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I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.
— Highlander · 1986
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the Highlander's whole identity in one breath: a name, a clan, a village, a loch and the one fact that makes him unlike anyone else. Said to the one person who has worked out his secret, it is a rare moment of honesty from a man who has spent centuries hiding behind false names. It has stayed quotable as the clean, formal way to announce a hidden self, and fans know the Glenfinnan details by heart.
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In context
Spoilers for HighlanderShow the scene
In Russell Mulcahy's Highlander, Connor MacLeod lives in New York as the antiques dealer Russell Nash, a name Brenda Wyatt, an NYPD forensic examiner, has traced to a child who died in infancy. She comes looking for answers about the strange swordfights and a sword that should not exist, and walks among the claymores in his place. He tells her he has been alive four and a half centuries and cannot die. Once she has pressed him, he gives his real name, clan, birthplace and birth year, then tells her he cannot get involved with her again.
Sources (3)
- Highlander (1986) film script, Springfield! Springfield!Brenda's visit to Nash, after the Kurgan sequence in the churchReference checked
- Brenda Wyatt, Highlander WikiBiography and Investigation sectionsReference checked
- Connor MacLeod, Highlander WikiInfoboxReference checked
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