1. After being hit by a car Duncan is taken to an emergency room, but in short order he escapes in very good condition. This worries nurse Barbara but only causes emergency room Dr Wilder to become suspicious. Duncan should have made his way back to the antique store immediately, but he delays , giving Dr Wilder the opportunity to inject Duncan in the neck with some drug which knocks our
immortal unconscious. The doctor takes Duncan to his basement laboratory where he intends to do illegal experimentation on him. The doctor has kidnapped several other patients in the past for this same purpose, but with Duncan the Doctor has struck gold. Luckily even in his drugged state, Duncan manages to escape but, wanders in a stupor for many hours, even into the next day. 2. This is where I have a problem with this episode. An immortal can recover 100% from machine gun fire within 10 minutes, 20 minutes tops right? Yet Duncan is kept subdued by a drug into the next day. He even is forced to cover himself with some refuse in order to stay out of sight while he sleeps it off (surely a low point in this Highlander's long life). 3. The most terrible part of this episode is when this weasel of a doctor decides to kill his lovely medical colleague, nurse Barbara to keep her quiet about his illegal activities. 4. The second most terrible part of this episode is when Dr Weasel makes a prisoner of lovely reporter Randi MacFarland when her investigation of the doctor threatens to expose him. Fortunately Duncan rescues her and she is aware of this but she never gets to thank him. Here again is where I had hopes that this reporter McFarland would have become a semi-regular character in the TV series (lasting beyond six episodes), possibly even becoming a trusted friend of Duncan. Unfortunately this never happened. 5. The fourth most terrible part of this episode is of course, where we see doctor weasel driving around in Duncan's awesome black 1964 Ford Thunderbird.
5 Reviews
Actors did a good job. Some good moments, but the story overall is mainly boring.
reb-warrior29 February 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Duncan is the victim of a hit and run and is taken to the hospital. He is in extremely bad shape. The hospital is busy and in the chaos, Duncan wakes up and leaves without anyone seeing him.
Doctor Wilder played by Joe Pantoliano, and Barbara, a nurse, realize Duncan got up a walked out. A medical impossibility. The doctor begins acting odd and asks Barbara not to say anything. Later he tracks down Duncan and kidnaps hims. Turns out he's a mad scientist doc that wants to heal people at any cost using patients as his test subjects.
Good job by Joe Pantoliano playing him as mild mannered yet sinister. Tessa and Richie go into detective mode trying to track Duncan down. Nice seeing Richie and Tessa teaming up. Enjoyed Richie's laugh when he busted the detective's tire. The nurse is killed by the doctor, and everyone thinks Duncan did it.
Interesting to look back and see how computers were in 1992. Duncan walked around drugged, and ended up collapsing in a heap of junk, which was kind of funny. Randi is also on the case and ends up in dangerous situation.
All the actors did their jobs well. I think the story was just kind of boring. There are some good moments but not special as to make this a great episode. I gave it 5/10
Doctor Wilder played by Joe Pantoliano, and Barbara, a nurse, realize Duncan got up a walked out. A medical impossibility. The doctor begins acting odd and asks Barbara not to say anything. Later he tracks down Duncan and kidnaps hims. Turns out he's a mad scientist doc that wants to heal people at any cost using patients as his test subjects.
Good job by Joe Pantoliano playing him as mild mannered yet sinister. Tessa and Richie go into detective mode trying to track Duncan down. Nice seeing Richie and Tessa teaming up. Enjoyed Richie's laugh when he busted the detective's tire. The nurse is killed by the doctor, and everyone thinks Duncan did it.
Interesting to look back and see how computers were in 1992. Duncan walked around drugged, and ended up collapsing in a heap of junk, which was kind of funny. Randi is also on the case and ends up in dangerous situation.
All the actors did their jobs well. I think the story was just kind of boring. There are some good moments but not special as to make this a great episode. I gave it 5/10
a skip able one in my opinion...
jtsjtssmokey-703-36697324 March 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Duncan gets hit by car, ends up at hospital, comes around (of course petty much near death), does the sneaking away thing, and all would have been good but for a Doctor who thinks he is a god, plus a murderer, will get into that in a "sec".
From the copies of ID, the "good doc" tracks Duncan down (of course he is interested in him, we find out why...), as he has been "experimenting" on people for a while, and because of Duncan doing the usual, getting out after reviving, well...Tracks Duncan at his address, kidnaps him after injecting him...Doc who "involved" with a nurse (umm really, don't really think he was, she was hoping he was using just not the way she would like), pretty much again stands her up (as always ?), she is a bit freaked out because Duncan is be asked after, missing and others, reporter Randi. So instead set Duncan up as a killer, after he kills the nurse.
Of course Duncan comes around (still real drugged) while the docs working, gets out calls Tess who comes to get him, warns about being wanted, and then they meet up. Does the try an remember where he was, finds camera where nurse was killed, (in water so film damaged), finds someone who can develop it, finds clue, and gets there in time to save Randi's life who was investigating the doc. Doc dies, Duncan, who I think is to kind in his statement to police, basically says that the doc was trying to help people in his lab of science, which for some people can be dangerous.
Gave this epi a five only because of Randi and the way her story played into it, other wise would be lower than the 5 out of 10. The rest of the story, think I get why but the ball was not just dropped but lost.
Good thing most epis I found were good.
From the copies of ID, the "good doc" tracks Duncan down (of course he is interested in him, we find out why...), as he has been "experimenting" on people for a while, and because of Duncan doing the usual, getting out after reviving, well...Tracks Duncan at his address, kidnaps him after injecting him...Doc who "involved" with a nurse (umm really, don't really think he was, she was hoping he was using just not the way she would like), pretty much again stands her up (as always ?), she is a bit freaked out because Duncan is be asked after, missing and others, reporter Randi. So instead set Duncan up as a killer, after he kills the nurse.
Of course Duncan comes around (still real drugged) while the docs working, gets out calls Tess who comes to get him, warns about being wanted, and then they meet up. Does the try an remember where he was, finds camera where nurse was killed, (in water so film damaged), finds someone who can develop it, finds clue, and gets there in time to save Randi's life who was investigating the doc. Doc dies, Duncan, who I think is to kind in his statement to police, basically says that the doc was trying to help people in his lab of science, which for some people can be dangerous.
Gave this epi a five only because of Randi and the way her story played into it, other wise would be lower than the 5 out of 10. The rest of the story, think I get why but the ball was not just dropped but lost.
Good thing most epis I found were good.
How to make an idea as dull as possible
skteosk24 March 2024
When Duncan gets injured in a hit and run (which has nothing to do with the rest of the story), it somehow results in a crazed doctor kidnapping him and taking him to his torture basement.
You can tell it's the first season: The show's still asking questions that later seasons will deliberately ignore. The premise is one that will be quietly sidestepped when Anne comes aboard in Series 3.
The opening sequence shows two shadowy characters (one of whom looks like Richie?!) beating a guy up and speeding off. What's going on? Don't bother asking, because we'll never find out.
There's an intriguing idea in here: Duncan is seen critically injured in hospital and when he wakes up unharmed, doctors have questions. Unfortunately, any interest is lost when we're introduced to the episode's villain, Doctor Wilder, who seems to have no motivation beyond "He's a whack job." There's a few lines about changing genes and this might not be so bad if he was inspired by Duncan, but apparently he's been kidnapping people and dragging them to his basement to experiment on them in the name of mental research for some time already. What he's been doing with them and what he's hoping to achieve is another question the episode can't be bothered to answer.
The episode also suffers from the fact Duncan spends three quarters of it unconscious or staggering around barely conscious, with Tessa and Richie chasing their tails and Randi basically acting as protagonist.
Things pick up in the last 10-15 minutes as Tessa provides a good foil to Duncan, Richie decoys the latest rubbish police officer (each one seems to be denser than the last) and Randi once again just misses out on the story of a lifetime. But it's a slog getting there, with a subplot of Duncan being accused of murder being chucked in to not really go anywhere.
Sam from Free Fall makes his second and final appearance.
You can tell it's the first season: The show's still asking questions that later seasons will deliberately ignore. The premise is one that will be quietly sidestepped when Anne comes aboard in Series 3.
The opening sequence shows two shadowy characters (one of whom looks like Richie?!) beating a guy up and speeding off. What's going on? Don't bother asking, because we'll never find out.
There's an intriguing idea in here: Duncan is seen critically injured in hospital and when he wakes up unharmed, doctors have questions. Unfortunately, any interest is lost when we're introduced to the episode's villain, Doctor Wilder, who seems to have no motivation beyond "He's a whack job." There's a few lines about changing genes and this might not be so bad if he was inspired by Duncan, but apparently he's been kidnapping people and dragging them to his basement to experiment on them in the name of mental research for some time already. What he's been doing with them and what he's hoping to achieve is another question the episode can't be bothered to answer.
The episode also suffers from the fact Duncan spends three quarters of it unconscious or staggering around barely conscious, with Tessa and Richie chasing their tails and Randi basically acting as protagonist.
Things pick up in the last 10-15 minutes as Tessa provides a good foil to Duncan, Richie decoys the latest rubbish police officer (each one seems to be denser than the last) and Randi once again just misses out on the story of a lifetime. But it's a slog getting there, with a subplot of Duncan being accused of murder being chucked in to not really go anywhere.
Sam from Free Fall makes his second and final appearance.
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