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Season #1 Episode #1 - 'Sassenach'

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CLAIRE:

He has accepted a post at Oxford

beginning in two weeks.

(CONTINUED)

7.

CONTINUED:
(2)

MRS. BAIRD

Ach, then this is a last holiday

before settling dun to the workaday

life again, is it? Well ye picked

a bonnie time to be here, just nigh

of the Beltane Festival.

FRANK:

(to Claire)

One of the four pagan sun feasts.

Beltane being the feast of the

spring equinox.

MRS. BAIRD

Ye’ll both be welcome, of course,

but mind ye -- ghosts are freed on

the feast days and they’ll be

wandering about, free to do good or

ill as they please.

CLAIRE:

Ghosts?

MRS. BAIRD

Oh, sure now, lassie.

(low)

Like up at Mountgerald, the big

house at the top of High Street?

Ay, there’s a ghost. A workman

killed in the eighteenth century as

a sacrifice for the foundation.

Mrs. Baird leans forward over the wooden counter, warming to

her subject as she tells an old ghost story to the young

couple in her parlor.

MRS. BAIRD (cont’d)

The story goes that by order of the

house’s owner, one wall was built

up first, ye see? Then a stone

block was dropped from the top of

it straight onto one of the

workmen. They buried him in the

cellar and the rest of the house

built up over him.

(beat)

To this day, he haunts the cellar

where he was killed, excepting on

Beltane, when he’s freed to walk

the streets of Inverness once more.

(beat)

A word to the wise: be careful

after dark.

(CONTINUED)

8.

CONTINUED:
(3)

She lets that hang in the air for a beat, leaving Claire and

Frank unsure for a moment whether they’re being had. But

then it dawns on them that she’s perfectly serious.

Frank finds his voice first.

FRANK:

Thank you, Mrs. Baird. We’ll keep

that in mind.

MRS. BAIRD

(hands Claire key)

Ye’ll have the room up the stairs

and first door to the left.

Breakfast is at seven and tea at

three.

CLAIRE:

Thank you. Oh -- I was also

wondering if you knew of anyone in

the village with knowledge of the

plants in the area. I have a

particular interest in medicinal

herbs and I’d be very interested in

learning about the local varieties.

MRS. BAIRD

I should introduce you to Mr.

Crook. He knows all about the

plants in the area, I’m sure he’d

be more ’n happy to show you.

CLAIRE:

Thank you, again.

Claire and Frank head toward the stairs.

INT. MRS. BAIRD’S - SECOND FLOOR LANDING/THEIR ROOM - DUSK

Moments later, Frank carries the luggage as Claire unlocks

the door and lets them into their modest, if well-kept room.

We might notice that Frank and Claire automatically separate

soon after entering the room, and that there’s almost always

a physical distance between them in any given space.

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