Kortan sends forth his Hunters lead by Arak to confront the Dundees. Living among the Dundees is Quentin, who has lived his life as a Dundee. After Arak kills Quentin the Quickening restores him to life and his dying mother tells him he is a MacLeod and is the chosen Immortal to defeat Kortan. Quentin promises his mother to rescue the Dundees and follow his destiny. Ramirez then appears after waiting seven centuries to reveal the oath taken by himself and other Immortal such as Mangus to become Jettators. Now is the time for Ramirez to take Quentin into being his apprentice. But can Ramirez teach the young boy enough before he confronts Kortan for the first time?
Ramirez takes Quentin to meet Stevenson a once daring and powerful Jettator who built a dam before the Great Catastrophe that generates a special kind of energy called electricity. However, Stevenson is nowhere to be found as his mysterious ferryman continues to lead Quentin and Ramirez into a trap.
The Dundees are attacked by bandits with a terrible weapon used in a time before the Great Catastrophe. Ramirez learns it is a machine gun when he performs a magic called surgery upon a wounded Dundee. Quentin has gone with the Dundees in search of the bandits and the weapon. They find the bandits held up aboard the remains of an ancient aircraft carrier.
After encountering a burning water called oil, Ramirez and Quentin try to visit a Jettator named Errol who knows all the secrets of the Earth. They instead find a tortured and demented soul named Melvyn who thinks he is an Immortal. Making things worse Quentin's sister Clyde looks like Melvyn's daughter, whom he believed to have perished at the hands of Kortan's Hunters.
Kortan decides to challenge Quentin aboard a rusty ship in a desert. In the middle of the duel, Quentin temporarily experiences a huge disadvantage as he loses his eyesight. The fight becomes more arduous given Quentin's inability to see and Kortan's deceptive strategies. Each duelist is intent in winning this perilous battle
Quentin has a fear of heights and must conqueror that fear before he recieves the quickening of the winds.
On an island where an Amazon like society exists is an unlikely hiding place for our little foursome. Both the women and our heroes have one thing in common, their enemies are the hunters.
Quentin continues his training while questioning the history lesson attached to the ""Spanish Surprise"". Ramirez decides to take Quentin to see Lonsallez, the Jettator who has all of mankinds history. Finally after receiving the history quickening Quentin understands as Ramirez said, ""In order to know where he is going man needs to understand where he has been.""
The Dundees contract malaria while traveling through the marshlands. In order to save the Dundees, Ramirez takes Quentin to the sixth cliffs to meet Ilric, the Jettator who has the knowledge of medicine. With Ilric's quickening, Quentin extracts a cure to save the Dundees, but Hunters have found him.
Quentin's latest knowledge quest encounter a lesson in botany.
Ramirez shows Quentin how the Great Catastohphe came to pass. In doing so, Quentin decides the horrible knowledge of nuclear weapons is something he can not bear and runs away. They then meet Promethus, the Jettator who guards the knowledge of atomic power, who's immortality has become a prison from the radiation. But Kortan has come for the quickening also. Finally Quentin relents and receives the quickening of atomic power.
Quentin helps an immortal who has lost his courage and receives the quickening of languages.
Quentin journeys to meet Yashoda, the Jettator who holds the knowledge of the martial arts. When his vanity overcomes him, Quentin fails to pass Yashoda's test of readyness to receive his quickening. However, he promises a second chance after Quentin has gained the knowledge of all the remaining Genetors.
Ramirez trains the young Quentin Macleod (The Highlander) and prepares him for his future and current battles against the sinister immortals in the world.
McLeod captures Kortans sword, and trades it for the release of Ramirez.
We learn that the great castrophe occured when a meteor collided with the Earth, setting off the worlds nuclear weapons. Ramirez and McLeod find the satellite station and the immortal who could have averted the disaster from ever happening.
McLedo begins to feel that he has no control of his life, and yearns for some form of freedom. Ramirez takes him to a city inhabited by gangs to show him just what freedom means since Kortan seized power.
Esclipious and Valka discover a city under the command of 451, a renegade hunter, which Arak vows to destroy.
Pursued by hunters across harsh water, quentin and ramirez make their way to the island home of Orane, the Jettator with the knowledge of oceanography.
Clyde is lost, but quickly found in what turns out to be an enourmous prison. Ramirez and McLeod get trapped and find themselves fighting an army of people who worship "The Almighty K"
Kortan sends a duplicate of Ramirez to trick MacLeod into fighting him before he is ready.
Ramirez takes Quentin and Clyde to an ancient stone calender, guarded by Cornell, the Jettator with the power of Astronomy. Meanwhile, Kortan faces a slave revolt inpired by the great "Orion", Cornell's new identity.
After spotting the Hunters braving a tremendous storm close to a group of people known as "The Hurricanes", the Ramirez realises that Kortan seeks their knowledge of cosmic energy.
Arak captures Neil Dundee, one of Quentin and Clydes kinsmen. Tired of his tomfoolary, Kortan decides to replace Malone with Neil. Wanting to keep his position as Kortans "Human Key", as well as his life, Malone lures McLeod to Mogonda, but then helps McLeod and Neil escape.
Kortan seeks Volta, the Jettator with the knowledge of Nuclear Power. While the Hunters race McLeod to the prize, Esclipious is given absolute control of Mogonda, much to Arak's persistant dismay.
Quentin, Ramirez and the Dundees are attacked en masse by Arak and the hunters, but the clan is more capable than they seem. Kortan himself leads the reinforcements
Clyde, McLeod and Ramirez are pinned down by the Hunters, and Kortan himself decides to finish the job. During the fight, Esclipious is injured, and only the blood of an immortal can save him. Vulka barters with McLeod and Ramirez to save Esclipious.
Tired of the bickering between the hunters and the beuraucrats, Valka enlists the help of the Highlander in her fight against Arak.
A group of astronauts, including Emerson, a man who owes a debt to Kortan, return to a devestated earth after 7 centuries in space.
While taking refuge in a subway system, Ramirez and McLeod meet Zac, an old man who has learned to live and communicate with the Anomas.
The heroes find a young man in the aftermath of a hunter raid. Rather than abandon him, Mcleod convinces Ramirez to take the boy to his grandfather in the Eagle Valley
McLeod, Ramirez and CLyde find a society of Grans living wild, and learn that while they are actually very intelligent, wild Grans have an inherant distrust of both humans and their domesticated counterparts. They will have to earn their trust, however, to fight of a hunter attack.
Kortan uses giant ant-like beasts to attack the rebels of shanty-town. Mahata passes the knowledge of entomology to Quentin, so he can help fight the creatures.
Kortan uses Eva, A woman with the knowledge of how to create and project holograms to spread his image and influence further.
Fredrickson, the Jettator with the Knowledge of genetics cloned himself to preserve his knowledge in case Kortan found him, but his clone turned evil and attacks Quentin during the night.
Renegades from a cult of people who worship, and make human sacrifices to "the immortal" recognise Quentin as the cult's false god.
Kortan orders the hunters and beuraucrats to work together, but with a new, powerful weapon under his command, Esclipious feels that Arak and his men an no longer neccesary.
Ramirez loses his memory after a fall, and forgets his oath, the hunters, and even McLeod and the catasrophe.
Matsuda, a Jettator with the knowledge of robotics, lost a hand to Kortan. He builds a cyborg warrior to kill Kortan for him.
After escaping hunters in a frozen landscape, The trio find themselves guests of a tribe of people who are not aware of Kortan or even the great catastrophe.
Kortan gains control of a system of missile bases, adding to his arsenal of terror
