Enjoy

Here's the original script - hardly changed at all by GW standards:

SABOTAGE
INT. MESS - DAY
(twrds end of ep 3) CAROLINE and MAC are sitting in the mess. GUY plonks himself heavily between them.
GUY
I hear there’s a room going in your house?
CAROLINE
Errrr... no. Don’t think so.
GUY
Let me put this another way: Angela’s going to be the new doctor on daytime TV. So she’s moved out.
CAROLINE
When was she going to tell me?
GUY
Let me put this another way (puts on strange strangled Northern voice) Ah dooooon’t cayre. SO, here’s you with a free room, and here’s me without anywhere to live.
He moves his hands together, interlacing the fingers.
GUY
Two problems weave together. Like in a Jacquard Loom.
CAROLINE
I don’t understand.
MAC
It used a sort of primitive punch card system.
CAROLINE
I’m not talking about the loom.
GUY
Can I move into your flat? Just for a bit. Until I get myself sorted out.
CAROLINE looks over at MAC, who has a studied non-expression.
GUY
Don’t look at him! Can I? Please? you know, recently my life’s been kind of... complex and-
CAROLINE
(terrified GUY’s going to start talking about JOANNA) Oh god, yes! Whatever! I’ve got to start work.
CAROLINE scuttles off.
MAC
(conversationally) A ‘sabot’ was a kind of wooden clog, worn by impoverished french workers. And as a protest against the Jacquard Loom, which they feared would take away their jobs, they’d throw their ‘sabots’ into the delicate machinery to destroy the workings. From which we get the modern word ‘sabotage’.
GUY
So?
MAC
So, if your plan to move into Caroline’s is in any way an attempt to ‘sabotage’ our relationship, I will hit you in the face with a wooden clog.
GUY looks a bit freaked out. MAC pats him on the head, and saunters off.


I love the bit where Caroline says:- When was she going to tell me.

I love how they put in all teh extra bits.

Like: CAROLINE scuttles off

but the last lines suffers sorely without the swear word in it.... gives it a bit of extra punch i like to think. and i LOVE the bit where guy has that cool face on in the show and hes like 'what was the first bit again??.... about the loom???

yesh.

i agree

Mac hardly eveer swears, so when he does, it's like WOAH!

yeah the swearing really works well.

i think it turned out better than the script even though its really similar.

you see the series 1 script book, is it going to be the ORIGINAL script? or is it how it is in the show?

Who knows?

Who cares?

It's a GW script!

I want to get mine signed by Victoria or someone. :D

:lol: well said!

yeah that would be cool. there hasn't been any more news on a signing has there?

I think we'd know if there had been.

But remember they olny told us abput the DVD eiht days before.

Which is, if my maths is correct, TOMORROW!

I doubt it'll be exactly as we got it in the eps because of the improvisation they did in the show but my guess is that it'd be the shooting scripts... or maybe penultimate draft scripts or something like that. It was the penultimate draft ones for the Father Ted script book and that made it that bit more interesting than publishing the final draft scripts as we could see the little changes that had been made at the last minute. Always interesting to see earlier forms of what we now know.