Did Gabby set him up? Was her purpose to identify him? Frank is trying to negotiate, to be reasonable, but Howard is limited to his instructions to keep Frank alive, to process him.įrank is concerned for his dog, begging Howard to pass a message requesting someone check on him, but “I don’t have access” is the repeated response, and with no memory of how or why he is there Frank keeps looping around a coffee shop conversation, the memory morphing in the nightmare of his capture. His physical presence nothing more than a camera which descends from the ceiling of Frank’s cell, Howard’s voice is warm, almost concerned, but if he knows more than he telling he doesn’t let on. Frank is a prisoner who has committed no crime of which he is aware, who has not been charged to his knowledge, who cannot communicate with the outside world, whose only contact is Howard, the Life Support Operator who monitors but conspicuously avoids useful answers to any questions. From the opening shot, it’s all falling apart, a fragment of memory creeping up behind Frank Lerner triggered by a photograph of a place he has never been but which speaks of freedom.
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