Duncan proposes marriage to Tessa, but can he escape a long-ago curse as well as a mortal who uses her as bait?Duncan proposes marriage to Tessa, but can he escape a long-ago curse as well as a mortal who uses her as bait?Duncan proposes marriage to Tessa, but can he escape a long-ago curse as well as a mortal who uses her as bait?
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- TriviaAll entries contain spoilers
- GoofsDuncan tells Ritchie he has never been married. In Highlander: Endgame, he rediscovers Faith/Kate, who was married to Duncan centuries ago.
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Duncan 'Mac: Let's get married.
Tessa Noel: What do you mean, married?
Duncan 'Mac: I mean married, as in, married.
Tessa Noel: You mean, as in a proposal? You mean, as in "will you marry me" married?
Duncan 'Mac: Is this better?
[gets down on one knee, singing]
Duncan 'Mac: Will you marry me? Will you marry me?
[Tessa pulls him to stand up]
Duncan 'Mac: You still haven't answered my question.
[to passing strangers]
Duncan 'Mac: Do you think she should marry me? I think she should marry me. Yeah? I think she should marry me. What do you think?
Tessa Noel: All right, all right, all right! Yes! I'll marry you!
Watcher Pallin Wolfe has a fetish for luring Immortals into traps with their loved ones as bait and then killing them in pitched blackness. It's not long before he's kidnapped Tessa in order to target Mac.
The show really does seem to be struggling to work out how its new elements are to be included. Last episode, the Watchers were uneasy allies of Duncan. Here, they're back to being out and out bad guys determined to exterminate Immortals. There isn't even any mention of Horton, who was previously implied to be behind that ideology. The episode just seems to think all Watchers are bad, except maybe for that guy on the opening titles (who, conveniently, isn't seen or mentioned).
Whilst it has some good elements, the episode loses points for being typically padded, with two flashback montages and a sequence of Tessa escaping and being immediately recaptured. It also relies on Duncan being uncharacteristically stupid, twice leaving Tessa and Richie alone with disastrous results.
And unfortunately, Wolfe is a very dull antagonistic, a villain by number who takes the hero's girlfriend hostage and, for some reason, keeps her alive when he's got no use for her: He doesn't even use her for phone calls after the first one. (And what does he do with his hostage at the start, who he seems to gloat at and then leave tied up in a room? Does he have a whole load of hostages he's kept alive for no reason in various rooms?) He can't even decide how much of a psychopath he is, admitting he kills Immortals for the perverse thrill, then spouting rhetoric about noble soldiers of the cause.
Richie's psychic friend Greta is a bit more interesting, although you wonder what she was told about how this all turned out. Duncan is oddly sceptical about her to start with: Has he never come across anything like this before? There's a comedy taxidermist who adds a bit of fun and a satisfying, if slightly nonsensical, moment where Duncan turns the tables on Wolfe. Unfortunately, we then get one of those silly Highlander endings where a character dramatically walks away from someone they'll be back hanging out with next episode.
Tessa's last appearance as a regular: She'll next be seen in flashback in the season finale. The character credited as Kid is back in Season 4's Leader of the Pack with a name, Mark Rodzka.