Summary

Liam O'Rourke comes for MacLeod's head. He kidnaps Amanda and Joe, and he offers MacLeod an exchange: Their lives for his. MacLeod agrees, but Methos saves him at the last moment and MacLeod escapes, only to get shot and die on a railroad car. In a dream, Fitzcairn shows MacLeod what the world would be like without him. Amanda becomes evil, killing her husband for his money. The Watchers, under James Horton, become a death squad bent on destroying the immortals, and they kill Amanda. And Joe Dawson loses hope, hiding from Watchers and immortals, letting the disaster continue unchecked. No matter what MacLeod says to convince his friends otherwise, he finds he cannot change what has happened.

Quotes

Methos: "You eat a 17 course meal where the main garnish is honey-coated ants and peacock brains... We ate, we drank, we vomited."

Methos: "Don't go, MacLeod."
MacLeod: "I don't have a choice."
Methos: "That is existentially inaccurate."

Methos: "Don't go, MacLeod. It's a trap, MacLeod. MacLeod, your pants are on fire. ... Doesn't matter what I say, does it? Well, I've only been alive for five thousand years. What would I know about it?"

Methos: "People die, MacLeod. Immortals die."