She wakes up in a hospital bed, suddenly surrounded by unfriendlies who seem to be trying to kill her! She jumps from the bed, perpetrates damage upon the unfriendlies, and makes an escape from the hospital. After stealing some clothes, she wanders around wondering who the heck she could possibly be, when she runs into Duncan MacLeod who knows who she is and is willing to explain everything he knows.
Her name is Kyra, and she has been a soldier for a thousand years. When she met Duncan MacLeod in 1640, she was serving as a protector to Queen Anne. They shared some badinage, some repartee and a bed for the night. In the present, Duncan proves to her that he has some knowledge of her body by bringing up the existence of a small birthmark where no stranger should look. She really doesn't believe the whole Immortal thing, which proves that she may have amnesia, but she's nobody's fool.
She wanders back to the place she shared with Richard who was the chief judge in a trial held in honor of Immortal General Milos Vladic, and regains her memory. Vladic had had his goons kill Richard, and Kyra had jumped out of a window. Since Kyra was Richard's bodyguard, it didn't reflect well on her abilities in that area, even though the trial was over and she and Richard were planning a vacation far away from the unpleasantness of the trial.
Vladic still wants her dead, because he knows she will be coming after him when she regains her memory, and his goons make some abortive efforts to kill her. She does away with them and intrudes on Vladic's privacy. He makes a snide comment about a woman trying to do the work of a man, and she beheads him.
Kyra returns to Mac's barge where he awaits the outcome of her battle with Vladic. They do a little smooch, he offers help if she ever needs it. She turns it (and him) down with a smooth, "the lady can take care of herself" and walks away.
Questions:
1. Bodyguard Kyra told her lover (and the fellow she was guarding) to stay in front of an open window while she answered the phone, then allowed him to open the hotel door without knowing who was there. I don't think she was a very good bodyguard, and should probably find another line of work. If she went to a career counselor, what field of endeavor might she be encouraged to investigate?
2. As Vladic waited on his knees to be beheaded, the expression on his face was interesting. Surprise and resignation. How did some other Immortals look as they were about to meet their doom? What does their expression say about their respective characters? Is it a point of honor NOT to beg for mercy before the final blow?
3. Kyra was one of the F'Immies on trial for a shot at the next Highlander series. Her episode was not chosen. What were the weaknesses of this episode that defined its failure?
4. Kyra is not the first Immortal to experience amnesia. Statistically speaking, Immortals seem inordinately prone to mental disturbances of one sort or another, with Duncan MacLeod being first and foremost among the victims. Strong body, weak mind? A point being made by TPTB?
5. Kyra was exhuberant in her praise of her dead lover Richard, asking Mac if he had ever known anyone as good, and then had that person suddenly gone. Mac answered that he had. Was he speaking of Tessa? Darius? Fitz? Rebecca? Or someone else?