From: rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: REPOST - Highlander - "Eyewitness"
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:09:48 GMT
Organization: MAWL - Mudd Alums Without Lives

In article <5030041@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> mirin@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Mirin Lew) writes:
>I missed this episode last Saturday.  Could someone please email or post
                       ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
>a summary?

Before you read this, you might want to check to be sure that you
didn't miss "The Sea Witch".  Do you watch your corresponding
Highlander ep before or after the WGN broadcast?

And here I thought that San Diego was the first market (ignoring time
zone differences  :-) to see a new ep.

Spoilers!



The ep opens with an art show featuring Tessa's works.  Duncan is away
in New York (and we thus learn that the shop is not in New York and
therefore not the same as Connor's from the movie).

A woman is deeply affected by one of Tessa's sculptures, but her
behavior is sort of aloof.  Nevertheless, Tessa somehow identifies
with her, but at this point, she is not sure how.  Later, Tessa is in
the gallery office and sees the same woman struggling with a man on a
bridge.  But, at the crucial moment, she is distracted and does not
actually see him push her over the side.  She sees the struggle, looks
away for a moment, and then the man leaning over the side.  She
reports this to the police, but they can't find the body immediately
so the detective (with a repeat performance by Tim Reid) is not ready
to believe her.

In a side plot, while at the store, Duncan detects an immortal who
refuses to identify himself.  After Duncan destroys the other's sword,
we see that it is the same man Tessa saw at the bridge.  Meanwhile,
Tessa discovers the woman's name by consulting the gallery guest book.
She goes to the address once alone and a second time with Duncan.

As they return, Duncan detects the immortal again, who has a gunsight
set on Tessa.  Duncan takes several bullets as he rushes Tessa to the
safety of the shop.  At the police station, the chief asks Reid's
character to step up the investigation on what Tessa witnessed.  We
then see that the chief is the same immortal who killed the woman,
attacked Duncan, and shot at Tessa.

Reid arrives on the scene to take Tessa to a safehouse.  Duncan has
Richie tail the car to find out where the safehouse is.  After finding
the safehouse, Duncan sees the police chief place a bomb on the gas
main.  He does not see the chief's face, but does know that he is with
the police by examining the car first.  He herds Tessa, Reid, and the
other officer out of the house right before it explodes.

After that, comes the final swordfight.  We learn that the police
chief and the victim were a couple.  She broke up with him and
threatened to expose him, so he killed her.  We now know why Tessa
identified with her.

Randi also appeared in this ep (making it her fourth, that's almost
half) although she played only a slightly larger role than in "Bad Day
in Building A".  However, there was some slight character development
on her part as well.

Hope this helps,

Agitator
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