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Season #1 Episode #1 - 'Sassenach'- Year:
- 2014
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Frank stops on the threshold, peers at the sill.
FRANK:
Now, what do you suppose that is?
Claire moves for a closer look.
CLAIRE:
Good Lord -- it’s blood!
FRANK:
Are you sure?
CLAIRE:
I should think I know the look of
blood by now...
(CONTINUED)
5.
CONTINUED:
FRANK:
(peers at neighboring
houses)
There’s a stain just like it on the
house next door. And the next. We
seem to be surrounded by homes
marked with blood.
They look about for a moment at the darkened door sills. The
street is empty at the moment, and the quiet feels unnatural,
disturbing. Claire finally breaks the tension -
CLAIRE:
(light)
Perhaps Pharaoh has refused Moses
and the spirit of death will travel
the streets of Inverness this night
sparing only those who mark their
doors with lamb’s blood.
FRANK:
You may be closer than you think.
This could well be part of a
sacrificial ritual -- but pagan
rather than Hebrew.
CLAIRE:
I had no idea Inverness was such a
hotbed of contemporary paganism.
FRANK:
My dear, I think you’ll find
there’s no place on earth with more
magic and superstition mixed into
its daily life than the Scottish
Highlands.
Frank grins and OPENS the door and Claire gingerly steps over
the stain before entering the inn.
LINGER a moment on the blood...
INT. MRS. BAIRD’S BED & BREAKFAST - FOYER - DUSK
A few minutes later. Frank fills out the registry book while
Claire looks around. MRS. BAIRD (60’s) a squat and easygoing
woman, sets up their account and fetches the room key.
(CONTINUED)
6.
CONTINUED:
MRS. BAIRD
When a new house is built in these
parts, the custom -- since far back
in the Old Days -- is to kill
something and bury it under the
foundation. The blood ye saw is
that of a black cock. The houses
on this street being what ye call
yer “pre-fab homes” the new
residents are only just now havin’
the chance to honor the old ways.
She drops her voice as if sharing an intimacy.
MRS. BAIRD (cont’d)
Some folks in these parts believe
that the late War was due to people
turning away from their roots and
omitting to take proper precautions
-- such as burying a sacrifice
under the foundation.
FRANK:
(quick)
hearth.
MRS. BAIRD
-- excepting haddocks, of course.
FRANK:
-- never burn a haddock’s bones or
They share a laugh.
CLAIRE:
Please don’t encourage him, Mrs.
Baird. My husband is a historian
and could easily stand here all day
trading ancient aphorisms.
MRS. BAIRD
A historian is it? Are ye a
professor then, Mr. Randall?
FRANK:
Not officially, but soon.
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