This scene occurs just after MacLeod & Brenda make love. Queen's "One Year of Love" originated from this scene.


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BRENDA AND MACLEOD AT BEDROOM

She's flushed, excited in the presence of living history.

BRENDA
I've got a million questions. I don't know
what to ask first.

MACLEOD
I have all the time in the world.

BRENDA
You were with Napoleon at Waterloo.
(he nods)
What was he like?

MACLEOD
Short. French. Wore his hat sideways.

She spots the silver-frame photo of MacLeod with a 12-year-old girl.

BRENDA
Is this your daughter?

MACLEOD
Yes.

BRENDA
What's her name?

MACLEOD
Rachel.

Brenda frowns. Slowly realizing, she points O.S.

BRENDA
You mean that Rachel?

MACLEOD
(nodding)
Yes. She was an orphan. I can't have
children. I adopted her.
(drolly)
Over the years, our relationship has
gone through quite a few changes.

BRENDA
She's old enough to be your mother.

MACLEOD
Sometimes she thinks she is.

Reaching, he takes the Samurai from the sheath in his coat, laying it before her.

MACLEOD
This was forged in 593 B.C.
Metal folded over 200 times.

He enjoys her amazement.

MACLEOD
(continuing gently)
Like finding a 747 a thousand years
before the Wright Brothers flew. Right?

She runs her fingers over the blade.

BRENDA
This belonged to Ramirez?

MACLEOD
Yes.

Reality hits her like a bolt. She's alone with an immortal, holding a sword forged half-a-century before Christ.

BRENDA
How many men have you killed
with this?

MACLEOD
Too many. They're all gone.
Except for one.

BRENDA
Tell me more about Heather.

He frowns, sitting up.

BRENDA
In all these years, she was the
only one you really loved, right?

He bounces out of bed stark naked, deciding to go into the bathroom. She SHOUTS after him.

BRENDA
And losing her was too painful
to bear -- was that it?
(silence)
Come on. In every relationship,
somebody has to die first.

MACLEOD O.S.
Yes, but the survivor doesn't
have to go on forever.

He turns on the SHOWER, FULL-BLAST.

BRENDA
It's not just your body that's
covered in scars. D'you know that?

The shower STOPS. Towel around his waist, he marches out of the bathroom.

MACLEOD
I don't want to talk about this.

BRENDA
Ramirez was wrong. Just one year
of love, though it ends in death,
is better than an eternity alone.

MACLEOD
Are you making a proposal?

Seductively, she pulls the sheet around her.

BRENDA
Not me. Besides, we've only just met.
(pause)
Come here a minute.

He's on her in a flash.