Departure Cut Scenes

Teaser:
Rocks / Granilith scenes - as scripted.

Act One:
Cut scene – Podsters visit the Valenti home, where Amy is over for a cup of coffee (and “tapping” on her cup), to drop off Tess. Max breaks the “good” news to Valenti about the baby, and Valenti is not very happy that his 17 year old house guest is pregnant.
Cut scene – Max & Tess together in “her” room. She complains about losing her powers (can’t flip a CD from across the room), they talk about Max needing to find Leanna, and then she gets very annoyed when Max gives her a good-bye kiss she and she “sees” he is thinking about Liz.
Cut scene – Michael, Is, & Max leave the Valenti’s in the jeep. Max tries to be the strong one as they talk about how scared they are about what they are returning to.
Crashdown scene - as scripted.
Liz ‘s room scene – cut line of Max trying to start to tell Liz about the baby (stage direction: “He can’t bring himself to say it.”) Cut last half of scene where Liz calls Leanna’s Las Cruses roommate only to discover Leanna is back.
Evans Chinese dinner scene – as scripted.
Valenti and Tess “dad” scene – as scripted.
Max & Liz driving to Las Cruses scene – moved to later.
(This was supposed to be the end of Act One, and the following scenes were originally in Act Two.)
Max & Liz arriving at Las Cruses & crawling through vent scene – as scripted, except the close confines are supposed to be torment for Liz, who is “enraged” and “humiliated” after learning about Max & Tess & the baby in the previous scene… which we haven’t seen yet!
Remaining Max in the vent and Liz figuring out Leanna is human and saving her scenes – as scripted.
Is & Alex at his grave scene – as scripted.
Now we get the Max tells Liz in the jeep scene – as scripted, minus some preliminary awkwardness triggered by a cell call to Max from Tess.

Act Two
Max & Liz Las Cruses Lab scene – as scripted, minus a few lines about the book translation providing the key to how the Granilith works. (Of course, we weren’t supposed to notice or question why they took a jeep trip on the highway between the dorm and the lab.)
Maria at Michael’s scene – as scripted, except the stage direction for the end were quite a bit more graphic.
Kyle & Tess scene – as scripted.

Act Three
Max & Liz jeep scene – we all already know, but… entire explanation of Future max cut. M/L flashes during kiss cut… (but, hey, we got that whole, great Chinese mustard scene!)
Maria & Michael post-coitus scene – as scripted, minus some cute, “not accusatory” lines from Maria about not abandoning the girl who you just had sex with, and how it might have been nice to tell her he was leaving forever before she lost her virginity to him.
Liz throws herself at Sean scenes – as scripted.
Max & Is make a tape for Mom & Dad scene – as scripted.
Max picks up Tess scene – as scripted.
Goodbye Bob & Jim scene – as scripted.
Maria & Liz & Amy scene – as scripted, plus a more obvious Tess mindwarping flashback instead of Liz keying on the George W. T-shirt (from OTM) Amy is holding.
Cut scene – Maria & Liz drive to Valenti’s and discuss the significance of the “tapping” and the idea that Tess has something to do with it.
Kyle remembers scene – as scripted, minus references to the T-shirt being the trigger for Amy.

Act Four
Liz/Maria/Kyle drive to rocks scene – as scripted.
Podsters open pod chamber scene – as scripted (but originally before “Kyle remembers” scene in act three.)
Cut scene – Podsters in Granilith chamber talking about what they will miss. Among other things, Isabel mentions Alex and Tess blurts out “I’m sorry”… and then covers herself by adding “for everything you are going to miss.”
Liz/Maria/Kyle arrive at the rocks scene – as scripted.
Max at the Granilith & Liz/Maria/Kyle out side scenes – as scripted.
Cut scenes – short scene of Podsters at Granilith and L/M/K shouting and banging on cave door.
Michael deciding to stay scene – as scripted.
Michael opens cave door scene – as scripted.
Granilith chamber scene – as scripted, minus Michael threatening Tess and Max protecting her because “she has my son”, and a final exchange between Max & Tess where she tells him she has always loved him, and Max touches her stomach to say good-bye to his son. Note: the line attributing the “deal” to Nasedo was changed/added with the 3/30 revision, so it’s POSSIBLE the original plan was to make Tess solely responsible…?)
The remaining scenes cutting back and forth between inside and outside the rocks are as scripted, although chopped into shorter segments than scripted. The stage directions as Max takes Liz in his arms include “Max moves out to hold her. She lets him. The beginning of reconciliation.”

There is absolutely NO indication anywhere in the script, dialog or directions, that indicates the baby is anything but real. And, those last two lines… Iz’s “What happens now, Max?” and Max’s “I have to save my son” were never changed from the original 3/20 script... so the ending we got was exactly what JK always intended!

commentary:
-in the version we saw, he got ready to kill her. We got the better ending.
-she apologized (sort of)in the script. They must have cut that to make her more evil
-Max did not touch the spawn goodbye in what we saw. They realized that would undo her being an evil murderess. Since touching her would be like touching Satan.