'Forgive Us Our Trespasses'

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Welcome to the fifteenth installment of Methos Episode Discussion. You can find the last one, for CaH & R6:8 here. All prior episode discussion links can be found over on the sidebar.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Air Date: May 1997

After the Scottish massacre at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Duncan MacLeod was a man possessed, obsessed, with killing the English bastards who had destroyed his people. Now Immortal Steven Keane has come to make MacLeod pay for his murderous crimes. Amanda urges MacLeod to take Keane's head and be done with it, but in his heart MacLeod knows that Keane is right -- he is a murderer -- and that Keane is judging him just like MacLeod has judged so many others. ~ recap and quotes via tv.com

Quotes below the curtain





Duncan: You should write fortune cookies.
Methos: Yeah? Maybe I should, just so long as I'm not writing your epitaph.
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Methos: I just came by to watch the perfect Immortal die.
Duncan: I'm not!
Methos: Not what? Not the perfect Immortal or not gonna die?
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Amanda: Duncan, you're the best man I know. You make people better, you know - people like me, people who didn't give a damn about anything in their whole lives until you came along with your big brown eyes and your boyscout rules.
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Amanda: Methos. Open the door. I know you're there. Methos! Methos, it's Amanda!
Methos: Do you want to knock a bit louder? I don't think they heard you in Philadelphia!
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Methos: (to Duncan) You wanted to kill; you killed them. You know, Keane is just like you; he wants to divide the world up into good and bad. Well, it's not that simple. We are all both, good and evil. We have rage and compassion. We have love and hate. Murder and forgiveness. Why don't you try forgiving yourself for once.
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Duncan It's Tuesday. He doesn't take heads on Tuesdays.






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Comments

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

Every time I watch this episode, something different sticks with me.

Right now, I have two favorite moments:

1) The scene where Methos shoots Duncan. "You are *such* a pain in the ass."

2) The deleted takes on the dvd in which Methos and Amanda cannot stop laughing. A: "He could die!" M: "Then maybe we'll get our own series!"

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

I would have loved to have seen Methos in HL:The Raven. *g*

I love that little shake of the head when Methos shoots Duncan - mirrored with the annoyance in his posture when Duncan retrieves and stops the fight.

[multimedea.livejournal.com]

I love that little shake of the head when Methos shoots Duncan - mirrored with the annoyance in his posture when Duncan retrieves and stops the fight.

Heh! Me too. It's like he's saying, "I'm doing this all for you, dumbass. So lay there like a good little corpse and let Daddy Methos take care of everything. And then we'll go get ice cream."