Отправлено: 01.01.08 01:59. Заголовок: Описания серий

В этой теме будет выкладываться краткое содержание эпизодов, сначала на английском языке, потом на русском.
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 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:00. Заголовок: In a post-apocalypti..

In a post-apocalyptic future that follows The Great Catastrophe, the remaining immortals have decided to end The Game and form the Jettators for the sake of humanity at large, hoping to preserve human knowledge in this desperate time. One immortal, Kortan, has refused to take the oath and has claimed the Prize (defined as supreme knowledge and absolute power). One man breaks the oath: Connor MacLeod. He falls by Kortan's blade, but it is prophecied that one Immortal will eventually arise to challenge him who is not bound by the oath.

Seven centuries pass. Kortan sends Arak (pronounced sorta like Iraq) to attack the Dundees of the Highlands. There lives a young man named Quentin, who was visited at a young age by a stranger with a Spanish-Scottish accent (sound familiar?). During the raid, he and his mother are killed. When he revives, she tells him with her dying words that his true surname is MacLeod, and that he must follow the stranger, save the Dundees, and take care of his sister Clyde.

Soon, the stranger returns. He is Don Vincente Ramirez, an immortal who intends to train him to take on Kortan. He gives him the MacLeod sword and takes him to the various Jettators, that he may receive their Quickenings and gain their knowledge. And thus the adventure begins.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:00. Заголовок: The Last of the MacL..

The Last of the MacLeods

An attack on the Dundees leaves Quentin and his sister orphaned. Ramirez arrives to begin MacLeod's training. Quentin goes to Moganda to free the captured Dundees with the help of the Jettator Mangus, who helps them sneak into the place. Kortan confronts the group, and Mangus sacrifices himself to allow the Highander & Co. to escape.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:01. Заголовок: A Taste of Betrayal ..

A Taste of Betrayal

Ramirez takes Quentin to see Stevenson, a Jettator specializing in hydroelectic power. When they arrive, they are drugged and Quentin is taken to Moganda. Quentin escapes Arak's forces with the help of Aria, who had participated in his capture to trade for Stevenson, who was supposedly being held captive in Moganda. Ramirez disguises himself as a Hunter and sabotages the city. Stevenson turns out to be working with Kortan, having lost his faith in the Jettator cause. Ramirez convinces Kortan to let Quentin and himself escape Moganda in exchange for instructions on how to undo the sabotage. Stevenson loses his head to Kortan.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:01. Заголовок: Melvyn the Magnifice..

Melvyn the Magnificent

Ramirez takes Quentin to find Erol, but they are captured by his mortal former assistant, Melvyn. Driven insane by the apparent loss of his daughter Dana in a Hunter attack, Melvyn becomes convinced that Clyde is Dana and that he is an immortal. He leaves for Moganda with the MacLeod sword, and Ramirez and MacLeod escape and follow. Inside the city, Quentin meets an older Dana, who has been living there since the attack. As Melvyn challenges Kortan to a duel, Quentin steps in and takes over. Everyone escapes and Melvyn regains his sanity at being reunited with Dana.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:01. Заголовок: The Last Weapon Ram..

The Last Weapon

Ramirez is teaching Quentin about balance in a fashion that should seem very familiar to fans of the original film. Nearby, the Dundees are terrorized by a gang sporting a machine gun. MacLeod and Co. hunt them down to their headquarters, where the group's leader is intending on attacking Moganda. Quentin takes the gun away from a priest and begins using it on the gang. Ramirez admonishes him to not use this weapon, but Quentin is drunk on the power it gives him in weilding it. Eventually, he accidentally shoots Clyde in the arm and comes to his senses. The gun is discarded and the heroes continue on their journey. This episode is notable for a flashback to 20th Century warfare.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:03. Заголовок: The Suspended Villag..

The Suspended Village

Ramirez is trying to teach MacLeod how to conquer his fear of heights. Meanwhile, Arak and another Hunter major, Gorth, are fighting over slavery procedures. The conflict is brought to Kortan's attention, and the court jester Malone suggests that the decision be made by a slave duel to the death. Arak goes to a village of suspended bridges and captures the son of the man who he wants to serve as his slave warrior. Quentin's fear of heights results in the father being injured, which makes the Jettator Olak wary about giving his Quickening to the young Highlander. Ashamed of himself, Quentin goes to Moganda to take the man's place, and Ramirez has to follow him to make sure that he does not end up losing his head for his foolheartiness. Ramirez, Quentin, and the captive son escape, and an impressed Olak transfers his Quickening to Quentin, and then rejoices in the gift of mortality as MacLeod leaves to continue his quest.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:03. Заголовок: Exodus MacLeod and ..

Exodus

MacLeod and Co. are on the run from the Hunters, and they arrive on an island with a drawbridge. The bridge is pulled up to prevent Arak from pursuing, but he takes two hostages. The island is filled with women, since all the males were taken away as slaves. The islanders are experts in shipbuilding, and have constructed a sailing ship and ample supplies for a journey to a new world outside of Kortan's reign. Meanwhile, one of the women tries to betray MacLeod and Ramirez in exchange for the return of her family. Arak falsely promises this until he is shown the entry hatch into the city, and then imprisons her as well. Quentin saves the hostages as Ramirez seals the hatch. As the Hunters try to get over the rusted and only half-lifted bridge, Quentin strikes at the chains to make the bridge fully close and then hurries to the ship as it begins to sail away.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:04. Заголовок: The History Lesson ..

The History Lesson

Quentin cannot understand the importance of knowing the past. Ramirez takes him to the city governed by Lancerlay, the history Jettator. Kortan predicts this move and sends Arak to attack the fortressed city. Lancerlay feels the Buzz and assumes it is Kortan, but is relieved to find that it is Ramirez and the prophecied Highlander. As Arak tries to break into the gates, Lancerlay gives Quentin his Quickening, which incapacitates the attacking army.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:04. Заголовок: The Cursed The Dund..

The Cursed

The Dundee clan has caught malaria in the marshlands, and found only hostility from another clan led by Scott, a former Hunter whose own people is suffering from the same disease. Quentin is called to help, and soon Clyde catches malaria herself. As Quentin and Ramirez seek the medicine Jettator, Ilrick, Scott contacts Arak, who has just lost leadership authority to the bureaucrat Asklepios, and is looking to prove his worth to Kortan. After Quentin receives Ilrick's Quickening, he makes a cure for malaria; however, he and Ramirez are captured by the Hunters. The Dundee clan comes to the rescue, Scott has a change of heart as the malaria sets in on him, and they escape to cure Clyde and the people of the clans of the deadly sickness.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:09. Заголовок: The Valley of the Th..

The Valley of the Thorn Pods

Ramirez and Quentin are attacked by giant thorn pods in the forest, and Ramirez is taken away. Quentin arrives at a village in the trees, where dissent stems from the fear that Sahevy the botany Jettator has unleashed the thorn pods upon them. Quentin journeys with the leader to take Sahevy's head for breaking the Jettator oath, and discovers that Sahevy was not behind the thorn pod attacks. Clyde informs them that a dissenter who gave them 48 hours to complete their mission before burning the fields has not waited that long, and has gone to an airship to retreive fuel. The group arrives to stop him, and they are attacked by the thorn pods. Quentin drives the plants away with the Quickening of Sahevy, and then realizes how to stop the plants by freeing some hibernating insects. Ramirez is reunited with Connor and the tree colony begins a pilgrimage, with Sahevy coming along to teach them agriculture.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:09. Заголовок: Fallout Ramirez and..

Fallout

Ramirez and Quentin journey through a desert that was at one time a garden before it was destroyed by atomic weapons. A group of blue-skinned, web-fingered guardians take them to the Sandman, aka Promethus, the Jettator with knowledge of nuclear power. He has been mutated by radiation and suffers great pain, despite his immortality. Meanwhile, one of the guardians has told the Hunters the location of the former military base, and Kortan arrives personally. Arak kills the traitor, lest he betray anyone else. Quentin refuses to take the horrible knowledge until Kortan seeks to take it himself. Quentin takes the Quickening as Kortan fires off the nuclear missile from a silo, and Quentin uses his new knowledge to program a counter-missile. Promethus destroys the base as they leave, and Quentin swears to never pass on this knowledge. This episode has a flashback to the bombing of Japan in WWII.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:09. Заголовок: The Courage of Love ..

The Courage of Love

Ramirez wants Quentin to learn multiple languages, so it's off to see Brana. Meanwhile, the Hunters raid Brana's home town. Brana is a coward, and hides behind the Jettator oath rather than defending the people. Arak takes a female prisoner for himself, and Asklepios plans to report him. Ramirez, Quentin, and Brana break into Moganda to save one of the abductees, who Brana claims has knowledge of the location of the Jettators. In truth, it is merely the woman he loves, who happens to be the woman that Arak is holding. MacLeod & Co. capture Arak and force him to help them, lest they turn him over to Kortan for punishment. They are about to leave through the hatch when Kortan appears. Brana finds his courage and takes on Kortan so that the others can escape. Anti-establishment vendors stop Kortan, and they all get free. Arak convinces Kortan that he was not an accomplice to the escape, much to the chagrin of Asklepios. Quentin receives the Quickening at the end, and Brana can live the rest of his mortal life with his lover.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:10. Заголовок: The Setup We start ..

The Setup

We start with a flashback to an earlier age in the Far East, one in which Kortan tried to take Ramirez's head in a training exercise under Yoshoda and was sent packing. In the present, Ramirez takes Quentin to see Yoshoda, and along the way, they meet a young man who convinces Quentin to build an army to defeat Kortan, against Ramirez's wishes. Ramirez recognizes this man's sword as once belonging to Kortan. It is eventually revealed that this is all a test by Yoshoda, who was wanting to see if he would become a tyrant like Kortan if given power. Yoshoda will not give Quentin the Quickening...yet. He must first receive all the other Jettators' Quickenings first and prove himself worthy.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:11. Заголовок: The Sound of Madness..

The Sound of Madness

Kortan catches Malone dressed in his cape and goofing around in the throne room. Asklepios determines the location of MacLeod, and Kortan makes plans to challenge Quentin on the remains of a rusted ship in the desert. A flashback shows the death of Connor MacLeod at Kortan's hand during the Jettator ceremony. In the present, Quentin is temporarily blinded during the fight, and then both duellists are struck by lightning, sending Quentin into the ship. Ramirez finds Quentin and knocks him out, lest he continue the fight. When he revives, the blind Highlander goes for Moganda. Kortan exits the city gates in a tank to fight him. He sends Malone out in disguise, and then attacks Quentin from behind. Quentin's eyesight returns, but he finds himself on his back with Kortan's blade at his neck...and Kortan finds Ramirez's blade at his neck. Kortan chooses to enter the tank and escape, leaving Malone to chase behind him.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:11. Заголовок: The Price of Freedom..

The Price of Freedom

Quentin complains about the lack of freedom to play, and Ramirez decides to take him to a run-down city controlled by gangs of children. Quentin tries to break up a fight, but is met with hostility from all sides. When he attempts to bring them together to work things out, conspiracies upon conspiracies are formed, and soon Arak is on his way to capture MacLeod. Meanwhile, Gaul is taken captive by the gangs, so Clyde and Ramirez go in search for the pet. Ramirez knocks out a Hunter and impersonates him to terrorize one of the gang leaders. When the assembly is held, Arak and his forces arrive. Quentin convinces the gangs to unite to take them down. The Hunters are defeated and Gaul is returned.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:12. Заголовок: The Secret Prison Q..

The Secret Prison

Quentin, Ramirez, and Clyde find themselves in a booby trap-filled labyrinth where prisoners are held and worship The Almighty K, aka mechanized totems with the head of Kortan on them. These nameless prisoners have lived there from birth and are trained to be Hunters. Quentin befriends one of them and gives him a name: Connor. Arak arrives to lead the prisoners to hunt down the escaping heroes. Ramirez discovers that Arak was born in the prison. Quentin employs his immortality to short-out the electric fence, and the prisoners turn to follow MacLeod. Kortan unleashes an army of giant ants to wipe out the prisoner tribe. Arak provides the prisoners with an escape route, and they see the outside world for the first time. They are free to take on their own destinies.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:13. Заголовок: Dead Ringer A trap ..

Dead Ringer

A trap for Quentin and Ramirez apparently fails. However, when Ramirez reunites with Quentin and his sister at the site of the Jettator oath ceremony, he acts out of character and tells Quentin that it is time for him to face Kortan, and then hands him the MacLeod sword. When Clyde insists that Quentin is not yet ready, Ramirez slaps her and declares that his decision should not be questioned, and then leaves to plan the fight with Kortan. Meanwhile, the real Ramirez escapes the underground tunnels and abducts Asklepios to interrogate him for the location of Quentin. When the doppleganger returns, the real Ramirez confronts him. Quentin discovers that the MacLeod sword is a fake and that the other Ramirez was a man in a mask. Kortan waits at the other side of a suspension bridge, and Quentin cuts it down, leaving Kortan unable to reach him and the doppleganger hanging for his life.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:14. Заголовок: Orion's Reign T..

Orion's Reign

Terrorists attack Moganda in the name of Orion. Ramirez wants Quentin to learn about astronomy, so they journey to find Cornell. They discover that Cornell is Orion, and he has challenged Kortan to a duel at a specific time and place. Ramirez is angered that Cornell has broken his oath, and is determined to kill the Jettator personally. Ramirez and Cornell fight beside a telescope, and Ramirez learns that Cornell is blind. Quentin stops the fight and informs them that Kortan is coming. Cornell gives his Quickening to Quentin and challenges Kortan as Quentin and Ramirez escape. The fight is designed to occur during an eclipse, but Cornell is now too weak to defeat even a blinded Kortan.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:14. Заголовок: Rage of the Hurrican..

Rage of the Hurricane

MacLeod and Ramirez see that the Hunters are moving in to attack the Hurricanes, a secret cult that gathers natural electricity during thunderstorms. The Hurricanes do not believe them when they try to warn them, and Ramirez and Clyde are taken captive while Quentin escapes. Arak does not arrive in time, but is sent back during the next storm to ambush them. The leader of the Hurricanes refuses to listen to Ramirez, and Quentin is electrocuted when he tries to free them. Quentin revives and frees them in time to get to the hill and warn the Hurricanes moments before Arak's tanks arrive on the hill. Quentin uses a power cable to disable the tanks, and the Hurricanes pledge to help Quentin in the future, while swearing him to secrecy about their group.

 Отправлено: 01.01.08 02:15. Заголовок: The Blood of My Enem..

The Blood of My Enemy

Arak mortally wounds Asklepios in an attempt on Ramirez's life. Fellow bureaucrat Valka begs Kortan to help him, but he denies her requests. She captures Ramirez and Quentin, takes them to an abandoned funhouse, and asks for them to donate blood to save Asklepios, since immortal blood has a universal blood type. Ramirez is at first reluctant, but agrees. When Kortan and Co. arrive, the bureaucrats try to betray the heroes. Quentin threatens to kill Asklepios if they do not show them a way to escape. Kortan and Arak smash their way through the house of mirrors, but MacLeod and the weakened Ramirez escape before they can be stopped. Asklepios and Arak agree to not let Kortan know about either the cause of the injury or the means of escape, mutually saving each others' necks.