Highlander (1992–1998): Season 2, Episode 13 - Bless the Child - full transcript

He is Immortal.

Born in the Highlands of Scotland
400 hundred years ago.

He's not alone.

There are others like him.

Some good,

some evil.

For centuries he's 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 is Duncan MacLeod,

the Highlander.

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 the world

Damn you, Billy, don't lie to me.

I don't know what the hell
you're talking about, Luke.

Those cattle didn't die of fever. They died of
mercury poisoning from that damn mine of yours.

I don't think you're seeing
the big picture here, Luke.
What's twelve head of cattle?



Eighteen head, Billy!

Okay, eighteen. Whatever. Compared to
twenty tons of gold ore from that mine?

I don't give a damn about the gold.
And neither will Avery.

You're not going to tell Avery, Luke.

Either you clean up that mine,
or I shut it down!

Will you two be quiet?
You'll wake up Jamie.

What are you guys fighting about, anyway?

Nothing.

See? What did I tell you? Sara?

It's going to be okay.

You're my boy. You okay? It's okay, Mama's here.
Nothing's going to hurt you, baby. Are you okay?

Sara!

Sara, come out! Sara! Sara!

Hey, MacLeod, what time is it?

Time for breakfast, Charlie.

Breakfast? Well, if the jeep hadn't broken down,
we'd be eating at Louisa's Diner in Olympia,

and I'd be smothered in hash browns
and not mosquito bites.

- How'd you sleep?
- Like a baby, man.

Yeah, well, figures.

You hungry?

Yeah, hungry? I could eat a horse.

Well, it's not a horse this morning, Charlie.
It's trout. Careful, it's hot.

- Trout... and jam, man?
- Yeah.

What's the matter? Don't you want it?

Well, not for breakfast. Come on!

Do you know the nutritional value in trout?

Wait a minute, what's that?

- He's not going to make it.
- No way.

MacLeod, it's on fire, man.

- How is she?
- Get the door, Charlie. Come and help me.
- Got her?

- Pull it! Pull it!
- Come on! There you go.

- Hold it.
- All right.

Got her? Okay. Let's get her out. Come on.

- You got her?
- Yeah.
- Okay. Get her.

- Put her there. Put her there.
- Get her on your back.

Let's get her out of here.
This thing could blow apart, man.

She's not looking too good, MacLeod.

Let's put her down here, Charlie.

Okay.

- What happened?
- You had an accident.
- My baby! I've got a baby in there!
I've got to get my baby!

- All right, all right.
- Let go of me! Stop it!

Look out!

You all right? It's okay.

Give him to me! Give him to me!

- Relax.
- It's okay. It's okay. He's okay.

What the hell's wrong with you, lady? You could
have gotten yourselves killed driving like that.

- We should take a look at that hand.
- Oh, my God.

- Come on, come with us. Let's take her back up.
- Oh, my God.

It's all right. Come on.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

I've got to go.

Fifteen minutes,
and she'll be running as good as new.

Fifteen minutes? I can't wait.

What's your hurry?
It's forty-five miles to the nearest town.

They are coming to take my baby, okay?

Who's going to take your baby?

If you don't tell me, I can't help you.

Avery. Avery Hoskins.

Why does this Avery want your baby?

He just does, okay. I was married to his son.

Hey, is this about custody?

Yeah. Jamie's father died before he was born.

Well, I'm sorry, but...
look, what about this Hoskins?

He just doesn't like me.

- Why?
- Because he says that I'm not white enough.

And he doesn't want you raising his grandkid?

Look, you guys have got to help me.

Looks like they got out of there okay.

I want to see for myself.

- They can't be far.
- Let's check this trail over here!

Charlie?

What? What is it?

God, that's him. That's Hoskins and his brothers.
They're going to try and take my baby.

No one's going to do anything, Sara.

Charlie, take her back to camp.
I'll talk to them.

Don't! He lies. You don't know him.

Sara, maybe we can work this out.

You've got to promise me that
you're not going to give him my son.

All right. Charlie, take her back. It's okay.

Check along the ridgeline, see if she
went that way. Billy, check along the road.

Why don't you let me take care of this?
You go back and check the reservation.

That's the last place she'll go.

Mr. Hoskins?

Who the hell are you?

Duncan MacLeod. I was wondering if we could talk.

About what?

About an Indian woman and a baby.

Where are they? Damn it, if it's money she wants...

She wants the baby.

I'll give you to the count of three
to tell me where they are.

One.

- We can talk about this.
- Two.

Come on!

Go!

It won't start, man.

Get the bags. Let's get out of here.

Why? What's up?

Are you crazy? You'll hit the boy!
Put that damn thing down and keep it down.

I think we lost them.

Hoskins won't give up.
They're going to track us. I know them.

Charlie, take Sara downstream.
Stay on the hard ground.

All right, man. Later. Come on.

Looks like we lost them.

Like hell we have.

Look here ? wet rocks.

You guys head across the river.
Pick up their trail. I'm going upstream.

Aw, man! We're not going anywhere, MacLeod.

Now what do we do?

- We get out of here. Come on.
- Let's go.

Damn!

What is it, Luke?

They suckered us and doubled back.

I'm going back to the car
to call the ranch, get Mike and J.J. here.

Avery! It might not be
a bad idea to bring the dogs.

We can't walk, man.
It's forty-five miles to anywhere.

That's if we go by road.

It's only half that if we go through the canyon.

Look, maybe we should just take them on.

No. We don't want anybody hurt.
I just want to look after the girl.

Twenty hard miles with a woman and
a baby against guys with guns? Come on, MacLeod!

Then we'd better keep moving, Charlie.

It looks this is where
they really came out of the water.

Looks like a bunch of rocks to me.

Yeah, well, I guess they don't teach
tracking at business school.

Hey, Luke, you going to tell Avery?

Tell Avery what?

About the mine.

We'll worry about that later.
After we get this son of a bitch.

Yeah, well, you're not going to get him, Luke.
'Cause you know what? He just got you.

What's up?

Man, I hate heights.

What was that?

Nothing. Next time, Jack,
you climb the beanstalk, all right?

Can you see anything?

Damn. They're heading for the river.

How many?

Hoskins and a couple of others.
MacLeod... They've got dogs, man.

It's all right. Come on.

- Come on, Charlie. Let's go. That way.
- All right.

Guy came out of nowhere, Avery.
I mean, Luke never had a chance.

He just blew him away.
I got off one shot, but he was gone.

I can't believe Luke never saw it coming.

Maybe this MacLeod,
maybe he's part Indian or something.

Did you see the baby?

No. They must have been hiding somewhere, I guess.

Mike, take Luke's body back to the ranch.

J.J., get them dogs and let's get moving.

Hey, look, let me hold the baby. Really,
I promise I'll take good care of him, all right?

Come on, I'll give you a break. Okay?
Oh, come here, big guy. You okay?

Yeah. Just a bit cold.

Don't worry. MacLeod'll come back as soon as
he's found us a place for the night.

We should keep going.

We can't keep going. We can't keep
the baby out in the cold all night.
Don't worry. It'll be all right.

Okay.

He's so beautiful.

Yeah. You know, he and I,
we've got something in common.

- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah. We carry the blood of two different worlds.

- Really?
- Yeah. I'm, uh, I'm half Italian. Yeah.

Get out.

No, no, no. DeSalvo. Charlie DeSalvo.

Well, as long as you don't tell me
your great-grandmother's a Cherokee princess.

- What?
- Nothing.

Hey, look, don't worry.
Nobody's going to take your baby.

They doubled back so many times, I don't know
what the dogs are picking up.

I'm calling in the police.

No, no police. They killed Luke.
We finish this ourselves.

They could use the choppers,
maybe spot them from the air.

The police aren't going to get here till morning.
By that time, they could be over the state line.
Let's go.

Jamie will be with them.

Look, J.J. You and Mike take the dogs.
Stick to the trail. Maybe they'll pick up
a scent further on.

Billy, you and I go through the woods. We'll go for
about an hour, then we'll make camp.

You hear anything, fire a shot.

Here you go.

Thanks. Oh, yes.

You're not the only one
missing your bed tonight, are you? Huh?

Sweet, huh? Well,
I'm going to get some more firewood.

[in Indian language] Aimshen.

Oh, yes, my guy. My guy. Such a big boy.

Who's that? Who's that. Oh, it's your mom.
Let's be quiet.

Who's this? Oh, my goodness, oh.

Hi. How's he doing?

Well, he's not the only one who's hungry.

You want me to feed him?

Hell, no. I'm a liberated man. Get me the bottle.

Here we go. Here we go, it's dinner.

You have to take the cap off.
There's a nipple inside the bottle.

Yeah, right. I knew that, man. Yeah, I did.

Thank you, Uncle Duncan.
And then we take this nipple, and we put it?

Uncle Duncan?

Uncle Duncan. Oh, here we come. Oh, it's eat time.
Time for a big eat. Oh, can Uncle Charlie have some?

Hey? Hey, what do you think?
Oh, can Uncle MacLeod have some? Oh, yes.

Charlie, I think you're looking at the wrong end.

What do you mean?

His diapers need changing.

Right. Well, I vote that we wake up Sara?

No, no, no, no, no. Let her sleep.

Hey, I don't do diapers, man.

Says the liberated male. All right.
Get me some diapers and some wipes.

We're going to change you here, huh?
Here we go. Whoa, there you go.

- Oh, man.
- Whup! Get this thing off you.

Okay, there's the wipes... diaper...

Babies, I love babies.

Hey, you're a real pro at this.

You sure you haven't got a couple of kids
you haven't told me about,
stashed away somewhere, man?

Yeah, I'm sure.

You're a natural.
You want to have one of your own someday?

Yeah, I've thought about it. It's not for me.

Hey, don't say that. A man like you, I mean,
you've got to have a kid of your own, man.

Someone to share things with, you know?

To love, to teach all the stuff you know.
I mean, who are you going to pass that on to?

Come on, big fella, let's get you up here. Oh,
here we go. Oh, oh, oh, oh. You're getting heavy.

Hi there. Hello. That's better, isn't it? Hm?

New Year's Eve, 1923. Boston.

Oh, wasn't I wonderful?

Absolutely spiffy.

Duncan, don't you think some things
are best done in moderation?

Moderation, Margaret, is for monks.

Oh, well said. Say, can I use that
for my next novel?

Absolutely. So long as you give me credit.

Impossible. Besides, everybody knows that
a man's place is in the kitchen.

Or is it in the bedroom? Margaret, how old
were you when you lost your virginity?

There are limits, Nora.

Only for the limited.

Excuse me, I have to go powder my nose.

Say, weren't you a little hard on her?

She's beautiful, she's rich, and she's the biggest
snob on the eastern seaboard.

Lord knows somebody has to be.

Say, two more champagnes, please.

And don't think I haven't noticed the way
she looks at you.

Are you jealous?

Insanely.

No reason to be.

Come on, this way.

- But the party's just started.
- Come on.

Come on.

Isn't this wonderful?

Will you be quiet?

Are you wanting to get us pinched?

Be quiet. Will you be?

All right, all right, come on, party's over now.
Come over here. Everyone, come on.

They're gone. Let's have a drink. Here.

What about?

Have a seat.

Duncan, will you marry me?

What?

I love you, and I think we should get married.

Nora, I...

No, forget marriage. Marriage is a convention.
It's an economic agreement that makes women nothing but chattel.

- Cheers.
- Cheers.

What I really mean is, um...
I want to have your baby.

Perhaps we should have a cigarette first.

I'm serious. I'm serious.

Say, you are, aren't you?

You're the only person I'd ever tell this to,

and if you tell anyone, I promise I will kill myself
and I will haunt you for the rest of your life.

I've always? ever since I was a little girl,
I've always wanted to have children.

I've always wanted to hear someone call me 'mother',
to know what it's like to love unconditionally.

You're not answering me.

I can't.

Won't, you mean.

Nora, there are things
you just don't know about me.

Oh, spare me the "I was wounded in the war" routine,
because I know that's not true.

Oh, you'll probably have a great laugh
with your friends over this one.

Nora, I'm not laughing.

Then tell me why.

It's a long story.

It doesn't have to happen today. I understand
if you want to be courted.

- It won't happen.
- Why?

Because I can never have children.

But there must be something we can do.
Oh, I know about this doctor in Chicago?

Nora.

They said the same thing about
my cousin Joan's husband, and they have twins.

- You should see them, Duncan,
they're the most beautiful children.
- Nora.

No doctors. And no twins.

And if you stay with me,
you will never have children.

It will never happen,
no matter how much I want it to.

Never?

Never.

But I love you, Duncan.

MacLeod. Wake up, MacLeod.

No, Charlie, it's your turn to change the diapers.

MacLeod, wake up. We've got company.

Grizzly.

Yeah, and I think he's pissed.

He probably doesn't like guests.

You think he pays rent on this place, man?

Either that or he's one of the three bears,
looking for breakfast.

Tell me he doesn't eat people, MacLeod.

I could, but I might be lying.
It's all right, Sara. Stay calm.

We're calm, MacLeod. What's next?

Pass me the bag. The one by your foot.

This is what I'm looking for.

Strawberry jam, MacLeod?

Yep. Here.

Come on, big boy.

Let's get out of here
before he wants seconds. Slowly.

Tastes good, huh? It's good with trout, too.

How'd you know he'd go for the jam, man?

I didn't.

Oh, well, that's a real confidence builder.
Which way now, MacLeod?

- It's Hoskins.
- Damn!

- We're going to have to slow them down, Charlie.
- All right.

- Do you have an extra piece of clothing?
- In my backpack.
- Okay.

What are you going to do?

You stay here. We'll be back
in five minutes. Grab that.

Look after your mum for me. Come on, Charlie.

You okay? Yeah.

Take it easy boys. Get ready. They must be close.
Tie those dogs up.

They put a scarf up there to throw us
off the trail. I've got to get it down
or those dogs are gonna go crazy.

Thanks for tying the dogs up.

Are you gonna kill me?

Are you gonna kill us?

Come on, man. I just work here.

Take a vacation.

Where is she?

You think they got her?

No signs of a struggle. No other footprints.

Hey, then why'd she go, man?

Come on.

Nice work, guys. Have a nice night? Huh?

It's done. Put the dogs back on the trail.
My guess is they're heading for the bridge.

The next time you see them, don't give them
a second chance, all right?

What about the baby?

Let me worry about the baby.

Come on, MacLeod. We're never gonna find her.

She went this way. And she's running.

Well, why is she running from us, man?

Get down.

What now? Doesn't look good.

Well, she couldn't have gone through there.
She wouldn't have gone back ?

we would have seen her, and Hoskins is too close.

So, what do we do?

This way.

They're heading for the bridge all right.

So where are they?

They sure as hell ain't here.

Oh, yeah, the great tracker loses his way, huh?

Shut up!

That doesn't mean they never were.
J.J., you and Mike take those dogs and
go back up along the trail.

Billy, let's keep moving toward the hills.

No, I'm going to check up here, all right?

You can't read a sign worth a damn.

Yeah, well, I'm going to check up here.

Suit yourself.

What've you got?

She stopped here.

How can you tell, man? There's no sign.

These are wild berries.
They've just been picked. She can't be far.

No, don't! They're poisonous.

Just kidding.

Very funny, MacLeod.

Hey. Where's the baby, Sara?

Those two guys. They took him.

No. I don't believe that
for a minute. Oh, well. Bye-bye.

Wait! I'll help you, okay? I'll take you to him.

I don't care.

Is he all right? Why'd you run, Sara?
Why didn't you wait?

Come on, MacLeod. We've got no time.
Let's go. Come on!

Oh, dear.

Well, what do we do now?

- We go up.
- That's a hell of an up, MacLeod.

I know. We're going to have to transfer
the things out of my backpack and
put the baby on my shoulders.

Give me the canteen, Sara.

Damn it, I had her!

Oh, sure you had her.

Hey, where the hell were you guys, huh? Remember,
I'm not the expert tracker here, Avery.

We'll get 'em. There's only one place for them
to go, and that's over that ridge.

Go get the jeep and bring up some ropes and harnesses. Go up top. Take Mike with you.

Let's go.

We got 'em from both ends now.

- You okay?
- Yeah.

Didn't you say you didn't like heights,
Charlie?

- Don't look down.
- Thanks for reminding me, MacLeod.

- Watch this here.
- All right.

Okay, Sara. Give me your hand. Come on.

I can't reach, MacLeod.

- Yes, you can.
- No, I can't.
- Give me your hand. Come on. Trust me. Come on.

Come on. Come on.

- Come on, grip with the other one.
- I'm trying.

Come on. Pull up my arm. Pull up my arm.

Come on. Push here. Come on. All right.

All right? Go on. Go on. I'll get Charlie.

That's it, man. Give me your hand.

- Wait, wait, wait, Charlie. Wait.
Wait. Take the baby from me. Easy.
- Okay, I've got him. I've got him.

- Take him, Sara.
- Come on, MacLeod.
- Okay.

Okay, Charlie.

- Up you get. Good.
- Okay, come on.

We should rest here a while.

Are you sure we shouldn't have taken the road?
I don't want to be stuck here tonight.

It's a little late now, isn't it?

- You all right?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
- Okay, good.

- Yeah. We're almost there.
- How's he doing?
- He's okay.

What? What's happening?

I guess we're not going any further.
Hoskins has a welcoming committee
up there for us, Charlie.

Talk about being caught between
a rock and a hard place.

MacLeod!

What?

Come on out! I promise nobody will shoot.

Billy! Don't shoot!

What do you want?

I've got a man on top with harnesses and ropes.
Let him have the baby.

- What about Sara?
- MacLeod, what are you doing?

Trying to get both of you out of here alive.

He can't have my baby.

- Let's get him safe.
- No!

Then we'll deal with it.

MacLeod!

Stay away!

Billy, what the hell are you doing up there?

Hey, big guy, how're you doing? You okay?
It will be all right, you know?
You're going to be just...

Hey, look, what's this around his mouth?

Looks like some kind of allergic reaction.

He doesn't have any allergies.

What about to berries?

When's Jamie's birthday?

It's May 10th. Why, do you think
we're going to be around for it?

What color are his eyes?

What is this, some kind of a game?
They're brown.

Wait, they're blue.

You were right the first time.

- Whose baby is this?
- This is my baby.

Hey, hey, easy.

[in Indian] Then why did you
call him by a girl's name? Aimshen?

- [in Indian] You speak my language.
- [in Indian] A little.

Hey, hey, come on. Speak English, guys.

A mother would know the color of her son's eyes. She'd know whether he was allergic to berries,

and she wouldn't call him "my baby daughter"
in her native tongue.

Look, he's my baby and you can't have him.

- Then who is Aimshen?
- I don't know.

Who is she?

She was my baby girl.

This isn't your baby, is it? What happened
to your baby, Sara?

They killed her.

Who killed her?

Hoskins killed her.

The doctor says that it was... it was mercury
poisoning. It was from Hoskins' mine.

I told Billy about it, and he offered me
money for my daughter's life.

I took that ten thousand and
I burnt it on her grave, okay?

So you took Hoskins' son to pay for
your daughter's life.

Now what?

I'm going to have to talk to Hoskins.

MacLeod? MacLeod.

Let go, Sara.

Easy does it, and no one gets hurt.
You want to see your son?

What do you want?

All I want is for all of us
to get out of here alive.

It's too late. Billy saw
you kill my brother Luke.

What?

If someone died, I didn't kill him.

I saw the body.

I have no reason to lie.

Okay. It's okay.

So this is all about the mines and money?

For Billy, maybe. But for Sara,
it's about her baby.

She had no right to take my son.

Try and understand how she feels.

How about how I feel?

A man's wife dies giving birth,

and then someone comes along and takes away
the only reason he has left to go on living.

Grief can make a man go crazy, can't it?

You said it, boy.

It can do the same thing for a woman.

Give me the baby, Sara!

Stay away from me!

Billy, get away from the girl!
Put down that rifle!

- Who'd you tell about the creek, Sara? Huh?
Did you tell these friends of yours, huh? Huh?
- No, I didn't!

How am I supposed to trust you?
You lied about the money. You took the money.

- No!
- We had a deal, Sara.

Please, Billy, no. Billy, no!

I'll get your son.

- How're you doing, Charlie?
- I'm okay, man. Okay.

It's over, Sara.

Give me Jamie. Sara, give me Jamie.

No. He's mine.

That's not what you told me.

Hoskins killed my baby.

No, Billy killed your baby.
Hoskins knew nothing of it.

No. No, you're lying.

I'd rather we both die first
before I give him up.

What about Aimshen?

Aimshen.

- I know.
- Who will remember her if you go?

Who will sing her song?

Was she like you, Sara? Was she beautiful?

Yeah. She was.

All babies are.

They give us hope, Sara. They give us
a promise of better things to come.

Don't do this to Jamie.
It's not his fault. He's innocent.

Yeah.

Just like Aimshen.

It's all right. It's okay.

Thought you ought to know
we'll be closing down the mines.

- That's good.
- Yeah.
- I'm sorry about your brothers, Avery.

It's not your fault. It's the way it is.

A year ago, I had... a wife, two brothers.

I been running it all through my mind.
It just don't figure, none of it.

You still have Jamie.

Because of you. I won't be...
pressing any charges against Sara.
There's been enough grief around here already.

- I'll tell her that. Take care, Avery.
- Good luck.

Baby going to be all right?

Yeah, the baby's going to be just fine.

Good. Well, about time we should be
riding off into the night, huh?

Maybe next time we should try using a horse?

Yes, MacLeod. Come on.

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