Highlander: the SeriesDeadly MedicineThe premise being that an emergency room doctor can hijack his patients and experiment on them in the basement of his house, while assuring them that they are contributing to ... oh, good lord. Well, Duncan was delectable anyhow. Dr Wilder was completely ... the emergency room staff [calling Dr Anne! calling Dr Anne!] ... [you had to have the feeling it was an HMO] and Nurse Barbara the Clueless. Is it too late to sue TPTB for medical malpractice? Okay, so Duncan gets hit by a car and taken to the Emergency Room from Hell, where he dies and his body is abandoned by the staff as they move on to something else. The ER doctor takes an interest that his dead patient has revived and left the premises, so he manages to kidnap Duncan and tie him to a bed in his basement, where he performs all sorts of Interesting Medical Experimentation on him. Nurse Cluele ... Barbara gets angry that her homicidal Boyfriend The Doctor doesn't make it to a party [having been knocked around by an escaping Duncan], and threatens to expose the Doctor's connection to all these missing patients to The [Medical] Powers That Be, so the doctor kills her. The police blame Duncan, because after all, his car is in the vicinity and how are they to know he was staggering mindlessly around and sleeping in boxes ... but looking quite toothsome and exceptionally unwrinkled as he tucks that long shirt into his pants. Richie thwarts the cops waiting to watch Tessa meet Duncan. Duncan dives to find the camera that was lost when Nurse Clue ... Barbara ... takes the film to his friend Sam, who develops it ... and then Duncan just happens to have a handy image enhancement ... oh lord ... and they bring up a picture of Doctor Homicide's ring. [how long must I suffer?] And then there's Randi McFarland, snooping around, and she manages to get on the wrong side of Doctor Delusional and then tries to talk him out of using her for Interesting Medical Experimentation by invoking her 1st Amendment rights [Help me!] and Duncan rescues her, kills the Mad Doctor, sets the place on fire and makes an escape. Ya got all that? Okay. Questions: 1. Didn't Duncan look quite toothsome as he was flung into the air by that car? 2. How 'bout those special effects? The little sparkly things as the incisions on Duncan healed? 3. How hard up for a date did Nurse Barbara have to be to take up with Dr Demento? 4. Didn't Sam know he had image enhancement software on his own computer? Or did Duncan just happen to have a CD-ROM in his back pocket? 5. Was Duncan billed for his stay in Dr Delusional's basement? 6. Was Randi always stumbling on to stories about Duncan MacLeod because Duncan MacLeod was always in the middle of stories, or because he has a great tooshie? 7. Where *WAS* Dr Anne while all this was going on? 8. Is it too late to sue TPTB for medical malpractice?
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