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Lynn is the daughter of Catherine Dawson Horton and her husband, James Horton, a Watcher turned Hunter. She is the niece of Joe Dawson, Duncan MacLeod's Watcher. She was engaged to Robert Tucker, a probationary Watcher who had been recruited by Horton. When Robert expressed doubt about Horton's view of immortals after MacLeod showed him mercy, and said he was done with Horton; Horton murdered him.
Lynn Horton and her fiance Robert
Lynn had no idea what her father had become, she got between MacLeod and her father when MacLeod tracked Dawson to their apartment. When she later learned Robert’s death, Horton covered it up, saying it was an accident. She felt terrible in that she had an argument with Robert the last time she saw him.
When MacLeod called Horton to meet him at the wharf, Lynn got suspicious and followed her father. She arrived at the confrontation between MacLeod and her father, and saw Horton holding a gun to her uncle’s head. When she heard Horton admit Robert met nothing to him, Lynn revealed herself. Horton told her to go away, but she refused. When MacLeod then overpowered Horton, she begged MacLeod for his life. MacLeod acquiesced and walked away for her sake, only for Horton to pick up a gun and shoot him in the back. Lynn grabbed his arm and tried to stop him. He knocked her aside and shot MacLeod once more before being run through.
Crying over her father, she asked the mortally wounded MacLeod, why? He responded: “For Darius.” When MacLeod recovered, she, her father, and Dawson were gone.
Lynn is never seen again in the show, but is mentioned several times. Dawson told MacLeod that Horton was expelled from the Watchers and his own people refused to speak to him, this may have included Lynn. This fed into Horton’s obsession to kill MacLeod, as he blamed him for turning his daughter against him. This would ultimately cost Horton his life. Lynn left Horton’s body in Paris, but in 1997 requested to have it moved to Chicago.