Continuing along with the sequence and with Gloria's reaction to Barnabas:
She likes what she sees. Then, examining him more closely:
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And that's when Monday's quote -
Page 75/Scene 163 - Gloria: 'Hey, where are you from? You talk kinda funny. I never seen you around here before.'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
(CONTINUED)
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163 CONTINUED
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And that's when Tuesday's quote -
Page 76/Scene 163 - Barnabas: 'Has anyone ever told you that you are a very pretty young lady?'
- comes up, followed by Wednesday's quote -
Page 76/Scene 163 - Gloria: 'Yeah, just about everybody. Right before they hit on me.'
- comes up, followed by the script explaining:
Barnabas frowns.
BARNABAS "Hit" on you?
She smiles seductively, walks up to him.
GLORIA Yeah, you know ... like when they only wantcha for your body. (a beat) But you don't look like that kind of guy. I bet you’re a real gentlemen.
She puts her hand on the side of his face.
GLORIA (CONT'D) What do you say, good lookin'... how 'bout givin' a lady a lift home?
BARNABAS I would be happy to.
And taking her arm, he leads her around the van.
164 ANOTHER ANGLE
As they come around the van, Barnabas turns, takes the girl in his arms. TIGHTEN TO HER as she giggles.
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And that's when yesterday's quote -
Page 76/Scene 164 - Gloria: 'Hey, big fella, can't you even wait 'til we get into the car?'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
She pushes herself up against him.
165 CLOSE - BARNABAS
As suddenly his mouth opens wide revealing two needle sharp, bone white incisors gleaming in the parking lot light.
166 BACK TO GLORIA
As her eyes go wide in horror, she SCREAMS.
167 BARNABAS
As he buries his fangs in her neck.
168 MUSCLES
Having heard the scream, is up on the steps, trying to see what's happened. He breaks into a run across the lot.
169 BARNABAS AND THE GIRL
Her body crushed to his, his mouth fastened to her neck. She is moaning in ecstasy and pain.
Suddenly, Muscles rounds the corner of the van, skids to a stop.
MUSCLES Wha—-!?
170 CLOSE ON BARNABAS
As he raises his head, the blood dripping from his mouth, his red-rimmed eyes burning.
171 MUSCLES
For a moment, he is immobilized, then suddenly he charges forward.
But Barnabas shoots out a powerful hand, grabs the boy by the throat, slams him violently up against the van.
172 MUSCLES' BOOTS
Frantically kicking as Barnabas finishes him off. And we . . .
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End of scene, end of sequence, and also the fourth act break in total as well as the first of the second hour.
And as for differences in the dialogue, it's delivered basically as written with the exceptions that Gloria doesn't refer to Barnabas as "big fella" (what a shame, right?
), and Muscles doesn't say "Wha—-!?" when he first comes upon Barnabas attacking Gloria.
And when it comes to the differences between the script's direction and descriptions of scenes and what actually happens in the pilot, Barnabas gives an unscripted understanding nod after Gloria explains what she meant by being hit on - Barnabas does take Gloria's arms but he doesn't lead her to the back of the van because she playfully pulls away from him as she makes her way toward the back of the van, though Barnabas, still holding her arm in his grip, whirls her around to face him - and Gloria doesn't push herself against him because once she sees Barnabas face to face again, what she sees but we don't quite yet see is his fangs - and Scene 172 is done differently in the pilot because instead of seeing Muscles' boots frantically kicking, we actually see Barnabas attack Muscles and Muscles scream, which may be the one and only time DC ever showed a male-on-male vampire attack.
And as a bit of Trivia, Scenes 167 though 170 were shown in 1990 on Halloween night as part of the
Horror Hall of Fame special's Sneak Peak World Screamiere segment, presented by comedian Sam Kinison, of all people. He introduced the clip with "Dark Shadows is back. The story of a monster who will suck the life right out of you. Oh, oh, they call them vampires. You know what I call them, divorce attorneys! Oh! OooohhhH!!" Funny, huh? Not so much!
(Though even he said afterward that he'd dug his own grave with some of his intros in the segment.) But honestly who cared what he said?! All we were interested in and thrilled to see was the clip!!
Especially when it was the first actual footage from the pilot that we ever got to see. And interestingly enough, on that same day in 1990, Scenes 167 though 171 were shown as part of a spotlight segment on the new series that CNN's
Showbiz Today did. So, if fans missed one of the shows, they might have caught the other. (And actually, there was a bonus when it came to
Showbiz Today because we also got three separate and brief glimpses of the scene of Barnabas spotting/chasing Sarah through the woods.) And something else that's also interesting is that once those two segments aired on Halloween, it seemed like nearly every article that came out about the show included a still of Barnabas attacking Gloria. But more on that once we get to October and beyond in the slideshow...