A Scene Deleted From Episode 5

The script for episode five (#1.005, Cooper's Dreams) has a scene between James and his Uncle Ed that does not appear in the televised episode. There is, however, evidence that the scene was filmed.

At the very beginning of the scene where Norma visits Ed at the Gas Farm, the shape of a second person can be seen working beneath the hood of the car beside Ed.

Note James' motorcycle. 

Edit

Ed and James work beginning at 12:12 but by 12:18 Ed's alone. 

The televised sequence plays out with an establishing shot of cars parked around the lot of Big Ed's Gas Farm. We see Ed at work (with James) but when it changes to a close-up he is alone. He hears Norma as she closes her car door, and the pair begin to converse. We never see James.

The scripted scene is as follows:

9.   EXT. BIG ED'S GAS FARM - DAY
    
Establish.
       CUT TO:
10. INT. GAS FARM GARAGE - DAY
    
BIG ED HURLEY and JAMES HURLEY are working together on 

an engine. James is wrestling with some emotional demon. 

Ed takes notice.
    
    JAMES
  Mom came home yesterday.
    
       (CONTINUED)



      (Revised 11/1/89, BLUE)

    
10.  CONTINUED:
    
    ED
   (nods)
  She in bad shape?
    
    JAMES
  It's getting worse; every time she goes off on a drunk
  now, I half expect her to turn up dead. And part of 
  me's thinking there's worse things that could happen.

    
    ED
  Those are hard thoughts.
    
    JAMES
   (almost overcome with emotion)
  God, I'm ... so ashamed of her.
    
    ED
  That doesn't mean we give up. We have to keep trying.

    JAMES
  What's left to do? Talk about it some more? She won't
  get help, she won't listen to either one of us -
    
    ED
  I don't know what else we can do --
    
    JAMES
She's killing herself... I don't want to hate her, Ed, 

but if she won't let us help her sometimes I think it'd 

be better if she'd just get it over with ...
    
His tears finally come. Ed hugs him.
    
    ED
I know it's rough. But if we give up on her, who else 

is gonna give a damn?
    
A car pulls up out front; we hear it trip the bell wires 

near the pumps.
    
    JAMES
   (pulling away, trying to make light)
  ... been kind of a rough week.
    
He goes out to the back. STAY WITH Ed. We hear a car door

open and close. Norma comes into the shop. Too many 

secrets to rush into each other's arms.