The Production GuideScript To Screen: End Of Eternity
by Martin Willey
The Production GuideThis is the scene when Baxter attacks Koenig. Director Ray Austin shoots the scene with an impressionistic moving camera, often locked behind the biplane model that swoops down to strike Koenig. We see Koenig cowering, but the only blood is the final shot of his hand. The script is more explicit. Baxter uses a metal model rocket, not a biplane. He is kicking and punching, as well as using the model.
Publicity photos exist of Landau collapsing on the floor with a lot more blood than we saw on screen (see below). In at least one shot in the episode we can see Koenig with this make-up, so the publicity shots don't reveal a deleted, more violent scene. It is unlikely this level of gore was ever intended to be seen on screen, except in fleeting glimpses from a subjective camera.
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48 CONTD.
BAXTER grabs a solid metal model rocket ship from
his collection and smashes it viciously across KOENIG's
head.
ON KOENIG
He is sent reeling, blood streaming from his face.
ON BAXTER
His mind is gone. His eyes stare crazily.
He jumps and kicks KOENIG as KOENIG is rising to his
feet.
KOENIG goes down again. He weakly tries to rise.
BAXTER looms above him. KOENIG struggles to his
feet.
BAXTER comes in at him again. KOENIG weakly tries to
strike out at BAXTER.
BAXTER staggers and goes completely berserk.
He kicks, punches and batters KOENIG on the head
with his rocket ship.
ON KOENIG
He is looking battered, blood streaming down his
face.
BAXTER straddles him and starts to club him again.
KOENIG is now dead or unconscious.
As BAXTER goes to hit him once more, he suddenly
screams and clutches his head. He staggers, a look
of indescribable pain on his face.
BAXTER collapses.
49 INT. MEDICAL CENTRE. 49
HELENA is working at the microscope when a bleep
sounds on the medical computer.
She looks up.
ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN
CONTINUED:
The publicity photos of a very blooded Koenig, collapsing on the floor of Baxter's quarters.
Copyright Martin Willey.