Setting up today's new scene:
REV. - 3/13/70
127. INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT
WIDE ANGLE - Roger picks up bottle of wine. Crosses around and pours for Elizabeth and from the right of Julia. CAMERA HAS TRUCKED with him until we are framed between Julia and Stokes. (Pouring from right frame.) A hysterical David appears. Present at the table are Liz, Roger, Todd, Julia, Stokes and Maggie.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 55/Scene 127 - David: 'I saw Carolyn! I saw Carolyn!'
- comes up.
But when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions, very little of that is how things actually play in the film. The scene actually opens with everyone mentioned sitting at the table in silence and Mrs. Johnson doing -
- wine pouring duty (and interestingly enough, it's Stokes who's smoking and not Julia) - and as Mrs. Johnson makes her way around the table, Stokes, Julia and Roger all -
- take sips of wine, but it's Julia who gets Mrs. Johnson's attention and quietly says an unscripted -
"I'd like some more, please." - and after Mrs. Johnson finishes pouring for Julia, we suddenly see -
- David appear at the far end of the hallway - and soon as he runs down the hallway he begins screaming today's quote -
- but he delivers it as "I saw her! I saw her!" - and he follows that with an unscripted -
"She's alive. She's alive." - as the camera pushes in on the stunned diners - and after David enters the dining room, he delivers an unscripted -
"Carolyn's alive."