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This is 7 years old and I have all of the recorded voice lines for it, even from Rich Ridings. I still intend to make it and animate it... but in the mean time, here is the script for it:
- THE METHOS CHRONICLES
Episode 0: Eastbound
England, 2000
We see Methos in the same estate we saw him at in Highlander: Endgame. He walks out
the front door, leisurely drinking a glass of wine. Slowly, he peers down. We see him pick
up a postcard from the concrete. We big picture of a lotus flower on it. Methos first
smiles, then the smile slowly fades into a frown.
Cut to a plane taking off.
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Tokyo, Japan
Methos approaching a Japanese woman’s hospital bedside.
KIMYO: Methos… Methos, I did not think you would come.
METHOS: Hush, my dear.
KIMYO: I was not sure I wanted you to. I was not sure I want you to remember me
like… this.
METHOS: My dearest Kimyo, you are as beautiful to me as you were when I first laid
eyes on you.
-- Brief flashback of Methos looking into the eyes of a much younger Kimyo in 1940s
Japan. She was a geisha. We see him slip a lotus flower in her ear --
KIMYO: You flatter me, Methos. You know my time is short… but a long, happy life I
have lived. Just not as long as yours.
METHOS: Kimyo…
KIMYO: After we parted I took a husband… I had children, now grandchildren… I am a
widower and soon I go to join my beloved Kenshin. I know this, but before I do that it is
my wish to solve the mystery that has remained with me for decades.
METHOS: I am listening, my dear.
KIMYO: If you will permit this dying old woman one final request… I would ask... I
would ask of your beginnings. How you first became that which you are. Undying…
Immortal. - METHOS: I-I can’t. I told you once, my love, I don’t remember much at the beginning at
all. It’s all a bit of a haze –
KIMYO: Methos. I know you better than that. Please.
METHOS: Very well. (heavy sigh) Very well. But I fear you may be disappointed. (clears
throat then)
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Visuals to suit the following voiceovers.
METHOS: I was “born” in what would one day become Egypt in 3157 BC. When my
parents found me the world was still new. I was welcomed into a large, happy family that
occupied the same oasis as my father’s grandfather had, long ago. My people had lived
there, without interruption, for much longer than that, but our oral history contained
specifics for only the last 100 or so years.
METHOS: You know my life has always been about surviving, in one way or another,
but the meaning that it had to me then, with the people that I loved and admired, has
shaded somewhat in the ensuring years of my existence. The perfect simplicity of that
time and place has left me searching for a replacement that I can never find.
METHOS: As I reached my 28th birthday, our home was visited by a terrible calamity.
Our wells running dry, we had to abandon what we had known and move. As we began to
move across the vast expanse, we set up camp one night…
KIMYO: Go on, Methos.
METHOS: I was shoveling camel dung for the family fires… and I slipped on a large
turd, fell… and was stamped on by a huge male camel. And it crushed my skull, I lost
consciousness immediately. Didn’t realize I’d died until I came back to life to find the
camel’s head 6 inches away from mine eating its own poo. It’s not commonly known but
camels eat their own droppings. That is the true story of how I first died.
---
KIMYO: (giggling, then laughter)
METHOS: After that and the terrible storms that followed, I came to live with the
Bedouin people that had found me, and eventually the people of the Sinai. It was in those
earliest years that the Pharaoh Djer… (suddenly playful, mock-annoyed) oh, Kimyo…
KIMYO: (we hear her still laughing about Methos’ first death, which then breaks into
coughing, then painful coughing) I thank you for this, Methos. I thank you. I… oh…
METHOS: I will always love you, Tanaka Kimyo. My dearest Kimyo.
A shot of Kimyo’s hand slipping from Methos’. Limp. She has died.
Fade to black, then fade to a shot of Methos walking/wandering slowly in the streets of
Tokyo at night. It’s raining.
---
Egypt
A large Sarcophagus is pulled aboard a boat. Mina Abadi peers down at it after taking off
her scuba mask.
MINA ABADI: Well then, gentlemen… I think we’re in business!
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