And I finally reach Friday's scene and four leading up to it:
170 EXT: STABLE AREA - NIGHT 170 HIGH ANGLE
as six policemen come through the archway and enter the stable area. Three of them go into the stable building. They all have flashlights.
171 INT: FIRST FLOOR STABLE - NIGHT 171
Two of the policemen are searching the downstairs area as one of them goes upstairs to the second floor.
172 INT: STABLE, SECOND FLOOR - NIGHT 172
as the policeman enters the shot from the stairs. He goes to the middle of the room and shines his flash- light around the room. Seeing nothing, he then starts back toward the stairs.
TODD - CAROLYN
They are behind a pile of old furniture. Todd is on the floor. Carolyn is over him. As the CAMERA SLOWLY TIGHTENS we can see that she is sucking the blood from his neck. He begins to MOAN. His arm swings out in a futile gesture. It knocks over a piece of furniture.
173 INT: STABLE STAIRS - NIGHT 173
CAMERA ON ground floor, SHOOTING UPSTAIRS, FRAMES the policeman about halfway down the stairs. He reacts to the sound of the falling furniture. He stops, turns around and goes back up the stairs.
174 INT: STABLE, SECOND FLOOR - NIGHT 174
The policeman enters SHOT, shines his light around the room again. This time he gets a glimpse of Carolyn's white dress on the other side of the room. He takes out a cross and starts moving toward Carolyn and Todd, calling to the men below.
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And that's when Friday's quote -
Page 72/Scene 174 - Policeman: 'Up here!! Up here!!'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
174 CONTD CONTD 174
CAROLYN - TODD
She reacts. Letting Todd go, she rises, looks around with fear in her eyes. O.S. we hear the SOUND OF SCURRYING FOOTSTEPS DOWNSTAIRS. The policemen con- verge on the stairs and begin to come up, ad libbing as they come.
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End of scene - though not end of sequence.
And when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions, things in the film are close to what's scripted but not exactly the same:
Scene 170 is definitely not shot from a high angle and six policemen do not come through the archway, enter the stable area, with three of them going into the stable building. What actually happens is that we see one police car drive into the stable area (not through the archway) and after three policemen get out, one goes off behind the car while the other move off in the direction in front of the car - And while that is going on, a second police car arrives with three more policemen, with the driver going off in the same direction as the two policemen from the first car and the other two from the second car -
- and while that is going on, a second police car arrives with three more policemen, with the driver going off in the same direction as the two policemen from the first car and the other two from the second car -
- move toward the stables.
And even though it was supposedly shot, Scene 171 is completely dropped in the film.
And when it comes to Scene 172, things play pretty much as scripted (except the policeman is already -
- holding a cross) until soon after the policeman begins to quietly look around because we then see Carolyn with Todd, who is not on the floor but on some sort of mattress and they are not behind furniture but still behind the screen as -
- Carolyn has at his neck - and then we see the policeman looking around -
- the middle of the room, and after he decides there's nothing to see, we see Carolyn with Todd again as he begins to leave, but his more pronounced steps announce to Carolyn that someone is there and she pulls away from Todd to listen closely -
- but after she hears the policeman going back to the stairs, she turns her attention back to -
- Todd's neck.
And then in a seeming overlap of the beginning of Scene 173 and the end of Scene 172, we see the policeman starting down -
- the stairs, though not shot from the ground floor up but the second floor down - and then things switch back to Carolyn and Todd as, in what the script describes as "a futile gesture," Todd's arm swings out, and while it doesn't knock over furniture as scripted, it does knock over -
- a pan and dishes - and having heard them clatter as they fell, the policeman rushes -
- back up.
And then for the beginning of Scene 174 doesn't play at all as scripted because we do not see the policeman enter shot as he shines his flashlight around the room again. What we do see is Carolyn react to the sound of the policeman coming up the stairs again and she pulls away from Todd as the policeman's flashlight beam discovers her, as seen in Friday's capture -
- and the policeman actually calls out "She's up here!" as Carolyn also -
- looks at him - but after he aims the cross -
- at her, she quickly -
- turns away and yells at its sight.