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As I mentioned..., DC's script drops the last directions/descriptions line from Scene 66 (which as one will recall deals with Tracy and Quentin waking up), so we're going to pick up things in Grayson's script with that entire last paragraph:
She hugs him and starts getting dressed. TRUCK IN
ON his face. As he tries to remember what happened
last night, his eyes get that faraway look.
CUT TO:
67 INT - MASTER BEDROOM - 1800 - NIGHT 67
SUBCONSCIOUS MEMORY CUT
A gray-haired man, CHARLES COLLINS, stands at the
window, his back to CAMERA. He is dressed in
period costume. If we see him walking, he limps.
Suddenly, the door flies open as GABRIEL, Charles'
brother storms in.
CHARLES
Have I no privacy, brother?
GABRIEL
It's for the last time, Charles.
Charles turns to him and we see his face. He has
a strong resemblance to Quentin, except for the
gray hair and a long scar on his cheek.
CHARLES
Would that it were. I'm sick
of your weak face.
GABRIEL
You've been with her, haven't
you? In that damn tower. You
still see her.
CHARLES
What's wrong with you, brother?
Don't you remember? Your wife
is dead.
GABRIEL
She still comes to you -- I
know it.
(then with deadly calm)
All right, if you want her so
much, you will have her...
67 CONTD CONTD 67
He starts toward CAMERA.
CUT TO:
68 INT - MASTER BEDROOM - 1971 - DAY - NORMAL COLOR 68
QUENTIN - CLOSE-UP
His face introspective, bewildered.
TRACY (O.S.)
Why are you just sitting there
staring at nothing?
WIDEN to include her.
QUENTIN
Oh...just remembering a dream, I
guess. A nightmare I never even
knew I had.
TRACY
Imagine not having to run to the
kitchen and make my own coffee.
Now get up.
She EXITS as CAMERA TRUCKS IN to his CLOSE-UP.
And as I alluded to..., what's interesting about Grayson's script's version of Scene 67 is that in DC's script it's been reworked as Scene 101. And, of course, in the film as it currently stands, Scene 101 doesn't even appear where it's scripted because, when the cuts were mandated, Scene 101, along with several other scenes following it, were moved to be parts of Quentin's dream on his first night at Collinwood and its aftermath. But more on that once we reach that part of the script.
And, yes, for Scene 67 Grayson's script does say "1800" rather than "1810", but no doubt it's just a typo...
And how interesting is it that the original idea was for Charles to be gray-haired...
The following is a list of scenes that are still lost and which are not present in the 129 min version recovered in 1999.
...
INT.MASTER BEDROOM-MORNING. Tracy gets up, Quentin in bed.
my Pansy is a wonderful girl, he says, beautiful, refined, cultured--she's English, and just disappeared, he says unhappily. He suggests they return to Collinwood. Tim says he'll join him in a moment. After Carl leaves, he picks up a scarf from the purple piece of furniture and suddenly hears Pansy' singing her song. He listens. The curtains blow in, and he's afraid. Pansy's ghost appears before him.Who are you? he asks, where did you come from? You aren't the one I'm looking for, says Pansy--I have so little time, I must find him. Barnabas? he asks.
...
DISSOLVE TO:
65 INT - BEDROOM - NIGHT 65
It is later. They are sound asleep. Through the
window the light in the tower starts to glow.
TRUCK IN ON Quentin. He finally opens his eyes,
quietly rises,and EXITS the room.Cut before he exits
66 INT - BEDROOM - MORNING 66
They are both in bed. Quentin is sound asleep.
She is wide awake. The alarm clock says 10:30.
Finally, she can't stand it anymore and quietly
starts to get out of bed.
QUENTIN (O.S.)
Hey! Where you going?
TRACY
I couldn't stay in bed any longer.
He stretches and yawns.
Why are yo so tired?.
(Revised 3/31/71)
66 CONTD CONTD 66
And that's when today's first quote -Page 27/Scene 66 - Quentin: 'I didn't sleep too well.'
- comes up, followed by today's second quote -Page 27/Scene 66 - Tracy: 'I've never slept like this before. Now get up.'
- coming up, followed by the script explaining:
She hugs him and starts getting dressed. TRUCK IN
ON his face. He tries to remember what happened last
night.
And as far as what's different with the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions beyond what has already been indicated above, DC's script also has a notation crossing out Tracy's "Why are you so tired?" and replacing it with "I thought you'd never wake", however, because Scene 66 doesn't appear in any version of the film, we have no way of knowing how things may have actually played. On the other hand, while Scene 65 doesn't appear in the film as it stands, it does appear in the 129 minute version...
And as a final note, the final descriptions and directions for Scene 66 are as they appear in DC's script - Grayson's script has an additional line because, as I alluded to before, Scene 67 is a completely different scene in Grayson's script than it is in DC's script and in the film, as is Scene 68 - but we'll get into all that after we've dealt with Scene 68 as it appears in DC's script...