Setting up the current scene:
21 Willie moves off into night. Roger stares after 21 him, then turns to Maggie. CAMERA TRUCKS INTO TIGHT TWO SHOT.
MAGGIE You didn't have to fire him. he turns to her ROGER Your attitude also leaves much to be desired.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 9/Scene 21 - Maggie: 'You've been against me ever since I came here.'
- comes up.
And when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions for this scene, we have no way at this point of knowing if what's scripted and/or crossed out are how things actually played out because the scene was left on the cutting room floor and the footage was apparently destroyed. But then, as we'll see it's purely a character scene that doesn't advance anything that DC was interested in, so from that perspective it's no surprise it was left on the cutting room floor. If only the scene had appeared a bit later, and after having been released from the coffin, the occupant had shown up during Maggie and Roger's conversation and proceeded to chase them around the stable, maybe then and only then might it have survived!
One thing that is worth mentioning, though, is that DC indicates in his script that Scene 21 would begin with a three shot and then switch to the tight two shot of Maggie and Roger - however, the thing is that when Willie leaves the stable, Maggie isn't even part of that shot in Scene 20 because it's actually only -
- a two shot of Roger and Willie. So, it's highly unlikely Scene 21 actually begins as a three shot...