[Jose escorts MacLeod -- now wearing a fresh shirt -- onto the terrace. MacLeod smiles to himself as he watches Mia race towards the dovecote.]

ARMANDO - [on phone] They'll sue us... We'll sue them.
 

 
DM - [makes a face] Very unpleasant.

ARMANDO - Pardon?
 

 
ARMANDO - [beat] Now who the hell are you, really?

[MACLEOD gets the BUZZ. He stands quickly and scans the grounds, focusing on the trees.]

MACLEOD - Lunch is over. Get inside the house...
 

 
ARMANDO - [stiffly, to MacLeod] You're right, MacLeod...
 

[MacLeod motors down the drive.]

[MacLeod is away from the Chateau, driving down the heavily-treed road -- he's hit by the BUZZ. At the same moment he rounds a corner, and there ahead of him -- KATYA standing directly in the road, sword in hand. As MacLeod slows, she turns and walks into the woods. Stops once to meet his eyes, then continues. She disappears into the undergrowth. MacLeod pulls to the side of the road.]

[As MacLeod climbs from his car and lifts out his katana. He heads after her.]

[CAMERA FOLLOWS MacLeod as he moves warily through the trees, his sword leading, alert for an ambush. The BUZZ grows stronger. He steps into a clearing to find KATYA waiting, her sword at her side. She makes no move to run or to explain -- it's clear she wanted him to find her.]
 

 
KATYA - [V.O.] [beat] (E) The government didn't care about the poor like they do here in Europe.

[The others in her party move on. Young Elena is invisible to them, but ELENA'S EYES lock on Katya. She opens her hand to Katya. Her large dark eyes are pools of need that seem unfillable. They also seem to expect nothing. Katya looks at the outstretched hand, the hopeless look her heart goes out to her.

KATYA - [V.O.] (CONT'D) Over the years, I'd lost so many people. I was afraid to let anyone in again, afraid of the pain of losing them. [beat] Then, there she was.
 

 
[ELENA AND KATYA turn and walk down the street together, away from camera, holding hands. AS THEY WALK and turn a corner, into the camera, Katya stays the same, but Elena becomes -- EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ELENA]
 

 
[Elena's now dressed like a modern young woman, her arms linked with Katya’s, the two of them like buddies.]
 

[RESUME -- MacLeod's blade is at Katya's throat.

MACLEOD - Who was Elena?

KATYA - She was my daughter. [beat] Armando Baptista murdered her.

[Her voice rings with pain, an unspoken agony. MACLEOD slowly lowers his blade from her neck.]

[FADE OUT.]

[END OF ACT ONE]
 

[As Katya paces before MacLeod.]

KATYA - And then that bastard killed her.
 

[MacLeod and Katya sit on a fallen log, their swords propped against the log. The road just outside the woods is visible from where they sit. In the opposite direction, the outer walls of Armando's estate can be seen.]

KATYA - I found Elena Moreno in Buenos Aires. Millions of people... and she was alone. Barely surviving. [beat] She was only six years old.

[TRANSITION TO:]

*The rest of the flashbacks from the end of Act One take place here in the shooting script.*
 

 
[Armando walks off. Jose steps up to MacLeod, waiting. MacLeod sighs, knows what's coming. He raises his arms, lets Jose Pat him down. As his hands go to MacLeod's legs.]

MACLEOD - [with a wry smile] A little higher on the left.

[Jose glowers. The Receptionist stifles a smile.]
 

 
[She falters, feeling the rage dissipate.]

KATYA - I could kill you where you stand.

MACLEOD - Maybe. But then you'd still be hungry.
 

 
MACLEOD - It leaves you emptier. [beat] And I don't think you need to be emptier. [beat] That hole in the place where your soul used to be. It won't be filled by hate or revenge or Armando's death.

[Katya turns away. It's not something she wants to hear. MacLeod moves with her.]

MACLEOD - (CONT'D) You have to fill the hole with life. Your life. For you. And for Elena.
 

[MacLeod and Katya in his bed. Their lovemaking is part frantic dance, part ritual, both older than recorded time. The heat of their need fills the barge as two perfect bodies channel grief into the desperate passion flaring between them, seeking life in the shadow of death. Her nails carve a trail down the sinews of his back as their bodies unite in comfort, unite in pain.]

[DISSOLVE TO:]

[In the midst of their lovemaking, Katya begins to laugh, as the hole in her soul begins to fill with joy. MacLeod stops moving.]

MACLEOD - Was it something I said?

[She shakes her head and pulls him to her once again.]

[DISSOLVE TO:]
 

 
KATYA - They broke me. Shattered me. I was innocent and I thought my faith in justice would save me. I was wrong. [beat]
 

 
[She puts the coffee aside, and with business-like finality, zips her leather jacket.]

MACLEOD - Don't do it.

KATYA - [starts to turn away] Thanks for the night.

[She turns and heads off the barge. MacLeod watches her go.]

[FADE OUT.]

[END OF ACT THREE]
 

[MacLeod's car is in the drive. MacLeod is at the door, facing the HOUSEKEEPER.]

MACLEOD - You have no idea where they went? No forwarding address, no phone number?

[The Housekeeper shuts the door in his face.]

MACLEOD - (CONT'D) Thanks for your help.

[MacLeod heads down the walk -- then turns and moves down the side of the chateau. NEW ANGLE as MacLeod approaches a window and peers in--]

[MACLEOD'S POV - THROUGH WINDOW: He sees the HOUSEKEEPER in the room, packing suitcases. She lifts a CATHOLIC GIRL'S UNIFORM with a distinctive badge on the tunic.]

[MACLEOD reacts and moves away from the window.]

MACLEOD - (CONT'D) Thanks for your help.

[He heads for his car.]
 

[Jose walks down an otherwise empty corridor. A pair of French doors lead to a courtyard outside. Passing the doors, he turns a corner and walks O.S. KATYA is out in the courtyard, moving stealthily along the wall. THE FRENCH DOORS jimmy open in two seconds. Katya slips into the corridor, looks around, then deliberately SLAMS the doors. JOSE, hearing the noise, hurries back around the corner to investigate.]
 

 
MACLEOD - You do this and nothing will ever be the same. You'll never heal.

[Katya stiffens.]

KATYA - The only way you're going to stop me is to kill me.

[Katya pushes past him and goes down the hallway.]
 

 
ARMANDO - How did you find me?

KATYA - [beat] Call it a mother's intuition.
 

 
KATYA - He's out for a while. This -- [indicates gun] Is... or was... his. [beat]