Original subtitles

JOE DAWSON NARRATING: 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's is Duncan MacLeod.

The Highlander.

[MUSIC - QUEEN, "PRINCES OF UNIVERSE"]

-[gasp]

Oh!

[whistle blows]

[men shouting]

[alarm sounds]

-Hey!

-Oh!

Auughhh!

[whistle blows]

[men shouting]

-[gasp]

[strangling]

-Well, well.

What have we here?

A psychopath, hm?

I could kill you, but I prefer to use you.

[whimpering with fear]

[footsteps]

[footsteps]

-[cries out]

Unh!

-We go tonight?

-You didn't think I'd leave without you?

-Aauughh!

-Ah, well.

-That's my boy.

-Heh, right.

Now what are we supposed to do?

KALAS [OFFSCREEN]: We await our benefactor.

-For what?

Is he gonna bring us wings?

-Shut your mouth.

-Ah.

[laughs nervously]

[train horn in distance]

[train horn in distance]

-Right.

[extra-sensory buzz]

AMANDA DARIEUX [OFFSCREEN]: It's about time.

-What now?

-Now you die.

-All this, just to kill me?

-Give the man a cigar.

-Why?

You don't even know me.

-I know what you did to MacLeod.

-Ah, he sent you.

-Let's just say I owe him.

[cries out]

-You couldn't leave your little friend behind?

-Not friend.

Weapon.

[alarm sounds]

[men shouting]

[panting]

Brilliant.

[SHOUTING] Brilliant!

[extra-sensory buzz]

-Yoo-hoo.

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Amanda.

-Well, gotta hand it to you, MacLeod.

You got a memory like an elephant's.

-What are you doing here?

-Oh.

Besides making a fashion statement?

-Isn't it great?

It reminds me of the old days.

And to answer your question, I'm here to make you dinner.

I have a '71 Montrachet, a Chateau

Lafitte '61, a '54 Ychem--

basically everything but a '68 Camaro.

-Amanda.

-Caviar, truffles, chanterelles--

and my favorite, smoked goose.

And I know what you're thinking, but I think we can

find a way to work it off.

-What are you doing here?

-I'm just here to make dinner for an old friend.

Um, by the way, what happened to your lady friend?

[music playing]

-You know, the, um, doctor?

-Her name's Anne.

And that's none of your business.

[POUTILY] Oh.

That's a shame.

-We have to dump these, eh?

Eh?

-What a champion of the obvious you are, Nino.

-Yeah, I know.

[alarm chirps]

-Would you say we're about the same size?

-What do you want?

-Your wallet, your car, your clothes.

-You're insane.

-Possibly.

AMANDA DARIEUX [OFFSCREEN]: So what do you think?

It's not bad for potluck, huh?

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: You haven't lost your touch.

Great wines, two-and-a-half-star dinner.

So why?

-Why what?

-Why are you being so nice?

-I am, aren't I?

-Come on, Amanda, give.

What do you really want?

-Just to make you happy.

-Why?

-So you won't kill me when I tell you happened.

I broke Kalas out of jail.

-What's the point?

How long we gonna drive around here?

-Till I tell you to stop.

[extra-sensory buzz]

-That one.

Run him down.

-[laughs]

Run, you bastard!

Come on!

[laughs]

[thud]

NINO [OFFSCREEN]: Whoa-ho!

[tires squealing]

[thud]

NINO [OFFSCREEN]: Up and over!

Oh!

Nasty tumble there.

[tires screech]

NINO [OFFSCREEN]: Why can't I do him?

-You remember prison, Nino?

What happened there?

[breathing jaggedly]

AUBERON [OFFSCREEN]: Who are you?

-You won't be needing this.

But I will.

AUBERON [OFFSCREEN]: No.

No!

[thunder rolls]

[crackling electricity]

-Aauauuughhhhhh!

[glass shatters]

[crackling electricity]

KALAS [OFFSCREEN]: [screams]

KALAS [OFFSCREEN]: [screams]

[laughs maniacally]

-[moans]

So good.

Oh, it's been so long.

[ting]

[ting]

[ting]

[ting]

-Would you just say something to me, MacLeod?

Anything, you know?

Get mad.

Throw something.

At least yell at me.

And stop doing that!

-There's no point.

It's already done.

-You know, this sounds crazy, but, uh, I was really trying

to do you a favor, you know?

I was trying to get Kalas out of your life.

-Two guards are dead because of it.

-I'm sorry!

You know, that wasn't supposed to happen.

-Nothing's ever supposed to happen.

You should have left it alone.

-I know that now.

But I kept thinking about all the times that you came

through for me, and I thought, now it's my turn.

-To do what?

Die for me?

You stay away from him.

[SHOUTING] You can't fight for me, and I won't allow you to

die for me.

Do you understand?

[hoofbeats]

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Oh, this accursed heat.

[sigh]

It must be noon already.

-It is 9:30, my friend.

Still the cool part of the day.

-What's the use of that thing?

Counting minutes when we have forever?

[hoofbeats]

-It is all written.

How long anyone has is in the hands of Allah.

Besides, you Europeans invented the minute.

Here there only morning, noon, and night.

[hoofbeats]

-Shukran.

-Patience, my friend.

The desert teaches you that, if nothing else.

We leave for Tunis in the evening.

Even we can't travel far in the mid-day sun.

-This is hot.

What do you want to drink that for?

I want something want something cold.

-You miss this Scotland of yours?

-Aye.

-Where it rains incessantly and the people of

your tribe eat grass?

[laughs]

-Oats, Hamza.

They eat oats.

And I could do with a bloody cold Highland ale right now.

What?

You don't approve of my customs?

-Who can say?

It is not for me to judge.

Perhaps one can enjoy eating the flesh of pigs and drinking

vile concoctions.

[chuckles]

[hoofbeats]

[MUEZZIN GIVING CALL TO PRAYER]

-[laughs]

[extra-sensory buzz]

-A Moor.

-A killer.

-Hamza el Kahir.

-I have that honor.

You have traveled a long way.

-And you move quickly for an old man.

-Keep a civil tongue in your head if you want to keep it.

-Look how I shake.

My breath comes in labored gasps.

What courage, what bravado!

Who is this fool?

-I am Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod.

-Does he always speak for you?

-Forget him.

He is too young for you to be concerned with.

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: I am old

enough to take his head.

-I don't sleep with virgins, and I don't kill children.

-Not here!

We are not alone.

-Then I will take it elsewhere.

-It is not your concern.

XAVIER ST. CLOUD [OFFSCREEN]: We will meet in two hours.

The square in the Old Quarter.

-He will be there.

XAVIER ST. CLOUD [OFFSCREEN]: Good.

Because if he is not, I will come for you.

-Any time.

[scoffs]

-Who is that camel dung?

-Xavier St. Cloud.

-A Christian name for a Moore?

-He has been many things.

-Soon he'll be dead.

You will show him what Damascus steel can do.

-Finish your tea, and then get the horses.

It is time for us to go.

-You're going to run?

-Would you rather I commit suicide.

-But I've seen you fight.

You're good!

-Not as good as Xavier.

A man must know his limitations

if he wants to survive.

We leave now, lose him in the desert.

-Then you ride alone.

HAMZA EL KAHIR [OFFSCREEN]: Xavier was right.

You are a fool.

You are too young.

You have never fought one like this.

-He hasn't fought one like me.

Not all is written, Hamza.

Ride on if you must, but I will stay.

-May Allah be with you.

-Aye.

And with you.

[CALLING] Xavier!

Are you going to keep me waiting all day?

[extra-sensory buzz]

-Such rudeness.

It must be Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod.

-Aye, it is, you arrogant, pompous boor.

Ach, no, it's Moor, is it not?

-I was expecting Hamza.

-Wrong again.

-Just how old are you?

Are you a Christian, or do you paint yourself blue

and bay at the moon?

-What do you care?

-Just wondering what God I'm going to send you to.

-Look to your own.

[extra-sensory buzz]

-Your challenge was to me, and I accept.

-But I am ready.

-It was always my fight.

It is done.

[sheaths sword]

-Look and listen, my pale friend.

Your time will come.

-Why?

Do not tell me it was written.

-Because I cannot allow a friend to die in my place.

Remember me.

[swords clashing]

[swords clashing]

[whoosh]

[thunder rumbling]

[electricity crackling]

[extra-sensory buzz]

JOE DAWSON [OFFSCREEN]: MacLeod, MacLeod, it's me.

It's Joe Dawson.

-Joe, back off.

There's someone else.

Methos.

I'm sorry for the reception.

I wasn't expecting you.

-Yeah, well, I wasn't really expecting to come.

Not until this morning.

-What brings you to Paris?

-I called him.

-I know you wanted to see Methos, but 6,000 miles is a

long way to travel for a social visit.

-Yeah, well, it's--

it's Watcher business.

Really doesn't concern you, Mac.

-Whatever.

-I mean, if it did, I--

I would tell you.

-It's all right, Joe.

I've got my own problems right now.

-I don't suppose this problem has a name, does it?

-Kalas.

-He's in prison.

-Not since last night.

-Come on.

-This is the best you could do?

-They know the streets.

They don't talk.

And they don't mind killing.

KALAS [OFFSCREEN]: First installment.

MacLeod has a barge just across from Notre Dame.

As for killing, leave that to me.

-So what do we do?

KALAS [OFFSCREEN]: You follow him.

I want to know where he goes, what he does,

who is friends are--

especially her.

Leave.

-Why get your own hands bloody?

I don't get it.

-Do you know what a Philistine is, Nino?

-Phil who?

-Silly me.

There are certain things one has to do oneself.

-Ah.

MAURICE [OFFSCREEN]: The Calon-Segur '61?

Excellent choice, Monsieur.

A marvelous year.

It would do Chef Grigeau's lamb more than justice.

Unfortunately, we do not have it.

-What about the '59 Pichon-Lalande?

-Magnifique.

But we sold our last bottle yesterday.

-The '54 Lafitte?

Why don't I leave it in your capable hands?

-It would be my pleasure.

[extra-sensory buzz]

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Ah, Monsieur MacLeod.

If you'd care to wait?

-No, I wouldn't.

Should have stayed in prison, Kalas.

Time's up.

-Oh, you think so?

Look around, MacLeod.

We don't do well in crowds.

-Then we'll take it outside.

-Wrong again.

-My show.

I'll decide when the curtain goes up.

-Yahhh!

-Augh!

-No!

No!

No, no, no.

-Get in there!

Just--

[gunshot]

KALAS [OFFSCREEN]: Nino, what the hell's going on?

-Bugger!

KALAS [OFFSCREEN]: Get in the car, you idiot!

[tires squeal]

-What was that about?

-It's a long story, Maurice.

You have to get out of town.

-Impossible.

The restaurant--

-It can wait.

Forget going home.

Forget your toothbrush.

Just get as far away as you can.

-Maurice is not one to leave a friend in trouble, and I think

you have trouble.

-Now's not the time to be heroic.

Whatever it costs, I'll pay for it.

-Are we friends?

Then don't insult our friendship.

I don't need your money.

Ah.

-You have somewhere to stay?

-In the south.

For a good man, you seem to have many enemies.

Perhaps one day you'll explain why that is.

-Perhaps.

METHOS [OFFSCREEN]: I'm sorry, Christine.

But Don is dead, and nothing you do will bring him back.

I know how you feel.

-Do you, Adam?

-Yes.

You're bitter and hurt, and you miss him terribly.

I miss him, too.

-Why wouldn't you?

He gave you and your damn Watchers more time

than he gave me.

And it was my time, Adam.

-You have a right to be angry, to grieve.

-Oh, you bet I'm angry--

at you and your ugly little secret society.

-Don didn't think it was ugly.

He thought our work was important.

-Your work killed him.

Now this--

this thing is free.

He'll live forever, and my husband is dead.

And all you do is watch.

-Immortals are part of history.

They are part of the truth.

Don was interested in the truth.

-Don't tell me about the truth.

I trusted you.

I confided in you, both of you.

Well, now I'm going to end it.

I'm going to lift up the rock so everyone can see.

-What are you saying?

-You want the truth?

I'm going to tell the truth.

I'm meeting the editor of "The Tribune." Tomorrow the world

is going to know about Immortals.

-No.

You'll destroy everyone.

The good, not just the bad.

There are no good ones.

It's evil, all of it.

-They are not all like Kalas.

You'll be destroying me, too.

I'm one of them, Christine.

-All this time, you're one of those things.

Pretending to be one of us.

-Christine, you've known me for years.

-No.

Get out.

Get out of my house.

You're finished, all of you.

JOE DAWSON [OFFSCREEN]: Wonderful.

That went really well.

What were you thinking about?

-I wasn't thinking.

I was improvising.

-By cutting yourself open?

Guess it took you 5,000 years to figure that out.

-You're disappointed in me, huh?

Oh, come on.

Give me a break.

What do you--

what do expect?

Einstein?

Freud?

Buddha?

-[sigh]

Forget it.

-Sorry, Joe.

I'm just a guy.

-[scoffs]

I guess next you're gonna tell me there's no Santa Claus.

[heavy sigh]

Look, what we have to worry about is what we're going to

do about Christine.

-I'm not sure we have to do anything.

-She is about to let loose in a major newspaper.

-With what?

-You got all Don's files.

-Every one.

I wiped the computer clean.

He didn't keep anything at home.

Christine's only got her word.

People living forever, running around cutting each other's

heads off with swords?

-Who's gonna believe her?

-It'll be filed away with alien

abductions and Elvis sightings.

-Well, just in case, I think I'd better follow her.

-You're certain it was Christine Salzer?

-Yeah, I checked with the building manager.

-Have you told anyone else about this?

-What, about creatures who if live forever?

Not yet, but I'm sure the boys'll get a good laugh out

of it.

-Really?

I don't think it particularly funny.

Hyah!

[snap]

[thud]

[thud]

-[CALLING] Nino.

NINO [OFFSCREEN]: Yeah?

-Fetch me another.

This one's broken.

-All right.

[glass shatters]

[beep]

[typing]

[beep]

[typing]

[typing]

[beep]

[typing]

[beep]

[beep]

[beep]

[beep]

[printer powers up]

[beep]

-Well, well, well.

I think I've hit the jackpot.

[beep]

[beep]

[beep]

[beep]

[beep]

[beep]

CHRISTINE SALZER [OFFSCREEN]: There you are.

[beep]

CHRISTINE SALZER [OFFSCREEN]: You rotten bastard.

I hope you burn in hell.

[beep]

-Wish you hadn't seen that.

-I'll bet you do.

-You know, whatever you're thinking, Christine, it's not

going to bring him back.

-It'll make me feel a hell of a lot better.

-Please give that to me, Christine.

For everyone's sake.

-Go to hell.

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Listen, Danielle,

I'm looking for Kalas.

Have you seen him lately?

DANIELLE [OFFSCREEN]: I don't know where he would be.

Tell you the truth, I don't care.

Guy gave me the creeps.

-Yeah, I know what you mean.

What about his friends.

-Friends?

He doesn't have any friends.

So what's this about.

He owe you some money or something?

-Or something.

What about the bartender?

Maybe I could talk to him.

-Gerard?

I don't think he likes you.

-Do you care?

-You want his phone number?

-No, his address.

I want to surprise him.

-OK.

42 rue la Guerre, apartment 7.

-Thanks.

[phone ringing]

[phone ringing]

[extra-sensory buzz]

[heartbeat]

[heartbeat]

[swords clash]

-Amanda!

AMANDA DARIEUX [OFFSCREEN]: MacLeod!

What, are you trying to get killed?

-Me?

I thought you were Kalas.

What are you doing here, anyway?

-I came to hear jazz.

-Jazz.

-Yeah, you know, American music.

Coltrain, Wynton, Miles.

All right, I came looking for you.

All right, I came for Kalas, but you can be really

irritating sometimes.

-Yeah, and you can stay out of this.

-Look, he is my problem, too.

-Yeah, ever since you let him out of jail.

-Wait a minute.

That is below the belt.

I know that I messed up and I have to fix it.

You can't keep cleaning up after me.

-Amanda--

-No, I'm not quitting.

Either we do this together or we do it separately.

It's your choice.

-Ooh, you're irritating.

[knock]

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Gerard?

Are you home?

AMANDA DARIEUX [OFFSCREEN]: You're wasting time.

Let me do it.

[lock rattles]

-Aren't you glad I came along?

-Thrilled.

It's got that lived-in look.

-Yeah, lived in by a pig.

You know, slobs leave things.

Even if he's not home, he may have left something.

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: He's home.

Or was.

-Well, now it's got that died-in look.

-Get back!

-MacLeod!

Ugh!

[both men shouting]

[gunshot]

-Oh.

Oh, damn!

-I hate it when this happens.

-[PANTING] Let's go.

-You know, it's morning.

We've been looking all night.

I'm really tired.

We're not going to find him.

Face it, our one link bank to Kalas, and you killed him.

-I told you, I didn't kill him.

-No, he just fell on his gun.

-Yeah.

-And it went off just like that.

-Just like that.

Company.

-Got it.

Guy on the right side, red scarf?

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: No, left side, black jacket.

-Try not to kill this one.

-Amanda, no, wait!

[thud]

-Found me.

Ooh, that must've hurt.

Now, Sunshine, let's have a little talk.

-Bonjour.

What next?

A little tea for two?

-Don't tell me.

You're together, right?

[sigh]

[POUTILY] Well, you're not gonna hurt

little old me, are you?

-Oh, merde.

[laughs]

-[groaning with pain]

-Believe me, this'll hurt you a lot more than it'll hurt me.

I know you're working for him.

Where is he?

[extra-sensory buzz]

[tires squealing]

-Damn it, you said you wiped everything, you had all the

files!

-I thought I did.

-Well, apparently not.

What the hell was that, anyway?

-Don and I were working on an interactive database.

All our records in one handy, easy-to-access file.

-Well, that is just perfect.

The wonders of modern technology.

[chuckles]

-What, something funny?

-Yeah, you sound just like Don.

He loved books and he really hated computers.

I--

I never even thought he knew what a backup was, let alone

how to make one.

-Well, I'm glad you can laugh, when you know your life is

just about to be turned inside out.

-Empires rise and fall, Joe.

Remember the old Chinese curse.

-Yeah.

"May you live in interesting times." Well, things just got

really interesting.

-That's one way of putting it.

-Something going on?

-Kalas has Amanda.

-You know, we got another big problem, Mac.

-You know the Watcher business that we were

handling without any help?

-Yeah?

She's got it all?

-Immortals, Watchers, the histories--

everything.

-But this could start a panic.

Witch hunts.

Half the governments in the world will be hunting us.

-Look, I've got ever watcher in France out looking for her.

-For thousands of years, Joe, you've kept this a secret.

What the hell happened?

-Don't blame Joe.

-So which is it?

Am I dead or am I bait?

-You'll be the first to know.

-I don't get it.

What is this thing you have with MacLeod?

-There are greater gifts than immortality.

You see this?

MacLeod destroyed my gift.

So now I'll destroy everything he cares for,

everything he loves.

-MacLeod doesn't love me.

KALAS [OFFSCREEN]: Really?

-No.

Let's forget about MacLeod.

I can be very flexible.

-Hmph.

Very tempting.

But I spent centuries in a monastery.

You're wasting your not inconsiderable talents.

[door opens]

-Watch her.

Don't talk to her.

Don't touch her.

Bait.

-You think she's still alive?

-He could use her against me?

But he likes to keep his victims dangling.

One way or another, he'll contact me.

[phone ringing]

-Yeah?

Yeah.

It's for you.

-Come on.

You know this is bad for my circulation.

Can't you loosen them a bit?

THUG [OFFSCREEN]: Don't listen to her.

-Never mind.

I guess they kinda slipped.

-You stay put.

-Relax.

My hands are still tied, see?

-I told you to stay put.

-Now where am I going?

I'm just gonna stretch my legs.

Hm?

-Hm?

AMANDA DARIEUX [OFFSCREEN]: You touch me, and I touch--

you!

THUG [OFFSCREEN]: [moaning disorientedly]

-Do you mind if I sit?

-My appointment's in 15 minutes.

You're not going to talk me out of it.

-You realize what this'll do I mean, not to the

Watchers, the Immortals.

To the world.

-It doesn't matter.

This is evil.

People have to know the truth.

Let go of me.

-I am begging you, Christine.

-You can beg all you want.

It won't stop me.

-Don't make me do this.

Try to understand me.

I can't let this happen.

I don't have any choice.

-Neither

do I. -Please!

DUNCAN MACLEOD [OFFSCREEN]: Joe, don't do this.

[gunshot]

[thud]

-Well, life as we know it is over.

-Do you know what you just allowed to happen?

-Yes.

-Then why?

MacLeod, why did you save her?

-He didn't save her.

He saved you.

[MUSIC - QUEEN, "THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE"]