SEASON FOUR
Episode 5: Double Eagle
Scenes from the DVD set's "Final Shooting Script"
that do not appear in the episode.
SCENE ONE
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SCENE TWO
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SCENE THREE
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[It's Kit -- blood all over his shirt, but other than some discomfort, he seems fine. He gives an apologetic shrug. The Worker just stares, mouth open -- he's seeing a ghost. Kit pries the sack and the cash from the man's hand. He peels off a single bill, hesitates, then puts it back in his pocket.] KIT - But thanks for lookin' after it. [He heads for the outside door, the Worker still staring. Kit pauses at the door, feeling a bit bad about this.] KIT - Cheer up. Maybe the next guy'll stay dead. [He winks, and he's out.]
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SCENE FOUR
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INT. DOUBLE EAGLE GAMBLING PALACE - SAN FRANCISCO - 1888 [As hands come down hard on a piano keyboard. Widen as a piano player launches into a piece. We are in a well-appointed gambling den. The piano plays, high-rolling men in waist-coats and pocket-fobs gamble at poker and blackjack. At a roulette wheel, glamorous women kibitz and play with their partners. This is high-rolling 'Frisco in all its glory.] [MacLeod is at a blackjack table, a stack of chips before him, onlookers watching as he takes his card. The cards before him are a five and a four. He faces the Dealer -- a seven and a down card.] MacLEOD - Hit me. [The Dealer, an unpleasant balding guy of forty, slaps another card from the shoe, a nine.] DEALER - Eighteen. MacLEOD - That's close enough. [The Dealer's face tightens. Right-handed, he turns his down card over to reveal a three underneath. As he reaches for the card-shoe -- CLOSE - The Dealer's hand -- his left hand this time. He smoothly turns over a KING.] DEALER - Twenty. [beat] Tough luck, Mister. [He smirks and reaches for the chips.]
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SCENE FIVE
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SCENE SIX
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SCENE SEVEN
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SCENE EIGHT
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SCENE NINE
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SCENE TEN
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SCENE ELEVEN
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MacLEOD'S VICTORIAN - THE PRESENT - DAY KIT - How about we make it dinner instead? I've got business to attend to that can't wait... MacLEOD - Dinner it is. What'll it be, Italian or Chinese? KIT - Why don't we flip for it? MacLEOD - Why can't you just pick one, like everyone else? KIT - No risk, no pleasure. Where's your spirit? Come on, Mac... [He can't keep the gambler's gleam from his eye.] [MacLeod sighs, takes a coin from his pocket, tosses it.] MacLEOD - Call. KIT - Tails it's Italian. [MacLeod uncovers it -- HEADS. Kit's face falls.] KIT - I've been having a bit of a bad run... MacLEOD - How bad? KIT - [beat] A hundred and seven years. MacLEOD - And you're still gambling? KIT - [stubbornly] It'll turn around, Mac. This is a sure thing. I've come eight thousand miles in search of the perfect horse and I've found her. [beat; checking his watch] Gotta go. I'll pick you up at your place at seven. [He heads out. MacLeod shakes his head, picks up the plane and continues working.]
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SCENE TWELVE
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SCENE THIRTEEN
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MacLEOD - Kit, this is getting out of hand... KIT - No, it's getting interesting. [laying out his hand] Full house.
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SCENE FOURTEEN
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KIT - But I don't lose. Not Kit O'Brady... I can't. MacLEOD - Sorry, Kit. There's a first time for everything.
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SCENE FIFTEEN
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SCENE SIXTEEN
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SCENE SEVENTEEN
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SCENE EIGHTEEN
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SCENE NINETEEN
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INT. DOUBLE EAGLE - NIGHT - 1888 AMANDA - The latest dances from Paris. And stage girls, with the latest costumes... [seeing his look] You don't like the stage girls? MacLEOD - I was just thinking of Kit. [Amanda gives him some thought, too. About a nanosecond.]
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SCENE TWENTY
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EXT. RACETRACK - STANDS - THE PRESENT - DAY RICHIE - If MacLeod was seeing someone, he'd have told you! [reasonably] I mean, would you lie about something like that? [off her look] Lemme put it another way... AMANDA - Don't worry. I just want to get a look at the competition... [beat] Then push her onto the track. [Richie has had enough. He stops.] RICHIE - Then you're on your own. AMANDA - [suspicious] Why? Where are you going? RICHIE - The bathroom. You want to come? [He walks in the opposite direction. A BEAT -- Amanda moves in the other direction.]
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SCENE TWENTY-ONE
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SCENE TWENTY-TWO
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SCENE TWENTY-FOUR
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SCENE TWENTY-FIVE
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SCENE TWENTY-SIX
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AMANDA - A brandy for the Colonel and Mr. Hodge, Henry. Doubles... [beat] And make sure it's Napoleon. [The men doff their hats in appreciation as she moves on.]
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SCENE TWENTY-SEVEN
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SCENE TWENTY-EIGHT
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SCENE TWENTY-NINE
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SCENE THIRTY
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SCENE THIRTY-ONE
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INT. DOJO - MOMENTS LATER [MacLeod moves back to grab Kit -- but Kit is recovering. He shoves away from MacLeod, pulls his sword cane.] KIT - Nice try, MacLeod... but you can't keep us apart forever. [ANOTHER KICK -- the door splinters open and Amanda charges in. The two Immortals start squaring off.] AMANDA - It's not Holy Ground, MacLeod.
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SCENE THIRTY-TWO
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SCENE THIRTY-THREE
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SCENE THIRTY-FOUR
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EXT. RACETRACK - OWNER'S BOX - DAY The fifth race. Several OWNERS mill about expectantly, eager for the race. Amanda is there with them, caught up in the excitement as the horses are announced.] ANNOUNCER (V.O.) - [over P.A.] ...Dryad in number three. And in number four, ridden by jockey David Downs... Double Eagle.
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SCENE THIRTY-FIVE
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[Kit and Amanda are instantly at the window, binoculars up to see -- CLOSER - THE TRACK and the horses thundering out of the boxes, jockeys floating on their straining backs. KIT AND AMANDA are caught up in the infectious excitement.] AMANDA - Go... go! [bursting] Come on, Double Eagle! KIT - Look at her run! [A BEAT -- they look at each other, realizing they're cheering the same horse. There's a guilty BEAT, then -- ] KIT - GO DOUBLE EAGLE! AMANDA - [same time] C'MON DOUBLE EAGLE! [They're shouting over each other, close to jumping up and down. As the horses round the track -- RESUME - THE HORSES as they come thundering down the stretch.] [INTERCUT: KIT AND AMANDA cheering their horse and THE HORSES CROSSING THE FINISH LINE, Double Eagle winning.] [BACK TO AMANDA AND KIT cheering as they jump into each others' arms. Then, realizing who they are, they back away as if soiled by the experience.]
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SCENE THIRTY-SIX
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SCENE THIRTY-SEVEN
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SCENE THIRTY-EIGHT
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