HLS5: 'The Messenger'

[ithildin]

Let's see if this episode generates more interest than 'Glory Days' did!

Highlander Season Five

The Messenger
Air Date: Nov. 1996

Richie's found a new teacher: an Immortal who preaches a message of peace. An Immortal who believes that all Immortals can lay down their swords and live together as brothers. An Immortal who claims to be the oldest of their kind still alive -- Methos. Will laying down his sword in the name of peace mean Richie will lose his head? And what does this mean for the friend MacLeod already calls Methos?
~ recap via TV.com

Next week: The Valkyrie

Comments

[lannamichaels]

I love this ep, although I always fast-forward through the prison scenes, the I Am An Angry Angsty Southerner scenes, and Richie taking the quickening. There are some excellent bits of Methos backstory. One thing I wish had been explained better was how the Messenger survived so long without carrying a sword. But I think the Messenger is the Methos-of-legend. You have this enduring tale in Immortal-land, so pervasive and handed down that even Richie's heard of him, and it's all sweetness and light and peace. That doesn't sound at all like our Methos, but it does sound a lot like the Messenger. Methinks Methos was riding heavily on the Messenger's coattails in getting MacLeod and Joe to ever trust him.