Chapter 5
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Connor's kinsman Duncan had called to warn him about this cult. So far Connor had dispatched three people with this swastika tattoo. He had hoped that nazi idealology would be dead and buried with the nazies themselves. During the war Connor had saved a young child, Rachel, from extermination. Connor became Rachel's adopted father, but it was always assumed that he would outlive her. But then the monster came for her. He murdered Rachel, even taunted her how she couldn't escape from the nazies forever. Connor killed the man who murdered Rachel, but he knew who the leader of this cult was, and wanted to take his head. But before Connor could find Jacob, he was arrested by detective Frank Moran. Years ago Moran had questioned Connor about some mysterious deaths, yet it never occurred to Moran that Connor might actually be immortal. Moran brought Connor to the police station where he and detective John Stenn questioned him.
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Moran: Good to see you again, mr Nash. That was the name you were using back then, Russell Nash. Now, you are going by the name Connor MacLeod.
Connor: I chose to legally change my name, just as Cassius Clay chose the name of Muhammed Ali. The judge reminded me that I was still under a legal obligation to pay any debts I had aquired as Russell Nash, and I couldn't use my new name to avoid prosecution for any crimes I had committed as Russell Nash. Other than that, it is my legal right to change my name.
Moran: Very true. About the crimes part, I ever tell you this story John?
Stenn: I don;t think so.
Moran: In 1985, this man, was at a professional wrestling match, and was fleeing the scene of a murder. Specifically, some guy got his head chopped off. We questioned this man, he obviously denied it, and we had to let him go due to lack of evidence. A few days later a homeless person comes in, says he just saw two guys fighting with swords. A black guy and a white guy. The white guy chopped the black guy's head off. So naturally we showed him a picture of mr Nash, but he says "No, the white guy had a mohawk, wasn't the guy in the picture." Now at this point I think, maybe we were wrong, maybe mr Nash was just unlucky enough to see a corpse with no head, and he panicked. But then, we find a third corpse with no head. Sure enough it had a mohawk, and the homeless man says that this was the winner of the fight he saw. It makes me wonder, maybe there were two serial killers, maybe one killed the other when the heat got on. Still, I can't be completely sure that, Connor here was involved. Any half competent public defender would say that he really was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, no real evidence we had that he was involved in any murders. By this point, Connor here seduced a young woman Brenda, who worked at this department. They ran off together.
Connor: We were in love. Neither of us expected it, but it happened.
Moran: The story's not over yet. In 1994 Brenda died in a suspicious car accident.
Connor: Brenda died because some idiot got drunk and didn't bother to call a cab home.
Moran: The suspicious part is that you didn't even get a scratch. How do you explain that?
Connor: Chance. Call it good luck, or bad luck. Flying schrapnel will land where it wants to land.
Moran: Then there's the fact that, you don't seem to have aged much. Look at his picture from 1985.
Stenn: Yeah, he doesn't seem to have aged much since then. I like to think I look young, but I've definitely aged in 15 years.
Connor: I never did drugs. I never smoke, I never drink alcohol or even coffee. I excercise, stay hydrated, stay out of the sun. I noticed something, detective. Back in 1985 I could smell tobacco all over you.
Moran: I quit years ago.
Connor: Maybe if you'd never started, you'd look as good as me.
Moran: There might be some truth to that. Here's another thing. Do you know what Google is?
Connor: Something to do with computers, I'm not particularly computer literate.
Moran: You just type someone;s name, and you get all kinds of results. I typed in the name Connor MacLeod, you'll never guess what I found?
Connor: Try me.
Moran: Connor MacLeod was the name of a resistance fighter during world war 2. He was killed by the nazies in the final days of the war. At first I think "Couldn't possibly be the same guy." Maybe mr Russell Nash used that name as a weird homage. Imagine my surprise when your picture came up. You want to explain that?
Connor: You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
Moran: Try me.
Connor: Very well. Connor MacLeod was my father. Unfortunately he died before I was born. My mother was younger, unmarried, and died in childbirth. After Brenda died I went through a bit of a depression, and I started researching my father. Seeing his picture for the first time, was like looking in the mirror. He did some good things, saved people from the nazies. So I legally changed my name to honor the father that I never got the chance to know.
Moran: This Connor, there actually is a record of him saving jewish children from the Gestapo. One of whom, was Rachel Ellenstein, who became your secretary.
Connor: Yes, she's my main source of information on my father.
Moran: And she was murdered recently. By a neo-nazi, who brutally beat her to death. Regrettably we were not able to find her killer. But, a suspect in her murder, has been found. He had this weird tattoo which includes the nazi swastika. He was also believed to be a follower of Alan Wilkinson.
Connor: I know the name, I'm not a fan.
Moran: Neither am I. So, by your own account, your father was murdered by the nazies, and you were so moved by Rachel Ellenstein's account of his heroics that you even changed your name to honor him. Some wannabe fascist murdered her, and the main suspect is found dead. So was his wannabe fuhrer, Alan Wilkinson.
Connor: Wilkinson's dead?
Moran: Yeah. Someone chopped his head off. And they wrote, in actual blood, "A good nazi."
Connor: George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party, was murdered in 1968.
Stenn: 1967 actually.
Connor: I stand corrected. But that was later determined to be an internal power struggle within the party.
Moran: That thought occurred to me. And even if i ruled out neo-nazies, Wilkinson brought a lot of enemies on himself. But chopping someone's head off, that's a very specific M.O. So we look at someone who was a person of interest in 1985. I mean someone had to chop the head off that guy with the mohawk. And since Wilkinson is advocating the the same toxic ideals that got your father killed, that got Rachel Ellenstein killed, you see where I'm going with this?
Connor: I'll say this once, I never killed anyone. I don't know why I was "lucky" enough to avoid getting killed by that car accident. Am I free to go?
Moran: The law allows us to hold you for up to 24 hours without charging you.
Connor: Then I'll wait it out in my cell. And I am not saying anything more until I speak with an attorney.
