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GEORGE:
In this series we’ve treated plague as a character.
We’ve treated fear as a character.
We’ve treated rumor, policy, numbers—characters.
Today I want to treat the audience itself as a character.
Not a passive crowd.
A living organism.
WILL:
Yes.
A crowd is not merely many people.
It is one creature with many hearts.
GEORGE:
And after plague, that creature is wounded.
WILL:
Wounded—and hungry.
GEORGE:
Hungry for what?
WILL:
For company.
For permission to feel.
For a story that does not lie to them…
but also does not crush them.
George - What the plague did to the audience before they even arrived
Let’s build the world they were walking in.
Your city tracked death publicly.
Bills. Lists. Tallies. Numbers.
WILL:
Yes.
A city reading its own obituary in installments.
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