A distressed woman comes into the shop and meets Richie, before throwing herself off a tall building. When her body disappears, Duncan and company conclude she is a recently activated immortal. But who's the moody long-haired bloke following her around?
The first part of this episode is the best of it. Joan Jett does well at portraying Felicia's apparent confusion and makes a believable ingenue. Which is fortunate, because the regulars are all pretty unlikable here. Richie just comes across as creepy and sleazy, cracking on to an apparently emotionally distressed woman the moment he sees her and not really changing mood for the rest of the episode. Duncan and Tessa meanwhile are in a permanent bad mood, snapping at everyone without any real justification. When Tessa says Duncan won't want a complete stranger staying with them, I wondered what she thinks Richie was. (Richie claims to have worked for Duncan for six months here. Either he's bigging himself up to Felicia or these five episodes have covered a lot of time.)
But once we got the reveal that Felicia is no innocent but the Evil Immortal of the Week, it basically becomes a shaggy dog story without an ending, as we wait an age for the characters to catch up. By the end, quite a few good people are dead one way or another, without any payoff at all as Duncan decides to let one of the vilest villains he'll encounter off with nothing more than a lecture because...Richie fancies her? Were the show expecting a return and never got around to it? (I hear Joan Jett was a big deal, but I don't know anything about her other than that she's in this episode.)
I suspect the show's makers realised they screwed up with this, so tried to use the DVD extras to rewrite the episode and turn Felicia into a tragic figure who only murders defenceless women and children because they deserve it. This is spectacularly distasteful and doesn't remotely match the episode, so best to just ignore it. Actually, best to pretend that, since the episode ends with Duncan clearly stopping and waiting just a few paces from where Felicia's lying dead, that he went back and took her head once Richie wasn't looking.
Our first female Immortal, and the first time we see someone other than MacLeod receive a quickening in the series. There's still an awful lot of soon-to-be-ignored mythology, as Duncan continues to blather about the Gathering and claims there's a set time for someone to be activated as an Immortal. We get a new police officer character (this one will be back next episode), who has decided by the end of the episode that Felicia is the one beheading people all over town.
The first part of this episode is the best of it. Joan Jett does well at portraying Felicia's apparent confusion and makes a believable ingenue. Which is fortunate, because the regulars are all pretty unlikable here. Richie just comes across as creepy and sleazy, cracking on to an apparently emotionally distressed woman the moment he sees her and not really changing mood for the rest of the episode. Duncan and Tessa meanwhile are in a permanent bad mood, snapping at everyone without any real justification. When Tessa says Duncan won't want a complete stranger staying with them, I wondered what she thinks Richie was. (Richie claims to have worked for Duncan for six months here. Either he's bigging himself up to Felicia or these five episodes have covered a lot of time.)
But once we got the reveal that Felicia is no innocent but the Evil Immortal of the Week, it basically becomes a shaggy dog story without an ending, as we wait an age for the characters to catch up. By the end, quite a few good people are dead one way or another, without any payoff at all as Duncan decides to let one of the vilest villains he'll encounter off with nothing more than a lecture because...Richie fancies her? Were the show expecting a return and never got around to it? (I hear Joan Jett was a big deal, but I don't know anything about her other than that she's in this episode.)
I suspect the show's makers realised they screwed up with this, so tried to use the DVD extras to rewrite the episode and turn Felicia into a tragic figure who only murders defenceless women and children because they deserve it. This is spectacularly distasteful and doesn't remotely match the episode, so best to just ignore it. Actually, best to pretend that, since the episode ends with Duncan clearly stopping and waiting just a few paces from where Felicia's lying dead, that he went back and took her head once Richie wasn't looking.
Our first female Immortal, and the first time we see someone other than MacLeod receive a quickening in the series. There's still an awful lot of soon-to-be-ignored mythology, as Duncan continues to blather about the Gathering and claims there's a set time for someone to be activated as an Immortal. We get a new police officer character (this one will be back next episode), who has decided by the end of the episode that Felicia is the one beheading people all over town.