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# 125 <5.27> Consumed "Consumed", the episode title, alludes to the title of Jeff's novel. Early script drafts suggested B. Riley Wicker with Maggie, Chase and Cole in the Gioberti House in the opening scene. He was replaced by Floyd Gilmore in script revisions. After that scene, early script drafts planned for Jeff to watch the Gioberti House from a wooded area in the distance — with a binocular matte similarly to the effect in # 124. This idea was dropped in rewrites.
 The interiors of the garage on the Falcon Crest grounds are portrayed by a corner in the transportation department at the CBS-MTM STUDIOS (nowadays RADFORD STUDIO CENTER).The Falcon Crest truck in the background is a white Ford LN-Series.
  Mistake: During Li-Ying, Cole and Lance's picnic, their hands are in different positions in subsequent frames filmed from different angles. This is a mistake caused by the particular close-up filming technique — check # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for details.Season time frame: In this episode, Cole's statement about the wine symposium reveals that # 116 depicted the events in January 1986 (see there).
Early script drafts called for Riley to be in the act 2 scene in the Gioberti House, discussing the surveillance of Richard with Chase and Maggie. Script revisions replaced Riley with Cole in that scene. Melissa hates sautéed squid. 
License plate number of Cole's rental car, a brown 1979 Mercury Grand Marquis Colony Park with exterior wood trim: 1FFF281.The truck behind Cole's rental car during his observation of Erin is a yellow Peterbilt 352. It is one of several identical studio trucks (seen before in # 102, 113 and 117; compare there) carrying production equipment to the set.
Early script drafts suggested that both Riley and Cole perform the surveillance of Richard. Script revisions deleted Riley from that scene.
A Tuscany flower store and delivery service is named Ashley's Florist (delivering Jeff's flowers for Maggie).   Mistake: When Li-Ying expresses her wish to stay in the U.S., the frame with the photo of Emma in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion changes miraculously the angle in which it is placed on the sideboard during the scene. It seems that, after filming the long shots, the camera crew realized the photo of Emma would be too distracting in the close-ups of Li-Ying, so the frame was repositioned on the sideboard. The long shots were not refilmed though. This is one of the mistakes caused by the particular close-up filming technique — check # 001 (Chase and Maggie at the Gioberti Family Cemetery) for details.  A similar mistake happens just a few moments later: In the scene in the Falcon Crest Victorian Mansion, Angela touches Li-Ying's hand with both her hands. In the subsequent frame filmed from a different angle, Angela's right hand, however, is on Li-Ying's left arm.
Deleted scene: In the director's cut, there was an additional scene at the end of the episode: In the original cliffhanger, Jeff and Maggie arrive at his cabin. He tells her that she has to rewrite the final chapter of his book with him. So far, it reads: "She lay quietly on the floor, breath gone, eyes open — the steady drumbeat of her heart now replaced by utter silence. Soon she would be just another statistic on a police blotter. A thin line of chalk would mark the spot where she died. Blood and hair samples would be collected and placed in countless tiny bottles. Flashbulbs would pop, questions would be asked. But right now, in the stillness of the moment, he knew why he had killed her. It was because he had loved her..." This scene was removed in post-production.← Previous episode... → Next episode... |
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