Highlander (TV Series)
The Messenger (1996)
Ron Perlman: The Messenger
Quotes
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Adam Pierson : [Methos meets the fake Methos] Methos, I presume.
The Messenger : So they tell me.
Adam Pierson : You know, it's, um, interesting. You know, it's, um, interesting. I was always told that you were a myth. And yet you look very, very real. Tell me, is it true that you were a friend of Socrates?
The Messenger : Oh, I've had many friends.
Adam Pierson : And, um, I've always wondered - uh, Cleopatra, what was she really like?
The Messenger : She was a woman. She loved. She lived. She died.
Adam Pierson : Yeah, speaking of death, uh - you seem very vulnerable.
The Messenger : We're all vulnerable.
Adam Pierson : Yes, but you a little more than me, I think. I mean, a lot of people might want the head of a 5,000-year-old man.
The Messenger : A lot of people might want to listen to a 5,000-year-old man.
Adam Pierson : I suppose that's true. I mean 50 centuries, after all, you must've learned a lot - uh, knowledge, wisdom, that sort of thing.
The Messenger : Truth is my beliefs are very simple.
Adam Pierson : Yes I heard about your beliefs. Do you really think that there's no such thing as evil?
The Messenger : Only fear.
Adam Pierson : So, what, Genghis Khan and Hitler were just children playing up?
The Messenger : They were men driven by fear to commit evil acts.
Adam Pierson : And if their mother had loved them truly, then it would have been a different world.
The Messenger : Could you say it wouldn't?
Adam Pierson : Do you really think we can end the game?
The Messenger : I think it's worth trying.
Adam Pierson : Even if it costs you your head?
The Messenger : Can anyone live for 5,000 years and say they did nothing? Risked nothing? Merely stayed alive. It'd be pointless.
Adam Pierson : Some might think that that experience was worth saving.
The Messenger : I'm not one of them, but we can talk about it.
Adam Pierson : I've got a prior engagement, I'm afraid.
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William Culbraith : I thought about what you said. About how I was. And how I came to be what I am.
The Messenger : You had no choice, William. You were made into what you are.
William Culbraith : And you think I could change?
The Messenger : I know you can.
William Culbraith : If I wanted to. And I don't.
The Messenger : I don't believe that. This is a mistake, William.
William Culbraith : Your mistake. I'll have the head of Methos.
The Messenger : I looked in your heart. I know I reached you.
William Culbraith : And found your death.
The Messenger : If this is what is in your heart, to a kill an unarmed man, who kneels before you, then I was wrong. But I don't believe I was wrong.
William Culbraith : Believe.
[He beheads him]