Continuing on as promised:
Another beat.
VICKI Maybe, sometimes, your friend Sarah is wrong...
(CONTINUED)
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152 CONTINUED: (2)
DAVID She's not wrong! Sarah would never lie to me.
She smiles.
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And that's when Wednesday's quote -
Page 69/Scene 152 - Vicki: 'Maybe, someday, you'll introduce me to Sarah. Will you do that, David?'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
David looks at her suspiciously...
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And that's when Thursday's quote -
Page 69/Scene 152 - David: 'You're only pretending. You don't really believe she's real.'
- comes up, followed by today's quote -
Page 69/Scene 152 - Vicki: 'That's not true. I'm sure she is real. Certainly she is to you, and that's what counts. (a beat) I know that when I was a little girl your age, I had a small friend by the name of Amy, and nobody believed me either. But she was real, David ... real to me.'
- coming up, followed by the script really getting into what was dropped:
A beat as he studies her.
DAVID What did you used to do with this Amy?
VICKI I talked to her, we told each other things, we played games together.
DAVID Do you still see her?
VICKI (shakes head no) I stopped seeing her a long time ago.
DAVID When?
VICKI Oh, when I was eleven or twelve.
(CONTINUED)
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152 CONTINUED: (3)
He thinks about this.
DAVID Then she wasn't real. I'm never gonna stop seeing Sarah.
VICKI That's the way I felt too, but you'll see. There'll come a time when you won’t need her anymore.
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And that concludes the portion of the scene that doesn't appear in any version of the pilot. But before we get into that portion, lets go over the parts in this post that do appear.
As far as any difference in the dialogue goes, there isn't any: everything is delivered exactly as scripted.
And as far as any differences in the scripted direction vs. the actual pilot goes, there only one: Vicki doesn't smile before responding to David after he says Sarah would never lie to him because she takes a beat to think and then quite seriously asks if one day David might introduce her to Sarah.
Which brings us to the dropped portion of the script. Personally, it seems to me that Vicki's attitude and dialogue seem to discount the girl's voice that she herself heard coming from David's room. Did she think David had made up the girl's voice himself? Or perhaps she simply felt like forgetting about what she'd heard? But her dialogue would certainly seem to imply that as a child Vicki simply had an imaginary friend and it wasn't a child who was a ghost - or at least that's how Vicki perceives the experience as an adult.
Perhaps things were written the way they were because they wanted to position Vicki with only a belief in imaginary friends because they didn't want Vicki to seem to have had any type of supernatural experience until she meets Sarah for herself in an upcoming ep. And in the same vein, perhaps the reason it was dropped from the pilot was because they didn't want there to be even the slightest hint that Vicki may have experienced something similar to David's relationship with Sarah, whether Vicki perceived it that way or not. Who knows? But as far as whether or not the dropped part was ever shot goes, a synopsis of it was included in "SHADOWS IN THE '90s: The Dark Shadows Concordance 1991" along with synopses of all the other stuff that was shot but did not appear in the NBC version of the pilot. So we know for certain that it was shot. However, unlike the stuff that was dropped from the NBC version of the pilot but then restored for the MPI VHS, none of the dropped stuff from this scene was restored, which might lead one to believe that even though it was shot, as is the case with some other bits that were shot and not included in the MPI version (and another one of those will be coming up in the October slideshow with actual screen caps from it thanks to footage having been included on the DS Resurrected VHS), it was never included in what DC planned as the final version of pilot, so it wasn't material that had ever been edited out for the NBC broadcast but then later restored by MPI...