Amanda is transacting some business in a money store when the place is robbed by Immortal Cory Raines, who just happens to be an old friend. Although Richie is waiting outside for her, she leaves with Cory in his antique automobile, who does his best to discommode Richie who follows on his motorcycle.
Richie describes Cory's car to Duncan and they go in search of the car. A non-helpful though sincerely flummoxed mechanic gives them the information they need to track down Cory, and they find Amanda and Cory cozily ensconced in Cory's cabin.
For Duncan it's deja vu all over again, for Amanda and Cory have played him for a fool before back in 1926. While they did the traveling Bonnie and Clyde show, he got to follow them from town to town and dig them up from a series of graves. In fact, Cory has invited Amanda to help him rob an Federal reserve bank, and she has accepted. She misses all the excitement of being a felon on the run. She tries to talk Richie into joining them, but Richie has matured and refuses the invitation. One gets the impression that she's joining Cory mainly because Duncan won't ask her to stay with him.
"Cops" break into Cory's cabin and take Amanda away. In the meantime, Cory has set a bomb to explode in a car as a distraction for robbing the bank. Duncan notices a marching band is going to be in danger, and takes the ticking-bomb car out of harm's way. Of course, the door handle falls off at the moment of escape and Duncan is in the car when it explodes. He is not happy about this, but Cory thinks it's pretty funny.
It comes to light that Amanda wasn't really arrested by cops so much as kidnaped by the guy whose money Cory stole in the robbery of the money store. It's a lot of money, and Cory has already given it to an orphanage, so he can't return it.
Duncan gets a plan. He wraps a bomb around Cory and gives Cory what looks like a detonator. Cory goes in to rescue Amanda with a fake suitcase full of money and the bad guys flee from his explosive self. Cory comes out all jubilant. He loves it when a plan comes together; however, Duncan is waiting outside with the real detonator and gives Cory just a taste of the Vengeance of Duncan MacLeod. BOOM! Cory is less than amused, but Duncan thinks it's pretty funny. "All in fun, Cory boy, all in fun!"
Amanda leaves, promising to see the bereft Duncan in Paris.
Questions:
1. Would even Amanda travel across Missouri in circus spangles? Why?
2. Duncan and Amanda meet Cory while traveling together, and all of a sudden, Duncan is 3d banana in the traveling crime show. Is he, on some level, enjoying this departure from the straight and narrow, or is he just as miserable as he looks?
3. This is one of Richie's best episodes. He is mature enough to withstand Amanda and to take potshots at Duncan MacLeod's technique for dealing with Amanda. He is also Duncan's able assistant when dealing with Cory ("You stole from Sam Grinkhov?") ("I'm taking notes.") (Because, my dear Amanda, no one tells you anything.") Duncan, on the other hand, is at sea. He does a pretty funny French director impression, but he makes the comedy seem like work. Any comment?
4. Has anyone ever seen a marching band practicing in full uniform?
5. Amanda tells Cory that she's the original serial monogamist, and lets Cory think that Richie is her amour du jour. Why would she hesitate to tell Cory that she's with Duncan MacLeod again? Ashamed of Duncan? Or does she realize that Cory hates Duncan as much as Duncan hates Cory? Why does she leave at the end?