Never Again Original Script

[badforthefish]

I told amyhit I would try to find the infamous original script for Never Again. If there's one thing  Haven is great for is to find lost or fogotten stuff. Over there, Konrad found me a Wayback link (which was really kind of him as he really hates that ep). The page belonged to someone named Laura Witte whom I mailed to let her know I was going to copy

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[dally1121]

Awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome :D
I love reading original scripts, especially those heavily based on character development.

So now I can say that I'm right in believing Ed&Scully had teh sex? :D Knowing that it actually was in the script in the first place makes me feel like CC really is a prude :p Oh, well.

Thanks a lot for sharing this!! :)

[badforthefish]

Awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome :D

I Know Right? I had such a huge grin on my face the first time I stumbled upon this.

So now I can say that I'm right in believing Ed&Scully had teh sex?

I was always convinced they had sex even before reading this script. Ed is wearing different trousers in the morning and come on, Scully's been sleeping in his shirt!

CC never had a clue how to handle Scully as a sexual being. *shrug*

[drakenphoenix]

I heard about this over on Haven... a definitely different version on this episode.

I thought that she had sex with him as well.

XD yep he is :p lol, not so much now with letting M & S French kiss in IWTB... still being coy about it though -_-... come on Chris, you can't make a French kiss look that way, it just doesn't work ;) XD...

[ext_1574030]

The consensus over at xfilesuniverse and imdb seem to be that deleted scenes are not canon. If you folks don't consider the punk phase part to be canon then you can't consider the sex scene to be canon.

So since you guys consider this sex scene to be canon, do you consider exactly what was written to be what happened? In the scene that was written there didn't appear to be much time for either of them to grab a condom? Does that mean that you think they decided to forgo the condom and have unprotected sex?

[namarie24]

Quite fascinating, and adds some layers to this already layered episode. And yeah, after reading this I think the argument could be made, just maybe, that Scully & Ed had sex. *rolls eyes*

[badforthefish]

Maybe? *laugh* Yeah, I'm rolling my eyes too.

The only argument of those who claim Ed and Scully never had sex are her stockinged feet. Obviously these people don't know about thigh-high-stockings.

On the "they so did it side" we have:

A very turned on Scully when Ed catches her arm.
She's wearing his shirt the next day, even though she did bring a bag with a change of clothes.
Ed is wearing jeans in the morning.

[namarie24]

Oh, I entirely agree. I never would have thought there was any doubt had I not read about it online! Heh.

[mack_the_spoon]

Hmm, very, very interesting. Such a rich Scully episode, and this only makes that better. Thanks for posting it!

[badforthefish]

You're welcome!

[amyhit]

Interesting.

I'm sure this is the unpopular opinion, but over all I think I like the aired version, actually.

I like the differences in Mulder and Ed in this version. Mulder seems a lot less of an asshole, and Ed seems a lot more together on the outside, which makes Scully's actions concerning him seem a lot less ill-considered.

But I find I'm glad for the ambiguity the aired version allowed Scully's character. And there's no way I'm buying that she dropped out of med school and briefly became a punk.

It was cool to read this though. Thanks so much for digging it up.

[badforthefish]

I agree, Scully having a punk phase is not something I'm buying. I think people pointed out that Scully's tattoo was nowhere to be seen in that slug S8 episode, Road Runners and I believe the explanation was that she had the tattoo lasered off. So I guess they could have given this explanation for the ankle tattoo as well.

[badforthefish]

Actually liking the aired version *is* the popular opinion. At least on Haven it is.

I don't buy the punk thing either. As Vittalani says below, this is more Gillian than Scully.

I too find the ambiguity more interesting in the ep, though I wouldn't have minded to see *that* scene between Ed and Scully because dayum! It sounded hot. *g*

[starbuckjr]

The original script would have been too hard for my shipper heart to take. There was too much innuendo as it is.

There are, however, very nice insights to both Scully and Mulder in the original script.

[badforthefish]

I don't mind the innuendoes in Never Again, but then again I never was a die hard shipper.

But yes, it was interesting to see what the writers had initialy intended.

[ext_1574030]

What innuendo?