Belatedly dealing with yesterday's sequence:
131 EXT. OLD HOUSE - NIGHT
Deep in the woods ... A large ruin of a three-story, stone structure, heavily overgrown with weeds and vines. Its crumbling veranda choked with leaves, fallen branches, etc..
A beat, and then Barnabas ENTERS FRAME, at the edge of what must have been, a long time ago, manicured formal gardens.
132 CLOSE - BARNABAS
As he stands there for a long moment, looking at the decaying old mansion. 133 INT. OLD HOUSE - FOYER - NIGHT
The only light from a cold moon filtering through the rotting shutters and unhinged, decaying front door.
In the b.g., WE SEE Barnabas mount the veranda, slowly cross into the ruin of a foyer, stop in EXTREME CLOSE UP.
He stands there for a beat, eyes taking it all in, overwhelmed by the moment. Then, in a hoarse voice, choked with emotion:
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And that's when yesterday's quote -
Page 56/Scene 133 - Barnabas: 'Father ... I have come home...'
comes up, followed by the script continuing with:
And as WE HOLD on his tortured eyes, we . . .
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End of the sequence. And not only is it also the third act break in the pilot, it's the end of the pilot's first hour.
And when it comes to what's different, in Scene 131 we do not see a deep in the woods exterior shot of the Old House showing the house and its crumbling veranda or Barnabas entering from what was long ago a formal garden - what we do see is Barnabas climbing up stairs though fallen tree limbs and other debris, and then he stops after reaching the edge of a terrace - in Scene 132 we do see a close shot of Barnabas as he stands looking at the decaying mansion, but that is also followed by Barnabas making his way through more debris to the entrance as we hear howling in the distance - and in Scene 133 we do not see moonlight, or rotting shutters, or a decaying front door, nor do we see Barnabas mount a veranda and cross into a ruined foyer - what we do see is a close overheard shot of Barnabas already in the foyer, and after he climbs a few steps, as scripted he does indeed stand there for a beat, eyes taking it all in, overwhelmed by the moment, and then, in a hoarse voice, choked with emotion, he announces to his father that he has come home, which is then followed by a clasp of thunder as the camera pulls back to show Barnabas standing in the ruins of the foyer, so the scene does not end with the camera holding on Barnabas' tortured eyes.