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Jack Shapiro was the highest ranking Watcher in Europe, head of the Tribunal, at the beginning of the episode Judgement Day, and the father of Watcher David Shapiro. He organized a plot to capture Joe Dawson by telling him Duncan MacLeod was dead, and Joe had to complete a terminal report at Watcher HQ. The tribunal decided Joe had broken his oath by consorting with an Immortal, which they believed resulted in the deaths of over 80 Watchers over the previous two years.

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  • Jack Shapiro
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  • Jack Shapiro was the highest ranking Watcher in Europe, head of the Tribunal, at the beginning of the episode Judgement Day, and the father of Watcher David Shapiro. He organized a plot to capture Joe Dawson by telling him Duncan MacLeod was dead, and Joe had to complete a terminal report at Watcher HQ. The tribunal decided Joe had broken his oath by consorting with an Immortal, which they believed resulted in the deaths of over 80 Watchers over the previous two years.
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Appear
  • Highlander: The Series, Season 4 episodes "Judgment Day" and "One Minute to Midnight"
Status
  • Alive
Actor
  • Jesse Joe Walsh
Name
  • Jack Shapiro
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Title
  • Jack Shapiro
Occupation
  • Former head of the Watchers in Europe.
Nationality
  • American
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  • Jack Shapiro was the highest ranking Watcher in Europe, head of the Tribunal, at the beginning of the episode Judgement Day, and the father of Watcher David Shapiro. He organized a plot to capture Joe Dawson by telling him Duncan MacLeod was dead, and Joe had to complete a terminal report at Watcher HQ. The tribunal decided Joe had broken his oath by consorting with an Immortal, which they believed resulted in the deaths of over 80 Watchers over the previous two years. During a kangaroo trial, Jack presided, brushing aside testimony from researcher Adam Pierson, and from an Immortal, Duncan MacLeod. At trial's end, he learned that David had been murdered by an Immortal and blamed Dawson and MacLeod for his death. On the morning of Dawson's scheduled execution, he left the headquarters unable to watch the sentence he had supportedbe carried out, and so escaped the massacre perpetrated by Jacob, which caused the deaths of a dozen high-ranking Watchers. When MacLeod appeared after the fact, and spirited the badly wounded Dawson away, Shapiro accused MacLeod and Dawson of the Watcher deaths, and spearheaded a massive manhunt for both fugitives, re-tasking the entire Watcher network in the hunt for the pair, in a horrendous breach of Watcher ethics and laws. After Jacob Galati was discovered as the true killer of the Watchers, Shapiro used Dawson to bring Jacob to him, where he ambushed and killed the immortal, despite having promised a parley. Upon his death, MacLeod, surrounded by armed Watchers; received Jacob's Quickening, and in a vulnerable state, was going to be Shapiro's next target, until being stopped at gunpoint by Dawson. Full of grief over the loss of his son, Jack prepared the Watchers for a full-scale war against Immortals to avenge David, a gross violation of his oath, and a disturbing throw back to the Hunters work of the late James Horton. Refusing to listen to Dawson, and throwing him out of the Watchers, he was met at gunpoint by MacLeod. Dawson begged both men to let it end, and MacLeod demanded a decision from Shapiro, the death of more Watchers or peace. Terrified for his own life, Shapiro agreed to rescind the orders that would launch an all out war between Watcher and Immortal. MacLeod closed Shapiro in a caske,t and told him the killing ended right there, or it never would. Following the events of One Minute to Midnight, Jack was tried by the Watchers for violating his oath and nearly plunging the organization into war. He was forced to leave the Watchers, but further retribution was waived as the council determined that the loss of his son was punishment enough.
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