Before I finally get into the ways in which the release of Angelique scene is different in the pilot vs. the script, I'd like to say that, while I understand why the pilot combined the dining room scene in which Vicki asks about David with the scene in which Elizabeth actually tells Vicki about David's mother and all of that plays much earlier in the pilot, the opening of the release of Angelique scene really does play more interestingly in the script than it does in the pilot because in the script, rather than coming after the discovery of Kelly's body, as it does it the pilot, it comes directly after Elizabeth and Vicki have been discussing David's mother, so there could be an even greater possibility in the audience's minds that the woman's voice calling to David really could have been his mother's voice. But alas, that's not the way things play out in the pilot.
But anyway, the first difference is that rather than David asking:
Half-asleep, David turns toward the window.
...
DAVID
Wha... what's wrong?
...
David actually asks "Mamma, what's wrong?"
Then, rather than simply responding with:
WOMAN'S VOICE
Help me... please...
The voice calls out with "Help me... please, David, help me..." and as David makes his way to the cemetery, it continues to call out with "David, help me...", "Daaaavid..." again, and "Help me!" rather than the scripted line of:
WOMAN'S VOICE
It's so dark... Help me...
Then, rather than:
... At the base of the trees, a MOUND OF LEAVES AND DIRT.
WOMAN'S VOICE CONT'D)
David... I'm here...
In the pilot it's "I'm here, David..." followed then by "It's so dark..." And after David has feverishly dug though the leaves and muck to uncover the bones beneath, David does not scream -
DAVID
NO!
- as scripted. Nor does he discover that religious crosses dangle from the skeleton's neck. Instead, there is a jewel encrusted dagger stuck into the chest. Though when the voice asks that it be taken away, David does so. And it's at that point that Angelique announces "I'm here, David" and appears in the flesh, so to speak. And after David asks who she is and whether or not she's alive, rather than the way things are scripted -
Dressed, in 18th-century servant's clothing, her blonde hair aglow in the moonlight. She smiles darkly and begins to FLOAT toward David, unnatural, her arms reaching out to him.
- Angelique isn't dressed in an 18th-century white servant's dress with her blonde hair aglow in the moonlight. For one, the pilot's Angelique is a redhead - and for two, she's dressed in a red flowing dress as she is in this publicity still:
And in addition, as Angelique moves toward David, she does not deliver the line -
ANGELIQUE (CONT'D)
But we will be friends all the
same.
- as scripted but rather "But I shall love you... all the same" as she approaches him. To which David does not respond with -
DAVID
No... NOOOO!!
- but rather the terrified boy screams at the top of his lungs.
FADE OUT
END OF ACT THREE