Moving through several of the next scenes in the sequence:
237 INT. COLLINWOOD - VICKI'S BATHROOM - NIGHT
CLOSE VICKI, in her robe, looking in the mirror, as she brushes her hair. Then, turning she crosses into the ...
237A BEDROOM
Where she moves to the big four-poster, turns down the comforter.
238 EXT. WOODS - NIGHT
The dark figure of a man standing in the tree-line, looking up toward her window. TIGHTEN TO HIM ... It is ...
238A BARNABAS
A look of desperate longing on his face.
239 OMITTED
240 HIS POV - ViCKI'S LIGHTED WINDOW
And then, Vicki, in her gown now, appears, opens the windows. She stands there silhouetted against the light, looking out at the night.
241 CLOSE BARNABAS
His eyes burning with unrequited passion, as he stares up at her.
242 HIS POV - VICKI
Standing there for a beat longer, then turning and crossing away as the light goes out.
243 BARNABAS
As the inhuman curse within him begins to rise like the force of the wind, which has now begun to HOWL in the trees. His face begins to change, his eyes become cold, feral, burning.
TIGHTEN TO HIM as his mouth opens to reveal the bone white, needle-sharp fangs...
Then suddenly from o.s., the high, plaintive SOUND of a LITTLE GIRL'S VOICE CALLING ...
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And that's when the first part of today's first quote -
Page 107/Scene 243 - Voice (O.S.): 'Barn-abassss ... Barn-abassss..'
- comes up, followed by the script explaining:
Barnabas reacts, whirls around, listening intently, his eyes darting frantically about him. Did he hear it? Is it the wind?
Then, again:
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And that's when the second part of today's first quote -
Page 107/Scene 243 - Voice (O.S.) (CONT'D): Barna-abasss ... Barn-abassss..'
- comes up, followed by the script explaining:
Suddenly he FREEZES.
243A HIS POV
Standing deep within the trees ... the same small FIGURE of the LITTLE GIRL in white.
243B BACK TO BARNABAS
As he stares at her in stunned disbelief.
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And that's when today's second quote -
Page 108/Scene 243B - Barnabas: 'Sarah ...?! Is that you?!'
- comes up.
And as for what's different as far as the dialogue goes, while Sarah does call to Barnabas twice the first time around, in the pilot she only calls to him once the second time.
And as for what's different as far as the direction and descriptions go, when it comes to Scene 237A, before Vicki enters her bedroom, she shuts off the lights in the bathroom, and before she turns down the comforter on her bed, she shuts off the light on her bedside table - and when it comes to Scene 238, Barnabas actually walks aways through the trees before he comes to stand and to look at Vicki's window - and when it comes to Scene 240, it's actually very hard to tell if Vicki has removed her robe or not because she seems to be wearing the same thing as earlier, which begs the question as to whether or not she was even wearing a robe earlier or if the whole time she's simply been in her nightgown? - and when it comes to Scene 243, while we don't actually hear the wind begin to howl in the trees, Barnabas does indeed turn feral and he begins to snarl (and it's very interesting to read how this is described in the script because I've never been a big fan of the snarling, but it works as described in the script) - and when Barnabas freezes, the camera moves in even closer on his shocked expression.