'One Minute to Midnight’ by David Tynan

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.

Adrian Paul (Duncan MacLeod), Jim Byrnes (Joe Dawson), Peter Wingfield (Methos), Stephen Tremblay (Jacob Galati), Jesse Joe Walsh (Jack Shapiro), Romina Mondello (Irina Galati), Peter Hudson (James Horton), Michel Feller (Mikel), Yan Epstein (Jean Dumar), Xavier Jaillard (Magistrate), Zoltan Csala (Guard), Manuel Guillot (Emile), Olivier Vitrant (Watcher)

Directed by Dennis Berry
Produced by Ken Gord
Executive Producers Peter S. Davis and William Panzer

Based on the Character Created by Gregory Widen
Theme Music Composed and Performed by Queen

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US TX - 28th September, 1996

Notes:
*Featuring Duncan MacLeod, Joe Dawson and Methos

*Flashback: Central Europe, Gypsy camp, 1847

*Although made during the production run of Season 4, this episode was kept back and shown as the opener to Season 5