Season one
THE GATHERING: Duncan MacLeod is roused from his peaceful existence with he love of this life, Tessa Noel, when he is challenged to Immortal combat by Slan Quince, an Evil Immortal. An old friend and Clansman, Connor MacLeod, comes to try and convince Duncan to once more join the fray in the battle of Good versus Evil.
FAMILY TREE: Richie Tyan, Duncan MacLeod's
protege, attempts to learn more about his parents, whom he has never known.
Instead, he falls prey to a con man who, needing a place to stay and a quick
score, pretends to be Richie's long-lost father.
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: A deadly herbal drug
takes the life of Richie's friend, and MacLeod suspects the source of the drug
is another Immortal, Kiem Sun, who has long sought to perfect such a drug and
remove its lethal side effects for the betterment of mankind.
INNOCENT MAN: An Immortal friend of
Macleod's is beheaded in his isolated mountain retreat where he had hoped --like
MacLeod-- to retire from the fight for a while. A brain-damaged, homeless
veteran is charged with the grisly crime, and an attempt is made to link his to
the killing of Slan Quince, and Evil Immortal who MacLeod himself had slain in
combat.
FREE FALL: A beautiful young woman, Felicia
Martins, throws herself to her death, only to revive with the realization that
she is an Immortal. She seeks out Duncan MacLeod as her mentor, and becomes
amorously involved with Richie Ryan.
BAD DAY IN BUILDING A: While visiting the
courthouse to clear up Tessa's traffic tickets, MacLeod, Tess, and Richie are
among a group that is taken hostage by a band of men bent on freeing their
leader, Slade, from imprisonment. When Slade's demands are not met, he chooses a
hostage to sacrifice.
MOUNTAIN MEN: When Tessa is taken by a band
of Survivalists who live off the land in the vastness of the Pacific Northwest,
MacLeod must call on all of his own skills, honed a hundred and fifty years
earlier, when he roamed this same mountain fastness.
DEADLY MEDICINE: MacLeod is struck and
"killed" by a speeding automobile. When he revives in the hospital, he attracts
the attention of a deranged doctor, who kidnaps MacLeod for his research on a
miracle cure for trauma.
THE SEA WITCH: Richie Ryan tries to protect
an old girlfriend, Nikki, from a band of drug dealers. This puts them both in
jeopardy from an Immortal, Voshin, whom MacLeod knows from an adventure during
the Second World War when he was trying to smuggle Jewish refugees out of
occupied Eastern Europe.
REVENGE IS SWEET: Seeking revenge for the
apparent death of her lover, Walter Reinhardt, Rebecca Lord toys with MacLeod
before she attempts to kill him with Reinhardt's sword. Unbeknownst to her,
Reinhardt is still alive, and is using Rebecca in a cat and mouse game to draw
out MacLeod for their final confrontation.
SEE NO EVIL: A serial killer dubbed "The
Scalper" is attacking blonde women, including a friend of Tessa's. MacLeod
recognizes the pattern of an Immortal who, betrayed by the woman he loved,
became a killer. Now the killings have started again. It falls to MacLeod and
Tessa to stop this madman.
EYEWITNESS: Tessa witnesses the murder of a
painter, Anne Wheeler, but the absence of a body leads everyone but Macleod to
doubt her story. MacLeod supports Tessa in her quest to obtain justice for Anne.
BAND OF BROTHERS: Warning comes from
MacLeod's old friend Darius, a monk over 2000 years old, that Grayson, Darius'
one-time protege, is now stalking Darius' other students --among them, possibly,
Macleod.
FOR EVIL'S SAKE: An Evil Immortal, Kuyler,
has hired himself out down through time as an assassin --the most successful
killer in all of history. He strikes agin in modern day Paris using his
signature disguise as a mime.
FOR TOMORROW WE DIE: Macleod stumbles across
the trail of an Immortal, Xavier St. Cloud, who has lived in hedonistic splendor
down through the ages by remorseless robbing and killing innocent men and women.
THE BEAST BELOW: A mysterius death at the
Paris Opera re-acquaints Duncan macleod with one of the strangest Immortals he
has met in his many travels over the centuries. Ursa is a hulking giant -more
beast than man- who Duncan rescued from persecution centuries ago, delivering
him to sanctuary in an abbey.
SAVING GRACE: Grace Chandel has been a Good
Immortal, working for the betterment of mankind as a midwife, doctor, and
scientist over the centuries. Her one weakness is another Immortal, Carlos
Sendaro, a former lover who is obsessed with her and refuses to let her go. She
turns to her old friend Duncan Macleod for help.
THE LADY AND THE TIGER: A day at the circus
reunites MacLeod with a former lover, the Immortal femme-fatale, Amanda, who has
always meant big trouble for him. Amanda, meanwhile, is in trouble of her own as
her former partner, Blaine, has escaped from prison and wants her head.
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: 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, a
deadly Immortal.
AVENGING ANGEL: When fatal stabbing fails to
kill him, Alfred Cahill becomes convinced that he has been chosen by a higher
power to wage a crusade against "perversion," and cuts a bloody and endangering
an old friend of Tessa's who has become a call girl.
NOWHERE TO RUN: When the stepdaughter of an
Immortal is raped, the Immortal comes after the young man. MacLeod, a guest in
the home of the accused boy's father, feels he must protect the family from this
unstoppable menace.
THE HUNTERS: MacLeod's old compatriot Hugh
Fitzcairn comes to town bearing a mystery -some of their other Immortal friends
have disappeared suspiciously. MacLeod realizes that someone may be following
Fitz, and realizes too late that Fitz has put Darius in danger by visiting him
season two
THE WATCHERS: MacLeod follows a lead back to his old stomping grounds of the Pacific Northwest in determination to investigate the death of Darius. He meets Joe Dawson, a bookstore owner with a secret. Mac soon learns that Dawson is a high-ranking member of an ancient secret organization known as The Watchers, who observe and record the lives of the Immortals, passing their archives down from generation to generation.
STUDIES IN LIGHT: A fellow Immortal, Greg
Powers, invites MacLeod to his photography showing. At the gallery, MacLeod
comes across a photograph taken of himself 50 years ago which triggers a
flashback of a time he spent with a young photographer, Linda Plager. Meanwhile,
Greg seduces Richie into his destructive lifestyle and coaxes Richie into a
dangerous motorcycle stunt.
TURNABOUT: Thirty years ago, evil Immortal
Quenten Barnes was executed in the electric chair, and promised he'd be back.
Escaping the tomb that he has been captive, Barnes begins hunting down the
people involved in his execution. Joe Dawson tries to get MacLeod involved in
the matter, but he declines unless Barnes got in his way. When Michael Moore
comes to town, a flashback shows us that Barnes killed Michael's wife and has a
long-standing grudge against Michael. Now Mac gets involved.
THE DARKNESS: A mortal named Pallin Wolf,
one of the renegade Watchers who believes the Immortals must be eliminated,
lures an Immortal to his house and kills him, getting the advantage by tricking
him into a sealed room that is completely dark. Wolf kidnaps Tessa with plans to
lure MacLeod into a confrontation in the darkness. Tessa and Richie will never
be the same as an interesting twist of fate changes their lives.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE: When MacLeod and Richie
are witness to a terrorist attack on an Ambassador, Richie dives in like a
Superhero, cocky with Immortality. One of the terrorists is killed, and another,
Annie Devlin, an Immortal, is captured. She swears revenge on Richie, and when
she escapes from custody, MacLeod takes on the task of educating Richie so that
he will have a chance in combat against her.
THE ZONE: The Zone is a burned-out urban
wasteland, abandoned by the police, who figure it's easier to just 'let the
animals kill each other.' Now the Zone is being taken over by Canaan, a
charismatic leader who urges his followers to take the material possessions that
have been denied to them. Joe Dawson comes to MacLeod for help -- one of his
men, who was observing Canaan, has been killed.
THE RETURN OF AMANDA: Amanda, the beautiful
Immortal cat-burglar from the first season episode "The Lady and the Tiger,"
returns to town, telling MacLeod she's retired from her life of crime. He
doesn't believe her -- especially when two guys start shooting at them. She is
pursued by FBI agents because she is in possession of some plates for
counterfeit money, stolen in Germany before the War.
REVENGE OF THE SWORD: Jimmy Sang, a former
student of Charlie's, is an up-and-coming martial arts movie star. His latest
movie is filming some scenes in the dojo. When a stuntman is "accidentally"
killed, MacLeod is the first to realize that Jimmy's life is in danger. It turns
out that the movie is based on Jimmy's youthful experiences as an enforcer for a
powerful gang, and now his former boss wants to see him dead.
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE: Carl Robinson is an
Immortal who MacLeod first met in 1929 when he rescued him from a KKK lynch mob.
Back then, Carl was full of plans -- to be a Major League Ballplayer, to be
President. But today Carl has given up hope. He and MacLeod meet up again as Mac
tries to rekindle Carl's belief in himself, but Carl doesn't want to listen.
When a white cop named Carter tries to kill him, Carl attributes the incident to
racism, until MacLeod explains about the Watchers who are hunting them.
EPITAPH FOR TOMMY: Tommy is an innocent
bystander who's accidentally killed during a swordfight between MacLeod and the
Immoral Gallen. Haunted by the unnecessary death, MacLeod tries to find out more
about the dead man -- and discovers he isn't exactly the innocent bystander he
appeared.
THE FIGHTER: MacLeod's old friend Tommy
Sullivan is a scrappy little Irishman, a one-time boxer turned trainer, who can
charm anyone into anything. He charms MacLeod into backing his current boxer and
charms Charlie into playing Cyrano to help him woo a shy waitress. But when a
rival manager who was trying to steal Sully's fighter turns up dead, MacLeod's
opinion of his old friend begins to be altered forever.
UNDER COLOR OF AUTHORITY: Richie wants to
protect Laura Daniels, a young woman who's on the run from an Immortal bounty
hunter, Mako. MacLeod has met Mako before and doesn't like his methods, but he
knows the other man is lawful. He questions whether Laura is necessarily
innocent. Richie doesn't care, he wants to help her anyway, no matter what it
takes.
BLESS THE CHILD: Charlie and MacLeod come to
the aid of Sara Lightfoot, an Indian woman on the run with a baby. She tells
them Avery Hoskins is trying to steal her baby. Hoskins and his brothers come
after them, and they are forced to flee overland. After a rugged flight through
a mountain canyon, MacLeod learns that the baby is in fact Hoskins' son, taken
by Sara in retribution for her own child, killed by runoff from Hoskins' mines.
UNHOLY ALLIANCE - PART I: Xavier St. Cloud
returns, killing Immortals with the help of mortal mercenaries who shoot his
prey, making his kill easy. His next target is MacLeod but, warned by Dawson,
Mac and Charlie just manage to escape death. Renee Delaney, a CID agent
investigating the mercenary angle, gets on the case. MacLeod goes after Xavier
himself, and Charlie insists on coming along. During his battle with St. Cloud,
MacLeod spots JamesHorton, the Hunter who killed Darius.
UNHOLY ALLIANCE - PART II: MacLeod accepts
help from Dawson one last time, and barely misses catching Xavier and Horton. He
then follows their trail to Paris -- accompanied by the persistent Renee
Delaney. They track down Horton, and when he almost escapes, he is shot by Joe
Dawson. MacLeod then gets the help of his humorous new neighbor Maurice.
THE VAMPIRE: MacLeod comes up against
Nicholas Ward, an Immortal who conceals his murders by disguising them as
popular hysterias. In the 1840's, Ward created a vampire myth in order to
conceal the true motive behind his killing the owners of a business he wanted.
In the present, Mac teams up with Joe Dawson to discover what Ward is up to and
protect the young woman he's set his sights on this time.
WARMONGER: In 1918 in the Soviet Union,
MacLeod promised the Immortal Drakov that he would not fight him, in return for
seeing lives spared. Today Drakov, now called Arthur Drake, still operates
behind the scenes of international politics, a cruel puppetmaster who is
dragging Eastern Europe toward anarchy. Eli Jarmel, an old man whose family was
destroyed by Drake, urges MacLeod to recant his promise, while Beth Vaughn, a
reporter, puts her life in danger by investigating both Drake and MacLeod.
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER: MacLeod opens an ancient
sarcophagus to find Nefertiri, Cleopatra's handmaid, buried 2000 years ago with
her mistress. Now revived, she pursues a vendetta against the Immortal Marcus
Constantine, who was her lover and her enemy. Constantine claims that he no
longer wishes to fight Nefertiri. But Nefertiri can't let go of the old grudge,
and for the first time, MacLeod is forced to face a woman he loves in Immortal
combat.
LEGACY: When her mentor Rebecca is killed,
Amanda is determined to avenge the death, even though it means going up against
the formidable Immortal Luther, and very possibly losing her head. She comes to
Mac for a final fling before her likely death, and when he discovers that she's
after Luther, he tries to take the battle on himself, feeling he has a better
chance of survival.
PRODIGAL SON: Richie returns, on the run,
turning to MacLeod for help. An Immortal has been following him, refusing to
confront him, but committing grisly murders wherever Richie goes. Richie is
arrested for the murders. Mac learns that Immortal hunter Martin Hyde is behind
the murders. Hyde has been hounding Richie in order to drive him to his teacher.
MacLeod must clear Richie of the murders and defeat the evil Immortal.
COUNTERFEIT - PART I: Pete Wilder just saved
Richie from an attack by some guys wearing Watcher tattoos. Or did he? Nothing
is what it seems, and MacLeod becomes increasingly wary of Pete, despite
Richie's protests that the guy is his friend. When MacLeod's mistrust gets the
possibly innocent Pete killed, Mac becomes increasingly unsure of himself.
Unknown to MacLeod, his old enemy Horton is pulling all the strings. Horton is
secretly training escaped killer Lisa Halle to go after MacLeod while he's
troubled and vulnerable.
COUNTERFEIT - PART II:
Joe Dawson arrives
in Paris to let MacLeod know that Horton may still be alive and coming after
him. However, when MacLeod meets "Lisa Milon," a dead-ringer for Tessa (Lisa
Halle after plastic surgery), all thoughts of Horton and the Watchers go out of
his head. Richie, unsure if Mac is thinking clearly, goes to Dawson for help and
winds up taking a bullet for him when Horton tries a hit. Lisa is kidnapped, and
MacLeod insists on going after her even though his friends warn him it may be a
setup.
