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NARRATOR: He is immortal, born in the highlands of Scotland

400 years ago.

He is not alone.

There are others like him, some good, some evil.

For centuries, he has battled the forces of darkness, with

holy ground his only refuge.

He cannot die unless you take his head, and

with it, his power.

In the end, there can be only one.

He is Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander.

THEME SONG: Here we are, born to be kings.

We're the princes of the universe.

I am immortal.

I have inside me blood of kings.

Yeah!

I have no rival, no man can be my equal.

Take me to the future of your world!

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: [laughter]

Come on, wiggle those toes.

Wiggle.

Wiggle.

Ooh.

Check out those legs.

Oooh.

[laughter]

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: That's my favorite part.

Ooh.

Smile for the camera, hunny.

-Come on.

-Hello.

-Come on.

-I'll be right there.

-Come on!

-Mm.

-Robbie!

-Coming sweetie.

-Hurry up!

Come on!

-I'm coming!

-Robbie.

-I'll be right there.

-Ooh.

Well, well.

[laughter]

-Whoops!

[laughter]

-You're trying to kill me.

-Yeah.

-Uh-oh.

Time to go.

-What?

-It was wonderful as always, my love.

Mwah.

-I can't do this, Robert.

-You looked really beautiful tonight.

-Well, it's not enough anymore.

-Well, look, Lisa.

We've been through this.

She won't give me a divorce.

-Did you ever actually ask her?

-Look, we both know that she doesn't even get any of her

money until 35th birthday.

And neither one of us does poor very well.

-Oh, get out.

-Look, OK.

I tell you what I'll do.

I'll tell her that I have work this weekend and we'll get a

little place at the beach.

-Get out of my house.

Take that damn thing with you.

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: [sighs]

Why don't you take a Prozac?

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Out!

[swords clanging]

[grunting]

JOE [OFFSCREEN]: Hey, MacLeod.

A little late, ain't it?

-So.

What the hell's going on with the cameras?

-What cameras?

-One of your guys came at me with a video camera!

-My guys?

No.

It couldn't be.

-I saw him.

I was there.

I want that tape and I want it now!

-I said it was not my people!

We don't use video cameras.

What exactly did this guy see?

-It's just not something I want on the 6 o'clock news.

-Some guy got a beheading on tape.

-Oh.

-Oh-ho.

You better find him.

-No kidding.

-Look, I'm going with you.

-What for?

-Well, I want to get a look at his face, just in case.

Come on.

-Robert.

Did your club run out of scotch again?

-All billable hours, sweetheart.

-Well, I've been up all night.

What are you doing?

-Nothing.

-What is that?

-It's life insurance in case anything happens.

-Hap--

Happens?

Wha--

In case what happens?

-Anything.

If anything happens to me.

-What could possibly happen to you?

Robert.

Robert.

It's because of her, isn't it?

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: Aw, god, Barbara!

Her?

What the hell are you talking about?

My life's on the line here.

-Yeah, for what?

A jealous boyfriend?

OK.

I'm done.

Tomorrow, I see a lawyer.

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: Oh, come on, Barb.

You're overreacting again.

-Oh, yeah, am I?

We never-- we never talk anymore.

We never go anywhere.

Why are we still married?

-Because I love you.

-Put the gun down!

-OK.

Look, I'm sorry, all right?

I've been distracted.

I've been working really hard.

There are things at work that I didn't want to bring home.

-I'm your wife.

-This case that I'm working on is taking a bad turn.

It's gotten dangerous.

-Oh, god, Robert.

You've lost your touch.

You don't even lie well anymore.

-Oh, you want to know why we never talk?

That's why.

Look, it's not me who doesn't communicate.

-Ugh.

Robert.

You are a corporate lawyer.

What could be so dangerous, huh?

-Look at me.

I am scared to death.

-You really are.

Is this for real?

-I swear to God.

I love you, Barb.

And I need to count on you.

-So he was standing right here with this camera?

-No, he was three miles away.

I'm only here because I like the name of it.

-Hah.

That's very good.

Keep the sense of humor, MacLeod.

You're going to need it.

You think he lives in this building?

-I doubt it.

He was parked in the visitor's parking lot.

-And we hope that he visits again.

-Are you going to tell me who this immortal was?

-Matlin.

-Peter Matlin?

-You know him?

-Well, by reputation.

He is one treacherous son of a bitch.

-Was.

-You know if you killed Matlin, that means that Kurlow

can't be far behind.

-Yeah, I know.

I'm counting on it.

-Two years of chasing up and down the Mediterranean.

If I never set foot on another boat, I'll

consider myself blessed.

-Aye, war's all the hell it cracked up to be, Johnny.

Make no mistake.

-Aye.

I buried a lot of good men.

There was times I thought I'd never get.

-Ah.

Never doubted it.

I told Molly and the boys that you were too stubborn to get

yourself killed.

[laughter]

-Maybe I am at that.

[laughter]

-Shh.

-Evening, Constable.

-Mhm.

-Molly told me how you looked in on her, made sure they got

what they needed.

I don't know to thank you, Duncan.

-That's all right, Johnny.

-Nah.

Not many men would go to the trouble for another man's kin.

-They are like family to me.

You all are.

You would have done the same thing.

-I would.

-Good night.

-Good night.

-[SINGING] My bonny lies over the ocean.

My bonny lies over the sea!

-I do thank you for your help, Mr. Matlin.

-Always happy to help out a young

gentleman such as yourself.

-You've been more help than one should hope for from a

stranger and I am grateful.

May I ask one more favor of you?

-Happy to oblige.

-These are letters to my family.

They're personal.

-Well, it's not uncommon for a young man these days to run

off looking for adventure.

-Even when he takes the family treasure to finance it?

-I'm sure you had your reasons.

-Well, I'm the second son.

My older brother stands to inherit everything and I get--

-The shaft.

I know.

It's a terrible thing.

-They thought I should join the army or take the cloth.

-Haha.

-I'll show them.

Make my own way in the colonies.

-Well, you're off to a good start.

-If you could post them for me after I'm gone.

-My pleasure.

-For your troubles.

You've more than earned it.

-Oh, no, no.

That's not necessary.

-Didn't you mean to say it's not enough?

Goes without saying.

-These mortals.

They die so easily.

[grunts]

-Warms the heart and the hands.

JOHNNY [OFFSCREEN]: Hey!

You there!

Can't you see the boat's on fire?

You're deaf!

You there!

Are you just going to stand there?

Well?

-No.

Fortuitous.

-We don't pay cabs enough for this.

How much longer we got to wait?

-Until he comes out or I get a better idea

of how to find him.

-I'm tired, man.

-Have some coffee.

-Ah.

It's cold.

Besides, one more cup and I'll explode.

In fact, I got to go now.

-Then go.

-Where am I going to find a bathroom out here?

-Find a tree.

-Well, what if he comes out when I'm looking for a tree?

-Then use a cup.

-Ah!

What are you, a nurse?

-There he is.

There.

Do you know him?

-No.

I've never seen him before.

-You sure?

-Absolutely.

Not one of us.

I'm sorry.

-Let's see if we can get a license plate.

-Ah.

What's he up to?

-Haha.

Hasta la vista, pal.

-Let's talk.

-I didn't see anything.

Look, I don't know anything.

-I'm not going to hurt you.

-Your business is your business.

Now why should I care?

-I just want to talk.

-Yeah, sure you do.

-Listen.

-Look, we both know that your ass is mine, don't we?

-Excuse me?

-If anything happens to me, that tape goes to the police

and to the 6 o'clock news.

Now do you know that I know the DA?

-It's not what you think.

-Oh, really?

-What do I think?

-I want that tape.

-Oh, I'm sure you do.

It's in a safe place.

-What you saw was self-defense.

[laughing]

-Oh, yeah, of course.

You had the guy down on his knees and you

chopped his head off.

Oh yeah, I'd take that to any jury.

Look, you don't have to explain it to me.

I'm sure that we can come to a reasonable settlement.

-How much?

-I don't want your money.

You want the tape, it's yours.

All you have to do is perform a certain service for me which

shouldn't be too difficult for a man of your obvious talents.

-What would that be?

-I want you to kill my wife.

-I'll make it very easy for you.

The door will be unlocked, the alarm system deactivated.

You walk in, boom, walk out, finished.

-You think I'm the man for the job?

-[laughing]

I have picked dozens of juries.

I know people.

I can feel it.

You are my man.

It's perfect.

It's a win-win situation.

I get what I want and you get what you want.

That's where she'll be.

Tonight or tomorrow, it's up to you.

-If there's a problem, you'll be the first to know.

-I'm counting on you.

-I'm an innocent man!

[crowd yelling]

-You murderer!

Murderer!

[crowd yelling]

-Ah, get off!

Duncan!

I didn't do it.

I'm not a murderer.

-You don't have to tell me that.

-Aye, but somebody's got to tell them.

They want to hang me.

-That will not happen.

-What kind of life will it be for Molly and the boys?

-They will not hang you, I promise you that.

-I think I saw them.

-There was more than one?

-Aye, there were two.

-I only got a good luck at the one.

A big man with a strip of white in his hair

on the right side.

Very white, Duncan!

Very white!

-I will find him!

You can be sure of that!

-This way.

JOHNNY [OFFSCREEN]: You came.

-How are you?

-I've definitely felt better.

The food's no worse than it was on board ship during war.

I suppose I ought to be used to seeing death coming.

-Johnny.

-No, I'm all right, Duncan.

How's Molly, then?

How's she faring?

-She told me to tell you not to worry

about her or the boys.

Johnny, I've been out everyday.

-You can't find them?

-I've been to every pub, every stable, every inn up

and down the river.

But no one has seen this man with a strip of white hair.

-I shouldn't be surprised.

They could be anywhere.

London, Manchester, maybe even France.

-You do not know that.

-Looks like I'm going to keep me date with the hangman after

all.

-They are not going to hang you.

-Molly and the boys.

Just tell them, Duncan.

-You tell them!

When you are free.

Look at me!

When you are free.

-Hey!

Wake up!

It's no time to be sleeping.

Today's your big day.

-A-Already?

-There's no time like the present.

Relax, mate.

I'm here to set you free.

They found the real killer.

-The man with the white in his hair?

-Heh.

I don't know about no white.

His name was MacLeod, Duncan MacLeod.

-No.

No, not MacLeod.

You've got the wrong man.

There must be some mistake.

-Look, there's no mistake.

He confessed.

He walked in there and he confessed.

-That's impossible.

He didn't do it.

-He knew everything about it.

-Because I told him.

-He only knows what I told him.

-Look, what do you care?

No, come here.

What do you care who stretches, mate?

As long as it's not you in front of them, right?

Come on.

JOHNNY [OFFSCREEN]: You've got the wrong man.

-You sit down.

JOHNNY [OFFSCREEN]: He didn't do it!

MAN [OFFSCREEN]: Hey!

Evil!

Evil!

-Duncan, you can't do this.

[crowd yelling]

-This is madness!

-You have a wife and a family to take care of.

-You can't just switch places with me.

I'll hold my own.

It makes sense.

-Yes, I can.

-No, you've got the wrong man!

JOHNNY [OFFSCREEN]: Leave him alone!

He's innocent!

-Is there anything you'd like to say?

-Eh, no.

-Smart.

People get up here and just start talking.

Just gets them scared.

Smarter just to say nothing.

[crowd yelling]

-Try and make sure it don't hurt.

-Always does.

[crowd yelling]

-We're here.

-No, wait.

The killers are here.

-Sorry, mate.

-But they're right over there!

It's a mistake!

[crowd cheering]

-Come on baby.

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: No, I'm coming.

Ooh.

-Come on!

Come on!

Go!

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: OK.

One more kiss.

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Go!

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: OK.

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Hurry up!

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: I'm coming.

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Come on.

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: All right.

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Oh, my.

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: You OK?

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: It's not enough anymore.

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: Lisa, look, we've been through this.

She won't give me a divorce.

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Did you ever actually ask her?

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: Sweetheart, you know as well

as I do that she doesn't even get her money

until her 35th birthday.

And not one of us does poor very well.

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Get out.

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: Hah.

OK.

Look.

I tell you what.

I'll tell her I have to work this weekend.

We'll get a little place by the beach.

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Get out of my house.

And take that damn thing with you.

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: Why don't you take a Prozac?

LISA [OFFSCREEN]: Out!

ROBERT [OFFSCREEN]: I'll come by tomorrow.

[swords clanging over tv]

[toilet flushing]

-Hello?

Who's there?

Is somebody there?

-What are you doing in my house?

-I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to frighten you.

-Who are you?

-Look.

I promise I'm not going to hurt you.

-Oh my god, it's you.

-I know this looks bad, but looks aren't everything.

-But you killed that man.

-Well, only sort of.

I know this isn't good timing, but I've come to warn you.

-Stay away!

Stay, stay away!

[gunshot]

-Brilliant, MacLeod.

-What do you mean, you went back?

-Well, what was I supposed to do?

If he wants her killed, he's going to find

someone to do it.

I had to say something.

-An awful pain in the ass when your sense of honor gets in

the way of your own best interest.

-It happens.

-Yeah.

To you.

-He's got to be stopped.

-Just how do you propose to do that, short of killing him?

-I've already left three messages.

Never mind.

-Let me explain this slowly.

You can't go leaving messages at my office.

Everything depends on nobody being able to connect us.

You went to the house.

That's good.

It shows commitment, initiative.

But you didn't finish the job.

-I didn't go there to kill your wife.

-Ah, no.

No, of course not.

-I went there to get the tape.

Now I have it.

Don't bother me again.

-I may not have the tape anymore, but

you're not out of this.

-Out, buck.

-This is just in case you start thinking about ending

your problem here.

OK.

Now I am an eyewitness.

And let's say I go to my friend the DA and he starts

digging around.

Now what do you think is going to happen?

Are you getting this?

Or am I going too fast?

-Where do you think you're going?

-Side door.

Get out, now.

-I don't think you realize your position.

-You know Matlin was my friend.

-Then you should have come yourself

instead of sending him.

-I'm here now.

-Oh, well.

What have we here today?

-I am Duncan MacLeod of clan MacLeod.

-I know who he is.

I watched you hang.

Lymon Kurlow.

-Peter Matlin, of the Somerset Matlins.

At your service.

-[laughs]

Don't you think you better get out of town before someone

sees you're alive?

-Soon as I have your head.

-Well, now.

Would that be my head?

-Or my head?

-I'm here for whichever of you is the vermin that killed the

Lattimore boy and would have let my friend hang for it.

-Then it must be me you want.

Who would have thought that dying once today would be

enough for you?

-Appears to be your turn.

-Oh, that's very gentlemanly of you.

-At least one of us is.

-How's the ground suit you?

-Anywhere is just fine for me.

-It's a beautiful cape.

You like the lining?

[swords clanging]

-Show yourself, Kurlow!

DUNCAN [OFFSCREEN]: Kurlow!

Stand and fight!

You cannot run forever!

KURLOW [OFFSCREEN]: I'll pick the time and I'll pick the

place, MacLeod!

Fare thee well!

-Kurlow!

There are no bushes for you to hide behind this time, Kurlow.

-Oh, I'm a lot better now than I was then.

Stick around.

You might learn something.

-I'm counting on it.

-That was assault and battery.

I could sue your ass good if I wanted to.

-The tunnels, midnight.

-I'll be there.

-What's with you guys and the swords?

-Go away.

-Look, there are easier ways to kill people.

I've got it.

Oh, OK.

Look.

This has nothing to do with the tape.

I have an entirely new proposal.

-Don't you ever stop?

-Look, do you know movies?

"Strangers On a Train"?

No.

OK.

There's these two guys on a train.

They meet.

They don't know each other, just like us.

It's perfect.

[laughs]

We switch murders.

You kill my wife.

-And you kill Kurlow.

-Exactly.

-Now there's no way to connect you to Barbara.

And there's nothing to connect me to your friend.

Neither one of us ever becomes a suspect.

There's no motive.

-You're in way over your head.

-Look, I'm sensing a little reluctance here.

We have a deal.

-We have nothing.

No understanding.

No deals.

Nothing.

-Well, I'll deliver my end.

-Kurlow will eat you alive.

-[laughs]

Let him try.

I've got a nine millimeter Sig Sauer with 15 rounds.

What's he got?

-A sword.

Forget about what you saw.

Forget about getting rid of your wife.

If anything happens to her, anything at all,

I'll come after you.

-We'll talk later.

-What the hell are you doing here?

-I'm a lawyer.

We met earlier today at MacLeod's.

-MacLeod send you?

-Ha.

Send me.

Nobody sends me.

-Well, unless you've got business with me, you better

get your sorry little ass out of here before you lose it.

[laughs]

-You think this is amusing?

-First time I've ever been a lawyer need

a gun to rob someone.

-Robbery?

That would be wishful thinking on your part.

-You're going to kill me?

-Nothing personal, but yes.

[laughs]

[groaning]

-God!

Don't!

I can pay you.

I have a rich wife, money.

[choking]

-How nice.

-Told you.

-When the police find out whose body that is, they'll go

to this wife.

Then she'll tell them about me.

-Then what?

-Then it's the end of Duncan MacLeod.

It means disappearing.

Starting over again.

Someone else.

Someone new.

-Cutting yourself off from everyone

you know, being alone.

Ah, that can't be easy.

-It's not.

-Mac, there's got to be another way.

-It's OK, Joe.

It wouldn't be the first time.

-No, no.

Maybe I can help.

-Thanks, but I don't think you can do anything.

-I'll talk to her before the cops get there.

-Yeah?

And say what?

-I don't know.

-Well, I'm good on my feet.

I'll think of something.

-Hah.

When she comes to the peephole, who are you going to

say it is, Mother Teresa?

-I don't know.

But at least it won't be you.

JOE [OFFSCREEN]: Maybe I can say you were

rehearsing a movie.

-I think basically we're stuck with having to

tell her the truth.

-[sighs]

How much of the truth?

-Well, maybe she understands that Matlin was trying to kill

me, that I didn't have any other choice.

Why would she believe you?

-I'll make her believe me, all right?

I'm sorry.

-Relax.

It's not my life that's in your hands.

It's just my life here.

-Heh.

Well.

That takes the pressure off.

It's a piece of cake now.

DUNCAN [OFFSCREEN]: Doesn't look like the

police are here yet.

Should have a few minutes.

-Doesn't look like anybody's here.

-Somebody is.

-He better get in here soon.

Well, here he is now.

[crying]

-Where were you?

We were worried.

-It's all right.

It's OK.

It's OK.

Better get out of here.

It's all right.

Go outside.

Friend of mine will take you to the hospital.

-He killed Robert.

-I know.

I'll take care of it.

-You do get around.

-You're so predictable.

[swords clanging]

-Still the hero.

-Still a pig.

[swords clanging]

-There's no way around this time, Kurlow.

-No need, this time.

[laughs]

[swords clanging]

-How are you?

-Better.

Well, I'm as good as I can be, considering.

-Yeah, I'm sorry about everything that happened.

You should never have been dragged into it.

-The police said they found Robert.

So what was he mixed up in.

What was it all about?

-Knowing wouldn't make it any easier for you.

-Look, I don't know why that lunatic wanted to kill us.

But I do know that if it wasn't for you,

I wouldn't be alive.

-I think you give me too much credit.

-I don't think so.

-Well, I guess the only thing left to say is thank you.

And if we can do anything for you--

-No.

-Well, actually, there is.

-If anybody asks you about that videotape--

-What tape?

-Well, the one with--

-I don't know anything else about a tape.

-If you want to hang on for a minute, I'll uh, give you a

ride where ever you want to go.

-OK.

-Be right with you.

-Thanks again for everything.

-So is that it?

-What?

-Robert's tape.

-Looks like it.

-And you just leave it lying around?

-Guess it must have just slipped my mind.

-You know, I think this has real significance, real

historical value.

-I thought Watchers never used cameras.

-I mean, just, since it's already here, I'd like to hang

onto this, for the archives.

-Whatever's on the tape is yours.

-You erased it, didn't you?

-Worth a shot.

THEME SONG: And here we are.

We're the princes of the universe.

Here we belong, fighting for survival.

We've got to be the rulers of your world.

I am immortal.

I have inside me blood of kings.

Yeah.

I have no rival.

No man can be my equal.

Take me to the future of your world.