So you've got a Leonardo da Vinci sketch on your hands and you need to transport it across town. Do you hire a security company and an armored truck? No, just get yourself two guys and an ambulance. No one ever bothers an ambulance, right?
Wrong. The ambulance is stopped, the two guys murdered, and the sketch taken away. Duncan offers to act as go-between, deliver the ransom and bring the sketch back. He meets Simone, to whom he had just been introduced by her uncle Maurice. She is troubled, a prostitute being manipulated by her boyfriend who is a rather wildly jealous Immortal named Kagan.
Kagan and Mac have a history. Kagan and his partner/teacher Tarsis robbed a Paris bank in 1930 where Mac was doing some business. Mac warned them not to hurt anyone, but Tarsis did some shoot-em-up and Mac whacked him. He let Kagan live.
Kagan had been taken in as a boy by Tarsis, who abused him and then killed him when he reached maturity. So you can't really blame Kagan for turning out to be a wrong number. You can't really blame him for stabbing Maurice and finally killing Simone. Duncan listens to his excuses for a while before beheading him.
Questions:
1. Did anyone else get the feeling that Kagan was holding some small hope that Duncan would take him under his wing, and teach him to do right ... until, of course, Duncan actually swung his sword and beheaded him?
2. MacLeod's Paris seems rife with human suffering and intrigue. One could almost wonder why he would choose to spend so much time there. Have we seen anything about Paris that would draw Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod to spend half his time there?
3. I rather like that scene in which Duncan advances so inexorably upon the fleeing Kagan. Probably a crime and punishment sort of thing, though I'm generally not in favor of the death penalty. Do we suppose Duncan had trouble sleeping that night?
4. If Richie and Simone weren't both dead now, wouldn't they have ended up dating?
5. Is there a hair and/or pants question to be asked/answered here?