Having been turned down by every Immortal woman of his acquaintance lately, Duncan is now dating the mortal Margo, who is confessing that she really doesn't like opera ... and has lied to Duncan just to impress him ... when there's a knock on the barge door. Duncan is busy lighting candles or something, so Margo answers the door.
SCREAM! Duncan! Save me!
Duncan rushes after Margo and sees her being hauled off. A clue in the form of a toy is left behind. The toy signifies the Keram toy company and Duncan goes to its headquarters to rescue Margo. He's met by Immortal Devon Marek with whom Duncan shares a small slice of history, in that Marek is fatally wounded in front of Duncan, who tells him to make his peace with God. Marek dies while protesting that he's not dying. Duncan buries him in a very shallow grave and Marek wakes up Immortal.
Duncan tries to tell Marek a few of the Facts of Immortality, but Marek is having none of it. He's a duke's son and Duncan's rules just don't apply. Somehow or other Marek ends up dead again and his body is discovered as Duncan rides off into the distance. Marek, now having died publicly, is out of the duke business.
Back in present time, Marek now owns the toy company and has set up a game for Duncan. In order to save Margo, he must fight his way through the toy company building and the 4 killers Marek hired to kill him. Duncan immediately transforms himself into McGyver and perpetrates all sorts of nastiness upon the killers, rescues Margo and approaches Marek. Duncan is in the middle of explaining things (again) to Marek when he is shot by Margo, who apologizes for having to make a living.
Duncan manages to throw himself out the window to die in peace and quiet. Marek kills Margo who is demanding payment for the killing of Duncan MacLeod.
The game that Marek is running is controlled by the Ultimate Computer Geeeeekazoid Dice, who is entirely divorced from reality, until he finally figures out that Marek is playing for real and for keeps in Meat Space (god help us, he actually says that ... Meat Space). Duncan reinforces this new knowledge upon the person of Dice who then decides to help Duncan.
Duncan traps Marek and they do a little duel with their swords. Duncan disarms Marek, then proves what a standup guy he is by allowing Marek to retrieve his sword. They fight some more. Duncan wins. And there is a televised Quickening. No television screens are smashed into flinders, but lots of lightning surrounds Duncan's multiply televised visage.
Duncan meets Dice outside as the bodies are being hauled off and warns Dice not to reveal his secret identity (McGyver) or something, not even in his wildest dreams, to which Dice replies, "Man, I don't ever go there."
Questions:
1. Once again, someone answers a knock at Duncan's barge door and is dragged off. A peephole in that door would just solve a multitude of problems, don't you think? Or a good stout lock. How about pulling up that gangplank when visitors aren't expected? Maybe Duncan could try answering his own door occasionally. Any other security precautions we could suggest to the Highlander?
2. Anyone ever notice how many candles Duncan burns in the barge in the 6th season? Fire has always been one of the greatest fears of the seagoing. Perhaps Duncan is just trying to offset the sterile ambience of the newly decorated barge with romantic lighting. Or maybe it's dead fish season on the Seine and he was trying to mask the odor. Perhaps it was a contrast. The Candlelit Barge as opposed to The Black Tower. What are your thoughts on the candle situation?
3. Dice. Oh Dice ... Meat Space ... this man was a geeeeeek's geeeeeek. Okay. Let's talk stereotypes. Which Highlander: the Series characters have been at least as, or even more, stereotypical than Dice? Anyone? Anyone?
4. Duncan looked Mighty Fine in his ultra-long warrior hair and his cape in the flashbacks. The music playing during the flashbacks was of the type normally associated with the comic episodes, but this one never turned into a comedy. Or did it?
5. We've seen a fair number of assassins and bounty hunters throughout the series, usually Immortals. This bunch of 4 bozos were mortals. Add in the 5th assassin Margo, who is also mortal, and the geeeeeeek Dice, and you see that mortals didn't come off very well in this episode. Usually mortals are presented as noble in some fashion, or at least deserving of help. Nope. Not in this episode. Why was MacLeod involved? Should he have been involved, or should he have just called the cops when Margo got kidnaped?