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Teaser
Previously on Highlander
Kronos, voiceover: "Once we rode out of the sun bringing death on the point of a sword. No man and no immortal could stand against us. We were death on horseback."
Scenes from last week.
The Ukraine
These are the Eurominutes.
Methos: "I've been spending too much time in cities."
Kronos: "Two days on an aeroplane and another two on a horse. I hope you're
not wasting my time."
Methos: "I thought you enjoyed my company."
Kronos: "Even for you Methos, my patience has limits."
Methos: "Ah! this is the place, I'm telling you he's here."
Methos: "Would I lie to you?"
Kronos: "Have you ever done anything else?" Goes on to say that "this is what
I've dreamt of every night for the last 2000 years. The four of us reunited."
Methos: "Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Dream Team.'"
Kronos says it will be like the old days, only better, that whatever they want,
they will have.
Methos: "Or else we take."
Kronos: "That's the spirit."
They stop as they hear the sound of an axe. Cut to an axe splitting wood as
Kronos says, "It's Silas."
Methos: "It's been over a thousand years. He may not remember us."
Kronos: "He'll remember. What we were you don't forget."
Methos wonders if he'll come with them, but Kronos is confident that he will.
Silas senses them as they approach, and turns, axe in hand. He makes a growling
noise as they walk the horses up to the clearing, then raises the axe and flings
it so that it buries itself in the tree between them. He looks at them for a
moment, then his face splits into a grin and he laughs.
Silas: "Brothers!"
He strides forward as Methos approaches, and lifts him off his feet in a huge
bear hug, both of them laughing.
Methos: "Good to see you, too, Silas."
Silas: "We ride?"
Methos: "We ride."
Act One
Joe, Duncan, and Cassandra are in (presumably) Joe's basement, trying to find
the other Horsemen using the Watcher database. Joe is doubtful that the others
are alive.
Duncan: "Well, Methos and Kronos are, under different names, different lives."
Cassandra: "This is pointless. We're just wasting time. We may as well go find
Kronos."
Duncan: "Oh, yeah? And starting where? If they're alive that's where he'll be
going."
Joe searches the database first by pulling up all the white male immortals with
no first death information, then narrows the search looking for names that
resemble their real ones. Eventually they find Evan Caspari, who Cassandra
recognizes as Caspian. According the records, he's in Romania, in an asylum for
the criminally insane. Cassandra and Duncan leave to find him.
Bucharest, Romania
Inside the asylum, Dr. Cernavoda is telling the other Horseman he can't release
Caspian to them, that it's highly irregular request and it could take weeks,
even months. Even while they talk, a patient shrieks in the background.
Methos: "Well, we'd like him now."
Dr. Cernavoda: "We have procedures, gentleman. Patience is a virtue. I'm afraid
my hands are tied."
Kronos, tossing an envelope in front of him: "Then perhaps this could help you
to untie them. 25,000 dollars, U. S."
Dr. Cernavoda nods and tucks the envelope away. He leads the Horseman down to
the cellar, asking them what they want with Caspari.
Kronos: "Rehabilitate him."
The doctor is incredulous, saying that they can't be serious. Methos asks what
Caspari did, and Cernavoda tells him that they aren't even sure how many people
he killed.
Dr. Cernavoda: "They found parts in his basement, his garden . . . in his
freezer."
Silas wonders why they didn't execute him, and the doctor says in less
progressive age they would have. "But today," he says, leading them down into a
dank, dark cellar, "we are more humane."
Methos, glancing around as he follows them down into the cramped cellar,
mutters, "Really humane." (I think. Can't really make out the words.) Dr.
Cernavoda opens the cell, and Caspian rises as he sees Kronos. He wipes his hair
from his eyes and howls gleefully.
Kronos strikes through the chains with his sword. Caspian is on the doctor in a
moment, and strangles him while the others watch. He begs them to get Caspian
off, but Kronos asks, "Why?" As Dr. Cernavoda is strangled, Methos turns away
and pushes towards a corner of the cell.
These are the Eurominutes, faithfully transcribed by Paul.
As Caspian kills the Doctor, Methos backs into the corner.
Caspian looks at Methos: "Stop!"
Methos looks bewildered.
Caspain moves to where Methos is standing and picks up a cockroach from where
Methos was about to place his foot: "They are better alive."
Methos: "Bon appetite." He looks away distastefully.
Kronos: "Come Caspian, I have bigger game for you outside."
They walk off. Methos is the last to leave, as he does so, he drops a book of
matches on the ground.
Abandoned Submarine Base
Bordeaux, France
Inside the base, torches have been lit, but the place is still very dark and
dreary. Silas is calling for Methos, climbing up the stairs to a large open
room. Methos is sitting in a chair, reading a book. His chair is one of four metalwork
chairs that are placed around a round table, and each of the Horseman's weapons
are laid in front of their chair.
Silas, laughing: "What the hell is this place?"
Methos: "This is Kronos's idea of Camelot."
Silas sits down in his chair, asking where are the stables, and the horses, but
Methos just shakes his head.
Silas: "Then how do we ride?"
Caspian, standing by the wall, laughs at him.
Caspian: "Where have you been for the last 2000 years, idiot?"
Caspian: "Four guys on horseback. Wild masks. They'll think we're in a circus."
Silas: "They wouldn't think it for long, would they?"
Caspian walks over, carrying a rat in a cage: "We're having a friend for dinner.
Tell me, what goes best with rodent, red or white?"
Silas: "Eat him and I'll eat you."
Caspian: "You're crazy. You should have been in the madhouse, instead of me."
Silas grabs his axe, and Caspian his sword. Methos glances at each of them, then
goes back to reading as they face off right in front of him. Kronos enters at
that point, and makes them lay down their weapons.
Kronos: "We never raise a blade against each other. Isn't that right, Methos?"
Methos finally looks up: "You said it." He smiles a little and returns to his
book.
Kronos walks around the table. "We are the Four Horsemen. No other band of men
has ever been more cruel or more feared." Holds out his arm. "Remember that."
Silas takes hold of Kronos's forearm, and Caspian holds Silas's. Methos says
nothing, but rises to join them, finishing the square.
Back at the asylum, Duncan is asking one of the doctors when Caspari escaped.
She tells him that he escaped last night, but all she knows is that they found
Dr. Cernavoda's body that morning.
Cassandra, impatient: "Let's go."
But Duncan, persists, asking if he had any visitors. The doctor says the records
don't show any, then excuses herself to talk to the police. Duncan grabs
Cassandra and heads for Caspian's old cell.
Cassandra: "Kronos and Methos already have him. I don't know why we're wasting
time in this hellhole."
In the cell, though, Duncan finds a book of matches on the floor.
Duncan: "This is why. Hotel de Seze, Bordeaux. Methos must have left it."
Cassandra: "The question is what for."
Duncan: "You think he's setting us up."
Cassandra, laughs: "Don't you?"
Duncan: "Maybe."
They emerge into the hallway again.
Cassandra: "But we're going anyway?"
Duncan: "It's the only place we've been invited."
At the submarine base, the Horsemen are walking side by side down a long
corridor, Kronos explaining his plan to them.
Kronos: "Silas, my brother, why would we ride with sword and axe when today
there are weapons of unimaginable power?"
Methos: "Weapons ready to plunge the earth into generations of darkness."
Kronos: "If we choose. What more could we ask for? What better time for us to
come together than in the scientific age. Just think of what men like us could
do. Men without conscience, without fear. Think of the destruction, the
devastation, the death, a world of anarchy and madness. Now, you think of that,
and dream."
As they walk, Kronos gradually moves in front of the others, but Methos begins
to fall behind. When they turn the corner and enter Kronos's lab, he is the last
one. The lab is like the rest of the base, dark and old, but with tables of test
tubes and other equipment. There are monkeys in cages at one end, and they walk
past them on the way to Kronos's vault.
Kronos: "The weapons of today are different but it all comes down to the same
thing. There are the conquerors and there are the conquered."
Caspian: "You want to conquer the world with monkeys?"
Kronos: "Not with them." Opens the vault. "With this."
The vault opens, and he shows them a test tube full of clear liquid, sitting a
bubbling vat.
Kronos: "Glorious virus. AIDS, Ebola, and now mine. It doesn't have a name, and
it doesn't have a cure."
Caspian asks if Kronos has a plan.
Kronos: "I have a few thoughts. I have a few dollars, enough for a start. And
now we have Methos, and now we'll have a plan."
Methos: "What did you have in mind?"
Kronos: "Once we rode out of the sun, bringing death at the point of a sword.
There was no man, and no immortal, who could stand before us. We were death on
horseback. They called us the end of the world. Well, gentleman." He picks up
the vial. "I want to give them what they fear most. The Apocalypse."
Hotel de Seze, Bordeaux
Duncan and Cassandra check in, but there's no message for them, nothing to
indicate that Methos meant to contact them.
Cassandra: "Dead end."
Duncan: "He left that clue. He'll get in touch."
Cassandra: "He's done nothing but lie to you. That's all he ever does."
Back at the base, the Horsemen are at the table. The others are sitting, but
Kronos is pacing. He's saying scornfully: "A bomb with the virus in a fountain.
How many do you think that will kill? You've gone soft, Methos."
Caspian, mocking. "I'm scared." To Methos. "Are you scared?"
Methos, piqued: "It's a prelude. Have you read Aristotle's Poetics? No, of
course not, you haven't even seen Casablanca." Turns to the others. "What is the
first rule of great drama?" Pauses for effect. "Start small, and build." Kronos
turns, getting interested. Methos goes on. "A fountain to get their attention.
Then, a public pool, to kill a hundred. Then, a stadium, to kill ten thousand,
then...one drop of the virus in the city's water supply..." Spreads his hands.
"Within a week..."
Kronos, grinning. "Has a nice ring to it. I forgot how good you were, Methos."
Methos smiles modestly.
Kronos: "We begin tonight."
Hotel de Seze.
Duncan is standing on the balcony, looking out. Cassandra comes
out and leans next to him.
Cassandra: "He's not your friend. He's no one's friend. He's putting the
Horseman back together, you have no idea what that means."
Duncan: "It's Kronos who's behind this. Let me deal with him, then we'll worry
about the rest."
Cassandra: "Kill Kronos, you've cut out the heart of the Horseman. Kill Methos,
take the head. They both have to die."
Duncan: "Even if you get your revenge, the memories won't end. Killing can't
erase what happened. Only living can do that."
Cassandra: "Nothing can do that. Nothing."
Duncan puts his arms around her and holds her.
Act Two
Silas is feeding pieces of bread to the monkeys in Kronos's lab, clucking to
them and chuckling. Methos strolls in, looking over his shoulder.
Silas: "Methos! You look troubled."
Methos: "Just thinking."
Silas: "Ah, you were always good at that, eh? Well, after all these years you
still are."
Silas: "Well, nothing like the old days, is it?"
Methos: "What do you mean?"
Silas: "I don't like this killing from a distance. I like to feel my axe in my
hands, look into my enemies' eyes before I strike."
Methos: "Soon enough."
Silas turns to him, surprised but smiling: "You don't think the virus will
work?"
Methos, resigned: "It will work." He moves closer. "Silas. For two thousand
years we have lived without this. We have lived without the blood, the fear, the
power."
Silas: "And for two thousand years I have dreamed of the day when we would ride
again!" Smiles. "Like you always said, Methos: we live, we grow stronger. And
then we fight."
Methos looks at him impassively for a moment.
Methos: "I'll see you later." Turns and starts walking off.
Silas: "Do you think he'll let me have one?"
Methos stops: "What?"
Silas: "Monkey! I like this one." Chuckles to the monkey in the cage in front of
him.
Methos: "I'll ask him."
Silas: "Thank you, brother."
Methos leaves.
Back at the hotel, Cassandra has just gotten out of the shower. She's wearing a
robe, her hair up in a towel while she looks for her hairbrush. Duncan is
sitting a chair, lost in thought.
Cassandra, casually: "Will you kill him, Duncan? Can you kill him?"
Duncan, not entirely convincingly: "If I have to."
Cassandra: "You will."
Duncan gets up from his chair: "Did it ever occur to you that maybe he's trying
to help us?"
Cassandra, exasperated: "No."
The phone rings. Duncan answers it.
Methos: "Elysium church, thirty minutes. Come alone." He hangs up.
Duncan, into the dead phone: "I'll be right down." Hangs up.
Cassandra: "Was that him?"
Duncan tells her no, that it was something wrong with his credit card. He
leaves, telling her he'll be right back.
At the church. Duncan comes in, and sees Methos sitting near the front, head
bowed, hands clasped between his knees. He raises his head slowly as Duncan
walks in. Duncan stares, then starts walking around the back of the seats, not
coming any closer to him.
Duncan: "Well, I'm here."
Methos, quiet: "Yeah. Thanks."
Duncan turns and looks at him, faintly accusing: "Why did you lie to me?"
Methos: "About what?"
Duncan: "About Cassandra, about who you were."
Methos: "I have been many things, MacLeod."
Duncan: "And who are you now?"
Methos looks away, smiling faintly: "Why'd you think I didn't tell you? I knew
how you'd react. What I've done, you can't forgive. That's not in your nature.
Will you accept it?"
Duncan, raising his voice for the first time, stepping forward: "Accept what?!
That a friend I trusted with my life slaughtered innocent people? For what, a
few head of cattle? What are you going to tell me, Methos, 'that's how the world
was?'"
Methos stands: "No, the world was how we made it."
Duncan: "No, the world was how you chose to make it." Methos turns away. "How
you chose to slaughter her people and ... burn her village."
Methos, still not looking at him: "And I chose to take her prisoner."
Duncan: "And...?"
Methos: "There's more."
Flashback, The Bronze Age
Methos and the other Horseman are riding back into the camp, driving several
women in front of them. As they enter the camp, Kronos turns to Methos.
Kronos: "Another day well spent, Methos." Methos doesn't answer. He glances over
as Cassandra walks as Cassandra walks across the camp, carrying a cup. She's
clean and well-dressed, wearing a white robe and a torque around her neck.
Kronos: "Let's celebrate, divide our bounty."
Methos: "You can have my share, I'm tired." Leads his horse past Kronos as he
stares at him.
Inside Methos's tent, Cassandra waits for him, smiling. She gives him a cup of
something to drink, and follows him as he walks by and sits down. He barely
acknowledges her, but when he says something about the drink being good she
tells him that she cooled it in the river for him. She takes a cloth and starts
wiping his hands, then his face. He turns to her and lifts a hand to touch her
cheek, but they both turn as Kronos walks in.
Kronos: "My compliments, brother. You taught her well in everything, I see." He
leans down and picks up a piece of fruit from a basket. "And it seems she keeps
the best fruit for you."
Methos: "It's no different from the rest."
Kronos: "Maybe it just tastes better in here. Made quite a prize of her, haven't
you?"
Methos: "She's no different from the others."
Kronos: "Except you seem to prefer her to all others. Why is that? Have you
grown attached?"
Methos stands and faces him and says, a little forced: "No."
Kronos: "Good. I didn't think you'd make a mistake like that, brother. Because
now it's time to share the spoils of war."
Methos tightens his jaw, looks down at Cassandra, then back to Kronos. He walks
away as Cassandra gapes after him, astonished, her mouth hanging open in
disbelief. She cries out for him as Kronos pulls her out, begging, but Methos
does nothing. He stands, peeling a fruit, then presses the knife bewteen his
palms as he hears her calling for him. Night falls, and Cassandra is finally
relenting, begging Kronos not to hurt her anymore. She goes to her knees in
front of him, dragging her nails down his tunic, and starts kissing his hand,
but as soon as he's distracted, she grabs his knife and stabs him. Methos starts
up as he hears Kronos scream, and gets up in time to see Cassandra run from his
tent.
Methos, voiceover: "I could have stopped her, but I didn't."
Present Day
It's nighttime, outside the church in the cemetery. Methos is finishing the
story, speaking almost angrily now: "She escaped across the wilderness, and she
must have died a dozen times from heat and thirst before she found a village
that would take her in, and I bet it was worth it, just to get away from us."
Duncan: "So what are you doing with Kronos now?"
Methos: "Same as always, trying to survive. And if you want Cassandra to live,
you'll get her as far away from here as you can."
Duncan makes a noise of disbelief: "What, and let Kronos go?"
Duncan: "You should know me better than that." Starts to walk past, but Methos
stops him.
Methos: "I came to warn you." He tells him about the virus and the fountain, and
about Kronos's plans. It "will only kill a few," he concludes, "but it's a
start."
Duncan, understanding: "The water supply's next."
Methos: "Bright boy."
Duncan jerks his head briskly: "Let's go."
Methos: "Oh, no no. If I go up against him, I lose."
Duncan stares, not believing: "Going with the winner?" Methos smiles smugly. "So
why are you here, Methos? What game are you playing?"
Methos: "It's in the bottom fountain just above the water line. White, then
black, then red."
Duncan: "Don't do this. You have a choice."
Methos: "And you have . . ." Checks his watch. "Twenty-four minutes."
He watches as Duncan leaves.
In the hotel, Cassandra gets up as she senses another immortal. She goes to the
door, asking, "Duncan, what took you so long?" but when she opens it she finds
the other three Horsemen standing there. Kronos steps in, smiling.
Kronos: "I'm afraid Duncan is otherwise engaged"
La Place des Quinconces
There's a Ferris wheel and other amusements set up there, and Duncan runs past them on his way to the fountain, shouting for people to get clear. He jumps into the water, searching until he finds the bomb. He cuts the wires in the sequence that Methos told him, and the display goes blank. He breathes a sigh of relief, then freezes as he hears a noise from the fountain. But it's only the spraying mechanism, that starts to soak him as he stands there, holding the defused bomb.
Act Three
Methos returns to the base, where Kronos tells him casually that his bomb didn't
go off.
Kronos: "Not much of a plan, was it?"
Methos: "Well, I'll think of better."
Kronos: "By the way, where were you?"
Methos: "I was just--"
Kronos: "Warning your friend. You didn't really think I wouldn't know you'd tell
MacLeod, did you?"
Methos: "It's not like you think it is."
Kronos: "It's just like I think. My dearest brother, that's what makes you my
perfect right arm. We think alike." Methos laughs. "We always have."."
Methos smiles: "I doubt that, Kronos. No one thinks quite like you."
Kronos: "Spoken like a true scholar." Reaches into his pocket. "Look at this."
He holds up a remote control. "All I have to do is punch in a few numbers, and a
small vial explodes in the reservoir above Bordeaux. And then, well, you know
what happens next, don't you?" Methos says nothing, just stares straight ahead,
wooden-faced. Kronos goes on. "We all have our own little plans. I'm sure you
won't disappoint me. Come with me. I have something else to show you."
He takes him to the cage where Cassandra is being held. She's lying on the
floor, groaning, not seeming fully conscious.
Kronos: "She was asking about you." Methos closes his eyes. "You knew exactly
what you were doing when you sent MacLeod to that fountain, didn't you? So I did
what you expected. I went and got Cassandra while she was unprotected. That was
the plan, wasn't it?" Methos nods minutely. "You see, I know you better than you
know yourself."
Methos, calm: "Which is why the plan was perfect."
Kronos: "Your plans always are." Methos smiles modestly again. "I wonder what
your friend MacLeod thinks of you now, though."
Methos murmurs: "Think I care?"
Kronos: "You should. You lured him away. When he comes back he finds that
someone's stolen his woman . . . If that--if that was me, I'd want you dead."
Methos: "Well then we should prepare for MacLeod to come here."
Kronos: "Already thought of that."
For the first time, Methos looks surprised, and a little worried, but manages to
ask casually: "Did you send Caspian or Silas?"
Kronos chuckles: "Both."
Duncan is walking down the street, and stops as he senses someone. He turns to
see Silas waiting, axe in hand.
Silas: "Welcome home, boy." He advances, but as Duncan walks to meet him he
senses someone else, and turns to see Caspian behind him. He wavers between
them, and they both close on him fast.
Silas: "You kill one of us, the other takes your head while you're down."
Caspian: "If you kill one of us."
Duncan chooses to face Caspian, and they exchange only a couple of blows before
Caspian pulls a dagger and slashes Duncan's cheek. Duncan backs away, then runs
with both of them in pursuit. They split up to catch him, and Caspian confronts
him alone as he flees to a bridge.
Caspian: "It's been a long time, Highlander. You're gonna taste good."
Duncan: "Yeah, well you're gonna go hungry." Duncan faces him, one hand held at
his back, and as Caspian comes for him he whips out his own dagger and gives
Caspian a matching cut.
Duncan: "Two can play at that game."
Silas comes up as they fight, and watches. Duncan and Caspian trade a flurry of
blows, both of them using sword and dagger, but after a long engagement the
final exchange ends with Duncan taking Caspian's head. He stares at Silas as he
realizes what he's done, and makes for the edge of the bridge as the Quickening
overtakes him. Duncan staggers at the brink, overcome by the first shocks, but
as Silas swings he manages to fall over the edge into the water, the lightning
still lashing around him, and striking up between the bridge and water as he
sinks. Silas watches until the last of the Quickening is gone, then picks up
Caspian's sword and stalks away.
Act Four
Methos is perched on the wall at the end of Cassandra's cage, opposite from
where she sits.
Methos: "You should eat." Cassandra kicks the bowl across the cage. "This is
familiar."
Cassandra: "I'm not your sorry little slave anymore. I know what I am now, what
you are. You may have fooled MacLeod but you've never fooled me."
Methos, his voice breaking a little: "I wasn't trying to fool anyone."
Cassandra: "If MacLeod knew what you really are he'd've taken your head long
ago."
Methos: "Well he had his chance. He didn't." Long silence. "It wasn't all bad,
when we were together."
Cassandra: "I only served you because you forced me."
Methos, gently: "Don't hate yourself." Gets up and walks around to the side
where she's sitting, saying, "Stockholm Syndrome. It's like Patty Hearst.
Hostages come to rely on their captors for food and approval, and they fall in
love."
,br>Cassandra's been staring at him in disbelief, and now she laughs: "I never loved
you."
Methos: "You thought you did. You thought I would protect you. You forgot what I
was."
Cassandra, hitting the mesh and shouting: "I forgot nothing! I'll take your head
with my bare hands, yours and Kronos."
Methos: "I've seen what happens to people who go up against him. If we want to
survive, we will keep him happy."
Cassandra: "I didn't do it then, and I won't now. I'd rather die."
Methos: "Well then you'll die. And you can forget about MacLeod. MacLeod is
dead." He walks away.
Upstairs, Kronos has just heard from Silas that Caspian is dead.
Methos, sword in hand, goes to the cage.
Tag
Duncan and Methos are standing in the cemetery. Duncan is saying, "But you had
to know Kronos would come for you one day."
Kronos: "Never again will we be four."
Silas: "I'll go back out."
Kronos: "No. No. You come with me." They go downstairs, and he orders Silas to
stay with Cassandra. "If MacLeod even gets close, you kill her."
Cassandra: "He's alive?"
Kronos: "Not for long." He goes to the Methos and tells him to come with him.
"You and I are going to poison a city." Methos follows him quickly, while
Cassandra watches and Silas begins to sharpen his blade.
Kronos: "You're not going to be around long enough to find out."
Duncan: "Oh. We'll see about that." He draws his sword.
Kronos, warningly: "Think of Cassandra." He offers Duncan a choice. If he
doesn't fight, Cassandra lives, but if he fights, win or lose, she'll die.
"C'mon, MacLeod, your life for hers. What do you say?"
Duncan looks at Methos, who says nothing.
Duncan: "I think she'd rather be dead."
Kronos: "Tell Silas to finish her. And let her know it was MacLeod's decision."
Methos heads down the steps, and Duncan calls: "Methos, don't do this!"
Methos pauses, and looks up at him: "Like you said, I go with the winner." He
sprints off.
Duncan and Kronos start to fight.
Silas: "MacLeod's here?"
Methos, after a long pause: "Yes."
Silas opens the cage and drags Cassandra out. But as he raises his axe over her,
Methos puts his sword in front of her, not looking at either of them.
Silas: "You're challenging me? For the girl's head? Take it. She's yours,
brother."
Methos: "I am not your brother." He puts his sword against Silas's blade.
Silas, astonished: "How can you do this? How can you go against what you are?"
Methos, getting angry: "You don't know anything about me!" He strikes against
Silas's axe, and they begin to fight.
The camera moves to follow them, and comes out with Duncan and Kronos in the
lab, fighting among the tables and tubing. Kronos compliments Duncan as he
momentarily escapes the fight behind a pillar.
Duncan: "There's more."
Kronos: "I'm sure there is, knowing you've just killed your woman. Maybe you'll
meet again in the afterlife."
Duncan finds him, and they begin to fight again. The scene shifts between them
and Methos and Silas, as they each pursue the fight over the base. Eventually,
Duncan and Kronos end up on a platform above the submarine bay. As they
struggle, Methos and Silas burst onto the lower platform, Methos falling down
the ramp as he loses his sword. He gets to it and kneels to pick it up as Duncan
and Kronos spot him.
Kronos, bitterly: "Methos."
Methos looks up at him, frozen with Silas above him. Silas turns to look at
Kronos, and Duncan looks at Methos, and expression of poignant disbelief on his
face. Kronos looks at him, too, and his face twists in anger. Silas and Methos
start to fight again, and Kronos rises to face Duncan.
Kronos: "You still don't understand, do you MacLeod? I AM THE END OF TIME!"
Duncan turns from watching Methos fight, and grins ferally: "You're history."
The four of them continue to fight, and Duncan gets his blade at Kronos throat
just as Silas makes a wild swing at Methos, falling to his knees behind him.
Duncan takes Kronos's head, and Methos takes Silas's, not even looking at him at
he swings behind him. Duncan looks down at Methos, who looks back up at him as
he finishes the move that took Silas's head. Then the Quickening begins for both
of them. In the midst of the wind and lightening and fireballs, part of the
energy spirals out of Duncan's left eye, and moves until it meets with Methos's
right eye. For a moment, they're connected, both of them still crying out, then
the energy is sucked into Methos, and they both drop to their knees as the
Quickening ends, Methos's shoulders heaving as if he's being sick. A shadow runs
down the ramp behind him as he falls forward.
Methos, crying out: "I killed Silas! I liked Silas!"
Cassandra, shrieking from behind him: "Now I'm supposed to forgive you?!" She
raises Silas's axe over Methos's head as he kneels.
Duncan: "Cassandra!"
Cassandra stares at Duncan, not believing her ears: "You want him to live?!"
Duncan: "Yes. I want him to live."
Cassandra raises the axe again.
Duncan: "Cassandra! I WANT HIM TO LIVE!"
Cassandra stops, staring at him in livid anger. Methos's sobs are audible now,
and he doesn't make any move to get away from her, just kneels on the floor
crying. Cassandra finally lets the axe fall, and walks away while Duncan buries
his face in his hands. Methos continues sobbing brokenly as the camera slowly
pulls back, and Duncan rises and takes two slow steps towards him as the scene
fades out.
Methos: "I tried not to think about it."
Duncan: "You could have killed him. Why didn't you?"
Methos: "I wanted to. But we were brothers. In arms, in blood, in everything
except birth, and if I judged him worthy to die then I judged myself the same
way. And I wanted to live. I still do." He walks away.
Methos sighs: "What do you mean?"
Duncan: "You knew he'd come after Cassandra, and you let him because you knew
I'd come after her. You couldn't kill him, but you hoped I could."
Methos: "Maybe."
Duncan: "Maybe."
They walk out of the cemetery, and Duncan stops Methos just outside.
Duncan: "Methos. What about Cassandra?"
Methos: "One of a thousand regrets MacLeod. One of a thousand regrets." He walks
off, and Duncan does the same.