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Highlander Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1992 - 1993
Episode 1
The Gathering
49 mins
Duncan MacLeod is an immortal who has been out of the game for many years. Duncan and his girlfriend Tessa are targeted by Slan Quince, an evil immortal. Duncan is convinced by his friend and fellow immortal Connor MacLeod that he must return to the game to protect Tessa, and to keep from losing his head.
Episode 2
Family Tree
49 mins
Duncan bails Richie out of jail after he was caught stealing files from an adoption agency in an effort to find out who his parents are. From what Richie read in the files before he was caught, he and Duncan are able to find a man who claims to be his father. Duncan senses that something isn't right, so he hits the streets to find out who this man really is.
Episode 3
The Road Not Taken
49 mins
A friend of Richie's dies suddenly after being captured during a diamond heist. The police believe it to be a drug overdose, but Richie insists his friend would never have done drugs. Duncan believes it to be the work of a potion developed by Kiem Sun, an immortal he once knew.
Episode 4
Innocent Man
49 mins
Sensing danger, the immortal Lucas Desiree requests a visit from his old friend Duncan MacLeod. Lucas is beheaded just before Duncan arrives, and the murder is pinned on a shell shocked Vietnam veteran. Duncan knows this man to be innocent, and that another immortal is to blame. To avenge his friend and to prevent an innocent man from going to jail, Duncan sets out to find the real killer.
Episode 5
Free Fall
48 mins
When Richie falls for a new Immortal, Duncan cautiously mentors her.
Episode 6
Bad Day in Building 'A'
49 mins
Tessa and Richie are among those taken hostage in a courthouse.
Episode 7
Mountain Men
49 mins
To retrieve kidnapped Tessa, MacLeod must duel the leader of a survivalist band.
Episode 8
Deadly Medicine
49 mins
On his way home from the grocery store, Duncan is the victim of a hit and run. He is rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but due to his remarkable recovery time he is able to check himself out shortly after he arrives. This is noticed by a doctor who drugs and kidnaps Duncan so that he can experiment on him. Meanwhile, reporter Randi MacFarland is hot on the trail of Duncan's disappearance.
Episode 9
The Sea Witch
49 mins
MacLeod tries to save Tessa, Richie and himself from a drug lord.
Episode 10
Revenge Is Sweet
60 mins
While browsing Duncan's antique store, a mysterious woman named Rebecca Lord inquires about a sword that he once took from a rival immortal named Walter Reinhardt. Duncan agrees to let her test the sword, and he is shocked to find that she uses the same style as Reinhardt. Having never taken Reinhardt's head, Duncan fears that the two may be working together to defeat him.
Episode 11
See No Evil
49 mins
Duncan relives the past as he attempts to get to the bottom of a series of killings identical to those committed by an Immortal decades ago.
Episode 12
Eyewitness
48 mins
MacLeod suspects an Immortal may be involved when Tessa claims to have witnessed the murder of a painter and no one believes her.
Episode 13
Band of Brothers
49 mins
An immortal named Grayson is targeting the friends and disciples of his old friend Darius, an immortal who was once a great warrior but is now a Catholic priest. Darius sends Duncan a message warning him of Grayson's treachery, and Duncan must protect Grayson's next target.
Episode 14
For Evil's Sake
49 mins
Disguised as a mime, immortal assassin Kuyler strikes in Paris.
Episode 15
For Tomorrow We Die
49 mins
An immortal thief named Xavier St. Cloud visits Darius and confesses his crimes to him after a robbery during which he murdered six people. According to the laws of the Catholic Church, Darius cannot reveal to the police what he learned during St. Cloud's confession. Duncan, who suspects that St. Cloud was responsible for the crime, then takes it upon himself to find him.
Episode 16
The Beast Below
49 mins
During a rehearsal, the manager of a band is thrown from a balcony and killed while having an argument with the band's lead singer. Duncan, who is there with Tessa and Richie as guests of the backup singer, believes the manager was killed by a mentally handicapped immortal he once befriended.
Episode 17
Saving Grace
49 mins
Grace, an Immortal who has focused on healing rather than fighting, is framed for the murder of her mortal husband by an obsessed ex-lover, the Immortal Carlo Seandaro. Duncan must step in to protect her from her own weakness.
Episode 18
The Lady and the Tiger
49 mins
Immortal Amanda plans a high-stakes burglary, but a dangerous partner from her past has escaped prison and wants her head.
Episode 19
Eye of the Beholder
49 mins
Gabriel Piton, an immortal fashion designer, kills one of his models after she finds a stash of stolen artifacts in his apartment. Now the girl's roommate, who is an acquaintance of Richie's, is in danger of the same fate, and Duncan, who is an old friend of Piton's, must step in to prevent his friend from killing another innocent person.
Episode 20
Avenging Angel
49 mins
An insane man, newly turned immortal, believes he has been reborn in order to do God's work by killing sinners.
Episode 21
Nowhere to Run
49 mins
Mark Rothwood, the son of diplomat Allan Rothwood, rapes the step-daughter of the immortal Colonel Bellian. Duncan, Tessa, and Richie go to the Rothwoods' house to visit Allan, who is an old friend of Tessa's, and Bellian shows up for revenge. Believing that Rothwood deserves a fair trial, Duncan must guard the house against the siege of Bellian and his team of mercenaries.
Episode 22
The Hunters
49 mins
Duncan receives a visit from an old friend, the immortal Hugh Fitzcairn. Fitzcairn informs him that several immortals have gone missing recently, and that he thinks something isn't right. When Darius is killed in his church they know that it isn't the work of another immortal, so they vow to avenge Darius by finding who is responsible.
