The infamous sticks 'n' balls episode, as well as the first of the F'Immie episodes, Sins of the Father tells the tale of Alex Raven. She had protected Max since his father was killed by Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Duncan MacLeod first met Alex Raven as she stood soaked to the skin after receiving the Quickening an the Immortal who had just killed her lover. She didn't explain and Mac regarded her killing that Immortal as something like cheating, as she had chased him down from a horse while he was afoot.
In present time, Mac is playing bocci with his old friend, the banker Georges. Georges gets blown up after the game when he starts his car. George's grandson Grant says no one hated the old man, yet finally explains that Georges had taken money from the Russian Mafia to keep his bank afloat. Mac starts running into Alex Raven and his suspicions mount. He thinks Alex had something to do with Georges' death.
They team up, however, as Grant starts trying to have them both killed.
Alex introduces Mac to Max, now an old man, who explains he is trying to have millions of dollars restored to the Jews, who were robbed by the Nazis, and whose funds seem to have ended up in Georges' bank. In true bad guy style, Grant confesses that he had his grandfather killed because the old man's conscience was going to force him to return the money to the Jews before he died. Then he manages to fall to his death, leaving Mac and Alex and Max to search Georges' house and find Georges' written confession and the list of stolen monies.
Mac and Alex play a little bocci and Alex turns down Mac's invitation to dine. Mac seems confused.
Questions:
1. Why does Alex turn down Mac's invitation? Is it the hair? The sunglasses? The muted wardrobe? Is it possible that defeating Ahriman turned Mac into something less than the hound we have all known and loved for so very long? Is that the price Mac had to pay for surviving as the Immortal Champion? Is he doomed to become another Coot in the Cave?
2. Why would Mac choose to fight another Immortal with that stick? Is he afraid of killing Richie again?
3. We are thinking that a series starring Alex Raven would have meant a whole lot of drenched Quickenings and half-nekkid amorous wrestling. We are also thinking that a series starring Alex Raven would star a whole bunch of lovers who meet an untimely demise. Would this approach have possibly proven more successful than the Amanda Show?
4. Since this was a F'Immie tryout show, we must bring up the question of Alex Raven's hair. We would rather not, as it seemed to go from curly to straight to curly again as she went from standing still to being in a stunt shot to standing still. And what was it with that motorcycle, anyways? She seemed to ride it quite tentatively and we wonder if there were people running on the other side of it, holding it up as she rode away.
5. Highlander: the Series seems to have a thing about the Russian Mafia. Sometimes we wonder why. Make something up. Be entertaining.