'Finale'

[ithildin]

Welcome to our second installment of Methos Episode discussion! You can find the first one, for 'Methos' here.

Finale Parts One & Two, Air Date: May 1995

Amanda accidentally helps Kalas escape from prison by trying to do MacLeod a favor and kill Kalas for him. After an attempt on Maurice's life thwarted by MacLeod, Kalas kidnaps Amanda to use as bait against MacLeod, but Amanda manages to escape.

Meanwhile, Christine Salzer, the widow of a Watcher killed by Kalas (in "Methos") decides to get her revenge on Immortals and Watchers alike by exposing their secret to the media. Dawson and Methos team up to try and talk Christine out of it, but she's determined to take a computer disk with the identities of all known Immortals and Watchers on it to a newspaper publisher. Dawson, desperate, tries to kill her outside the newspaper building, but is stopped by MacLeod and Methos. Christine enters the building and the Immortals and the Watchers know their lives are about to change forever.

As Christine tells her tale to the newspaper publisher, MacLeod and Amanda, knowing their world is about to end, finally admit they love each other. Kalas kills Christine and the publisher and steals the computer disk before they have a chance to spread the story. Kalas offers MacLeod a deal -- MacLeod offers up his head or the contents of the disk are made public. Dawson and the Watchers attempt to find Kalas, but this only results in more dead Watchers.

Methos tries to talk MacLeod out of it, but MacLeod agrees to fight Kalas on top of the Eiffel Tower. Kalas is defeated and the resulting Quickening, amplified by the Tower, sends a power surge that disrupts every computer in the vicinity -- including Kalas'. The information on the disk is destroyed and Immortals and Watchers maintain their anonymity. ~via tv.com

Next week, we'll move on to Season Four with Chivalry and Timeless (I love Chivalry!)

A few quotes below the curtain





Joe: What were you thinking about?
Methos: I wasn't thinking, I was improvising.
Joe: By cutting yourself open? It took you five thousand years to come up with that?
Methos: What were you expecting? Einstein? Freud? Buddha? I'm sorry, Joe, I'm just a guy.
Joe: I guess next you're gonna tell me there's no Santa Claus.
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Methos: "The passion of youth."
Duncan: "Boys will be boys."
Methos: And "every cloud has a silver lining."
Duncan: What d'you mean?
Methos: If you die, Amanda will be free to date.
Duncan: That's a comfort.
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Methos: I was in Rome once, ninety-three AD, Coliseum, I saw Christians facing the lions. Some of them looked almost happy to die for their faith.
Duncan: Your point or we just strolling down memory lane here?
Methos: But afterwards the only ones looking happy were the lions.
Duncan: This isn't about faith.
Methos: No, it's about sacrifice. It's a hell of a thing to be a martyr, MacLeod, and that's what Kalas wants; he's pushing all your buttons.
Duncan: Well, I'm open to suggestions; enlighten me.
Methos: Maybe Amanda's right; you fight your best fight.
Duncan: What, every man for himself and to hell with the rest?
Methos: So what if the world finds out. Life is about change, civilizations rise and fall.
Duncan: This isn't about civilizations, this is about people. Amanda, Dawson, Richie. Our world is not an ant farm.

Comments

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

I mean, what's the norm? Do most immies just drift through life, or do most of them have a career or two or three?

Einstein and Freud weren't "norms," if Immortals are human the "norm" for Immortals shouldn't be "greatness." Most of the Immortals on the show have careers, whether their Kimmies working at illegal enterprises or psychiatrists like Sean Burns, doctors like Methos or antique store operators like Duncan. The Game isn't the whole of an Immortal's life, and I'm sure they have "Greats," even if Byron is the only historical person they outed on the show.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I posted about that somewhat a few weeks back: is Duncan the norm, always in challanges, or are people like Robert and Gina more the usual for Immortals? It would be a pretty boring show if all we saw were immies working in their garden or cooking dinner, so Duncan's life is probably the extreme. Methos himself said he's been out of circulation for 200 odd years (if he were relling the truth, of course)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I wasn't saying the norm is greatness, I just jumped a little ahead of my thoughts and changed the subject inadvertantly. :) Pesky work is interfering with my commenting! And boy, will I be glad when this day is over!

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

is Duncan the norm, always in challenges, or are people like Robert and Gina more the usual for Immortals?

I don't think Duncan is the norm. I think he's the one anchoring a weekly TV show. :D Robert and Gina are good examples. If you set aside the intrusion of the Kimmie of the week into the lives of other Immortals there are other examples of Immortals that were apparently living normal happy lives. Rebecca was happily married to her mortal. Ceirdwyn not only was happily married to her mortal husband, but his death wasn't related to the Game. It was just a random act of violence.