EXTRA

Director’s Notes — 02 The Hand-Off

Why this drop matters

We pivot from “heist vibes” to moral recoil. Leila thinks she’s doing a simple relay; the footage reframes the job as complicity. The reveal of the SimEx pods ties District Seven glamour to the industrial violence underneath it.

Beat Map

  1. Chez’s fake-calm patter vs. Leila’s practical focus.
  2. Entering the D3 sub-lines: wet, rusted, city-as-organism.
  3. Terminal boots, bandwidth spikes, thumbnail resolves.
  4. SimEx pods revealed; clinical audio; the coat in reflection.
  5. Chez admits “Geisha.” Stakes reframe: endgame, skull-and-crown.
  6. Leila completes the plant despite revulsion.
  7. Surface: neon dusk, the Squid, bass swallowing thought.
  8. The forgetting fails; resolve hardens.

Easter Eggs

  • 8 exabytes is a wink at impossible scale—more than “ransomware,” it’s an archive.
  • Skull-and-crown ☠️👑 marks operations that cross a personal red line for Chez.
  • “The coat” appears as a lens artifact—never fully seen, only inferred by how rooms behave.

Texture & Sound

Sub-lines sweat and hiss; terminals purr; the club bass “rewrites” pulse. We keep verbs embodied so the tech lands visceral. Steel doesn’t “open”—it relents. Progress bars crawl like “patient snakes.”

Lines I like

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