Fly the Moon and Reach for the Stars

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 71353

With one fell stroke, Lots slices Paco cleanly in two. Children descend upon the fallen Samurai and begin devouring his delicious candy-innards like a pack of rabid wolves.“I am Lots the 42nd,” the victorious warrior says to all those gathered there. “Born 1500 years ago in the Highlands of New Jersey. I am immortal and I am not alone. For centuries we have waited for the time of the gathering. When the stroke of a sword and the fall of a head will release the power of the Quickening. In the end, there can be only one!”

On cue, lightening flashes from the heavens and strikes the ‘immortal’. He flops around on the ground like a fish out of water, as electricity crackles around his prone body. You yawn.

Sean Connery steps forward. “He is Lots42 . . . the Highlander. Born in 492 in the Highlands of New Jersey, and he is still alive. He is Immortal. For 1500 years, he's been a warrior . . . a lover . . . a wanderer . . . a nuisance . . . a sordid bedfellow . . . a cantankerous lollygagger . . . a persnickety perpetrator of prescription pill-mongering . . . constantly facing other Immortals in combat to the death. The winner takes his enemy's head . . . and with it, his power.”

“We’ve heard it, Sean,” you say as another yawn alludes you.

“I’m not a very smart man,” the Scottish actor concurs. “My favorite number is purple! Yay! Yay for purple!”

“That’s nice, Sean. Now go drink your milk and take a nap.”

He frowns. “Ahhh, do I haffta!?”

You give him a withering look. “Don’t you argue with me, young man....”

He hangs his head and marches off into the gloom.

“That’s a good boy, Sean!” you call after him. “I’ll be up to read you a story when the grown-ups are done burying Scott!”

“Uh, speaking of which,” the minister intones. “Can we get the ball rolling on this thing? I gotta get to another gig here soon...”