'They Also Serve'

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Highlander Season Three

They Also Serve, Air Date: February 1995

Recent Immortal Michael Christian has been on an incredible string of luck, taking a number of heads from unarmed and vulnerable opponents, including May-Ling Shen, who taught MacLeod the martial arts in 1780's Mongolia. Christian's Watcher, Rita Luce, has been doing more than just watching, supplying Christian with classified information on the other Immortals and their weaknesses. MacLeod, unaware of Christian, goes on a vision quest to his cabin on Holy Ground -- deliberately leaving his sword behind. The race is on for Joe Dawson to figure out Rita's secret before Christian sets his sights on MacLeod. ~ recap via tv.com

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Comments

Re: the Watchers...

[amberleewriter.livejournal.com]

Well, the supporting the organization part isn't as hard for me to get. Let's face it, all the Watchers seem to have "day jobs" or full-time work in some other field as a "cover." James has the bookstore (where Joe and, apparently, at least one other watcher works). Don Salzar has a bookstore and the sign says it has branches in several cities in multiple countries. Later, Joe has the bar. I assume that these businesses are initially funded by the Watcher organization and used as income which would be funneled through various holding corporations into a larger entity. Everyone from large business conglomerates to the mob has done this for years so I can't see it as a big problem to accomplish. Some of the DVD/Chronicle stuff indicates that men like Shapiro, Velmas, and other "Tribunes" are employed by a "mega corporation." All the Watchers would have to do is get a few good MBA's, stock brokers, and investment people to manage things. After all, aside from Immortal "drifters" (most of whom seem to be the nasties that they deem "too dangerous" to assign a regular Watcher), it should be pretty easy to have your people simply get jobs or open up businesses in a location where an Immortal settles down (and have them return the majority of the profits back into the organization's kitty) thereby keeping their people both doing something plausible and making a living. I'll bet good money Kristin's watcher was either in publishing or a photographer. Richie's man was a bartender. Ian was on Cord for a while and, guess what, was in the military and likely drawing a salary from Her Majesty's Government at the time. In fact, until the modern age I'd say that most folks probably didn't get much financial support, if any, from the greater whole of the Organization and were pretty much left to fend for themselves. *shrugs* I'd imagine that you'd be paid more in "connections" for private sector work that would allow you to move around than you would be in actual money. Kind of like joining a greek house at university: that costs you money but you meet a lot of people and there's quite a bit of cache involved in being part of the group. So for me, that's not so much a problem, it's the whole paranoid Immortals not figuring it out thing that doesn't work for me.