From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: QL: DUFE, what they cut from the script, major SPOILERS!!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:19:33 GMT

Ziggy says there's a 100% chance of spoilers after this...



This is the THIRD time I've tried posting this. First Netcom went down in
the middle of it, so I decided to type it up on my home box and upload it.
Guess what? The word-processing program seized up while trying to do the
file save and I had to reboot, losing everything. AARRGGHH! Methinks
we have another curse here! Actually, considering in an interview during
the Halloween ep, Chris Ruppenthal said he'd had this idea for a recurring
nemesis, which evolved into the Halloween ep...I think it's the same curse.
And I think we know who's leaping both Sam and Alia around.

Anyway, for the third time, I'm going to type up the parts of the script
that got cut, at least off my copy, an earlier version.

Why did this stuff get cut? My unconfirmed but gut feeling is that it
should be blamed on the *true* Forces of Evil, namely the suits at
Universal Television, who have been really nasty to QL this season (even
worse than they were last year). I saw the head of Universal TV at the
studio last week, and if looks could kill, he'd have been a smoking
pile of ash thanks to me, my friend, and the two employees we were with.

This is posted without the permission of Universal Studios (yeah, like
I really give a flying...leap), Belisarius Productions (Don knows I'm
not worth suing), Tommy Thompson (hey, I laughed at his jokes last week),
Deborah Pratt, or Robin Bernheim.
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Sam and Alia are trading stories:

SAM: Your memory's been swiss-cheesed.
ALIA: (taken by his understanding) Exactly. (beat) I don't have any control
over where I go or who I am. It's a little scary sometimes.
SAM: Tell me about it. I've been a priest, a serial killer, and everything
in between.
ALIA: (strangely cold) I was a serial killer once. [She seems to get lost
in the memory for a second, then snaps back to the moment] Among other things.
SAM: (beat, then) I've even been myself. I went home and saw my family.
(beat) It didn't last though. It never lasts. It seems like just when I
get to know somebody or they get to know me, I'm gone. Sometimes I get
so...
ALIA: (finishes his thought) Lonely?
[Sam pauses. It's clear that this beautiful stranger knows things about
him nobody else could ever understand]
SAM: Exactly. [The bond of experience brings them closer by the minute.]
Do you have a family?
ALIA: (thinks) I don't know. I must, but I cna't remember them.
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The final confrontation:

SAM: If you pull that trigger, Alia, you'll kill me, but you'll also be
killing yourself.
OBSERVER: Don't explain it, Sam, just get the gun.
ZOEY: He's stalling for time, Alia. Kill him! (beat) Kill him!
ALIA: No! (beat) If he's right and there's a balance, we need each other to 
exist. (beat) If I kill him, I don't exist.
OBSERVER: You got her, Sam.
SAM: Good can't prevail without evil. Yin without Yang. Birth without
death. If you kill me, whatever or whoever is leaping us around will 
cancel each other out.
ZOEY: Kill him!
OBSERVER: Stay on her, Sam.
SAM: You can't kill me, Alia, because you care for me. Somewhere under
that twisted mask, you've been forced to where there's a woman who feels
what I feel. The loneliness, the uncertainty. I felt it the minute we
first touched. (beat) You won't kill me.
ZOEY: What are you doing! This could be your ticket home!
ALIA: If I kill you, I could go home.
SAM: You'll get home whether you kill me or not.
ZOEY: Listen to me, Alia. Lothos will send you back to your worst
nightmare if you don't pull that trigger.
ALIA: There's got to be an end.
ZOEY: Alia, we've clawed our way out of hell to simple assignments like
home wrecking and adultery. (beat) Don't let him send you back into
cannibals or those disgusting mass murderers...
ALIA: No! I won't do that! I can't kill all those people any more.
ZOEY: Then pull the trigger.
SAM: You're not evil, Alia. Whatever has trapped you in time is evil.
You have the will to make a choice. (beat) Let me help you. (beat) Maybe
we can help each other go home.
ZOEY: Pull the bloody trigger!
ALIA: (whisper) No.
(Alia lowers the gun and Sam takes it)
OBSERVER: Ziggy says if you kill her, there's a ninety-three...
SAM: No.
OBSERVER: You could change the world.
SAM: I could end it.
(Sam touches Alia, she morphs and leaps)
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Last scene:

OBSERVER: Sam, it's March 19 again. Whatever you did, it never happened.
(there is no further mention of Alia)
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Sally
who's going to have to risk copying this episode for a friend whose brand
new VCR literally caught on fire last night!



-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"