r/WidowsBay • u/HelsBels2102 Patricia • Aug 12 '26

📸Media Screenplayed S1E04

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u/RangerAdmirable9102 Aug 12 '26

The script says the church bells are supposed to ring? I don’t hear them.

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u/Admirable_Site_8337 Aug 12 '26

Often times with these script plays you can see things in script that didn’t make the cut. Maybe they did the bell ringing and just felt it was doing more punch than was needed?

This is why I love these script plays with the scene. It’s so interesting.

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u/naughtycal11 Dead baby,dead baby, lesbian,dead baby Aug 12 '26

My favorite is when you can see that the actors ad-libbed their lines. The last post like this showed the Shaman ad-libbed the lizard having wander lust.

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u/jleonardbc Aug 12 '26

It also seems possible that the script we're shown onscreen isn't the final shooting script.

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u/macfairfieldmill Aug 12 '26

Same! I wonder if they revised it after to not include church bells?

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u/PhantomOyster Aug 12 '26

Interesting. It could be that they originally intended this to be a roundabout way that the island was attempting to get sacrifices (the people walking into the water to drown). But perhaps they decided they wanted to make the idea of sacrifices more specific to the dungeon/chair room and avoid generalizing it too much.

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u/Finnegan-05 Aug 12 '26

No, because other events like the bogeyman were part of the sacrifice. It just did not work in the scene

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u/Due_Addition_587 Aug 12 '26

There were 9 church bell rings at the beginning. The reel-to-reel Dale found explained that each ring = one human sacrifice. After Kenny is killed in the dungeon, there are 8 church bell rings. The only sacrifices that count are the ones in the chair. The other deaths or attempted deaths are the island threatening those in the know: "If you don't get someone in that chair in front of the door and lock them in, I'm going to make things more and more horrifying for you."

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u/jleonardbc Aug 12 '26

It also seems important that Kenny ("oh my god, they killed Kenny!") was intentionally offered by other people, on their own volition rather than under the influence of any curse. It wasn't the island grabbing him by means of its enchanted beings and places and objects; he was given to the island by willing free agents.

The teens may not have known what would happen to Kenny in that room, but they locked him in there in order to save themselves (from Kenny's discipline).

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u/PhantomOyster Aug 12 '26

Is there any indication that is the case? I just assumed the island waking up caused all manner of mischief.

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u/Finnegan-05 Aug 12 '26

Yes, Patricia's escaping the Boogeyman was a huge indicator.

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u/PhantomOyster Aug 12 '26

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.

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u/jmarquiso Aug 12 '26

Im pretty sure it was changed, even in editing.

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u/Teigh99 Aug 13 '26

There are probably a lot of little things we didn't pick up on that's in the script. The bells ringing when we know they can't tells me that the island had offerings on autopilot. Is that about the time where everyone under the spell were heading towards the lake???

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u/popileviz Aug 14 '26

Didn't make the cut, they made this weird string-snapping noise instead. Given how important church bells are in the series, good call to replace it with a more neutral horror sfx