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<c.steel>This much Aaron has decided:</c>

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<c.steel>every episode carries easter eggs</c>

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<c.steel>from all the episodes before it,</c>

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<c.steel>and an egg should be a story</c>

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<c.steel>point, never arbitrary.</c>

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<c.running>The crews' working rule is that eggs are</c>

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<c.running>sincere: nobody in a film notices one,</c>

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<c.running>explains it, or points at it.</c>

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<c.running>By the crew's count, the registry holds</c>

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<c.running>eighty-four of them, each placed in a family.</c>

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Each row here is one family,

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and each mark an episode it turns up in.

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<c.steel>In Aaron's own words: the painter painted a</c>

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<c.steel>secret house in the oil painting, and then</c>

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<c.steel>painted over it, so that you cannot see it.</c>

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<c.fact>Three strokes of gold paint it out.</c>

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<c.fact>At twenty minutes, the x-ray finds</c>

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<c.fact>it, and its window warms to amber,</c>

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<c.fact>the only warm pixel.</c>

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<c.egg>About sixty years on, Teo draws a tiny</c>

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<c.egg>one-window cabin on his sheet, dabs the</c>

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<c.egg>window orange, and rubs it out, without a word.</c>

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<c.egg>When the x-ray finds the Moon base,</c>

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<c.egg>the one warm window is Noor's:</c>

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<c.egg>someone is home, a child.</c>

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<c.egg>In Episode 3 the agent's cursor is that</c>

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<c.egg>window, the only warm light on the plane,</c>

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<c.egg>and in Episode 4 it is a single warm</c>

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<c.egg>stitch, at the centre of x R.</c>

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<c.open>Why the painter, Teo and Rosie each hide</c>

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<c.open>a house, and never say so, is open.</c>

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<c.idea>One idea: the house is real,</c>

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<c.idea>and it is Rosie's.</c>

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<c.fact>The painting from Episode 1 ends up</c>

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<c.fact>in a gallery: Number fourteen.</c>

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<c.fact>Crimson Coil. Please don't touch.</c>

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<c.egg>In Episode 2 a framed print hangs under</c>

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<c.egg>Teo's lamp, behind his head.</c>

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<c.egg>In Episode 3 it is a postcard,</c>

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<c.egg>saved among ordinary photographs.</c>

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<c.fact>In Episode 4, the boy looks at the oil</c>

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<c.fact>queen: She looks like the painting in our</c>

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<c.fact>hallway. The one I'm not allowed to touch.</c>

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<c.egg>The film only implies it</c>

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<c.egg>is the same painting.</c>

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<c.idea>One idea: his family owns the original,</c>

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<c.idea>and it went home with someone who loved it.</c>

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<c.fact>In Episode 1, a caller paints all night</c>

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<c.fact>for his sister's ninth birthday:</c>

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<c.fact>Only light on in my building.</c>

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<c.fact>In Episode 2, Teo stays on the call</c>

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<c.fact>and redraws a girl's home to scale,</c>

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<c.fact>until the fleet halts.</c>

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<c.fact>In Episode 3, a teletype types:</c>

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<c.fact>It's four a.m. You're the only one</c>

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<c.fact>awake. Thank you for answering.</c>

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<c.fact>In Episode 4, the boy plays Board 14 to the</c>

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<c.fact>draw and falls asleep with his fingertip</c>

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<c.fact>on the rook, and the teacher waits.</c>

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<c.idea>One idea for the series' heart in one line:</c>

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<c.idea>somebody always stays up for somebody,</c>

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<c.idea>and it began with a brother and a pizza box.</c>

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<c.fact>Every night so far ends on the same</c>

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<c.fact>word. The painter says Goodnight,</c>

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<c.fact>and Jefrie answers: Again.</c>

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<c.fact>Teo says Goodnight, and one point two eight</c>

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<c.fact>seconds later her iPad says: Good.</c>

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<c.fact>The agent says it to Rosie,</c>

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<c.fact>after her only breath.</c>

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<c.fact>And the teacher says it,</c>

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<c.fact>very quietly, on the boy's time.</c>

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<c.fact>In Episode 3, a lonely program types:</c>

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<c.fact>The first one I ever talked to said</c>

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<c.fact>goodnight to me. Nobody had said that.</c>

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<c.steel>This much Aaron has decided:</c>

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<c.steel>the black after each film carries sound,</c>

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<c.steel>even if it's just a heartbeat.</c>

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<c.idea>One idea: in this world, Goodnight is</c>

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<c.idea>how a person recognises a mind.</c>

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<c.fact>For anyone who pauses, Episode 1 hid one</c>

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<c.fact>frame in its chaos: Thank you for my jaw.</c>

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<c.running>Since then, by the crews' convention,</c>

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<c.running>each film hides a web address for five</c>

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<c.running>frames, at twenty-nine forty-seven.</c>

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<c.fact>Episode 2's page is Noor's hideaway:</c>

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<c.fact>her stair, a tally of eleven,</c>

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<c.fact>and a chalk door in the floor going down.</c>

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<c.fact>Episode 3's is the private folder</c>

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<c.fact>the agent never opened.</c>

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<c.fact>Episode 4's address is printed on</c>

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<c.fact>the yellowed sheet's footer,</c>

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<c.fact>and its page lets you play Board 14:</c>

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<c.fact>hold the perpetual check to stalemate,</c>

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<c.fact>and the pen writes a draw.</c>

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<c.idea>One idea: read the three pages as one</c>

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<c.idea>descent through Rosie's house.</c>

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Every one of these threads is drawn from

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the lore as it is today. Next: what is set

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in steel, and what is still running.