SEASON SIX
Episode 7: Unusual Suspects

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

 

SCENE ONE

 
FITZCAIRN - My beloved partner, Percy Tynebridge...

[Tynebridge smiles on-cue and waves as he whispers an aside to Drimble.]

TYNEBRIDGE - I wonder what the hell he means by that.

FITZCAIRN - ...the finest solicitor in all of Britain, Norbert Drimble...

[Drimble stands and takes a little bow.]

DRIMBLE - [smiles, muttering to himself] We'll see who gets the last laugh, you blood-sucking bastard.

FITZCAIRN - ...and my dear friend and keeper of the purse strings, this many-sceptered Isle's only honest accountant, Simon Loxley.

[Loxley beams.]

TYNEBRIDGE - [leans to Loxley] You actually like him?

LOXLEY - [whispers back] Let's just say rich men come and go, but money is forever.
 

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SCENE TWO

 
[Tynebridge looks surprised. He turns to Drimble.]

TYNEBRIDGE - [surprised whisper] She actually loved him!?

[Drimble shrugs, uncomfortable. He turns to Loxley, passing the question on to him. Loxley is suddenly very absorbed in his tie and unable to respond to the question.]
 

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SCENE THREE

 
DM - Your personality.
 

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SCENE FOUR

 
MACLEOD - [gestures around] I thought you were getting tired of this racket. What's the big deal?

FITZCAIRN - Money, MacLeod!

MACLEOD - What else is new?
 

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SCENE FIVE

This interaction was not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE SIX

These lines are not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE SEVEN

This line is not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE EIGHT

 
[He looks at MacLeod beseechingly. Beat. MacLeod sighs.]

MACLEOD - If I had any sense, I'd leave now.

[Fitzcairn smiles, claps him on the shoulder.]
 

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SCENE NINE

INT. FITZCAIRN MANOR - LIBRARY - THE NEXT DAY

[Wood paneling, deep carpets, leather bound books. MacLeod is ensconced behind a large oak desk, an array of official looking papers spread out before him. Seated facing him are Juliette, Tynebridge, Loxley, and Drimble anxiously waving a two-page document.]

DRIMBLE - This is preposterous!

MACLEOD - What I find preposterous is that this comes as a surprise to anybody, especially you, Mr. Drimble.
 

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SCENE TEN

This line, and indeed, the entire 'multiple brandy glasses' bit, is not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE ELEVEN

The act break takes place here in the original shooting script (and in the domestic version).

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SCENE TWELVE

[ACT TWO]

[FADE IN:]

FITZCAIRN MANOR - LIBRARY - NIGHT

[A vicious rain storm pelts the windows. Lightning strikes. Thunder rumbles in the distance. MacLeod hangs up the phone.]

MACLEOD - No luck. The lines are down, I can't reach the police.

JULIETTE/LOXLEY - Police?

[Everyone is horrified at the mere mention of authority.]

[INSERT MATTE -- POV PERISCOPE showing an UPSIDE-DOWN half-frame view of Tynebridge. A rain drop hits the lens.]

TYNEBRIDGE - The police! We don't need the police, it was an accident. Tragic certainly, a completely... accidental kind of accident.

[Murmurs of agreement all around.]

MACLEOD - Or not.

[Juliette SHRIEKS with exquisite horror. MacLeod cringes.]
 

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SCENE THIRTEEN

 
[ANGLE - FITZCAIRN, OUTSIDE, HANGING UPSIDE-DOWN near the top of one of the large windows. This time, instead of watching the action from behind the portrait, he is peering in with a small PERISCOPE.]
 

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SCENE FOURTEEN

 
[INSERT MATTE -- POV PERISCOPE showing an UPSIDE-DOWN half-frame periscope view of Marie's legs as she walks away. One senses the periscope straining for a better view as she leaves.]
 

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SCENE FIFTEEN

 
[ANGLE THE WINDOW as Fitzcairn stretches too far with the periscope and takes an inglorious fall to the ground. Nobody notices.]
 

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SCENE SIXTEEN

These lines are not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE SEVENTEEN

There is no act break here in the original shooting script. (See SCENE ELEVEN)

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SCENE EIGHTEEN

 
MACLEOD - And the baker.

FITZCAIRN - [beat] I have a baker?
 

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SCENE NINETEEN

 
FITZCAIRN - But she was my maid. [beat] Besides, I'm the aggrieved party here, no need to get bogged down in petty details. What we need are facts.
 

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SCENE TWENTY

 
FITZCAIRN - [recovering] Then it's got to be Marie, out for my money after all.

MACLEOD - I don't think so.

FITZCAIRN - You're right. It was probably just the old Fitzcairn charm.

MACLEOD - No, no. She may have been after your money but I don't think she murdered you.
 

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SCENE TWENTY-ONE

 
[Lying beside the clarinet is A RAT. A dead one, flat on its back with its little rat feet in the air, and a yellowish drool around its mouth. Grabbing a magnifying glass from a shelf, MacLeod examines the reed on the clarinet.]

[INSERT: MAGNIFYING GLASS VIEW OF THE REED. It has little rat teeth marks and a similar yellowish substance on it.]
 

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SCENE TWENTY-TWO

 
MACLEOD - More rats?

TYNEBRIDGE - I'm sure of that.

JULIETTE - That certainly wasn't rats, Duncan.
 

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SCENE TWENTY-THREE

 
MACLEOD - ...the heart attack didn't really kill you... well, it killed you but not for long, and that you'll explain everything to her later.

FITZCAIRN - [grateful] Would you?

MACLEOD - Fitz, if I thought it would last, I'd poison you myself.
 

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SCENE TWENTY-FOUR

 
MACLEOD - And what about that sexy little black dress you loved so much?

FITZCAIRN - [moony] God, yes. Did you ever see anything like it?

MACLEOD - She had it made for the funeral two weeks before she poisoned you!

FITZCAIRN - Coincidence. Loxley killed me, it's plain as day. That greedy bastard is cold to the core. Money is all he thinks about.

MACLEOD - Then why'd you hire him?

FITZCAIRN - He's a fabulous accountant.
 

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SCENE TWENTY-FIVE

There is no act break here in the original shooting script. (See SCENE TWENTY-SEVEN)

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SCENE TWENTY-SIX

 
SENIOR/FITZCAIRN - I am Hugh... Hugh Fitzcairn.

[Tynebridge's eyes widen, then narrow.]

TYNEBRIDGE - Yu Yu?

SENIOR/FITZCAIRN - [hitting the H hard)] Hugh... Hugh Fitzcairn, Senior.
 

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SCENE TWENTY-SEVEN

The act break takes place here in the original shooting script.

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SCENE TWENTY-EIGHT

 
MACLEOD - Actually, I'd have to agree.
 

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SCENE TWENTY-NINE

 
[That pisses Juliette off and she fires. Twice. BANG. BANG. Senior goes down in a heap.]
 

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SCENE THIRTY

 
JULIETTE - (CONT'D) We could have been great, Duncan.
 

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SCENE THIRTY-ONE

These lines are not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE THIRTY-TWO

This line is not in the original shooting script.

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SCENE THIRTY-THREE

These lines are not in the original shooting script.

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