Take a deep breath. {waiting...}
Exhale. {waiting...}
Okay. The play is about to start. It's a morality play, filled with tragedy and betrayal, vengeance and redemption. Keep your arms inside the car and your tray tables and seats in the fully upright and locked position. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Joe is making a recovery, holed up in a wine cellar with Methos.
Remember all those Watchers, the avid audience at Joe's execution, suddenly becoming the main and fatal attraction, executed themselves by renegade Immortal Jacob Galati? Hmmmm. You didn't know it was Jacob Galati at the time, did you?
Jacob has a history with the Watchers. Horton and his goon squad murdered his wife a while back, and Jacob has vowed vengeance on anyone wearing a Watcher tattoo.
Wow.
Maybe the surviving Watchers can quit blaming all their problems on Joe and Duncan MacLeod. No? That would be wrong, wouldn't it? So, with a bit of assistance from Methos, Joe manages to put Jacob Galati into the hands of the Watchers. Duncan is the unhappy recipient of Jacob's Quickening when the Watchers behead Jacob. Does Duncan call down the fires of hell upon the Watchers? No. In fact, Joe goes back into the fold, forgiven and redeemed. Told you there was redemption going on in this here play. Of course, Jack Shapiro, Watcher Tribune, gets shuffled out of his position.
Methos decides he has to pick which side of the fence he's going to pitch for, and Adam Pierson is no more.
Questions:
1. Do you like watching this episode? Comment.
2. Our bloodthirsty side rather wanted to see Mac join Jacob and destroy the Watchers. Our bloodthirsty side rather failed to see the wrongness in taking vengeance upon an organization whose members have the power (and occasionally, the will) to hunt Immortals down, and whose most innocuous activities are invasion of privacy and voyeurism. Our peaceable side just wants everyone to get along, regardless of the violent natures and opposing objectives of the persons involved. We think our peaceable side is a weenie. What do you think?
3. From our very first introduction to Joe Dawson, we're shown a man who just does his job. He is genial, but doesn't play by the rules; he breaks his oath upon every convenient occasion. But still his dedication to the organization which imposed those rules goes beyond death. Why didn't he give up his post as Mac's Watcher when he knew he could not, and would not, play by the book? Is it at all possible that being "MacLeod's Watcher" carries such cachet in the organization that he thought breaking the rules in order to effectively Watch such a man would be forgiven?
4. Who had regrets about the execution of Jacob Galati, and why?
5. Hair. Pants. Jacob. Duncan. Methos. Extrapolate and report.