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What you'll read below is not fic. This is an actual scene of a certain episode script, sadly never filmed. You'll see many similarities to Shades of Gray, but it's is not from that episode... as you can see in the ending, soooo nice.
To help you understand what episode it was edited from, try to remember when Catherine is full of doubts about Vincent, so that he feels it and stays away, and she goes looking for him.
In this scene, a certain living being is mentioned, that Ron Koslow was adamant about: such things do not exist Below, period. And such things disappeared from our beautiful fairy tale... but in this edited scene. What am I speaking about? Find the word in the script, it hides the link to the next step.Remember: the link is not HERE in this page -- it's in the full script. Read, guess, and go looking for it: the appropriate links to go to the menu page with all the episodes are in the bottom.
26 INT. CATHY'S BASEMENT - DAY
Cathy descends the cellar stairs. She's carrying a heavy-duty flashlight and wearing jeans, boots, a heavy workshirt. She moves aside the cardboard boxes stacked against the wall, revealing a jagged entrance to the tunnels. She enters.
27 INT. STEAM TUNNELS - BELOW THE CITY - DAY
Cathy walks confidently down the long tunnel, her footsteps ECHOING loudly as she goes. She reaches a T-shaped junction, starts right, hesitates, then retraces her steps, goes left. She opens a heavy iron door marked NO ADMITTANCE. The door behind is bricked shut. Cathy REACTS, clearly startled. She touches the bricks, but they're solid. She moves off uncertainly.
28 INT. BRICK TUNNEL - NIGHT
She gropes along an unfamiliar passage, its walls ancient brick, covered with nitre. Water is dripping here. This is a very old, spooky section of the tunnels, and it's clear that Cathy has never passed this way before. Somehow she's gotten lost, and her face shows her alarm.
She comes on an old brick WELL in the center of the passage, and brushes against a loose brick on its rim as she squeezes by. The brick falls for a long beat before we hear the faint SPLASH. Cathy moves past.
An old WROUGHT IRON GATE blocks her passage. Cathy sets the flashlight on a ledge in the brick wall, pushes at the gate, but she can't move it. She feels around the brick walls for a release, a key, anything, finds nothing. She grasps the bars, SHOUTS.
CATHY
Hello... Vincent... anyone ... hello...
Her voice echoes a long way, reverberating in the dark, but there's no reply. Cathy hears a NOISE behind her, reaches for her flashlight. There's a huge grey RAT on the ledge where she set it down. It screeches at her, and Cathy gives a yelp of startled fear, before she works up the courage to snatch her flashlight back, and run back down the narrow tunnel.
She backtracks to the well, almost passes it, then stops. She shines the light into the well, SEES iron rungs descending into nothingness. Cathy studies the well, pushing, prodding, and finally touches a LOOSE BRICK set in its base. It turns slowly when she pushes at it, and from below we hear a GRINDING NOISE, followed by the rush of DRAINING WATER.
29 INT. IN THE WELL - NIGHT
Cathy descends carefully, the flashlight held awkwardly in her hand. She stops, twists around on the rungs, shines the flashlight down.
CUT TO:
30 CATHY'S POV
Darkness, and a long, long dizzying drop.
31 BACK TO THE SCENE
As she stares down, the rung she's clinging to comes right out of the crumbling brick. Cathy starts to FALL, grabs another rung. She hangs on precariously by one hand, but loses her grip on the flashlight. It falls, shatters. Cathy clings to the ladder, alone in the dark, breathing hard, scared. The rung she's clutching begins to pull loose of the brick wall. She grabs for another, misses, the rung comes loose.
CLOSE ON CATHY
Screaming, she FALLS… right into Vincent’s arms.
32 INT. BOTTOM OF THE WELL - NIGHT
Vincent stands silhouetted in the golden light spill from a secret door he has opened in the bottom of the well.
Cathy is shaking and shuddering, breathing hard from her close call. Without saying a word, Vincent turns and carries her into the warm light and the wall closes behind them, swallowing them up.
FADE OUT
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