Today I saw "Detour" on cable television. What caught my attention is the print used appeared to include several minutes of missing dialogue from the scene in which Al and Vera spend a night drinking, smoking, and quarreling in the rooms that they have rented in Los Angeles.

My personal DVD copy of "Detour" was the one from Wade Williams. The scene in which Al and Vera argue about their plans and the meaning of life suffers from a fluttering image. For a long time, I also suspected that the scene was edited (possibly for time and added commercials) and the original sequence must have played longer.

When I watched the scene on television today it did seem as if the quarrel played a bit longer than my DVD version. I have not seen the restored version of "Detour" and I wanted to ask if this particular dialogue driven scene played longer than my copy.