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ECHOING VOICE: Jennifer.

Jennifer.

Jennifer.

I need you.

Jennifer.

Jennifer.

[squawking]

-Jennifer.

Jennifer.

-Alec?

Alec.

[screaming]

ECHOING VOICE: I need you.

-Alec?

Alec is it you?

Alec.

No.

[sobbing]

-Alec.

What do you want?

What do you want?

NARRATOR: He is Duncan MacLeod.

The Highlander.

Born in 1592 in the Highlands of Scotland,

and he is still alive.

He is immortal.

For 400 years, he's been a warrior.

A lover.

A wanderer, constantly facing other Immortals in

combat to the death.

The winner takes his enemy's head, and with it, his power.

I am a Watcher, part of a secret society of men and

women who observe and record, but never interfere.

We know the truth about Immortals.

In the end, there can be only one.

May it be Duncan MacLeod.

The Highlander.

[MUSIC - QUEEN, "PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE"]

-You're pretty good.

-Oh, thanks.

It, uh--

It looks pretty stupid unless you picture the other guy.

-Did you get him?

-Always do.

-And the winner and new champion is?

-Richie Ryan.

-Jennifer Hill.

-Nice to meet you.

-I'm here to see Duncan MacLeod.

-Lucky guy.

-You play?

-The harmonica?

Just learning.

Mac's upstairs.

-Oh, thanks.

-You, uh--

You need a key.

-Oh.

-Can I give a lift?

-Well, I usually don't take rides from strangers, but I'll

make an exception in your case.

-All right.

So, uh, friend of Mac's for a long time?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, I picked it up at an estate sale.

Actually, I don't know if I wanna give it up yet.

[buzzing]

-Yeah, OK, all right, all right.

I'll have it to you by Saturday.

All right, bye.

-Mac.

Yeah.

Look who I found.

-Jennifer.

Hi.

Oh, it's been two years.

Where's Alec?

-Gone Duncan.

-Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

-He wasn't supposed to before me.

-Yeah, I know.

When did it happen?

-Last summer.

July.

After 110 years, he finally found Gerard Kragen.

-Kragen.

I didn't think I'd see you west of the Mississippi.

-San Francisco was Genevieve's idea.

She wanted a fresh start.

When did I ever deny her anything?

-You're a lucky man, Alec.

Any fool could see why.

-Took me 150 years to find the right woman.

First time I saw her, I knew we'd be

together, whatever it took.

Even moving to the end of the world.

-Well, this is California, Alec.

Not Timbuktu.

-Anybody hungry?

-Oh yeah.

-[SINGING] Aura Lee, Aura Lee, maid with dark brown hair.

Sunshine came along with thee and swallows in the air.

It's her favorite song.

-Bravo.

Bravo.

-Your front parlor, m'lady.

-Ah, you promised you'd only smoke in the study.

Oh.

Ah ah ah.

Wash.

MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Oh, yes ma'am.

-But I'm starving.

-It does no good to deny the lady.

-On second thought, scrub.

-Hey, where'd you get that scar?

TOGETHER: [SINGING] Aura Lee, Aura Lee, maid

with dark brown hair.

Sunshine came along with thee and swallows in the air.

ALEC [OFFSCREEN]: What is it with women and cleanliness?

MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Beats me.

What is it with women and cigars?

ALEC [OFFSCREEN]: When the house is finished, you can

smoke all you want.

MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Ah, yes.

-She's quite a girl, Alec.

-I used to worry about the difference in our ages.

-What's 150 years between friends?

-A blink in God's eye.

Sometimes I look up at the stars at night and I wonder

how long have they been there.

How much have they seen?

I'm not so old.

[neighing]

-Oh my god.

-Hello Genevieve.

You're looking a little haggard.

-What do you want?

-Have you lost your man already?

It would be more polite to offer me a cup of coffee.

Here, let me help you.

You used to like it when I touched you.

Do you remember when I first found you, Genevieve?

Outside that sweaty little tenement.

You were wasting away.

Your family could barely afford to feed you.

-I was fine.

-You were nothing.

-I was 13.

-And now my portraits of you hang in New

York's finest galleries.

-You used me.

-I made you.

Your walk.

Your talk.

You are who you are because of me, and you ran away.

-Alec is going to be here any moment.

-Well, it's a pity we can't stay.

-What are you talking about?

-Your ship leaves in four hours.

-What ship?

-We're going to China.

That was not very friendly.

Did you really think California was far enough

away, Genevieve?

Did you think I wouldn't find you?

There is no place on Earth I won't find you.

You're mine.

[screaming]

GENEVIEVE [OFFSCREEN]: [SCREAMING] Alec!

-Not another sound.

-Genevieve.

GENEVIEVE [OFFSCREEN]: [SCREAMING] Alec!

-Don't be foolish.

-Let her go, Kragen.

-And I thought we were such good friends.

-I'll kill you for this.

Draw your sword.

-Do you take me for a fool?

-I take your head and then your friend takes mine while

I'm down?

-Well, if it's a fight you want, just let her go.

-The woman is mine.

She always has been.

-She's my wife.

-But I had her first.

-Son of a bitch!

-Stop Alec!

-Listen to your friend, Alec.

-Just let her go, and you can walk away.

-It's too late for that.

-Stay where you are!

-There's nowhere to go.

-Oh yes there is.

-No Kragen.

No.

No!

No!

Oh my god.

-Easy.

-She was my life, Duncan.

My life.

I'm gonna see that bastard dead.

Even if I have to come back from the grave to do it.

Swear to me, if I die before I can kill him,

you'll finish it.

-I swear.

-So, what happened to Kragen?

-He could've gone anywhere in the world.

Then we went back and finished Alec's house.

He never lived anywhere else.

-He was waiting for Genevieve's

spirit to join mine.

-You mean like reincarnation?

-Alec believed in the eternity of the soul.

-Alec.

-Go away.

-It's me, Duncan.

-Alec.

-Hello, Duncan.

Did you feel her?

-You know Amanda's in town.

She just won Kit's saloon in a poker game.

She'd love to see you.

-She was here.

-What do you say we, uh, we get you shaved and dressed and

go down to the Double Eagle for some dinner.

Huh?

-I can't.

-Alec, listen to me.

You don't sleep.

You don't eat.

You put her clothes out as if you expect her to wear them.

-She was right there, listening to me play.

-Genevieve's dead.

We buried her together two years ago.

-Only her body.

Read this.

It's in Aramaic.

Or--

or this, from China.

Or this from India, or this from Greece.

They all speak about one thing.

The transmigration of the soul.

But when we take another Immortal's head, what do you

think we get?

All souls are eternal, Duncan.

Not just ours.

Genevieve's out there, waiting to come back to me.

-Well, maybe she will come back to you.

Maybe she is waiting for you.

But how long can you wait before you go mad, huh?

-As long as it takes.

-What if she doesn't?

-She will.

She has to.

-It wasn't your fault.

It was my pride that drove them off that cliff.

Genevieve loved this piano.

In New York, I would sit in the parlor and

play it for her everyday.

Tell Amanda I'm sorry.

I can't make it for dinner.

-Oh yes you can.

Come on, Alec.

Let's go.

The night is young.

-Good night, Duncan.

-Alec?

[piano playing "aura lee"]

-Good night Alec.

[piano playing "aura lee"]

[piano playing "aura lee"]

-Alec and I just really connected.

From the first day we met, it was as though I'd known him

all my life.

-Yeah, he loved you very much.

-He still does.

Duncan.

I think Alec is still here.

-Jen.

Death is death, even for us.

Alec is gone.

-How can you be so sure?

Maybe Alec was right.

-Alec believed what he needed to believe.

You know what our lives are like.

The people we lose.

It's Alec's way of coping, of keeping in mind the spirits of

those that he loved.

-What if it was more than that?

I've heard his voice, Duncan.

I've seen him.

-You've seen him?

-Look.

If Alec's spirit lives, it's in your mind.

It's in your heart.

-No.

He comes to me.

I think there's something he wants.

Something he left unfinished.

-You mean Kragen?

-I know your promise.

Will you keep it?

-You really believe that stuff?

That you've got a woman who died 150 years ago living

inside you?

-When Alec first told me about Genevieve, about him, I

thought he was crazy.

I wasn't raised believing in ghosts or spirits.

-Or Immortals, I'm sure.

-Exactly.

But you're real.

-Yeah.

-So why not this?

-Mm-hm.

But what about what Mac said down there?

Maybe, maybe Alec believed because he needed to believe?

-Maybe.

Maybe he did.

I don't think I could handle being of you, Richie.

The fear, fighting.

Everything you care about, everyone you know dying.

-I I try not to think about it too much.

-Well, you're very brave, all of you.

-Maybe you are the brave one.

-I mean, you knew what Alec's life was all about, and yet

you chose to stay with him.

-Maybe I didn't have a choice, either.

Sounds stupid, but our souls connected, Richie.

There was no fighting it.

-I don't think that sounds stupid.

Do you think that could ever happen again?

-I don't know.

It would have to be someone very special.

Very kind.

Someone--

-I'm sorry.

-Um, I-- there, is there a ladies' room around?

-Yeah.

Yeah.

It's right over there.

Damn.

-You're smoking now?

-Yeah, a little.

Joe, I need some advice.

-Tell me about it.

What is this?

You and Alec Hill's wife?

-No, no, no.

It's not like that.

She's a little shaky right now.

Mac asked me to keep an eye on her, you know?

Try to cheer her up.

-He what?

-Yeah, he went out of town.

He uh, he went to San Francisco to whack the son of

a bitch who killed her husband.

What?

-Richie.

You're the son of a bitch who killed her husband.

Don't freak out?

OK?

Come over here.

I'll buy you a drink.

Terry, pair of tequila.

-Joe, this just can't be.

I mean, I never even met the guy.

-Nope?

Try San Francisco, beginning of July.

Brown hair?

Carrying a US cavalry sabre?

-That was Alec Hill?

-That was Alec Hill.

-Oh, my god.

I never knew his name.

It was live or die.

Joe, I, I certainly had no idea he had a wife.

-Richie, everyone leaves someone behind.

Everyone.

-Mac is going after the wrong guy.

-Well, let's pray to god that he doesn't have a bad day.

-Richie.

Maybe you should take me home.

-Jen, um, I think Joe's gonna call you a cab.

I--

I really got to go.

[harmonica music]

[knocking]

-It's open.

Come in.

Hey.

-Hi.

-Hey you doing?

-Uh--

well, I couldn't sleep.

-Yeah, I know.

Me neither.

-Yeah.

-I didn't mean to leave you like that.

I'm sorry.

-No.

No, it's OK.

-Um--

please, sit down.

Can I, uh, can I get you something?

-No, I'm fine.

-Are you sure?

-Come here.

Sit down.

Richie, I'm sorry.

-No, Jen.

I'm sorry.

Listen, there's--

there's something I have to tell you.

-No.

No, you don't have to say anything.

I know.

You know?

-That something happened back at that bar.

-This the way to sound stage?

-Yeah.

-You totally blew me away.

-I knew you felt it, too.

I knew it wasn't just me.

Richie, I've only felt this way once before.

-Jen.

This isn't a good idea.

-Don't you think I know that?

You think I want to get involved

with an immortal again?

But I know in my soul that this was meant to be.

That we're meant to be.

[moaning]

DIRECTOR [OFFSCREEN]: Cut!

I said, cut!

Cut!

Cut!

What the hell is that?

[imitating moaning]

My dear, this isn't "Mary Poppins." Take off the robe.

-I don't have to.

-Oh, this that so?

-My contract says no nudity.

-That's a wrap!

-OK, wrap it up.

Let's go home, everybody.

-Get everybody back here by 8:00, Bob.

-Yes, sir.

-Listen, uh, why don't you just stay for a

few minutes, OK?

-OK, let's just get this done.

-OK, thank you, everyone!

Be back bright and early.

-Good night!

-Now, why don't we talked about this contract?

-Talk to my agent.

[buzzing]

-Still shoving women around?

-Get out.

Be back in the morning.

-Don't bother.

This production's sh

-Duncan MacLeod.

I remember you.

This time you're alone.

-Yes.

And there are no cliffs.

-You should have seen the look on your face when I jumped.

-Really?

ECHOING VOICE: Kiss me.

Kiss me.

Jen.

I will always love you, Jen.

-Oh, you should see the look on your face.

-I love you, Alec.

-Cut, print.

That's a wrap.

[buzzing]

-Mac.

-Hey.

How you doing?

-You got a second?

-Look, can it wait a minute?

I really need to take a shower.

-Uh, no, Mac.

Um, this can't wait.

Well, it's, uh, it's about Jennifer.

-What about her?

Is she OK?

-No, she's fine.

She's, um, she's at my place.

-She's at your place?

-You asked me to take care of her.

I went home, she showed up, I couldn't stop myself.

-You and Jennifer?

-Look, I know it wasn't the smartest thing to do.

-It's OK.

-Uh, Mac, there's, uh, there's, there's

something else, too.

Um, you see, Kragen didn't kill Alec Hill.

-Then who did?

-I did.

It was last July, outside Anchor Studios.

My bike was broken down, and I was in no mood for hassles.

Neither was he.

He must've been on his way to find Kragen.

[buzzing]

-Move the bike, kid.

-Find another way in.

-I said move the bike.

I've got an appointment to keep.

-Yeah?

Well, life's full of little disappointments, ain't it?

-I'm not going to tell you again.

Out of the way.

-You want to move the bike?

Move it yourself.

-You should have moved the bike, kid.

-Oh, brother.

-Come on.

-You could have walked away.

You killed him over nothing.

-That's not true, Mac.

It was a fair fight.

I won.

Hey, what have you been teaching me all these years?

What did you honestly expect me to do?

Let him kill me?

-You slept with his wife.

-I told you.

I couldn't stop myself.

-Yeah, obviously not.

-Mac, she said it herself.

Something was drawing us together.

Something stronger than either of us.

Would you stop doing that and listen to me?

-Why don't you save it for the romance novels?

-You know, I want to fix this thing.

-You can't fix it.

-Well, you're the guy with all the experience.

Why don't you tell me what to do?

I'm just going to tell her the truth.

-You're not telling her the truth.

-Maybe she'll understand.

-She's not going to understand.

You killed her husband!

-Well, then what do you want me to do?

-I want you to get out of town for a while.

-Fine.

-Now.

-And what about Jennifer?

-I'll deal with Jennifer.

-You do that.

-I'll let her believe the men that killed

her husband is dead.

-I'm sorry I killed your friend.

-Yeah, so am I.

-You can't know what it means to me, knowing that Alec's

spirit can rest in you.

-Jen, it's not exactly like that.

-Alec told me that when you take an immortal's head, you

get his soul.

-Alec was wrong.

It's different.

You have to let this go.

It's over.

-But it s hurts.

When does it go away?

When, when do I stop seeing him in strangers?

-It's different for everyone.

Maybe you have to give yourself a little time.

-How much time?

I don't know what I'm doing anymore.

-You finished with this?

Excuse me?

-I was, um, with Richie last night.

-Jen--

-I know.

It's insane.

God, I don't know how I feel.

-When it's right, you'll know it.

You'll not doubt it.

-I think of Alec, and I feel so guilty.

-Well, maybe--

maybe it's not the right time.

-I saw him again last night.

He was there.

What if I hurt him?

What if he feels betrayed?

-Jen, you can't hurt Alec.

Maybe you think--

maybe you think you saw him, but the reason for that is

maybe you're not ready to let him go.

That is OK.

You've got plenty of time.

There's no rush.

-Thanks for not thinking I'm crazy.

There's a lot of Alec in you right now.

Even if you don't believe it.

Thanks, Duncan.

Thanks for everything.

-You take care.

-What a mess.

So what else could you do?

-I lied to her, Joe.

-Well, you didn't actually lie to her.

You, you withheld some information.

-Yeah, she thinks Kragen killed Alec.

-And she left feeling better.

And you don't like breaking your own rules.

-So, why'd you do it?

-Like you said, it made her feel better.

Because she needs to move on with her life to heal.

To do that, she has to know this is finished.

-So you let her think Alec's killers has been punished.

It's a white lie.

-So I don't feel good about it.

-Because your friend is dead, and Richie killed him.

-Yeah.

-You can't make any sense of it, Mac.

You've just got to go through it.

-Yeah.

Thanks, Joe.

Here.

-No, no, no.

It's on the house.

-I'll see ya around.

[knocking]

-Hey.

-Hi.

-Can I come in?

-Sure.

-Where are you going?

-Um, I, uh, I got to go out of town for a while.

-Because of me?

-Kinda.

Yeah.

-Richie.

Do't go.

Please.

I had a long talk with Duncan.

It's gonna be OK.

-Did he send you?

-He helped me to understand a lot of things.

-What?

Understand?

-That I've been holding on to Alec's ghost because I was

afraid of moving forward.

But it's OK.

It's time to move on.

To live again.

And Duncan said when it was right, I know it.

And with you, I know.

-Jen, no.

No.

This can't happen.

-Richie.

I know how you feel, because I feel it, too.

Don't do this.

-Jen, I have to.

I have to go.

-Why?

I don't understand.

-Jen, listen.

I am sorry.

I am really, really sorry.

It's not you.

I swear to god, I would do anything to be with you.

-Then be with me.

-I can't.

-Why?

Why?

Why can't we be together?

-Because I killed Alec.

-What are you talking about?

-It wasn't Kragen.

It was me.

He never got to Kragen.

Jen, he picked a fight with me.

I did what I had to do.

I had no idea who he was.

I didn't know about you.

Jen, I'm--

I'm sorry.

-This isn't happening.

-Jen--

-You murdering bastard.

How could-- how could you touch me?

-Jen, I was just trying to help.

I wanted to do the right thing.

Jen, please.

-You killed my husband, and you made love to me.

You sick son of a bitch.

-Mac was right.

I should never have told her.

I mean, what the hell did I think was going to happen?

She was going to rush into my arms?

Oh, that's OK Richie, you killed my husband, but I love

you anyway.

I mean, what was I looking for?

-Absolution.

Look, Richie, I mean, you thought you were doing the

right thing.

-Yeah, I know, but did I have to sleep with his wife?

-See you later, you guys.

MAN [OFFSCREEN]: Yeah, see you, Joe.

-It was crazy, Joe.

It was like a part of me was screaming, what the hell are

you doing, and the other part of me couldn't stop.

-People make mistakes, Richie.

-But it was more than that.

It was like--

It was like there was something inside of me,

driving me.

I mean, just pushing me.

-Like a part of Alec Hill, maybe?

-What do you mean?

-You say you were drawn together.

-Right.

-Well, what if she was drawn to him, to Alec, in you.

You took his Quickening.

Maybe you got his love for her too.

-Maybe.

-It's a theory.

-Yeah, well, I got a much simpler theory.

I'm an idiot.

-Well, there's always that.

-Yeah, there sure is.

-What are you gonna do?

-Exactly what I should have done in the first place.

Get the hell out of dodge.

See you, Joe.

-And you're not gonna do anything about it?

-Jen.

I've thought long and hard over this.

I can't get over the fact that Richie's still my friend.

-Alec was your friend for 150 years.

Damn it, Duncan, doesn't that mean anything to you?

You vowed to avenge his death.

-I swore to him to get Kragen.

Kragen is dead.

-And Alec's killer is still alive.

-Look.

Jen.

Richie's not Kragen.

You know that.

You had feelings for him.

-I screwed him.

My husband's killer, and you let it happen.

-Jen.

When two mortals fight, one dies.

That's not murder.

That's the way we live.

Now, I'm not going after Richie over this, OK?

-Then you're worse than a liar.

You're a coward.

-Jen.

Jen, you're being unreasonable.

-Unreasonable?

You have no idea how I feel.

Leaving so soon?

-I don't have a choice, Jen.

Look.

I told you I'm sorry.

I know that's not enough.

Jen, please believe me.

I--

I never wanted any of this to happen.

I wouldn't do anything to hurt you.

-I had some time to think.

Figured out what I need to do.

To put this behind me.

To move on.

-Good.

Jen, don't do this.

[gunshot]

-Jennifer, don't do this.

Put the sword down.

Please, put it down.

-Don't try to stop me.

-Richie didn't mean to hurt you.

He's not like that.

-He killed Alec.

-Yeah, and killing him won't bring Alec back.

If any part of Alec still lives, it's in Richie.

-No.

-It's what Alec believed.

It's what you wanted to believe.

-No, you don't understand.

Alec is here.

-That's right, Jennifer.

I'm here.

-He needs me to do it so he can rest in peace.

-Killing doesn't bring peace.

When you kill, it haunts you for the rest of your life.

-Do it, Jennifer.

Do it for me.

Take his life.

-Alec.

Do you want her to do this?

Is that what you want?

You want her to know what it's like to kill?

To hold onto the Richie's death for

the rest of her life?

It haunted you.

Is that what you want for her?

-Alec.

-Goodbye Jennifer.

Goodbye.

It's time for me to go.

-It's OK.

-Let him carry it.

Let Alec haunt him forever.

-He will.

[coughing]

-She's gone.

-You stopped her.

-Yeah.

She had a choice.

She could walk away.

You can't.

-She gonna be OK?

-In time.

She's dealing with her demons.

-What about us, Mac?

You and me?

-You screwed up, Rich.

But it happens.

To all of us.

-Oh man.

I swear, if I live to be 1,000, I'm still gonna see

that guy coming at me again and again, just wondering if

there was something I could have done different.

-I know.

And he won't be the last.

They all stay with you.

-I didn't know you believed in ghosts.

-I believe in the kind you carry with you.

Everyone you've loved and everyone you've killed.

They never leave you.

When you stop feeling, when you stop hurting, that's when

you're dead inside.

And that, my friend, is when I'll worry about you.

[MUSIC - QUEEN, "PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE"]