Why do you think Duncan made Richie leave in Season 2 after he killed Mako? Was he upset that Richie refused to listen to him, or did he feel that Richie did not have the same sense of right and wrong that he did? Obviously Richie was not ready to go out on his own, and it was upsetting for Mac to see him go. Then Charlie became his sidekick and it seemed that Duncan didn't even miss Richie. I didn't like the flow of that.
shareThey were heading toward the mid season location change to Paris.I just assumed it was a way for the writers to give Richie a reason to leave so that he could eventually show up in Paris.
sharethat was probably the real world reason... in Universe I think @CBuck is right
Once Richie started taking Heads, their Dynamic changed; as noted they had different standards of morality; on top of which Richie got Lucky and bested one of the few immortals Duncan never had the courage to cross swords with...
- with Richie's attitude you know that that would have come up again had they stayed in proximity
There's two reasons floating around in my head as to why Duncan sent him away.. first and most obvious was Richie's disobedience.. he's still very much new to The Game and really shouldn't be so headstrong, he should follow Duncan's lead and do what he says.. but no, Richie is too willful to do that.. even several episodes before this in "An Eye for an Eye" he fights an old friend of Duncan's Annie Devlin despite being told to leave town because she would slaughter him.. which was likely to be true due to Richie only becoming an immortal the previous episode.. but alas, Richie lies to Mac and goes to fight Annie, getting lucky as he did with Mako, though he doesn't take her head.. so clearly there is a pattern of disobedient behaviour that will get him killed if he isn't lucky (which he always is).
So, is it because Richie is disobedient and MacLeod doesn't want to be around this kind of recklessness? Or.. is it because both times MacLeod feared for Richie's life, and he doesn't want to be around to witness Richie losing his head? This might also explain why he had a tear in his eye as he banished Richie, because he already felt like Richie was dead or going to die very soon. That's what I think anyway, Mac doesn't want to be around when Richie gets himself killed.
I got the impression that that was the way it was, that once Richie took a head or killed the way immortals do that it was just time. Why think this, is that even though Mac/Duncan kept/keeps in contact with Connor, his 1st teacher, and other immortal teachers, that it was time to go it on own. Least that is what my thinking was on what and why Mac sent him away.
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