We're back in that awkward Highlander trope of introducing a loathsome character and acting as though they're sympathetic. Maybe it's 1990s American television's absurd insistence on romanticising terrorists, especially Irish Republican terrorists, in the days before the Twin Towers happened and taught the country empathy. (We even get the usual "Your own people have disowned you", as if the real-life terrorists who regularly murdered politicians with bombs would disapprove of murdering one with a gun.) Or maybe, as with Felicia Martins, they still think that if they cast an attractive female rock star as a monster, people won't want to see her get her head chopped off.
Because yes, Annie Devlin is a monster and it's absurd that we're meant to care that she accidentally killed her equally monstrous husband instead of an innocent. She's a typical fanatic, killing anyone who disagrees with her on the grounds that it makes them "traitors". We get a flashback to another lover of hers being killed (and this one wasn't even her fault), but ultimately it shows she's learned nothing in a hundred years and is still killing anyone she's decided qualifies as "them" in the delusion it makes the world a better place. Honestly, her having inappropriate grief sex with Duncan is one of the least problematic things about her.
Duncan casts off the last of his Season One life as, in a garbled speech early on, he is revealed to have bought the dojo, installed Charlie as manager and moved into the flat upstairs. We get to know Charlie a bit more in his second appearance (he was previously seen in Turnabout and will be back next episode), but the problems with the character are already obvious: He's out of the loop on Immortals so spends a lot of time going "What's going on, MacLeod?" and not getting an answer.
Richie gets his first taste of Immortal life, and Duncan actually does a good job of training him once he's stopped flinging him to the ground dozens of times. First episode without Tessa (bar some photographs), with Alexandra Vandernoot removed from the opening titles.
