Setting up the current scene:
177 EXT. COLLINSPORT TRAIN STATION - DAY
As the train pulls into the station, and Julia, luggage in hand, steps to the platform.
WOODARD (O.S.) Julia!
(CONTINUED)
Revised 2/28/90
177 CONTINUED:
She turns and smiles. PAN TO INCLUDE Woodard approaching from the b.g.
JULIA Michael... (she hugs him)
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And that's when today's quote -
Page 79C/Scene 177 - Woodard: 'I appreciate your coming on such short notice. It's very good of you.'
- comes up.
And as far as differences in the dialogue go, there really aren't any.
On the other hand, there are certainly things that are different when it comes to the script's direction and descriptions of the scene and what actually happens in the pilot. One thing that's radically different is that in the pilot the scene actually takes place during a very rainy night, not during the day - and, yes, Julia, luggage in hand, does step to the platform, but afterward the camera does a slow pan up her body from her boots to the back of her head as she stands holding her umbrella against the rain, and then, as the script indicates, it's after she hears Woodard call to her that she turns and smiles (all completely deserving camerawork to introduce a character as important as Julia) - and the camera doesn't pan by including Julia as Woodard approaches because the angle actually cuts to Woodard alone as he approaches and then includes Julia as he reaches her - and they don't actually hug so much as Woodard takes her outstretched arm in an affectionate gesture.