Well, I already did the other sequels. Why not the fourth?
Highlander: Endgame was a disappointment to me. A big screen team up of Connor and Duncan? 'Alright smart guy' I hear a few of you say, 'what would you do'?
1555, AD
Connor (Christopher Lambert) is living quietly with his wife Heather (Beatie Edney). Word reaches him though and it's not good. Seems his kinsman Angus has died, and with him went the protection he gave to Connor's mother (June Watson). The new priest Father Rainey (Donald Douglas) and his son Jacob Kell (Bruce Payne) are looking to hang some witches.
Connor rushes back to his old village, but he arrives just as his mother swings. Throwing off his cloak, Connor goes on a rampage. Connor looms over a pleading Kell, his sword bloodstained and his eyes mad. Rainey rushes to save his son but gets killed for his effort.
Connor tries to leave, but Kell picks up his father's knife and stabs the retreating MacLeod. Connor ignores it and runs Kell through before leaving the burning village. Unseen by the mourning villagers, Kell's eyes snap open...
1990
Connor and Duncan are chatting in the streets of New York when Connor rushes back to the antique shop he shares with his daughter Rachel (Sheila Gish). The building explodes.
2000
Connor, sick at heart, goes to the Sanctuary. A special program started by the Watchers, basically Immortals who want out of the game are guarded 'round the clock in a remote church. A good way to stack the deck, they think.
Pity they only thought to defend themselves against men with swords. A group of armed men scale the mountain and easily dispatch the Watchers before heading below. Finding the Immortals all doped up and immobile, one of the troops pulls out a chainsaw and starts cutting...
Kell then appears. The troop's leader, Lachlan (Adam Copeland), presents him with a sack of heads. "I did it. Now make me immortal!" Kell smirks before shooting him dead. He doesn't rise. Kell dismisses the rest of the troops before leaving.
Duncan, who is informed by Joe Dawson (Jim Byrnes) of what happened, starts to investigate. From there Duncan is stalked by Kell's clan, all of whom have various reasons to follow Kell. They also attack Duncan from all sides.
That's when Duncan sees a woman get hit by a car and get up, dazed but fine. Her name's Faith (Lisa Barbuscia) and she's apparently a new Immortal; at least until the flashback when we see Kell killing her for the first time in 1800 (although she doesn't know that, thinking it was a passing Connor). Faith works herself into Duncan's good graces, at least until Methos (Peter Wingfield) remembers her from World War One.
Duncan slowly wins her over to his side though. Even shows her a few sword tricks, which help when Kell kills the rest of his clan to gain their power. Faith escapes via a window.
Connor arrives and tells Duncan to come with him. They head back to Scotland, "where it all began". As they wait, they flashback to various lessons, including a fencing school in Italy where Connor tutored Duncan. They decide only one of them can face Kell and so they fight. Duncan wins with the move Connor taught him. Then Kell arrives and a massive fight occurs as the Queen soundtrack kicks in.
Duncan wins, naturally, in a Quickening that almost levels the mountains. He buries Connor next to Heather and heads off in the sunset as Bonny Portmore plays us out.
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