Setting up today's new scene:
119 INT: HOSPITAL LAB - DAY 119
Julia removes a tray of blood samples from inside a refrigerator, carries them to a work table, begins examining them under a microscope. After a moment
119 CONTD CONTD 119
she looks up with a frown. She begins to re-examine those she's already looked at. There is a KNOCK AT THE DOOR.O.S Door opens - Stokes enters
JULIA Stokes Come in. it looks like that storm as the door opens, Stokes enters. will never end I'm still chilled JULIA from the cemetery I'll be with you in a minute, Eliot.
He crosses to the table and looks at the labeled blood samples in the box.
STOKES x to end of table Do you have blood samples of all the victims?
JULIA Yes.
STOKES Have they revealed anything to you?
JULIA - EXTREME CLOSE UP
JULIA (a puzzled frown) Yes, but I don't know what to make of it. |_______________________PROFILE PAN HIM TO HER
STOKES (OS) What do you mean? x ____ and Table to her CAMERA BACK TO TWO SHOT
as he CROSSES to her.
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 49/Scene 119 - Julia: 'I've discovered a cell in these samples that I've never seen before. It obviously must have entered the bloodstreams of the victims while they were being attacked.'
- comes up.
And when it comes to the dialogue, the descriptions, and the directions for this scene, it would be fascinating to know if the main reason DC didn't shoot Scene 118 was because he'd already envisioned shifting in editing from the blackness at the end of Scene 117 -
- to the blackness of the interior of the refrigerator before Julia opens it to retrieve the blood samples -
- (a transition he ripped off, er, paid homage to in the 3rd hour of the '91 DS when the action shifted from Daphne's funeral to Julia at the lab - but in that case the transition was specifically written into the script with no scene in between) - and there's actually the sound of thunder as Julia carries the blood samples to her work table - and we don't actually see Julia frown after first looking at the blood samples or her going right back to them again because she doesn't actually look up until Stokes arrives - but before all that what we do see is Julia check a file and frown -
-at it - and we see Julia check a few other things -
-around the lab before she actually settles down at the microscope -
- to begin work - and as we can see in the script, Stokes' knock, Julia's "Come in" and her "I'll be with you in a minute, Eliot" were all dropped in favor of Stokes letting himself into -
-the lab - and soon what he actually says is "Doesn't look like that storm will ever end", to which -
- Julia smiles and then goes back -
- to looking through the microscope before Stokes then says "I'm still chilled from that cemetery" - and after that Stokes actually says "I see you're still working on the blood samples of the victims", and Julia answers "Yes" - and it isn't until after that that Stokes walks over to her at the lab table -
- where he does indeed ask "Have they revealed anything to you?" - but Julia's extreme close-up, her "Yes, but I don't know what to make of it", delivered with a puzzled frown, and Stokes' "What do you mean?" are dropped in favor of the camera, as we can see in today's capture, never leaving -
- their 2 shot and Julia going directly into today's quote, which she delivers the first part exactly as scripted but the second part as "It obviously must have entered the body of the victims when they were being attacked."