'The Watchers'

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Highlander Season Two

The Watchers, Air Date: October 1993

Determined to investigate the death of his old friend Darius, MacLeod follows a lead back to his old stomping grounds in the Pacific Northwest. He meets Joe Dawson, a bookstore owner with a secret; he soon learns that Dawson is a high-ranking member of an ancient secret organization known as The Watchers, who observe and record the lives of the Immortals, passing their archives down from generation to generation. Unbeknownst to Dawson, his brother-in-law, James Horton (the man who killed Darius), has been recruiting Watchers to kill Immortals. ~ recap via tv.com

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[mackiedockie.livejournal.com]

Goes without saying, one of my favorite episodes, too. Love watching Mac stalk into the bookstore, all ready to find and fight Evil Incarnate....and then meets this guy whose eyes light up like he's the second coming *g*.

Confusion, suspicion, a grudging "OK, I won't kill you _this_ time...!"

I think the introduction of the Watchers was essential to the series, not only to keep it from becoming a beheading marathon, but also to allow a full variety of interactions with knowledgeable and dangerous mortals without dragging in police or governments. Which would have grown stale fairly quickly, IMO.