Highlander University

Highlander: the Series

Obsession

Woe is they. These good-lookin' Immortal men who fall in love with mortal women who reject them.

In 1825 David Keogh is an Immortal guy who falls in love with Julia, a girl quite above his station. He is a former indentured servant and her father is wealthy. Neither of them has any intentions of making a match with Keogh. MacLeod is witness to Keogh's failure to win her hand in marriage. In 1882 MacLeod is himself in love with Sarah, a woman who has no intentions of falling prey to his matrimonial ambitions. She's already married, it would seem.

Mac tries to get her to come away with him. The husband shoots Mac. Mac dies. Mac revives, horrifying Sarah, and has to go away. So in modern times David Keogh is in love again, and when he gives Jill the death-revival act, instead of declaring her love for him, she freaks and tells him to take a hike.

Keogh kind of stalks Jill, who goes to Mac to get him to talk Keogh into laying off. Dr Anne interprets the situation as an abusive/stalking kind of thing, which it is ... but she doesn't recognize the Immortal aspects of the whole scene. Trying to escape from Keogh, Jill goes out a window to her death. Not being Immortal, she doesn't revive. Seeing that Keogh didn't actually push her out the window, he is entirely blameless so Mac can't whack him.

Questions:

1. At least Julia survived the encounter, eh?

2. David Keogh gets obsessed. Okay. No problem Understood. But a hundred years later, Duncan MacLeod is unable to get over being rejected by Sarah Carter in 1882? Still having to work this out? Still angry? I don't get it. Do you get it?

3. If Jill had survived, and Keogh had still not ceased stalking her, would Duncan have had to eventually take Keogh's head?

4. Hair? Pants? You decide.