Flashback Backlash
by Rob Morris
Amanda: Duncan, who the hell was that creep?
Duncan : Anros Skolaren. We've met.
( Flashback to the Russian Steppes )
1875
Skolaren : Good evening, Macleod! We meet again, and soon you'll be meat!
Duncan : Let the girl go, Skolaren. She's no part of this.
Skolaren: Ah, yes. The "Rules". Problem is, children make such interesting diversions. I sincerely think that with her young life as the price of my defeat, you'll not be at fighting trim! For, you see...
Duncan : You maniac-let…
Skolaren: Temper, Duncan, mustn't insult..
( They are interrupted by the talk of another pair, who just happen to be in the area)
Nick : But, are we not all living things together?
Lacroix : Yes, NIcholas. But there is a food chain. Would you have the humans extend your ethics to cows and pigs?
Nick: THEY ARE NOT cattle, Lacroix, and all your sophistry can not make them so!
Lacroix : What you have always failed to understand about our kind, my son...
( Skolaren looks over, quite peeved )
Skolaren : See here, you two! Move along! You're interfering with a Highlander flashback!
Lacroix : We were here, first. It is you who are interfering with a Forever Knight flashback! Nicholas has to recollect this talk we had to deal with a Radical Animal Rights Group in 1994!
Skolaren : Oh, I'm impressed. Look, Duncan has to remember this, catch a thief, sleep with Amanda, AND find ten children I've hidden before I get trimmed!
( Lacroix and Skolaren start in, yelling at each other at the top of their lungs. Duncan and Nick hang back. This sort of thing has happened before)
Duncan : Nick.
Nick: Mac. How's Tessa?
Duncan : Dead. Natalie?
Nick : The same.
( Yet another pair wander in )
Old Master : So, Grasshopper. What did you learn from the Cossack's fury?
Cain : Master, I learned nothing. His fury was like a heady brew, but my thirst remains.
Old Master: Such thirst is never quenched. It compares to...
Lacroix: Move on! This is definitely not a "Kung Fu" flashback!
Old Master : Are You so sure, nightcrawler? Or does your inability to see the Sun make you blind?
Skolaren: Please, the two of you! You are both regulars! The only other time I make an appearance is as one of Horton's henchmen-and SyFy has been editing me out of that!
( As the argument escalates, a lone disheveled figure walks up to Mac, Nick, and Cain.)
Man: What're those guys doin'?
Duncan : An Old Argument.
Nick : With wounded pride and arrogance.
Cain : And Incomprehensible metaphors.
Man : Well, I am the Reverend Jim Ignatauski, and this is the weirdest Acid flashback I've ever had! Wait'll I tell Latka!
Duncan: Latka Gravas still lives!?
Nick : Mac, let it go!
Cain : No good can come of your anger.
Duncan : SOMEDAY, Gravas!
Jim : Anybody want a ride home?
( Sensing the argument has no end in sight, the four men pile into Jim's cab, despite the fact it wasn't invented in 1875.)
1994
Louie dePalma: ( Into the PA at Sunshine Cab Co.) Rieger! Macleod! Banta! Knight! Cain! Wheeler! Kent! Iggy! Beckett!Nardo! Ripley! Parker! Darien! Kirk! San Francisco......