -- Xavier returns, using mortal mercenaries to take out his Immortal opponents. It soon becomes clear he is part of a darker alliance that threatens Duncan.

Season 2, Episode 14: Unholy Alliance: Part 1

Original Air Date—21 February 1994
Immortal Xavier St. Cloud has mortals shoot his Immortal opponents so he can take their heads. Joe tells Duncan about the killings to warn him, and soon St. Cloud and his henchmen show up at the dojo. Duncan discovers the supposedly-dead Horton is working with St. Cloud, and Joe knew that Horton was alive. Meanwhile, an army intelligence officer named Renee Delaney gets involved while she is investigating one of the men working with St. Cloud.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 61:00 AMSYFY

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 15 -- Duncan tracks Xavier and his mortal ally to Paris with the aid of a Federal agent.

Season 2, Episode 15: Unholy Alliance: Part 2

Original Air Date—28 February 1994
Renee and Duncan are attracted to each other but both are more interested in finding their quarry. Charlie recovers in the hospital from his gunshot wounds. Joe is torn between his loyalty to family and his friendship for Duncan. Nevertheless, he decides to tell Duncan where Horton and St. Cloud are hiding. Duncan confronts them, but they flee to Paris and Duncan and Renee follow them.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 16 -- MacLeod comes up against Nicholas Ward, an Immortal who conceals his murders by disguising them as popular hysteria.

Season 2, Episode 16: The Vampire

Original Air Date—7 March 1994
A friend of Duncan's is murdered in his pool. After his wake, Duncan notices an immortal named Nicholas Ward, who had once killed several people Duncan knew, arranging his victims to look like a vampire was responsible.
Next US airings:
Thur. Jan. 71:00 AMSYFY

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 17 -- MacLeod promised Immortal Drakov that he wouldn't fight. Today, an old man urges MacLeod to recant his promise.

Season 2, Episode 17: Warmonger

Original Air Date—14 March 1994
Security advisor Immortal Arthur Drake kills his President just before the signing of a peace treaty. Journalist Beth Vaughan is suspicious of Drake's claim that a sex partner did the murder. Duncan keeps Eli from shooting Drake at the ballet, and Eli tells Duncan how Drake killed his family. Between Eli and Beth, Duncan is drawn into taking Drake down.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 18 -- MacLeod feels the Buzz coming from an ancient sarcophagus and opens it to find Nefertiri, Cleopatra's handmaid, buried 2000 years ago.

Season 2, Episode 18: Pharoah's Daughter

Original Air Date—25 April 1994
Duncan interrupts the attempted theft of an Egyptian sarcophagus. Inside, he finds Nefertiri. As Duncan helps her adjust to modern life, they cross paths with Marcus Constantine, who she resents for his part in the Roman domination of Egypt.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 19 -- When her mentor Rebecca is killed, Amanda is determined to avenge her, even though it means going up against the formidable Immortal Luther.

Season 2, Episode 19: Legacy

Original Air Date—2 May 1994
Immortal Luther kills Immortal Rebecca by holding her husband hostage. Amanda, who was once taught by Rebecca, visits Duncan to grieve. They learn that Luther believes in a myth which states that the bearer of a magical crystal will be invincible. Realizing that Luther is trying to reassemble the crystal, which Rebecca had separated and given to her disciples, they try to stop him - but not necessarily together. In flashback to 850 AD, Rebecca rescues newly-Immortal Amanda from being burned with other plague victims and teaches her to be Immortal. In flashback to 1635, naive Duncan encounters his first fighting Immortal women, Rebecca and Amanda.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 20 -- Richie returns turning to Duncan for help. An Immortal has been following him, refusing to confront him, but committing murders wherever Richie goes.

Season 2, Episode 20: Prodigal Son

Original Air Date—9 May 1994
Someone is following Richie, killing mortals and making it look like Richie did it, so he goes to Duncan in Paris for help.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 21 -- Pete Wilder just saved Richie from an attack by some guys wearing Watcher tattoos. Or did he?

Season 2, Episode 21: Counterfeit: Part 1

Original Air Date—16 May 1994
An Immortal puts a criminal through plastic surgery to make her look like Tessa.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 2: Episode 22 -- Duncan must deal with a woman who is a dead ringer for Tessa, but must wonder if she's part of some scheme to kill him once and for all.

Season 2, Episode 22: Counterfeit: Part 2

Original Air Date—23 May 1994
False Tessa sets Duncan up for the final death.

Season 3


"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 1 -- Duncan must help the descendant of his old Japanese mentor, the man who gave him his katana.

Season 3, Episode 1: The Samurai

Original Air Date—26 September 1994
A descendant of one of Duncan's teachers comes to him claiming a long-ago promise of help, that pits Duncan against cruel Immortal Michael Kent.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 2 -- Duncan deals with the Immortal who killed his wife and foster son in the past, while Richie deals with the impossible revelation that he is a father.

Season 3, Episode 2: Line of Fire

Original Air Date—3 October 1994
An old girlfriend of Richie's reappears, claiming he is the father of her son.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 3 -- Duncan attempts to deal with an Immortal who deals in bloody revolutions.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Revolutionary

Original Air Date—10 October 1994
Immortal Paul Karros, who is leading a group of Balkan revolutionaries, comes to the U.S. to try to obtain arms. When a fellow traveler, Father Stephen, is shot, Duncan becomes suspicious of Karros' agenda. Also, Duncan becomes interested in Anne Lindsey, the doctor who treats Father Stephen . Meanwhile, Charlie takes an interest in Mara, a young woman who is helping Karros with his cause.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 4 -- Joe's girlfriend is killed by an Immortal who stole an ancient golden cross, which Duncan swore to protect centuries earlier.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Cross of St. Antoine

Original Air Date—17 October 1994
Duncan feels guilty because he could not prevent the theft of the jeweled cross or the murder of the priest in whose charge it was, so he pursues the Immortal thief across the years to restore it.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 5 -- Duncan takes on the duty of training a fledgling Immortal, Michelle Webster.

Season 3, Episode 5: Rite of Passage

Original Air Date—24 October 1994
Michelle, the 18-year-old adopted daughter of one of Duncan's friends, is a not-yet-Immortal until she totals her car and wakes up in the morgue. Duncan tries to comfort her grieving parents and teach her about being Immortal, but Immortal Axel wants to use her and eventually take her head, as he has done to other young woman Immortals.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 6 -- Cullen, a burned-out Immortal and master swordsman, uses drugs to maintain his "courage," but in his berserk rage he goes after Richie.

Season 3, Episode 6: Courage

Original Air Date—31 October 1994
Immortal Brian Cullen, once Duncan's friend and the best swordsman in Europe, has lost his nerve for fighting and has turned to drugs and alcohol to cope with his problems. After he crashes his car into a bus while chasing after Richie, Duncan attempts to help his old friend get his life together. Also, Duncan asks Anne to dinner after accidentally causing her to fall off her bike while he is jogging.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 7 -- MacLeod and Richie become the protectors for Kenny, a child Immortal who is eternally trapped in a 10-year old body. But Kenny is more than he seems.

Season 3, Episode 7: The Lamb

Original Air Date—7 November 1994
Duncan and Richie come across an immortal who originally died when he was ten years old, and is therefore stuck in a child's body forever. Realizing that he will be an easy target for full-grown immortals, they decide to protect him.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 8 -- David Keogh, an old friend of Duncan's, has a history of fixating on attractive mortal women... and his newest obsession comes to Duncan for help.

Season 3, Episode 8: Obsession

Original Air Date—14 November 1994
Duncan's Immortal friend David Keogh wants to marry Jill, but she is terrified of him and asks Duncan's help to get David to leave her alone.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 9 -- Duncan is confronted by a grim specter that torments him with vision of beheading, and must turn to an old friend for help.

Season 3, Episode 9: Shadows

Original Air Date—21 November 1994
Duncan is having nightmares and hallucinations of fighting against a shadowy figure wearing a dark, hooded robe. When he meets an old Immortal friend, John Garrick, at Garrick's art show, he discovers Garrick had the same hallucination. Anne wants to know why Duncan has no medical history. Will Duncan gain control of his mind, or is there something more to the problem?

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 10 -- A mortal lawyer catches Duncan on videotape fighting another Immortal, and tries to blackmail Duncan into killing his wife.

Season 3, Episode 10: Blackmail

Original Air Date—28 November 1994
A mortal lawyer named Robert Waverly videotapes Duncan beheading another Immortal, then threatens Duncan with exposure unless Duncan kills Waverly's wife. Meanwhile, the cohort of the Immortal who Duncan killed wants revenge.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 11 -- To save his own hide, petty hoodlum Immortal Benny Carbassa, turns MacLeod over to an aging gangster determined to see MacLeod dead.

Season 3, Episode 11: Vendetta

Original Air Date—30 January 1995
To save his own life, Immortal Benny Carbassa promises to deliver Duncan to an aging gangster who wants to bury a secret that Duncan knows about. Meanwhile, Anne decides that she won't push Duncan to know more.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 12 -- Michael Christian has been taking heads from unarmed and vulnerable opponents, being supplied with information by his Watcher, Rita Luce.

Season 3, Episode 12: They Also Serve

Original Air Date—6 February 1995
Watcher Rita Luce is using Watcher information to help Immortal Michael Christian catch other Immortals when they are helpless so he can take their heads, and Duncan is next on her list. Meanwhile, Joe struggles with his conflicting loyalties to the Watchers and his friendship with Duncan.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 13 -- Duncan is skeptical of Kirin, Immortal who is operating as a religious leader, knowing the man has massacred hundreds in the past.

Season 3, Episode 13: Blind Faith

Original Air Date—13 February 1995
In San Francisco, Immortal-turned-religious-leader John Kirin pushes a man out of the path of an out-of-control car and is hit himself, "dying" in Anne's emergency room. As Anne tells his anxious followers that he didn't make it, he walks up behind her, and they believe that it is a miracle. Duncan is appalled that an Immortal would violate the rules like that and goes looking for Kirin, who he once knew as Cage, an Immortal who always put his greed ahead of the good of mankind. Duncan and Joe don't believe in his conversion, nor does the reporter who is out to prove that Kirin is a fraud. In flashback to 1937 Spain, Duncan is covering the Spanish Civil War with Cage, who sells out the partisans to the fascists. In flashback to 1975 Cambodia, Duncan is trying to get a group of orphans out of danger, but Cage refuses to unload his drugs from a chopper to evacuate the children.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 14 -- Paul, Duncan's old Immortal friend, disappears and Anne and Joe are framed for crimes. MacLeod suspects old enemy, Kalas, is responsible.

Season 3, Episode 14: Song of the Executioner

Original Air Date—20 February 1995
Start of the Kalas cycle. Duncan and Anne attend a musical performance by a group of European monks, led by Duncan's old friend Immortal Brother Paul. Paul discovers that Immortal Kalas is the promoter who arranged the tour, so that he could get Paul off holy ground and settle an old score by taking his head. In flashback to 1658 Europe, Duncan finds a monastery run by Brother Paul where Immortals can retreat, and Kalas is the chief singer as well as a copyist. Another visiting Immortal, Timon, gives Duncan "Macbeth" and offers to teach him to read it. Later, Duncan suspects Kalas of treachery, and he and Paul confront Kalas. In modern day, Kalas concentrates on getting to Duncan by hurting those he loves: he frames Anne for the deaths of two patients and Joe for selling drugs at his bar.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 15 -- In Paris, MacLeod meets up with Fitzcairn, but Kalas has followed his nemesis and soon frames Fitzcairn as part of his campaign against Duncan.

Season 3, Episode 15: Star-Crossed

Original Air Date—27 February 1995
In this continuation of the Kalas cycle, Duncan has fled to Paris and meets up with Hugh Fitzcairn. Fitz is madly in love with Naomi, a fellow culinary instructor at Le Cordon Bleu, but her ex-boyfriend Patrick is determined to win her back no matter how he has to get Fitz out of the way. In flashback to 1637 Verona, Fitz is pursuing the daughter of Duncan's employer, and Duncan is ordered to get Fitz out of the way. In modern day, Kalas has followed Duncan to Paris. Continuing his plan to torment Duncan by hurting the people he loves, Kalas uses Patrick as a pawn to frame Fitz.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 16 -- When two Watchers end up dead by Kalas' hand, Joe realizes that Kalas is looking for Methos, the mythical "oldest Immortal".

Season 3, Episode 16: Methos

Original Air Date—6 March 1995
Immortal Kalas is after Methos, the semi-mythical oldest Immortal, to take his head and become indestructible. Duncan is determined to find Methos first.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 17 -- Immortal Ceirdwyn exacts bloody revenge on the gang who killed her mortal husband and Duncan must try to persuade her that's not the way.

Season 3, Episode 17: Take Back the Night

Original Air Date—24 April 1995
Thugs kill Immortal Ceirdwyn's mortal lover Steven, and she vows revenge. Meanwhile, as Duncan and Maurice are watching Richie at the racetrack a young pickpocket named Paolo, who is the brother of one of Steven's murderers, steals Duncan's wallet, but Duncan catches him and winds up taking him home. On the way, Duncan learns of Ceirdwyn's situation, and he attempts to get Paolo to tell him where the rest of the gang is so that he can stop Ceirdwyn from killing them. Also, Richie pushes his motorcycle racing too hard, and he must deal with the consequences. In flashback to Roman Britain, Ceirdwyn's Pictish tribe attacks Roman soldiers, who decimate them and turn Ceirdwyn Immortal. In flashback to 1746 Scotland, Duncan tries to get Bonnie Prince Charlie safely out of the country, with Ceirdwyn's help.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 18 -- Anne helps save the life of a young woman who turns out to be smuggling drugs for Immortal Kristov, head of a Russian Mob.

Season 3, Episode 18: Testimony

Original Air Date—1 May 1995
Anne arrives in France to meet Duncan, but she goes into doctor mode when a young woman collapses behind her in the airport. At the hospital, they discover that the woman was smuggling heroin inside her body for the Russian mob, and that she collapsed because the balloon burst inside her. After a hit man attempts to kill the woman in order to keep her from talking, Anne tries to convince her to testify against the mob boss, but Duncan has second thoughts when he realizes that the boss is Kristov, an immortal he once crossed paths with. Meanwhile, someone recognizes "dead" Richie, so he has to get out of France fast. Also, Anne attempts to come to terms with Duncan's immortality. In flashback to 1750 Russia, Duncan is invited to stay with Kristov's Cossack band, but he is appalled when the Cossacks slaughter a defenseless band of farmers.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 19 -- Duncan meets an old mortal friend from the days of the French Resistance, who harbors a dark and dangerous secret.

Season 3, Episode 19: Mortal Sins

Original Air Date—8 May 1995
When a young foreigner is chased into his Paris church by white supremacists, Father Bernard sees a man he remembers from his youth in Nazi-Occupied France and thought long-dead. In flashback to 1943 Paris, Immortal Ernst Daimler is a Nazi officer and Duncan is part of a Resistance group based at a monastery. While Duncan leads the Resistance group as they ambush a Nazi courier, little Bernard sees him shot, die, and revive, but Duncan binds Bernard to secrecy. In modern day, Father Bernard realizes Daimler is also an Immortal and asks Duncan to help stop Daimler, who is now the leader of a white supremacist group working for a cause within the system. Also, Anne tells Duncan that she is pregnant, but Duncan isn't sure if his lifestyle can allow for raising a child.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 20 -- Duncan must help Maurice's niece Simone, who has fallen under the sway of a young Immortal with a shady past and an uncertain future.

Season 3, Episode 20: Reasonable Doubt

Original Air Date—15 May 1995
In Paris, Maurice's niece Simone helps her Immortal boyfriend Lucas Kagan with an art heist that leaves two guards dead. Duncan goes to ransom the drawing and insists on meeting the boss. In flashback to 1930 Paris, Duncan is in a bank when Kagan and his Immortal mentor Tarsis rob it, leaving several people shot. Duncan fights Tarsis but lets Kagan off. In modern day, Duncan follows Simone to the bordello where she works, and he finds Kagan there. Kagan refuses to fight Duncan, saying that he might be different if Duncan had mentored him, but he never had a chance, and he asks for Duncan's help in finding redemption.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 21 -- While Kalas continues his campaign of terror after escaping prison, one of his victim's wives plans to reveal the Immortals to the world.

Season 3, Episode 21: Finale: Part 1

Original Air Date—22 May 1995
Amanda helps Kalas escape from prison so she can kill him, but he escapes and kills another Immortal to take his sword. In flashback to Algiers 1653, Xavier St. Cloud kills Duncan's teacher Hamza. In modern day, the widow of a slain Watcher is planning to expose Immortals, and Kalas' thugs capture Amanda.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 3: Episode 22 -- Kalas gets hold of the Watcher database and threatens to make it public... unless Duncan sacrifices himself.

Season 3, Episode 22: Finale: Part 2

Original Air Date—29 May 1995
Kalas kills Christine and her newspaper editor to obtain the computer disk with all Immortal and Watcher records. In 1753 Turkey, harem girl Amanda is about to have her hands chopped off for theft but Duncan rescues her. In modern day, Kalas gives Duncan a choice: let Kalas take his head, or have the Immortal/Watcher information automatically sent to every newspaper in the world. Meanwhile, the Watchers frantically search for Kalas and the disk.

Season 4


"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 1 -- After purchasing an antique bracelet in Paris, he heads off to Glenfinnan, to return it to the grave of Debra, the first love of his life.

Season 4, Episode 1: Homeland

Original Air Date—25 September 1995
Someone is robbing graves and sacrificing men in Duncan's homeland of Glenfinnan. In flashback to 1618, Duncan is in love with Debra Campbell, but she is pledged to his cousin Robert. Robert challenges Duncan and is killed. Years later, newly-Immortal Duncan fights Immortal Kanwulf to avenge his father. In modern day, Duncan brings back a bracelet he buried with Debra. He discovers the local priest is really Kanwulf, who threatens to keep killing locals until Duncan returns his axe.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 2 -- Friends become enemies and the past is revealed when Immortal Andrew Cord in gunned down and MacLeod discovers the sniper is Charlie DeSalvo.

Season 4, Episode 2: Brothers in Arms

Original Air Date—21 October 1995
Duncan and Joe arrive at the San Francisco airport, where Duncan encounters Immortal Andrew Cord being shot by a masked man - who turns out to be Charlie DeSalvo. Joe recognizes Charlie's intended Immortal victim as a former platoon-mate from Viet Nam, a soldier dedicated to maintaining unit solidarity and who saved Joe's life, but who is now selling defective weapons to Charlie & Mara's Balkan revolutionaries. Duncan is torn between loyalty to Charlie and Joe's loyalty to Cord.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 3 -- Richie then finds Mikey, a mentally handicapped Immortal, wandering around a rural street and invites him to accompany him.

Season 4, Episode 3: The Innocent

Original Air Date—9 October 1995
Richie finds Immortal Mikey, a railroad-fascinated idiot savant, wandering after Immortal Alan, Mikey's last protector, is killed. Richie and Duncan take Mikey in, but he is a trouble magnet, and the Immortal who killed his protector is now after him. Also, Duncan buys a decrepit house. In flashback to 1868 Dakota Territory, Duncan interferes with a white man beating an Indian boy.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 4 -- Duncan faces Immortal Kanis, who uses dogs to attack his opponents before beheading them. Richie recognizes the kid who killed Tessa.

Season 4, Episode 4: Leader of the Pack

Original Air Date—16 October 1995
Immortal Canus is using attack dogs to injure Immortals so he can easily take their heads, and Duncan is his next target. Meanwhile, Richie encounters the young man who killed Tessa and made him Immortal, and demands vengeance. In flashback to 1785 England, Canus has his dogs hunting a young boy and McLeod kills one.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 5 -- MacLeod's old friend, Kit O'Brady, comes into town. He is, however, a mortal enemy of Amanda's, who's also back in town.

Season 4, Episode 5: Double Eagle

Original Air Date—23 October 1995
In flashback to 1888 San Francisco, Amanda wins Immortal Kit's casino from him at poker. In modern day, still hating each other, Amanda comes to visit Duncan the same day Kit appears in town, desperate to buy a racehorse named Double Eagle. When Kit and Amanda wind up joint owners of Double Eagle, the fireworks start.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 6 -- Running for his life, Kenny runs straight into Anne Lindsey's emergency room, who calls MacLeod for help.

Season 4, Episode 6: Reunion

Original Air Date—30 October 1995
Kenny, the Immortal in a child's body, has returned. He runs to Anne for help when Immortal Terence Kincaid is after him, and she calls Duncan. In flashback to 1778 South Pacific, Kincaid is the self-absorbed captain of the ship Duncan works on. When mutineers want to behead Captain Kincaid, Duncan convinces them to maroon him on a deserted island instead. In modern day, Kenny and Amanda turn out to know each other. In flashback to 1182 England, Amanda finds newly-Immortal Kenny after his family has been killed by Normans and teaches him. In modern day, having Kenny to care for makes Amanda feel like they have a family, and she wants to keep Kenny around. However, Duncan, remembering how Kenny tried to kill him and Anne, isn't so sure that keeping him around is a good idea.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 7 -- MacLeod was responsible for locking Colonel Simon Killian in a mental institute. Seventy years later, Killian is back to return the favor.

Season 4, Episode 7: The Colonel

Original Air Date—6 November 1995
Duncan is kidnapped on orders of "the Colonel." Amanda takes a young thief under her wing who starts mimicking her appearance. In flashback to 1918 France, Duncan is unable to prevent glory-seeking immortal Colonel Killian from leading a charge after he's been told that the war is over, but Duncan's testimony convicts Killian at a court-martial. Duncan then asks for Killian's death sentence to be commuted to life in a criminal asylum. In present day, Killian's thugs kidnap Melissa thinking she's Amanda, and Killian leaves Duncan in a cell in an abandoned building.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 8 -- MacLeod and Richie witness a murder attempt on a grocer. The killer is Immortal Paul Kinman who's arrest. But Duncan wants his head.

Season 4, Episode 8: Reluctant Heroes

Original Air Date—13 November 1995
Duncan and Richie foil an attempted murder by Immortal Kinman, but the intended victim's wife is killed by a stray bullet, and Richie doesn't understand why Duncan won't testify against Kinman. In flashback to 1712 England, Duncan is unable to prevent Kinman from goading a young friend into a duel and then killing him. Meanwhile, in present day, the victim's husband calls Duncan a coward for refusing to testify.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 9 -- A statue of Kali is purchased by the university where MacLeod teaches. Immortal Kamir arrives determined to take it back to India.

Season 4, Episode 9: The Wrath of Kali

Original Air Date—20 November 1995
Duncan and Richie attend the opening of an exhibit featuring the Bengal Kali, a bronze statue sacred to the now-extinct Indian assassin cult of Thuggees. Immortal Kamir, last of the Thuggees, is determined to reclaim the Kali for India, and he wants Duncan's help. In flashback to 1764 British-Occupied India, Duncan is trying to track down the Thuggees and prevents young widow Vashti from committing suttee on her dead husband's pyre. In present day, Duncan discovers Kamir has killed a mortal to reclaim the Kali, but Kamir insists Duncan not judge him, for he is a priest of Kali.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 10 -- Immortal Kristin is sharing her bed with Richie. But she has a dark past with Duncan.

Season 4, Episode 10: Chivalry

Original Air Date—27 November 1995
Immortal Kristin is killing mortals, which Duncan hates but he cannot make himself take her head because they were once lovers.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 11 -- Pianist Claudia Jardine is a pre-Immortal. Immortal impresario Walter Graham sees his chance to shepherd Claudia's genius forever.

Season 4, Episode 11: Timeless

Original Air Date—29 January 1996
Immortal Walter Graham is trying to kill pre-Immortal Claudia Jardine, a brilliant pianist, so that she will remain young and at her creative peak forever. In flashback to England 1663, Duncan and Graham are traveling players, and Walter regrets his ability to recognize brilliance while lacking genius of his own. Meanwhile, Methos falls in love with Alexa and is devastated when Joe tells him she is terminally ill.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 12 -- Anne responds to the call for help after an explosion devastates a subway station, but when another explosion rocks the station, Anne is trapped.

Season 4, Episode 12: The Blitz

Original Air Date—5 February 1996
Duncan and Anne aid victims during a modern-day tragedy. In flashbacks to WWII London, Duncan and his mortal girlfriend Diane are trapped under a collapsed building.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 13 -- The Immortal Coltec becomes mysteriously evil. MacLeod must find a way to save Coltec without being drawn into the evil himself.

Season 4, Episode 13: Something Wicked

Original Air Date—12 February 1996
Duncan's Immortal friend Jim Coltec has killed one too many evil Immortals and has become the victim of a Dark Quickening. If Duncan has to take Coltec's head, will the Dark Quickening overpower him as well?

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 14 -- MacLeod arrives in France, leaving a trail of hate and destruction in his wake.

Season 4, Episode 14: Deliverance

Original Air Date—19 February 1996
Dunca, still under the influence of the Dark Quickening, arrives in France. In flashback to 1917 France, Duncan is an ambulance driver and his Immortal friend Sean Burns psychoanalyzes the mental victims. Methos takes Duncan to a long-hidden holy spring to fight off the Dark Quickening.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 15 -- Kassim, an Immortal to whom Duncan made a promise, demands that MacLeod assassinate a tyrannical dictator of a Middle Eastern country.

Season 4, Episode 15: Promises

Original Air Date—26 February 1996
Duncan saves the life of a visiting politician, whose assistant is Immortal Kassim. But it turns out Kassim was arranging the assassination of the cruel Hamad to allow Nasir, descendant of the Moorish kings Kassim served, to take over the government.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 16 -- When masked thugs try to take Amanda's head and steal the crystal given to her long ago by Rebecca, Amanda and MacLeod investigate.

Season 4, Episode 16: Methuselah's Gift

Original Air Date—28 April 1996
Someone is willing to do anything to put the Methuselah Stone back together and use its power -- and Amanda has the last piece.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 17 -- Amanda and MecLeod find new Immortal Danny Cimoli in a circus, taking bullets in the heart unaware he's now part of The Game.

Season 4, Episode 17: The Immortal Cimoli

Original Air Date—29 April 1996
Magician Danny Cimoli is delighted to discover he cannot die and promptly incorporates being killed into his act. When Duncan tries to teach Danny about Immortals and defending himself, Danny doesn't take Duncan seriously.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 18 -- MacLeod's old friend Warren Cochrane is hiding a horrible secret he can't bear to remember.

Season 4, Episode 18: Through a Glass Darkly

Original Air Date—6 May 1996
In flashback to 1700's Scotland, Duncan and Immortal Warren Cochrane are among those fighting for Bonnie Prince Charlie. But only Duncan eventually realizes that the Scots must abandon the prince or be slaughtered in one mismanaged battle after another. In modern day, Goddard is paranoid and confused. He has forgotten he is Immortal. As Duncan helps him remember his past, he remembers that he blames Duncan for Charlie's failure to capture the Scottish and English thrones.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 19 -- After 300 years, Gina and Robert de Valicourt's marriage is on the rocks.

Season 4, Episode 19: Till Death

Original Air Date—13 May 1996
The de Valcourts are two Immortals who have been married, to each other, for two centuries. When their 300th anniversary turns into a marital battle and they separate, Duncan and Hugh try to get them together again.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 4: Episode 20 -- Dawson's life is on the line when the Watchers try him on the charge of treason for his friendship with MacLeod.

Season 4, Episode 20: Judgment Day

Original Air Date—20 May 1996
Jack Shapiro tricks Joe into coming to Paris to face a Watcher trial. Duncan tracks Joe down, complicating Joe's situation even though he is trying to help. Meanwhile, Immortal Jacob Galati is tracking down and killing Watchers.

Season 5


"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 1 -- Immortals and Watchers are poised at the brink of war. Every Watcher is hunting MacLeod, to bring him in dead or alive.

Season 5, Episode 1: One Minute to Midnight

Original Air Date—23 September 1996
Continuation of "Judgment Day." In modern day the Watchers believe Duncan has been killing Watchers, with Joe's help. They are trying to kill both men, while Duncan tries to identify the real killer, another Immortal. In flashback to Europe 1847, Duncan's Immortal gypsy friend Jacob Galati kills a mortal who raped Jacob's Immortal wife Irina, and is promptly hanged by the gypsy-hating townspeople. Jacob saves Duncan from a Watcher and tells him Horton's renegade Watchers killed Irina. Can Duncan and Methos stop the feuding before anyone else is killed?

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 2 -- Immortal witch Cassandra comes to MacLeod to tell him of his role in an ancient prophecy.

Season 5, Episode 2: Prophecy

Original Air Date—30 September 1996
In flashback, a young Duncan hunts a wolf in a fey forest and finds Immortal Cassandra. Back in modern San Francisco, Duncan and Cassandra reunite when Cassandra is convinced that Duncan is the one to fulfill an ancient prophecy and her enemy Immortal Roland is determined to finish Duncan before he can.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 3 -- Richie's back and taking heads. One of those belonged to Carter Wellan, and Wellan's good friend Haresh Clay is out to avenge his comrade.
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Season 5, Episode 3: The End of Innocence

Original Air Date—7 October 1996
Richie is haunted by bitter dreams of Duncan trying to kill him, burying his fear by picking fights. Duncan is haunted by the need to eliminate his friendship with Watcher Joe. But when one of Richie's Immortal victims turns out to have been the protégé of Immortal Haresh Clay, Duncan and Joe between them may not be able to save Richie.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 4 -- When witnesses find Immortal Carl Robinson standing over a decapitated body, he is forced to go on the run from the cops.

Season 5, Episode 4: Manhunt

Original Air Date—14 October 1996
Immortal Carl Robinson has a great baseball career until he is seen killing another Immortal and forced to run for his life. He asks Duncan for help, but when another man is arrested for the murder, Duncan becomes Carl's conscience as Immortal police detective Matthew McCormick pursues Carl. In flashback to 1859 Louisiana, Carl is a runaway slave, again fleeing for his life. McCormick helps Carl but Carl eventually kills some slaver friends of McCormick's.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 5 -- MacLeod's got his hands full with Johnny K, a teenaged mobster wannabe that MacLeod knew who's now a cold-blooded assassin.

Season 5, Episode 5: Glory Days

Original Air Date—21 October 1996
Duncan encounters Johnny K, who he last knew as a small-time hood during Prohibition. Since Johnny is now a professional assassin, he decides Duncan must die before he can identify Johnny. Meanwhile, Joe is flabbergasted when an old girlfriend appears in his bar and is apparently interested in rekindling the old flame.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 6 -- Carolyn Marsh's latest best-seller is a hot and sexy romance novel featuring a smoky-eyed swashbuckling Highland hero named Duncan MacLeod.

Season 5, Episode 6: Dramatic License

Original Air Date—28 October 1996
One of Highlander's few humorous episodes, and one of the best episodes, period. Carolyn Marsh is a romance author whose latest book features a hero named Duncan MacLeod and a villain named Terence Coventry, the name of another Immortal who Duncan likes -- and Carolyn knew well. As Carolyn puts the moves on Duncan and gets into a catfight with Amanda, Terence blames Duncan for taking Carolyn away from him. Watch the candles carefully during the swordfight scene, but you won't see any taking-the-head fireworks.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 7 -- MacLeod and Amanda are reunited with Cory Raines, the charming, smooth-talking "Clyde" to Amanda's "Bonnie" during their crime spree in the 1920s.

Season 5, Episode 7: Money No Object

Original Air Date—4 November 1996
When Amanda disappears into a van after a robbery, Richie thinks she has been kidnapped and goes after her, finding Cory Raines, an old acquaintance of Duncan's and Amanda's who has always brought them trouble. This time, Amanda winds up really kidnapped by some Russians who want a lot of money. In flashback to 1926, Amanda leaves Duncan and their circus act to join Cory on a bank-robbing spree.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 8 -- Jennifer Hill believes the spirit of her dead husband Alec is still with her. She comes to MacLeod and begs him to whack the man who took Alec's head.

Season 5, Episode 8: Haunted

Original Air Date—11 November 1996
In flashback to 1880s San Francisco, Duncan's Immortal friend Alec mourns the murder of his young wife Genevieve by Kragen, but is convinced her spirit is still around. In modern day, Alec has been killed by Kragen, but his mortal widow Jennifer is convinced that Alec's spirit can't leave until Duncan keeps his promise to kill Kragen.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 9 -- When a 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.

Season 5, Episode 9: Little Tin God

Original Air Date—18 November 1996
Immortal Larca is killing young people who will turn Immortal, then making them believe he is God and has raised them from the dead to defeat his enemy Satan, aka Duncan.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 10 -- Richie's found a new teacher: an Immortal who believes that all Immortals can lay down their swords and live together as brothers.

Season 5, Episode 10: The Messenger

Original Air Date—25 November 1996
An Immortal "Messenger" preaches peace between Immortals to Richie, who tries to convince Duncan to stop taking heads -- right when Duncan encounters the Immortal former commander of Andersonville prison, where Duncan suffered part of the Civil War. Joe discovers that the "Messenger" has left a trail of dead Immortals behind him, when those he convinced of peace encounter those still fighting. Will Richie be the next victim?

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 11 -- Ingrid Henning had the chance to kill Hitler and failed. She's been atoning that failure by killing those who have the potential to become as dangerous.

Season 5, Episode 11: The Valkyrie

Original Air Date—27 January 1997
In flashback, Duncan and Immortal Ingrid tackle the Nazis in 1935 Germany. In modern day, Ingrid has assassinated a Russian politician and Duncan wants to stop her from killing her next target, an American white-power advocate.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 12 -- Kronos was the leader of the Four Horsemen, raiders who murdered and pillaged in the Bronze Age. Now he has a new target - Methos

Season 5, Episode 12: Comes a Horseman

Original Air Date—3 February 1997
In flashback to 1867 Texas, Duncan is part of a posse after Immortal Koren and his gang of raiders. In modern day, Duncan's friend Immortal Cassandra is also after Koren, but she tells Duncan he is also Kronos, one of the Four Horsemen who brought terror and death to mankind through the ages. Meanwhile, Cassandra reveals Methos was also one of the Horsemen, which shocks Duncan into ending their friendship.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 13 -- One by one, Kronos is putting the Four Horsemen back together.

Season 5, Episode 13: Revelation 6:8

Original Air Date—10 February 1997
Sequel to 'Comes a Horseman.' Methos leads Kronos to the remaining two horsemen, and the four of them plan to destroy humanity via a water-borne virus.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 14 -- Desperate to save the family heritage, Marina kidnaps a millionaire in order to pay off the loan. Unfortunately he is none other than Richie.

Season 5, Episode 14: The Ransom of Richard Redstone

Original Air Date—17 February 1997
Richie, posing as an American millionaire, winds up kidnapped by a charming French girl who needs 200,000 francs to save the family château.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 15 -- MacLeod must protect a Flamenco artist and her daughter from Immortal Otavio Consone.

Season 5, Episode 15: Duende

Original Air Date—24 February 1997
In 1971, Otavio Consone killed Anna's fiancé and the father of her unborn child. In modern day, Consone is pursuing Anna's grown daughter, and Duncan is suspicious of Consone's motives.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 16 -- In the 1950s Fitz has to help MacLeod and Amanda steal the Stone of Scone.

Season 5, Episode 16: The Stone of Scone

Original Air Date—21 April 1997
In flashback, Hugh Fitzcairn tricks Duncan into helping steal the crown jewels; in modern day, Duncan tricks Amanda into helping to steal the Stone of Scone so he can return it to Scotland.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 17 -- Are MacLeod and the police seeing a ghost when evidence in a diamond theft and poison gas murder points to evil, but dead, Xavier St. Cloud?

Season 5, Episode 17: Double Jeopardy

Original Air Date—28 April 1997
When an Immortal uses poison gas to rob a jewelry store, killing several mortals, Duncan recognizes the MO of Xavier St. Cloud, who is dead -- isn't he?

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 18 -- Steven Keane has come to make MacLeod pay for his crimes in 1746, after killing some "English bastards" after the Battle of Culloden.

Season 5, Episode 18: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Original Air Date—5 May 1997
The bloody Scottish attempt to put Bonnie Prince Charlie on the English throne in 1746 brings Immortal Steven Keane to seek revenge on Duncan in modern-day Paris.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 19 -- Lord Byron, the brilliant Romantic poet, is alive and well and living the decadent life of a rock star.

Season 5, Episode 19: The Modern Prometheus

Original Air Date—12 May 1997
Duncan visits Lord Byron and the Shelleys, inspiring Mary Shelley to write 'Frankenstein.'

"Highlander" (1992): Season 5: Episode 20 -- The dead are walking the streets. The forces of evil are coming. Is MacLeod being readied for a higher calling - or is he simply losing his mind?

Season 5, Episode 20: Archangel

Original Air Date—19 May 1997
An archaeologist whose research predicts the imminent release of a thousand-year evil also predicts the champion who can defeat it: Duncan MacLeod.

Season 6


"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 1 -- MacLeod returns to Paris vowing to destroy Ahriman.

Season 6, Episode 1: Avatar

Original Air Date—5 October 1997
Ahriman continues to torment Duncan by killing mortals. He re-animates his latest victim to serve him, threatening to kill her brother if she does not cooperate.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 2 -- Not even Holy Ground is sanctuary, as MacLeod wrestles with Ahriman in the final battle.

Season 6, Episode 2: Armageddon

Original Air Date—12 October 1997
Duncan may have found the key to defeating the demon, but will he have the courage to use it?

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 3 -- Duncan runs into Alex Raven, a beautiful Immortal set upon fulfilling a vow dating back to World War II...no matter who gets in her way.

Season 6, Episode 3: Sins of the Father

Original Air Date—19 October 1997
Immortal Alex couldn't keep the Nazis from killing her Jewish love, so she aids his son in recovering stolen millions from Duncan's friend.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 4 -- Embezzler, charmer, and con man extraordinaire, Willie Kingsley has a knack for turning up dead... and profiting from it handsomely.

Season 6, Episode 4: Diplomatic Immunity

Original Air Date—26 October 1997
Duncan is torn when the wife of one friend is killed by another friend, who happens to be a foreign diplomat and beyond the reach of law.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 5 -- Police at her heels, killers on her trail, Kyra is on the run, with no memory of who - or what - she is.

Season 6, Episode 5: Patient Number 7

Original Air Date—2 November 1997
Immortal Kyra develops hysterical amnesia after she fails to prevent the murder of a judge she was hired to protect and then fell in love with. Fortunately, she runs into old friend Duncan before her would-be killers find her.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 6 -- Devon Marek was a spoiled aristocrat whose mentor, MacLeod, forced him to give up his title after becoming Immortal and he's never forgiven him for it.

Season 6, Episode 6: Black Tower

Original Air Date—9 November 1997
Duncan's date is kidnapped to lure him into a deadly game: he must rescue her before any of Immortal Marek's hired killers can find and kill him.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 7 -- In 1929, Fitz is enjoying the life of an English lord. He has good friends, a beautiful wife, trusted servants... until one of them "murders" him.

Season 6, Episode 7: Unusual Suspects

Original Air Date—16 November 1997
When Immortal Hugh Fitzcairn is "murdered," he challenges Duncan to identify his killer while he gets in the way.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 8 -- When Immortal Katya's adopted daughter is murdered, she is determined to see justice done at any cost.

Season 6, Episode 8: Justice

Original Air Date—23 November 1997
Duncan has a new fencing partner who invites him out to lunch. Shortly thereafter Duncan foils an attempt by another Immortal, Katia, to kill his partner. Amid two different sides of the story Duncan struggles to find the truth.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 9 -- Immortal bounty hunter Reagan Cole wanted has a troubled holiday in Paris with Duncan MacLeod.

Season 6, Episode 9: Deadly Exposure

Original Air Date—31 January 1998
Immortal Reagan is trying to enjoy a vacation in Paris when she witnesses a murder and needs Duncan's help to unravel the story.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 10 -- Immortal Katherine is determined to take Bartholomew's head - if only she can keep her mortal husband, Nick, from interfering with the Game

Season 6, Episode 10: Two of Hearts

Original Air Date—2 February 1998
Immortal Katherine's village was decimated 700 years ago at the orders of another Immortal. Now she and her mortal lover are finally in a position to take revenge.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 11 -- Methos and Joe Dawson join forces when past indiscretions threaten their lives - and loved ones - in the present.

Season 6, Episode 11: Indiscretions

Original Air Date—3 May 1998
Adam Pierson aka Methos tries to avenge the sufferings inflicted by Immortal Morgan Walker on helpless victims over several hundred years.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 12 -- MacLeod sacrifices himself to save Amanda and Dawson... and reunites with Fitz, and gets a look at what the world would be like without him.

Season 6, Episode 12: To Be

Original Air Date—10 May 1998
When Amanda and Joe are captured by Immortal Liam O'Rourke, Duncan surrenders himself to save their lives. But a gunfight leaves him in a netherworld where he never lived, with Fitz as his guide.

"Highlander" (1992): Season 6: Episode 13 -- Alongside Fitz, Duncan takes the conclusions of what life would be without him.

Season 6, Episode 13: Not to Be

Original Air Date—17 May 1998
Duncan's tour of the Duncan-less world continues with Tessa, who is living an empty married life, and other friends who are living equally sad lives.

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