And here's how Scene 20 plays in the original draft:
20 CAMERA WHIP PANS to the door. Roger stands there. 20
WILLIE - MAGGIE
Maggie breaks away. CAMERA TRUCKS BACK to THREE SHOT. Willie turns to Roger, hating him.
WILLIE What the hell do you want?
ROGER You're going to look for David.
WILLIE Find him yourself.
They stare at each other and then.
ROGER - EXTREME CLOSE UP
ROGER All right Loomis, pick up your pay in the morning.
MAGGIE Mr. Collins!
WILLIE Pick up my pay, huh? Okay you son of a bitch --
ROGER
He is nearly apoplectic.
BACK TO SCENE
WILLIE I'll pick up my pay. But I'll pick up a lot more, too, before I leave this hell hole.
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End of scene. And again, even the rewrite is still close to what originally was. Although, originally Willie was more angry:
- He demands to know "what the hell" Roger wants after Roger first arrives. Though for him to see Roger in his room from out of nowhere without Roger bothering to wait to be let in or to even knock before entering would anger anyone. (But then, that's classic Roger behavior because on the daytime show he always acts as if he owns everything despite the fact that Liz owns Collinwood. Although, in the film we really have no idea who owns Collinwood. It could be Liz. It could be Roger. Or it could be both, for all we know. It's never explained. But then, who owns Collinwood isn't much of a point to the plot, like it was on the daytime DS and in the Depp/DS film.)
- Willie calls Roger a "son of a bitch" - and it's really too bad that didn't survive the rewrite because then John Karlen could have had the distinction of not only being the only DS actor to say it, but to say it in both original films.
- And he characterizes Collinwood as a "hell hole." And it's too bad that we never really get an idea of why he would call it that - well, beyond the fact that David thinks nothing of playing vicious pranks on Maggie - but that doesn't affect Willie beyond perhaps his sympathy for her under the circumstances. We just have to presume that Roger must be pretty much an ogre to nearly everyone around him - and at least with Maggie, we'll get hints of that in upcoming Scene 21...