The Immortal Kage is evil, evil, evil. From selling out his comrades in the Spanish Civil War to abandoning children to death at the hands of the savage Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, he has proven that he gives evil a bad name. Duncan's history with Kage is not a good one, and he is on Duncan's personal Better Dead list. But! What's this? Kage has reformed. He's become a good guy, has taken the name of John Kirin and become a Religious Personage.
Dr Anne is pretty sure when he dies that he shoulda stayed dead, but he doesn't, which really piques her curiosity. Duncan takes an interest when he finds that Kirin has had a Miraculous Resurrection which Really Isn't Done. His followers take the miracle at face value, but a reporter snoops around and is killed by one of Kirin's more rabid followers.
Duncan wants to kill Kirin, but Kirin won't fight because of his Big Religious Conversion which happened immediately upon his discovering all those dead little kids in Cambodia. Duncan is less than convinced, but he's not in the habit of beheading unarmed former villains, so he lets Kirin take a pass.
But the follower who killed the reporter is now on Duncan's trail and shows up at the loft. Kirin shows up at the loft. Lots of gunfire. The follower dies, gunned down by the cops. Duncan gives Kirin a lift out of town and abandons him to his vow to Do Good.
Questions:
1. We're talking Redemption here. Duncan obviously doesn't believe Kage is capable of being redeemed of all the evil he's done. What do you think? Should Duncan have whacked Kage?
2. Kage/Kirin breaks down when talking about the children who died in Cambodia. Since he knew he was abandoning them all to that fate when he left in the helicopter, does this seem contrived? Unbelievable? What?
3. Kage's temple was plastered with proverbs from various religions, rather as if he had opened multitudes of fortune cookies and had the messages inside printed large on the walls. What does this say about Kage's religion? His followers?
4. A bit of foreshadowing going on here, with Anne being so curious about Kage's recovery from death. I don't recall her taking him to bed and searching for scars, however. What does this say about Dr Anne? 5. If degrees of good and evil were determined by hair and pants, where does that leave Kirin? Kage?