Season five
ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT: In the stunning season opener, Immortals and Watchers are poised at the brink of war. On the orders of the Watcher Tribunal, every Watcher in Europe is hunting for MacLeod, to bring him in dead or alive. MacLeod discovers that the real killer is JACOB GALATI, a Gypsy MacLeod once traveled with, who has vowed to destroy all the mortals who wear the Watcher tattoo, convinced they are all out to destroy Immortals.
PROPHECY: When Duncan MacLeod was but a wee
lad in the Highlands, he thought CASSANDRA, the Witch of Donan Woods, was a
fairy story told by crazy old men to scare the children -- until the night she
found him alone in Donan Woods. Now, four hundred years later, Cassandra has
found MacLeod again in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy -- that only Duncan
MacLeod can challenge and defeat the voice of darkness.
END OF INNOCENCE: The last time Richie Ryan
saw Duncan MacLeod, MacLeod was about to take his head. He was stopped by
Dawson's bullet, but Richie's world was shattered. Now Richie's back -- kicking
butt and taking heads. One of those heads belonged to CARTER WELLAN, and now
Wellan's good friend HARESH CLAY is out to avange his comrade. MacLeod has his
own long-time grudge against Clay, who humiliated and destroyed one of MacLeod's
finest teachers. MacLeod must try to rebuild Richie's trust while they vie to be
the one to face Clay in combat.
MANHUNT: CARL ROBINSON, the former slave
turned baseball player (from the second season episode "Run For Your Life"), has
finally found the good life as a Major Leagues star -- but when Carl is
challenged by another Immortal and witnesses find him standing over the
decapitated body, Carl is forced to go on the run from the cops. He turns to
MacLeod for help when he is pursued by lawman MATTHEW MCCORMICK, who has more
than just a professional interest in taking Carl into custody.
GLORY DAYS: Of all the gin joints in all the
towns in all the world, Dawson's high school sweetheart BETSY walks into his.
Meanwhile, MacLeod's got his hands full with JOHNNY K, a teenaged mobster
wannabe when MacLeod knew him during Phrohibition who's now a cold-blooded
assassin. The only rules Johnny K knows are the rules of the street, and
MacLeod's going to have to play by them if he wants to keep his head.
DRAMATIC LICENSE: CAROLYN MARSH'S latest
best-seller is a hot and sexy romance novel featuring a smoky-eyed swashbuckling
Highland hero named Duncan MacLeod. Both MacLeod and TERENCE COVENTRY, the
Immortal depicted as the borish villain of the novel, are out tofind the author
-- MacLeod to find out how much she really knows about him, and Coventry to kill
her.
MONEY NO OBJECT: MacLeod and Amanda are
reunited with CORY RAINES, the charming, smooth-talking "Clyde" to Amanda's
"Bonnie" during their five state crime spree in the 1920s. Amanda, always ready
for a little larceny, is tempted by the carefree and adventurous lifestyle Cory
offers her and takes him up on the offer when she realizes MacLeod won't beg her
to stay with him. But MacLeod rides to rides to the rescue when one of Cory's
schemes goes astray.
HAUNTED: JENNIFER HILL believes the spirit
of her dead husband Alec, an Immortal, is still with her. She comes to Alec's
old friend MacLeod and begs him to appease Alec's spirit by whacking the
son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head. Richie finds himself strangely
attracted to the grieving young widow -- until he realizes he's the
son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head.
LITTLE TIN GOD: DEREK's faith in God helped
save him from a violent life on the urban streets. When the 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. But what's he to do when that God recruits him as a
warrior in the Holy War against Satan -- and Satan turns up to be Duncan
MacLeod?
THE MESSENGER: Richie's found a new teacher:
an Immortal who preaches a message of peace. An Immortal who believes that all
Immortals can lay down their swords and live together as brothers. An Immortal
who claims to be the oldest of their kind still alive -- Methos. Will laying
down his sword in the name of peace mean Richie will lose his head? And what
does this mean for the friend MacLeod already calls Methos?
THE VALKYRIE: In 1944, INGRID HENNING had
the chance to kill Adolf Hitler and failed. She's been atoning for that failure
ever since by killing dictators, tyrants, racists, and fascists who might have
the potential to become as dangerous. MacLeod has a chance to stop her before
she kills more mortals, but by stopping her, does MacLeod commit the same evil
for which he's judged her guilty?
COMES A HORSEMAN: MacLeod knew him as Melvin
Koren, a desperado who left a trail of death and fire across the Old West, but
Cassandra remembers him as an evil far older. He is KRONOS, leader of the Four
Horsemen, mounted Bronze Age raiders who murdered, raped, and pillaged their way
across two continents. Never was a band of Immortals more cruel or more feared.
He destroyed Cassandra's people and she's been hunting him across the millenia.
But Kronos has a different target now -- Methos.
REVELATIONS 6:8: One by one, Kronos is
putting the Four Horsemen back together. Once they struck fear in the hearts of
men with sword and axe. Today, their weapons of destruction are different, but
their goal is the same: to bring mankind what it fears most, the Apocalypse.
Only Duncan MacLeod stands between them and the end of the world.
RANSOM OF RICHARD REDSTONE: The Chateau
LeMartin has been in MARINA's family for generations, but now the slimy CARLO
CAPODIMONTE threatens to foreclose on an old loan and take the chateau for
himself. Desperate to save the family heritage, Marina kidnaps an American
millionaire in order to pay off the loan. Unfortunately for Marina, the rich and
charming "Richard Redstone" she has tied up in the cellar is none other than
Richie Ryan.
DUENDE: Spanish swordplay, like Spanish
dancing, is equal parts passion, skill, and strict discipline. The Immortal
OTAVIO CONSONE is a master of both. An arrogant Spaniard who 150 years ago tried
to teach MacLeod the sword art called "The Mysterious Circle," Consone vied with
MacLeod for the hand of a beautiful senorita, with tragic results. Now MacLeod
must protect a Flamenco artist and her daughter from Consone's revenge.
THE STONE OF SCONE: According to official
statements by the British government, the theft of the Stone of Scone, the
legendary royal throne of Scotland, from Westminster Abbey in 1950 was simply a
rowdy schoolboy prank. But was it? Or was it actually the bungled work of three
rather hapless Immortals, attempting to fulfill a promise made centuries before?
FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES: After the
Scottish massacre at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Duncan MacLeod was a man
possessed, obsessed, with killing the English bastards who had destroyed his
people. Now Immortal STEVEN KEANE has come to make MacLeod pay for his murderous
crimes. Amanda urges MacLeod to take Keane's head and be done with it, but in
his heart MacLeod knows that Keane is right -- he is a murderer -- and that
Keane is judging him just like MacLeod has judged so many others.
THE MODERN PROMETHEUS: Lord Byron, the
brilliant Romantic poet, is alive and well and living the decadent life of a
rock star. He lives life way over the edge and has taken some promising young
musicians over the edge with him. When following in Byron's footsteps tragically
ends the life of Dawson's protege, MacLeod is faced with a decision -- is the
beauty and genius that is Byron worth the cost?
ARCHANGEL: The dead are walking the streets
of Paris. The forces of evil are coming. Is MacLeod being readied for some
higher calling -- or is he simply losing his mind?
season six
AVATAR: Every thousand years, the Zoroastrian demon, Ahriman, returns to wreak havoc on the earth. He has already brought destruction to Duncan MacLeod's world, having caused Richie's death at Duncan's hand. But now MacLeod returns to Paris to take up his mantle as Champion and vows to destroy Ahriman. Sophie Baines knows how to defeat the demon, but is she MacLeod's ally, or another pawn in Ahriman's game?
ARMAGEDDON: It's showdown time between
Ahriman and the Champion, Duncan MacLeod. With the help of Father Beaufort and
Joe Dawson, MacLeod begins to find a crack in Evil's armor. But they soon learn
that anyone who helps the Champion becomes fair game for the demon. Joe is torn
by guilt as Watchers -- friends -- are murdered by Ahriman, while Father
Beaufort has his own inner demons to contend with. Not even Holy Ground is
sanctuary, as MacLeod wrestles with Ahriman in the final battle... Armageddon.
SINS OF THE FATHER: Now that his grandson,
Carl, manages the bank, George Thomas can relax with his old friend, Duncan
MacLeod. But the good life is cut short when George's car explodes in a ball of
flames -- leaving MacLeod to find George's killer. The trail leads to Alex
Raven, a beautiful Immortal with a taste for danger and a fifty-year-old promise
to fulfill... no matter what the cost.
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: Embezzler, charmer, con
man extraordinaire, Willie Kingsley has a knack for turning up dead... and
profiting from it handsomely. But when one last con goes wrong, his mortal wife
pays for the scheme with her life. Willie turns to Duncan MacLeod to help him
track down her killer. MacLeod wants justice... but all Willie wants is revenge.
PATIENT NUMBER 7: Police at her heels,
killers on her trail, Kyra is on the run, with no memory of who -- or what --
she is. In the streets of Paris, she runs into Dunacn MacLeod. MacLeod spins a
wild story: that he and Kyra were lovers three hundred years ago. That she is a
soldier, a warrior. That she is Immortal. Kyra doesn't believe a word of it...
But if it isn't true, why is someone after her head?
BLACK TOWER: Four hundred years ago, Devon
Marek was a spoiled aristocrat with a passion for the hunt. His first teacher,
Duncan MacLeod, forced him to give up his lands and title when he became
Immortal -- and Marek's never forgiven him for it. Today Marek has built his own
empire -- and now hunts his most dangerous prey: MacLeod.
UNUSUAL SUSPECTS: It's 1929, and Hugh
Fitzcairn is enjoying the life of a manor lord. He has good friends, a beautiful
wife, trusted servants . . . until one of his nearest and dearest "murders" him.
He calls in his old friend, Duncan MacLeod, to help him uncover his own murderer
-- before more bodies start piling up.
JUSTICE: When Immortal Cara's adopted
daughter is murdered, the courts let the killer walk free. Now Cara's an
avenging angel, determined to see justice done... even if it means crossing
Duncan MacLeod.
DEADLY EXPOSURE: All bounty hunter Reagan
Cole wanted was a holiday in Paris with fellow Immortal Duncan MacLeod. What she
found was international intrigue, a hunky underwear model, and a terrorist with
a million-dollar price on his head... What's a gal gotta do to get a vacation
nowadays?
TWO HEARTS: Centuries ago, Bartholomew sent
thousands to their deaths during the Crusades, amassing a fortune in God's name.
Now Immortal Katherine is determined to take his head - if only she can keep her
mortal husband, Nick, from interfering with The Game.
INDISCRETION: Methos and Joe Dawson are
thrown together when past indiscretions threaten the present. DePasqua has
hunted Methos for two hundred years. He's not about to let a mere mortal get in
his way... especially if the mortal is a Watcher.
TO BE: It was Duncan MacLeod who caused Liam
O'Rourke and his mortal wife to be captured and convicted of terrorism. That was
fifty years ago, but Immortal O'Rourke has a long memory - and a plan to even
the score.
NOT TO BE:
Immortal terrorist
Liam O'Rourke is out for blood. Used to playing by his own rules, he'll stop at
nothing to get MacLeod's head - even if it takes destroying every one of
Duncan's friends.
