Richie Ryan (Highlander)
| Richie Ryan | |
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| First appearance | "The Gathering" |
| Portrayed by | Stan Kirsch |
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| Born | September 20, 1974 |
| Immortality | October 23, 1993 |
| Death | 1997 (aged 22–23) |
| Teacher | Duncan MacLeod |
Richie Ryan is a fictional character from Highlander: The Series, portrayed by actor Stan Kirsch. He is an Immortal. Richie is first introduced in the pilot episode "The Gathering" (1992) as a young, quick-talking petty thief. In the first season, he was a typical sidekick, serving as comic relief, damsel in distress, and sometimes helper.
Richie Ryan was an orphan, a foundling, who grew up as a thief in Seacouver. A life of crime was beckoning Richie Ryan the night that he broke into "Noël and MacLeod Antiques" in 1992. A few weeks short of his eighteenth birthday, he was already a skilled thief, but fate was to overtake him. If he was shocked to see the owner of the store, Duncan MacLeod, coming at him with a Japanese sword and threatening to cut off his head, he was astounded when two more men appeared (Connor MacLeod and Slan Quince), also carrying swords, and all three seemed ready to use the weapons they carried. He beat a hasty retreat, straight into the arms of the police. The antiques store owner refused to press charges, but intimidated Richie into saying nothing about what he had seen. Intrigued, he started following MacLeod, only to see the man finish what had started that night in the store, by beheading Slan Quince. Richie would then be taken-in by MacLeod and his girlfriend Tessa Noël. With them he learned the truth about Immortals and had many encounters with them and Duncan. In mid-year they moved to Paris.
After the trauma of Darius' death in Paris, Duncan, Tessa and Richie returned to the States, where Duncan uncovered the secret of the Watchers. It was to be a traumatic discovery. Tessa was kidnapped by renegade Watcher Pallin Wolf, and although Duncan rescued her, she and Richie were gunned down and killed by a mugger on their way back to the store, ("The Darkness"). Richie revived to find MacLeod cradling Tessa in his arms and himself immortal.
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