Amanda tries to help MacLeod.
Well, he doesn't need the help and he certainly doesn't ask for the help, but Amanda is Amanda and bound to wander around, stomping where angels fear to tread. In this case, she springs Kalas and his wacky sidekick from prison. To her credit her real intent is to whack Kalas, but the sidekick gets in the way and Kalas makes an escape.
Amanda tells Mac what she's done, insisting that it's her problem (of course) and she can fix it! Which brings us to Why Duncan Don't Want No One Fighting His Battles: his old friend Hamza in Algiers fought Xavier and died when Duncan refused to run with him. There we go.
So Duncan and Amanda are both on the trail of Kalas, not knowing that the Christine Salzer, the widow of Watcher Don Salzer, wants to end the whole Immortal/Watcher game by publicizing their existence. Joe and Methos (in his Watcher persona of Adam Pierson) try to talk her out of it, but even after Methos slices himself open to show her that not all Watchers are inherently evil, she persists in her intent. As she walks into the newspaper building, Joe tries to shoot her, but Mac takes the bullet.
Questions:
1. Amanda, Amanda, Amanda ... this episode just makes a person wonder why she doesn't have her own show, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Describe an episode of "I Love Amanda" as you see it.
2. I liked Hamza, and think that Duncan probably suffers quite a load of guilt over his death, even though he was only peripherally responsible for Hamza's death. Or was he responsible at all for Hamza's death?
3. Christine Salzer caught onto the Watcher CD disc pretty easily, didn't she? Very smart woman not to have figured out how her husband spent the last twenty or so years, eh? Or were there already issues about his long hours at the bookstore between them?
4. Duncan looked pretty snazzy in that turban in Algiers. Covered up his hair, though. Pity. Or was it adequately attractive so we didn't think to miss the hair?
5. Who was eviller: Kalas, Xavier or Christine Salzer?