'Indiscretions'

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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

[pat-t.livejournal.com]

no he wasn't supposed to take her up on it. But she knew what she was doing. She wasn't under any misconceptions about the possible consequences.

Would he have acted differently if Walker had been mortal? I don't think so. For 2 reasons. For one - it wasn't about losing his head. As he told Walker - just because he didn't like to fight didn't mean he couldn't. But to fight Walker because he bedded Walker's slave while he was away - would have created a scandal. And Methos stayed out of the limelight. He liked to stay very inconspicuous. Also, as I had pointed out in the other comment - the core of Methos' actions are that he takes care of himself and those he loves. One roll in the hay does not make an emotional attachment. He didn't love Charlotte. He had no connection to her. He would not have risked his neck to save her. Period. It's who he is.

Just like Amy. She would have been thrown to the wolves as far as Methos was concerned. She was a Watcher. So what? I think the way he put it was that Watchers know their risks and put themselves in the line of danger all the time. Why was Joe getting upset about it? It was only when he learned that she was Joe's daughter that he changed into the predator we know he can be. He didn't save Amy because he cared one wit about Amy. He loves Joe.

And as he told Duncan - since he didn't give a damn about Jacob Galliti the decision to forfeit him in place of Duncan's life - who he did care about - was not difficult to make.

[multimedea.livejournal.com]

I think he might have stayed and tryed to tough it out if Walker was mortal, because:

a) Methos wouldn't have known he was approaching and would have been caught in flagrante.

b) A tussle with a mortal, even with attendent scandal, is much more predictable and survivable than one with an Immortal.

c) I think he would have liked to look good in front of her. Not for overly romantic reasons, but because he seemed just that vain back in the 19th century.

Methos & Walker

[robi-travels.livejournal.com]

I think Methos also forgot about the sick child in the room. He simply should have put his clothes on, and gone over to attend the child. As it was morning and Walker was getting back from sea, a Doctor (even an Immortal one) checking on a patient would not have been suspicious, especially if that patient was his property.

No, I actually think Methos and Walker had history and Methos slept with Charlotte for reasons of his own, but never wanted Charlotte to die.

Roberta