Dark Vision
| Trivia | Contributor |
| Faux pas in
this episode is having Skalany in the flashback to the
precinct 10 years prior. In Rain's Only Friend she's
introduced as a new cop. And Peter is the one breaking
*her* in. Also, Eppy was his first partner, not
Broderick. |
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| Script differences | |
| The tease has a little
more dialog. Peter's comments about the orphanage are not
interrupted right away. Caine: "And you consider this reunion a step onto a path leading you back into darkness?" Peter: "I've got good memories of the orphanage. I really do. Friends like Kyle. Meeting Blaisdell. But there were the silences. The long nights. The faces of strangers." Caine: "But they are no longer strangers." Peter: "Yes, they are. They always will be. I'm not sure I can face those empty hellos, and the small talk, the lives that didn't go where the guys had hoped they would." Caine: (softer) "Yours also?" Peter: "I'm one of the lucky ones. Thanks to Blaisdell. And finding you again. But I..." Here is where he has the vision. Instead of Morgan in the hall, it's a cop named Cross. He's all business, but - like Morgan - he knows Peter and lets him through. |
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| When Simms inquires
about Peter keeping his radio on off duty, he says,
"I like to know that crime hasn't stopped while I'm
away. Makes me feel like I've got a job to come back to.
Excuse us, we're late for a reunion." |
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| After Caine leaves there
is more to the scene. Simms: (sotto to TJ) "It's your case. You can deal with the press. Keep the words 'serial killer' out of your vocabulary, TJ. Sorry, don't call you TJ." She moves past him as Sandra Mason thrusts a microphone into TJ's face. Sandra: "Sandra Mason, Channel Three Action News. We understand a strangled doll was found in the likeness of the dead man. Are we dealing with a psycho killer, Detective?" There is no description of TJ's reaction to this. |
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| The script still has the
bar setting as Chandlers. |
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| Instead of Robert
Mitchum, Peter says Dick Powell. He also describes him a
little more, "...complete with fedora, fifth of
Johnnie Walker and well-turned cynical one-liners." |
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| Int he script, the
corridor that Caine walks down (and later with Peter) is
described as the police academy, rather than a corridor
in Peter's mind. When Caine opens the first door he sees young Peter, from the temple, turning with a knife in his hand. There is blood on the knife, but no victim. Young Peter: (screaming) "Get out of here! Now!" Caine: "Peter..." Young Peter: "You are not my father anymore!" The second and third doors are the same as in the episode. |
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| The club that Kerri (the
dancer victim) works in is a strip joint in the script.
She is on stage instead of just dancing in the crowd.
When she leaves the stage, she finds refuge in the
dressing room. It's there that she is attacked. |
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| When Peter stops by the
club to talk to Candy, he sits at a table in front of the
stage. She comes over to him to do a table dance. Candy: "Bobby says you're a cop. How much do you want me to take off?" Peter: "I've got a weak heart. Give me a break. Tell me about Kerrie." Candy is dancing, telling Peter she didn't know Kerrie that well, kept quiet about her boyfriend. She tells Peter to talk to Angel. She tells Peter that Angel is a cop and gives him her real name. She's naked by the time she's finished. The camera only shows her bare back. Peter: "I thought you weren't going to stop my heart." Candy: "Couldn't help myself. Too bad you're not an agent or a producer. But I know that. Too wholesome." (glancing past him) "Oh my God! He came back!" (Peter turns to follow her gaze) "He was here almost every night. Watching Kerrie." Peter jumps to his feet. Peter sees the killer through the crowd in the bar. "The killer (whom we see fully for the first time) locks eyes with Peter. Peter catches his breath, "hand instinctively going for his gun." He has subliminal images floating in his mind of the nightmares he's had. He loses sight of the killer, and goes chasing after him. But he lost him. |
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| When Jody describes
Peter's mood to Caine, she says, "I'd never seen him
so disturbed. Not even when he'd lost Rebecca and was
accused of her murder." |
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| When Caine says Peter
relates the killer's pain to his own fears, Caine adds,
"I fear..." Jody: "I can't see you ever fearing anything." Caine: "I fear for Peter's..." Jody: "Safety?" Caine: "Sanity." |
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| When Blake tells Jody
about the frantic wife, she says, "_You_ got the
call?" Blake: "Broderick's running short on detectives. You know what I'm like in the field. I need backup." |
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| At Chandlers, Instead of
Skalany it's Sandra Mason who approaches Peter. She asks
him for answers off the record, since Commissioner
Kincaid has asked for a press blackout. Peter refuses. She mentions now he saved her life once, and that she thought they had developed a special relationship. Peter says, "So special favors. We can talk about relationships another time. If this is a serial killer, you'll be the first to know." This is when TJ walks in. |
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| In the scene where Caine
and Peter link their chi to find the truth, Lo Si is
there. He tells them that they must make the journey
together without him. "Father and son. Become as
one." As they drift into meditation, we see clips of young Peter at the temple, Tan, the destruction, young Peter at the orphanage, Blasidell. Caine: "After the temple, the orphanage. Then..." Peter: "The Police Academy..." In the tag, there's no chat with Dr. Harmon at Chandlers. When Peter asks Simms if she's going to Les Miserables, she says "Phantom of the Opera" instead of "Tommy." |
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| When Jody says that
Peter would have been the last victim, Peter says
(softer), "And the next vision I would have seen
would have been my own death." |
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| The episode ends with
Caine's line "A mime told me." No mention of a
dancer. Peter and Caine wrap their arms around each other
and keep walking. |
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