Highlander (TV Series) Nowhere to Run (1993) User Reviews

last of the just average fill in epis of season 1...but

[jtsjtssmokey-703-366973 · 7/10 · 16 April 2014]

Got 7 just because of ASH or AH depending on including middle name (Buffy Fan and discovered Merlin, the latter being pretty good too). one thing found a bit funny, AH seems so much younger, despite "son" here, than he does about 3ys later with Buffy (of course over the 7 Buffy seasons), even looks younger...also fun to see the other "watcher" in a later season of Highlander. AH is also much like 1st season Buffy, I also find funny (why just do).

Did an OK job dealing with Rape, it is a subject and a crime that is never really solved, and no don't count the arrest and if "lucky"jail time for the rapist,..those of us who have been there know and maybe some of those who stand beside and behind or whatever it is have a hint of it...yes life goes on, you relearn to live you may even "appear" to "forget" as you live because you have to live...SO for some this epi could be a problem,...

It is also a bit on the slow side as for the way the story flows, so for that could have taken half off but ratings here no halves. It is interesting to see them come up with a line of defence, ya other shows have done this too (maybe better),an AH still looks so much younger than 3 yrs later (repeat me self).

Ya we know the son is guilty, feel for the father, AH character, no beheading as the immortal step father was looking after the daughter he loves. Could type more, maybe be more uh descriptive but well OK/hard story to do, slow moving with a few fast, Just going how can someone look so much older in 3 yrs when looks more like least 10 or so well to me anyways an hey typed more...wonder who if any will see and actually read these I type...if you do/did thank you and have a great day/night.

I really got nothing out of this episode. No satisfaction. Duncan did everything he could to protect a rapist and it was all in vain anyway.

[reb-warrior · 4/10 · 5 March 2020]

The gang goes to visit a childhood friend of Tessa's, Allen a diplomat, along with his son, Mark at a big country estate. Unfortunately, earlier in the day, or the week, Mark raped a girl, Lori. Bad dubbing for the girl Lori, played by Oscar-winning actress, Marion Cotillard. Lori's father is an immortal, Colonel Everette. He's has a military history and has his own personal militia. He wants revenge against Mark. He wants to kill him.

Duncan takes a liking to Allen who is a good-natured fellow. Tessa and Allen had gone off somewhere on the estate in a jeep catching up when Duncan confronts Everette who tells him to hand over Mark. Mark lies to Duncan and says he's innocent. What I don't understand is why Duncan thinks this is his responsibility or why he's the boss of it? Or why he waited until Tessa and Allen got back before he called the police. Everette and his militia had cut the phone lines by that time. But they were still working earlier, and Mac could have called. Writers dumbing down Mac. Hate it.

Mac has a flashback of an innocent man being executed in a war. He tried to save him. He proclaimed he was innocent just like Mark has. So this is what is riding him. Gotta love Richie, "there's the door," to Mark when he realizes that Mark really did rape that girl.

Duncan goes 'Home Alone,' and rigs all kinds of tricks and barricades with the help of everyone else. The militia attacks in two, or three segments. Mac and the gang kill many of them. Mark admits what he did, but thinks it's no big deal. Allen is disappointed and tries for both of them to leave and Allen is badly wounded. Later Mac fights Everette and wins, but doesn't kill him. Mark walks by with a gun and is demanding Duncan kills him holding his gun up. Lori also has a gun and kills Mark.

I really got nothing out of this episode. No satisfaction. Duncan did everything he could to protect a rapist and ended up killing several militiamen. It was all in vain because the rapist died anyway. I know Everette was wrong. He felt that since Allen was was a diplomat, Mark would get off. He was probably right. Lori wanted Everette to leave it alone, and he ignored her pleas making it about his revenge instead of supporting her.. Thing is, this is fiction so I don't blame Everette for wanting revenge. Again, not saying he was right. He was wrong, but like I said this is a no satisfaction episode. Obviously, Duncan wasn't going to hand over Mark to be killed, but somehow him protecting the rapist rubbed me the wrong way, especially with all the others getting killed over that loser. I gave the episode a 4/10

Too much

[Jackbv123 · 1/10 · 31 January 2020]

The premise of this is crazy. Mercenaries crashing into a house with machine guns blazing when only one of the five people inside is guilty, including one woman, is so far from justice and even goes too far for revenge. There is no reason for urgency on the father's part so his actions are just plain attempted mass murder.

The crime of rape rarely gets adequately punished, but nothing justifies killing four other innocent people. And anyone who orders it does not deserve mercy regardless of the provocation especially after he casts blame on Duncan for the death from self-defense of his co-murderers. Add to that Duncan shows no mercy to those following orders, but does show mercy on the one who ordered the murders, even if somewhat indirectly. That he deserves no mercy is even more true given that he refuses his daughter's pleas to stop. And he refuses again when he is helpless.

Yes the initial crime is as horrible as our modern "civilized" society knows how to commit, but again, nothing justifies killing four innocents due to the haste for revenge.

Terrible

[imincognitololxd · 1/10 · 19 January 2024]

Warning: This is a little heated.

I don't really leave reviews on anything, but this episode really pissed me off, and it makes me wonder what the point was. Because MacLeod and the gang spent a whole episode defending a rapist, who should've just been handed over to the stepfather of the girl, only for him to be shot and killed at the end. Really, what was the point? A bunch of people died for no good reason, the rapist's father got shot, and Richie and Tessa almost got killed. Again, I ask, what was the point?

Also, I know they were trying to say rape should be handled in court and be settled by the law, but that just doesn't work, and it's just insulting. It's especially insulting to have Macleod defend this stupid kid even though it wasn't at all his fight, nor was it his business to stop the stepfather (I don't remember the names, sorry). He wasn't even there to fight him! He just wanted justice for his stepdaughter, and he had every right to demand so. They try to justify Duncan and the gang defending the rapist by having the daughter come in and tell her stepfather to stop and that the police should handle it.

All for it to end with the girl shooting him. This rapist character, after this whole episode of being defended, didn't learn anything or gain any character growth and overstayed his welcome on the screen. At least he died, but still, terrible episode that should've ended far sooner than it did. I'm still struggling to understand what the entire point was and what this episode was trying to say. And I still don't understand what that whole flashback sequence was about as well.

To sum up my thoughts: What was the point of this? Why did MacLeod get involved when he shouldn't have? A terrible episode that handles the subject of rape distastefully. I get it. It's an old show, but that doesn't mean it's free from any criticism, and that's no excuse for handling rape the way it did, at least in my opinion.

I enjoy the show, but this was by far the worst episode I've seen so far in it and I hope there's no more like it.

Just stupid!

[AbyBerry · 1/10 · 8 September 2022]

I like the show, I always liked it since I was 13 or 14 years old, since the late of 90s, I am watching it and will keep doing it, but this episode is so stupid!! Defending a rapist? Many lives are dead for the sake of a rapist? Really?

And, what is it about the war like thing? Four ordinary people and an immortal against about a dozen of well-trained military soldiers, and guess what? The second part is getting killed while the first part got no scratch? I felt like I am watching an Home Alone movie!

I play it with 1.5 speed, and even skipped a multiple scenes.

Hope it's the only disappointing episode, because I really like it, the Highlander "Mac", the immorals, the fights, even Tessa & Richie, everything, I like everything about this show, except this episode :)