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Methos: *Candygram!* (chiv1.aif - 49K)
Duncan: Methos. Or should I call you Adam?
Methos: Only you and Joe know that I'm Methos the Immortal. To the rest of the world I'm still Adam Pierson, mild mannered Watcher.
Duncan: Well, mi casa es su casa. How's Paris?
Methos: It's a lot quieter since you left. Taking up origami? |
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Duncan: No, I'm just renovating an old house.
Methos: Yeah, it's good to keep busy.
Duncan: So, what brings a five thousand year old man to me?
Methos: Kristin's in town. She just opened a new branch of her agency.
Duncan: So?
Methos: So, I thought you should know.
Duncan: Well, now I know. Hey, look, it's done, over, history.
Methos: If you say so.
Duncan: You want a coffee?
Methos: Yeah... no, a beer. Lucky you get over things. From what I know, Kristin's not the type anyone forgets. |
| * * * |
Methos: You've got a friend, Richie Ryan. He met Kristin yesterday morning.
Duncan: He didn't tell me that.
Methos: Maybe he hasn't got out of bed yet. |
| * * * |
| Methos: Round one to Kristin. |
| * * * |
Methos: MacLeod-san, that katana is a lovely piece of art. May I? I washed my hands this morning. Quite a blade. (Methos holds the sword to Duncan's neck)
Duncan: Not funny, Methos.
Methos: Not meant to be. Not only are you naive, now you are weaponless. How have you lived this long? Do you know how many Immortals she's killed? Do you want a list?
Duncan: All right, you've made your point.
Methos: Have I? One day she is going to kill you.
Duncan: She's tried already.
Methos: You're better with a blade than her, yes. You are stronger than her, yes. But if you keep letting her walk away, one day she gets lucky and takes your head, yes.
Duncan: Oh, I dunno. Maybe she'll stop to gloat like you. (Duncan knocks Methos down) You wanna play? |
Methos: *Great! You knock me on my bum because I make a bad joke. Very macho!* (chiv2.aif - 178K) But you keep letting her walk away without even taking a shot... that is very suicidal.
Duncan: You know what she was to me.
Methos: Yes, and I know what she is, a killer! You treat her like one. |
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Duncan: Oh, you do Fabris's technique.
Methos: It's working, isn't it?
Duncan: Not for long.
Methos: I gotta practice more. You guys come along new moves.
Duncan: It's called progress.
Methos: Well, then get with it. Before Kristin kills you and your friend. (Richie enters.)
Richie: Hello. I take it this is not for real?
Methos: God forbid.
Duncan: Just making a point. This is --
Methos: Uh, I'm Adam Pierson. You must be Richie Ryan?
Richie: Yes.
Methos: Someone here speaks very highly of you.
Richie: Oh, well, nice to meet you, and thanks very much, Mac. Speaking of which, I've gotta tell you about this woman I met. She is unbelievable. Her name's --
Duncan: Kristin. I know.
Richie: You know? How do you know? Mac? Mac, how do you know? |
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Duncan: I'm sorry, Richie. I'm your friend. I wanted you to know where you stand.
Richie: You're wrong about her, Mac. She's not like that. She's a very special woman. She's beautiful. She's smart. She's generous.
Duncan: That's how it starts. She'll end up trying to kill you.
Richie: No way, Mac. Not me. We have this thing between us, Mac. It's like... it's like an electrical connection. Why can't you understand that?
Methos: They didn't have electricity when he knew her.
Richie: Don't you get sick of him being older and wiser all the time.
Methos: Yeah, I can see that that could get a bit annoying.
Duncan: Richie, I've been there.
Richie: Mac, that's what I'm trying to say. You've been there, you've done that. This is all new to me. You guys didn't work out for each other; that was three hundred years ago. Maybe you just weren't right for each other.
Duncan: And she's right for you?
Richie: I don't know. I've only known her a couple of days, but Mac, she blows me away. I really think there's something there. You want me to give that up?
Duncan: Richie, I want you to trust me. Richie, she's not for you.
Richie: You know, sometimes you knowing everything gets to be a real pain in the ass. I'll catch you guys later. (Richie leaves.)
Duncan: He's not listening to me.
Methos: How could he? She's got him tingling in places he didn't even know he had. Maybe we should just give him the room and let him make his own mistakes.
Duncan: Even if it gets him killed? |
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Duncan: He's already made his mind up. He wasn't listening to a word I said.
Methos: Well, that happens. Guess this must be what it's like to have kids.
Duncan: You think so?
Methos: Yeah. You do your best, teach them what you know, try and show them the right path and then they just have to get on with it.
Duncan: Yeah, and then let them make the same idiotic mistakes that you did. I tried to warn him, what else can I do?
Methos: Well, you could tell him the rest of it. |
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Methos: You let her walk away then; you let her walk away now. What exactly are you waiting for? You know that she killed Louise Barton because you know what kind of woman she is. If she'd been a man, she'd have been dead three hundred and fifty years ago. A couple of medieval songwriters come up with the idea of chivalry one rainy day --
Duncan: This isn't about chivalry.
Methos: -- and you embrace it as a lifestyle. You live and die by a code of honor that was trendy when you were a kid.
Duncan: Would you rather that I had no code at all?
Methos: I would rather you survived. You put that first.
Duncan: Do you think it's easy killing a woman that you've held in your arms, a woman that you've made love to?
Methos: Take it from me, it's easier than dying. Look at me, MacLeod. I didn't last five thousand years by worrying about anyone but myself.
Duncan: Really? Could've fooled me. |
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Richie: She went nuts! She would have killed me.
Methos: Round two to Kristin. You dump her, and then you turn your back on her? *Talk about the blind leading the visually challenged!* (chiv3.aif - 121K)
Richie: Thank you.
Duncan: All right. Where is she?
Richie: In her office. You think she's coming after me? |
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Duncan: No, I think that she's coming after somebody that you care about.
Richie: Maria? Oh, God, I gotta go to Maria's. I'll see you guys later. (Richie leaves. Duncan gets up)
Methos: Where're you going?
Duncan: Kristin's. Coming? I'm sure it's something you wouldn't want to miss. |
| * * * |
Methos: Pick it up.
Kristin: Who the hell are you?
Methos: A man who was born long before the age of chivalry. Pick it up. (They fight. Methos takes her head.) Someone had to. |
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Methos: Hi guys! How're you doing?
Richie: Hey. I gotta run. I'll see you later. (Richie leaves)
Duncan: He'll get over it.
Methos: She would have kept coming you know. One day she might have won.
Duncan: I know.
Methos: And still if you had your chance again you wouldn't kill her, would you?
Duncan: Probably not.
Methos: Duncan MacLeod of the clan MacLeod.
Duncan: That's who I am.
Methos: Well, I guess someone has to be. You will get over it too.
Duncan: Will I?
Methos: mmhhmm.
Duncan: Did you know Mencius?
Methos: Student of Confucius, yeah.
Duncan: I dislike death, but there are things that I dislike more than death.
Methos: Therefore there are occasions when I will not...
Methos/Duncan: ...avoid danger.
Methos: Death before dishonor.
Duncan: For some of us. (Duncan holds up paint strip samples.) What do you think?
Methos: Get someone in. |
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