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A GG4 Deleted Scene!

November 9, 2010 by Ally Carter 63 Comments

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ONLY THE GOOD SPY YOUNG.  READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

 

Hey everyone!

Today I thought I’d share a deleted scene from GG4.  Originally, the girls found Cam’s father’s journal in Sublevel Two and then took a few weeks to decode it.  Then the plot got sort of rearranged, and I altered that scene so that the girls figured out the code much sooner.

Still…I thought you guys might like a look at the original.  Just for fun.

Ally

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“We have to crack it,” I said.

Liz looked at me.  “I
know.”

I gripped the journal tighter. 
“My father wrote this.  I have to
know what it says.”

“I know,” Liz said again.

“We have to—”

“I know,” Liz said, but it wasn’t a snap.  She wasn’t mad at me–she was mad at
herself.   And I totally knew the
feeling.

“Could it be a Pigpen?” Macey tried.  Liz shook her head.  “A Playfair?”  Another shake. 
“A Purple?”

“It’s none of them,” Liz said. 
“But you already knew that.”

Macey shrugged as if, yeah, she did know, but she’d been hoping
she was wrong.  We all were.

“That settles it,” Liz said, dropping at least a dozen heavy
books from the encryption section on the table. 
“It’s not breakable!”

“Come on, Lizzie,” Bex said. 
“I thought every cipher was breakable…in theory.”

“Well, yeah,” Liz said as if theory should never be mocked.  “But this isn’t monoalphabetic or
polyalphabetic—those would be too easy.” 
She sounded like Mr. Solomon wouldn’t have insulted her that way.  “Really, it’s more code than cipher and that
means it can’t easily be deciphered.   Look at this.”  She opened the journal wide, and even in the
dim room I saw letters from the Greek alphabet, pictures and symbols in every
line.  “No computer made this.  It’s more like…”

“It’s old,” I finished for her and she nodded.  I smiled. 
“We practice a very old art,” I repeated our teacher’s words as I turned
to watch the rain pound against the widow.

“Look at this,” Liz said, pointing to the page.  “It’s almost more like hieroglyphics in a
way.  Almost like a—”

“Language,” Macey said.

Liz’s eyes shone in the dim room.  “Yeah, that’s exactly it.”

“And you don’t crack languages—not really.  You learn them.”

“Or you translate them,” Macey said.

“But that’s just it!” Liz said. 
“We can’t translate it—not with just one document and nothing to compare
it to, and I don’t know why would Mr. Solomon go to all this trouble to make us
find something we can’t translate.”

“He wouldn’t.”  Bex was up
and moving

“He’d have to leave a key,” Macey said.

A flash of lightning filled the room and in the sudden
brightness I saw it.  I closed my eyes
and heard the thunder and the rain kept pounding against the mansion like a
tide.

“He did leave a key!” I cried, but I was up and running, my
roommates close at my heels, terrified it was too late.  “He left it and we didn’t see it.  Why didn’t we see it?”

I was running up the old stone stairs, and even in the mansion
the whole world felt heavy and wet.   I
could see the rain pounding against the glass of every window I passed and so I
ran faster, harder, praying I wasn’t too late when I finally reached the small
door at the stop of the circular staircase and pushed my way into the storm.

Freezing rain pounded against me, burning like a million tiny
needles driving into my skin.

I felt my roommates come to stand beside me, the four of us
staring at Mr. Solomon’s empty chair and the wall of words and symbols, letters
and chaos that filled the blackboards that sat deep beneath the shelter over
the overhang, barely—just barely—out of reach from the rain.

“He left it with the pigeons.”

 

 

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Comments

  1. Hannah says

    November 9, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    Thanks, Ally! That was awesome, but I still like the scene in the final book better, which I guess, is the point.

    I wonder what the code looks like, though…I sort of imagine it like the Dancing Men code in Sherlock Holmes. I would totally use it.

    Reply
  2. Nadia M says

    November 9, 2010 at 9:53 pm

    Thanks for that! I LOVE deleted scenes!

    Reply
  3. Gemma says

    November 9, 2010 at 10:06 pm

    I adore all deleted scenes! Thank you, thank you, Ally!

    GG4 was AMAZING. It took the Gallagher Girls to a whole new level of beyond awesomeness.

    Reply
  4. Anonymous says

    November 9, 2010 at 10:07 pm

    Yay! Thanks so much much Ally! 🙂

    Reply
  5. Anonymous says

    November 9, 2010 at 10:40 pm

    Amazing Ally!!!! I love it!!!

    Reply
  6. Alex says

    November 9, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    that was awesome!! thank you for sharing!!

    Reply
  7. Marlee says

    November 9, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    You rock! I’m home sick with bronchitis but you’ve really brightened my day!

    Reply
  8. koolgirl<3gg says

    November 9, 2010 at 11:06 pm

    i liked that (; but i like the scene in the book better..

    Reply
  9. mydnight lily says

    November 10, 2010 at 12:20 am

    pure awesomness it was really suspenseful!!!!!!!!:D<3

    Reply
  10. Anonymous says

    November 10, 2010 at 12:38 am

    OH MY GOSH THIS IS SO AWESOME!!

    Reply
  11. Mia says

    November 10, 2010 at 1:12 am

    That was so awesome/sweet of you Ally! I want to go back and re-read the scene as published to see what differences I pick up on and hopefully gain some knowledge into the editing of writing. 🙂

    P.S. Congrats on Heist Society making it into the Teens Top Ten!! I voted almost every day!!!

    Reply
  12. jessica says

    November 10, 2010 at 1:28 am

    YAY!!!! it was genius! i wish ally could tell us something about GG5 or HS2:)(:

    Reply
  13. Anonymous says

    November 10, 2010 at 2:01 am

    i love you

    Reply
  14. Anonymous says

    November 10, 2010 at 2:04 am

    OH MY GALLIGHER that was a great deleted scene thank you so much. Good luck writing GG5 and H2. 🙂

    Reply
  15. LeahLoahla says

    November 10, 2010 at 2:15 am

    AMAZING! JUST AMAZING! i could hear the people clapping at the end of the scene!

    Reply
  16. Snowdrop says

    November 10, 2010 at 2:38 am

    Why was that deleted?! It’s not like it was a waste.

    Reply
  17. anonymous says

    November 10, 2010 at 2:41 am

    Thanks for the deleted scene!!!

    Reply
  18. Keegan says

    November 10, 2010 at 3:38 am

    Thank you!!!!!!!! So awesome of you!!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  19. Anonymous says

    November 10, 2010 at 3:45 am

    OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I love this series. I litterally just finished it a few minutes ago. I love the idea of the deleted scene but loved how it turned out in the book better. I think it just keeps the book going better. LOVE U ALLY, CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK!!!!!

    Reply
  20. abbyvest says

    November 10, 2010 at 5:24 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!! I loved that sooooooo much!

    Reply
  21. kireina says

    November 10, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    Neat! Thanks! 🙂

    What great pacing… I was scanning downward faster and faster to get to the big reveal (even though I already knew what it was!).

    Reply
  22. Lizzy says

    November 10, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    OHMGEE!!!!!!!!
    Ally, you always know how to make my day better! I was just thinking last night about how I was dying for a deleted scene! Thank you sooooo much!
    Team Liz all the way!!!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  23. Anonymous says

    November 10, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    Ally you are an inspiration to all. I nevver knew of NaNoWriMo until you now i have at least 6 small chapters. you are my favorite write. i woke up at 4 am once and decided to finish reading Heist Society( this is in february of course)i was up till 6 and finished then the same thing with GG4. thanks by the way for that deleted scene. i have gotten at the most 5 friends on your series. People who try to steal books from great au thors like you are idiots. Nobody should steal greatness escpeecially great ones like you. You are the best cant wait gor HS2 and GG5. Please do all you can to respond.

    Reply
  24. Elise says

    November 10, 2010 at 11:44 pm

    I totally understand that you said that you don’t like deleted scenes because it isn’t your best work and… that was good, but… I liked the final better!

    Admiringly,

    Elise

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  25. Samah says

    November 11, 2010 at 12:27 am

    eeeeeep! i <3 deleted scenes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  26. Brynn says

    November 11, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    omgosh, i know :). lol , that would be AH-mazing!<3

    Reply

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