: In an extended sequence during a school auction, Connie receives a call from the police requesting her fingerprints. This scene adds more urgency to her and Edward's final conversation in the car, where she suggests they flee the country. Connie’s Apology

However, according to production notes and interviews from 2002, the script and the initial shoot went further than the theatrical release. The most infamous allegedly takes place not during the affair, but after the film’s shocking third-act climax.

: In the theatrical version, the film ends with Edward (Richard Gere) and Connie (Diane Lane) sitting in their car at a stoplight near a police station, leaving their fate ambiguous. In the deleted alternate ending