All right! We finally get to Kenny! Get out your slings and arrows and prepare to fire!
A true lamb, our Kenny is. We first see him stalking what seems to be a homeless person with a sandwich. Kenny whacks the guy with a rock and steals the sandwich. Then he hides and waits to be "rescued" by the next Immortal who wanders by. That would be Mac and Richie, who take the kid at face value, and take him home.
Taking Kenny in is always a mistake. He kills Immortals while they're not looking, going on the presumption that they're all out to get him anyways, so he may as well get them first. We see a flashback where he kills the nice Immortal who took him fishing. Then there's the Immortal who's actually hunting him, but sits on a stairway and gets whacked from behind.
When Duncan finds out the truth about Kenny, he defends the little lamb's right to kill. "There can be only one," he proclaims. Dr Anne is trying to make friends with Mac's cousin Kenny, so he tries to run her down. Give him points for taste, anyway. Duncan comes to the rescue and is almost whacked hisownself. Kenny escapes on a schoolbus, looking evilly out the window as the bus pulls away.
Questions:
1. Is there anyone on this earth who would yell "You bastard" after the announcement that Kenny had been killed?
*** note *** The young actor who played Kenny [Myles Ferguson] was quite a nice fellow, who attended at least one Highlander convention, and was killed in an accident. This question was written before his death, and is not intended to demean his memory. Highlander fans lined up online to sign a book of memories established to let his family know how much he was appreciated in the Highlander community.
2. One might presume that this episode is named "The Lamb" because of Kenny's innocent appearance. Are there any other cases in literature or history in which the so-called "lamb" carried a small sword and tried to steal skateboards?
3. Kenny obviously hated Dr Anne from their first meeting. Can we even guess why she kept trying to befriend the boy? **note: if you answer "she loved children", you will lose credit for answering this question and will be required to write "I will not be so freakin' naive anymore" on the chalkboard 100 times.**
4. Kenny has a really interesting kind of roar/grimace expression on his face as he goes through Quickenings. It is very similar to the expression on Armand Thorne / John Durgan's face when he is thwarted. Why do we suppose this is, or am I just imagining things?