Summary

MacLeod runs into an old foe, Melvin Koren, and finds Cassandra is hunting for Koren's head. She tells him Koren is really Kronos, one of the Four Horsemen, who killed and pillaged across two continents during the Bronze Age. Cassandra's village was destroyed by the Horsemen. When Cassandra and Methos end up at Mac's Dojo at the same time, she tries to take Methos' head, telling Mac that Methos was one of the Horsemen, too, who kept Cassandra as a slave in the Bronze Age. Kronos tracks down Methos and tells him to take MacLeod's head, but Methos instead pushes MacLeod away by telling him about his bloody past. Cassandra goes after Kronos and MacLeod follows her. Methos takes Cassandra out of the fight by dumping her in a river and then breaks up the fight between MacLeod and Kronos. Methos tells Kronos that the other two Horsemen, Silas and Caspian, are alive, and Methos agrees to take Kronos to them.

Quotes

Methos: "Well, who the hell is Chubby Checker in the grand scheme of things, anyway? I mean, I know how tall Nero was. I know Caesar's favorite food. I know Helen of Troy didn't have that great a face, and it only launched a hundred ships not a thousand ..."
MacLeod: "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

Kronos: "It's been a long time. How are you feeling?"
Methos: "Like I left my heart in San Francisco."
Kronos: "I didn't know you had a heart. Does it hurt?"

Methos: "I am Methos. You live to serve me. Never forget that."

MacLeod: "Did you kill all those people?"
Methos: "Yes. Is that what you want to hear? Killing was all I knew, is that what you want to hear?"
MacLeod: "It's enough."
Methos: "No, it's not enough. I killed, but I didn't just kill fifty. I didn't kill a hundred. I killed a thousand, I killed ten thousand. (pause) And I was good at it. And it wasn't for vengence; it wasn't for greed. It was because ... I liked it. Cassandra was nothing; her village was nothing. Do you know who I was? I was Death. (laughs) Death. Death on a horse. When mothers warned their children that the monster would get them, that monster was me. I was the nightmare that kept them awake at night. Is that what you want to hear? (pause) The answer is yes. Oh, yes."

Kronos: "You stopped the fight. You saved MacLeod."
Methos: "It could have gone either way. I couldn't take the chance."
Kronos: "Were you afraid of me losing, or him?"