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[Highlander] An Immortal in Afghanistan is decapitated by shrapnel in a drone strike piloted remotely from Nevada. Who gets the Quickening?

As far as I'm aware, the Quickening goes to the one who kills the Immortal. Would that still happen here, despite it not being a duel, and the killer not being present? Would it go to the nearest survivor? Dissipate back to the Source?
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In the tv show, if an immortal is beheaded outside the presence of another immortal the quickening is lost and just disappears.


If the guy piloting the drone is an immortal then it’s kind of iffy. I’m the show there was a plot line about a guy who would use a crew of guys with machine guns to incapacitate other immortals and then behead them while they were recovering. He still went through the effort of cutting their head off with a sword though so it’s probably a necessary component in getting the quickening. Is guess the quickening would still be lost.