Dailies

COLD OPEN

1. INT. WAREHOUSE · B

• Someone finally asks Sea Panda Kid what's in the backpack. Everyone leans in. He unzips it. Sea Panda: "Snacks."
• Seabear: "…Just snacks?" Sea Panda: "I'm FIFTEEN." He zips it back up with dignity.

ACT ONE

2. EXT. THE SHALLOWS · A

• They show Old Seacow the reel. She doesn't look up. She sips. She sips again. The straw makes the empty-cup noise for the first time in the series. That's the tell.
• Old Seacow: "I quit because they made me play the same girl in somebody else's story for forty years."

3. FLASHBACK · SEPIA · THE PREMIERE · A

• Orca Whales and Fince Agillsan at The Long Reef's premiere: searchlight jellyfish, a red carpet. That same night, Sea SI agents carry the reels out the back door and burn them.
• Orca Whales, watching the fire: "MORE," quietly, for the first time ever, and meaning the opposite.

5. FLASHBACK · STREET · A

• Young Chonksy in front of the recruitment billboard: a heroic chonk soldier recut from a human war movie.
• Present, Chonksy: "I went to war because of a remake." He says it flatly. That's worse than yelling.

ACT TWO

6. INT. WAREHOUSE · THE FIRST SCREENING · B

• A bedsheet and a projector. The crew watches the first cut. Seabear sobs: "This is the most upset I have ever been. I love it." Sea Panda pretends something is in his eye. Ink cries ink, which is a lot of ink.

8. INT. WAREHOUSE · THE PASTRY · B

• Seaver unveils an underwater toaster made of copper pipe and a bell jar ("Structurally speaking, this should not work"). It works.
• Chumpy toasts the Pop-Tide like a sacred offering. They split one pastry nine ways. Ink takes eight crumbs, one per arm.
• Seabear, chewing: "Tastes like… sixty years." Chumpy: "Worth it."

9. EXT. BORDER FENCE · TWILIGHT · C

• Ink's visa is expiring. She has to go back for a week. Ink: "Come back?" Platrick: "Cool cool… always." Tentacle in paw through the fence.

ACT THREE

10. INT. WAREHOUSE DOORWAY · A/B

• Gotter: "They don't arrest the work. They burn it. Make copies. Hide them." Chumpy: "I already did." Everyone turns. Chumpy: "…I've been doing it since Episode Three." (He says "since the space shark thing.")

12. INT. THE ORCA'S OFFICE · A

• The Orca offers Chonksy SPACESHARKS 2, the lead, forever. "You'll be the face of copying for the rest of your life, sweetheart. That's job security." Chonksy hesitates too long. The Orca notices.

13. EXT. THE SHALLOWS · DAY

• Seapholk orders a smoothie. Seapholk: "Long time, Miss Seacow." She stops sipping. She doesn't put it down. Not yet.

14. INT. DARK OPS ROOM

• The blinking tag light turns solid red over Upper Kelpwood. Agent: "They've made something." Seapholk: "Now."

TAG

15. INT. SEA SI OFFICE

• The Watcher gets reassigned to "a stakeout," and lights up: "Like in the movies!" Supervisor: "Which movies?" The Watcher: "…All of them."

ON THE CURRENT

21. REMAKE CLIP: THE WAR MOVIE · slot: under Scene 5

• The recut human war movie that sold the Octopus War plays on the Current as a "classic." It's heroic and patriotic, a chonk soldier pointing at the camera, and it's the poster Chonksy stared at as a kid.

22. THE CITY WATCHING: THE VETERANS' BAR · slot: after Scene 5

• Old chonk veterans with medals and missing whiskers watch the war remake in silence at a dim bar. One of them stands, walks to the TV, and turns it off. Nobody stops him. Chonksy, at the end of the bar, raises his glass to him.

SHOWRUNNER PASS · WORLD-TRUE (new scenes)

Tests: true to the world, funny, interesting. See WORLD.md.

33. EXT. CORAL COLA RETREAT · "SEAL ON THE ICE" · after Scene 12

• The sponsors are drunk at their lodge. The sharks' favorite party game is Seal on the Ice: an exec flops onto a floating ice block and barks while the sharks circle. It's what sharks do to seals, as a party game.
• The Orca, an apex predator, in his bathrobe, flops onto the ice and barks for his job. The sharks howl.
• Chonksy, an actual sea lion, at the door with a drink he didn't want, watches his boss do his species, badly. Their eyes meet. The Orca (quiet, from the ice): "…Was that close?" Chonksy: "…You flop from the hip." Neither of them ever mentions it again. (It sets up Ep 10's "…Was it good?" Both times, the predator asks the seal for a note.)

COMEDY PASS · STAKES & LAUGHS

Engines from Seinfeld, Bernie Mac, Gillis, Rock, Farley and the bench. See COMEDY_PASS.md.

STAKES: whether it's any good (the creative stake). CLOCK: the warrant comes through in 48 hours. PRICE: the toaster gives them away.

41. THE TOAST · Scene 7 · Farley

• Chumpy, the motivational producer, stands on a crate. "You know what you are? You're FILMMAKERS! And if you don't watch it, you're gonna end up making MOVIES… in a WAREHOUSE… DOWN BY THE VENT!" He jumps off the crate, goes belly-first through the craft-services table, and snacks explode in a bubble cloud. Silence, then the whole crew roars. Chonksy laughs for the first time all season.
• Then Seaver plugs in the bell-jar toaster, and the coil glows (the Ep 5 flash-forward pays off).