Duncan MacLeod quotes from Highlander: The Series

Amanda

When you think of me, when you, you know, if you ever had to describe me to someone else, would you think of me as a nurturing person?

Duncan

(long pause) Definitely. Is that it?

Amanda

No! I want you to be honest, OK?

Duncan

How honest?

Amanda

Honest. I mean, tell me the truth, don't think about hurting my feelings.

Duncan

OK, then, no. Nurturing is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of you.

Amanda

Oh, I don't think you know me very well.

Duncan

Amanda, you're beautiful, you're smart, and you're a lot of fun. Nurturing's in there... it's just not high on the list.

Amanda

Well, do you think that I would have made a good mother?

Duncan

Absolutely.

Amanda

Really? I mean, because I could take it if you don't think that, you know, I have it in me.

Duncan

You would have made a wonderful mother.

Amanda

Really?

Duncan MacLeod

Hey, you, in the coach, you carry a sword, why don't you use it?

I could use it now, but then I could not do this. (Kisses Duncan)

Duncan

Immortality definitely has an upside. Think about it, in 400 years you might be racing starships instead of Harleys.

Richie

You think things are going to change that much?

Duncan

Well, Richie, when I was a kid, the fastest way to travel was by horse, and if you wanted to fly, you had to be a bird.

Methos

MacLeod-san, that katana is a lovely piece of art. May I? I washed my hands this morning.

Methos

Ahhh! Quite a blade.

Duncan

Not funny, Methos.

Methos

Not meant to be. Not only are you naive, now you are weaponless. How have you lived this long? Do you know how many Immortals she's killed? Want a list?

Duncan

All right, you've made your point.

Methos

Have I? One day she is going to kill you.

Duncan

She's tried already.

Methos

You're better with a blade than her, yes. You are stronger than her, yes. But if you keep letting her walk away, one day she gets lucky, and takes your head. Yes!

Duncan

Oh, I don't know, maybe she'll start to gloat like you.

Duncan

You wanna play?

Methos

Great, you knock me on my bum because I make a bad joke. Very macho. But you keep letting her walk away, without even taking a shot, that is very suicidal.

Duncan

You know what she was to me.

Methos

Yes, and I know what she is. A killer. You treat her like one.

Methos

A couple of medieval songwriters come up with the idea of chivalry one rainy day...

Duncan

This isn't about chivalry!

Methos

...and you embrace it as a lifestyle. You live and die by a code of honor that was trendy when you were a kid.

Duncan

Would you rather that I had no code of honor at all?

Methos

I would rather you survived. You put that first.

Duncan MacLeod

You really are a spoiled brat.

I was a spoiled brat when we first met, but now... I'm a genius.

Duncan

Silly me, I forgot. (hands her a glass) Here. It's not poisoned, although I'm tempted.

You know, just because you think you own me doesn't mean you can tell me how to live my life.

Duncan

I don't think I own you.

Oh yes you do. If you hadn't paid for Juilliard, the Paris Conservatory, I would probably be stuck in some crummy lounge in Las Vegas doing my one millionth rendition of Proud Mary.

Duncan

Is this a thank you I'm hearing?

I thank you by being brilliant.

Duncan

She said modestly.

Methos

How long have you known her?

Duncan

Since she was 14. She was living with a foster family. Pretty poor, and intimidated that they had a prodigy in their midst.

Methos

And does she know...

Duncan

That she's one of us? Doesn't have a clue.

Duncan

You're completely insane!

It makes so much sense, MacLeod! Don't read something diabolical into it.

Duncan

Immortality is not a game of tag. You can't say "you're it!" or "you're it!". It's not for us to decide when a mortal life is over.

But I must. If she doesn't die, now, at the pinnacle of her genius, it could be lost forever.

Duncan

You don't know that!

Ooh, Shakespeare. I found my purpose, MacLeod. Imagine, Claudia Jardine's talent living on through the ages... under my loving guidance.

Duncan

Walter, get a life!

Don't you see, she'll thank me. She will always be young, and beautiful, and passionate...

Duncan

...and what happens when her fans see that she's not getting any older?

Duncan MacLeod

Amanda, you've lived for over a thousand years, how many times have you seen real magic?

Amanda

MacLeod, I was an illiterate thief starving on the street before Rebecca found me and made me her student. This is all I have left of her. Magic or not, no-one's gonna take this from me!

Duncan

There is no way Methos sent those men, not a chance!

Amanda

Why not? It's perfect. It's wily, it's devious, it's... just like him.

Duncan

Why are you doing this? You've lived this long without it, why do you need it now?

Methos

Alexa... she's in hospital in Geneva, she doesn't have long.

Duncan

You knew it had to be this way.

Methos

Yeah, from the first moment I saw her. Is, is that supposed to make it easier? Is that supposed to make it OK?

Methos

My flight back to Geneva leaves at 10. She'll never know how close I came.

Duncan

She'll know how much you love her.

Methos

As much as I can for as long as she lives.

Amanda

How can you not be excited, MacLeod? Just the smell of sawdust, popcorn and cotton candy. This makes me feel like a kid! Oh, isn't it exciting! I mean the sights, the sounds, the carnies!

Duncan MacLeod

The wonderful smell of wet fur. Low pay, rotten hours, sleeping in trucks.

Sorry, no more autographs, I've got a monster headache.

Duncan

I don't want an autograph, and that's not a headache. We need to talk about who you are.

Danny

(laughs) Like the poster says, I'm The Immortal Cimoli!

Duncan

Ah, the Immortal Cimoli!

Amanda

He's got that part figured out.

Duncan

Listen to me. That headache that you got, all of us get it. It's how we know another one of us is around.

Danny

Ah... look, Mister, I don't know what you're talking about...

Duncan

... you died recently, a robbery or an accident or something? But you didn't stay dead, did you?

Danny

How did you know?

Duncan

Because it happened to me. Four hundred years ago.

Amanda

We should talk.

Danny

Ever since the truck hit me, I've thought, this can't last, one day it's going to end, bang, I won't get up. But if it lasts forever, I can do any trick. Anything, and I wont die! I'll be bigger than Houdini.

Duncan

Sit down. Sit down! This isn't some trick for some magic act!