Yup, Joe bites it. Tears were shed, curses were flung at the producers and insinuations made about their parentage.

Methos really can still be alive and I'm taking it that way or else my soul would be totally crushed.

I dunno, the whole thing surprisingly lacked a sense of humor which is so uncharacteristic to Highlander, I don't know what they were thinking when they made it!