Before I posted Scene 164 from DC's script, I'd neglected to look to see how Scene 163 plays in the novelization. I'm not sure what to think of parts of it, so I'm going to share it:
Confusion reigned around the scene of the burning car. Both of the officers in it had been thrown from the vehicle by the force of the impact. Had they landed on hard asphalt this could have been fatal for them, but fortunately they had struck the comparatively soft surface of the lawns. But one of them was unconscious and the other was in shock and seemed to have a broken leg. Dr. Julia Hoffman at once rushed forward to attend to their injuries. Roger, Jeff and Maggie stood a distance away with several other officers. The intense heat from the burning car kept them from getting really close. Roger turned to one of the officers. "Is an ambulance on its way?" The young policeman nodded. "Sheriff has called the Ellsworth Hospital to send one. Good thing there was a doctor here." "I know it," Roger said grimly. "Any idea how badly those two are?" "Mike is still out of it," the policeman said. "And I think Alex is only suffering from shock. They're lucky to be alive." Roger sighed. "No doubt about that." "Any idea what happened to cause the wreck?" Jeff asked. The officer looked odd. "It's a mystery. I've talked to Alex but he's still confused. He raved on about seeing someone in the road. They tried to swing the car and avoid running whoever it was down. At least that's what he says. It could be just raving." Roger gave him a sharp look. "Later on you'll probably get a better account of it." "No question of that," the officer said. "Looks as if you had a good chance of losing that tree." "Unfortunate," Roger said. "But nothing compared to the fact two lives could have been lost. I hope that ambu- lance gets here quickly." "Shouldn't take long," the officer said, his eyes on the fire again. It was now beginning to ease some. Julia Hoffman came back to Roger, her pleasant fea- tures highlighted by the fire's rosy tint. "I've done all I can for them." "Will he live?" Roger asked. "He should," Julia said. "Unless he has injuries I don't know about. Only an X-ray can tell." Jeff turned to Maggie. "This has been some night." "It has," she was quick to agree. As they talked a fugitive Todd was hiding in the shrub- bery near the main building watching them. As soon as their attention was fixed on the accident he made a break for it and sneaked off into the darkness.
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And there you have it. And the main reasons why I don't know what to think about it are because of the ways Scenes 162, 163 and 164 are listed on the original shooting schedule. But we won't get into that until the next chart. But even now just a check of the interaction between Julia and Roger in DC's script's Scene 164 shows that Roger also asks Julia about the officer's condition in that scene, and that seems like it would be highly unlikely to go into the same subject all over again just a scene later, so...