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INT. CULLING OFFICE. DAY. Helly enters the office to find Milchick standing by the door. MILCHICK Miss Riggs. HELLY Mr. Milchick. MILCHICK Have you seen Mr. Scout? HELLY No. He’s maybe in the bathroom. Milchick looks at the floor. MILCHICK I forgot to offer him pants at the orientation today. Bungled the whole thing like a ninny. Helly nods, empathetic. INT. STORAGE CLOSET. DAY. Mark climbs the shelves, his face drenched in sweat. The floor is no longer visible below. He passes a shelf which contains a symmetrical pile of metallic gold boxes. He rests a foot on this shelf, causing it to creak. He stops. The shelf gives way, sending the gold boxes careening downward. Mark grabs hold of the shelf above him, his feet dangling over the endless darkness below. He struggles to find another foothold. Grimacing, he pulls himself up to the next shelf. He forces himself to look up. About ten feet above him is a platform and a thin, metallic door, like the one he came in.
INT. UPPER HALLWAY. EVENING. Mark opens the thin door, gasping for breath.
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