EPISODE GUIDE
SEASON 1
(1992-1993)
"I'm MacLeod, born 400 years
ago in the Highlands of Scotland. I'm
Immortal and I'm not alone. For
centuries we've waited for the time of
the Gathering, when the stroke of a
sword and a fall of a head will release
the power of the Quickening. In the end,
there can be only one."
"I'm MacLeod, born 400 years
ago in the Highlands of Scotland. I'm
Immortal and I'm not alone. Now, it's
time of the Gathering, when the stroke
of a sword will release the power of the
Quickening. In the end there can be only
one."
Adrian Paul
(Duncan MacLeod)
Alexandra Vandernoot (Tessa
Noël)
Stan Kirsch (Richie Ryan)
Amanda Wyss (Randi MacFarland)
THE
GATHERING
Written by: Dan Gordon
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast: Christopher Lambert
(Connor MacLeod), Richard Moll (Slan
Quince), Wendell Wright (Sgt. Powell)
Duncan MacLeod
is roused from his peaceful existence with
the love of this life, Tessa Noël, when he
is challenged to Immortal combat by Slan
Quince, an Evil Immortal. An old friend and
Clansman, Connor MacLeod (Christopher
Lambert, reprising his role from the film),
comes to try and convince Duncan to once
more join the fray in the battle of Good
versus Evil. This episode also introduces
Richie Ryan, a kid from the streets whom
Duncan befriends after catching him breaking
into his antique store.
FAMILY TREE
Written by: Kevin Droney
Directed by: Jorge Montesi
Guest Cast: J.E. Freeman (Joe
Scanlon), Peter Deluise (Clinch), Tamsin
Kelsey (Mrs. Gustavson), Matthew Walker (Ian
MacLeod)
Richie Ryan,
Duncan MacLeod's protégé, 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. While MacLeod and Tessa try to keep
Richie from being hurt, MacLeod relives his
own traumatic past, where he first realized
he was an Immortal, and was renounced by the
man who had raised him as his son.
THE ROAD NOT
TAKEN
Written by: Terry Nelson
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast: Dustin Nguyen (Chu
Lin), Soon-teck Oh (Kiem Sun), Wendell
Wright (Sgt. Powell), Christianne Hirt
(Angie)
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. But a disciple of
Kiem Sun's is using the drug for his own
gain, and MacLeod and his old friend must
track him down. When it becomes clear that
Kiem Sun plans to continue his experiments,
MacLeod destroys the remaining sample of the
drug.
INNOCENT MAN
Written by: Dan Gordon
Directed by: Jorge Montesi
Guest Cast: John Novack (Sheriff
Howard Crowley), Victor Young (Lucas
Desiree), Vincent Schiavelli (Leo Atkins),
Amanda Wyss (Randi McFarland), Wendell
Wright (Sgt. Powell)
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 him to the
killing of Slan Quince (the villain of
episode one, "The Gathering"), an Evil
Immortal whom MacLeod himself had slain in
combat. MacLeod must try and clear the
innocent man and unravel the mystery of who
killed his friend. Here again we get a
glimpse of MacLeod's past, in flashbacks set
during the American Civil War.
FREE FALL
Written by: Philip John Taylor
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast: Joan Jett (Felicia
Martins), Eli Gabay (Devereux), Jay Brazeau
(Commissioner Comanski)
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.
But there is much more to this "ingenue"
than meets the eye. She is in fact a
long-time Immortal, engaged in a wily scheme
to trap MacLeod and acquire his Quickening.
MacLeod must see through her subterfuge in
time to protect not only himself, but also
Richie.
BAD DAY IN
BUILDING A
Written by: Kevin Droney
Directed by: Jorge Montesi
Guest Cast: Andrew Divoff (Bryan
Slade), Amanda Wyss (Randi McFarland), Jay
Brazeau (Comissioner Comanski)
While visiting
the courthouse to clear up Tessa's traffic
tickets, MacLeod, Tessa, 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. MacLeod makes sure that hostage
is himself, and returns from the dead to
hunt down the gunmen one by one, as the
police watch helplessly from outside.
MOUNTAIN MEN
Written by: Marie-Chantal Droney
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast: Marc Singer (Caleb),
Wes Studi (Sheriff Benson), John Dennis
Johnston (Carl)
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. The leader of these modern day
mountain men, Caleb (who is revealed to be
an Immortal), falls in love with Tessa, and
in the end he and MacLeod battle to the
death, ax against sword, against the
primitive backdrop of the timeless
wilderness.
DEADLY
MEDICINE
Written by: Robert L. McCullough
Directed by: Ray Austin
Guest Cast: Joe Pantoliano (Doctor
Wilder), Amanda Wyss (Randi McFarland)
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. When MacLeod
escapes from the doctor, the doctor murders
a potential witness and frames MacLeod for
it.
THE SEA WITCH
Written by: David Tynan
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast: Stephen Macht (Alexei
Voshin), Johannah Newmarch (Nikki)
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. Nikki complicates the story
by withholding drug money she has stolen
from the gang, thinking she can use it to
make a better life for her small daughter.
Tessa, meanwhile, becomes enamored of the
child, raising issues for her and MacLeod.
REVENGE IS
SWEET
Written by: Loraine Despres
Directed by: Ray Austin
Guest Cast: Vanity (Rebecca Lord),
Christoph Ohrt (Walter Reinhardt),
Christianne Hirt (Angie), Tim Reid (Sgt.
Bennett)
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. Rebecca knows nothing of
Immortals or their combat, and she believes
MacLeod murdered Reinhardt. 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
Written by: Brian Clemens
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Cast: John Hertzler
(Marcus), Dee McCafferty (Michael), Moira
Walley (Natalie Ward), Amanda Wyss (Randi
McFarland), Tim Reid (Sgt. Bennett)
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. To end the carnage,
MacLeod was forced to confront and kill him,
back in 1921. Now the killings have started
again, the modern day killer mimicking the
70-year-old M.O., killing in the same
locations as the previous murders. It falls
to MacLeod and Tessa to stop this madman.
EYEWITNESS
Written by: David Tynan
Directed by: Ray Austin
Guest Cast: Tom Butler (Andrew
Ballin), Amanda Wyss (Randi McFarland), Tim
Reid (Sgt. Bennett)
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. It develops that
Anne was killed by her Immortal ex-lover, to
keep her from revealing his secret. After
Tessa is taken to a police safe house,
MacLeod realizes that the killer is in fact
the Chief of Detectives, and he must rescue
Tessa and bring justice to Anne's killer.
BAND OF
BROTHERS
Written by: Marie-Chantal Droney
Directed by: Rene Manzor
Guest Cast: Werner Stocker
(Darius), James Horan (Grayson), Earl Pastko
(Victor Paulus), Amanda Wyss (Randi
McFarland)
Warning comes
from MacLeod's old friend Darius, a monk
over 2000 years old, that Grayson, Darius'
one-time protégé, is now stalking Darius'
other students — among them, possibly,
MacLeod. Grayson, knowing that his former
comrade-in-arms has become a man of peace,
is killing Darius' mortal students in order
to draw the monk off holy ground and into
combat. MacLeod must protect peace activist
Victor Paulus, another of Darius' students,
from Grayson's plot to assassinate him.
Later he joins Richie and Tessa in France
where they will live while Tessa takes up
her new job as curator of a traveling
collection.
FOR EVIL'S
SAKE
Written by: David Abramowitz and
Fabrice Zolkowski
Directed by: Ray Austin
Guest Cast: Peter Howitt (Kuyler),
Hugues Leforestier (Inspector Lebrun)
An Evil
Immortal, Kuyler, has hired himself out down
through time as an assassin — the most
successful killer in all of history. He
strikes again in modern day Paris using his
disguise as a mime. A French Police
Detective, LeBrun, suspects that Duncan
MacLeod is connected to Kuyler, but of
course he cannot imagine that Kuyler once
killed an eighteenth-century baron under
MacLeod's protection. When LeBrun is wounded
protecting Tessa from Kuyler's men, MacLeod
confronts the Immortal assassin and puts an
end to his century-old reign of terror.
FOR TOMORROW
WE DIE
Written by: Philip John Taylor
Directed by: Robin Davis
Guest Cast: Roland Gift (Xavier
St. Cloud), Werner Stocker (Darius), Hugues
Leforestier (Inspector Lebrun)
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. MacLeod had nearly fallen victim
to this remorseless killer behind the front
lines during World War One, when Xavier used
poison gas to loot a payroll truck. He uses
even deadlier gas in modern day Paris, and
MacLeod must track him down before he kills
again. He succeeds in defeating Xavier, but
the Evil Immortal escapes with his head. In
a humorous yet touching subplot, Richie
falls for a glamorous older woman, not
realizing she is married, and Tessa must
disentangle him from the woman's clutches.
THE BEAST
BELOW
Written by: Marie-Chantal Droney
Directed by: Daniel Vigne
Guest Cast: Christian Van Acker
(Ursa), Dee Dee Bridgewater (Carolyn),
Werner Stocker (Darius)
A mysterious
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. The abbey has long
since been destroyed and Ursa now lives
under Paris. He has become enamored of a
past-her-prime opera singer who tries to use
Ursa's innocent soul to murder her rival.
SAVING GRACE
Written by: Elizabeth Baxter and
Martin Broussellet
Directed by: Ray Austin
Guest Cast: Julia Stemberger
(Grace), Georges Corraface (Carlo Sendaro),
Werner Stocker (Darius), Hugues LeForestier
(Inspector LeBrun)
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, Carlo Sendaro,
a former lover who is obsessed with her and
refuses to let her go. He slays Grace's
current (mortal) lover and, when she refuses
to run off with him, frames her for the
killing. She turns to her old friend Duncan
MacLeod for help.
THE LADY AND
THE TIGER
Written by: Philip John Taylor
Directed by: Robin Davis
Guest Cast: Elizabeth Gracen
(Amanda), Jason Isaacs (Zachary Blaine)
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. She plays the two
Immortal men against each other, drawing
MacLeod into a daring, high-stakes burglary
she and Blaine are plotting.
EYE OF THE
BEHOLDER
Written by: Christian Bouveron and
Larry Shore
Directed by: Dennis Berry
Guest Cast: Nigel Terry (Gabriel
Piton), Katia Douvalian (Maya)
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
Written by: Fabrice Zolkowski
Directed by: Paolo Barzman
Guest Cast: Martin Kemp (Cahill),
Sandra Nelson (Elaine)
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 path through
Paris, murdering prostitutes and pimps, and
endangering an old friend of Tessa's who has
become a call girl. MacLeod tries to explain
Immortality to Cahill, but he can't get
through to him, and finally is forced to
take his head.
NOWHERE TO RUN
Written by: David Abramowitz
Directed by: Dennis Berry
Guest Cast: Peter Guinness
(Colonel Everett Bellian), Anthony Head
(Allan Rothwood), Jason Riddington (Mark
Rothwood), Marion Cotillard (Lori Bellian)
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. He urges the
Immortal to see due process done, but the
man has no interest in listening to reason,
and he lays siege to the house.
THE HUNTERS
Written by: Kevin Droney
Directed by: Paolo Barzman
Guest Cast: Roger Daltrey (Hugh
Fitzcairn), Werner Stocker (Darius), Peter
Hudson (James Horton)
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. Finding Darius dead in his
chapel and Fitzcairn kidnaped, MacLeod won't
rest until he finds the men responsible.
Tracking the killers of his old friend,
MacLeod discovers that there is a band of
mortals hunting Immortals, and even holy
ground is no protection from them. MacLeod
finds the renegades in time to save
Fitzcairn and confront James Horton, leader
of the Hunters, but Horton eludes his grasp.
*Synopses by Rysher Entertainment