SEASON FOUR
Episode 1: Homeland

Scenes from the DVD set's "Final Shooting Script"
that do not appear in the episode.

 

SCENE ONE

This line -- and subsequent action -- were not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE TWO

 
LALONDE - I assure you it is, Monsieur Bailey.
 

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SCENE THREE

 
LALONDE - ...but I leave you gentlemen to work it out.
 

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SCENE FOUR

 
RACHEL - ...but I was born here right enough.
 

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SCENE FIVE

 
MacLEOD - Visiting family.
 

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SCENE SIX

 
RACHEL - [beat] They say Loch Lomond is lovely this time of year.

MacLEOD - Then you should go there.
 

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SCENE SEVEN

 
IAN - I should have killed him and been done with it.

MacLEOD - And killed any chance we'd have for peace between our clans.
 

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SCENE EIGHT

 
MacLEOD - Our hearts play no part in it.

DEBRA - But you're a MacLeod.
 

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SCENE NINE

 
IAN - The challenge is made, wife.

MARY - [urgent] Think, husband. Would you have your only son dead over it?
 

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SCENE TEN

 
RACHEL - [beat] And you call yourself a MacLeod. [She turns her back on him.]
 

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SCENE ELEVEN

 
ANGUS - Did you hear how Brian McSwain was murdered?
 

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SCENE TWELVE

(In the shooting script, Angus is describing Brian's murder, not Kevin's.)

 
ANGUS - [beat] And there's no sign of Kevin.
 

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SCENE THIRTEEN

 
ANGUS - Brian McSwain's not laughing!
 

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SCENE FOURTEEN

 
RACHEL - I've seen him out prowling the moors.
 

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SCENE FIFTEEN

 
[Kanwulf tightens, ready to strike.]

RACHEL - I'd like to get a look at his room first.

KANWULF - [Relaxes, his hand leaves the letter-opener.] His room? He is staying at the inn?

[Rachel nods.]
 

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SCENE SIXTEEN

 
MacLEOD - [wry bitterness] I didn't know I was Immortal yet.
 

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SCENE SEVENTEEN

 
MacLEOD - Then it turned up in Paris.

DAWSON - So now you're returning it.

MacLEOD - It's not that easy.
 

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SCENE EIGHTEEN

 
MacLEOD - Somewhere out there.
 

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SCENE NINETEEN

 
DAWSON - There must be something you'd recognize. Something that hasn't changed.

MacLEOD - [beat] Just one.
 

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SCENE TWENTY

EXT. FIELD NEAR TREES - GLENFINNAN - 1618 - DAY

[The headstone and a freshly filled grave. MacLeod is using the tools of the time to carve the headstone, his eyes filled with emotion.]
 

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SCENE TWENTY-ONE

This line was not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE TWENTY-TWO

 
RACHEL - I have some apologies to make.
 

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SCENE TWENTY-THREE

This line was not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE TWENTY-FOUR

NONE of these voice-overs were in the original shooting script.

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SCENE TWENTY-FIVE

NONE of these voice-overs were in the original shooting script.

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SCENE TWENTY-SIX

 
KANWULF - Yield, and die fast. This axe was made by Odin himself.
 

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SCENE TWENTY-SEVEN
(This scene was moved to the end of the episode, with the final scene's lines as voice-overs.)

EXT. MOUNTAINTOP NEAR CASTLE - DAY (SCOTTISH SHOOT)

[HIGH AERIAL SHOT -- MacLeod with his father's sword. In the shadow of the ruined castle, he performs a kata.]

[CLOSE - MacLeod as he performs the kata. (NOTE: this should be matched and shot in Vancouver). All his youth seems to be in the blade -- a lifetime of memories, of love, of pain. As he performs his kata, we--]

[INTERCUT: MACLEOD'S MEMORY - BRIEF FLASHES]

[Debra running to him. Robert dying in his arms. MacLeod claiming Ian's sword. Debra falling to her death. His father Ian denying him (Note: from episode "Family Tree").]

[RESUME - MACLEOD'S KATA - AERIAL SHOT (SCOTTISH SHOOT) as MacLeod finally plants the sword in the earth. The practice is done, his demons exercised. He is ready.]
 

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SCENE TWENTY-EIGHT

 
KANWULF - I'm glad. It's been too long since we tasted blood together.

[They close, battling across the fields. Kanwulf fights as he used to, using great broad strokes -- but MacLeod is vastly better than their first encounter. He blocks the axe-blows, drives Kanwulf back with heavy blows from the Claymore. Finally Kanwulf draws his sword, and attacks with both. He's good at this, but MacLeod is ready. MacLeod smashes the sword down, knocks the axe up -- and delivers a chest-blow to Kanwulf.]

[Kanwulf staggers back, dropping the sword, amazed at the sight of blood on his chest.]

MacLEOD - Where are your gods now?

[Kanwulf bellows in rage, leans back and throws the axe with terrific force. MacLeod is ready. He deflects it with the Claymore.]

[ANGLE - A tree as the axe slams into it, bites deep into the wood. Kanwulf knows he's lost, snarls defiantly as MacLeod stands over him.]

KANWULF - I'm ready.

MacLEOD - So am I. [He swings -- and Kanwulf dies.]
 

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SCENE TWENTY-NINE

EXT. NEAR HIGHLANDER MONUMENT - DAY (SCOTTISH SHOOT)

[Dawson is looking up at the statue of "THE HIGHLANDER" as MacLeod steps up beside him. They spend a moment there.]

DAWSON - [V.O.] Ever think of staying?

MacLEOD - [V.O.] Too many questions. Better just to disappear.

DAWSON - [V.O.] I guess that's what legends are supposed to do.

[MacLeod turns and walks out of frame. Dawson stays there a beat, then turns and follows.]

 

EXT. ROAD - GLENFINNAN - DAY (SCOTTISH SHOOT)

[AERIAL SHOT - MacLeod as he walks the road away from Glenfinnan, growing smaller in the distance, as we pull away and--]

[FADE OUT.]
 

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