PLEASE GO NO FURTHER IF YOU ARE AT ALL SQUEAMISH OR SENSITIVE  TO PEOPLE BEING BURNED.

THIS STORY IS NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED.  CONTAINS SCENES, WHICH SOME MAY FIND DEEPLY DISTURBING, OF BEING BURNED.  NO OVERT VIOLENCE OR SEX.

Methos needs to clear out the cobwebs he has accumulated over the past two thousand years.  He has a unique and unpleasant way of doing it.  Who knows where the legend of the Phoenix came from originally?  Perhaps from him ...