The Joe and Methos Road Show! In which we discover Certain Things about Joe! In which we discover More History of Methos! And how their Two Paths Cross! In a Totally Non-Duncan-MacLeod Context! Which is good, 'cause Mac is not to be seen in this episode.
You see, there is this Watcher named Amy who is watching this evil Immortal named Walker and finds out that he is trapping models into slavery, and has one killed while she's watching. In conversation with Joe, she figures out that he's her biological father, which rather re-arranges her worldview.
And Methos? Methos is hanging around, looking through Watcher chronicles and trying to figure out where Walker is because he wants to avoid him. He and Walker have a history, which involves the affair Methos had with Walker's (called Morgan at that time) slave Charlotte in 1808. When Walker returned unexpectedly from his travels, Methos made a quick escape; but Charlotte was left to face her owner, who killed her. Walker challenged Methos, but Methos declined to fight. In present time, Methos has had another confrontation with Walker and, again, refused to fight.
Oops, Walker catches Amy in mid-Watch and takes her prisoner. Joe goes to Methos for help and the pair go "on the road", being chased by Walker's henchmen. Walker contacts Joe, and Joe agrees to trade Methos for Amy but admits the plan to Methos after Methos cleverly tells him what great buddies they are.
Walker releases Amy, and Methos finally meets him in battle. Much to Walker's surprise, Methos isn't really an inept fighter, merely a reluctant one. Methos whacks Walker. Quickening.
Joe offers to be Amy's Daddy and Amy doesn't exactly jump at the offer.
Questions:
1. This episode is said by some to demonstrate the friendship between Joe and Methos. Name one action by Methos in this episode that was not ultimately to his own benefit.
2. Joe and Methos are both tripped up by varying degrees of houndedness. Joe fathered a daughter out of wedlock. Methos played mattress mambo with the wrong woman and she was murdered as a result. The episode title seems to refer to both of these acts as "indiscretions." Do these indiscretions in any way deter from prior judgments made about either of these characters? Is Joe's attempt at making up with his daughter make him look noble or pathetic or just Joe what he can to make amends? Did he owe his daughter amends? Methos obviously can't do his dead lover Charlotte any good by avenging her murder. What other reason might he have chosen to kill Walker?
3. There's a lot of comic repartee between Methos and Joe in this episode. Is it good natured teasing or something else? Give examples.
4. What would Duncan MacLeod have said to Methos about fighting Walker? What would Duncan MacLeod have told Joe about his daughter? What would Joe and Methos have told Duncan MacLeod in return?
5. Amy was 10th in her class at the Watcher Academy, yet was assigned an exciting and interesting Immortal to watch. It appears that daddy Joe was behind her assignment. Does Joe carry any real responsibility for putting a new academy graduate into a field assignment which ultimately turned out to be well over her head? Would her assignment be graded as a "failure" because she had to be rescued? Or would the death of her Immortal allow Joe to cover up her failure and allow her further advancement in the organization?