The Due South Reunion Movie, Draft 1

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From the Due South Reunion Movie
(Tentative title: "Here Today, Yukon Tomorrow")
Draft 1
by P. Haggis/P. Gross

From Scene 4:
A snowdrift

FRASER (lying on top of his sleeping bag in long johns. He looks to the side)
Ray. (There is no answer) Ray? (as before) Ray. Ray. Ray!

RAY KOWALSKI (A voice from under a huge mound of fur blankets)
Mmmph.

FRASER (addressing one end of the mound):
Ray – are you all right?

(A hand appears from under the opposite end, followed by RAY's head. There is frost in his hair.)

RAY
Fraser. Are you a freaking psychopath?

Note to Paul Haggis and Paul Gross from Standards & Practices Department:
Please excise the word "freaking" from the script.


RAY
Fraser. Are you a freaking complete psychopath?

FRASER (Thinks for a moment)
Not that I'm aware of, no, Ray. Although (he chuckles) – there was that one nurse in Tuktoyaktuk who thought I –

RAY
Fraser! Do not start with me. "Am I all right?" No, I'm not all right, I'm freezing my nuts off here, and I –

Note to Paul Haggis and Paul Gross from Standards and Practices Department:
You cannot say "nuts" in the context of male testicles.

Note from Paul G to S&P:
What about female testicles?

Note from Paul H to S&P:
The "nuts" referred to here are a tin of salted peanuts carried by RK throughout the opening sequence. Please review scenes 1-3, 5-7.

Note from Paul H to Paul G: Quit antagonizing Standards & Practices, Paul, for Christ's sake, will you?


From Scene 17:
Ray's apartment in Chicago

(Interior. Door opens into apartment – DIEFENBAKER trots in, followed by RAY, who falls to his knees and kisses the floor. )

RAY
Yes. Yes. Yes, yes, yes! Terra Firma, Land o'Lincoln, Home Sweet Home, mi casa, be it ever so humble, home again, home again, jiggety-

FRASER (Stepping over his friend)
I get the idea, Ray.

RAY
Good. Great. Greatness.

Note from Callum Keith Rennie to Paul Haggis:
Could I not say "Greatness" here?

Note from Paul Haggis to CKR:
Why not?

CKR to PH:
Cliché. RK said it twice in Season 3, once in Season 4.

PH to CKR:
Three times is a cliché?

CKR to PH:
I don't repeat myself. Ray wouldn't either.

Note from Paul Haggis to Paul Gross:
Paul, could you have a word with Mr. Method about this?

PG to CKR:
Cal, say "greatness" in the scene or I'll do that thing to you again. You know what. When you least expect it.

CKR to PG:
I hate you.

From Scene 22

Interior. Ray's Apartment

FRASER
You know, Ray, all that time we spent together in the Territories, all those months on our quest looking for the Hand of Franklin –

RAY
--which we never found—

FRASER
Granted. All that time, wrapped in our fur-lined parkas—

RAY
--smelling like wet dogs—

FRASER
--the open vista of the North surrounding us—

RAY
--the snow-blindness giving me Excedrin Headache No. 2-freakin'thousand and twelve—

FRASER
--despite all our adventures—

RAY
--like the thing with the blubber—(shudders)

FRASER
Yes, Ray, with all those wonderful things, there's one thing I regret we never did.

RAY
What's that, Fraser? Eat nothing but ice for a week? Because I think we did that.

FRASER
No, Ray, this—
(He pushes Ray up against the wall, reaches into Ray's pants and

Note from Standards & Practices to Paul Haggis and Paul Gross:
What the FUCK?

Note from Paul Haggis to Paul Gross:
I did not write that! You know I didn't write that!

Note from CKR to PG:
I hate you. I really, really, fucking HATE you, Gross!

Paul Haggis to Standards & Practices:
Due to some late revisions, Draft 2 of "Here today, Yukon Tomorrow" may be somewhat delayed. Please accept our apologies.

[identity profile] kassrachel.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
::LOL::

This is fantastic. Thank you.

(Anonymous) 2003-09-27 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
ROFLMAOAPMP!

I wanna SEE this movie. NOW.

--Kellie
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[personal profile] reginagiraffe 2003-09-27 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
*snerk*!!

Very funny. *g*
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[identity profile] lamardeuse.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
If you bring PG a pint or two of Glenfiddich and plunk him in front of a keyboard, I think you just might succeed in getthing him to write this. Go for it! *g*

I especially loved--well, the whole thing, but the shitheady "female testicles" line is *so* him. Great stuff!

[identity profile] umbo.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
This was *great*!

[identity profile] imkalena.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
::weeping piteously::

Oh, Alliance-Atlantis, please, I'm begging you!

[identity profile] kiltslave.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Bwhahahahah! Loved it!
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[personal profile] twistedchick 2003-09-27 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
OH yeah!!!!

::wants job as costume designer::

[identity profile] sister-wolf.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It's funny meta! I like it, a lot! Snarky Paul, CKR being Mr. Actor Man. Plus, the dialogue sounds like vintage Due South. Marvelous!
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[identity profile] heuradys.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ow. My stomach hurts from laughing too much!

Bwahahahaha!

[identity profile] ajinamoto.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
When is this airing again?

/me rushes out to buy that DVD recorder and get digital satellite

This is just too funny.

[identity profile] bluster.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
:::falls on floor laughing hysterically:::

This is absolutely hysterical! Thank you so much for this!

[identity profile] rubyrosered.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
ROFL This is great!!

[identity profile] ardent-muses.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, SO funny. And it's not just DS fic. It's Meta-DS fic!

If only A-A would hire you to write the script. ::;sigh::: (Although you have fanfic I want to read before you enter into any other contractual obligations!)


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OMG

[identity profile] kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I am laughing...laughing hard...can't breathe. Oh, this was priceless. Paul Gross would soooo write this, given enough pushing (or mild suggestion;) Wonderful job! Lovely, just lovely.

[identity profile] chesamus.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I wanna see the movie - but what I REALLY want to see are the outtakes! Dear gods!!

[identity profile] lmondegreen.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Beautiful! Just beautiful!
LOL
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[identity profile] akite.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Can't type. Laughing too hard. Shay, you are the queen.
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Loved it!

[identity profile] theodosia.livejournal.com 2003-09-27 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
::raises eyebrow:: Ah, so now we get the real reasons that there's been no theatrical followup to the series....

[identity profile] aerye.livejournal.com 2003-09-28 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Paul, could you have a word with Mr. Method about this?

::Susan wanders off, giggling hysterically::
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[identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com 2003-09-28 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
I loved this! Oh, man, how I loved this. "Mr. Method"!

(Only now I want to see the rest of the salted peanut references.)

LOL

[identity profile] dementia-12.livejournal.com 2003-09-28 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, if only I was the director...

Paul, reach furthur down! Ok Cal, now you can...oops. Too late. ;p

D_12

[identity profile] shrift.livejournal.com 2003-09-28 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
My god! I laughed so hard I actually sprayed beer on my monitor! And I know I sometimes say that, but right now? So not joking about the spit-take.

You are a mad genius. I love your brain.

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