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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

Next week: Song of the Executioner

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How much further was it for Joe to be like Rita? Where was the line?

This is a very interesting question because Joe has helped MacLeod out with immortals he thought were dangerous to Mac. The only difference so far is that Joe would never help Mac to set someone up. Of course, I don't think Mac (except in case of Dark Q) would fight someone unarmed. Still it is clear that Joe is pulling for Mac to win. Even the intro to the show changes to have Joe say "May it be Duncan MacLeod."

And, it seems to me, that the Immortals that Joe gave him information about were pretty much universally "not-nice-folk" -- Immortals that did things to mortals but could not be contained by mortal law, were brutal hunters, or were otherwise bad by having a name starting with K. ^_^

Really though, this was one of the questions this episode brought up for me -- how far would Joe go and how did he draw the line when he'd already, basically, crossed the original long ago? This is one of the reasons I enjoyed the show so much. It brought up difficult questions like this and didn't always take the easy wrap-it-up-in-60 way out.

And to complicate matters even further, when he discovers there is an immortal in the core of the watcher organization. And could it be that Methos is the only one who ever played watcher? Never the less, Joe looks the other way and even becomes great friends with Methos after he learns the truth.