Setting up the new sequence:
160A INT. ROADHOUSE - NIGHT
A typical New England roadhouse, just outside of Collinsport.
(CONTINUED)
160A CONTINUED:
Noisy, crowded, raucous, the kind of place where the beer and the music go all night. Several YOUNG PEOPLE are crammed onto a small dance floor amidst the hooting and hollering.
Carolyn, looking sexy as hell, is dancing up a storm. Her townie FRIEND is having a tough time keeping up.
160B ANGLE AT BAR
A slutty-looking, pretty mini-skirted young girl, GLORIA, is draping herself over her boyfriend, MUSCLES, a typical punk in a black leather vest.
But he only has eyes for Carolyn, staring at her as she undulates on the floor. A beat, then undraping Gloria, he heads for the floor. She glares angrily after him.
160C ON DANCE FLOOR
Carolyn, concentrating on her moves, spins away from her partner, doesn't notice Muscles moving toward them. The tough guy taps the townie on the shoulder. The kid takes one look and disappears. Carolyn turns back to find she's got a new partner.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 74/Scene 160C - Carolyn: 'Hey, what happened to...?'
- comes up.
And as for anything different in the dialogue, Muscles actually mouths an unscripted "Move it" after he touches Carolyn's dance partner's shoulder - and when Carolyn turns back and notices that her original partner has been replaced by Muscles, what she actually asks is "What happened to, uh...?"
And when it comes to the differences between the script's direction and descriptions of scenes and what actually happens in the pilot, there may be fewer differences here than in the previous sequences - but there are still some. Scene 160A actually starts off with a shot of saxophones playing as the roadhouse band performs, and then as the camera pans the band and then the crowd, we soon see Carolyn dancing - shortly Carolyn and her partner move further into the crowd and by the time of Scene 160B they pass by Gloria and Muscles at the bar - and in an unscripted move, Carolyn notices Muscles (who actually wears a leather jacket, not a vest), takes his beer from his hand, takes a swig, and then hands it back to him, none of which exactly thrills her dance partner or Gloria - though Carolyn soon moves on, followed by her partner, sort of like he's Carolyn's puppy dog - but Carolyn's actions have definitely 'stimulated' Muscles, who soon disentangles himself from Gloria and goes off in Carolyn's direction, leaving an angry Gloria behind - and after Muscles gets rid of Carolyn's dance partner, we notice that while Carolyn has been turned away, she's actually been dancing with another guy (shades of the original series' Carolyn is Ep #2!!
).
Sadly for Carolyn's original dance partner, the actor portraying him goes unidentified in the pilot's credits. And he's not even identified on IMDb.
And finally, eagle-eyed viewers may actually spot Matthew Hall as an extra at some point in the above sequence.