Caleb Cole
Appeared in Highlander: The Series, in the Season One episode "Mountain Men"
Statistics Name Caleb Cole Born 1648; Massachusetts Bay Colony First Death 1687; killed by a falling tree while chopping wood Final Death November 2, 1992; Great North Woods, Washington USA Cause of Death Beheaded with custom battleaxe Age 39 (at First Death) 344 (at Final Death) Teachers Goodman Fletcher Origin English Colonial (American) Watchers Joe Dawson (chronicle only) Status Deceased Victor Duncan MacLeod Occupation Fugitive Survivalist Portrayed by  Marc Singer

Caleb Cole was an Immortal outlaw and fugitive.

Biography

Born in 1648 in the Bay colony of Massachusetts, Cole was a foundling who was raised by a puritan family. They taught him that self-reliance was a virtue, that it was better to strike out on your own, a lesson Cole took to heart.

In 1687, Cole died when a tree fell on him and crushed him while he was chopping wood and became Immortal. He soon learned the ways of the Immortals from Goodman Fletcher.

Some years later, Cole killed fellow Immortal Carl the Hermit, who had taught Duncan MacLeod how to track and survive in the wilderness. Cole, too, would learn all of Carl's knowledge.

Outlaw

In the 1970s, Cole fell in love and married a mortal who had a son, Joshua, and settled down with her. When she died of pneumonia, Cole blamed the doctors for her death, and took his adopted son with him to the mountains in the Pacific northwest where they would live free.

There, they poached animals and killed deputies who were sent after them. Later, a mortal, Eddie Doyle, would join them. The trio began to take control of the forest and killed any trespassers.

Chased by MacLeod

In 1992, Tessa Noël was drawing some stone carvings in the forest when she was kidnapped by Cole, Doyle and Joshua. Having taken an interest in her, Cole intended to force Tessa to marry him. Duncan, knowing something was wrong when Tessa did not show up at the expected time, began to search for her in the forest.

Realizing that MacLeod was following him, Cole fled further into the woods. Duncan later got caught by Joshua and then Eddie and decided to jump from a cliff. Alarmed and realizing MacLeod was Immortal, Cole broke camp, but not before he unwrapped a large and well honed axe. Tessa realized that Cole was Immortal and confronted him about it.

Duncan found Joshua Cole alone and knocked him out. Cole accused Eddie of killing Joshua, and drove the butt of his rifle into Eddie's face, knocking him down. Eddie tried to appease the furious Immortal, but Cole shot him to death.

Death

Duncan finally tracked Cole and Tessa. Cole attempted to shoot Duncan with his rifle, but Tessa knocked him down, allowing Duncan to take Cole's axe, with Cole meeting the challenge with the katana.

During the heat of battle, Cole revealed that he was Carl's killer. With this information, MacLeod mustered up all his anger and with Cole's own axe in hand, Duncan swiftly beheaded him.

After, Duncan retrieved his body and buried him and used his axe as a marker believing that he would have wanted it rather than being buried in a cemetery.

Legacy

Four years later, Cole's Quickening would play a role in the build up of a Dark Quickening that overwhelmed MacLeod.

Fighting Style

Cole's weapon was a custom battle axe. However, he is shown to be a very good fighter and is well skilled with Duncan's katana. Due to being an outlaw, Cole used his rifle first on Duncan before using a blade.

Trivia

• The role of Caleb Cole was played by Marc Singer. Singer was offered the role of Connor MacLeod in the first movie, but he was forced to turn down the role due to scheduling conflicts.

• Caleb's death was the first and only time that Tessa saw MacLeod receive a Quickening.

• Prop duplicates of Caleb's battle axe can be seen hanging on the wall of DeSalvo's Martial Arts. Two of the axes are mounted on the wall outside of Duncan's dojo office.
• Cole's Axe can be seen by Duncan in The Watchers (episode).