Highlander (1992) s01e07 Episode Script

"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" HIGHLANDER 1x07 "MOUNTAIN MEN" You boys should've stood in town.
We already got laws up here.
Real old laws.
We don't need any others.
All right, boys.
You know what I don't like about the great outdoors? It's all these bugs and funky animals looking at you hiding, trying to figure out where you fit in on the food chain.
What are you going on about, now? I like nature in smaller doses, you know like shrubs in pots.
I got lost in a nursery once.
I'll be fine.
Maybe you should wait for Duncan.
There are bears up in the mountains.
I promise not to bother them.
You worry too much.
Maybe I should come with you.
No, you stay here and mind the store.
I'll be home before Duncan gets back.
What'll I say if you're not? Tell him I've gonna visit our favorite shaman.
Oh.
Ok.
ICE She's one fine hunk of woman.
Yes, she is.
You like my new boots? Afternoon, Ma'am.
There aren't too many people who know about this place.
I'm with a guide.
He went up there to take some pictures.
Well then, he just vanished.
Like the old Indians that painted that bear 'Cause we sure ain't seen him.
And we're pretty certain to see almost anything that moves up here.
It's kinda like our front porch, you might say.
I like to sit up here, think about the old ones who got this up, hopped themselves up a big bonfire, what do you think? Danced in front of it.
Their shadows writhing on the walls.
Some sort a fertility rite, or something? Where're you going, girl? You wanna dance with me? You want me? Damn! She cut me good.
I may have to stitch this up.
We should have made our intentions clear to the young lady.
Now, nobody intends to harm one hair of your head.
Nor offer you anything that might dishonor you in any way.
- Then what do you want? - Ma'am I come up here to ask for your hand in marriage.
I want you to be my wife.
I I'm flattered that you want to be my husband.
But I'm already married.
- Now, I want you to let me go.
- Go? Where? Back to my home.
That ain't your home anymore.
I believe in good-byes.
I came up here years ago and said goodbye to all that human stench.
And I haven't been back since.
I'll be back.
- They're looking for me already.
- No, it's all right to think so.
But where we're going, no white man has ever been.
And most Indians neither.
None has ever been able to track us.
I don't want to go with you, why can't you understand? Full moon in an hour.
We make good time.
Hello? You're back! Excellent! How was Peking? Pretty much the same.
Things don't really change in the Forbidden City.
Right.
Where's Tessa? Actually, I was hoping that was her coming through here now.
She she went up to the mountains to sketch some wall painting.
Your favorite shaman, she said.
She was supposed to be back by now.
I could be there by dawn.
You're going up into the mountains, tonight? Yeah, If she's lost, I know where to find her.
- I'll come with you.
- No.
She'll probably show up, or call.
I'll check in from the trading post up there.
- Bring up the baggage, would you? - Oh, sure.
No problem.
Excuse me.
You seen the woman that drove the car? You a friend of hers? That's right.
MacLeod.
Where is she? Well, she hasn't come back.
Mr.
MacLeod, I'm gonna be straight out with you.
I'm more than a little worried about your lady friend.
Caleb Cole, his son Joshua and Eddie Doyle they are wanted men.
A couple of my deputies went into a camp to serve a warrant for poaching deer last year.
They never came back out.
- Last year? - All they're mountain men.
They live off the land.
Come in to Big John's here every couple of years and steal what they need.
But this time they wreck the place.
Tore my phone line out, took the distributor cup off my truck.
Took me a whole day to just climb down the mountain.
That Caleb, he knows this country better than anybody.
Natives included.
He's kind of spooky that way.
My deputies will be here soon.
You're welcome to come along with us.
You'll slow me down.
You don't even know this country.
I've been here before.
I can't be responsible if you go off by yourself.
Excuse me? Damn fool.
A sword? You know I was about, but you couldn't hear me or see me, could you? - You're very good.
- Yeah, the best there ever was.
Better than any Indians come for my pretty hair.
Better than any U.
S.
government scouts paid to track me.
I wasn't tracking you.
Sure.
That's what you say now.
But you come for old Carl's secrets.
You kill me now, secrets is gone forever.
I didn't come for your head.
And I wasn't tracking you.
You don't want my secrets? - Maybe I do.
- Yeah, 'course you do.
Everybody wants to know what old Carl knows.
I can think like any animal that ever was.
Any man, too.
Like them there.
Yeah, that's very old.
It's a former prayer.
The ancient ones implored the spirits of the animals to give them success in the hunt.
You know them personal? - You know them too, don't you? - Maybe.
So, how long have you been up here on your own, Carl? Long enough.
Would you teach me your secrets? Teach me how to track? The ways of the land? What's in it for me? I'll teach you how to fight.
You think I don't know how? There's room for improvement.
Come here, I wanna show you something.
Tchh, tchh.
Just watch.
Now, pretend I'm coming up you from behind.
Put your hip here, and take my hand.
Good, like that.
How do you track animals? You got to know what they want.
Food and water? It sounds easy, but it ain't.
Yeah, well, this looks easy, but it ain't.
What about men? Have you ever tracked them, too? Men who come up here are always looking for something always going North, like you You wanna track a man out here go North.
They were here, They took the woman South.
South? Why would they go south? To throw us off, maybe.
The other one was here, too.
He headed North.
Maybe he didn't see the tracks.
He squatted down right in front of them.
He saw them all right.
Then he headed North.
Tracks are far apart, on the balls of his feet.
- He's running.
- Running? Running.
What are you doing? She was trying to signal them flyboys, Caleb.
Look here! I guess it's only natural.
You haven't learnt to trust us, yet.
Trust you? You're kidnappers! I'm nothing but a hostage! Well, we don't see you that way.
Do we, Joshua? - Whatever you say, Pa.
- What does that mean? It means we got folks following us on account of her.
and just when we thought they'd be leavin' us alone again.
Again? Are you wanted for something? Shut up, you! You learn to talk to her with more respect.
And you.
Get.
You oughta be nicer to us.
We're real bad men.
There is a couple of deputies thought they were tough enough Eddie! I just helpin' her with her things here, Caleb.
I'm doing nothing.
You're under my protection.
Nobody under no fine will harm you.
What is you name? Tessa.
You know, Tessa, I'd die for you, if it came to that.
You hardly know me.
I wasn't joking! What the hell did they come here for, the view? We've just wasted four hours.
They've headed North, all right.
And no more fun and games.
If the woman wasn't along, I couldn't track them at all.
They move like cougars, those men.
North, huh? Well either her boyfriend is dumb lucky, or he knows more than we do.
Caleb Cole knows this country better than anyone I ever heard of.
And nobody gonna track us, no how.
Are they father and son? Adoptive son.
And me, I'm just a boon companion along for the pure hell of it.
For the fun, you might say.
Venison jerky? Homemade.
You know, when Caleb Cole thought of bringing you along, I thought it was a piss poor idea.
But now it's starting to grow on me.
Well, there this little Josh protecting his daddy's grazing rights.
You was out there watchin' me instead of doin' what you was told like a good little boy.
You pull your knife! Just calm down, Josh boy.
Ain't no harm come to your daddy's property.
I was only jokin'.
Hell, we pretty near shared everything up till now.
Why change the arrangement, is what I say? My pa hears you talking like that, he'll kill you.
Well now wouldn't that be a sorry ending to a good companionship? Killin' a fine fellow like me over a woman.
I told you I was only jokin'.
Reckon I'd better do what you were supposed to be doin'.
I know you don't want me here.
Let me go now.
I can't do that.
You're afraid of your father, aren't you? He ain't my real daddy.
He took me from my ma when I was eight.
He'd kill me if I ran off.
And he'll kill you, too, if you don't start liken' him soon.
He treats you more like a slave than a son.
Where's Eddie? He gone out to scout for game.
Eddie should have been back by now.
Find out what's keeping him? Go on.
Venison.
You live like men on the run.
We live like free men, beholden to none.
This country gives us what we need.
But there's some things that civilization does have that I worth having.
Why did you leave? There was a woman.
Joshua's ma.
We were together from the time it was three years old a real family.
Then, some doctors killed her.
I couldn't seem to put the grieving behind me.
I came out here with Josh.
It's like I've been reborn.
I've been reborn before.
Don't you get lonely for other people? We've been up here near on twelve years.
Joshua and me.
Eddie Doyle for six.
Up Here, we're kings.
What happened to those deputies? Eddie shouldn't have talked about that.
But he did.
What happened to them? They just didn't understand.
Up here isn't like anyplace else.
They just didn't understand.
I know you won't like me today, or tomorrow, next week But I plan to win you over, Tessa.
I want you to be my woman of your own accord.
That will never happen.
There is someone else.
And I love him.
You'll forget him.
In time you always forget him.
You'll see.
Don't even think about moving.
Now, where are the others? Right here behind you, boy.
That's a real nice sword.
Take it from him, Josh.
You're good.
I was just comin' up behind you, Josh boy, when there he was risin' up outta the ground like a wisp a' fog.
Let's keep movin'.
Ever can't see the bottom of that old crevice.
So deep the sun never does gets down there.
Come on Eddie, let's just do it.
I bet he's not so anxious to get it out boy? It doesn't matter.
Hear that.
We got a real fatalist down here, Josh boy.
We've known fellas to start begging just about now.
Maybe he thinks he can fly.
That's the damnedest thing I ever saw.
Where've you been? We found someone out there, Pa.
He may have been working for Sheriff Benson.
- Where is he? - Oh, he's visitin' his deputy friends.
What's this? Had this on him.
It's some kind of war souvenir or something.
I thought you might like it, can you collect old weapons and such.
You know this sword? No.
You killed her man, boys.
He's down in the ravine? That's right.
Take somebody all night to climb down there.
Or up.
We're breaking camp.
We'll travel by night.
- Why are we gonna do that? - Now! He's your adopted son because you can't have children.
You're one of them.
What do you know about me? Speak up, woman! Because he is like you.
I thought so.
At minute I saw that sword.
So he's told you all about our kind.
I knew there is some special about you, the minute I lay down on you.
We'll travel by night.
Head straight for the river.
No more stops.
If you wanted to get away from people as far away as you could, up here? where would you go? Big River.
And if she don't kill you, she'll take you where you wanna go faster than anything.
Right to the heart of the big nowhere.
Here she is.
As good as when I left her.
I'll wander upstream a piece see if I can scrap up a deer.
They'll be coming in for water 'bout now.
Good idea.
You make it quick.
I want to be on the river by sundown.
We can't run them rapids after dark.
I'll be back in an hour.
I believe I'll scout that river too, just in case are somebody there, who's waiting for us.
No.
Send him.
Well, looks like she's takin' a shine to you, after all, Caleb.
Who'd a' thought.
Is that true? Is that why you wanted me to stay? I don't trust him.
Why? I asked you a question.
They were fighting over me.
Just for a second, you had me going, but Eddie and Joshua both know that I'd do more than kill them if they ever crossed me.
No, you're still grieving for your man and you 're lookin' to avenge him.
But you'll never see him again.
Duncan isn't dead.
You know that.
And he's coming after you.
Duncan? That's his name, Duncan? Duncan MacLeod.
Well, he won't caught up to us in time because will be long gone.
Joshua! You sit! Leave me alone! No! You sit! It's you isn't it? MacLeod! Duncan MacLeod! You killed my boy! Come out now! We'll fight naked blade to naked blade! That's right hide! Or I'll blow a hole in your chest.
Then saw your head off with a pocket knife! MacLeod!.
You're goin' somewhere, Missy? Go away! It's that your shot they can hear for ten miles, We're leaving.
Where's Joshua? We're leaving! Without him? And without you too if you don't shut up! All right, Caleb.
Settle down.
Joshua is dead.
Get up! Get up! Nothing's stopping me from killing you the way he killed Joshua! I'm sure he didn't do it.
It's not his way.
What if someone else killed your son? Who? Someone he trusted.
Someone who could have walked up to him, smiled, and killed him.
Eddie and Joshua were fighting over me.
Eddie told me he wanted me all for himself.
You think I can't see what you're doin'? Where was Eddie when Joshua screamed, Caleb? Get up! Sheriff! Come look at this! Well, hello Joshua.
Got yourself in a bit of a bind, I see.
You and your old man have a falling out, did you? No.
It wasn't him, wasn't my pa.
It's the dead man.
A dead man? Dead man.
I found the canoes right where we left 'em.
Now, we just shoot through them first rapids before sundown if we start now.
We'll be three hundred miles North by week's end.
What'd you do that for, Caleb? You ain't right in the head, Caleb! What did you do with Joshua? Joshua? What's the hell she been sayin'? He's alive? Did you kill him? leave him for the wolves? Caleb, I swear I never touched Joshua.
I don't know what happened to him.
Don't kill him.
Just send him away.
You wanted her for yourself? Don't listen to her, Caleb.
She's talkin' trash.
Look, I'll just take one of those canoes.
I I'll go away and vanish.
Caleb, you'll never see me again.
Let him go, Caleb.
I'll go with you.
Looks like somebody's gone sweet on you.
No! Caleb! No! ain't!.
Caleb, she ain't! No Caleb, she ain't! Don't! - Caleb! Caleb! - Don't! How could you? Wasn't what you wanted? Pick up that gear! It's you, isn't it? MacLeod! I had your woman.
Had her good! He's lying, Duncan! You've been out here too long, Caleb.
You're beginning to think you're a god.
Duncan MacLeod! You don't easily forget a name like that.
Old Carl had some mighty kind words for you.
It's likely used up his last time supplied.
You killed him, didn't you? Think which you will! This was his place! He suffer all the beasts but none of the monsters.
What we have, you and me, It's a sign.
Duncan! - Are you all right? - I'm fine.
The signs are just part of the fun, Caleb.
Whatever gods made you and me made us different First I take your Quickening.
Then I take your woman.
Not this time, MacLeod.
Your Quickening's mine.
Duncan.
Duncan.
Duncan.
Who's this? Caleb.
I thought he should be buried here and not in some cemetery.
Are you murdered him? Eddie is down by the stream.
Caleb killed him.
Did they hurt you in anyway, Madam? I'm fine.
You're the most amazing son of the bitch I've seen in all my years, you know that? For a hundred years, no one's even known how to do what you just did.
That's cause he ain't human! We killed him! Let's move out.
I forgot something.
"Here we are" "We're the princes of the universe" "Here we belong" "Fighting for survival" "We've got to be the rulers of the 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 the world"