And before we get into DC's script's version of Scene 63, here's the original draft's version of Jeff (and Todd) finding Maggie:
INT. STAIRWAY - OLD HOUSE - NIGHT
Jeff and Todd race up the stairs.
INT. CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Maggie, hysterical, crying, runs from the room.
MAGGIE Jeff!
Jeff and Todd run in. Maggie runs to Jeff's arms.
JEFF You're all right?
MAGGIE (crying, incoherent) David...he was outside the door. He wouldn't answer me. He -- he ran when he heard you.
Jeff and Todd look at each other.
JEFF Maggie, David's been back at Collin- wood for ten minutes.
MAGGIE
She is shocked, horrified.
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It's quite interesting that in the original draft there is a scene of Jeff and Todd running upstairs. It's also interesting that Jeff's original line explaining David's whereabouts is given to Todd in DC's script's version but then goes back to Jeff in the film because of Todd's absence. But what's also quite interesting is that the intermediate version of the script that was used for the novelization version is identical to the original draft with both the stairway and corridor scenes but for one exception: Jeff's line is already given to Todd. But what's most interesting is that, unlike Scenes 45 through 51, which are indicated as having been deleted in DC's script, there's no such indication for the stairway scene...