"Duel with a Stranger" is the sixth episode of the syndicated television series Queen of Swords, airing November 11, 2000.

Colonel Montoya employs a professional swordsman to kill The Queen after seeing him humiliate Captain Grisham in a test of his prowess.

[1] Outside town Colonel Montoya, Captain Grisham, and some soldiers are assembled to meet a young Spanish nobleman, Antonio.

Skilled in the Spanish Destreza mysterious circle fencing system he takes on first Captain Grisham and quickly disarms him.

Tessa and Marta are mingling when Tessa spies Antonio across the room talking to Montoya, bringing back a flood of memories of two years earlier when they were sweethearts in Madrid when she and Marta witnessed Antonio dueling and called out to save his life when his beaten opponent tried to kill him from behind.

Marta hears the events from the coach driver, then spies Tessa going to the church to meet Antonio, and berates her to be careful.

In the church Antonio explains that the war ruined his family and the money for killing the Queen would enable him to return to Spain and take her with him to be married.

Daylight and the pursuit comes to a halt when Grisham contemptuously leaves Antonio in his futile chase and returns to Santa Helena.

She tilts her head back, her long hair flowing, and they take up the same stance and clash swords and daggers.

He leaves and returns to Santa Helena and Montoya's office and finds Captain Grisham and demands the gold, throwing down the Queen's mask.

Grisham refuses without proof and Antonio knocks him out and takes the gold, killing a guard on his exit.

De Longis said "Tessie remembered her days of training and the work from "Destiny" and she performed with grace and fire.