RichIe is sent to pick up a piece of art for Duncan MacLeod's art gallery. Richie goes to the wrong place. As he is standing around, he sees some old skank (played by Johannah Newmarch) that he knows is a criminal and a drug addict. He sees her arguing with her current boyfriend, so Richie meddles in and also argues with her current boyfriend. Richie always has a big mouth, and he loves to talk tough and then let Duncan deal with it.
After Richie's old girlfriend leaves with the new guy, Richie decides to meddle some more by following her. Richie sees she is doing a drug deal, and he tries to meddle in the drug deal, and that results in the new boyfriend getting killed. The shady girlfriend steals the drugs and the money, and Richie takes her back to Duncan, so that all the hell will rain on Duncan's home and business. Once again, Duncan has to clean up after Richie.
Why MacLeod did not slice off Richie's head at the end of every episode is the reason I never watched this show when it was on TV. Richie managed to be stupid, moronic, annoying, infuriating, and irritating too. Thanks to modern technology, now I can fast forward every scene with Richie in it.
It turns out that Richie crossed another immortal (played by Stephen Macht). Macht is really upset that his drug business is going south, and even more upset when he finds out his old enemy, Duncan MacLeod is the source of his problems. So Duncan has to face off in a life or death battle against Macht, thanks to Richie and his druggie gal pal. There is a nice sword battle on a yacht, This was the highlight of the episode. All's well that ends well?