'Forgive Us Our Trespasses'

[ithildin]

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

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

What realy struck me about the episode is the way Methos and Duncan seem to have come to an uneasy peace with each other. Neither of them mentions Bordeaux, and though it underlies all their arguments and actions, they don't let it distract them from doing what they want. Methos falls back into his old pattern of trying to save the Highlander from himself, and Duncan is just as insistant on doing what he feels is best.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

That one little head shake spoke volumes!

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's very eloquent! I've been following the discussion above, and I'm not sure where I fall on why does Methos interfere in that fight - but he's obviously very aware that he's breaking his own rules, and is annoyed at Duncan for forcing him to do so. *g*