SEASON SIX
Episode 12: To Be

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

 

SCENE ONE

ACT ONE

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EXT. LE BLUES BAR - ESTABLISHING - NIGHT

DAWSON - (O.S.) Get outta here.

METHOS - (O.S.) I kid you not.
 

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SCENE TWO

 
MACLEOD - [beat] On my testimony.
 

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SCENE THREE

 
METHOS - Melodramatic certainly, but hardly practical.

MACLEOD - He loved her.

[Methos shrugs. MacLeod turns to Joe.]
 

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SCENE FOUR

This scene takes place before the Act Break in the original shooting script. (see SCENE SIX)

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SCENE FIVE

 
METHOS - [deadpan] MacLeod, don't go. MacLeod, it's a trap. MacLeod, it looks like rain.

[The strange tone in Methos' voice brings MacLeod up short. He turns to face him as--]
 

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SCENE SIX

The Act Break takes place here in the original shooting script.

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SCENE SEVEN

 
DAWSON - Just peachy. Except for a splitting head, I'm doin' cartwheels.
 

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SCENE EIGHT

 
AMANDA - [beat] C'mon, boys. If you're nice and let us go, maybe Santa will bring you opposable thumbs this year.
 

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SCENE NINE

 
FITZCAIRN - You're not Immortal here, MacLeod. [beat] We're only visitors. In on a gossamer wing and a prayer. [re: his line] Oh my, wasn't that lovely?
 

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SCENE TEN

 
FITZCAIRN - Oh, I would imagine so. It was her idea.

[OFF MacLeod's reaction--]
 

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SCENE ELEVEN

 
ALLAN - (CONT'D) Happy first anniversary.
 

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SCENE TWELVE

 
FITZCAIRN - Next time, it got a bit easier. So on and so forth.
 

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SCENE THIRTEEN

 
[MacLeod tosses money into the hat.]
 

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SCENE FOURTEEN

Scene ends without DM trying to punch Horton.

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SCENE FIFTEEN
NOTe: The "Prodigal Son" steps are in Chantilly, not Paris.

FADE IN:

EXT. PONT NEUF - DAY

[MacLeod is sitting on a set of steps. (Please Note: if possible, these should be the steps from the end sequence with Richie and MacLeod from "Prodigal Son.") A different section of town, obviously, than where Dawson lives. This one is nicely upscale, fashionable -- but MacLeod is moody, lost in his thoughts.]
 

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SCENE SIXTEEN

 
FITZCAIRN - If you can't see that... then you can't see anything. And I'm unemployed.

[MacLeod doesn't answer.]

FITZCAIRN - (CONT'D) What do I have to do to convince you?

[And just at that moment--]

TESSA - (O.S.) Could you watch the store, Gizelle? I'll be back in a moment.

[That voice. Instantly MacLeod turns at the sound, looks up at the stairs of an upscale storefront, and sees -- TESSA standing there, a vision of loveliness at the top of the stairs. She doesn't see him. MacLeod freezes, his breath stopping in his throat.]

MACLEOD - Tessa.

[And OFF MacLeod's reaction, we--]

FADE OUT.

THE END

TO BE CONTINUED...
 

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