Highlander S2E12: Under Color of Authority
Richie runs afoul of immortal bounty hunter (that is, an immortal who is a bounty hunter, not a bounty hunter who specializes in immortals) Mako (Jonathan Banks), who is chasing after a young girl named Laura (Deanna Milligan). Richie doesnât know Laura from Adam (or should that be âdoesnât know her from Eveâ?) but, being a horndog as well as an idiot, he saves her from Mako and the two seek sanctuary at Chez MacLeod.
Duncan asks, âWhat did he look like?â and Richie says he was a âMean-looking sucker. Big nasty scar down one side of his face. Made him look scary as hell.â Sounds like a lot of immortals could fit that bill, but Mac immediately recognizes him as the Javert-like U.S. Marshall who hunted down and killed Tim Ramsey (Lochlyn Munro), a friend of Duncan who was accused of a crime he more or less did not commit back in 1882.
Slightly less of a horndog than Richie (and not even buy that much, really), Mac doesnât quite buy Lauraâs sob story that she left her abusive husband, so her father-in-law pinned a bogus theft rap on Laura and sicced Mako on her.
Duncan decides to dig around, but he doesnât âwant the police storyâ because, should Laura be telling the truth, her father-in-law âSupposedly ⊠owns the local police.â What does MacLeod do? He calls in a favor from Joe Dawson, who not only has the Watchersâ ânetworkâ at his disposal, but also knows at least as much about Mako as Mac does. See, this makes sense; it sure makes a hell of a lot more sense than the previous meetings between Dawson and Mac.
Additonally, Duncan tries to reason with all the concerned parties but itâs a swing and a miss each time, his conciliatory discourse falling on deaf ears (all three sets of âem). Yada yada yada Mako ends up running Laura over with is truck, killing her. Richie fights and, against all odds, beats Mako, with Duncan inisting all the way until the end that âthis doesnât have to go any further.â
I really enjoyed Eye for an Eye, the first-ever Highlander episode revolving around Richieâs immortality, and part of what made it so good was that Richie couldnât bring himself to kill his foe; the writers, however, couldnât kick that particular can down the road forever, and thus we get what we have here today: a flukey beheading, a lame quickening, and an overall confirmation that yes, turning Richie immortal was a stupid fucking idea. Actually, you know what? âStupidâ doesnât begin to describe it; in fact, this truly calls for the Alice Cooper spelling: immortal Richie is a stoopid fucking idea.
The epilogue is the best part of the episode, but only because itâs the last part of the episode; otherwise, itâs just as bad as anything that came before it. MacLeod breaks the news to Richie that âYou have to leave.â Donât get me wrong; I think Richie overstayed his welcome about five minutes into the first episode of the first season. Itâs not like Duncan, though, to take drastic measures without a good reason â or, for that matter, any reason at all.
Why is Mac sending Richie away? It canât be because heâs worried about the police; after all, MacLeod himself is practically a serial killer (eight victims in Seacouver alone, and always the same m.o.), and heâs nonetheless cool as a cucumber.
It canât be because he and Mako were or had at any point been friends â not that it would make too much of a difference, since Duncan has fought and even killed some of his best friends.
And it canât be either because Mac thinks that Mako was just doing heâs job, considering that the last words Duncan ever spoke to Mako were, âYou may come here under the color of authority, but youâre placing yourself above the law. Nobodyâs above the law, not even you.â Mako needed to be taken down a peg, and he was; whatâs the big fucking deal?
Anyway, the show closes with Mac wiping a weepy tear, for which the only explanation possible is that the writers were somehow under the impression that they hadnât made a big enough wuss out of Duncan already. On the plus side, the Unholy Alliance two-parter is almost around the corner, so Iâm cautiously optimistic that this season can bounce back from this terrible, terrible episode.
Highlander S2E12: Under Color of Authority
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