'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.






Next up will be The Modern Prometheus. Look for it next week.

Comments

Re: Trivia

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I don't think it ever occurred to me that Methos would shoot an opponent he was dueling. Pull a second blade, yeah. Shoot, no.

Michael Pread would have had the 'weight' to really carry the moral dilemma theme.

Re: Trivia

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

Who is Michael Praed?

I seem to be in the minority, but I actually thought the actor who played Keane was good. Sure, not a super-handsome studly fella, but a good actor who did a fine job. I certainly sympathized with him.

Re: Trivia

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind the actor myself, but MP would have been awesome :) He's an English actor probably best known for playing Robin Hood in the series Robin of Sherwood. Great show!

Re: Trivia

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

Ah...Michael Praed

*Reverts back to teenagehood and starts drooling*

Re: Trivia

[multimedea.livejournal.com]

Utterly agree! He and AP blade to blade and more to more...epic. Especially if Methos had known him as Robin Locksley in the past. English icon vs. Scottish hero (sigh). Makes me want to start a fic about it now. :D

Re: Trivia

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

Here's some inspiration :-p

Re: Trivia

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Very nice!

Re: Trivia

[multimedea.livejournal.com]

Ah, luscious. Thanks!

The Robin of Sherwood mythos and style dovetails nicely into HL. I'm gonna have to give doing that fic some serious thought.