Continuing from yesterday, starting with the scene where Methos returns to where Kronos is staying. Also known as Methos is a little shit, and Kronos demonstrates he is sometimes really blind to some nuances of human nature. Like, don’t ask Methos to kill his friends. It’s dangerous.
Below a cut because this is getting long. It has a lot of dialogue I like.
… And here is where I want to drop a nice anvil on MacLeod. Although this is another bit with some favored lines. Under cut for length.
“Going somewhere?”
“You shouldn’t be here.”
“What are you running from? The question or the answer?”
“There is no answer, MacLeod. Let it be.”
“Is what she said true?”
“I’m outta here.”
“No. No you’re not, you’re not out of here. Is what she said true?”
“It’s… The times were different, MacLeod, I was different, the whole bloody world was different, ok?”
(And MacLeod looks all stoically angry and trying to be threatening, and all I want to do is seriously hit him in the face with a baseball bat. Dude, get over yourself, you are not judge and jury.)
“Did you kill all those people?”
“Yes. Is that what you want to hear? Killing was all I knew; is that what you want to hear?”
“It’s enough.”
(And still with the judgey face, and you’re annoying Methos, and he has enough shit from Kronos to put up with, and you’re not giving him any way to get out of where he is, and he can’t tell you because he knows you won’t give a damn, and fuck you, MacLeod.)
“No. It is not enough. I killed. But I didn’t just kill fifty, I didn’t kill a hundred. I killed a thousand, I killed ten thousand. And I was good at it. And it wasn’t for vengeance. It wasn’t for greed. It was because I liked it. Cassandra was nothing. Her village was nothing. Do you know who I was? I was Death.”
(And there’s pushing MacLeod over the edge, yes, Methos, you are a little shit, we all know this, and you are looking for an escape from Kronos, and you don’t know if you want to send MacLeod in a righteous fury against Kronos or have him kill you, and either will do, won’t it?)
"Death. Death on a horse. When mothers warned their children the monster would get them, that monster was me. I was the nightmare that kept them awake at night. Is that what you want to hear? The answer is yes. Oh, yes.”
There's a Mirror on the Wall 