Highlander Cut Scenes

SEASON FIVE
Episode 3: Manhunt

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

SCENE ONE

[FADE IN:]

EXT. OUTSIDE BASEBALL STADIUM - SPRING TRAINING - DAY

[To ESTABLISH, as OVER this we hear the sound of starting cars, calls of "Later".]

CARL - [O.S.] Fifteen's not gonna get it done, Bobby.

EXT. PARKING LOT - OUTSIDE BASEBALL STADIUM - DAY

[The practice is over, the last ballplayers are climbing into their cars, taking off. CARL ROBINSON, late 20's, a tall, good looking black man in practice togs, stands standing near his red Ferrari. His monogrammed flash satin jacket might as well say "star." He is on his cell phone.]

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SCENE TWO

This line was not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE THREE

This flashback was not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE FOUR

The only dialogue in the original shooting script is Carl's voice-overs.

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SCENE FIVE

CARL - (V.O.) No way to tell 'em what happened. Hell, it didn't even make sense to me.

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SCENE SIX

No dialogue is in the original shooting script, just the actions as described below.

[Matthew pulls a small MONEY BAG from his coat, tosses it to one of the White Guys. The other White Guy tosses the rope to Matthew, and the two white men head off.]

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SCENE SEVEN

There is no dialogue here in the original shooting script, just a description of what happens.

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SCENE EIGHT

MACLEOD - It's okay. Joe's a friend. You can use his back room until we figure this out.

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SCENE NINE

CARL - [raises his arms, the wrists that are, for the first time in his life, unchained] You didn't treat me like a slave, Matthew. Ain't gonna forget that.

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SCENE TEN

MATTHEW - You are Immortal, Carl. It is time to put away mortal concerns. [beat] Besides, forgiveness is the power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

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SCENE ELEVEN

There is no dialogue in this scene in the original shooting script, just a description of Trey sitting in the stadium, with the ball & glove, whiskey bottle, and newspaper, silently thinking.

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SCENE TWELVE

[ANGLE - THE FRONT DESK as the DESK SERGEANT looks up from his file book, taking a BEAT to register what someone has just told him. He doesn't know what the guy is talking about.]

[He's looking at Trey Franks. Trey is as disheveled as before. No cigar, no sign he's drinking -- he just looks resolute, determined.]

TREY - I said, it's about Carl Robinson. About the murder. [beat] I know something.

[And OFF his look--]

[RESUME MACLEOD AND MATTHEW]

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SCENE THIRTEEN

MATTHEW - They were family. [beat] I made a promise.

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SCENE FOURTEEN

MACLEOD - All I did was find it.

MATTHEW - I bet you found him, too.

MACLEOD - No.

MATTHEW - You tell us where and you'll save yourself a world of trouble.

[MacLeod plays it well. He hesitates and then, as if he's been broken:]

MACLEOD - I won't tell you. [beat, off their looks] But I'll show you.

[AND OFF THIS--]

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SCENE FIFTEEN

CARL - But you did. [beat] You said I changed you. Fact is, you changed me. [off Trey's stare; he finds the words] You gave me something to live up to.

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