The Differences Between The Third and Fourth Drafts for the Script for 2.001
Reddit user Devtrav1917 recently shared the third draft of the script for season two, episode one. They wrote that the script formerly belonged to their uncle, Christopher Gerrity, who was a first and second assistant director. You can read their posts on Reddit here: Link 1 and Link 2
The script Devtrav1917 provided is a third draft with revisions dated:
July 7, 1990
July 9, 1990
July 10, 1990
The script available on Glastonberrygrove.net is the fourth draft of the script with revisions made:
July 7, 1990
July 9, 1990
July 10, 1990
July 24, 1990
The first difference appears during Agent Cooper's meeting with The Giant.
The 3rd Draft
Cooper repeats the words, clinging to them.
Cooper repeats the phrase to himself.
things to be true, I will visit you again. We want to help you.
require medical attention.
Cooper looks down at his shirt. A bloodstain is slowly spreading across his midsection. He looks back. The Giant is gone. Cooper doesn't move.
The 4th Draft
The second thing is: "The owls are not what you think."
(CONTINUED)
2.001 Revised 7-24-90, YELLOW 4. 2.
CONTINUED:(3)
The second difference is a bracketed line reading "plus other drug paraphernalia." I have not altered the original spelling. Ben - not Jerry - gives Blackie drugs in both versions of the script. Richard Beymer reportedly did not want to film his scene as Ben Horne in Fire Walk With Me because it involved him supplying drugs for Laura. Perhaps Mr. Beymer didn't wish to participate here as well.
The 3rd Draft
Ben tosses the packet onto the desk, shakes his head and exits. Blackie looks at the packet, opens a drawer, takes out a length of rubber tubing and sets it on the desk.
The 4th Draft
Ben tosses the packet onto the desk, shakes his head and exits. Blackie looks at the packet, opens a drawer [plus other drug paraphenalia], takes out a length of rubber tubing and sets it on the desk.
The third major difference is the addition of a scene that may have been omitted in the third draft.
The 3rd Draft
7. INT. MILL - DAWN Details of the ravaged interior. A scorched moose head on a wall. A ruined office. Water and ash dripping into a tea cup. A blackened fire extinguisher.
CUT TO
OMITED
The 4th Draft
7. INT. MILL - DAWN
Details of the ravaged interior. A scorched moose head on a wall. A ruined office. Water
and ash dripping into a tea cup. A blackened fire extinguisher.
CUT TO:
8. EXT. MILL - DAWN
PARAMEDICS wheel PETE MARTELL out of the mill, his face covered with an oxygen
mask.
They load Pete, into the back of an ambulance. SHELLY JOHNSON is already inside on
another gurney, also taking oxygen. SHERIFF TRUMAN stands by the ambulance doors.
Pete takes Truman's hand, partially lifts off his mask.
8. CONTINUED:
They look at each other. Pete coughs, they readjust his mask, slide the gurney in, close the
doors. The siren starts up, the ambulance drives off.
Truman moves away and is joined by DEPUTY HAWK
DEPUTY ANDY lopes up to them.
Hawk and Truman look at each other.
Another subtle addition: Leo's name is added after the word "punk."
The 3rd Draft
distance, We just want to be sure she's ready to take the
fall, I want a complete medical on Leo Johnson's
prospects for recovery and a satisfying explanation from
Hank Jennings why that punk isn't being measured for a
plot at Ghostwood Memorial Park
The 4th Draft
distance, We just want to be sure she's ready to take the
fall, I want a complete medical on Leo Johnson's
prospects for recovery and a satisfying explanation from
Hank Jennings why that punk [LEO] isn't being measured for a
plot at Ghostwood Memorial Park
The 3rd draft focuses on a conversation between Lucy and Philip Gerard. The 4th draft introduces a third character into the conversation, a "chatty" mailman named Tom. The 3rd draft contains large, blank spaces due to the removed dialogue. Note the misspelling of Gerard's name in both drafts. Lucy is called "Luce" by the mailman. At one point her name is written as such above her dialogue.
The 3rd Draft
Albert exits the station, passing PHILLIP MICHAEL GIRARD, the one-armed man, just entering, muscling in his hefty sample case. He approaches Lucy, back at her desk.
(CONTINUED)
35. CONTINUED:
The 4th Draft
Albert exits the station, passing PHILLIP MICHAEL GIRARD, the one-armed man, just
entering, muscling in his hefty sample case. He approaches Lucy, back at her desk. [Behind]
[him comes TOM, the mailman, a small, chatty fellow, carrying the day's load, including]
[a fair]-
(more) (CONTINUED)
35. CONTINUED:
[sized box.]
[Tom holds up the mail, shows Lucy the box.]
[Got a box here, Luce.]
[What do you suppose this could be?]
[fragile.]
(CONTINUED).
35. CONTINUED:(2)
The scene at Calhoun Memorial Hospital has many changes in the 4th draft, including an omitted scene with Doc Hayward, and Ed showing a greater amount of care for Nadine. One is granted access to the writing process in reading dialogue once meant for one character but later given to another. Almost all alterations in the 4th draft are easily noticed because they are in brackets.
The 3rd Draft
41. INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - DAY Bobby slips away as Cooper, Truman and Albert come around the corner. Truman catches a glimpse of Bobby.
(CONTINUED)
41. CONTINUED:
They look at each other.
They look at him and move on. They find Ed Hurley at the coffee bar, across the hall from Nadine's room.
(more)
(CONTINUED)
42. CONTINUED:
Cooper's moved. Albert takes out a handkerchief, pretends to dab at his eyes.
He turns. James steps into view. We see Hawk in background. Ed and James embrace.
Cooper, Truman and Albert withdraw.
(more)
43. INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - DAY
Cooper, Truman and Albert walk slowly away. Cooper shakes his head.
Hawk nods. Cooper and Truman continue on.
They move around the corner.
CUT TO:
#43 OMITED
The 4th draft
41. INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - DAY
Bobby slips away as Cooper [, ALBERT] and Truman come around the corner. Cooper
[Truman] catches a glimpse of Bobby.
(CONTINUED)
41. CONTINUED:
[To see this kind of investigative genius at work, this a]
[real treat for me.]
[They look at him and move on. They find Ed Hurley at the coffee bar, across the hall from]
[Nadine's room.]
Cooper looks in the room across the hall at intensive care, at Ed Hurley, sitting by Nadine's bedside.
Cooper moves stiffly into the room across the hall. CUT TO
42. INT. INTENSIVE HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY
Cooper knocks gently on the doorframe. Ed, seated by the bed, holding Nadine's hand. Ed
glances back at him.
Cooper puts a hand on Ed's shoulder.
(more)
(CONTINUED)
42. CONTINUED:
[He turns. James steps into view. We see Hawk in background. Ed and James embrace.] [Cooper, Truman and Albert withdraw.] (more)
42. CONTINUED:(2)
He turns. James steps into the doorway. We see Hawk in background. Ed rises. He and
James embrace. Cooper withdraws from the room.
CUT TO:
43. INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - DAY
Cooper [, Albert] and Truman walk slowly away. Cooper shakes his head.
Hawk nods. Cooper and Truman continue on.
They move around the corner.
The next change is simply the word "going" altered to "go."
The 3rd Draft
COOPER
(CONTINUED)
The Log Lady heard a Third Man pass by her cabin, going up the hill. This Third Man witnessed the events in the cabin, watching through a window.
The 4th Draft
COOPER
(CONTINUED)
The Log Lady heard a Third Man pass by her cabin,
go up the hill. This Third Man witnessed the events
in the cabin, watching through a window.
The 4th draft has an addition of [ILLICIT MILL LEDGER ON DESK]
The 3rd Draft
69. INT. BEN HORNE'S OFFICE - NIGHT Someone's waiting in the office. As Ben and Jerry enter, the figure turns; Hank Jennings.
The 4th Draft
69. INT. BEN HORNE'S OFFICE - NIGHT Someone's waiting in the office. As Ben and Jerry enter, the figure turns; Hank Jennings. [ILLICIT MILL LEDGER ON DESK]
The final difference is during the Hayward Supper Club. Doc Hayward has another line of dialogue in the third draft.
The 3rd Draft
They're gone. Leland looks over at Doc. Doc's got an elbow on the table, propping up his chin. He's sound asleep. His chin slips, he wakes with a start.
The 4th Draft
They're gone. Leland looks over at Doc. Doc's got an elbow on the table, propping up his chin. He's sound asleep. His chin slips, he wakes with a start.
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