Moving through the next several scenes in the sequence and coming to the current scene:
215 INT. THIRD FLOOR HALLWAY - DAY
As Vicki and David come up a narrow stairway.
PAN WITH THEM as they walk down a long, low-ceilinged corridor with a number of doors on either side .... At one time, this used to be the servant's quarters.
216 ANGLE AT DOOR
As they stop, David pulls out a bunch of big, old KEYS.
VICKI I suppose I better not tell your father about those, either?
He smiles his little smile, inserts one of the keys in the lock.
217 INT. STUDIO ROOM - DAY
The SOUND of the KEY BEING TURNED. Then the door swings open as Vicki and David enter.
She stops IN FRONT OF CAMERA, looking around, intrigued and surprised.
218 HER POV - PANNING
A small room with tall windows opening to the northern light. The dust and cobwebs suggest it hasn't been used for some time.
All the furniture is covered in white sheeting, a draped ARTIST'S EASEL stands by the windows, stacks of paintings against the walls.
(CONTINUED)
218 CONTINUED:
Also in evidence: brushes, a pallet, tubes of paint, etc.
219 BACK TO VICKI
As she looks at David.
VICKI Whose room is this?
He shrugs, crosses to replace the picture. As he lifts a sheet from a stack of paintings, Vicki walks over, kneels, begins to flip through them.
Similar in style to what we've seen, they are all brilliantly executed.
VICKI They're beautiful.
David nervously looks over his shoulder.
DAVID Yeah ... well we shouldn't be in here.
Vicki continues to examine the paintings, her educated eye passing from one to the next.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 97/Scene 219 - Vicki: 'But who painted them...? Surely you must...'
- comes up.
And in the script Vicki cuts herself off by noticing something in the room - but more on that tomorrow...
But for now, as for the dialogue, once again it's basically the same as written with only the slightest of differences here and there - but one thing that is different in Scene 219 is that Vicki actually finishes her second sentence by saying "But who painted them...? Surely you must know who painted them."
And so far as the direction and descriptions go, Scene 215 actually takes place entirely in the stairway as -
- David and Vicki ascend - and the corridor they come to in Scene 216 is not seen as "long," "low-ceilinged," or "with a number of doors on either side" because the actual shot -
- shows only a small portion of the corridor (and as a bit of Greystone trivia, unlike some of the tricks that were used in much of the series, the staircase used actually leads to the corridor seen - though trickery was used for Scene 217 because the door that David unlocks doesn't actually lead to the same room that was used as the studio) - Scene 218 was never shot because in one continuous shot Vicki enters the room, looks around very briefly, and then almost immediately asks whose room it is - and David doesn't cross to replace the painting or uncover some paintings in the process because Vicki is the one who has been carrying the painting the whole time, and it is she who, after noticing some paintings on the floor which are already uncovered, goes over to them, kneels down, and begins to look through them, and David follows behind her - and David doesn't actually look over Vicki's shoulder at any of the paintings because he's too busy looking around nervously before he says they shouldn't be in the room - and as Vicki asks about the paintings, she actually gets up and then begins to look at a table covered with painting paraphernalia, as can be seen in today's capture: