The group existed as a casual songwriting collective prior to its association with Crow, but rapidly developed into a vehicle for her debut album after her arrival ( she was at the time dating Kevin Gilbert, who actually co-wrote most of the songs for the TNMC album along with Crow, Baerwald, Ricketts, Bottrell, Schwartz and MacLeod ).

" When Cahill comes to the barge looking for MacLeod and finds Tessa alone, Tessa diverts him by welcoming Cahill as a messenger of God.

MacLeod finally finds them and kills Wolf, then sends Tessa home with Richie.

" However, she finds difficult to deal with her fears when MacLeod leaves to fight another Immortal.

* Major C. I. N. MacLeod, the St. Francis Xavier university's piper, composed a musical tribute composed for the late Lieutenant Colonel the Honourable John Keiller MacKay.

Convinced MacLeod is the gas poisoner, LeBrun tries to run him in whilst, in a race against time, Duncan has to stop Xavier from gassing an exhibition Tessa is organising.

Dawson introduces MacLeod to Barton, Xavier's Watcher, ignoring that Barton is a renegade Watcher helping Xavier and James Horton to behead Immortals.

In " Unholy Alliance Part Two " ( 1994 ), Dawson tries to regain MacLeod's trust by giving him the address of Xavier and Horton's hiding, telling him, " What's done is done, MacLeod.

In the two-part finale to series two, " Counterfeit " ( 1994 ), James Horton ( Peter Hudson ), a renegade Watcher who believes all Immortals must be eliminated, uses killer Lisa Halle ( Meilani Paul ) to try and kill MacLeod.

Horton kills Lisa on Tessa's grave before being himself killed by MacLeod.

According to Panzer, the original script featured Horton sending Lisa to kill MacLeod on the latter's barge.

MacLeod confronts Horton, who shoots him, but not before MacLeod extracts his vengeance for Darius and runs Horton through with his sword.

Believing Horton dead, but now aware of the Watchers, MacLeod carries on with his life and tries to help two old friends, but with differing results.

MacLeod swore he saw James Horton on the Quai by the barge that night.

Dawson and his niece Lynn confront Horton, who is finally injured by MacLeod.

MacLeod meets Horton in the Dawson family crypt and Horton hints that Dawson knew he was alive.

MacLeod follows Dawson to a wharf when Dawson meets Horton and see them together.

Later, Dawson tells MacLeod, " After you fought with Horton, I had to take him to the hospital.

" When MacLeod angrily asks what Dawson would have done if he had known what Horton was really doing, Dawson cannot answer.

In " Counterfeit Part Two " ( 1994 ), Dawson meets MacLeod and Richie to warn them that Horton might have resurfaced.

After MacLeod meets Lisa Milon, a perfect lookalike of his deceased lover Tessa sent by Horton, Richie turns to Dawson for help.

" Later, Dawson prevents Horton from shooting MacLeod in the cemetery where Tessa is buried.

After MacLeod kills Horton, Dawson says he will take care of the body.

MacLeod and Mees state that the opening lines of the charm correspond to the Poetic Edda poem Sigrdrífumál, where the valkyrie Sigrdrífa provides runic advice, and that the meaning of the term skag is unclear, but a cognate exists in Helgakviða Hundingsbana I where Sinfjötli accuses Guðmundr of having once been a " skass-valkyrie ".

MacLeod and Mees believe the word means something like " supernatural sending ", and that this points to a connection to the Ragnhild Tregagás charm, where a valkyrie is also " sent forth ".

This still happens, in some communities where a surname is particularly common, for example on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, many residents have the family name MacLeod ( son of Lewis ) and so may still be known by a surname symbolising their occupation such as ' Kevin the post ' and ' Kevin Handbag '

However, there have been several cases where a descendant through the maternal line has changed their surname in order to claim the chiefship of a clan, such as the late chief of the Clan MacLeod who was born John Wolridge-Gordon and changed his name to the maiden name of his maternal grandmother in order to claim the chiefship of the MacLeods.

in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Windsor, where he studied under Alistair MacLeod.

In 1933, MacLeod resigned from The World Tomorrow and the couple returned to Nova Scotia where they became active in the labour movement and campaigned for J. B. McLachlan, a militant union leader and Communist was running as a " labour " candidate for the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

MacLeod received a BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-residence.

During the series finale, Duncan MacLeod was thrown into another reality where he had never been born.

In " Innocent Man ", when MacLeod refuses to take her where an evil Immortal is, she says, " I know why you don't want me there.

Duncan MacLeod and Tessa Noel have been living in a city in the Pacific North West for several years, where they run an antiques store.

MacLeod follows his friends to Paris, where he and Tessa decide to stay, living on Duncan's barge ; Tessa takes up a post as a curator, Duncan takes up the role of a kept man and Richie that of a fish out of water, in his role as a kept man, Duncan does the shopping, but as he is returning to the barge one morning, he sees a clown dressed as a mime kill an elderly man, (" For Evil's Sake ").

Using her as a lure, he entices MacLeod to his home, where he has a lightless room in which he hunts and kills Immortals, using a nightscope to see his prey, a la " Silence Of The Lambs ".

After telling MacLeod where they were, he went in to try and rescue Joe, unaware that what he had seen was an illusion.

When MacLeod chases down two men watching from across the street, Dawson follows and tells Duncan that he is his Watcher, one of a secret society of mortals who observe and record the history of the Immortals, but never interfere.

The films feature Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod, Peter Wingfield as Methos and Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson.

Later, when MacLeod received the quickening himself and with graceful arrogance fought the youngling, this time only the quick intervention of Joe Dawson stopped MacLeod from his killing his own protege.

Dawson came to warn MacLeod to watch over Richie, who was " walking the edge ", provoking and challenging everyone.

MacLeod does not know at first that Dawson is his Watcher, but Dawson tells him the truth after MacLeod knocks out two Hunters: " I probably know more about you than you know about yourself.

" When MacLeod doubts his story, Dawson tells him with a smile, " You've been around for four hundred years.

MacLeod finally convinces Dawson he is telling the truth.

In " Turnabout " ( 1993 ), Dawson asks MacLeod to stop Immortal Quenten Barnes.

Conversely, when MacLeod asks him to break the rules of the Watchers to get information, Dawson hesitates before accepting.

In " The Zone " ( 1993 ), Dawson asks MacLeod for help again, to check if the leader of the Zone is Immortal but tells him, " Be careful around Canaan, allright?

" When MacLeod tells Dawson Canaan is not immortal, but he still wants more help from Dawson to stop him, MacLeod tells, " There are people that watch and there are people that do.

In " Under Color of Authority " ( 1994 ), Dawson mentions bird-watching is a " lot less dangerous than keeping an eye on " and adds, " You know, maybe we should both stick to watching the birds, MacLeod.

In " Unholy Alliance " ( 1994 ), Dawson tells MacLeod two Immortals have been shot by mortals and then beheaded by an Immortal and adds, " You watch yourself, MacLeod.