Duncan has been summoned by an old Immortal friend, Lucas Desiree, but before he can find him, Lucas is beheaded by another Immortal. The local sheriff arrests an itinerant, Leo Atkins, but it's clear to the audience, Duncan and Sergeant Powell that he's innocent. So Duncan is left both trying to kill Leo and identifying the real killer.
This episode seems to ask a lot of questions that the show will later decide are best off ignored. Powell makes the trip because the police are still looking into the death of Slan Quince in the first episode and another headless body turning up strikes a cord. This is the last we'll see of him, so apparently no-one thought anything of any of the other headless bodies over the course of the next six seasons. We also see Duncan somehow sensing Lucas' quickening from at least half a mile away, which I don't think happens again and is contradicted later.
Tessa is absent from a huge chunk of the episode again as Duncan and Richie go off to Steveston without her. We do get the debut of Randi McFarlane, who's considered important enough to be listed on the opening credits, albeit without any clips of her. She'll be back in Bad Day in Building A.
Garry Chalk, one of those Vancouver actors who seems to be in everything, pops up as a local redneck who leads a lynch mob targeting Leo. Duncan calmly taking out some of them and then facing down the rest provides a satisfying moment.
It's not really a surprise that Sheriff Crowley turns out to be our Bad Guy Immortal of the Week (who else was it going to be, one of the rednecks?) but there's still an electric moment when he and Duncan finally meet knowing exactly who the other one is and how this is going to go. Their inevitable sword fight is unfortunately rather brief, but they exchange some nice barbs along the way.
The ending is a bit strange: Leo sells Duncan his old military medal, saying it's a mistake to hold on to the past, but Duncan slips it into his backpack anyway?
This episode seems to ask a lot of questions that the show will later decide are best off ignored. Powell makes the trip because the police are still looking into the death of Slan Quince in the first episode and another headless body turning up strikes a cord. This is the last we'll see of him, so apparently no-one thought anything of any of the other headless bodies over the course of the next six seasons. We also see Duncan somehow sensing Lucas' quickening from at least half a mile away, which I don't think happens again and is contradicted later.
Tessa is absent from a huge chunk of the episode again as Duncan and Richie go off to Steveston without her. We do get the debut of Randi McFarlane, who's considered important enough to be listed on the opening credits, albeit without any clips of her. She'll be back in Bad Day in Building A.
Garry Chalk, one of those Vancouver actors who seems to be in everything, pops up as a local redneck who leads a lynch mob targeting Leo. Duncan calmly taking out some of them and then facing down the rest provides a satisfying moment.
It's not really a surprise that Sheriff Crowley turns out to be our Bad Guy Immortal of the Week (who else was it going to be, one of the rednecks?) but there's still an electric moment when he and Duncan finally meet knowing exactly who the other one is and how this is going to go. Their inevitable sword fight is unfortunately rather brief, but they exchange some nice barbs along the way.
The ending is a bit strange: Leo sells Duncan his old military medal, saying it's a mistake to hold on to the past, but Duncan slips it into his backpack anyway?