Highlander: The Series: Season 5

1996 · 20 episodes · ★ 5.0

What Season 5 of Highlander: The Series

Season five kicks off with Immortals and Watchers on the brink of war. By order of the Watchers' Tribunal, every Immortal in Europe is after Duncan MacLeod, dead or alive. MacLeod discovers that the real killer is Jacob Galati, a Gypsy he once traveled with, who swears to destroy mortals marked with the Watcher tattoo. Richie Ryan returns, ready to cut off heads, and Haresh Clay, a friend of Carter Wellan, wants revenge for his partner. Duncan also has an old score to settle with Clay, who humiliated and destroyed one of his best teachers. While trying to win back Richie's trust, the two compete for the chance to face Clay in combat.

20episodes

Sep 23, 1996premiered

May 24, 1997latest episode

16 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 One Minute to Midnight
Sep 23, 1996 · 48 min
Immortals and Watchers are poised at the brink of war. On the orders of the Watcher Tribunal, every Watcher in Europe is hunting for MacLeod, to bring him in dead or alive. MacLeod discovers that the real killer is Jacob Galati, a Gypsy MacLeod once traveled with, who has vowed to destroy all the mortals who wear the Watcher tattoo, convinced they are all out to destroy Immortals.
5x02 Prophecy
Oct 5, 1996 · 48 min
When MacLeod was but a wee lad in the village of Glenfinnan, he thought Cassandra, the Witch of Donan Woods, was only a myth, a fairy tale concocted by crafty old men to frighten unwary children-- until the night she found him alone in Donan Woods. Now, four hundred years later, Cassandra comes to MacLeod again, this time to tell him of his role in an ancient prophecy -- that only Duncan MacLeod can challenge and defeat the voice of darkness.
Directing: Dennis Berry · Writing: David Tynan · Starring: Tracy Scoggins, Jeremy Beck, Matthew Walker, Gerard Plunkett
5x03 The End of Innocence
Oct 12, 1996 · 48 min
The last time Richie Ryan saw Duncan MacLeod, MacLeod was about to take his head. He was stopped by Dawson's bullet, but Richie's world was shattered. Now Richie's back -- kicking butt and taking heads. One of those heads belonged to Carter Wellan, and now Wellan's good friend Haresh Clay is out to avange his comrade. MacLeod has his own long-time grudge against Clay, who humiliated and destroyed one of MacLeod's finest teachers. MacLeod must try to rebuild Richie's trust while they vie to be the one to face Clay in combat.
Directing: Gérard Hameline · Writing: Morrie Ruvinsky · Starring: Chris Humphreys, Chris William Martin, Réal Andrews, Rachel Hayward
5x04 Manhunt
Oct 19, 1996 · 48 min
Carl Robinson, the former slave turned baseball player, has finally found the good life as a Major Leagues star -- but when Carl is challenged by another Immortal and witnesses find him standing over the decapitated body, Carl is forced to go on the run from the cops. He turns to MacLeod for help when he is pursued by lawman Matthew McCormick, who has more than just a professional interest in taking Carl into custody.
Directing: Peter Ellis · Writing: David Tynan · Starring: Bruce A. Young, Eric Keenleyside, Eric McCormack, Jo Bates
5x05 Glory Days
Oct 26, 1996 · 48 min
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dawson's high school sweetheart BETSY walks into his. Meanwhile, MacLeod's got his hands full with Johnny K, a teenaged mobster wannabe when MacLeod knew him during Phrohibition who's now a cold-blooded assassin. The only rules Johnny K knows are the rules of the street, and MacLeod's going to have to play by them if he wants to keep his head.
Directing: Gérard Hameline · Writing: Nancy Heikin-Pepin · Starring: Ian Tracey, Marcia Strassman, Mario Battista, James Crescenzo
5x06 Dramatic License
Nov 2, 1996 · 48 min
Carolyn Marsh's latest best-seller is a hot and sexy romance novel featuring a smoky-eyed swashbuckling Highland hero named Duncan MacLeod. Both MacLeod and Terence Coventry, the Immortal depicted as the borish villain of the novel, are out tofind the author -- MacLeod to find out how much she really knows about him, and Coventry to kill her.
Directing: Peter Ellis · Writing: Sacha Reins, Michael O'Mahony · Starring: Alastair Duncan, Sandra Bernhard, Keith Holmgren, Stephen J.M. Sisk
5x07 Money No Object
Nov 9, 1996 · 48 min
MacLeod and Amanda are reunited with Cory Raines, the charming, smooth-talking ""Clyde"" to Amanda's ""Bonnie"" during their five state crime spree in the 1920s. Amanda, always ready for a little larceny, is tempted by the carefree and adventurous lifestyle Cory offers her and takes him up on the offer when she realizes MacLeod won't beg her to stay with him. But MacLeod rides to rides to the rescue when one of Cory's schemes goes astray.
Directing: Rafal Zielinski · Writing: James Thorpe · Starring: Tim Henry, Tom McBeath, Nicholas Lea, Alex Bruhanski
5x08 Haunted
Nov 16, 1996 · 48 min
Jennifer Hill believes the spirit of her dead husband Alec, an Immortal, is still with her. She comes to Alec's old friend MacLeod and begs him to appease Alec's spirit by whacking the son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head. Richie finds himself strangely attracted to the grieving young widow -- until he realizes he's the son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head.
Directing: James Bruce · Writing: Scott Peters · Starring: John Novak, Kathy Evison, Larke Miller, Kevin Conway
5x09 Little Tin God
Nov 23, 1996 · 48 min
Derek's faith in God helped save him from a violent life on the urban streets. When the young gospel singer is killed in a drive-by shooting, he awakens in the arms of God and is given the gift of eternal life. But what's he to do when that God recruits him as a warrior in the Holy War against Satan -- and Satan turns up to be Duncan MacLeod?
Directing: Rafal Zielinski · Writing: Richard Gilbert-Hill · Starring: Andrew Divoff, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Roger Cross, Steve Bacic
5x10 The Messenger
Nov 30, 1996 · 48 min
Richie's found a new teacher: an Immortal who preaches a message of peace. An Immortal who believes that all Immortals can lay down their swords and live together as brothers. An Immortal who claims to be the oldest of their kind still alive -- Methos. Will laying down his sword in the name of peace mean Richie will lose his head? And what does this mean for the friend MacLeod already calls Methos?
Directing: James Bruce · Writing: David Tynan · Starring: Ron Perlman, Robert Wisden, Awaovieyi Agie, Lloyd Berry
5x11 The Valkyrie
Feb 1, 1997 · 48 min
In 1944, Ingrid Henning had the chance to kill Adolf Hitler and failed. She's been atoning for that failure ever since by killing dictators, tyrants, racists, and fascists who might have the potential to become as dangerous. MacLeod has a chance to stop her before she kills more mortals, but by stopping her, does MacLeod commit the same evil for which he's judged her guilty?
Directing: Richard Martin · Writing: James Thorpe · Starring: Dean Balkwill, Fulvio Cecere, Martin Evans, Raoul Ganeev
5x12 Comes a Horseman (1)
Feb 8, 1997 · 48 min
MacLeod knew him as Melvin Koren, a desperado who left a trail of death and fire across the Old West, but Cassandra remembers him as an evil far older. He is Kronos, leader of the Four Horsemen, mounted Bronze Age raiders who murdered, raped, and pillaged their way across two continents. Never was a band of Immortals more cruel or more feared. He destroyed Cassandra's people and she's been hunting him across the millenia. But Kronos has a different target now -- Methos.
Directing: Gérard Hameline · Writing: David Tynan · Starring: Tracy Scoggins, Valentine Pelka, Affif Ben Badra, Sotigui Kouyaté
5x13 Revelation 6:8 (2)
Feb 15, 1997 · 48 min
One by one, Kronos is putting the Four Horsemen back together. Once they struck fear in the hearts of men with sword and axe. Today, their weapons of destruction are different, but their goal is the same: to bring mankind what it fears most, the Apocalypse. Only Duncan MacLeod stands between them and the end of the world.
Directing: Adrian Paul · Writing: Tony Di Franco · Starring: Tracy Scoggins, Richard Ridings, Marcus Testory, Bertie Cortez
5x14 The Ransom of Richard Redstone
Feb 22, 1997 · 48 min
The Chateau LeMartin has been in Marina's family for generations, but now the slimy Carlo Capodimonte threatens to foreclose on an old loan and take the chateau for himself. Desperate to save the family heritage, Marina kidnaps an American millionaire in order to pay off the loan. Unfortunately for Marina, the rich and charming ""Richard Redstone"" she has tied up in the cellar is none other than Richie Ryan.
Directing: Gérard Hameline · Writing: David Tynan · Starring: Sonja Codhant, Tom Russell, Gary Hetherington, Frank Middlemass
5x15 Duende
Mar 1, 1997 · 48 min
Spanish swordplay, like Spanish dancing, is equal parts passion, skill, and strict discipline. The Immortal Otavio Consone is a master of both. An arrogant Spaniard who 150 years ago tried to teach MacLeod the sword art called ""The Mysterious Circle,"" Consone vied with MacLeod for the hand of a beautiful senorita, with tragic results. Now MacLeod must protect a Flamenco artist and her daughter from Consone's revenge.
Directing: Richard Martin · Writing: Jan Hartman · Starring: Deborah Epstein, Carmen du Sautoy, Dolores Chaplin, Anthony De Longis
5x16 The Stone of Scone
Apr 26, 1997 · 48 min
According to official statements by the British government, the theft of the Stone of Scone, the legendary royal throne of Scotland, from Westminster Abbey in 1950 was simply a rowdy schoolboy prank. But was it? Or was it actually the bungled work of three rather hapless Immortals, attempting to fulfill a promise made centuries before?
Directing: Richard Martin · Writing: Sacha Reins, Michael O'Mahony · Starring: Michael Culkin, David Barrass, Harry Jones, Neville Phillips
5x17 Double Jeopardy
May 3, 1997 · 48 min
Are MacLeod and the police seeing a ghost when the evidence in a diamond theft and poison gas murder points to the very evil, but very dead, Xavier St. Cloud? CID Agent Renee Delaney returns to ask for MacLeod's help in finding the killer. Could it be Xavier or simply a memorial to a fallen teacher by Xavier's former student, Morgan D'Estaing?
Directing: Charles Wilkinson · Writing: David Tynan · Starring: Stacey Travis, Roland Gift, David Gabison, Pascal Laurent
5x18 Forgive Us Our Trespasses
May 10, 1997 · 48 min
After the Scottish massacre at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Duncan MacLeod was a man possessed, obsessed, with killing the English bastards who had destroyed his people. Now Immortal Steven Keane has come to make MacLeod pay for his murderous crimes. Amanda urges MacLeod to take Keane's head and be done with it, but in his heart MacLeod knows that Keane is right -- he is a murderer -- and that Keane is judging him just like MacLeod has judged so many others.
Directing: Paolo Barzman · Writing: Dom Tordjmann · Starring: Chris Larkin, Geoffrey Bateman, Michael J. Jackson, Marine Jolivet
5x19 The Modern Prometheus
May 17, 1997 · 48 min
Lord Byron, the brilliant Romantic poet, is alive and well and living the decadent life of a rock star. He lives life way over the edge and has taken some promising young musicians over the edge with him. When following in Byron's footsteps tragically ends the life of Dawson's protege, MacLeod is faced with a decision -- is the beauty and genius that is Byron worth the cost?
Directing: Adrian Paul · Writing: James Thorpe · Starring: Katie Carr, Jonathan Firth, Don Foran, Tracy Keating
5x20 Archangel (1) Season Finale
May 24, 1997 · 48 min
The dead are walking the streets of Paris. The forces of evil are coming. Is MacLeod being readied for some higher calling -- or is he simply losing his mind?
Directing: Dennis Berry · Writing: David Tynan · Starring: Patrick Gordon, Edward Jewesbury, Emily Raymond, Pierre Rousselle