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8/10
Duncan is kinda hypocrite about deciding he wanted to be a father after the advice he gave Richie in a different episode. Duncan in the resistance in WWII.
reb-warrior26 March 2020
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A Priest, Bernard, comes across a man he believed dead from WWII, Daimler, an immortal who was a Nazi officer. Later Bernard runs into Duncan. When Bernard was a little kid he saw Duncan come back to life during the same period. Duncan asked him to keep his secret and he did. Now he asks Duncan to help him as he is terrified of Daimler. Meanwhile, Anne tells Duncan she's pregnant.

Dalou from season 1, episode 15, 'For Tomorrow We Die,' is back in this episode. I mention him in my review for that episode.

Here we see more of Duncan's history as he helps the resistance in occupied France during WWII. I thought it was cool that they did a story where someone saw Duncan come back to life and then runs into him many years later.

Anne: "Why? Is it your job?" I can't help but love this line. Duncan does sometimes act as if though he is the self-appointed immortal police and deliverer of justice. Although in this case, Bernard did ask him for help.

Wow, Anne was kinda b*tchy to Duncan in this episode. I know she worried because she got pregnant and obviously Duncan isn't the father. It's hard to tell how much time has passed between when Anne saw him "die," and when she has reunited with him again. But anyway, why does it matter? Duncan slept with Annie Devlin in the very next episode after Tessa died. I believe that was a short amount of time as I wrote in my review for that episode.

No wonder they sent Richie home in the previous episode. He might think Duncan was kinda a hypocrite:

Anne: "Duncan, we don't have to. This is not your child. You have absolutely no obligation."

Duncan: "I know that, but I have an opportunity."

Oh, Duncan did you forget your own advice when you said this in 'Line of Fire?': "Richie, this isn't about you being a father. It's about you being an Immortal. I know what this means to you, but you can't protect them. It doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter how much you love them or how hard you try. You just can't."

I don't know why they wrote Duncan as being a hypocrite at times.

If Bernard saw Duncan come back to life and realized he couldn't die, why did he think that Duncan could kill Daimler all these years later? There's really no explanation for that. Plot hole.

Both Dalou and Bernard end up being killed by Daimler. Kinda reminds me of 'Obsession,' and 'Nowhere to Run,' where the person or people he is trying to help end up dead anyway. Poor Bernard. After all that, I really wanted him to live. He was a hero in the past, lived with anxiety and guilt all those years, only to still end up Daimler's victim anyway. His worst fear actually came true. I also liked Dalou as this shady old guy with bodyguards and yet a likable fellow.

I had to laugh at how dumb these neo-nazis, white supremacists were when Duncan said: "Mens sano in corpore sano." Even when Duncan translated it, the guy was too stupid to get it. Yep, an accurate portrayal of the intelligence or lack thereof in this case, of these types of people. Good job writers!

Anne decides she can't be with Duncan. They were never a good match in my opinion. I never felt Duncan was actually "IN" love with her. More like he was in love with the idea of her. I gave the episode an 8/10.
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9/10
Father Bernard, one of my FAVORITE non-immortal heroes of HIGHLANDER THE SERIES. Warning: Spoilers
______HIGHLANDER ; THE SERIES_______

MORTAL SINS.

FATHER BERNARD, ONE OF MY FAVORITE NON-IMMORTAL HEROES IN HIGHLANDER THE SERIES.

Even when he was only a child back then, Father Bernard used to be hero of the old "Résistance" fifty years ago, during the Nazi occupation in France. Now, in the early nineties, Father Bernard, the man that once was that little boy, sees in his church an evil man that was a common enemy of him and Duncan in those days.

Bernard had learned the old secret concerning Duncan´s immortality, he had seen him die and rise again. Bernard searches our HIGHLANDER and asks for his help, Duncan refuses to know him and says the common immortal's excuse that he is maybe confusing him with his father or someone else, Father Bernard does not believe him as he knows what he saw fifty years ago; finally, we have a character who has certainty that Duncan is Duncan and not his father.

Nevertheless, that brave and audacious little boy is now a very frightened man about an ex-Nazi officer that was his enemy fifty years ago during the war and that now in theory, even when Daimler (that´s our villain´s name) is still a "Supremacist", lives in a relative state of non-aggression, or is at least much less aggressive than he was 50 years before. Why?... ...Father Bernard keeps a terrible secret, during the old days of the French Résistance, little Bernard attacked and killed evil Daimler...TWICE!

Thanks for reading.

IMDb Review written by David del Real.

México City. México.

2018.
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9/10
Good storytelling.
Jackbv1233 February 2020
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Excellent no win conundrum. Very well set up. Rising and falling emotions. I really wish it didn't turn out like this, but i have to admire the story.
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8/10
The rule concerning holy ground
danrs00000826 July 2020
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When Bernard and Anne were waiting in the church and immortal Daimler enters and starts threatening to kill Bernard, I had to pause and ask myself, is the rule about holy ground only applicable between Immortals or does it apply to any immortal in order to keep any immortal from committing any violence to anyone (even mortals) on Holy Ground? Apparently the latter is true and Anne was correct when she shouted to Bernard that Daimler just wanted to lure him outside the church where sadly Daimler ended Bernard's life.
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