I'm the invisible man. I'm the invisible man.
Incredible how you can see right through me...
Like the CIA or the FBI,
You'll never get close, never take me alive.
Invisible Man

[Duncan enters Adam Pierson's house.]

Duncan: Adam? Adam Pierson? You Adam Pierson?

Methos: Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. Have a beer. Mi casa es su casa.

Duncan: Methos?

[Walking outside.]

Duncan: Five thousand years.

Methos: Yeah, give or take. And that was when I took my first head. Before that, it all starts to blur.

Duncan: I guess it would. So have you, uh—

Methos: Made any sense of it? Found any purpose?

Duncan: What? You read minds too?

Methos: No, it's what I'd ask if I just met me.

Duncan: I just didn't think you existed.

Methos: Ah, it's good to be a myth.

Duncan: Yeah, no one hunts for a myth. Or a Watcher.

Methos: What better place to hide? I'm in charge of finding myself, and I make sure it never happens. Even got a few entries on you in my journal.

Duncan: You keep a diary?

Methos: I've been keeping it almost since writing began.

Duncan: That would make a hell of a read.

Methos: You could say that. How many people have stood on the same stage with Julius Caesar and the Rolling Stones?

Duncan: So you know about Kalas.

Methos: Yeah, he killed a good friend.

Duncan: Yeah, now he'll be coming for Adam Pierson.

Methos: You think I'd still be around if I was an easy mark?

Duncan: When was the last time you faced anyone?

Methos: Uh, what are we? Sixth of March, uh, 200 years.

Duncan: [sarcastically] Oh, that's good.

Methos: Hey, I may be a bit rusty but I'm still here.

Duncan: Well, let's keep it that way. I'll stay close.

Methos: You cannot fight my battles for me, MacLeod.

[Adam Pierson's house.]

Answering Machine: Adam Pierson here. You can leave your message after the beep.

[Kalas intercepts Methos as he arrives home.]

Kalas: [usual contemptuous sneer] So you're the famous Adam Pierson.

Methos: At the moment.

Kalas: I was in your house. Found a diary there. Pity I couldn't read the hieroglyphics, but the Ancient Greek was most enlightening.

Methos: You should have been there.

[They draw swords and fight.]

Kalas: You've been out of the game too long.

[They both fall over the side of a bridge. When Kalas comes out of the water, Methos has disappeared.]

[Methos intercepts Duncan in a tunnel near the barge, night.]

Duncan: Methos. Kalas found you? Is he dead?

Methos: No. [Draws sword and attacks Duncan.]

Duncan: Why?!

Methos: Because there can be only one!

[Sword fight ends with Duncan's sword at Methos' neck.]

Methos: What are you waiting for, MacLeod?

Duncan: No! [Throws down his sword.]

Methos: I'd have killed you.

Duncan: No, you would have made a mistake and then let me take your head.

Methos: You think I wanna die? Do you think it's easy after thousands of years?

Duncan: Then why?

Methos: Because if you don't kill me, Kalas will.

Duncan: Not unless I get him first.

Methos: And if you don't? I cannot beat him. I have tried. He will take my head and then he will have the strength to take yours.

Duncan: So after 5000 years, your only solution is that I kill you?

Methos: He can beat me. He might beat you. He can't beat both of us.

Duncan: If it's that simple, why don't you take my head.

According to former Highlander scriptwriter Gillian Horvath, Adam Pierson was named after Ben Pearson from Remington Steele. Dr. Benjamin Adams, another of Methos' aliases may have gotten his name from the same place too!

Peter Wingfield has said that Methos didn't run and hide when he knew Duncan was coming because he had a death wish at that time.

Jim Byrnes has said that when Joe found out that Adam was Methos, he didn't belive it at first, then he just accepted it. Acceptance, shrug off and move on are traits that both Joe and Methos have.

Methos: 'Cause it's not just a matter of who is the best fighter. It is about passion and hate. I don't have the fire. You do. You want Kalas. [Holds Duncan's sword against his own neck.] Live, Highlander. Grow stronger. Fight another day.

[On the street, night.]

Police Inspector: Mr. Kalas, you are under arrest for the murder of Donald Salzer.

Kalas: You have no proof of that.

Methos: Wrong. That's the man, Inspector.

[Police take Kalas away. Methos approaches Duncan.]

Duncan: Why?

Methos: Because I didn't know if you could beat him. It's a chance I couldn't take. Remember, Highlander: Live, grow stronger, fight another day.

In the original version of this episode, Methos was truly tired of life and wanted to pass on his journals of history to Duncan, who would then take over writing them. Methos only regained his desire to live when he fell in love with an ER nurse who works with Dr. Anne!

Another direction in which the writers considered taking the script was letting Kalas take Methos' head! Methos' personality would then overwhelm Kalas (shades of the "light" Quickening that befell Darius) posing a moral dilemma for Duncan: Does he have the right to kill Kalas when Kalas now walks and talks like Methos?