Wrapping up the scene and the sequence:
ROGER (CONT'D) Now, if you will please go downstairs...
She starts for the door when...
ROGER Miss Winters...
She turns back to him. His anger seems to be dissolving. When he speaks, there will be a strangely pathetic quality to the words.
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And that's when today's first quote -
Page 99/Scene 225 - Roger: 'This room... and everything in it... does not exist...'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
A lone moment as they stand there looking at each other. Then Vicki quietly nods, turns, and leaves.
HOLD on Roger as he watches her go, then turns to stare at the unfinished portrait. And . . .
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End of scene and end of sequence.
And as for the dialogue, Roger actually says, "Please go downstairs" and he adds "anymore" to the end of his last line, as in "doesn't exist anymore..."
Though as for the direction and the descriptions, they're played out as written.
And given DC's penchant that when it doubt, cut the character material, it really comes as no surprise that when it came time to set a final cut for the pilot, DC decided to jettison this whole sequence. And chances are the reason Scene 39 was cut from the NBC version of the pilot was because this sequence was cut. And both cuts are quite unfortunate because they reveal so much about Roger's character - especially this sequence because it definitely softens Roger's edge. Thank heavens the decision was made to salvage it by including it in Ep #4. Though because of the way they used it in Ep #4, it takes on some tones that are unlikely to have been intended when the script was written, chief among them are that Ep #4 makes it seems as if David having seen the painting of the woman and baby and his encounter with his father in the studio are somehow related to David's subsequent attempt to hurt Roger - that his experiences in the studio somehow caused him to run from the studio, gather Roger's handkerchief, pipe cleaners, and some hair from his hairbrush, and then set it and a fetish figure on fire, all under the influence of his mother, as Maggie theorizes.
Though unlike how the original series might have handled things, one does have to give the 91 series props because when it came to shooting the new stuff that follows the salvaged footage from the pilot, they actually dressed David and Vicki in the exact same outfits they were wearing in the salvaged footage, right down to Vicki's jewelry.