History Recap / DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders

* MissingEpisode: The only surviving footage comes from censor clips, and all of those come from the first episode.

'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''

* TheStarscream: Trask, former first mate of the Annabel, who took over the ship by betraying former captain [=MacKay=]'s gunrunning operations to the authorities. Happened offscreen before the story began. [=MacKay=] is imprisoned in the ship's hold with the captured Highlanders and relates the story to Ben and Jamie.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The captured Highlanders are offered a choice between turning King's evidence, the gallows, or signing contracts as indentured servants in the West Indies. MacKay tells them all that they'll never live long enough to serve out their seven years, and that a quick death by hanging is better than a slow one in the West Indian plantations under the overseers' whips.

* TheStarscream: Trask, former first mate of the Annabel, who took over the ship by betraying former captain MacKay's gunrunning operations to the authorities. Happened offscreen before the story began. MacKay is imprisoned in the ship's hold with the captured Highlanders and relates the story to Ben and Jamie.

* {{MacGuffin}}: Charles Edward's ring. Keeping it safe drives the first half or so of the plot... whatever happened to it again?

Landing in 18th century Scotland in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden, the new Doctor, Polly and Ben encounter a small group of Highlanders escaping from the battle. While Polly is off fetching water, the others are captured by a British lieutenant, Algernon Ffinch. Ffinch's men pass them off to crooked solicitor Grey, who is selling captured Highland clansmen into slavery in the West Indies.

* HerrDoktor: The Doctor pretends to be German
* {{MacGuffin}}: Charles Edward's ring. Keeping it safe drives the first half or so of the plot...whatever happened to it again?

* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign[=/=]TitleDrop: "Doktor von Wer"

* IAmNotShazam: Doktor von Wer.
* LaResistance

Polly manages to blackmail Ffinch into helping, and the Doctor manages to get arms to the imprisoned Highlanders on a ship awaiting transport. They take over the ship and sail to safety in France while the travellers leave, accompanied by a new companion, clan piper Jamie [=McCrimmon=].

* IAmShazam: Doktor von Wer.

Landing in 18th century Scotland in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden, the new Doctor, Polly and Ben encounter a small group of highlanders escaping from the battle. While Polly is off fetching water, the others are captured by a British lieutenant, Algernon Ffinch. Ffinch's men pass them off to crooked solicitor Grey, who is selling captured highland clansmen into slavery in the West Indies.

Polly manages to blackmail Ffinch into helping, and the Doctor manages to get arms to the imprisoned highlanders on a ship awaiting transport. They take over the ship and sail to safety in France while the travellers leave, accompanied by a new companion, clan piper Jamie [=McCrimmon=].

* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign[=/=]IAmShazam: "Doktor von Wer"

* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: "Doktor von Wer"

* Blackmail: Polly maintains a degree of control over Lieutenant Ffinch by threatening to tell everyone how she and Kirsty tricked and robbed him.

* MissingEpisode: The only surviving footage comes from censor clips.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jamie. So much so, that he wasn't intended to last past the serial, and ended up the companion who acted in the largest number of single episodes.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jamie. So much so, that he wasn't intended to last past the serial, and ended up one of the three longest-running companions (tied, depending on how you calculate things, with Sarah Jane Smith and Tegan Jovanka).

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jamie

Landing in 18th century Scotland in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden, the new Doctor, Polly and Ben encounter a small group of highlanders escaping from the battle. While Polly is off fetching water, the others are captured by a British lieutenant, Algernon Ffinch. Ffinch is in league with crooked solicitor Grey, who is selling captured highland clansmen into slavery in the West Indies.

* MissingEpisode: The only surviving footage comes from censor clips.

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-->'''The Doctor''': ''Down with King George!''\\

* MissingEpisode
* MoralGuardian: The only surviving footage comes from censor clips.

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