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Duncan: What'd I tell you? The kid works a body just like Brasilio.
Joe: You mean Dick Tyro.
Duncan: No, Carmen Brasilio.
Joe: Dick Tyro.
Methos: What the hell are you two talking about?
Duncan: Carmen Brasilio.
Methos: Who he?
Duncan: Middleweight contender back in the fiftiess. Guy hit like a mule.
Joe: Dick Tyro.
Methos: Who he?
Joe: Middleweight champion back in the fifties. Guy knocked Brasilio on his ass.
Duncan: Ah, he was lucky.
Methos: The Marquis of Queensbury would have been so proud.
Joe: Who he?
Duncan: Hey, keep up the left! Watch the upper hand right!
Joe: It's not like you didn't warn him.
Methos: So, what? You and Joe, you want to sponser this event?
Joe: Come on, man. Charlie would have loved it.
Duncan: Yeah, he grew up here. He figured a place like this would keep the kids off the street. (Ingrid Henning enters.)
Methos: Oh, yeah, I can see that's really important. Because out on the streets, you can get hurt.
Duncan: I don't believe it.
Methos: Time to go.
Duncan: She's a friend.
Methos: Listen, when they carry a sword and I haven't been fully introduced, I get shy.
Joe: Hey, Mac? (Duncan leaves.) All right.
Methos: Are you coming?
Joe: Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
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Duncan: It's not a question of just the boxing. It's that the kids need something to do, to have discipline. Don't you understand?
Methos: No. I'm not a big fan of blood sports.
Duncan: Oh, dear.
Methos: So, what happened to your friend?
Duncan: She left.
Methos: She didn't stick around long.
Duncan: No.
Methos: She mention why the police were after her?
Duncan: She said...uh...they're here to tie up some lose ends.
Methos: Oh, right. So, uh, five patrol cars and ten uniforms? That's a lot of man power to tie up a few lose ends.
Duncan: You're an old cynic.
Methos: I try. Oh, look at this. It's an exhibition of Greek antiquities.
Duncan: Oh, yeah, can't wait, a two thousand-five hundred year old garage sale.
Methos: Listen, some of this stuff could be mine. (Duncan takes Methos's newspaper.) I believe the phrase is, 'do you mind if I borrowed your newspaper'.
Duncan: Damn it.
Methos: Mac?
Duncan: I'll see you later. (Duncan leaves.) |
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Duncan: You mind telling me what you find funny about all this?
Methos: Not exactly funny, but, uh...*pretty entertaining, yeah.* (valk1.aif - 74K)
Joe: Just what is so entertaining?
Methos: MacLeod tussling with another of his moral dilemmas.
Duncan: You know there are times I really don't like you. |
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Methos: That's okay sometimes I don't like myself.
Joe: I see. Ingrid Henning.
Methos: Hey, ask Joe about her.
Duncan: I don't have to ask Joe about her; I know about her. She failed to kill Hitler in forty-four, and she's been making up for it ever since. |
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Duncan: Hitler should have died that day, but we failed, and Ingrid blames herself.
Methos: Come on, man, you are not buying into that tawdry, guilt induced, little melodrama!
Duncan: Oh, I forgot, we're talking to the only guilt-free man in the western world.
Methos: No, we're talking about Ingrid. It is the ultimate in arrogance to think that one person can alter the course of history.
Duncan: You can't deny that by killing Hitler in forty-four thousands of lives would have been saved, maybe millions.
Methos: Yeah, and if you'd killed him in forty-three like Rommel wanted maybe Germany would have won the war. History makes men, MacLeod, men don't make history. I'm talking about the time, 'kay? The Zeitgeist to quote the Germans. If it hadn't been a little painter from Austria it would have been someone else; it would have been...I don't know, a shopkeeper, a garbage man. My point is it doesn't matter. The times were ripe for a Fuehrer.
Duncan: My point is it was Hitler. You're a historian. What do you think?
Joe: Uh uh. I'm not getting into the middle of this.
Duncan: Coward.
Methos: Ditto.
Joe: All right, you want an answer? Who gives a damn?
Methos: Hey.
Joe: What matters is that it's Mac's friend.
Methos: Pretty smart for a kid.
Joe: What are you gonna do?
Duncan: In her heart she thinks she's right. And part of me agrees. I don't know how to stop her.
Methos: Don't you?
Duncan: No, I don't. (Duncan leaves.)
Joe: You know, you really can be an arrogant pain in the ass sometimes.
Methos: Guilty as charged. |
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Methos: Officers. Well, that went pretty well.
Duncan: Since when are you my attorney?
Methos: Whatever you need: lawyer, doctor, indian chief, I've got paperwork to cover it all.
Duncan: Yeah, of coarse, I forgot.
Methos: Uh...Mac, cab. Okay, Watcher records are a bit sketchy on our lady, so I had a check with the desk sergeant while I was waiting.
Duncan: So you ,know she commited at least fifteen murders in the past ten years.
Methos: Yeah, which leaves about forty years unaccounted for. The mind boggles.
Duncan: Oh, come on, man, who's to know -- who's to say she's not right? I mean, maybe the people she killed deserved to die.
Methos: Okay, this is the angle now is it? The end justify the means, it's not very original.
Duncan: She believes she's making the world a better place.
Methos: Mac, that's exactly what he believed. Remember? What was his name...Adolf something or other.
Duncan: 'Adolf something or other.' I don't believe you.
Methos: You believe it, you just don't want to hear it.
Duncan: Yeah. |
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Methos: She's not here.
Duncan: She will be. She has to be.
Methos: This guy gives me a headache. Let's get out of here.
Duncan: No, no, there's something else.
Methos: I'm telling you, Mac, she's a no-show.
Duncan: That's it. That's it. |
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Methos: You okay?
Duncan: Ingrid asked me something before she died.
Methos: They usually do.
Duncan: She said, "what was the difference between her killing them and me killing her?"
Methos: Good question. Right up there with chicken and egg.
Duncan: So what are you saying? There is no answer?
Methos: No, there is an answer. The real question is whether you're ready for it. Stefanovich killed, and Ingrid judged him. Wilkinson killed, and Ingrid killed him. Ingrid killed, and you judged her.
Duncan: So, who judges me?
Methos: You hungry? |
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