"Highlander"
The Modern Prometheus (1997)

Director:

Adrian Paul

Writer:

James Thorpe (writer)

TV Series:

"Highlander" (1992)

Original Air Date:

12 May 1997 (Season 5, Episode 19)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Duncan visits Lord Byron and the Shelleys, inspiring Mary Shelley to write 'Frankenstein.' |

Plot Keywords:

Katana Sword | Decapitation | Historical | Immortal | Flashback Sequence

Cast

Jim Byrnes	...	Joe Dawson
Katie Carr	...	Claire Clairmont
Jonathan Firth	...	Lord Byron
Tracy Keating	...	Mary Shelley
F. Braun McAsh	...	Hans Kershner
Michel Modo	...	Maurice
Adrian Paul	...	Duncan 'Mac / Highlander' MacLeod
Jeffrey Ribier	...	Mike Paladini
Christopher Staines	...	Percy Shelley
Peter Wingfield	...	Adam Pierson / Methos

Goofs:

Factual errors: Mary Shelley's actual inspiration for Frankenstein came from propaganda being spread about Charles Darwin, and a French translation of a German horror tale, Les Fantasmagoriana.

Quotes:

Duncan 'Mac: Cut the crap, Mike's dead because of him.
Adam Pierson: No, Mike is dead because of Mike.
Duncan 'Mac: The kid idolized him... maybe he didn't pull the trigger, but he sure as hell put the gun in his hand. To live like me, you have to be like me, come on Methos, Mike couldn't do that, he wasn't Immortal.
Adam Pierson: And that is not Byron's fault.