"Deliver Us From Evil"

Evil Leaper I



 
Cut Scenes:

The first draft script is dated August 28th 1992.

The cold open ends more traditionally with Sam happily exclaiming "Oh, boy" instead of Frank in the finished version.

Shirley is described as blonde (Kristen Cloke is brunette).

Doctor Smithfield is called Doctor Weitner.

The contrast between Frank's office and home life is more exaggerated as Sam says "Connie's a great cook" before immediately cutting to Connie saying "I hate cooking".

The stage directions confirm Corey is 10 years old, placing his birth in 1956.

When Sam is lugging boxes up the steps, he namechecks Tina, and Al prompts him about Trudy (rather than the other way around).

The facts are slightly incorrect though, as in the script Al suggests Trudy was moved to the mental hospital because of pneumonia (actually it's how she died, per Jimmy).

While Frank is driving Jimmy home, there is an intercut scene with "Connie" and Zoey discussing Shirley "the little homewrecker", referring to Jimmy as "the spazz", who "Connie" has noticed is behaving differently.

When Sam and Alia are comparing their histories, Sam says he's been a priest and a serial killer - Alia says "(strangely cold) I was a serial killer once", implying this might be her personal background rather than a prior leap.

He also references The Leap Home.

When Sam confronts Frank, in the episode he says "Nothing? How can you say that? What about your wife and your son, and what about me?" and Frank returns "This hasn't got anything to do with Corey, or you." In the script Sam says "Nothing? You call your wife and son nothing?" In the episode his back is turned to the camera for most of the line, suggesting this might have been fixed in post-production to make Frank's line make more sense.

The love scene, which has some different dialogue at the start, specifies in the stage directions "the slightest moans allowable by law.'

Sam says "Oh, boy" after Alia/ Connie starts screaming.

Sam theorises that Alia is from a privately funded project or perhaps the further future.

During the climax, Zoey suggests Alia kill Sam and then, when Jimmy leaps back, kills Jimmy, and also names cannibals and mass murderers as Alia's previous leapees (hence her line "I can't kill all those people again" in the finished episode).

After Alia puts the gun down, Sam grabs it and considers killing her but decides not to.

The fifth version of the script, dated 14th September 1992 is closer, with the small language changes mentioned above mostly per broadcast.

Also the description of Shirley removes her hair colour, and Al now specifies she's 25.

Dr. Weitner is now Dr. Smithfield and Alia only plans on shooting Sam, not Jimmy.

The love scene begins with the instruction that "she opens her dress and pulls his face into her breast", and soon after the very graphic description "She smothers in him a kiss and they fall onto the bed. Feet moving, knees rubbing, thighs sliding. All the while slight moans and groans punctuate their fire. Sam succumbs and as he intensifies, she relaxes. She is in complete control as she arches to him."

After Alia puts the gun down Sam grabs it - Al tries to convince Sam to kill Alia, telling him "you don't have any choice"; as Sam actually appears to consider this, Alia is shocked, telling him "it was all a lie! You're good and I'm evil', it was a lie!".
There is then a brief fight in which the weapon is discharged.

Much of the extra material in these drafts was filmed and included in a 51m12s rough cut, which survives on VHS. It includes unfinished sound, placeholder music and temporary effects, including a rudimentary version of the leaps. The temporary effect makes use of the same "leap to black" that would later be seen in the A Tale of Two Sweeties trailer, and the end of Mirror Image, simply superimposed over the footage.

Notably, this edit included the extended fight sequence and Alia's recollection of her previous leaps, plus a longer version of the Alia/Sam love scene.

After they reach the bed, Alia kisses Sam's chest, and then begins to move down his body. After she gets past his waist, with the clear implication that she's about to overstep NBC's boundaries, he stops her, saying "this is wrong!", at which point she moves back up to his neck level where the scene continues as broadcast.