I didn't get the chance yesterday to deal with yesterday's quote, so a bit of a belated continuation with Scene 15:
ROGER Elizabeth, you've never even met this girl. She’s been hired by our lawyer!
LIZ It doesn't matter. I have absolute faith in his judgement.
Roger shakes his head in disbelief.
ROGER She's a twenty-five year old girl!
LIZ She's highly qualified.
ROGER (then, in frustration) All right, since I've been unable to convince you that boarding school is the answer ... let's at least try to put him back in the town school.
(CONTINUED)
15 CONTINUED:
LIZ Why do you continue to deny the fact that after what happened, they will never take him back.
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And after that line, it's unscripted, but Roger turns away and sighs - and that's as far as the scene goes in the pilot as aired on NBC. However, MPI restored the rest of the scene, beginning with:
A beat, Roger turns, crosses to slump heavily in a chair by the window. He takes a swallow of brandy.
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Though while Roger is walking over to the chair, also unscripted, he simply says "Elizabeth" and then he slumps in the chair and rests his head against his left hand. And as Liz walks over toward him, she delivers yesterday's quote:
Page 7/Scene 15 - Elizabeth (to Roger): 'He needs a family. He needs a father.'
It's also worth noting that as Roger mentions that Vicki was hired by their lawyer, he walks over to the bar, and as Liz says that doesn't matter, Roger does indeed pour himself a brandy (thank God!). Though he doesn't take a swallow of it after he slumps in the chair. And it is quite titillating how the script simply hints at something happening at the town school with David that was so serious that they'll never take him back...