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NARRATOR: He is Immortal, born in the highlands of Scotland

400 years ago.

He is not alone.

There are others like him, some good, some evil.

For centuries, he has battled the forces of darkness with

holy ground his only refuge.

He cannot die unless you take his head,

and with it his power.

In the end, there can be only one.

He is Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander.

THEME SONG: Here we are, born to be kings.

We're the princes of the universe.

I am Immortal.

I have inside me blood of kings.

I have no rival, no man can be my equal.

Take me to the future of your world.

-Here, take this.

It's not much, but we don't want anyone

to go to bed hungry.

-God bless you.

-God bless you, too.

Now listen, you got a place to stay tonight?

And you can get off these streets tonight?

Can you?

-Yeah.

-All right.

You know where to go if you need a place, right?

-Yeah.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you very much.

-All right let me have another one of those.

Here, fella, all right?

Um, listen.

All right, now, why don't we load up in the van, and go

back to the place now, all right?

-It's going to be a good turnout tonight, John.

-OK.

You know what?

Maybe we'll go down to--

-Hey, hey, hey!

Keep your hands to yourself, OK, buddy?

-Wait wait.

It's OK, Matthew.

Matthew, Matthew.

What is it, friend?

-God bless you.

-You're welcome.

You just take care of yourself, too.

Would you relax?

Take it easy.

Relax.

Go join the others.

Go ahead.

He's getting himself upset.

[music playing]

-Vitals?

-Pulse is 140, weak and thready.

BP, 60 over 40.

-Does he have any family here?

-None.

He's some kind of religious leader.

His followers are coming.

-I hope they're praying.

-Skid 'em and pick 'em.

-Let's go.

-Ready.

-Clear?

-Clear!

-Clear.

Do it again, 200 joules.

-Nothing.

-Come on, Mr. Kirin, do not give up on us.

Come on.

Don't give up on us now.

-[inaudible].

-One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three

one-thousand, four one-thousand, five

one-thousand.

One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three

one-thousand, four one-thousand, five

one-thousand.

One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three

one-thousand, four one-thousand, five

one-thousand.

One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three

one-thousand, four one-thousand, five

one-thousand.

WOMAN ON P.A.: Dr. Porter, call emergency.

Dr.Porter, please call emergency.

-Dr. Lindsey.

-I'm sorry.

He didn't make it.

WOMAN [OFFSCREEN]: No, he can't be.

No!

-That can't be.

There must be something.

He can't be dead.

-We did everything we could.

-Please!

Please.

John Kirin can't die.

[gasp]

[music playing]

-Oh, thank you.

-Easy.

-Duncan, I called it, OK?

He was-- he was flatlined.

There was-- there was no pulse, no blood pressure.

The-- the man was dead.

People just don't come back.

Not-- not like that, they don't.

-What was his name?

-Uh, uh, Kirin.

John Kirin.

He's a, uh-- get this--

a leader of a-- like a church or an ashram downtown.

And now, of course, all of his followers are thinking it's a

miracle, some kind of resurrection.

Oh.

-How did he die?

-It was a car accident--

feels really good.

-Good.

-Some kind of, like, car accident.

He had major radial nerve damage and

massive head injuries.

Duncan, there-- there's just no practical

explanation for this.

It doesn't happen.

-Well, it did.

-Yeah, OK, so if this guy is an Immortal--

-He is.

-Yeah, OK, so he is, and he dies.

And they take him to the hospital, and Anne says he's

dead, and then he comes to.

What's he supposed to do?

People are right there.

-He waits until everybody's gone, then he goes

out the back door.

He disappears, an no one sees him again.

He leaves his life and starts a new one.

Those are the rules of the game, Richie.

-Well, what I'm trying to say is what

if he isn't an Immortal?

[music playing]

So much for that theory.

-Yeah.

-Hey!

Hey!

-Let's go!

-It's gonna come out!

Be smart.

Make a few bucks.

-Print your garbage about somebody else, OK?

-So you meet this guy in the pen?

Come on, Matthew, everybody knows you did five years for

killing your old man.

What's the scam?

-Don't you get it?

John Kirin is for real.

He saves people.

He saved me.

-You born again, Matthew?

-Look!

Leave him alone.

I'm warning you, and I'm not gonna tell you again.

-Is that a threat?

-Well, I guess not everyone's welcome.

[music playing]

He seems to have all his bases covered.

-Yeah.

Why?

-How you doing?

-See, each of us has within themselves

the seeds of godliness.

When we do an act of kindness, when we, uh, forgive someone,

or ourselves, we see a reflection of that godliness.

We are men and women, but we're more than

just men and women.

-I guess we found him.

-Yeah, we found him.

[music playing]

[explosion]

[yelling]

-German artillery.

Seems Franco and his Fascists are getting some help.

-Well, they have to test their weapons somewhere.

Spain's the only place available.

-For now.

It means a bigger war is coming.

-Hitler knows there's nothing like a good war to pick up an

economy, especially if you win and get the

loser to pay for it.

-Nobody wins.

You know that, Kage.

-People making the money do.

TIMOTHY [OFFSCREEN]: Now you guys make sure you get the

name right.

It's Timothy Parriot.

Now, it's like "parrot."

-With

an "I." -From?

-Philadelphia.

-Know what I see when I look out on this place?

Opportunity.

-You have to excuse my friend.

He likes to make believe he's a capitalist.

-Huh.

I live to exploit the masses.

-Did you ever notice how easy it is for a

rich kid to be a socialist?

-Well, let's go to sleep.

We have some real work to do tomorrow.

-In the morning, we take the break at Del Marino, and in

the afternoon you guys can write about us for your

newspapers.

All we have to do is hold back the Nationalists until the

International Brigade pushes around Franco's back.

Hah!

We'll keep the little fascist's ass all the way to

the Mediterranean.

-We'll see.

-You got to think positive.

See you at the bridge.

-Foolish kids.

They'll be dead in a week.

-You're a prophet as well as an Immortal?

-No, MacLeod.

I'm just a realist.

[music playing]

-Ah!

-A little sharp?

Smile, Timothy.

Let me help you.

-Did you learn that in a newspaper office?

-I read a lot.

You'd be surprised what you can learn in a book.

All done.

[music playing]

-Where'd Kage go?

-Maybe he went to take a leak.

-I don't like this.

-Hey, I got nervous my first time out, too.

[gunfire]

-Ah!

-Timothy, stay still!

Timothy!

[gunfire]

-No!

-Get down!

[gunfire]

[explosion and screams]

[shouting]

-Oh!

-Brave but stupid.

-Don't!

-Get 'em in the truck!

Vamanos!

-God!

-Stop, he's-- he's wounded!

[gunfire]

Land of opportunity, huh?

-I tried to convince them that you were a reporter, MacLeod.

They wouldn't buy it, especially when you picked up

the dynamite.

-Why are you doing this?

-Look at these misfits fighting for a lost cause.

I like to win.

I like to be on the side that wins.

It pays a hell of a lot better.

-This is about money to you!

-Don't you get it, MacLeod?

It's always about money.

[music playing]

MacLeod.

It's been a long time.

-Too long.

-You got a right to be angry.

-What are you doing here?

-Thinking.

Praying.

-And playing messiah?

-No, it was not intentional.

-You're still here.

-My jobs not finished yet.

These, uh--

these people need me.

I help them.

-Where's the profit in it?

-I'm not the man I was.

-Then why don't we step off holy ground and find out?

-I don't fight anymore.

-Is he bothering you?

-No, no, Matthew.

-Are you sure?

-Go away.

-He's just an old friend.

-Yeah, talking about old times.

I'll be back.

-I know.

-He's trouble.

-Leave it be, Matthew.

-You don't know.

You're too good.

You can't see it.

He wants to hurt you.

I know that look.

I've seen it before.

-[laughing]

Look, there's nothing to worry about.

We're safe here.

Don't worry.

Come on.

-So, uh, I take it you're not a big fan of this guy, huh?

-You could say that.

-Well, uh, just how bad is he?

-Bad enough to kill.

[band music playing]

-So I went back to the ashram to check this guy out, Joe.

He's doing some good stuff.

-Nah, not possible.

-Joe, I talked to these people.

I watched them.

They love him.

-I have got hundreds of pages of history on this guy.

This man is a liar and a murdering son of a bitch.

Mac was right.

-And the late news did a feature on Kirin last night.

He runs a soup kitchen, a food bank, and he helps out in half

a dozen other places.

Joe, bear with me for one second here.

If he's such a bad guy, what's he doing all this stuff?

-Money.

It pays to rise from the dead.

The day after this man comes back, his church collects a

quarter of a million dollars in donations.

This is about money.

With Kirin or Kage or whatever he calls himself now, it's

always about the money-- [ECHO] about the money-- about

the money--

-Would you do something for me?

-You can deliver it yourself.

-Do you think I'll be able to?

I've heard POW camps are no picnic.

-You're going to be OK.

There'll be a doctor in the camp.

Just do what they say when they say it, and most of the

time they leave you alone.

-Sounds like you're talking from personal experience.

-I am.

-Are you, uh, going to keep writing after we win?

-Hadn't given it much thought.

-Maybe you and me could do a deal together.

There's going to be a lot of opportunities when

we get out of this.

-Maybe.

[truck stopping]

[speaking spanish]

-What's going on?

-Nothing.

Kage--

-It's cheaper than feeding them.

I'll be back for you later.

-What is it?

What did he say?

-Give me a moment.

TIMOTHY [OFFSCREEN]: Something's wrong.

-Senor?

-Vamos!

-Que esperamos?

-Listen.

You wait for me to make the first move.

We can do this, you understand?

-They're going to kill us, aren't they?

-You follow my lead.

[speaking spanish]

-No!

[music playing]

-We made it, Tim.

They lost us.

We'd better rest, or I better rest.

Uh!

Uh!

We'll fine a farmhouse in the morning.

This is Loyalist country.

They'll feed and hide us.

Tim?

Oh, no.

[music playing]

-So I did some, uh, checking, and, um, guess what?

John Kirin has no medical history.

So are you two related or something?

-No.

-So what do you know about him?

-About John Kirin?

Nothing.

-Are you sure?

Oh, oh, oh.

Is this one of those things that I need to drop?

-Check.

-Duncan, do you believe in miracles?

-Don't deify the man.

-So you do know something about him.

-Your move.

-Oh.

-Enough to know that he's a fraud.

He's taken in a quarter of a million dollars

in the past 24 hours.

-Well, I heard he gave most of that back to charity.

If he's a fraud, why'd he do something like that?

-We're nearly there, Sister!

He's right over the next bluff.

[screams]

All right, kids, nearly there.

-[inaudible].

-Let's go, come on.

-Oh!

Oh, dear Lord!

-What happened?

Is he dead?

[helicopter approaching]

[music playing]

-There's a chopper over there.

NUN [OFFSCREEN]: It's useless!

-Nothing's useless, sister.

Come on, kids, it's our way out!

Over there!

Come on, go!

-The owner's refused us before!

-He won't refuse us this time, Sister.

I won't let him.

-I'm afraid you don't know him.

-Come on!

-Come on, children.

Stay close to me.

-Let me deal with this, Sister.

Come on!

-[yelling in foreign language]

-Hello!

We need your chopper!

-How nice to see you, MacLeod.

-Kage, what are you doing here?

-I export goods.

-Heroin.

-Well, it's a living.

I see you're still playing the Saint of Lost Causes, huh?

-We need your chopper.

-It's filled.

-The Khmer Rouge will be here any moment.

You know what they'll do to these children.

-Sorry.

I'd like to help you out, but any more weight and she won't

be able to get off the ground.

-Then unload it!

-Sorry, no can do.

You're just going to have to understand.

We'll deal with us later.

-Kage you can't leave them.

Nobody could do that, not even you!

-War is hell, isn't it, pal?

-Kage, take the children!

-[inaudible].

Let's get this show on the road!

MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Kage, they'll be slaughtered!

You can't leave them!

You can't leave them!

Take the children!

Kage!

[music playing]

-You've got to listen to me.

You have to start protecting yourself.

You have to watch your back.

People will always try and use you and hurt you if they can.

-Not everyone, Matthew.

-You don't understand.

-Matthew, I do under--

-No, you don't understand!

You never grew up with a father who--

who used to scream at you and curse at you, and who thought

Saturday night meant drink eight bottles of beer and beat

the crap out of your kid.

-No, I didn't.

-People are just no damn good.

-Some are.

You are.

MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Kirin.

-Look, why don't you just leave before somebody gets

hurt.

-Wait, wait.

Matthew, everybody's welcome here.

-Let's take a walk.

-Stay here.

-I don't think you should go with him.

-I know.

I know.

People like us have had so much life.

We've done so many things.

Imagine how much we could teach them.

-About money and murder?

-About redemption and forgiveness.

-And you're the expert?

-I studied with the Buddhist monks in

Cambodia, Burma, India.

There were many teachers, many religions, some

wisdom, some humanity.

-And John Kirin?

-No one anyone would know.

He was just a simple man who died serving others.

I took his name to honor him.

Kage died when I became Kirin.

-And you became God.

-Not God!

Just His humble messenger.

-Well, we don't play God or his messenger.

Not now, not ever.

We don't have the answers, and we don't make miracles.

-I didn't plan on coming back to life in front of them.

I'm using my immortality to make this a better world.

Why is that so wrong?

-Because everything you say is a lie.

-We're beasts when we kill, men when we

judge, God when we forgive.

-Maybe God has forgiven you, but I sure haven't.

[music playing]

-Excuse me!

Excuse me!

I saw you going into Kirin's church.

He's quite a guy, coming back from the dead.

-What do you want?

-To expose him for what he is.

-And what's that?

-A fraud, a liar.

He's not even John Kirin.

But you know that, don't you?

-Do I?

-The John Kirin this guy says he is died four

years ago in Indonesia.

-Goodbye.

-If he isn't Kirin, who is he?

Why are you trying to protect this guy?

MacLeod, what is it you're hiding?

-I--

I want to personally thank you for your generous contribution

to the children's wing.

-I should be thanking you, doctor, for saving my life.

-I--

I wish I could take credit, but I don't think I did.

-You're being humble.

-Mr. Kirin, you were dead.

I--

I didn't save you.

Coming back to life the way you did was-- was clinically

impossible.

-Well, perhaps it was.

-You're alive right now, and you shouldn't be.

Don't you want to know why?

-[laughing]

I'm here now.

That's all I need to know.

-IF I could just run a couple of tests--

-I assure you, no tests will show you anything you'd be

satisfied with.

Some things are best left alone.

-There's a reason that you came back to life, Mr. Kirin.

-Perhaps it's because my work isn't finished here.

-There's a call for you.

-Oh.

-Um, can I-- can I talk to you again some time?

-Of course, any time.

Matthew will show you the way out.

Thank you, doctor, again.

And God bless.

-This MacLeod guy won't play ball.

No, I want to stay on it.

Look, I really think this guy can break it for us.

He knows something, I can feel it.

This MacLeod, whoever he is, there's bad blood between him

and Kirin, and I want to find out why.

No, he's not talking.

He split.

I figure maybe I can snoop around a little bit, come up

with something.

Yeah.

Hello?

[music playing]

MacLeod?

-Have the cops gone yet?

-Yeah, finally.

What a mess.

You'd think those guys would learn to clean up after

themselves.

Anybody I know?

It's Kirin.

You think he has something to do with the dead guy.

-What do you think?

the son of the bitch killed him and

dropped him on my doorstep.

-Why would he do that, Mac?

-Because he's playing with me.

And I let him.

And that reporter's dead because of it.

But I'm not playing anymore.

-Yeah, I know the place.

I had hoped that this would end differently.

In an hour.

I don't understand why people can't believe in miracles.

They've happened before.

-Let them believe in what they want.

Each one of us has to find our own truth in our own time.

I'm going out for a while.

-I'll go with you.

-No, Matthew.

Somebody has to lead the afternoon meditation.

Look, Matthew.

Whatever it is you wish to become, you already are.

Remember that.

-Where are you going?

-To see a friend.

-I have no life without you, John Kirin.

-Then you must find one, Matthew.

I'm sorry about the man who died.

Very sorry.

But I didn't kill him, MacLeod.

I was in my ashram with my people.

You can ask them if you like.

-They'll say anything for you.

You came back from the dead.

You're a god in their eyes.

-Do you think so?

You might be right.

-Don't you think this charade has gone on long enough?

-What will it take to convince you?

-More than a few prayers.

Now we're off holy ground, Kage.

-I'm not going to fight you, MacLeod.

-Then I'll cut you down as you stand.

-If you've judged me, then that's what I deserve.

-I don't judge you, Kage.

The children you left to die and the men you betrayed and

murdered do that.

-I mean what I said about changing.

In Cambodia, you didn't know this, but I came back looking

for you to finish it.

In my life, I've seen much horror, much destruction.

With every war, I grew harder and harder inside.

But with this one, this time--

[music playing]

[crying]

But the children.

What they did to the children.

-I was there.

-Maybe this is as it should be.

I--

-Fight me, damn you!

I'm giving you a chance!

Come on!

Fight me!

Come on!

-Do as you must.

-Ahh!

Then I will.

I will!

-You are the better man, MacLeod.

You always were.

[music playing]

JOE [OFFSCREEN]: I thought you wanted to kill him.

MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: I did.

JOE [OFFSCREEN]: What, now you don't?

-Kirin was willing to let me judge him.

Kage would never have done that.

He was willing to die rather than fight me.

-All that means is that he's a good judge of character.

I mean, he knew that you wouldn't kill him if he didn't

defend himself.

Kage is evil.

He's not stupid.

-I'm beginning to think it wouldn't be Kage I'd be

killing, that maybe he's dead already.

-OK, he's not the same person.

But I don't see how 20 years of doing good deeds begins to

cover his tab.

-Yeah, well, maybe it doesn't, but I'm not going

to be one to decide.

-Well, if you're not, then who is?

You know what he was.

Who better than you to judge him?

-One Immortal playing God is enough.

[music playing]

The money's on the table.

Take it and get out.

-I don't want your money.

-That sounds like Matthew.

Looks like Matthew, too.

-You got a hell of a sense to humor for a man

that's facing a .38.

-Thanks.

Actually, that reminds me of a joke.

You ever hear the one about the ex-con that murdered the

reporter?

-Just shut up.

-Why, Matthew?

Will you put a bullet in me like you did him?

-I didn't shoot nobody.

-Then give me the gun and we'll talk about it.

-Look, I warned him, all right?

To mind his own damn business.

-So, you here to warn me or shoot me?

-Who's Kage?

-A man I used to know.

-And what's he got to do with John Kirin?

-I think that's something you ought to ask him.

-No, I'm asking you.

What's all this stuff about murdering children?

And what the hell were you doing with that sword?

[music playing]

-That'll be Kirin now.

Should I let him in, or will you?

You're just in time.

-Look.

I think Matthew is--

-Already here.

-There's no need for this.

-Who's Kage?

-He saw us.

-The man I once was.

Give me the gun, Matthew.

-We've already talked about that.

He's not going to do it.

-No, no, no.

Matthew won't hurt me.

Come on, Matthew.

Give me the gun.

-You lied to me.

-Yes, I did.

-But I--

-Look, Matthew, the police are coming.

I know you killed that reporter.

I had to call them.

-But I killed him for you.

-Matthew, you got to give yourself up.

-All that stuff that you told us.

It was a con, wasn't it?

You're worse than me.

Worse than my daddy.

At lease he never lied about what he was.

-I'm sorry.

You're going to have to face what you did.

-And what are you going to face!

What are the police going to do to you?

-Whatever we face, we'll do it together, Matthew.

-No!

-Yes.

Now I'll take the gun.

-Stay there.

-Give me the gun!

-Don't you yell at me!

-Please, Matthew.

-Just shut up!

Don't you say another word.

Or I'll kill you, I swear.

-No.

No, there'll be no more killing.

-No!

-Easy, Matthew.

It's all right.

I'm not going to do anything.

[sirens]

POLICE ON RADIO: Stay covered until we know what we're

dealing with.

-Let's go!

-Hold it right there!

Keep your hands where we can see them!

Drop the gun and come out with your hands in the air!

-Sounds like a good idea to me.

It's over.

-Don't come any closer, or I'll kill you, too.

-This isn't what Kirin would have wanted.

-How do you know what Kirin would have wanted?

You were his enemy.

You hated him.

-Once.

I don't know, maybe I can forgive him.

I know he could forgive you.

-He's dead.

He can't forgive me.

-No, but you can forgive yourself.

Didn't he teach you that nobody was beyond redemption?

POLICE ON BULLHORN: Come out or we're coming in!

-He's coming out!

Nobody do anything stupid out there!

POLICE ON BULLHORN: He's got a hostage!

Everyone, stay where you are!

-I can talk to them, Matthew.

I'm not going to let them hurt you.

-Nobody can help me now.

I love him, and I killed him.

-No, that's not true.

If what he said to you was real, his words, his caring,

then he's still alive.

Give me the gun.

-All right, let's do it!

MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: It's all right!

Nobody move!

Nobody was hurt!

Put it down.

It's what Kirin would have asked.

-I can't.

There's nothing left.

-No, Matthew!

No, don't shoot!

-Drop the gun!

[gunfire]

-It's my fault.

My need for redemption caused two people to die.

I really wanted to do good, MacLeod.

-I know.

-Maybe someday we'll meet again.

Who knows, we might even be friends.

-You better get going.

THEME SONG: And here we are, we're the

princes of the universe.

Here we belong, fighting for survival.

We've come to be the rulers of your world.

I am Immortal, I have inside me blood of kings.

I have no rival, no man can be my equal.

Take me to the future of your world.