Highlander Cut Scenes

SEASON FIVE
Episode 14: Duende

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

NOTE: The shooting script was originally titled "The Mysterious Circle".

SCENE ONE

RICHIE - [gives him a look] What part are you watching? [turns back to Luisa, looking smitten]

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SCENE TWO

[MacLeod's eyes go to Richie, who is clearly having a great time. He speaks as they applaud.]

MACLEOD - It's been a while since we just hung out together.

RICHIE - [warmly] Like old times. [beat] Thanks for inviting me up.

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SCENE THREE

EXT. CLUB HIDALGO - THE PRESENT - NIGHT

[The Club is closing. Richie and MacLeod are leaving, stepping into the street, and Richie looks a little chagrined.]

RICHIE - Is there anything you can't do?

MACLEOD - You pushed me up there. [beat] Besides, I think my zapateado was a little rusty.

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SCENE FOUR

MACLEOD - A hit and run accident. Ten years ago.

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SCENE FIVE

The flashback of Anna's accident happens here in the shooting script, without MacLeod's voice-over.

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SCENE SIX

CONSONE - You know I only care about you.

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SCENE SEVEN

These scenes at the barge take place before the act break in the original shooting script.

[Richie tries to lighten MacLeod's mood.]
RICHIE - So, how'd you learn to dance like that?
MACLEOD - From the Gypsies.
RICHIE - Figures.

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SCENE EIGHT

ANNA - She stays out late, she comes back too tired to dance... [beat] She's even talked about quitting. [She's on the verge of tears.]

RICHIE - She's 24. Maybe she just needs some space.

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SCENE NINE

ANNA - Maybe she's right. Maybe I am trying to live my life through her.

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SCENE TEN

RICHIE - So... you think I could be a dancer?

[He's trying to distract her, and OFF her wan smile--]

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SCENE ELEVEN

These lines were not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE TWELVE

MACLEOD - [pushes in close to him] Then let's find somewhere more to your liking. Just you and me. [fierce] We'll talk about old times.

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SCENE THIRTEEN

The act break happens here in the original shooting script.

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SCENE FOURTEEN

CONSONE - Let yourself believe you are defeated, and you will be.

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SCENE FIFTEEN

MACLEOD - [a fond smile] This one does.

CONSONE - [barely disguised fury] Perhaps you fail to understand our customs.

[Consone turns his head so that MacLeod will not see his anger. MacLeod is thoughtful, reflective -- not yet seeing the anger smoldering in the other Immortal.]

MACLEOD - Marriage isn't an easy thing for us. Staying in one place -- how long do we have before someone notices I'm not getting older? We'd have to travel. She'd have to leave all she knows. [pensive] She talks about children. I can't give her those.

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SCENE SIXTEEN

These lines were not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE SEVENTEEN

CONSONE - Have you no honor?

MACLEOD - How can you force yourself on a woman who doesn't want you?

CONSONE - You underestimate Theresa, MacLeod. You think you can turn her head with your gypsy dancing and talk of love... [beat] But she knows who she is. What she is. And where her duty lies.

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SCENE EIGHTEEN

RICHIE - Whoa! Have I come to the right place!

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SCENE NINETEEN

In the original shooting script, this scene stops here -- all of the dialogue between DM & the Housekeeper happen after the flashback.

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SCENE TWENTY

In the original shooting script, all of this dialogue happens after the 1853 flashback.

HOUSEKEEPER - You're a friend of his?
MACLEOD - [beat] For a long time.
HOUSEKEEPER - Such a lucky man. They'll be very happy together.
MACLEOD - [reacting] He and Luisa Hidalgo?
HOUSEKEEPER - [correcting, with pride] Luisa Consone, since this afternoon. The senor gave us the week off.

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SCENE TWENTY-ONE

[He takes her hand, tearing up--]

MACLEOD - Senora, I know you had a love when you were young. A man you never married. [beat] If he rode up to this gate today, wouldn't you want to see him? To talk with him?

[The Duenna's face shows how right MacLeod is... He pushes the advantage:]

MACLEOD - If you love her, Senora, please. Let me see her.

[Duenna sighs deeply, then relents. Opens the gate.]

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SCENE TWENTY-TWO

MACLEOD - Maybe...

[MacLeod drops his dagger, grabs Consone's arm in his left hand, and pulls himself deeper onto the sword and closer to his opponent. If it hurts, he doesn't feel it -- he's reached that state of grace that the dancers call duende. Consone is taken completely by surprise. He's unprotected as MacLeod swings with his free hand--]

MACLEOD - ...but not today.

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SCENE TWENTY-THREE

This scene takes place before the act break in the original shooting script.

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SCENE TWENTY-FOUR

LUISA - We'll go to America, Mama, or to Argentina. He won't come after us there.

ANNA - He'll come after us anywhere.

LUISA - I can't believe I married him.

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SCENE TWENTY-FIVE

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FADE IN:

EXT. BARGE/EXT. QUAI- DAY

[Richie's out on the deck of the barge. Pacing back and forth. He alternates between nervously looking at his watch and at the quai where MacLeod should be arriving.]

RICHIE - [to himself] C'mon, Mac. Where are you?

[As if on cue, the BUZZ. Richie turns in relief to see MACLEOD'S CAR finally arriving. As a weary MacLeod climbs out, he sees Richie approach.

RICHIE - You won.

[MacLeod nods.]

RICHIE - Was he as good as you remembered?

MACLEOD - He was better.

[He starts moving up the gangplank. Richie stays on his heels.]

RICHIE - How'd you do it?

MACLEOD - I don't know.

[MacLeod stops at the top of the steps, thoughtful.]

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