Mac's old pal, Tommy Sullivan, an immortal, is a boxing coach and manager. Greedy corrupt people are out to take away his prized boxer. Sullivan also has a huge crush on Iris and he messes up every time he tries to talk with her.
I thought Sullivan was funny and Charlie's attempt to teach him to talk to Iris is hilarious. The flashbacks early in the 20th century of him having Mac fight for him were good. Another hilarious scene here is when Sullivan barges in Mac's room, and he cannot speak and trips over himself when he sees that Mac has a woman with him.
Unfortunately, Sullivan has a bad habit of killing people that betray him or try to do any kind of wrong to him. He ends up killing the two corrupt fellows that want to take away his boxer and that did a cruel set-up involving Iris. He also ends up killing his boxer who signed with someone else. He saw that as a betrayal.
I really like Sullivan and he didn't exactly seem evil to me. He was a really likable fella. Mac feels he needs to kill Sullivan since he killed those people especially his boxer who was not a bad person. I get where Mac is coming from, but this is one of those times where it rubs me the wrong way when Mac plays judge, jury, and executioner. Why does he always think he's the boss of immortal justice? I don't know what a better solution would have been, but I just didn't like this solution.
In the end, I believe we see some of the "power" immortals get from Mac and Sullivan's fight. Sullivan looks like a 60-year-old man. He's very slight looking, yet he's doing these big jumps and holds his own really well.
After Mac kills him he used the swords to reject the quickening. It just seemed to cheapen the whole immortal mythos. It also brings to mind what Fitzcairn said in season one's 'The Hunters,' when mortals were going to behead him:
"This, this is madness! There are no Immortals here! All I am will be wasted! What do you want? All I know will be lost. There will be no Quickening. What do you want?! You're mad!"
So Mac did that to his old friend? Someone he once cared about and had lots of laughs and adventures with? All that he was is wasted? All that he knew is lost? So disappointed in Mac and the writers here. I usually skip this one in re-watches. I gave the episode a 5/10.
I thought Sullivan was funny and Charlie's attempt to teach him to talk to Iris is hilarious. The flashbacks early in the 20th century of him having Mac fight for him were good. Another hilarious scene here is when Sullivan barges in Mac's room, and he cannot speak and trips over himself when he sees that Mac has a woman with him.
Unfortunately, Sullivan has a bad habit of killing people that betray him or try to do any kind of wrong to him. He ends up killing the two corrupt fellows that want to take away his boxer and that did a cruel set-up involving Iris. He also ends up killing his boxer who signed with someone else. He saw that as a betrayal.
I really like Sullivan and he didn't exactly seem evil to me. He was a really likable fella. Mac feels he needs to kill Sullivan since he killed those people especially his boxer who was not a bad person. I get where Mac is coming from, but this is one of those times where it rubs me the wrong way when Mac plays judge, jury, and executioner. Why does he always think he's the boss of immortal justice? I don't know what a better solution would have been, but I just didn't like this solution.
In the end, I believe we see some of the "power" immortals get from Mac and Sullivan's fight. Sullivan looks like a 60-year-old man. He's very slight looking, yet he's doing these big jumps and holds his own really well.
After Mac kills him he used the swords to reject the quickening. It just seemed to cheapen the whole immortal mythos. It also brings to mind what Fitzcairn said in season one's 'The Hunters,' when mortals were going to behead him:
"This, this is madness! There are no Immortals here! All I am will be wasted! What do you want? All I know will be lost. There will be no Quickening. What do you want?! You're mad!"
So Mac did that to his old friend? Someone he once cared about and had lots of laughs and adventures with? All that he was is wasted? All that he knew is lost? So disappointed in Mac and the writers here. I usually skip this one in re-watches. I gave the episode a 5/10.