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The idea behind this episode was...

I wanted to tell...

I wanted to see if I could tell a story for four minutes...

with just one character in it.

And, basically, apart from that little silhouette there...

and the shot of Trevor at the very end...

Aeon is the only character in this episode.

And I was interested in seeing how you could develop a conflict...

when there isn't actually another person on-screen.

In this instance...

Her battle is against time in this one.

Yes, but it's also against herself...

because...

she's conflicted, in the sense that...

She keeps making mistakes.

There is her long-term mission...

but then, there is the immediate moment.

And her interest in the one...

is in conflict with the other.

And so, what we have is a series of digressions...

all of which...

ultimately sabotage her ability to function.

So it's very much an attempt to get more into her head...

and into her psychology, because...

Well, the things she does in this are actually very, kind of, mundane.

She puts a...

Musically, I tried to incorporate elements of, kind of, glitching sounds...

static, and...

process-tuned short-wave radio...

to try to play up the, sort of, sense of...

things not quite going right, things that are glitchy and broken.

Less on the ethnic elements...

as much on the electronic and glitchy sorts of things.

Actually, here we do see just a tiny glimpse...

of Trevor's legs, and then we're out.

So, we do get a sense that there is...

There may be somebody...

else...

lurking.

Although, the conflict really isn't between them...

as I said.

So, yeah, it's just...

It's a comedy of errors.

Further and further digression.

I guess my hope was that we would...

start to feel like she's digging herself into a deeper and deeper hole.

And growing frustrated with...

But that's one way of increasing the stakes in the outcome...

and getting you to continue watching to the end...

is that the deeper and deeper she gets...

or the further and further away she gets from what she's trying to do...

it's like she's got farther and farther to go to get back on track.

And this is something that will never, ever happen again...

which is Trevor kills Aeon.

I almost killed my wife.

She was trying to do the, kind of, gurgling noises with her throat.

She was just about drowning, doing the...

And she eventually forgave me.

But, at this point when we were doing the shorts...

I hadn't really established this love-hate relationship...

between Aeon and Trevor...

which became the defining relationship in the series.

Trevor, at this point, was still, sort of...

her...

Sort of like a Blofeld character...

her eternal nemesis.

And...

once again...

she expires.