7.8/10181 votes#1 - One Minute to Midnight
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1996
Immortals and Watchers are poised at the brink of war. On the orders of the Watcher Tribunal, every Watcher in Europe is hunting for MacLeod, to bring him in dead or alive. MacLeod discovers that the real killer is Jacob Galati, a Gypsy MacLeod once traveled with, who has vowed to destroy all the mortals who wear the Watcher tattoo, convinced they are all out to destroy Immortals.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10173 votes#2 - Prophecy
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1996
When MacLeod was but a wee lad in the village of Glenfinnan, he thought Cassandra, the Witch of Donan Woods, was only a myth, a fairy tale concocted by crafty old men to frighten unwary children-- until the night she found him alone in Donan Woods. Now, four hundred years later, Cassandra comes to MacLeod again, this time to tell him of his role in an ancient prophecy -- that only Duncan MacLeod can challenge and defeat the voice of darkness.
Director: Dennis Berry
Writer: David Tynan
7.6/10170 votes#3 - The End of Innocence
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1996
The last time Richie Ryan saw Duncan MacLeod, MacLeod was about to take his head. He was stopped by Dawson's bullet, but Richie's world was shattered. Now Richie's back -- kicking butt and taking heads. One of those heads belonged to Carter Wellan, and now Wellan's good friend Haresh Clay is out to avange his comrade. MacLeod has his own long-time grudge against Clay, who humiliated and destroyed one of MacLeod's finest teachers. MacLeod must try to rebuild Richie's trust while they vie to be the one to face Clay in combat.
Director: Gérard Hameline
Writer: Morrie Ruvinsky
7.6/10157 votes#4 - Manhunt
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1996
Carl Robinson, the former slave turned baseball player, has finally found the good life as a Major Leagues star -- but when Carl is challenged by another Immortal and witnesses find him standing over the decapitated body, Carl is forced to go on the run from the cops. He turns to MacLeod for help when he is pursued by lawman Matthew McCormick, who has more than just a professional interest in taking Carl into custody.
Director: Peter Ellis
Writer: David Tynan
7.5/10174 votes#5 - Glory Days
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1996
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dawson's high school sweetheart BETSY walks into his. Meanwhile, MacLeod's got his hands full with Johnny K, a teenaged mobster wannabe when MacLeod knew him during Phrohibition who's now a cold-blooded assassin. The only rules Johnny K knows are the rules of the street, and MacLeod's going to have to play by them if he wants to keep his head.
Director: Gérard Hameline
Writer: Nancy Heikin-Pepin
7.2/10161 votes#6 - Dramatic License
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1996
Carolyn Marsh's latest best-seller is a hot and sexy romance novel featuring a smoky-eyed swashbuckling Highland hero named Duncan MacLeod. Both MacLeod and Terence Coventry, the Immortal depicted as the borish villain of the novel, are out tofind the author -- MacLeod to find out how much she really knows about him, and Coventry to kill her.
Director: Peter Ellis
Writer: Michael O'Mahony, Sacha Reins
7.7/10160 votes#7 - Money No Object
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1996
MacLeod and Amanda are reunited with Cory Raines, the charming, smooth-talking ""Clyde"" to Amanda's ""Bonnie"" during their five state crime spree in the 1920s. Amanda, always ready for a little larceny, is tempted by the carefree and adventurous lifestyle Cory offers her and takes him up on the offer when she realizes MacLeod won't beg her to stay with him. But MacLeod rides to rides to the rescue when one of Cory's schemes goes astray.
Director: Rafal Zielinski
Writer: James Thorpe
7.9/10167 votes#8 - Haunted
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1996
Jennifer Hill believes the spirit of her dead husband Alec, an Immortal, is still with her. She comes to Alec's old friend MacLeod and begs him to appease Alec's spirit by whacking the son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head. Richie finds himself strangely attracted to the grieving young widow -- until he realizes he's the son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head.
Director: James Bruce
Writer: Scott Peters
8.0/10186 votes#9 - Little Tin God
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1996
Derek's faith in God helped save him from a violent life on the urban streets. When the young gospel singer is killed in a drive-by shooting, he awakens in the arms of God and is given the gift of eternal life. But what's he to do when that God recruits him as a warrior in the Holy War against Satan -- and Satan turns up to be Duncan MacLeod?
Director: Rafal Zielinski
Writer: Richard Gilbert-Hill
7.6/10176 votes#10 - The Messenger
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1996
Richie's found a new teacher: an Immortal who preaches a message of peace. An Immortal who believes that all Immortals can lay down their swords and live together as brothers. An Immortal who claims to be the oldest of their kind still alive -- Methos. Will laying down his sword in the name of peace mean Richie will lose his head? And what does this mean for the friend MacLeod already calls Methos?
Director: James Bruce
Writer: David Tynan
8.7/10253 votes#11 - The Valkyrie
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 2/1/1997
In 1944, Ingrid Henning had the chance to kill Adolf Hitler and failed. She's been atoning for that failure ever since by killing dictators, tyrants, racists, and fascists who might have the potential to become as dangerous. MacLeod has a chance to stop her before she kills more mortals, but by stopping her, does MacLeod commit the same evil for which he's judged her guilty?
Director: Richard Martin
Writer: James Thorpe
8.9/10242 votes#12 - Comes a Horseman (1)
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/8/1997
MacLeod knew him as Melvin Koren, a desperado who left a trail of death and fire across the Old West, but Cassandra remembers him as an evil far older. He is Kronos, leader of the Four Horsemen, mounted Bronze Age raiders who murdered, raped, and pillaged their way across two continents. Never was a band of Immortals more cruel or more feared. He destroyed Cassandra's people and she's been hunting him across the millenia. But Kronos has a different target now -- Methos.
Director: Gérard Hameline
Writer: David Tynan
7.3/10170 votes#13 - Revelation 6:8 (2)
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/15/1997
One by one, Kronos is putting the Four Horsemen back together. Once they struck fear in the hearts of men with sword and axe. Today, their weapons of destruction are different, but their goal is the same: to bring mankind what it fears most, the Apocalypse. Only Duncan MacLeod stands between them and the end of the world.
Director: Adrian Paul
Writer: Tony Di Franco
8.0/10181 votes#14 - The Ransom of Richard Redstone
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/22/1997
The Chateau LeMartin has been in Marina's family for generations, but now the slimy Carlo Capodimonte threatens to foreclose on an old loan and take the chateau for himself. Desperate to save the family heritage, Marina kidnaps an American millionaire in order to pay off the loan. Unfortunately for Marina, the rich and charming ""Richard Redstone"" she has tied up in the cellar is none other than Richie Ryan.
Director: Gérard Hameline
Writer: David Tynan
7.9/10171 votes#15 - Duende
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/1997
Spanish swordplay, like Spanish dancing, is equal parts passion, skill, and strict discipline. The Immortal Otavio Consone is a master of both. An arrogant Spaniard who 150 years ago tried to teach MacLeod the sword art called ""The Mysterious Circle,"" Consone vied with MacLeod for the hand of a beautiful senorita, with tragic results. Now MacLeod must protect a Flamenco artist and her daughter from Consone's revenge.
Director: Richard Martin
Writer: Jan Hartman
8.0/10174 votes#16 - The Stone of Scone
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 4/26/1997
According to official statements by the British government, the theft of the Stone of Scone, the legendary royal throne of Scotland, from Westminster Abbey in 1950 was simply a rowdy schoolboy prank. But was it? Or was it actually the bungled work of three rather hapless Immortals, attempting to fulfill a promise made centuries before?
Director: Richard Martin
Writer: Michael O'Mahony, Sacha Reins
7.5/10178 votes#17 - Double Jeopardy
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 5/3/1997
Are MacLeod and the police seeing a ghost when the evidence in a diamond theft and poison gas murder points to the very evil, but very dead, Xavier St. Cloud? CID Agent Renee Delaney returns to ask for MacLeod's help in finding the killer. Could it be Xavier or simply a memorial to a fallen teacher by Xavier's former student, Morgan D'Estaing?
Director: Charles Wilkinson
Writer: David Tynan
7.4/10189 votes#18 - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 5/10/1997
After the Scottish massacre at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Duncan MacLeod was a man possessed, obsessed, with killing the English bastards who had destroyed his people. Now Immortal Steven Keane has come to make MacLeod pay for his murderous crimes. Amanda urges MacLeod to take Keane's head and be done with it, but in his heart MacLeod knows that Keane is right -- he is a murderer -- and that Keane is judging him just like MacLeod has judged so many others.
Director: Paolo Barzman
Writer: Dom Tordjmann
NaN/100 votes#19 - The Modern Prometheus
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 5/17/1997
Lord Byron, the brilliant Romantic poet, is alive and well and living the decadent life of a rock star. He lives life way over the edge and has taken some promising young musicians over the edge with him. When following in Byron's footsteps tragically ends the life of Dawson's protege, MacLeod is faced with a decision -- is the beauty and genius that is Byron worth the cost?
Director: Adrian Paul
Writer: James Thorpe
NaN/100 votes#20 - Archangel (1)
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/24/1997
The dead are walking the streets of Paris. The forces of evil are coming. Is MacLeod being readied for some higher calling -- or is he simply losing his mind?
Director: Dennis Berry
Writer: David Tynan
The Best Episodes of Highlander: The Series Season 5
Every episode of Highlander: The Series Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Highlander: The Series Season 5!
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle...
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Network:Syndication
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"One Minute to Midnight" is the best rated episode of "Highlander: The Series" season 5. It scored 7.8/10 based on 181 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/23/1996. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Prophecy".