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Season #1 Episode #1 - 'Sassenach'
Synopsis: Claire is brought to Castle Leoch under suspicion as an English spy. Learning that the year is 1743, she tries to arrange travel back to the standing stones. Colum MacKenzie uses her ability as a healer as an excuse to detain her.
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)

Or burning fish bones on the

hearth.

MRS. BAIRD

-- excepting haddocks, of course.

FRANK:

-- never burn a haddock’s bones or

you’ll never catch another.

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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Ronald D. Moore

Ronald Dowl Moore (born July 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek; on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, for which he won a Peabody Award; and on Outlander, based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon. more…

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