For those of you who don't regularly read Joe Mallozzi's blog, I thought that I would share with you something interesting. He has done a run-down of deleted scenes from Ripple Effect, and here's one scene that got cut:
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Scene 38: Black Mitchell and Black Carter scheme and disappear into the elevator
We were watching the dailies of this scene over lunch one day when I saw something that made me choke on my turkey club. In more than one take, Black Mitchell and Black Carter discuss as they head toward the elevator and then, inexplicably, take one another’s hand and step inside. As the elevator doors close, they lean in for a kiss … What the hell? I went down to set and asked Peter DeLuise, the episode’s director, what the thinking was behind that scene. He explained that he was just offering up a visual cue to the relationship being hinted at throughout the episode.
Apparently, Peter had assumed that the references to AU Mitchell’s dinner at the Hunan House (which didn’t make the cut), AU Carter’s pregnancy and honeymoon, all pointed to the fact that these two were “an item.†An interesting interpretation I’d never thought of — and not the one intended.
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I am SO glad that Joe intervened and had that deleted! It also made me realize how much leeway a director has in interpreting, and therefore, conveying, various scenes in a script.
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Scene 38: Black Mitchell and Black Carter scheme and disappear into the elevator
We were watching the dailies of this scene over lunch one day when I saw something that made me choke on my turkey club. In more than one take, Black Mitchell and Black Carter discuss as they head toward the elevator and then, inexplicably, take one another’s hand and step inside. As the elevator doors close, they lean in for a kiss … What the hell? I went down to set and asked Peter DeLuise, the episode’s director, what the thinking was behind that scene. He explained that he was just offering up a visual cue to the relationship being hinted at throughout the episode.
Apparently, Peter had assumed that the references to AU Mitchell’s dinner at the Hunan House (which didn’t make the cut), AU Carter’s pregnancy and honeymoon, all pointed to the fact that these two were “an item.†An interesting interpretation I’d never thought of — and not the one intended.
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I am SO glad that Joe intervened and had that deleted! It also made me realize how much leeway a director has in interpreting, and therefore, conveying, various scenes in a script.
and that's why she's evil! It obviously threw her over the edge. 
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