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INT. TRAIN CARRIAGE - NIGHT Elle looks out the window. She is hot and happy. She looks at least ten years younger than our introduction to her. SUPER: One year earlier. Oslo, The Norwegian capital. Elle admires the sleeping boy on the seat beside her: LAURITZ HAALAND, her plump nine-year-old son. Elle carefully drapes her coat over him and cuddles down beside him. Distant lights sparkle in the dark countryside. Elle closes her eyes. FAKE KRIS KRINGLE (O.S.) How! How! Lapland calling! Your dream Xmas holiday is at the AVZI SANTA SPA! Elle wakes abruptly. A few seconds as she regains her balance. Elle sits in a bank of four seats. There’s a sleeping WOMAN IN GREY on the opposite bench. Elle looks at the TV screen in the other train compartment. ON TV: Chinese girls dance like a reindeer herd. The girls keep their hands over their heads as symbolic reindeer antlers. In the middle of the ring of reindeer girls dances the fake KRIS KRINGLE. He tears off his fake white beard and ANT-OVLA HAVGA is revealed. ANT-OVLA I'm Ant-Ovla, the King of AVZI SANTA SPA. Here is my guarantee for 100% satisfaction. Pay before December 1st, 2022, and Santa himself pays half of your holiday! He lassoes one girl and brands her on the bum with a giant fake wild west cattle stamp.
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