The Valkyrie

[ithildin]

Welcome to the twelfth installment of Methos Episode Discussion. You can find the last one, for The Messenger here. All prior episode discussion links can be found over on the sidebar.

The Valkyrie, Air Date: Feb. 1997

In 1944, Ingrid Henning had the chance to kill Adolf Hitler and failed.She's been atoning for that failure ever since by killing dictators,tyrants, racists, and fascists who might have the potential to becomeas dangerous. MacLeod has a chance to stop her before she kills more mortals, but by stopping her, does MacLeod commit the same evil for which he's judged her guilty? ~ recap & quotes via tv.com

Next up will be Comes A Horseman and (perhaps) Revelation 6:8. Look for it/them on Thursday.

Quotes below the curtain





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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Joe: You know, you really can be an arrogant pain in the ass sometimes.
Methos: Guilty as charged.
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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.
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.
Methos: That's okay - sometimes I don't like myself.
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(Ingrid Henning enters)
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.
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Duncan: Since when are you my attorney?
Methos: Whatever you need: lawyer, doctor, Indian chief - I've got paperwork to cover it all.
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Methos: Look at this. It's an exhibition of Greek antiquities.
Duncan: Oh, yeah, I can't wait. A two thousand five hundred year-old garage sale.
Methos: Listen - some of this stuff could be mine.
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Duncan: You're an old cynic.
Methos: I try.
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Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Okay, I feel less odd now :)

Methos seems determined to not allow Duncan to delude himself when it comes to acknowledging that he does to know exactly what the solution is.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

yeah. It's more of a philosophy of keeping *all* of your options open, of not eliminating an option just because of your personal feelings or some sense of "what's right" or correct. Seeing your own blind spots, I guess, and not letting them stay your hand. And whatever you choose, like MacGeorge said, don't agonize over it, or second guess yourself. Because you made your choice and you have to live with it.

[holde-maid.livejournal.com]

I very much agree with that.

I hold that Methos merely wants Duncan to act by his convictions, irrespective of Ingrid's gender or the past they share.
It could be that he judges others solely by their current actions and personalities because if he were judged by the WHOLE of his life... ;-)