Neroli mentioned that she hadn't seen much of the later Highlander episodes and I realized that I was taking it for granted that most were familiar with most of the show. I've done my best to work it in at points (may end up revising it to a different point later on, but want to keep things moving), but if you are still confused or just interested, here's a link that has many of the important character espisodes summarized/transcribed and details the histories of the characters. http://www.geocities.com/gisele_highlander_fan/methos/episodes/

Spoilers for the H:TS episodes Comes A Horseman and after.

Not beta-ed. Feedback welcome.

Summary of Part 1 & 2: Except for Kaylee, Inara, and Book, the crew knows that Charles Pierce is Methos. Methos is on Serenity as a passenger to the frontier so he can change identities.

Part 3

Chinese Glossary

Shide- yes

Tianna, gu zao de – God this can't get any worse.

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Mal stood at the bottom of the ramp steps watching his unexpectedly complicated passenger perform with his sword. He'd already had to chase Kaylee away from cat walk three times this morning. He'd been fooling himself when he thought that the novelty would wear off for his mechanic after he gave permission for Methos to perform his workouts. Mal wasn't sure if he should be happy or not that his boy-crazy crew member was distracted from her pursuit of the young doctor. The only thing about the situation that reassured him was that he had noticed how distinctly uncomfortable her excessive cheerfulness made the immortal – especially since it had been directed full force at him after she first witnessed him with his shirt off. Of course, Mal also figured any man who'd been around this 'verse for five thousand years would know better than to exercise shirtless around women when they were confined in close quarters.

"Just wanted to let you know we're a day off from Boros right now. Anytime yo