Amanda's attempt to steal some antiques from a museum is interrupted, and she finds herself caught up in someone else's plan to steal from the exhibition.
This is actually quite an interesting story with its roots in a good deed Amanda once did for a black couple. It's fun to watch Nick getting more and more frustrated as he tries to solve a crime, only to find Amanda one step ahead of him, looking increasingly suspicious. The flak the ex-cop gets from his former colleagues though is highly unprofessional and shouldn't be allowed. As a pimp says to him, why can't we just get along? This rivalry does however lead to a great scene at the end of the episode that begs the question: how did they run the bath so quickly? Poetic licence, I suppose.
The solution to the mystery of a man who seems to have died yet isn't immortal is nicely resolved, although there are other explanations (he's able to hide his presence from Amanda) that would have led to a different type of story, and maybe a better one. On the other hand, it's too to see that not every flashback has to be about some Immortal or other. It's good to see Amanda's place in history.
The problems this time round are that the supporting cast aren't very well fleshed out here, Amanda's reasons for saving the black couple aren't explained (it was unlikely to be through charity at this point in her career) and the story's pacing is rather off, lurching from scene to scene with little explanation and bringing the characters together more through luck than judgement. A bit of tightening up, and Birthright could have been a great episode. As it is, it's only average.
***
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