'Indiscretions'

[ithildin]

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

Indiscretions, Air Date: May 1998

Methos and Joe Dawson join forces when past indiscretions threaten their lives-- and loved ones-- in the present. Morgan Walker has been nursing a grudge against Methos for two hundred years, and now he may finally get the chance to take his revenge... by kidnapping Joe's daughter. ~ recap and quotes via tv.com

Quotes below the curtain





Walker: I've waited almost two hundred years for this.
Methos: Do the words 'obsessive-compulsive' mean anything to you?
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Joe: You have to turn the car around.
Methos: Why?
Joe: You're going the wrong way!
Methos: I beg to disagree, the bullets are back that way!
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Methos: Just because I don't like to fight doesn't mean I can't.
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Methos: Joe, we actually make a really good team. We could be like Scully and Mulder.
Joe: Yeah, right.
Methos: Sipowitz and Simone.
Joe: Whatever.
Methos: Caligula and Incutatis. No, maybe not Incutatis, cause he was a horse...
Joe: Will you shut up!
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Joe: Just cause you couldn't keep it in your pants two hundred years ago, you expect me to turn over the Chronicles.
Methos: That was the basic idea, yes.
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Comments

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

In the case of Joe and Methos, there would be easy familiarity, but also some resentment on Joe's part because of Methos's lying about his identity all that time, and also some awe at being in the presence of such an old guy.

*nods* I think it must be difficult for Joe at times - he knows it's Methos, but sometimes I think he responds to "Adam" instead. I love the part in "Judgement Day", where "Adam" defends Joes's friendship with MacLeod, and Joe whispers to Duncan: "Pierson for the defense. Perfect." It's a bit sarcastic, but also affectionate and grateful.

On Methos's part, there seems to be fierce loyalty, as Pat mentions below. He protects the people he cares about, and Joe is one of those people.

Yes, yes, yes.

For all these reasons, I quite like the Methos/Joe pairing - they really do seem to work well together and geniunely care about each other.

[eveningblue.livejournal.com]

he knows it's Methos, but sometimes I think he responds to "Adam" instead. I love the part in "Judgement Day", where "Adam" defends Joes's friendship with MacLeod, and Joe whispers to Duncan: "Pierson for the defense. Perfect." It's a bit sarcastic, but also affectionate and grateful.

That's a good example.

Another one that comes to mind is in "Finale," when they're walking away from Christine's house after Methos has cut himself to show her he's Immortal. Joe is obviously still getting used to the fact that his friend Adam is actually Methos the Aged Immortal. He doesn't yet know what to expect from him, and expects more than Methos can offer. "I'm just a guy," Methos says.

By the time of "The Messenger," Joe is perhaps more comfortable with who Methos is. He no longer expects great wisdom from him.

Actually, it's interesting to think of all their scenes together in the context of this new (to Joe) information, and how he responds and adapts to it over time.