S3E1
The Samurai
Highlander: The Series · 1994-10-01 · 48 min
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what happens
After Midori Koto sees her husband, rich industrialist Michael Kent, murder her lover, she kills Kent and runs to MacLeod for protection. She reminds MacLeod of a vow of protection his ""ancestor"" (actually MacLeod himself) made to her family over 200 years before. Flashbacks tell the story of MacLeod coming to the aid of the samurai Hideo Koto after MacLeod is shipwrecked in Japan. Hideo befriends MacLeod -- even though the penalty for helping a ""barbarian"" in isolationist Japan is death. When Hideo is forced to commit ritual hari kari by his feudal overlord for that crime, MacLeod serves as his second. He vows to Hideo he will always protect the Koto family and is bequeathed the dragon head katana sword he uses to this day. Back in the present, MacLeod discovers that Kent is an Immortal and he's still alive. In order not to further dishonor her family's name, Midori returns to Kent. Kent challenges MacLeod, who fulfills his vow to the Koto family and frees Midori from her loveless mar
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S3E1 →who made it
- directed
- Dennis Berry
- written
- Naomi Janzen
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Philip Akin as Charlie DeSalvo
Tamlyn Tomita as Midori Koto
Stephen McHattie as Michael Kent
Robert Ito as Hideo Koto- TTerry Arrowsmith as Haley
Hiro Kanagawa as Akira Yoshida