Another Immortal assassin, but this one has a cause. Ingrid is out to kill the potential Hitlers of the world. Not that she likes the idea to begin with. When her job was actually to kill the original Hitler in 1944, she failed failed failed. But that's all behind her now, and she's been working for years, alone and with various intelligence organizations, to assassinate the tyrannical despot wannabes, as she judges them.
After one assassination, she flees to Seacouver, followed by Inspector Breslaw. Breslaw figures that she's a friend of Duncan's, because he stops her from killing the neo-Nazi guy who is holding meetings, and is left holding the gun. Breslaw's own past comes into play, as the victim of oppression and tyranny, and as a guy who thinks a person just shouldn't go around assassinating people, no matter her motive. He tells his sad tale to Duncan, but Duncan is inclined to let Ingrid go her own way until Breslaw plays a tape recording of Ingrid's murder of a cop just sitting in his car, doing his job.
The cops kill Ingrid in another attempt, but of course, Duncan knows she'll just return to life and keep trying until she succeeds. He meets her outside a meeting hall where she has placed a bomb and reasons desperately with her, trying to keep her from punching the remote on the bomb. She reasons back at him, asking the hard questions about who has the right to judge and execute whom. Then she moves to punch the remote and Duncan whacks her.
Duncan has a heart-to-heart talk with Methos about it all, and Methos is little comfort.
Questions:
1. Anyone have a "little list" that Ingrid could have exercised her whacking tendencies on to keep her out of trouble? I nominate Kenny. I would nominate Benny Carbassa, but I'm not sure "annoying" is a whacking offense.
2. Was Duncan right to whack Ingrid? Was Ingrid right to try and whack that neo-Nazi?
3. Does Duncan's guilt over his own failure to kill Hitler with the bomb he planted have anything at all to do with his refusal to judge Ingrid until the very last? He obviously believes in assassination as a tool. Does he think Ingrid is just casting her nets too widely among the pool of available potential despots?
4. Inspector Breslaw is in the unusual position of walking the moral high road, as compared to Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. Or was he? Was he chasing down a woman who was making the world a better place?
5. Ingrid was incredibly callous about people that got in the way while she was conducting her assassination crusade. A cop sitting in a car, a roomful of people. Should Duncan have been so filled with angst over whacking her? He had certainly beheaded friends before who were continuing threats to mortals.
6. We don't even want to bring up the question of Inspector Breslaw's hair and pants, do we?