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Creator:Highlander Comic, Number 0 <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>  Highlander # 0
 A Creator page is protected content supplied by the original creator of the material, and is not open to changes or additions. See details at the end of the article. The Dynamite Entertainment Highlander series takes place after the first movie and puts forth the notion that, while Connor Macleod did indeed defeat the Kurgan, he did not win the Immortal Game. 1986: In Paris, three Soviet agents pursue a man with a sword strapped to his back. After a violent fight in a nightclub, the man is apprehended. Agent Tasya Desny (clearly an immortal) is perplexed by the man, especially after seeing a familiar tattoo on his chest. She leaves to place a call… . . . to the immortal Connor MacLeod, who currently lives in London, operating an antique store as “Russell Nash” with his mortal wife, Brenda. Tasya summons Connor to an Interpol field office in Paris; he arrives alone the next day. As he enters the building, he senses the presence of other immortals. At the field office, Connor is reunited with Tasya and their mutual associates Paul Furio and Dr. Arman Volkov. There are indications that these four people share a secret together, the exact details of which are not yet revealed. As they observe the man who was arrested the night before through two-way glass, Tasya explains that the KGB sent her after him following his escape form a Soviet work camp. She says she didn’t know why he was special enough to warrant her attention, but the others come to a startling realization when they see the tattoo on his chest. Connor flashes back to an encounter with the Kurgan—his mortal enemy, now dead—and a room full of men who all have that tattoo. These men were believed to no longer exist, through circumstances that go unexplained. Snapping out of the haze, Connor is shocked to hear the suspect screaming at him through the two-way glass. The man insists that the Kurgan’s essence is within Connor MacLeod and that the Kurgan’s death will only increase his power. Vowing that Russia will be “razed and reborn in fire and death”, the man is taken away by guards, while Connor and the others debate the meaning of his words. Alone in the hallway, Tasya and Connor have a heated debate about Connor’s affection for mortal women and we get the sense that Connor doesn’t care much for Tasya. Their argument is interrupted when they hear a disturbance down the hall; the prisoner has escaped and has a gun. After giving MacLeod a final warning about “fire and death”, the man shoots himself in the head. Arman Volkov calls Connor and the others to the television, where a newscaster is reporting on the reactor explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear facility in Russia. As he describes the disaster, the reporter uses the words “fire and death”, while footage of the scene shows the trademark electrical energy of an Immortal Quickening coming from the facility. Overflowing with rage and despair, Connor vows to travel to Russia, intending to seek retribution for this horrible act with or with without the aid of his friends. Meanwhile, in Russia, a man watches the disaster on TV and mutters that this “is the end . . . and it’s just beginning.” As he walks away, we glimpse the same tattoo beneath his shirt.
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