Easily one of the more confusing episodes of Highlander: the Series, but with one of the most popular Quickenings in Highlander History.
There is a flashback in which Duncan is doing the hayride-halleluia with Bess. They're discovered by her fiancé Ned, and Bess gets killed while Ned and Duncan fight over her. Ned is convicted of her death, and gets sent off to prison.
In the present, Tommy gets killed while Duncan is fighting the heinous K'Immie Gallen, who is played by Roddy Piper. Tommy was apparently an innocent bystander, so Duncan has to find out why Tommy was killed. It's a mystery, you see. Duncan goes to Tommy's burial and meets Tommy's mother, who is a Highlander herownself, though not of the Immortal variety. Tommy's mother is justifiably distraught. Before his death, Tommy was dating Suzanne Honniger, the daughter of publishing mogul Honniger, who is plotting the death of her own father with the assistance of Gallen.
Well, the upshot of it is that Suzanne does manage to kill her father, with the assistance of Gallen, then tries to back out of her payment agreement. So Gallen kills her. Duncan kills Gallen, and they have the dad-gonedest Quickening, of which if you haven't seen it yet, you gotta see it. It's amazing.
Duncan convinces Tommy's mother it's okay for her to keep all the money that Tommy received from Honniger to kill Gallen, and go back to the Highlands. See? I told you it was confusing.
Questions:
1. Richie manages to pick up Tommy's paycheck at the newspaper. Aside from dramatic necessity, who is going to hand over the paycheck of an employee of a big newspaper to a perfect stranger?
2. Duncan gets to make whoopee with Bess, played by Gabrielle Miller, who was way too young for him as Michelle Webster in Rite of Passage in Season I suppose you noticed?
3. Anyone else think Gallen should have been wearing a kilt? Did anyone else used to watch All-Star Wrestling on Saturday afternoon, which often used to star Rowdy Roddy Piper? Remember Bulldog Bob Brown?
4. I half expected Duncan to hand over a large amount of money to allow Tommy's mom to go back to the Highlands. Wasn't it lucky for him that Tommy's earnings as an unsuccessful hit man allowed her to go home without his assistance?
5. Wasn't that an interesting Quickening?
6. I rather liked it when Duncan was being hung out of the window and got dropped to his death. Do you suppose his pants got more messed up than his hair? Did anyone call a cop?
7. "Like Father, Like Daughter" ... could they have deserved each other *more*?