Continuing with Scene 234, including with edited material:
The warm glow from the fire and the candlelight only accentuate Vicki's beauty.
The mood is intimate, romantic, the light and shadows playing sensually off them both. He almost seems to lapse into a reverie.
(CONTINUED)
234 CONTINUED:
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And that's when Thursday's quote -
Page 103/Scene 234 - Barnabas: 'She would listen to it for hours... and claimed its tune would haunt her heart forever. It was her favorite gift.'
- comes up, followed by Friday's quote -
Page 103/Scene 234 - Vicki: 'The greatest gifts are always those given from love, no matter what they might be.'
- coming up, followed by the script explaining:
Barnabas looks at her a long moment, then, carefully...
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And that's when Saturday's quote -
Page 103/Scene 234 - Barnabas: 'Yes... no matter what they might be.'
- comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
He sits, takes her hand, looks deeply into her eyes.
BARNABAS (CONT’D) Have you ever been in love, Victoria? Truly in love?
VICKI Once... And you?
BARNABAS Yes ... once.
Their eyes hold a beat, then the tune comes to an end. Vicki closes the box.
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And as for the dialogue, Barnabas' line "It was her favorite gift" is dropped in the pilot, which seems a tiny bit odd considering Vicki then opines that the greatest "gifts" are given with love, though her line still works because it's already been established that the music box was a gift to Josette - and also cut is the entire section where Barnabas asks if Vicki has ever been in love and both Vicki and he respond that they have - however, at least with that section, it's confirmed in "SHADOWS IN THE '90s: The Dark Shadows Concordance 1991" that that section was indeed shot - and depending on how it was shot, parts of it may have actually made it into the pilot - but more on that below...
And when it comes to the direction and descriptions, in the pilot Barnabas actually takes Vicki's hand in his before he says "no matter what they might be", so if the hand holding was shot for the cut section, as it is scripted, it still appears in them pilot, only earlier - and Barnabas doesn't sit down where the script says he does because, as has been obvious in the latest captures, Barnabas has been sitting since Vicki offered the opinion that music box is lovely -
- and while in the pilot the scene picks up after the cut section with Barnabas and Vicki's eyes holding a beat, what actually follows is Vicki pulling her hand away from Barnabas and then she closes the music box.