Highlander: Zealot - Plot Summary

Plot Summary

Immortal Marcus Constantine, the director of the Paris Museum of Antiquities, was preparing an exposition about the people which were assimilated by the Romans. Little before the inauguration, he invited his Immortal friends, Methos and Duncan MacLeod, for a small visit to his museum. They admired objects provided by Immortals or that had belonged to deceased ones: there were exposed, for example, Ceirdwyn’s superb Celtic ornaments, Nefertiri’s funerary room, a nail which Methos had been crucified with by his Roman Master, when we was a slave, for trying to seduce his wife (Constantine freed him) or an attractive fragment of a Jewish Torah. The favor that Constantine awaited from MacLeod was that this one provided him Paul Karros’s sword. Constantine also reencountered Avram ben Mordecai, an Immortal Hebrew who was his disciple after he found him in the ruins of Masada at the time the city’s conquest by the Roman armies which he commanded. Mordecai was then a young Immortal, who was unaware of that. Thus, Constantine taught him the rules of Immortals by taking him under his protection on his return to Rome. Duncan and Avram were also meeting again since they fought together the Nazi armies during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in World War II. At the same time, there was being held in Paris peace negotiations for the Middle East. Duncan met the Palestinian negotiator, Dr. Maral Amani, with whom he befriended. Duncan and Avram had an argument about Duncan’s relation with the Palestinian. Since the fall of Masada, Mordecai had sworn to always protect its people and he wanted to ruin the negotiations. In the Occupied Territories, he had slaughtered forty-three Arabs who were praying in a mosque, claimed the attack in the name of a Jewish integrationist organization. In Tel-Aviv, he exploded a bus with Israeli soldiers and claimed the attack in the name of the Hamas. He tried to assassinate Maral, but failed. When Constantine and Duncan understood the dangerous game Avram was playing, they decided to stop him. Mordecai, then, became paranoid, believing that they had betrayed the Jewish cause. He killed Constantine and attacked Duncan. In the end, Duncan killed Mordecai.