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Watch the video. Recently viewed Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Rachel edges around the corner. Her breath catches in her throat. Rachel struggles to breathe. Like she's taken that sword in her own gut. In a train station. At her college graduation. Rachel steps up to the broadsword, wraps both hands around the grip and jerks it clean of the cabinet. Staring back at herself, terror-stricken.
She hadn't even noticed it before now. The old rotary phone on the little Louis XIV stand. It's not just beckoning her. It's taunting her. Gathering up the photos and hugging them to her breast, Rachel slowly approaches the phone.
Any second now, you'd expect it to stop ringing, nobody home. But whoever's on the other end knows better. Trembling fingers reach out for the receiver. Slowly lift it off the hook. Rachel Ellenstein is obliterated right along with her own treasured history. They crackle and twist in the fire that feeds off them. Connor betrays no emotion. Heather looks on in horror. They drove you from your home! They cut you off from your own people!
What else could they want?! And they know it. But they can still hurt the ones I care about. He gazes down at the tiny hamlet of Glenfinnan, nestled between castle and shimmering loch. Breathes deep the forgotten smell of home. Connor lifts her from the tattered bed, spins her around several giddy times and sits her upright in a chair. They think I bedevil their children because I've lost my own.
I don't need them, Connor. Any of them. You're coming with me. There's somebody I want you to meet. She's nearly as beautiful as you. He's strong and severe, dressed in clergyman's black. For old times' sake KASE You knew. You knew what would happen if you came back. I am not to blame for this. He's gross, corpulent and perpetually short of breath. Two of the bolder men move forward, gripping Connor by the elbows.
The curse that afflicts one generation will invariably pass its mark onto the next. The ties of blood cannot be severed by word or deed, if in fact your blood is that of your son. Father Rainey wobbles behind him, sniffing ammonia to spell his chronic angina. KASE Through the infinite compassion of our Lord God, you are entitled one final opportunity to renounce all that is unholy, to declare Connor MacLeod not of your loins and help put an end to the darkness that has been cast upon this land.
How say you, Caiolin MacLeod? Shocked murmers of outrage shudder through the crowd. Shakes them until the mortar chips from their moorings. Unseen by the bloodlusting crowd, he takes out a small leather sack and drapes it around her neck by the drawstring. He tucks it under her coarse woolen robe and pats it flush against her chest.
It will make short work of your suffering. Caiolin nods. He steps down off the pyre. Too tight. So he winds back with the iron bar and swings with mindless fury. Heat ripples her face, distorts her body. Bits of stone fly everywhere. But the bulk of it remains spitefully intact.
They throw open the heavy iron door and descend upon Connor with swords and axes. Third guard's axe catches on a ceiling beam. Connor runs him through like an overstuffed feedsack. Caiolin looks out through the rippling wall of flame He reaches the pyre, hurling flaming timbers aside with his bare hands.
Initially stunned, the townsfolk shrink back, watching Connor desperately scatter the fire. Caiolin buries her face in her shoulder, biting back the agony as Sword in hand, Connor stretches upward, hacking away the ropes that bind her, oblivious to the fire now crawling in serpentine coils around his own arms and legs.
Freed of the ropes, Caiolin begins to slump forward. Connor stands atop the burning pyre, wicked tongues of flame leaping off his back and shoulders like fiery wings. Fire dances across Connor's skin and clothing as he raises his broadsword and steps down into the crowd. This isn't just a common witch. This is one of Hell's very own. Those few foolish enough to attack are cut down where they stand. Father Rainey blocks Connor's path. Lifts his cross Connor steps over Rainey's body and keeps coming, driving the mob fleeing into their dwellings.
Kase crouches blustering over Rainey. KASE Father Father, please-- tries to staunch the bleeding Father--! Rainey stares back as if a veil has suddenly been lifted. And what he now sees terrifies him to death. CONNOR returns to the flaming pyre, refueling his rage with the sight of his mother's blackened corpse.
Kase stares wide-eyed and gagging at Connor's smoldering visage-- the depthless black pools of hate that shroud his eyes. It's the last thing Jacob Kase will ever see. Silhouetted against the crimson sky, Connor lifts Caiolin's body and turns his back on Glenfinnan for the last time. Standing outside the massive door is a MONK clad in dark, hooded monastic garb. Nothing in the panorama would suggest we've just jumped four centuries into an uncertain future Fishtail to a stop.
His eyes flick from one to the next-- a buffet of different nationalities, all big. Before you squeeze the trigger a second time, you'll be dead. Easy choice. And sure enough, he GAGS before his next trigger-pull. They grimly regard the bodies. Saws and cleavers are pulled by the other two guards while Guard l keeps his gun trained on the corpses.
Guard l whips his rifle toward the Stranger. Stranger diverts it with the tip of his sword. Bullets go nowhere. One slash and the guard is gone. Two more slashes and his comrades fall. Stranger kicks the body of the dead Jamaican as he steps through the open doorway. From the wild overgrowth of hair and beard, and the impossibly long, curled fingernails, it's a good guess none of them have moved a muscle in years.
Stranger stands at the threshold, his face obscured by flickering shadows. He scans the living corpses. Warehoused, like rotting pieces of meat. He pauses to lift up a downcast head. Gazes into the shackled face. The eyes are covered by strips of rusted iron, the face by tangled beard. I'm sure you've had some time to reflect on it. Blood stipples their clothes, streaks their faces. But they are, in every other sense, fully-restored.
Stranger straightens, swivels around to the terrified Custodian. Custodian backpeddles into the wall. I don't care about the Game. I don't care about the rules. I don't even care about these other pathetic souls you lock away as a barrier to the Prize.
Give me MacLeod and I'll leave. And you can go right on pretending that what you do here actually matters. Stranger lets go of the custodian, turns A FACE, bolted immobile, wrenched in agony. BLOOD flecking tile. Duncan snaps up the receiver, sweat drenched. In a driving RAIN. A woman's hand holds the receiver to her face, obscuring her features.
Duncan hops out of his Ferrari Spyder, pauses before the massive Gothic edifice, then disappears inside. To many he'll be instantly familiar.
Methos keeps staring at the ground below, sipping bordeaux from a paper cup, even as Duncan joins him at the edge. Glorious, the wine. When he finally got up to go, he looked at me like it was the last time I'd ever see him again. No goodbye. No handshake. Just got up and left. Like every death he'd ever caused had come back to haunt him. The price is unimaginably high, but you are, for all practical purposes, protected from the violence within yourself. It's called The Sanctuary.
METHOS Think of those Buddhist monks who came to cherish life so much that to step on a single insect, to harm a blade of grass was a violation of their creed. They placed themselves into an extreme form of protective custody. A sanctuary of sorts. But one that doesn't allow for a change of heart. He opens his fingers and watches his cup plummet to the plaza below.
Yanks it out of the olive Duncan puts a hand to his chest, touches the worst of his several lethal wounds. Utter confusion stitches his face. He hoists Duncan to his feet. And like you, I have a hard time dying. We'll be making our final descent into New York He lowers the passport and turns to the long metal case Duncan's brought with him from the plane. Duncan hands the Officer documentation as he sets it on the counter and opens it. Customs Officer studies Duncan's paperwork, smiles.
Duncan shuts the case and continues on. Next MAN in line watches Duncan exit as he hands over his passport. We'll remember those steel- gray eyes. Duncan watches the passing scenery. Windows boarded, shreds of flapping police tape, the investigators have long since come and gone. Duncan steps inside. In the aftermath of the firebombing, nothing has been spared.
Rachel and Connor's richly-cultivated collection has been reduced to a bitter moonscape. One can only shudder at the degree of overkill that went into this attack. Ash and cinder are virtually all that remain of Connor's home.
He dips down, retrieves a key from under a loose floorboard and opens the heavily- reinforced door. We're looking at the sum total of Connor MacLeod's existance, stacked floor to ceiling. Duncan moves among the mementos, smiles as he lifts them; an old Scottish coin, pocket flask Finally, a tarnished epee that he wields with instant familiarity. Duncan and Connor face off with duelling swords, sporting black waistcoak andd knee breeches in the manner of the times.
A little mustachioed PUFFER darts between the duellists with lint brush, pail and towel as Connor and Duncan re- engage in a rapid series of strikes and parries. Connor executes a simple combination that sends'Duncan's sword flying one way, his body the other. Duncan recovers, sets his feet. Puffer skitters over, brushes the dust off Duncan's coat, dabs his sweat and puffs the back of his hair.
Duncan swats him away. They take en-garde position. Connor points his blade. CONNOR cont'd We call it "The Quickening"-- our strength, our knowledge, our life essence-- it all flows into the victor, feeds him, makes him stronger, in ways you can't possibly comprehend.
It's what drives other Immortals to kill us. And what forces us to be better-- smarter-- than the rest. Duncan goes on the attack. What he lacks in technique, he makes up for in determination. Connor sidesteps Duncan's next lunge, swats his blade flat across Duncan's ass and sends him plowing face-first into the floor. Soon rescued by Methos and Joe, Duncan discovers Connor was spared by Kell, to allow the evil Immortal to make his life even more miserable by continuously killing his loved ones, including a now targeted Duncan.
Connor, too guilt-ridden by the deaths of all his loved ones, cannot stand up to Kell alone. Duncan later confronts Kate, now known as "Faith," at a fashion shoot, and asks her why she is with Kell. Revealing how much she hates the fact that she will never have children or grow old and die, believes that Kell understands her pain. She then forces Duncan to earn her forgiveness, or face her as an embittered part of Kell's faction.
That same evening, Kate arrives after a conversation with Kell, and makes love to Duncan. Feeling she has forgiven him, Faith quickly denies this claim, saying she would never be able to do so. Duncan then retorts by telling her it is never to late for redemption, and that he will wait, if it takes years or centuries. Sensing an impending confrontation with the MacLeods, Kell executes his group in a mock Last Supper to gain their powers.
Aware of his ever growing powers, Connor convinces Duncan that he must be beheaded in order for Duncan to gain enough power to rival Kell. After an emotional goodbye, Duncan follows Connor's advice, and beheads his beloved clansman. Soon after, Duncan and Kell engage in a final battle. At first, Kell easily overpowers Duncan, even when MacLeod attempts a supposedly-unbeatable sword move that Connor taught him centuries before.
Just before Duncan's impending death, Connor's soul emerges, distracting Kell, and allowing Duncan to somersault Kell, decapitating him as he turns around. Unleashing the quickening, Duncan absorbs all of Kell's power.
Back home, it is revealed that Kell had spared Faith. Calling herself "Kate" again, the two Immortals rekindle their romantic relationship, and kiss. Rachel Ellenstein. It was rumored that the movie went into development while the sixth and final season of the Highlander television series was in production. Gregory Widen , writer of the original Highlander , worked on the early drafts and was in talks to direct the film. The movie was meant to act as a bridge between the Highlander television series and the spin-off series Highlander: The Raven that was continuing on TV in But these plans started to go awry when The Raven was cancelled due to low ratings, and the change in syndication, as well as production delays started occurring due to cast-availability problems.
Dimension Films, which took on the project as a way of reinvigorating the franchise, realized that its plans for the film were not going to meet expectations, and scaled back on its release.
Filming began on October 22, , and ended on March 7, Much of the filming happened in Romania, which was opposed by the producers. Earlier drafts of the script differed greatly from the final cut in several aspects. The character of Kate was originally named "Alexis," and most of the flashbacks occurred in Shanghai, China instead of Ireland. The franchise has been a cult favorite for decades, and yet, there is so little of it that is actually any good.
The original film was groundbreaking, it was a wholly original idea and introduced a mythology that had so much potential, but was stunted by the fact that the first film was made to be the last. At the end of the original, Connor MacLeod kills the Kurgan, the last immortal other than himself left alive and wins the prize.
That was it, the story was over. One must remember, this was decades before the planned franchises that we have today. The film makers behind Highlander never even thought it would be possible to make a sequel at the time, so it was self contained. The story ends indefinitely when Connor wins at the end. But, then something happened; It became a cult hit. People wanted more Highlander, what were the creators to do?
The story was over, there were no more immortals left. That is where Highlander 2: The Quickening comes in, and it was not what fans expected it was going to be.
Highlander 2 turned immortals into aliens from a planet called Ziest. Trust me, none of us were expecting it. I can understand that considering the writers sort of wrote themselves into a corner with the original, they had to get creative in order to keep the story going.
Guys, what were you thinking? Considered by many to be one of the worst films of all time, Highlander 2 rubbed pretty much everyone the wrong way. While it had decent effects and great production design, the story was just ridiculous and confusing. It called itself a sequel, but nothing in the story matched up to the original film. For example; In the original film, Connor and Ramirez meet for the first time not long after Connor dies in battle, and wakes up from his death, immortal.
That is just one of many story issues that Highlander 2 creates for the series. The above video is a scene from the original Highlander. Where Ramirez is giving his best explanation as to why they are what they are; immortal.
Highlander 2 completely threw that away and gave us this:. Duncan was a fellow clansman of Connors, a couple of generations younger. To be honest, they only ever briefly touch on that fact, as character Joe Dawson Jim Byrnes in season 2 mentions to Duncan that everyone was thankful that Connor took care of the Kurgan in New York. Highlander the series survived for 6 seasons, and maintained a pretty steady popularity until its last season when its viewership started taking a hit.
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