 There is a version of the movie circulating in Australia, in a series of  videos along with other David Mamet films including "A Life in the Theater."  This particular copy of the film is timecoded. In that version, after Carol  tells John not to call his wife "baby," (thus sending him into a torrent of  rage), and he slaps her arm and grabs her, screaming a sexual expletive and  raising a chair above her head, the door to the hallway swings open and a  number of people stand in the hallway, observing the fight and thus  hopelessly damning John. In the version now appearing on The Sundance Channel  (10/05), the expletive is unchanged but he never lifts the chair and the door  never opens; aside from a final exterior shot of the school, the film ends  with Carol (Eisenstadt) having collapsed on the floor of Johns office, and  John sitting in his chair, his head buried in his hands.