The Immortal bounty hunter Mako is chasing Laura Daniels, and that ain't good, 'cause Mako always gets his man ... woman ... bounty ... whatever ... and there ain't no two ways about it. Mac has run into Mako before and it just wasn't pretty; but since Mako is technically within the bounds of the law, our Mackie Boy doesn't make an issue of it. Richie believes that Laura is innocent, and being the romantic, gallant Immortal that he is, he tries to help her elude Mako. They go on the run together. They don't get far, however, when Laura is accidentally killed. Richie takes offense, and the battle is joined. Richie whacks Mako, and there's a kind of Technicolor Quickening. Mac decides his Teacher/Student relationship with Richie is over, and there's a tearful goodbye scene when he tells Richie to hit the bricks.
Questions:
1. Why is it OK for Mac to take in stray kittens and drowned rats, but every time Richie does it, there's some sort of lesson to be learned, and usually an unhappy ending?
2. Why is Mac the only person in the whole universe not to recognize Mako as the foul miscreant he is? Not legally, of course, but in human terms. Yeah, yeah, Mako was just doin' his job. Un-huh. Anyone could see that in spite of the fact that Laura killed her husband, she was an innocent as a new-born fawn, as pure as the virgin snow, as ... aw, shut up! Richie was NOT just letting Little Richie do his thinking for him.
3. What was that video from the 80s that probably
4. Why are Duncan's pants and hair totally irrelevant to this episode? Or
are they?
5. What's the Biggest Pencil in the World? (This Question Brought To You
In Honor of and In Memoriam of Duane Ellett and Floppy)