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
- Chez’s fake-calm patter vs. Leila’s practical focus.
- Entering the D3 sub-lines: wet, rusted, city-as-organism.
- Terminal boots, bandwidth spikes, thumbnail resolves.
- SimEx pods revealed; clinical audio; the coat in reflection.
- Chez admits “Geisha.” Stakes reframe: endgame, skull-and-crown.
- Leila completes the plant despite revulsion.
- Surface: neon dusk, the Squid, bass swallowing thought.
- 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
- “A bright lie stretched over a slow panic.”
- “This wasn’t a place to wake gods.”
- “The city’s prettiest prey parading toward the maw.”