Setting up the new (though unshot) sequence:
176A INT. NYU SEROLOGY LAB - DAY
CLOSE on the unconscious face of a MALE PATIENT, his face covered with breathing apparatus. The CAMERA MOVES along an intricate network of intravenous tubes, heart and blood pressure monitors, and other equipment to reveal four white-clad, surgically masked figures hovering over the body on an operating table.
The room is gleaming with high-tech. Counterpoint to the location and what's taking place, MARIA CALLAS can be heard, swooning and soaring through "Madame Butterfly" piped into the lab from a stereo. (CONTINUED)
Revised 2/28/90
176A CONTINUED:
INTERNE #1 (very nervously) Patient's heartbeat, blood pressure and all vital signs constant... I wish I could say the same for myself.
176B CLOSE - ON A PAIR OF SERIOUS EYES
Which is all we can see between the mask and skull cap, as they look across to the interne and answer with a very classy English accent.
JULIA Are you okay, Tucker?
176C ANGLE TUCKER (THE INTERNE)
He nods, but he doesn't look okay. Sweat beads his brow.
176D ANOTHER ANGLE
As Julia turns to the man next to her.
JULIA Zipper him up, doctor. Any complications, I'll be in my office.
She turns to leave, then stops, and motions for Tucker to follow her. He does.
176E HALL
As Julia exits the lab with Tucker behind her. She quickly removes her mask and for the first time we notice her blood-splattered gloves. We also see her face. Almond-shaped green eyes and a severe expression belie the fact that beneath the professional facade is an exotic and sensual woman.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 79A/Scene 176E - Julia: 'Tucker, I find it hard to believe that someone who is interning for a career in serology can't stand the sight of blood.'
- comes up.
And of course, considering that none of this was shot, there's absolutely no way to know whether or not there might might have been any differences when it comes to the dialogue and/or any differences between the script's direction and descriptions of scenes and what might have actually happened in the pilot...
Though what is fascinating is all the background the current and upcoming scenes will provide about Julia. Background that, sadly, DC didn't feel needed to even be shot, much less included in the pilot. But then, as we're all too aware (especially when it comes to hoDS), DC will always jettison the character scenes in favor of the blood/gore/ripping/tearing because, well, he's that sort of director.