Kalkin Revelation: Szenenauflösung
From Live Cinema Research
Act 0 - Title and Establishing Scene
O0.1
We are opening the movie with a flight from way above into the divided city of Berlin (in a map/3D style) in the year 2028. One half is very green while the other is white and only has sparse green spots here and there. All the surrounding land is absolutely green with white spots resembling corporate greenhouses here and there (that are huge).
O0.2
We then see the "white" side - its huge clean structures blink up and the text "Bayeonia" comes into view.
O0.3
Scenes of futuristic surveillence cameras/robots,
O0.4
Clean white glassy architecture and
O0.5
people in corporate dress working like robots show up (maybe intercut with robots).
O0.6
We cut back to the top view of the city this time the "Berlin" (so the anarchic) side blinks.
O0.7
The picture freezes gets a little noisier and zooms out to reveal that it is a video shown on a floating screen.
Act 1 - Protagonist Introduction
Ping's point of view
P1.1
Going further backward with the camera moving away from the beginning poster performance we see Pings arm with the interface to control the floating screen. Camera moving more backward and slightly sideward shows Ping. Looking away from the screen to her right she gets distracted by a beautiful butterfly sitting on a flower just in front of her (she is sitting in the gras). She watches it for a couple of seconds as it then flies off into the sky. Ping looks after it until dissapears.
P1.2
With her thumb she is fiddling with the tattooed interface on her arm (stroking it upward downward) we see the butterfly and the flower as it would be seen from Pings point of view on the floating screen. Then she rubs her finger to the left over her arm and we see the last bit of the poster sequence of the beginning.
P1.3
At the end of that "loop" she pushed her thumb down (closeup on the interface with her fingers moving over it)
P1.4
and the butterfly appears.
P1.5
Closeup her face: She smiles satisfied,
P1.6
pushes another time on a different part of her arm - her signature appears on the floating screen "PING propaganda for a better world" (or such I have to find a better slogan or a good logo (banksy comes to mind)!!!). She then rubs her thumb (closeup) again and we see the whole sequence play from the part where the anarchic side blinks to the butterfly to her signature. Happy with her work she turns off the screen that swirls into a black tiny thing implanted on her arm (again touch her tattooed interface) takes the chip that is magnetically attached to a different part on her arm and gets up.
Az's point of view
A27.1
Closeup on Azraels Feet with Azraels Shoes which are on some kind of elevation (concrete block or a railing or such) with a blurry street in the background. His Hand comes into view and he slides his finger over the side of the shoes and while he rubs his finger along in one direction the shoe"laces" are tying closer making the shoes fit better.
A27.2
Then he stretches (left right loop) and
A27.3
does other warm ups (decided on location like jumping up and down a little etc etc).
A27.4
Then he practices a jump over a railing or some other obstacle a couple of times. Then jogs off into some alleyway.
Big Fish's point of view
B36.1(G&LA)
We see a swarm of nanobots assembling themself into some kind of iris lookalike structure. The structure slowly zooms out until we see that the nanobots where visible on a floating screen and that the screen is attached to some strange structure that resembles a electron microscope thingy. The outline of Big Fish backlit by the screen comes into view.
B36.2
His hands fiddle with his nanobot collecting pen which he places on the glowing bit (which has a premade hole) of the tunnel microscope (lower part).
B36.3
closeup The pen fills up (visible by a transparent part of the pen that starts glowing more and more).
B36.4
close/halbnahe -> He grabs the pen
B36.5
halbtotale - then moves over to his experimentation table where an eyball like white substance/object is in a casing on the table.
B36.6
nahe/closeup - He puts his pen over it and pushes the button on the end with his thumb.
B36.7
the pen empties - Instantly the same kind of iris lookalike structure that we have just seen under the microscope is forming on the eyeball. It starts glowing, closing and opening like a aperture of a photocamera, rotating and then desintegrating somehow eating into the eyball which turns black and starts smoking.
B36.8
Face of Big Fish -> frowning He looks worried.
Act 2
Ping's point of view
P1.7
Ping grabs her spray paint belt that lies next to her and gets up.
P1.8
She walks out of the park into the city.
P2.9
Along a street
P2.10
and another street where at one point we see AZ in the background training.
P2.11
A little further down she briefly talks to someone on the way.
P2.12
Further down she spots an old MoPic Shoe Poster (from a earlier version of Azraels Shoes that shows some functionality of Azraels Shoes) and
P2.13
she prise off the chip that sits inside the old poster - making it defunct. (closeup hand putting her knife onto the spot cutting a square hole and prising it open and plopping out the chip.
P2.14
Then she pulls out a chip of her belt and
P2.15
puts it into the poster in place of the older chip. (closeup again)
P2.16
Instantly her butterfly sighting appears on the posterscreen.
P2.17
Continuing walking down the street and around the corner
P3.18
she finally arrives at a spot where she decides it would be a good place to put up the full installation.
P3.19
She wipes off dust and dirt with her hand.
P3.20
Then she pulls out a a roll and a spray can.
P3.21
She puts the roll on the ground and it unfolds itself into a flowery ornamental mask.
P3.22
She shakes the spray can and
P3.23&24&25
starts painting the wall with some white/blueish glittery stuff in a horizontal rectangular longish shape.(couple of closeup and other camera POVs showing her painting the wall)
P3.26
When the nearly perfect rectangle is done she picks up the mask and
P3.27&28
spray-paints the right edge with the mask.
P3.29&P30
She would need to wait shortly for the paint to dry. A good time to pre-roll a cigarette. (closeup rolling the cigarette)
P3.31
Once her mural dried she pulls out a chip from her belt
P3.32
pulls off the protection paper and
P3.33&34
then places it into the round whole of the mask shape on the wall. (one closeup popping the chip in place)
P3.35
Slowly a picture is (half naturally half electronically looking) assembling, showing Pings signature. Then her whole clip that we have seen in the intro sequence is shown on the spray painted motion picture canvas. Just when we are entering the part that shows the anarchic site blinking the signal drops and some strange binary numbers flash onto the screen ('LIFE' in binary code).
P3.36
Looking puzzled
P3.37
she turns on the interface on her arm (CloseUp)
P3.38
"rewinds" the installation with her thumbs. Looking at it again there seems nothing wrong with it. She scratches her head shortly
P3.39
Happy that she has done her job so well and being in peace with her artistic self she leaves the scene
P4.40
she stumbles back through the city which gets into sunset mood.
P5.41
somewhere she enters an abondened looking building (opening door and getting in).
P6.42&43&44
and climbs up the stairs
P7.45
to the roof (opens door to the roof and steps out).
P7.46
up there she sits down
P7.47
smokes the prerolled cigarette
P7.48
and chills with a nice view over the city.
Az's point of view
A2.5
We see AZ jogging down a street. we see Ping in the Background (P2.10).
A28.6
We see AZ jogging down another street.
A29.7
He then arrives at the parkour start point where the other three parkour runners are already stand on the registration point talking to the registration man. Azrael goes to them and
A29.8
tells the registrar who he is.
A28.9
The man puts down a checkmark next to his name on the electronic paper he is holding. (closeup)
A28.10
Azrael gives the registrar his small rucksack.
A28.11
The registrar is then calling the bunch of runners to attention and
A28.12
they get ready on their position marks on the street.
A28.13G
A list of rules rolls through the screen (no physical harm to the other runners, points for best route, best jumps and first to get to the goal).
A28.14
A group of people cheers from the sidewalk.
A28.15
The laser line in front of the runners starts flashing faster and faster until it goes out. The race starts and the runners run off down the street.
A28.16&17&18&19
They hop over obstacles (benches, trashcans whatever there is) and push and shove each other, two (not AZ) even have a little fight where one falls down. ( it is supposed to be a rough race)
A28.20
In the distance they start running down different alleyways and streets and split up going into different entrances.
Big Fish's point of view
B36.9
The put down man who just had a failed experiment is rolling to his communication desk
B37.10
closeup hand auf tisch - where he makes some handmovement on the table interface that closely resembles the interface Ping has on her arm.
B37.11
halbnahe silhouette wie am anfang- On one of his floating screens a list of "emails" or better "avatar mails" is showing up.
B37.12
closeup - With his thumb on the interface he scrolls through them
B37.13
halbnahe von B27.11 - and the topics are all a bunch of "help me! Need cure for my limb leg! my plants are loosing leaves" etc etc Some of the other screens show a "network error" and general flickering.
B37.14
closeup finger again - his finger is scrolling down
B37.15 & 16(G)
halbnahe von B27.11 - through the list of avatarmails. One of the mail blinks selected but shortly later there is a error message that a connection attempt fails (connection attempt failed due to unknown network error) -
B37.17
halbnahe/nahe - Big Fish shakes his head in disapointment.
Act 3
Ping's point of view
P7.49
Dreamy looking around she also looks down from the roof.
P7.50
she sees AZ running by on on edge.
P7.51
She follows him with her eyes (closeup on her turning her head) around the corner of the building she sits on and
P7.52
sees him running towards an old slide open door. The door opens way before AZ reaches it but just when he actually arrives and wants to enter the building it slams close resulting in Azrael running into it. (camera perspective would ideally include pings shadowy figure in the forground and the sliding door with AZ down the street (maybe needs a ladder for camera position or such))
P7.53
Ping laughs a bit, (closeup face)
P7.54
Azrael moves back it reopens just to close again when Azrael is trying to run through it again. One two more tries
P7.55
Ping who is laughing loud,
P7.56
Az looks up at
P7.57
she instantly hides (falling rolling backward) on the roof so she can´t see her. Feeling caught redhanded - even though she is innocent of manipulating the door
P7.58
she grabs her stuff and runs off.
P7.59
through the door she came through
P8.60
Still laughing she is running down the stairs and
P9.61
enters the street checking over her shoulder that Azrael is not following her.
P9.62
After running down the street and then feeling save from being followed
P10.63
she enters another old fucked up building.
P10.64
Going up some other stairs
P11.65
She opens a crack the door to Big Fishs laboratory to say "Hi" (waves hand childishly) to Big Fish who is still trying to figure out whats wrong with his communication devices and looking grumpy as he had a bad day and nothing works as expected.
P12.66
Then we see her entering an amazing bright room (door opens illuminous).
P13.67
inside of a green house full of plants and flowers.
P13.68
Breaking off some old leaves an a plant,
P13.69
talking and stroking another flower that bears fruit and
P13.70
picking a tomato
P13.71
that she eats instantly
P13.72
Big Fish is entering the Green House
P13.73
and Ping gives him a warm hug - his face brightens up.
P13.74
Ping activates her implanted interface and her floating screen swirls up before her.
P13.75
She then presses another button (closeup her arm interface) and
P13.76
the loop of Azrael slamming into the door shows up (showing AZ only from Pings Point of View without ever showing his face). Both crack up laughing loud for a while.
P13.77
She turns off her screen which swirls back into her arm and Big Fish then gives her another hug with then leaving the green house.
P13.78
Ping quite happy sits down on something in the greenhouse reactivates the screen.
P13.79
Pulling out another stored typography loop (closeup arm)
P13.80
that reads something like "Technology You Trust" she puts it over the loop and adds her signature to it smiles turns off screen then gets up and out of the greenhouse. (all fixed camera position)
P14.81
Leaving building
P15.82
On the streets again she reuses another old poster to plop in her new made loop of Azreal running into the door. (optional spraypainting another one depending on location that would subdivide that loop into three more!!!)
P15.83
A last time she cracks up about it and moves on down the street,
P16.84
enters another old building
P17.85
goes up some stairs
P18.86
enters her apartment/bedroom.
P18.87
There she turns on her walls by way of an old lightswitch which makes very white bright glowing light and
P18.88
through her activated interface (by this time we don´t explain in detail how she turns it on anymore just hold up left arm in front of her) she chooses a calm nighly loop. We see her fall into bed and
P18.89
close her eyes.
Az's point of view
A28.20&21
Everyone splits off in different directions (camera runs with Az).
A28.22
There are shots of him jumping over railings and walls (and the camera).
A7.23
Then approaches the sliding door (below Ping P7.50).
A7.24
Runs into the door a number of times.
A7.25&26&27
Hits and kicks the door - (hammers on it various closeups feet kicking the door hands hammering on it etc).
A7.28
(closeup of face turning upward - Noticing Ping laughing
A7.29
tiefe camera az im vordergrund ping auf dach - he pauses, giving her a furious look. then concentrated look onto his arm.
A7.30
halbnahe - Checks his tracker (him looking at his arm)
A7.31
nahe - (which suggests new preprogrammed route)
A7.32
totale/halbtotale - runs off into the direction he come from
A29.33
He runs really fast, (steadycam camera running behind him through a longer street) pushing himself really hard.
A29.34
Sweaty head,
A29.35&36&37
Running feet, Wall, Jumping,
A29.38
sweating, frowning and looking concerned.
A29.39G
We see on the tracker that he overtakes two other runners (graphical overlay over the normal picture) but
A30.40
when he reaches the finish line he just looses barely to the first runner coming in in front of him.
A30.41
People on the sidewalk are cheering and
A30.42
the other runners come through as well. #
A30.42
The winner is celebrating with the cheering people and
A30.43
Azrael just gets a certificate from the registrar who shakes his hand and gives him his bag
A30.44
with his head hanging down he slowly moves away from the after race celebration.
A31.45
We see him walking through a street he just through unhappily stumbling over an obstacle he was raving over through the race
A31.46
arriving at a spot on the river - perhaps an old long abandoned port facility.
A31.47
He then lights a fire in barrel or such with a futuristic looking lighter and
A31.48
closeup - pulls some corn out of his bag
A31.49
closeup - which he puts on sticks
A31.50
totale - which he holds over the fire
A31.51
gesicht im feuerschein nahe - Looking defeated, wistful and deflated.
A31.52
nahe - eats some corn
A31.53
totale - gets up and leaves the area
A32.54
Then he goes in the direction of home through a street, walking past the loop Ping made of him (P15.82) running into the door.
A32.55
closeup face - looked dazzledbazzled
A32.56
closeup arm - He types "Ping" into the tracker search function and the tracker immediately blinks up with Ping's location.
A32.57&58
halbnahe und close he furiously rips chip off wall.
A32.59
close face - He looks pissed off, and
A32.60
halbtotale - sets off at a run out of the street.
A32.61(G)
His tracker guiding him to her house.
A33.62
He rips open door to house and enters
A33.63
goes up the stairs and
A33.64
finally knocks on the her door.
Big Fish's point of view
B37.18
He shuts off his screen with a handmovement on the table and
B37.19
Totale - gets up and
B37.20
Totale andere Richtung - moves over to a different desk
B38.21&22&23
halbnahe Nahe Closeup - where he takes some earth out of a bucket with a Spoon and fills some small little plant containers.
B38.24&25&26
halbnahe Nahe Closeup - He then takes a sprouted seed and puts it into one container.
B38.27 optional
- he then takes his pen puts it in a liquid storage container that sits next to the plants and
B38.28 optional
closeup - puts a drop of nanostuff on a different container that has earth in it - instantly a sprout grows out.
B38.29
He puts the pen in a different container and
B38.30
put a drop on some already sprouted seeds (they would glitter in the artificial lights and start growing a bit visually (optional definately).
B11.31
He turns around as there is a knock on the door -
B38.32
Then Ping puts head through the door, saying Hi, and closes the door again.
B38.33
halb nah - Big Fish finishes to put some more drops of liquid on some more sprouted seeds and
B38.34
totaler then grabs a baby plant and goes out the door
B13.35/72
Entering the Green House
B13.36/73
he gives Ping the baby plant that he carried along -
B13.74-77
she smiles and puts into "her corner". Ping then shows Big fish the loop of Azrael running into the door. They laugh. He then says goodbye to Ping and
B13.35
leaves the greenhouse (opens door and steps out
B39.36
tür halbnah - enters his laboratory.
B39.37
nah - Pleased of seeing Ping he goes picks up a Bottle of Wine from a shelf in between his laboratory stuff
B39.38
totale - and places it on a small table near a very comfortable chair.
B39.39
halb nahe - Then he goes over to a jar and
B39.40
nah - puts his nanobot pen in it which fills up then
B39.40.b
halbnah - puts the pen into its holding place
B39.41
total - he goes to the small bookshelf and
B39.42
nah picks out a Book from Christopher G. Langton "Computation at the Edge of Chaos"
B39.42
nah über schulter (buch cover von oben - (which he quickly turns in his hand (as to glance over it briefly)
B39.43
totale - sits down in the chair
B39.44
nahe/halbnahe pours some wine into a glass then
B39.45
halb nahe take pen out of its holding place
B39.46
nahe lets the nanobots into the wine
B39.47
takes a zip opens the book -
B39.48
we see his faces reading and then he closes his eyes falling asleep from the long night.
B39.49
He then enters a lucid dream where
B39.50(G)
the Game of Life appears and slowly morphs into a pixalated face. Cut black out.
Act 4
Pings and Azraels point of view
P18.90
closeup - Pings gets woken up by a knock on the door and
P18.91
kind of sleepwalks over to the door, and dreamingly opens it.
PA18.92
Halbtotale -The enraged Azrael pushes in and
PA18.93
Totale mit zweite Kamera Näher dran - they have a quite violent fight.
PA18.94
Somehow her eyes get covered (by t-shirt being pulled) and she freaks out and
PA18.95
closeuop - pulls out a small spraycan with sleeping potion from her pocket and
PA18.96
closeup - sprays it into his face.
PA18.97
halbnahe He falters and immediately falls asleep.
PA18.98
Totale - Feeling a bit sorry she drags him over to her bed and
PA18.99
halbnahe - puts some liquid on his mouth that comes out of the same bottle that she is still holding in her hand (other end perhaps).
PA18.100
closeup - Shortly later he wakes up (open eyes) and she is looking at him.
He opens his eyes blinking and with a knocked out feeling. They both sit there and look at each other for a brief moment.
PA18.101
totale - then he gets up and she invited him with a gesture over to a table thats in front of a wall.
PA19.102
Totale. zweite/dritte Camera capture facial expressions in close up- They sit down and converse. Converstation sequence with scripted words on the wall...
- Az: "I lost the race because of you!"
- Ping: "Why me?"
- Az: "You were fucking around with those doors!"
Az pulls out of his pants pocket the chip he grabbed from her installation and gives it to Ping. She plugs it into a prepared spot on her wall in the middle of the table and it shows Az running into the door.
- Az: "Who if not you?"
The moment she shrugs somethings happens - A binary code rifts through the loop - "IT WAS ME!!!!" (un-readable as in binary)
They both look really puzzled.
She has a brainwave then
PA19.103
closeup on pings arm - turns on her implanted interface .
PA19.104
wieder totale - She looks through her recording database (bits of loops played fast backward) are played on the wall. Finally she finds the point where she recorded the installation from the beginning of the film (butterfly loop) with the code appearing shortly.
PA19.105
Camera über schulter von Ping - Ping turns on her floating nano-screen. She puts in the binary code over her arm interface (that just morphed) pushes enter and that is then translated into ASCII characters that spell out "LIFE" and "IT WAS ME!!!!". We see Az look puzzled behind the screen.
PA19.106
Wieder Totale mit Tisch und Wand -
- Azrael: "Lets Go see Professor Big Fish and ask him whats going on!"
- Ping: "Big Fish? You know him?"
Azrael nods.
Both looking puzzled again.
- Ping : "OK, good idea!"
nodding, they get up and leave.
Big Fish's point of view
B40.51
closup face - Sweaty and tired Big Fish wakes up from his lucid dream.
B40.52
totale/halbtotale - Dazed he walkes to a water boiling machine that probably has been
B40.53
closeup boiling water for him the last 40 years. He turns it on (steam blubber steam)
B40.54
halbnahe - he takes a cup that he is using every day without washing up and put some loose tea in a tea egg. He then pours the water over the tea.
B40.54
fullbody - He dazes around while the tea is brewing. Morning sunlight shining through some slits in the otherwise darkened lab.
B40.55
halbnahe After while he has a couple of zips. (steam coming from cup with sunlight behind)
Act 5
Ping, Azrael and Big Fish
PAB20.107
Ping and Azrael get out of Pings Appartmenthouse and
PAB20.108
walk along a street then
PAB21.109
enter the house of Big Fish Laboratory
PAB21.110
inside up the stairs and
PAB21.111
knock on the door.
PAB21.112
He open the door from inside and looks shocked and surprised - then even happy to see them together visiting him. Ping just waves her hand as to say "its a long story don´t even ask". Then Big Fish asks them in.
PAB21.113
They sit down around the Laboratory table where the black eye experiment is still present.
PAB21.114
closeup,Ping turns on her interfaces
PAB21.115
halbtotale tisch - she shows Big Fish the loops she recorded with the binary code in them.
PAB21.116
halbnahe tisch Ping und Big Fish - She gives him the chips.
Big Fish takes chips swivels around his old creaky office chair that has seen better times and rolls over to his workbench.
PAB21.117
Azrael and Ping wonder around in the laboratory (in the background) while Big Fish takes the Chips and puts them on a plate that has wires coming out in all directions.
PAB21.118
Some circuitry visuals etc cutting in.
PAB21.119
the plate starts to glow a little.
PAB21.119
Then all of the sudden the power cuts out. Picture black for some time then we see some strange-looking floating nano-lights brightning up the room a tid and floating off Big Fishs hands. (He pulled them out his pant pocket in the darkness and activated them).
PAB21.120&121&122
facial closeups - The all look a little terrorized and puzzled.
PAB21.123
Big Fish crouches under a table and fiddles with something looking like an old school generator or such. The power comes back on visible by the screens all in reset mode and the light flickering on.
PAB21.124
Big Fish looks terrrorized at the plate where
PAB21.125
we see black plastic drops smoldering - the chips are fried because of the power cut.
PAB21.126
All three look disappointed.
PAB21.119
closeup Pings face - Ping has another Brainwave blink blink
PAB21.120
halbtotale - she shows with her hands sliding doors movement (in the background we see the Azrael runs into door clip as a second layer overlay).
The other two nod.
They all leave the room.
PAB22.121
Go out of the building
PAB23.122
along a street where there is the butterfly installation of ping (the very first one) when they walk by it it changes shortly (what and how to be figured out in postproduction) showing Kalkins presence.
PAB24.123
The turn into the familiar alleyway and come to the sliding door.
PAB24.124
They get closer to the door and
PAB24.125
halbnahe - Big Fish places a sensor by it.
PAB24.126
When they move away from the door it strangely opens and closes on its own.
PAB24.127
They all look amazed and puzzled. Big Fish goes and picks up the sensor. They all leave the scene with the door together.
Ending
PAB25.123
They all enter a commons room (bar, meeting place or such maybe open air) and go over to a big bowl of self made cider
PAB25.124
closeup of one of them pouring the liquid into a glass out of the big barrel that in the middle of the place
PAB25.125&126&127&128
observation am tisch aus verschiedenen perspektiven - and have some laugh and talk and play stupid little table games until the sun sets.
PAB25.129
They then get up and say farewell to each other and leave the place in different directions.
Ping's point of view
P26.130
Ping goes through two familiar streets
P26.131
back to the park from the beginning which shimmers in the moonshine.
P26.132
halbnahe ping sitzens - She sits down and looks at the stars. (Maybe she smokes again). We see her sitting there in amazement looking at the star (open mouth really amazed and happy). After a while she scratches her head.
P26.133
closeup - She turns on her interface and
P26.132
halbnahe - floating screen for a last time rewinds what she has just seen and there the stars are forming into a butterfly which flies off into the black universe. Her eyes widen....................
Az's point of view
A34.65
On his way home (walks along one two streets that are familar)
A34.66
closeup Arm - Azrael checks his tracker to see the way home (he is still not accustomed to his surrounding)
A35.67
when he looks he sees a different part where the park is located strangely glowing then the map picture disintegrated and there is just a message on his screen that says "Network Busy"..........................
Big Fish's point of view
B40.56
Big Fish back enters his laboratory
B40.57
puts the analysing sensor from the door on the chip analysing plate.
B40.58
One of his floating screens shows a vast network of connections pulsating rythmicly and organic like a brainscan. He then turns to his other floating screen and calls a hacker guy tim on the webcam.
B40.59
Saying hi and visually asking him a question he then sends him the data (a "sending" is on top of the pulsating picture).
B40.60
Tim looks at it, shrugs, shakes his head and sends him two other files (indicated by a "file sending 1/2 2/2 flashing on the screen shortly ).
B40.61
Then picture fades in firstly a connection from one computer to the door - when a normal person would remotely control that door (typo overlay: normal remote control connection),
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then secondly a disguised connection (typo: disguised connection) showing multiple connections ending at the doorpoint but still just a fraction of what has been going on on big fishs picture.
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Then Big Fishs nods shaken and in thoughts and raises hands to say thanks, switches off connection to hacker and looks to the screen with the connection analyses.
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Cut back to Big Fish Face close up frowning and thinking - Big Fishs End.