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M I N D H U N T E R | P E R S P E C T I V E 7 3 find a large Veterans Administration hospital complex that had recently closed. The V.A. is not a particularly easy entity to deal with, but with support and assistance from local and state officials, access to the facility was granted and about six weeks and a sizable amount of money was spent recreating something akin to what the Quantico campus exterior looked like forty years ago. Various interior sets were then created on stage: the training area, the basement BSU area and the administration area with offices and atrium. This last section required some special ingenuity for wilding the walls, which Fincher does quite often. The offices were all connected and had balconies outside the windows with low parapet walls. These prevented the camera from seeing the stage floor (there were green screens out the windows) but the set was built on a three-foot high platform to accommodate the atrium, so the only chance to wild such heavy F. QUANTICO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING ATRIUM. G. QUANTICO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CONFERENCE ROOM. PHOTOS BY NIKOLAI LOVEIKIS. E F G