"Double Identity"
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Cut Scenes: The fourth draft script (dated 26th January 1989 and entitled “November 8, 1965”) is almost identical to the episode as broadcast, except for the very start and end. The original running order of season one placed this immediately after Genesis (and as such the draft script opens with flashbacks only to that story) and leads into Star-Crossed (which the scripts ends on), a decision still in place as late as the January 7th 1989 NBC Press Tour, where Bellisario referred to the leap from the baseball game to the attic in New York, and resulting in this episode coming second in production order. Bellisario ultimately felt airing a double-leap episode at such an early point would not work as “we thought we’d confused people enough.” 95 As such, the episode as broadcast opens with clips from Genesis, Star-Crossed, The Right Hand of God and How the Tess Was Won.It does reveal, though, that Nonna’s jabbering Italian towards the start is: “Francis. Where have you been? Come here so I can feed you. Why didn’t you eat? I made the macaroni with sardines the way you like it. Mrs. Cabrisi fixed the eggplant, so it’s good too. Maria and I are from the same village in Sicily. Her husband, Vinnie, God rest his soul, was a button man with your father. He was killed in the Macaroni war in ‘37. Here. Go eat. And don’t forget Bingo tomorrow night. At Saint Francis, you promised.” Al’s later waffling in the salon is “…to their hairdressers! And conversely, if they tell their deepest darkest secrets to their hairdressers then perhaps their hairdressers tell their deepest darkest secrets to them!” although this seems to have been expanded by the time the episode was filmed. There was apparently some early discussion about leaping Sam in wearing just his swimsuit. |
