There is this statue. It is a statue of the Hindu goddess Kali. According to Immortal Kamir, who is Kali's priest and spokesperson for the statue, the statue belongs in India. According to Duncan's friend, mortal Shandra Devane, the statue belongs on display at the university which just purchased it. There's just no middle ground for these folks. Kamir is the sole remaining member of a cult whose members kill with a silken scarf. We see Kamir kill an art dealer who sold the Kali to the university, before he flies to Seacouver to take possession of the statue.
Mac and Kamir knew each other in colonial India. Mac was liaison for the particularly stuffy English Colonel Ramsey and his wife Alice. Alice rather liked Mac. She took some offense, however, when Mac rescued a lovely young Indian widow just before she was to throw herself on her dead husband's funeral pyre. Kamir was a priest, and after the widow Vashti becomes Mac's lover, he assists her in her original intent of killing herself. Kamir also sees to the murder of Colonel Ramsey. Alice had thought that death by a silken cord sounded all romantic until it actually happened to her husband, then she got kind of upset.
In Seacouver, Kamir meets Shandra Devane and is displeased that his demands that the Bengal Kali be returned home are refused. He is going to kill her with that silken cord, but Duncan shows up and so much for that idea.
Richie is rather fascinated with Kamir, being so exotic and mysterious. He talks Duncan into a quarterstaff match with Kamir, and Kamir wins.
Duncan works to get Kamir's wish granted, but Kamir is still stuck on the idea of wasting Shandra Devane. So Duncan challenges him and lops his head off. Cool Quickening. Duncan sends the Kali back home.
Questions:
1. If there is a more striking scene in all of Highlander: the Series than that of Kamir's first appearance, all turbaned and dignity, walking past that tiger, I don't know what it might be. Dredge your memory and try to think of one. Extra points if it's not the Quickening on the Eiffel Tower.
2. I got the distinct impression that Kamir was being represented as a rather magical mystery guy, appearing and disappearing at will, so certain that he was his goddess's spokesperson and in charge of her locale. Full of himself, you might say. Any particular reason you can think of why he should not have had such a high opinion of himself?
3. Duncan seemed upset when Vashti killed herself. Do you think he was in love with her, or was it a case of rescuing that stray kitten from a ledge, only to have it suddenly dive off?
4. Alice and Colonel Ramsey were quite a pair, two of a kind, though not of equal passion. Alice seemed hot to trot and Colonel Ramsey seemed determined to keep his glands firmly in check. Do we feel sorry for Alice, even after her Colonel is dead? If she had ever met Fitz and the Colonel had met Amanda, would their lives have been forever changed?
5. Richie is sad that Mac had to whack Kamir. Did Mac really have to whack Kamir?