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7/10
Tessa centered story, yay. Richie's funny parking skit. Obsessed woman. Evil immortal.
reb-warrior1 March 2020
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I loved the skit at beginning with Richie parking the car and writing out-of-order on the parking meter. That was hilarious. Especially when the two people walked by and started laughing at how he parked the car and at the note on the meter. Richie was such a cute funny guy.

Tessa meets a woman, Anne, who later in the distance on a bridge, she sees her arguing with a man. She looks away for a few seconds, then looks back and the woman is gone and the man is looking over the railing. Tessa rightfully believes he killed the woman. Unfortunately, the police doubt her claims when they don't find a body. So she is determined to find out what happened.

This episode is more centered on Tessa and her viewpoint. Duncan seems almost passive about it, like the police, and Tessa even mentions that to him. He only really helps because he can see how upset she is. I was kind of disappointed in Duncan in that respect. Given what I see throughout the series and how he is always gungho to check things out because HE wants to.

Turns out the man that killed Anne is immortal. He tries to kill Tessa couple of times. In the final fight with Duncan, he tells him he left the woman because she got older. She wouldn't leave him alone and followed him everywhere he went. She threatened to expose what he was to the world if he didn't come back to her, so he killed her. He also implies he's done this sort of thing before.

It all seems kind of a basic good vs evil between immortals. But when you examine things closer you notice an angle the show didn't cover. Which was that Anne basically was a stalker. She stalked this man. What if the guy wasn't an immortal and still left her. I'm guessing she would still have stalked him. That must have been in her nature. I'm not saying he was right to kill her, he was definitely evil and needed to be taken out, but she was no saint either given what she was doing. I gave the episode 7/10.
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7/10
It can be very good or very bad, depending on how you see it. Warning: Spoilers
------- HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES -------

EYEWITNESS

It can be very good or very bad, depending on how you see it.

Tessa, Duncan´s girlfriend, meets a fellow artist called Ann in a painting exposition she just got inaugurated. They didn´t talk much but Ann liked Tessa´s work and they felt identified with each other. Later, Tessa accidentally becomes the sole eyewitness of what could have been Ann´s murder, watching from afar; the problem is that someone distracted Tessa in the crucial moment, so even when she clearly saw Ann struggling with a man on a bridge and then she only saw the man standing when she looked again, she is not completely sure that he threw her to the river. She says about her experience to the police but there is no body to prove her right.

So...if you think that plot to be interesting, it can be a very good episode, or a bad one if you don´t. In my opinion, it was a great start for an episode because I am very skeptical and for me, someone in Tessa´s position cannot be even 50% sure of being right because she skipped the crucial moment of the action. So far, this episode was going great, so I got disappointed when the detective part of it ended abruptly. Tessa and Duncan found that Ann (Ann Wheeler, actually, she signed the guest book at Tessa´s exhibit) was the former lover of an immortal , she got killed by him because she threatened to expose him if he didn´t come back with her. Now this immortal is after Tessa as she is the only witness of his crime.

Thanks for reading.

IMDb Review written by David del Real.

Mexico City. Mexico.

2018.
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7/10
kinda have to disagree with... Warning: Spoilers
No not the usual, as Tess this time is the target of an Immortal, though that is not known till later. Anne, a former artist comes into the gallery opening where Tess has some of her work on display, and something about her touches Tess. Sees Anne arguing/fighting with a man on a bridge, barely looks away, looks back she is gone, he isn't. Tells cops they really don't know what to believe, one kinda does as Tess hasn't lied to them before, find out though the chief is the 1 from the bridge. Oh ya, not much of Richie but what there was, kinda funny and sorta sweet, the "parking" of a car, and the way he seems to have a girl/woman just by being himself in the end, cute.

The other Immortal, comes to "get" Tess, Duncan comes home instead. Tries again with a gun, Mac "senses" him gets Tess inside, course taking a couple bullets. Cops, "finally" believe take her to safe house both Richie and Mac follow with Richie the "one to be caught" so Mac can continue. Tess in save house, Mac outside, senses the other snoops around to get info on him and also sees "bomb", rushes house after timing right (cant disarm), knocks wind out of 1 cop the other there Tess shows herself, grabs her telling the other to get his partner and hurry there is a bomb, out all safe owed 1, leaves, Tess safe phones "cop".

Good cop, telling his "boss" about it, phones rings, Mac setting up where and when. This "bad" immortal had killed many women it appears and does not care...prob other men too but they just in the way of the woman wanted before he tires of her...

Found this epi to be good for what it was, had action and a touch of romance and endings, a good 1st season one.
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Eye Witless
zeppo-26 February 2006
Pretty dull episode, with a minimal plot. Tessa sees what she assumes to be a woman's murder and reports this to the police but they can find no evidence of this.

Not surprisingly for this series, an immortal is involved in the murder and is the last person you would suspect! Well...actually, you would if you've watched enough television shows. If you've seen enough of this type of genre TV, you'll know it's one of the standard story lines. Very formulaic and there to fill in the breaks between the adverts.

Another sword battle brings everything to a conclusion and that's it really. Slow and somewhat tedious by the numbers programming.
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7/10
A bit of a thriller
skteosk20 April 2024
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We get an amusing opening scene of Richie doing an absolutely terrible parallel park and getting out of paying at the meter, before he scores a date with a guest at Tessa's exhibition. They seem to get on well but she doesn't get a name or any dialogue and is just a short-lived plot device to get him out of the way of the main events.

Tessa speaks with a jaded former artist and soon after sees her in an altercation with a man which apparently ends with her plummeting off that rather unlucky bridge from the pilot into a watery grave. She tries to convince the police what has happened but the lack of a body makes it hard.

The audience learn very early on that the culprit is both an Immortal and a senior police officer, but it isn't until the closing minutes that Duncan pieces everything together. As a result, the episode's villain Ballin doesn't get much chance to make an impact, spending all his time until the final confrontation either pretending to be a good guy or skulking around silently. His initial motivation isn't entirely unreasonable: He seems to have discarded Anne in a fairly callous manner but she's pretty much stalking him.

There's a nice satisfying moment when Bennett catches on to Richie tailing the police only for us to realise Duncan is following them too. Randi also has some nice moments as she faces Tessa's hostility and does some self-examination. There's an attempt to draw parallels between Tessa and Anne which works quite well. Unfortunately, the final scene of Duncan and Tessa getting frisky feels like it doesn't know when to end.

Given that Ballin puts in a spectacularly bad performance the first time he and Duncan fight (Duncan breaks his sword, for pity's sake), he puts in a fairly decent showing at the end, although it ends with him swinging desperately as Duncan blocks everything without effort. You just know that...big ball of...lights is there because someone thought it'd make a cool backdrop for a Quickening.

Last appearance of Bennett (who has apparently been promoted?) and it's a good one to go out on, as he finally gets a meaty role after a couple of episodes as a cypher.
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