Finally setting up the next scenes in the sequence:
248 INT. DAPHNE'S ROOM - DAY
CLOSE on a small CRYSTAL attached to a gold chain, as it sparkles in the light, swinging, pendulum-like, in front of Daphne's face.
Eyes almost closed, Daphne is lying propped up on pillows in bed, slowly sinking into the deep trance.
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And that's where the Saturday's first quote -
Page 111/Scene 248 - Julia (O.S.): (hypnotically) 'Keep watching the crystal Daphne... Keep watching it...'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
PAN TO INCLUDE Julia sitting close to her, swinging the crystal. In the near b.g., Woodard and Patterson are looking on.
(CONTINUED)
Revised 2/27/90
248 CONTINUED:
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And that's where Saturday's second quote -
Page 112/Scene 248 - Julia (CONT'D): 'Your eyelids are getting heavier and heavier... Let them close.'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
249 CLOSE - DAPHNE
As her eyelids continue to flutter ...
JULIA (O.S.) (CONT'D) Let them closes, Daphne... Let them close.
And at last she closes her eyes as her whole face relaxes.
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And as far as the dialogue goes, Julia's first lines in Scene 248 are delivered exactly as scripted, but not in the same way as scripted, and there will be more on that below - and while the first part of Julia's second quote is also delivered as scripted (with a "Now" stuck in front of it), the "Let them close" part is completely dropped and the "Your eyelids are getting heavier and heavier..." part is moved to Scene 249 to combine with Julia's lines in that scene so that what actually plays in the pilot is Julia saying entirely off screen "Now, your eyelids are getting heavier and heavier... Let them close, Daphne... Let them close."
So, as far as the direction and descriptions go, in the pilot we don't actually see Daphne in Scene 248 because, as can be seen in Saturday's first capture -
Page 111/Scene 248 - Julia (O.S.): (hypnotically) 'Keep
watching the crystal Daphne... Keep watching it...' - Daphne is nothing more than a blur as the crystal twists in sharp focus as Julia instructs Daphne to keep watching it - and after Julia's lines the camera does not pan to include Julia sitting close to Daphne and swinging the crystal, nor do we see Woodard and Patterson looking on - in fact, as can be seen in Saturday's second capture -
- in the pilot, Scene 248 quickly transitions to Scene 249 - and Julia's dialogue is altered to be delivered as explained above.