Pharaoh's Daughter

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Highlander Season Two

Pharaoh's Daughter, Air Date: April 1994

MacLeod feels the Buzz coming from an ancient sarcophagus and opens it to find Nefertiri, Cleopatra's handmaid, buried 2000 years ago with her mistress. Now revived, she pursues a vendetta against the Immortal Marcus Constantine, who was her lover and her enemy. Mac believes Constantine, who claims that he no longer wishes to fight Nefertiri -- this former Roman General has turned his back on battle and is now a curator, working to preserve history and its lessons. But Nefertiri can't let go of the old grudge, and for the first time, MacLeod is forced to face a woman he loves in Immortal combat. ~ recap via tv.com

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Comments

[weesam.livejournal.com]

This episode bugged me right from the start. MacLeod senses an Immortal in a truck, so he follows the truck? Why would he do that? The Immortal could have been the driver, quite innocent, no reason to assume otherwise at that stage - so why did he follow?

I could never get past the strangeness of this and so couldn't really enjoy the episode, although I did like Constantine and wish we had seen more of him. He reminded me a little of a non-religious Darius.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

MacLeod always tracks down unknown Immortals. That's his style. They might be a friend, an enemy, a random stranger just passing through. But he feel slike he needs to know.

I recall the beginning of "Comes a Horseman". Methos an Duncan walk out of the gameshow. They both sense an Immortal, MacLeod goes looking for him, while Methos pulls a quick fade.

[weesam.livejournal.com]

Yes, he does have the habit of wanting to know who's around, as he put it in Comes a Horsemen, but following a truck, which could be just some poor slob of an Immortal going about earning his daily crust, struck me as taking it to the extreme. Almost obsessively so.

In comes a Horseman, the person was somewhere nearby, and could be a threat, but a person in a truck is just driving by, not a threat or interested in MacLeod in any way, so why go looking for trouble?

I guess it's the one personality trait of MacLeod's that baffles me - I want to say "just let it go". But then, if he hadn't followed there would have been no story, and we wouldn't have met the interesting Constantine.