ALICIA - Please, if he owes you money, we'll pay it.

[Richie pulls his arm free, shoves Roszca back toward the window, out of Alicia's reach.]

RICHIE - He owes me more than that.
 

 
ROSZCA - You got me mixed up with someone else.

ALICIA - [pointing to Richie] He broke in and tried to kill us.
 

 
[Richie eases up. He still has Roszca in his grip, though.]

RICHIE - You're just in time. [He starts to jerk Roszca to his feet.]

COP 1 - Let him go and get against the wall.
 

 
MacLEOD - They didn't. Twenty thousand armed Crusaders left Nicaea for Jerusalem.
 

 
MacLEOD - Nature threw them a curve.
 

 
SHEPHERD - My father was protecting our sheep. They killed him. They ripped him apart!
 

 
MacLEOD - [grim] It's you who'll answer for this.

KANIS - For one of these? They die like flies...
 

 
KANIS - They'll tear you to shreds.

MacLEOD - Not before I've put one between your eyes.
 

 
MacLEOD - They were after the boy, milady. They already savaged his father.

SHEPHERD - [angrily] They killed him.
 

 
[As the Sheriff moves toward Kanis, he gives an almost inaudible whistle -- the dogs scatter for the woods. Two men fire their weapons after them, to no avail. Kanis doesn't resist as the Sheriff binds his hands behind his back. He glares at MacLeod.]

KANIS - They'll be back.
 

 
KANIS - Or is it Professor MacLeod now?

MacLEOD - Whatever.
 

 
ROSZCA - [beat; with a smile] Who else is gonna want to look after me?

ALICIA - I love you.
 

 
SHERIFF - They ripped the man limb from limb.
 

 
RICHIE - [a tentative smile] C'mon, I'll buy you a beer?
 

 
VALERIE - [a slight shudder at thought] My dogs are like family, Mr. MacLeod. There's no way I was sending Lucille home with that slime mold.
 

[MacLeod cautiously enters the room -- it's empty. There's a beat -- then the front door slams open, bursting the lock, to reveal Kanis standing in the open doorway.]

KANIS - Should have used brick, MacLeod. [a sneer] Or did you forget what happened to the second little pig?

[MacLeod readies himself, bracing for the dogs to rush him through the open doorway -- but there's nothing. Kanis makes no move.]

MacLEOD - Where are the rest of your friends?

KANIS - On their way.

[Suddenly the side door explodes open as the dogs come crashing through it, a mass of jaws leaping straight at MacLeod. MacLeod reacts, fends off the dogs with his sword as he backs against a wall, quickly wraps his jacket around his hand, forming a foil. MacLeod is fast, but this is a hunting pack, attacking him from both sides, snarling and snapping as they dodge his blade. One of them clamps onto his jacket, tries to drag him off-balance. He backs toward the rear door, desperately fending off the jaws--]
 

 
[MacLeod misses a blow -- and Kanis body-slams him, knocking Macleod through a door onto--]

[MacLeod tries to rise, but crumples in agony -- the leg-bone is fractured. He grabs his sword, tries to use it like a crutch to regain his feet, as -- Kanis, his sword back and ready to take MacLeod's head.]

[KANIS' POV [HANDHELD] - MacLeod -- as Kanis moves toward MacLeod, MacLeod's unprotected back to him.]

[ANGLE - MacLeod as he forces his weight onto his good leg, and just as Kanis arrives -- he lunges aside and swings -- Kanis' sword clatters across the floor.]

[RESUME MACLEOD -- He slumps to one knee just as the Quickening strikes him.]

[WIDER - The porch as the energy crackles off MacLeod, and various power tools power up: drills whine and spin across the floor, tablesaws scream, belt-sanders take off. Then as the storm dies, releasing MacLeod from its grip, there is an eerie sound from elsewhere in the house -- the dogs are howling.]