Behind the Scenes

Outtakes
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Morgause's scene from "The Secret Sharer"
In the audio commentary of episode seven, Julian Jones reveals that the scene with Morgana having flashbacks of her magical duel with Emrys was not the original start of the show. When he first wrote it, the episode was supposed to begin with Morgana lying in the woods, badly injured by Merlin’s magic. She is on the brink of death and ready to enter the Spirit world. There she sees her sister Morgause, still with injuries on the right side of her face and surrounded by the spirits of the dead (people dressed in grey and with their hands extended to her). Morgause gives Morgana a magical coin, "the price of a soul" (as the Witch describes it to the Dochraid in "Lancelot du Lac") that is able to revive the High Priestess and let her leave the Spirit world, healed, as she's able to "pay" for the journey back to the world of the living. Morgana will use the coin, throwing it into the dark waters of the Pool of Nemhain, to summon Lancelot's shade (Lancelot du Lac).

Because Julian's original script was fifty-six pages long, which is about five or six pages longer than a normal episode, something had to be cut out, and Morgause's scene was replaced with the existing flashback scene.

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