This was the first episode I ever saw. A friend told me about this new show "Highlander" and even gave me a brief rundown of immortals, their ways, and such when I was in high school. I watched this episode the following Saturday. After MacLeod jumped off the ledge, came back to life (bones cracking back into place), climbed up the cliff, and then took everybody out I knew I was hooked!
Not _sure_ Jude Austine but i kinda sorta get the impression that maybe you enjoyed the Highlander series throughout the years? 🤷♀️ Just a little even? 👌🏻 ... 😬
Mark Singer is a top notch actor, made memorable from the "Beast Man" films and by all accounts a very good man, loving husband and good father, his friends claiming that he was and will always be a real man, by your side or at your back, someone you depend on. I am glad that he has more acclaim with being in this episode.
He was also excellent in the late 70’s early 80’s film “The Two Lives (or Two Worlds??) of Jenny Logan” with Lindsay Wagner in the title role. It has a time travel aspect to it also - but NOT Immortal related at all. Jenny lives in present day w/hubby, they buy their dream home - a beautiful Victorian home to restore. She finds an antique gown in the attic. When she tries it on, she is physically transported back in time 100 yrs in the same location, meets Marc Singer, the love of her life in that olden time period. Alls well till she takes the dress off; then the adventure begins cuz she’s thrown forward to the present day. Which life will she choose? This movie remains one of my all time top 5 faves. Wonderful historical/adventure/mystery/love story.
I love how the Sheriff is totally cool with Duncan casually burying the guy he just beheaded with an axe. “Let’s move out guys and let’s just pretend this didn’t happen”.
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When Duncan jumped off the cliff, I'm sure he was thinking this: "The things I go through for that woman." When he revived he likely thought this "Whoever said love hurts, wasn't kidding"
I thought his face looked a bit "Ah well, won't be fun to wake up, but I've had worse." I love the reaction of the two others: the dumb jerk just thinks it's funny, the other one looks more than a bit freaked out. Shows some brain, I think.When somebody is that cool about jumping off a cliff, he knows something that you don't know.
When he saw they were going to throw him off the cliff, I imagine he had that shocked look because he realized it was going to take him forever to climb out.
I think this is by far my favorite episode, the way he reacted when he saw that sword is priceless. I would have reacted the same way knowing an immortal is after my head now hahahaha.
Yeah, Wes Studi :D "When the Grey Hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart. Before he dies, Magua will put his children under the knife, so the Grey Hair will know his seed is wiped out forever"
Apparently Magua revived right after his violent death in 1757 due to the fact that he was also an immortal and some two hundred and thirty years later he became a sheriff. Too bad MacLeod did not sense his presence.
Marc singer lol you can recognize that Voice anywhere... the beastmaster episode confirmed.... again Highlander series was by far one of the best... up there with X files and Cosby show... deal with that
I agree, this is a great series, & I liked X Files just as much, if not more! The Cosby show, though, I never really liked it, or Full House, either. For both there was a fair bit of stuff that I just didn't understand, or couldn't relate to, because of personal things, &, also that I'm from New Zealand.
This is the only episode where he buries his enemy. Mac wackos a lot of dudes in water. That’s why I practice my Highlander moves while wading in the pool.
Getting reacquainted w/ these after about 15 years or so. Really enjoying them! Please, anyone out there remember the ep where Mac is being pursued in total darkness by another immortal, strikes a match, then lops the guy's head off? Or the one where Mac is at some bar totally distraught and some punk picks a fight, and Mac just keeps whaling on the dude's face? Which ones? Can't remember!
It was Season 2 Episode 4 "The Darkness". It wasn't an immortal. It was a "Watcher" who was killing immortals. The one in the bar was Season 2 Episode 1 "The Watchers"
I despise so stupid a setup. An intelligent woman decides to insist on driving up into the mountains and hiking into the woods by herself. Strolling Polly-Anna style through the woods to take photos and write in her journal, munching on a power bar, oblivious to care. Trouble ensues. Surprise.
Well, it's a go-to if you need to create trouble for a hero: have his girl friend run into trouble. E.g. the Django reboot a few years ago? Everything's going fine for our two heros, and then a young woman who managed to survive slavery for years (meaning usually: you can hide whatever you think, because half of it is probably going to get you a beating) can't keep a straight face, and everything goes belly up. As for Tess: she took a short trip to a place she knew during day light, leaving behind info about where she was going and when she expected to be back. And I don't see a connection between "stupid" and taking pictures of something that inpires her or eating a power bar is particularly stupid. How common a threat were bands of mountain men in 1980ies forests?
I guess its kinda feral atavism or something.. But dirty, bloodied, wildhaired Duncan crawling like a predator in the bush (to save and avenge his woman) its kinda the most hot & sexy thing I can imagine as a woman..well, as female ^^ Not to mention that great barbarian way he kiled him. Rawrr! ;) Stunning fight by the way - 1 of the coolest in the series.
Stunning fight, but never fight like this - you'll be killed in three seconds tops. MacLeod swings his axe aiming not at the enemy, but above him (god knows why), opens fully, then waits another five seconds after the blow. Even a kid could stab him in the side or kick him in the crotch. Caleb doesn't even try to hit him. Thankfully, they improved their fight choreography in subsequent seasons.
This was good ,,,, i remember these series bac in the day ,,,,, with growth and life experience now it is all new all over again,,, talk about maturity in life from which you were a kid and did not understand life but just enjoyed the action at that time, now it is more than a show or movie and even better than ever before. " like the ol' shawbrothers kung fu moives " .... You will see these movies in a whole new light of understandment rather than just the action' " call it visual maturity "
The sheriff at the end is totally feasible, Natives have much of their culture around spirits and seeing what Duncan did, probably knows better than to ask.
I think I decided on those final looks. Mac pleads with the Sheriff to not ask for an explanation, and Sheriff does that little blink saying he won't. I am curious as to what the script said for this exchange.
@@aliciaborth3016 Or as I stated earlier, On hindsight, it would not surprise me, should the series have continued, to learn that the Sheriff happened to have a certian tattoo on the inside of his left wrist.
If Immortals existed, that would sadly be the inevitable outcome of any romantic relationship between an immortal and a mortal. That is why in the Movies, after his 'Bonny Heather', Conner spent the vast majority of the ensuing centuries prior to what's her face, single.
I kinda wish we had more fights with immortals using different weapons than swords. Listen I get it: A lot of actors who choose to learn how to use a weapon for performances choose swords. Also the whole "Sword under the coat" thing allready pushed the believabillity. A Spear or a broadaxe would really push it. But still. It could have made for some interresting scenarious
Word! Scripting a fight without having it look scripted - really difficult, so this show has a few off shows. But this one? It manages to look wonderfully wild, simply lto fighters in it for their lives, and both of them p***ed off. I guess having two very athletic actors on hand for it helped a lot.
Macleod Looks like the Last Mohican right here dont forget Wes Studi/Magua is the deputy 1992 was a mad Year wish i was 22 then instead of now and not to mention i watched this on AXN back in 1998 brings the days back
I wonder if Caleb saw Duncan's katana and first thought he'd be Japanese. "Funny, I was 'spectin' you to have squintier eyes with a sword like that. I didn't reckon you'd be no white man."
Duncan in response: and I didn't expect you to be such a Bill McKinney knock-off. I guess we were both wrong. Tessa obviously is not Ned Beatty. The answer is no to either she or I "dropping them pants" or "squealing like a pig" in case you're wondering.
🤷♀️ Hmph. i saw Caleb drop MacLeod’s sword 🗡 in the _middle_ of the lake. But when Mac went to retrieve it at the end, it was right on the shore. Didn’t see him carry it in. _HMPH?!_ 🙆🏼♀️
@@thomasgrice8864 Or the effects that the Quickening had on the surface of the lake? Or perhaps all the movement and thrashing of Duncan and Caleb durring their fight in the water?
i love this show ... one thing that pisses me off about this episode , cops see a guy they just met burying some dude he just murdered....main cop says "your an amazing sob" ask no questions, gets no statements from tess or mac just lets them go and they walk off.... i realize they had to wrap this episode up quick but COMMON!!! at this point they should of just not included any cops in this episode they DID NOTHING! .
that's because he was a watcher and sidetracked them all. As you see in the watchers episode. I said the same thing. But that's likely why. At least it makes it credible.
@@wowme110 The watchers episode said one of their people was nearby. Doesn't necessarily mean it was the Sheriff. Though I always wondered exactly what the Sheriff was thinking right before he walked away.
Maybe the writer(s) tried to point out how Joshua saw MacLeod ("He isn't human.") and how MacLeod too saw himself as not human. And how Tessa accepts him even so. The final scene where MacLeod grabs back his sword reminds of how a person with dyabetes must carry Insulin everywhere. Or a person with asthma must have the inhalator everywhere. In order to show Joshua's reaction, they bring the Police back at the end.
Wow! I did not know Wes Studi had a role in "HIGHLANDER" this episode was done around the same time he did "LAST OF THE MOHICANS". There was also an episode like this on "WALKER TEXAS RANGER" dealing with mountain men.
Oh, those funny shows of the nineties! I love them! The logic sometimes didn't even pass by. 1. A woman is kidnapped, but she's not raped or beaten when she's trying to escape, and her future husband even promises to sacrifice his life for her. Oh, chivalry! 2. Macleod falls off a cliff and crashes. As soon as he comes to his senses, he immediately starts climbing the wall. That would make sense somewhere in Rambo, but here? Just lie down for five more minutes, regenerate, and then climb up, huh? That would be more practical, just ... not cool. 3. Tessa immediately blabs the fact that her man is Immortal at the first opportunity, depriving him of any advantage of surprise. Oh, such a smart woman! 4. The battle. In the style of the show, Caleb should have put a sword to Tessa's throat and said, "McCloud, cut your head off yourself, and I won't touch your woman. Boyscout's honor. " And voila, mission accomplished. But oh, chivalry! 5. The sheriff is a beauty: "You killed a man? By beheading? That's OK. Let's move out. And owls are not what they seem. " But that's actually a plausible outcome.
Well, he finds his sword right at the side of the river or lake, although the guy dropped it in the middle...anyways, at least he got it, those things rust very fast. ;-)
