The series indicates a Quickening transfer involves not just power but also physical skills. Some episodes indicate a temporary transfer of knowledge, with immortals experiencing visions of the dead one's life. On rare occasion, personality traits and mannerisms temporarily manifest. In the fifth season episode , Richie Ryan briefly takes on the voice and appearance of Alec Hill, an immortal he killed the previous year, when meeting Hill's wife. In the film "Highlander: Endgame", which continues the canon of the TV series, Duncan MacLeod reluctantly absorbs the Quickening of an immortal he considers family and later manifests the man's face and voice during a battle against a mutual enemy, as if briefly possessed by a soul still inside him.