F'Immie Tryout # ... oh give me a break.
Trying, as always, to keep Highlander on a high moral ground, the current female Immortal is a stripper. No! Reagan Cole is a bounty hunter. In the opening scenes, she gets her man in the strip club, but he gets shot dead as soon as she claps the cuffs on him. Bummer. So she goes on vacation to Paris, where she watches a photographer snapping shots of mortal wannabe model Brian Murphy. Oh! Oh! The photographer is murdered right there in front of her.
Reagan runs to Brian's rescue. Turns out the murderers are in the employ of Jack Kendall, a terrorist who didn't much like the fact that the photographer had caught him in a picture. Kendall sends his goons, the aforementioned murderers, to get the film ... which the photographer had discarded as unusable just before she was killed. Talk about your irony.
Turns out that Reagan and Duncan MacLeod have a past together. In 1833 she seduced him in the guise of a countess. Then when he was all tied up to the posts of an elaborate bed and ready for lovin', she turned him over to the duke's men who were going to behead him for the crime of diddling the duke's wife, which was considered to be treason. After she finds out that the treason in question was making whoopie with the duchess, she rescues Mac.
Oh... the terrorist ... remember the terrorist? She is the only one in the whole wide universe who knows what he looks like, because she saw him shoot the guy she was trying to capture while she was doing her stripper/bounty hunter bit. Interpol doesn't want her interfering, but she does convince them that she's their only hope of capturing Kendall, who manages to get the model Murphy murdered in the meantime.
In spite of the Interpol guy's superior attitude, Regan finds the bomb he has planted on the site of a big European unit summit. When she confronts Kendall, who has also managed to wiener his way into the summit site, he is loaded with explosives and ready to blow. She shoots him and they both die. Him for real and for always. Her for a convenient time. In the end, she and MacLeod are good friends. At least they know each other well. In one sense or another.
Questions:
1. Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod has a thing for bossy women. There we have it. Queens and duchesses, counterfeit countesses, artists and aristocrats. They tell him what to do and he does it, and he looked mighty comfortable all tied up to those bedposts, didn't he? I'm not even going to ask a question here, even though I kinda already did in the previous sentence. It ended with a "?". I'm just going to kind of drift in and out of consciousness now. Talk among yourselves.
2. Reagan Cole is a bounty hunter and a stripper. The opening shot had her preparing herself very carefully in her vinyl police woman stripper outfit. TPTB weren't trying to boost the ratings, were they? Was there an internal philosophical dialogue going on that I missed here? All that and she didn't even get to do a Quickening.
3. Was there any woman (or man) among the audience who found wannabe model Brian Murphy believable on any level at all? Who picked out his clothes for that photo shoot, anyways? If Reagan Cole had had any chance at all of winning the new Highlander series lead, would Brian Murphy, perhaps, have survived the episode to become Reagan's mortal sidekick?
4. Duncan looked pretty good in that flashback ... hair all loose and wild. I suppose there are those who thought Reagan looked pretty good in her underwear, too. Anyone? Anyone?
5. If Reagan Cole had been the new Female Immortal Highlander Replacement-type Person, would the emphasis have shifted from boy scout righteousness to something else? What would that something else be?