The semi-Immortal James Horton has a plan to do Duncan MacLeod in, once and for all. To this end he abducts the sociopathic Lisa Halle from a prison transport bus in order to make her a duplicate of the late, lamented Tessa. He also recruits Pete Wilder man and scars him to make it appear he might just possibly have recently had a Watcher tattoo removed. This is to make Duncan suspicious when Pete befriends Richie, after saving his life from persons wearing Watcher tattoos.
Duncan's suspicions make Richie doubt Duncan's motives, and Richie and Duncan are at absolute loggerheads when Pete is murdered. In the meantime, Lisa is undergoing a transformation via plastic surgery and behavior modification under the cold gaze of James Horton until she is quite the spit and image of Tessa Noel. But call her Lisa Milon.
Questions:
1. To my eye, the unmodified Lisa Halle doesn't bear much resemblance to Tessa Noel. Plastic surgery can do miraculous things, so I've been told, but this particular transformation seems unlikely in the extreme. Comments?
2. Horton does seem to take the long way 'round in his quest to destroy Duncan MacLeod. When we first met Horton, he seems to have a generalized hatred for all Immortals, but that hatred seems to have become specific to MacLeod. Any particular reason why?
3. Several times in Highlander: the Series, we see persons trying to destroy other persons by first cutting out all their support systems. It starts with Slan Quince, continues with Felicia Martins, Grayson, and Kalas. And now Horton. Does this seem a pre-meditated scheme of themes or strictly ad hoc?
4. Fans of Star Trek: TOS might remember the episode in which Kirk, Spock, etc. were thrown into a parallel universe. The team from "our" universe got along better in the savage parallel universe, than the savages from the parallel universe got along in "our" universe. This was explained in terms of "it's easier for a civilized man to pretend to be barbarian than for a barbarian to pretend to be civilized." This seems to apply to the Lisa/Tessa personality. Any thoughts on this?
5. Duncan seems especially vulnerable at this point in his life, though he seemed to have recovered somewhat from Tessa's death in prior episodes. He's certainly engaged in bedplay with enough women since then. I suppose Tessa is just the love of his life, and he will be swamped in grief occasionally, forever. Agree? Disagree? How does this reflect upon the other loves of his life: Debra Campbell and Dr Anne?