Moving on to the next scenes in the sequence:
159 INT. FOYER
As David looks around for a beat, then quietly opens a door under the stairs.
159A INT. BASEMENT
GO WITH HIM as he starts down a winding, stone flight of steps toward the dark basement below. He is almost at the bottom, when suddenly, from behind ...
A HAND grabs his shoulder!
160 CLOSE - DAVID
As he almost jumps out of his skin. It is Willie.
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And that's when Saturday's quote -
Page 73/Scene 160 - Willie: 'What are ya doin'?! You can't go down there!'
- comes up, followed by the script indicating:
David twists in his grip.
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And that's when Sunday's quote -
Page 73/Scene 160 - David: 'Let go of me! I can go where I want! This isn't your house!'
- comes up, followed by the script explaining:
Now Vicki APPEARS IN SHOT, coming down the stairs.
VICKI David, come back upstairs. Willie's only concerned that you might hurt yourself. It’s dark down there.
David pulls away from him, runs up the stairs by Vicki. We HEAR him RUNNING OUT OF THE HOUSE.
VICKI I'm sorry, Willie. I'm sure David didn't mean to upset you.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 73/Scene 160 - Willie: 'That's okay ... that's okay. I just don't want nothin' happenin' to him.'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
And as the two of them go back up to the foyer, close the door, we HOLD a beat, and ...
SLOWLY PAN AWAY and TIGHTEN into the dark recesses of the cold, dank, stone cellar, where we SEE ...
A sinister, large, black COFFIN.
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End of scene and end of sequence.
And as for differences in the dialogue, when Willie sees David, he actually shouts "Davey! What are ya doin'?! You can't go down there!" - David actually responds with "Yes, I can! Let go of me! I can go where I want!", but the "This isn't your house!" part is dropped in the pilot - when Vicki arrives on the scene, she actually just shouts out "David!", the "come back upstairs" part is dropped there, but after Vicki explains that she thinks Willie is only concerned and that it's dark down there, she actually adds "Now, come on, let's go upstairs" - but the rest of the dialogue is delivered basically as written.
And when it comes to the differences between the script's direction and descriptions of scenes and what actually happens in the pilot, there are many differences. In Scene 159 as David makes his way through the foyer to the door to the basement, in the background we first see one workman walking behind him to put a bucket down on the floor, and then we see another workman who's up on some scaffolding working on a wall - in Scene 159A we do see David go down the stairs, but we also see him reach a gate with a link of chain hanging on one side of it, and David momentarily picks up the chain and makes a face as if to say that wouldn't stop him - and in scene 160, as David begins to descend another set of stairs, we actually hear Willie shout out his name - nowhere is Scene 159A or 160 do we see a hand grab David's shoulder - and David whirls around to see Willie rushing toward him before Willie grabs him to forcibly stop him from continuing down the stairs - and David does indeed run upstairs, but we do not hear him running out of the house - and we do not see Willie and Vicki go back up to the foyer and close the door because first Vicki goes up the stairs, and after looking down the remaining stairs, Willie follows - though once Willie has disappeared from sight, the camera does indeed pan to reveal the coffin, which is actually barely visible in dim candlelight, so it's completely unclear if it's black or not.