And Even Yet Another New Slideshow

[Gothick]

Is this another scene that didn't make the final edit shown at the Festival?  I have no memory of it, but that means nothing.

I can't try to follow your chart because I look at it and my brain starts to warp...

Best,

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And so now we know the "woman" is Angelique. And more on that sometime later today...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Is this another scene that didn't make the final edit shown at the Festival?

The scene was definitely in the pilot. And more on that later today as well...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Now that Angelique has been identified, here's the chart -

- to include the current scene.

Setting up the scene and the actions within will be forthcoming...

[dom]

Ivana Milicevic was the only part of this DS I was excited about back in '04, and I never got to see her in the role of Angelique. She's the only Angelique I find even remotely appealing enough to believe Barn would have found her irresistible, especially enough so to have a dalliance with behind Josette's back.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

The way the script deals with what we've seen thus far of the current sequence is as follows:

EXT. COLLINWOOD - NIGHT

Clouds race in front of a full moon.

INT. DAVID'S BEDROOM - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT

As a light WIND begins to sound outside, MOVE IN ON DAVID. Asleep under the covers. Outside, the wind continues, growing LOUDER, more intense... and suddenly joined by an ETHEREAL WOMAN'S VOICE.

WOMAN'S VOICE
David... Daaaavid...

Half-asleep, David turns toward the window.

DAVID
Momma...?

WOMAN'S VOICE
David, help me...

DAVID
Wha... what's wrong?

WOMAN'S VOICE
Help me... please...

Trance-like, David rises up out of bed.

INT. UPPER CORRIDOR - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT

David's bedroom door cracks open. Now fully dressed, David walks out, still moving as if in a dream...

EXT. FAMILY CEMETERY - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT

The wind is whipping flurries of leaves across the old stones as David enters the sanctuary. Eyes wide, still in a trance, David starts toward the mausoleum marked "COLLINS."

WOMAN'S VOICE
It's so dark... Help me...

David continues on, past the stone building, into the

DARK WOODS

beyond, to a spot where two large trees jut from the ground like a giant "V." At the base of the trees, a MOUND OF LEAVES AND DIRT.

WOMAN'S VOICE CONT'D)
David... I'm here...

Eyes wide, like he's been overcome by the force calling out to him, David looks around and finds a RUSTED SHOVEL AND PICKAXE lying nearby. As the VOICE continues to call, David grabs the shovel and JAMS the blade into the earthen mound.

WOMAN'S VOICE CONT'D)
(like a shriek)
DAVID, HELP ME!

David digs frantically, throwing back shovelfuls of dirt as the wind HOWLS. He works himself into a FRENZY, jamming the shovel down, again and again, until he suddenly HITS SOMETHING.

WOMAN'S VOICE CONT'D)
...HELP ME!!!...

David drops to his knees, plunging his hands into the muck, scraping back leaves and mud until a glimmer of WHITE appears... revealing a HUMAN SKULL.

DAVID
NO!

Brushing away dirt, David uncovers the SKELETAL REMAINS of a woman, her bones still wearing a tattered servant's gown. A rotted necklace of garlic (like Willie found in Barnabas' casket), a large SILVER AMULET and several tarnished

RELIGIOUS CROSSES

dangle from the skeleton's neck. As David watches, the crosses begin to GLOW with a supernatural light.

WOMAN'S VOICE
The chains... they're choking me,
David...' Please, take them away...

Desperate, David RIPS them away. Significantly, he holds onto the SILVER AMULET as THE WIND SUDDENLY DIES DOWN. The woman's voice CHANGES TIMBRE, lower now, crueller, coming from behind him.

ANGELIQUE (O.S.)
I'm here, David.

Though, of course, not everything plays in the pilot the way it's scripted. But I'll deal with all of that at another time...

And yes, "crueller" is the way it's spelled in the script. 

[Gothick]

What a marvelous scene.  I wish I could remember it.

My friend Nicky wrote a very similar scenario for Angelique's resurrection in one of his fan fiction epics in the late 1990s...

G.

[Nicky]

Oh yeah!  Thanks Gothy.    I remember when this was released, I think collectively we writers for Shadows on the Wall were like ... hey!   

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Picking up where we left off with how the script deals with the scene:

David slowly turns, eyes going wide with fear when he sees THE SPECTRAL FIGURE OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN looming over him.

DAVID
Who... who are you...?
(scared)
Are you alive...?

Dressed, in 18th-century servant's clothing, her blonde hair aglow in the moonlight. She smiles darkly and begins to FLOAT toward David, unnatural, her arms reaching out to him.

ANGELIQUE
Not the way you think, my little
Angel...

Terrified, David gapes in horror as Angelique comes to him, her arms reaching out in a grotesque parody of an embrace.

ANGELIQUE (CONT'D)
But we will be friends all the
same.

DAVID
No... NOOOO!!

As her arms close around him, David SCREAMS. OFF -this...

FADE OUT

END OF ACT THREE

Though, again, keep in mind that not everything in the pilot is as it's described in the script.  And I'll get to those differences before too long...

[Uncle Roger]

Next to the earlier stalking of Carolyn, this is my favorite sequence.

[Cousin_Barnabas]

What bothers me about this is the same thing that bothers me in every other version of Dark Shadows.  We're introduced to a great character, and then -- all of a sudden -- some other force takes over the character.  We never get to know the character for him/herself.  It's happened since the original series and it has continued to happen ever since.   Well maybe not in Depp Shadows.  I can't really recall too much of that film at this point. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I'm so behind on posting the differences between the script and the pilot. Hopefully soon because there are just so many of them - particularly in the scenes that are upcoming. But before I get to any of that, this is how the current scene plays in the script:

ACT FOUR

FADE IN:

INT. VICTORIA'S BEDROOM - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT

Blue moonlight flickers through the windows, shimmering across Victoria's sleeping face when suddenly she HEARS DAVID'S SCREAMS echoing from somewhere inside the house.

DAVID (O.S.)
HELP!! KEEP HER AWAY!!

Stunned, Victoria throws off her covers, and bolts out of bed.

INT. GREAT HALL - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT

Victoria rushes downstairs in her nightgown, Roger and Elizabeth (both in night clothes) close behind. As they hit the floor, they find David frantically turning on the lights.

ROGER
David?

As the lights come on, REVEAL David, filthy, soaking wet, fingers bloodied from digging.

VICTORIA
David! What happened?

David whirls, eyes wide with fear.

DAVID
Don't let her take me!

David runs to Roger and grabs him in a desperate hug. Awkward, Roger. FLINCHES, like he's not used to holding his son.

ROGER
David, what's wrong? Where have
you been?

David looks up at him through tear-soaked eyes.

DAVID
By the old house...
(scared)
She's not real, is she? She can't
be real...

VICTORIA
David, who are you talking about?

DAVID
She was wearing a white dress....
and her hair was like gold.

ROGER
You must have been dreaming.

David digs into his pocket, desperate to prove himself.

DAVID
No! She was wearing this.

David pulls out Angeligue's SILVER AMULET, the tarnished metal GLEAMING, under the lights. Uneasy at David's emotional tumult, Roger turns to Elizabeth and Victoria.

ROGER
He's obviously had a nightmare....
you'd better get him upstairs.

DAVID
No... you've got to believe me...

As David clings desperately, Roger uncomfortably pries his small hands away.

DAVID (CONT'D)
Don't leave me!

ELIZABETH
Roger, he needs you.

Despite Elizabeth's plea, Roger backs off, leaving David crushed. As Victoria registers the little boy's terror...

End of scene. And as we can see, even though the end of the previous scene may have given that impression, David wasn't actually possessed by Angelique, as upcoming scenes with David will even more clearly show...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

In case you're wondering what Carolyn entreating someone (though I'm sure we all know who ) to come back is all about, here's how the current scene plays in the script as well as how it pretty much plays in the pilot:

INT. CAROLYN'S BEDROOM - COLLINWOOD - NIGHT

Joe's asleep in a chair by the bed, exhausted, as blue shadows slash across the room. REVEAL that the bed is empty, the covers, thrown off. PAN AROUND to REVEAL

CAROLYN

standing woozy on the balcony, her nightgown fluttering, a bloody bandage on her arm where she's ripped out the I.V. needle. Trance-like, her yearning almost unbearable, she

OPENS THE COLLAR OF HER GOWN,

her skin pale in the moonlight, baring her wounded throat to the night.

CAROLYN
Please... come back...

OFF Carolyn, reaching out into the darkness...

End of scene.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Oops - yesterday I forgot to post this production still of Carolyn's wounds:

It may depict the makeup that was intended for the hospital scene rather than the bedroom scene - particularly given she's wearing a hospital gown. But I honestly don't remember. And one might presume that in the hospital Carolyn's neck wound would have been bandaged - especially when no one really commented on it when she was brought into the hospital. But I figured it was better to leave posting it for this point rather than earlier because here we definitely know the wound was seen. 

[dom]

That's the best vampire bite wound I've ever seen.