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Duncan must intervene when Richie is caught up in the machinations of Immortal Felicia Martins.
Plot[]
Richie is working in the antique shop, while nearby, in an open-air cafe, a young woman is sitting with blood flowing from an open wound on her hand. As she leaves, she notices a mysterious black car following her. She enters the antique store, and Richie introduces himself, the woman says she has no idea of how she got there, then has a dizzy spell. Helping her to a chair, Richie asks her her name, and the woman introduces herself as Felicia Martins. Richie gives her one of his new business cards, then notices blood on her hand. Rushing to get a bandage, he returns to find Felicia gone.
Later that day, Felicia shows up at an office high-rise downtown. When a businesswoman compliments her on her outfit, she strips it off and hands it to her. She makes her way to the roof, walks to the edge, and steps off falling to her death seven hundred feet below.
Paramedics rush Felicia to the nearest hospital, unaware they are being followed by the driver in the black car. Elsewhere, Duncan has purchased a prized Masamune katana for over $200,000. As he is polishing his new blade in the antique store, Stanley Cominski turns up. He questions MacLeod about a Jane Doe that jumped off a building, a Jane Doe who had a card with the shop's address on her body. Richie enters, and identifies the "Jane Doe." When Cominski takes Richie and Duncan to the morgue to identify the body, however, they find the body missing. After the three leave, the driver of the black car, enters the morgue and knocks out the attendant. When he opens the locker supposedly containing Felicia and discovers it empty, however, he has a fit of rage, striking the shelf repeatedly with his sword.
Later, Richie is returning from an errand, unaware that Felicia is watching him. As Richie talks to Tessa about his errand, Felicia bursts in in a panic, then faints. Richie carries her into his bedroom, and puts her to bed. Tessa reprimands him afterward, reminding Richie that he knows nothing about this woman and that he didn't think when he did what he did. She knows Felicia must be Immortal and that Duncan will not be pleased to find her there. As she speaks, Duncan enters. Before either Richie or Tessa can inform him, MacLeod interrupts: "I know. She's alive. And she's here." Sending the two away, Duncan enters Richie's bedroom, and faces Felicia, asleep in Richie's bed. When Felicia wakes up, Duncan introduces himself, and determines that Felicia is a new Immortal and reluctantly begins to train her.
It later transpires, however, that she is old enough to need no training, that the man who had been following her had been doing so since the 18th century when Felice murdered his wife and child. She returns to the shop and tries to attack Tessa, but Tessa warns her off, threatening to burn her face with the blowtorch she's working with. She also tries to seduce Richie, asking him to meet her at a beach later. Ultimately, she kills her pursuer, Claude Devereux.
MacLeod and Richie both end up at the beach, and Richie gets knocked out while MacLeod battles Felicia. But in what proves to be the first of a pattern, Duncan does not take her head. Her sword breaks, and Duncan tells her he will kill her if she crosses his path again.
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Story Notes[]
- This episode is the first instance of Duncan's reluctance to kill a female immortal.
- Felicia is the first female immortal seen in the franchise.
- This episode has a few similarities to Chivalry in season 5. Both have Richie getting seduced by a female immortal with a habit of killing her lovers, followed by Duncan refusing to take the female immortal's head.
- This episode was actually the first one to be shot. The production code is 92101-5: 92(year)1(first season)01(first episode to be shot)-5(fifth episode in the story line).
- Guest star Joan Jett is the first of a parade of rock/pop stars who serve as guests in the franchise, and include Roger Daltry and Roland Gift in recurring roles.