Outlander Page #11

Season #1 Episode #1 - 'Sassenach'

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JACK RANDALL:

Fix BAYONETS!

The men begin to fix the long blades to their weapons.

Meanwhile Randall takes careful aim at one of the Highlanders

with a PISTOL. He FIRES -

-- the bullet whizzes past Dougal’s head in the darkness.

Dougal leans forward, his blood up and his expression

ferocious as he lets out a ROAR of battle. The other

Highlanders pick up the YELL and the sound unnerves the

redcoats as they fumble with their equipment in the dark.

JACK RANDALL (cont’d)

Port ARMS!

The soldiers whip their muskets diagonally across their

chests. The Highlanders are nearly on top of them now and

the soldiers are getting scared.

JACK RANDALL (cont’d)

Pre-SENT!

They thrust the bayonets forward, the wicked tips ready for

the on coming rush.

JACK RANDALL (cont’d)

Stand fast! STAND FAST!

(CONTINUED)

51.

CONTINUED:
(3)

DOUGAL:

Swerves away at the last second, the other two men swerving

at exactly the same moment.

THE REDCOATS:

Mystified at the sudden change. Randall narrows his eyes for

a beat, then realizing a moment too late -

JACK RANDALL (cont’d)

WHEEL ABOUT! THEY’RE BEHIND -

JAMIE:

And the other Highlanders are suddenly on top of them from

the rear. The redcoats are confused and scattered by the

attack. Jamie leaps/falls from his horse and crashes into

two soldiers, knocking them senseless before they know what’s

happening.

CLAIRE - A HUNDRED YARDS AWAY FROM THE FIGHT

Unwinds herself from the bush and the plaid (which she was

swaddled in) and gets to her feet. From this distance, she

can only see the flash of PISTOLS, SPARKS from steel swords

and bayonets clanging against one another, and hear the

sounds of desperate men locked in a life or death battle in

the dark.

She turns away from the sights and sounds of the battle and

strikes out on her own.

DOUGAL:

And his men now re-enter the fight, adding to the violent

chaos as the redcoats are forces to fight in all directions.

COPSE OF TREES:

A few minutes later, Claire is struggling through trees and

underbrush, trying to make headway over uneven and unfamiliar

ground. She stumbles and falls, tries to keep going despite

the difficulties.

THE FIGHT:

-- Rupert slashes at a redcoat soldier, dropping him in his

tracks.

-- Murtagh is locked in an intense battle with a redcoat who

knows exactly how to use his bayonet.

(CONTINUED)

52.

CONTINUED:
(4)

--Dougal going sword to sword with a SERGEANT.

-- Jamie dispatches a redcoat, then turns and is suddenly

confronted with Jack Randall. There’s a moment of

recognition between the two men -

JACK RANDALL (cont’d)

You -

Jamie snarls and takes a step toward Randall, but suddenly

TWO REDCOATS charge at him with bayonets from his blind side

just as Murtagh appears and attacks Randall. The upshot

being that both Jamie and Randall lose sight of one another

in the confusion of the fight.

Randall ends up pitching head first down some rocks and being

knocked unconscious. Murtagh ignores him and rejoins the

fight.

Jamie dispatches the redcoats and whirls around, searching

for Randall. He spots him at the bottom of the hill,

unconscious. With a snarl, he starts to move toward him, but

Dougal lays a heavy hand on him -

DOUGAL:

No time for that now lad!

Jamie has little choice. With a last glance down at

Randall’s form, Jamie heads off with Dougal.

EXT. CROSSROADS - NIGHT

A short time later. Claire is having a hard time of it.

It’s easy to get disoriented and she ends up changing

direction more than once. Finally, she comes to a stop at

what appears to be a CROSSROADS, with a few rough paths

coming together. She looks up at the brilliant night sky,

hunting through the stars for -

VOICE:

North star be over there.

Claire jumps back with a startled yell -- and finds Jamie

pointing to the sky from a short distance away.

JAMIE:

Didna mean to frighten ye.

Claire, refusing to admit that, pulls herself up and adopts

her best tone of the hospital scold.

(CONTINUED)

53.

CONTINUED:

CLAIRE:

Hope you haven’t been misusing that

shoulder.

JAMIE:

(massaging shoulder)

Yon wee stramash didna do it any

good.

Claire then notices FRESH BLOOD across his shirt. She

quickly moves to him, her instincts taking over.

CLAIRE:

You’re hurt! Have you broken open

your shoulder wound, or is it

fresh? Sit down and let me see!

He does as he’s told, sitting on a rock and letting her look

him over.

JAMIE (CONT’D)

This lot isna my blood. Not much

of it anyway.

CLAIRE:

(a little queasy)

Oh...

JAMIE:

Dougal and the others will be

waiting by the road. Let’s go.

He takes her by the arm and moves to leave, but she decides

to make her stand here.

CLAIRE:

No! I’m not going with you!

Jamie isn’t vexed at all, looks at her with slight amusement

JAMIE:

Yes, you are.

CLAIRE:

And what if I won’t? Are you going

to cut my throat?

JAMIE:

Why, no. You don’t look heavy. If

ye won’t walk, I shall pick you up

and sling ye over my shoulder. Do

ye want me to do that?

(CONTINUED)

54.

CONTINUED:
(2)

CLAIRE:

No!

Claire immediately regrets the note of alarm in answer. She

retreats into her professional mien once more.

CLAIRE (cont’d)

I mean... you can’t do that.

You’ll damage your shoulder again.

JAMIE:

Well then, since ye don’t want me

to hurt myself, I suppose that

means as you’re comin’ with me?

There’s that grin again, and Claire realizes that she really

doesn’t have any options here. Keeping her head held high,

she walks with him back into the trees.

EXT. CREEK - NIGHT

A few minutes later, Jamie and Claire have rejoined Dougal

and the others near a small creek. The men are in good

spirits, laughing and talking in the dark about the fight as

they mount their horses. They all seem to be accounted for,

so evidently they got the better of the redcoats.

Jamie swings up onto their horse and Claire scrambles aboard

once more -- this time he grunts in pain as she bumps his bad

shoulder.

CLAIRE:

Serves you right, brawling round

the countryside and chasing through

bushes and rocks. You’ve probably

got torn muscles as well as

bruises.

JAMIE:

Well, it wasna much of a choice.

If I’d not moved my shoulder, I

wouldna have ever moved anything

else again. I can handle a single

redcoat wi’ one hand -- maybe even

two of them. But not three.

(beat)

Besides, ye can fix it for me again

when we get where we’re going.

CLAIRE:

That’s what you think.

Rupert rides over, lifts a flask in salute to Claire.

(CONTINUED)

55.

CONTINUED:

RUPERT:

Here’s to you, lassie! For tipping

us to the villains in the rocks and

giving us a bit o’ fun!

The men CHEER and they drink up from hidden flasks. Claire

isn’t all that moved by the celebration. Jamie pulls out his

own flask and hands it to Claire.

JAMIE:

Better have a wee nip. It willna

fill your belly, but it will make

ye forget you’re hungry.

She hesitates, but then takes a nip, grateful for the heat it

generates within.

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