Highlander (TV Series)

The Valkyrie (1997)

Jim Byrnes: Joe Dawson

Quotes 

• Duncan 'Mac : [Duncan MacLeod talks about Ingrid Henning's failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler back in 1944]  Hitler should have died that day, but we failed. And Ingrid blames herself.

  Adam Pierson : Come on, man, you are not buying into that tawdry, guilt-induced little melodrama.

  Duncan 'Mac : Oh, I forgot. We're talking to the only guilt-free man in the Western world.

  Adam Pierson : No, we're talking about Ingrid. It is the ultimate in arrogance to think that one person can alter the course of history.

  Duncan 'Mac : You can't deny that by killing Hitler in '44 thousands of lives would have been saved. Maybe millions.

  Adam Pierson : Yeah, and if you'd killed him in '43 like Rommel wanted, maybe Germany would have won the war. History makes men, MacLeod. Men don't make history. I'm talking about the time, 'kay? The "Zeitgeist," to quote the Germans. If it hadn't been the little painter from Austria it would have been someone else. Would have been a - I dunno - a shopkeeper, a garbage man. My point is, it doesn't matter. The times were ripe for a Fuehrer.

  Duncan 'Mac : My point is it was Hitler.

  Duncan 'Mac : [Duncan point at Joe Dawson and takes a step forward]  You're a historian: what do you think?

  Joe Dawson : [Joe smiles insouciantly and shakes his head]  Uh huh. I'm not getting into the middle of this.

  Duncan 'Mac : Coward.

  Adam Pierson : Ditto.

  Joe Dawson : All right. You want an answer? Who gives a damn?"

  [Methos looks as if his point has been proved, but Joe continues] 

  Joe Dawson : What matters is that it's Mac's friend.

  Adam Pierson : Pretty smart... for a kid.

  Joe Dawson : What are you going to do?

  Duncan 'Mac : In her heart she thinks she's right. And part of me agrees. I don't know how to stop her.

  Adam Pierson : Don't you?

  Duncan 'Mac : [tight and angry]  No. I don't.

  [Duncan walks away] 

  Joe Dawson : You know you really can be an arrogant pain in the ass sometimes.

  Adam Pierson : Guilty as charged.