Picking up Scene 86 where we left off with Barnabas excusing himself to avoid Prof. Stokes' question about possibly knowing the Bromwells:
He crosses to a portrait on the other side of the room.
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And that's when Monday's first quote -
Page 30/Scene 86 - Barnabas: 'Naomi Collins, isn't it?'
- comes up, followed by Monday's second quote -
Page 30/Scene 86 - Liz: 'Yes. The first Barnabas's mother.'
- coming up, followed in the script by:
From his pocket, he takes a small velvet box.
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And that's when yesterday's quote -
Page 30/Scene 86 - Barnabas: 'I so hoped there would be someone like you to wear this.'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
He hands it to Liz.
LIZ Why, thank you.
CAROLYN What is it, Mother?
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And that's when today's first quote -
Page 30/Scene 86 - Liz: 'Look at this. Isn't it beautiful?'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
She holds up the necklace. It is the same one that Naomi wears in the portrait.
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And that's when today's second quote -
Page 30/Scene 86 - Carolyn: 'I've never seen anything like it.'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
However, when it comes to the dialogue, the directions and the descriptions, things don't quite play like that in the film. Barnabas does indeed cross to the portrait and ask if it's Naomi - but then in an unscripted move Liz crosses over to him as she answers exactly as scripted - though as we've seen all along, Barnabas has been holding a box -
- and one quite obviously too large to have ever fit in his pocket - and while the only change to Barnabas' next line is that he changes "there would" to "there'd", he doesn't actually hand the box to Liz because, as we can see in yesterday's capture -
- he simply begins to open it in front of her - and Liz' "Why, thank you" is dropped because her first reaction upon seeing the necklace inside the box is actually a reworked and startled "Oh, it's beautiful" as she reaches -
- to take it out of the box - and then Carolyn begins to come over behind Liz as -
- she actually asks "Mother, what is it?" - and then Liz holds up the necklace as she says an unscripted -
"Roger, Carolyn, look." - (though in the script DC has a note that the camera would pan up to a close-up of Liz - but that doesn't happen) and Julia gets up and moves closer for a better look as she let's out an equally astonished -
"Oh!" - and then Carolyn actually replies with -
"Oh, it's exquisite." - rather than the scripted "I've never seen anything like it" - (though in the script DC has a note that the camera would rack focus to Carolyn - but that doesn't happen either).