Duncan proposes to Tessa in a most romantic manner, on his knees in public, singing "Will you Marry Me?", which pretty much seals her fate. It just doesn't pay to have Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod agee to marry you. Just ask Debra Campbell, who had the earth fall out from beneath her feet the moment Duncan agreed to marry her almost 400 years ago. Just ask Little Deer, who Duncan planned to wed but was immediately massacreed by soldiers. Gypsies and fortunetellers agree: it's not in the cards for Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod to wed.
So when Tessa is kidnapped by yet another renegade Watcher, to be held as bait for Duncan, we can't hope for much in the way of happily ever after. The guy lures Immortals into sealed, dark rooms and beheads them. They can't see, but he's wearing night-vision goggles and has every advantage. With the otherworldly guidance of Greta the fortuneteller, Duncan finds the house, enters the room and joins the battle with the Watcher Pallin Wolf. Duncan, the perennial and perfect Boy Scout, has a book of matches and strikes them. Which blinds Wolf. Duncan kills Wolf. Tessa is safe. Duncan tells her and Richie to go on out to the car while he looks around a bit. So the ground falls out from under Tessa's feet in the way of a junkie who tries to rob Tessa and Richie out by the car. He kills them both. Richie wakes up in the approved Immortal fashion. Being strictly mortal and doomed as doomd can be by Duncan's proposal, Tessa does not.
At the end, Duncan is looking around the apartment he shared with Tessa, he meets Richie outside and tells Richie to sell the place. Tears and desolation.
Questions:
1. Could Duncan open an assassination business, wherein he merely has to propose to a woman to have her die of unrelated causes? How much could he charge? If he proposed to an Immortal woman, would her head just fly off her shoulders? Wouldn't we like to see this happen to Amanda?
2. I know Duncan doesn't like police, but if your mortal fiancee is abducted, wouldn't it be a good idea to call a cop instead of trusting a fortuneteller to find her? And with cops around for the takedown of the ne-er-do-well kidnapper/killer, wouldn't it have been unlikely for a junkie to pick on Richie and Tessa out by the car? Does anyone perceive this as a tragicomedy of errors? On the part of Duncan?
3. Tessa was a stalwart, inventive woman who was working every minute to make her own escape from Wolf. We should give her credit for that. Instead, she gets blown away immediately. Is this irony, or what?
4. How could Duncan's pants and/or hair have any bearing at all upon this episode?
5. Duncan certainly wouldn't sleep with another woman in the very next episode, would he?