A 1998 short lived Spin-Off of Highlander that follows Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen) teaming up with former cop Nick Wolfe (Paul Johansson) to solve crimes.
The show also has appearances from Patricia Gage, Hannes Jaenicke, Michael Copeman, Robert Cavanah, Valentine Pelka, and Marc Pierret.
It aired in syndication from September 26, 1998 to May 17, 1999.
Tropes:
- Classy Cat-Burglar: Amanda, in spades. Given that she's a thousand years old, she's the best thief alive. It's not about the money for her (she's so rich, she doesn't know how much she has), just the thrill.
- Curse That Cures: Nick Wolfe is dying from poison, but is saved when Amanda shoots him, triggering Nick's latent immortality, which dying from poison would not do (because a person's "first death" only causes their immortality to kick in if the death is violent and traumatic). Nick sees immortality as a curse, though. and angrily storms off while telling Amanda that he never wants to see her again.
- Divorce Requires Death: One episode had Amanda's former husband (a fellow Immortal who she only married to save her own neck) turn up. They fight, and when she had him dead to rights, he pleaded, "I'm your husband". She answers, "I want a divorce" before lopping his head off.
- From the Ashes: Its Poorly Disguised Pilot is one of the many found in the ninth season of ''Highlander
- Healing Factor: Immortals have fast healing, with the only injuries that they do not heal from being ones to the neck, which is why they can only be killed by cutting their heads off. According to the show, severing their spine by any other means also works, and they can't regenerate limbs.
- Heel Realization: Amanda is forced to acknowledge how her centuries of theft have probably hurt a lot of people and is now seeking to atone by aiding Nick in cases.
- Holy Ground: Keeping with the franchise rules, Immortals are forbidden from harming anyone in a church, cemetery, or other holy places.
- I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Or in this case..."I Hate You, Immortal Mom?". This is pretty much Nick Wolfe's response to a tearful Amanda after she shoots Nick with a gun in order to trigger his immortality.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In World War I, Amanda robbed a young soldier of a pouch containing jewels, not caring what else was inside of it. When she meets the soldier, now an Immortal, again, she assumes that his anger is over what happened. Nick has to break it to her that the pouch also contained orders for the man's division to divert from a planned trap. Because they didn't get the orders, they marched in anyway and were wiped out. Amanda is stunned that her greed contributed to the deaths of hundreds of men, and wonders how many more innocents paid for her actions over the centuries. She's even ready to let the soldier take her head, but Nick is able to stop him.
- Spotting the Thread: Nick and Amanda are hired to recover a stolen painting and think that they've done it. But when they see it on display, Amanda tells Nick that they've been tricked as this is a fake. When Nick says that it has the artist's signature, Amanda relates that's the problem: She just happened to have been having an affair with the artist when he got drunk and behind on the deadline, so Amanda signed it for him. The forger perfectly copied the artist's signature, but Amanda knows her own handwriting.
- Taking the Bullet: Claudia Hoffman does this for Amanda, not knowing that Amanda is an Immortal.
- Stupid Sacrifice: The first episode climaxes with Officer Claudia Hoffman diving in front of a bullet to protect Amanda, who is an Immortal who would have easily recovered from being shot.
- Survival Through Self-Sacrifice: One episode had a soldier/vigilante Immortal pursuing Amanda because she once stole some loot from the soldier which included written orders to evacuate a doomed position, with the theft causing the deaths of everyone there. When Amanda learns his actual motives, she's wracked with guilt and decides to let him behead her; seeing this, he merely shoots her, causing a temporary death, and announces that she died with honor.
- Vigilante Execution: In the episode "So Shall Ye Reap", the head of the Government Conspiracy to unleash a Sterility Plague on the Third World to save on foreign aid budgets gets acquitted, so the old friend of Amanda's who drove the investigation shoots him on the courthouse steps, before being gunned down by his bodyguards.
