1st movie: Sean Connery dies. Chris Lambert fights the big bad guy and becomes the last remaining immortal, and wins The prize.
2nd movie: A few decades later. The Prize turns out to have been twofold: mortality, and being really smart. Lambert has used his smarts to create an orbital UV shield to replace the disappearing ozone layer, thus saving the human race from massive skin cancer. Sean Connery comes back to life for no apparent reason, and the two kick some more immortal butt -- the immortals, apparently, are actually aliens, and more have showed up.
3rd movie: Back to roughly the 90s, nothing like in the 2nd movie has happened. Lambert's character had married and adopted a child, but the wife was killed in a car accident. Meanwhile, it turns out Lambert *isn't* the only immortal left (Did he actually get The Prize, whatever it was?) -- there's an evil guy whom he had fought in 15th-century Japan who is finally freed from a collapsed cave by an archeological dig. Meanwhile Lambert falls for the attractive lady archeologist, and eventually he fights and kills the evil bad guy, who had kept his adopted son hostage. Again, Lambert is the only immortal left. Right?
4th movie: Also in the 90s or so. Lambert has had a wife, but it's a different woman than we saw before, and there's no sign of the son from the 3rd movie. He also has friends who are fellow immortals, such as Adrian Paul, who we suddenly discover has been his best buddy since the 18th century despite never being shown or mentioned in previous films. Now we discover that there are plenty of other immortals still around, laying low, and an organization that has been hunting them down for centuries, run by another evil immortal. In the process, every immortal other than Adrian Paul gets killed, and *he* is the only one left.
So, EVERY HIGHLANDER FILM has ended with "there can be only one" fulfilled. But there keep turning out to be more! |
