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Highlander Season 4 Episode 3

The Innocent

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AIRED: 10/15/95

Richie meets Mikey, a mentally handicapped Immortal with a fascination for trains. Richie wants to protect him, but Duncan warns that it will more trouble than Richie realizes. His prediction soon becomes true when an Immortal seeking easy prey comes after Mikey.

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Richie tries to help a mentally handicapped Immortal, Mickey. Is there anyway that Richie and Duncan can do to make him understand that he is an Immortal?

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By gmvail23, Nov 22, 2006

After saving a mentally handicapped Immortal Richie is left with the dilemma of what to do with him. Richie feels responsible for Mickey and is unwilling to simply abandon him. Both MacLeod and Richie struggle with how to best keep him safe. This reminds MacLeod of a time he tried to save an American Indian who he came across being beaten by the man who owned him as his slave. Mac tried his best but the ignorance of the people in the town ended up being Chaske’s undoing. In Mickey’s case his diminished mental capacity makes him unable to understand what it means to be an Immortal, he ends up hurting the people who are trying to protect him. Ultimately Richie must do the right thing even though he knows that it will haunt him for a long time. The Innocent was a good episode not a great one. It made me think about the way the mentally handicapped people are treated in the US and I’ll take an episode that makes me think any day.moreless
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Stan Kirsch	Richie Ryan
Adrian Paul	Duncan MacLeod

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Pruitt Taylor Vince	Mickey	Guest Star
Callum Keith Rennie	Tyler King	Guest Star
Phil Hayes	Alan Wells	Guest Star

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QUOTES (5)
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- Richie: You think it's all random? Who's going to be beautiful, who's going to be smart. Who's going to be like Einstein and who's going to be... like Mikey?
  Duncan: Depends which century you're asking me about, Richie. Right now I think there's some sort of plan going on. I just don't know what it is.
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- Duncan: We're not gods, Richie.
  Richie: Meaning?
  Duncan: Meaning we can't give him a life he's never had, no matter how much we want to.
  Richie: That's not fair.
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- Richie: Mac, he doesn't have a hurtful bone in his body.
  Duncan: Richie, he's not a puppy, he's a man. And he's an Immortal. What do you think would have happened if, if we hadn't been there?
  Richie: But we were.
  Duncan: We won't always be.
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- Duncan: So where did you live before, Mikey?
  Mikey: In a house.
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- Richie: Are you lost? Where's your home?
  Mikey: Nobody's home.
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- Flashback: 1868 Dakota Territory. MacLeod takes an American Indian for medical treatment after saving him from a slaver.
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- Although credited Jim Byrnes does not appear in this episode.
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