S01E01: Pilot/Director's Cut

***Ratched*** Season One debuted on Netflix on September 18th, 2020, with the whole series distributed on one day. Alongside the episodes, a director's cut version of *S01E01: Pilot* was released in the "Trailers and More" section of the *Ratched* Netflix page. The director's cut features an additional 9 minutes of content that did not feature in the final version. This content includes the title sequence, which did not feature in the final version of the pilot, as well as additional lines of dialogue which were cut.

## Cut Dialogue

Transcripts of cut dialogue are featured below alongside the dialogue as it appears in the final released version for context. The scenes are in chronological order. The director's cut dialogue is highlighted in **bold**.

### Mildred and the Gas Attendant

A small edit to the scene with Mildred and the gas attendant.

### Louise's Arthritis

A small edit to the scene where Louise struggles to open Mildred's motel door. This line was likely cut because Louise has not yet mentioned her arthitis on-screen. It likely the intention of this line was for the audience to infer that Mildred is highly observant.

**Mildred meets Louise**

 Mildred:

### Dario's Furlough Assessment

A large chunk of dialogue cut from the beginning of Dario's furlough assessment scene. The cut dialogue reveals Dario's diagnosis, and why he was brought to Lucia State Hospital. Interestingly, this section of dialogue being removed means that it is not explained why Father Murphy is at Dario's assessment in the final cut of the episode.

### Gov Wilburn and Gwendolyn smoking

A section of dialogue cut from the scene before Dr. Hanover interrupts Gov. Wilburn and Gwendolyn's dinner and drinks. The cut dialogue features a mention of Trevor Briggs an episode earlier than it is established in the final cut of the series that Gwendolyn is married (when Mildred notices Gwendolyn's wedding ring) and features Gwendolyn being careful with her words regarding their marriage, an early elusion to the fact it's a marriage of convenience. It's likely this section was simply cut for time. A follow up line is also cut, referencing this dialogue, where Gov. Wilburn insults Gwendolyn for smoking.

 Gwendolyn:

### Dr. Hanover describes Lucia State Hospital

Following on from the previous cut scene, Dr. Hanover describes Lucia State Hospital to Gov. Wilburn and Gwendolyn in more detail than in the final version. His narration is accompanied by establishing shots of various features of the hospital. This dialogue was likely cut to show how un-cooperative and dismissive Gov. Wilburn is towards Dr. Hanover's pitch by making it appear he was given less time to talk.

### Mildred investigating Amelia Emerson

An entire cut scene in a new location never seen before or since within the series and with cut character Clerk Daisy (Gracie Mercedes), in which Mildred is obtaining documents about Amelia Emerson in order to reach out to her for blackmail purposes. It isn't established specifically where this location takes place, based on Clerk Daisy's credited name it can be inferred to be the county records office. Ultimately this scene was meant to establish Mildred finding Amelia's address in a phone book, but was likely cut for time because in the final version it can be easily inferred that Amelia's address was inside the wallet that Mildred stole.

### Louise talks about Edmund

Short snippet of cut dialogue from the scene where Louise is talking about her morbid fascination with the clergy killer case to Mildred in the motel reception area.

Follow-up piece of removed dialogue in the same scene in which Mildred teases Louise.

 Louise:

### Mildred's Roleplay

Small piece of dialogue cut from the scene where Mildred and Charles are having their roleplay sexual encounter.

### Mildred's meeting with Amelia

Small piece of dialogue referencing the information that Mildred procured in the earlier deleted scene at the county clerk's office. Likely cut because the earlier scene was cut.

 Mildred:

### Gwendolyn meets with Dr. Hanover

Instead of jumping right from Hanover answering the door to Gwendolyn and Hanover sitting in the lounge, in this version of the scene Gwendolyn introduces herself in the doorway, and they have a dialogue where Gwendolyn reveals she has been researching into Hanover's background.

### Blood Pressure Medication

Mildred is seen dispensing and pocketing the stolen blood pressure medication, instead of just holding the bottle.

### Leona

Cut character Leona, who is seen in the final cut of the episode next to Huck in the medication dispensing scene, has dialogue in the director's cut in Haitian Creole. It's unknown if Leona was planned to have a larger role in the episode or series than this singular scene, but she was named in pre-release promotional photos and her casting was listed in several articles in the lead up to the series airing, something which other side-characters like Dario Salvatore who had a much bigger role in the episode did not receive. It's possible her character was removed due to the racism of some of the dialogue surrounding her being offensive, as in the dialogue featured below (the implication that, as a Haitian, she must be involved in voodoo)

### Hanover's Breakdown

Cut dialogue in the scene after Mildred and Dr. Hanover discover Dario's body in Hanover's office bathroom.

### Dario's Body

Instead of cutting straight from Hanover's office to the press conference in front of Lucia State Hospital as in the final cut, there is a transition scene where Mildred briefly composes herself, then goes into Hanover's bathroom, crouches down, cradles Dario's dead hand to her face, strokes his fingers with her thumb, and cries.

### Laundry

After Governor Wilbur and Gwendolyn leave after the speech on the Lucia Hospital front steps, there is a deleted scene where Betsy interrupts Hanover to ask whether he asked Mildred to launder his towels.

### Edmund being brought to Lucia

In the final version of the episode, Edmund's face is not seen at all when he is being brought out of the police van, only his shackled feet. In the director's cut, he is shown several times, wearing a brown straight jacket and face mask. He is escorted into the hospital flanked by many armed guards.