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Robert Tucker was a mortal and a probationary Watcher.
Biography[]
Tucker was mentored by Joe Dawson and was engaged to Joe's niece, Lynn Horton. Unfortunately, he got recruited into the Hunters by her father, James Horton.
MacLeod met him at the Watchers bookshop when he was consulting Joe, the manager, about the Chronicle that had been left for him by Darius. When MacLeod returned to his antique shop, Tucker and several other hunters, were lying in wait. Tucker shot at MacLeod with a tranquilizer gun, which the Highlander deflected with the copy of the Chronicle. Tucker then swung at MacLeod with baseball bat, while another man also attacked. MacLeod knocked Tucker out while he fought the other man, ultimately sending him through a window.
Lynn Horton and Robert Tucker
Tucker revived, and made a run for it, but MacLeod grabbed him and demanded to know where Tess and Richie were. He asked if Joe sent him, but Tucker was speechless with apparent fear. Frustrated and angry, MacLeod insisted "Damn you, it doesn't have to be like this!" He took back the Chronicle that Tucker had tried to steal, and told him to get out. Tucker ran, bewildered.
That night, Tucker went to the Horton's high rise apartment to report. He expressed doubts about the Hunters, "What if we're wrong? Maybe they're not all bad...he could have killed me. He didn't. He said it didn't have to be like this...I'm done with it!"
Horton answered, "It doesn't matter if they're good or evil, Robert. They're here to dominate us. They fight for their right to rule us. And one day, that is what they will do."
Tucker said he would hand in his resignation from the Watchers through Joe, and that Horton need do nothing. Horton considered for a moment, and then rushed him, pushing him over the railing of the balcony, and he fell a dozen floors to his death. Horton tried to cover up his murder, calling it an accident, but when he was exposed, he admitted to Joe and unknowingly to Lynn, that Tucker meant nothing to him. This would play a role in his eventual downfall the hands of the Highlander.
Trivia[]
- Actor Cameron Bancroft was seen in the Highlander series as both the Immortal,David Keogh, in the episode, Obsession, and as the Watcher recruit, Robert, in the episode, The Watchers.
- It is unknown as to why Horton wanted Tucker in the Hunters.