'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

[robi-travels.livejournal.com]

"Methos and Joe are very easy with each other, "

Actually why was Joe so angry at the beginning of the episode when he finds Methos snooping. I mean, Methos always disappears, he is a big snoop, beer swiping, lay about that we all love, so what was different this time? Joe did not know Amy was kidnapped at that point. Did not quite get the animosity at the beginning.

Roberta

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Because the last time he saw him was in "Archangel".

[robi-travels.livejournal.com]

Well yes, but I found that annoying, since almost all of season six was sans Methos and he actually got permanent billing in the credits, not guest star status - so what was up with that?

But, Methos disappears and Joe should know better, it just seemed weird. I would have expected Joe to chew him out then say something like - Don't do it again!, the way a parent would to a child, since "Adam" can be so adolescent at times.

Roberta

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Peter was doing Noah's Ark at the time, and couldn't do Highlander, but they never explained where he was, he was just gone. Joe was left all alone to deal with the aftermath of Richie's death.

[mackiedockie.livejournal.com]

It is easy to forget that quite a long time passed from the end of Archangel to Indiscretions, and Joe was quite probably hassled unmercifully by the watchers for losing not only his main assignment, Duncan, but also the Legendary Methos. Never mind it wasn't his fault the one was passably deranged and the other Not Really His Job.

That little sabbatical cost Joe a lot according to the Watcher CD semi-canon--he sold his bar in Seacouver, took a demotion and moved to Paris to wait out MacLeod, betting he'd return there _sometime._ In that, he had MacLeod wired. But Methos was in the wind, and maybe Joe expected just a shade more than that from the old guy.

Yes, he's pretty angry, but I think it's as much at the fact Methos is breaking into his files, and if the Watchers found out about that on top of everything else, what Joe has left of a career, and probably his life, would be pretty well forfeit.

First Scene with Joe and Methos

[robi-travels.livejournal.com]

"That little sabbatical cost Joe a lot according to the Watcher CD semi-canon--he sold his bar in Seacouver, took a demotion and moved to Paris "

There is a Watcher CD with cannon?

Also, I guess I never realized the Watchers knew Adam was Methos. Even after the horsemen, I figured they chalked Adam up as a new immortal who got caught in a Cassandra / Kronos fight involving MacLeod. I mean MacLeod had the past with Marvin Koran aka Kronos and with Cassandra.

But maybe that explains why Adam would need to break in to get Joe's computer netwrok access. Although, it appears he had the passwords, etc., just lost a secure connection.

Roberta

Re: First Scene with Joe and Methos

[mackiedockie.livejournal.com]

Panzer Davis marketed a Watcher Chronicles CD of the first 5 seasons a long time back with lots of little snippets of information about the Watchers and Immortals. Some of it was a little vague or contradictory, and it isn't widely available, so I tend to consider it Not Quite Canon. *g*