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able to refer to the books to create notes for the set decoration and prop departments, to ensure that key items were present for future episodes. Additionally, the series' author, Joe Lansdale (whom Hap is loosely based on), was readily available for any questions we had. One of the biggest challenges was shooting underwater scenes in a man-made, sand-bottomed pond called Cajun Lagoon (which was rumored to have been scouted and considered by a huge franchise dinosaur movie). Logistics and a hopelessly tight schedule ruled out moving the shooting crew to a chlorinated, Olympic-sized pool further south. During the summer, Cajun Lagoon overflows with kids and inflatable toys stir up the silt below—certainly not an ideal, clear environment for camera lenses. The challenge was to come up with a way to keep the silt debris contained. I decided to lay a rubber pond liner on the lagoon floor to mitigate any debris which could cloud the water Right and below: Two drawings by Set Designer Dave Kelsey laid out the underwater submerged Cadillac set, shot at Cajun Lagoon, a water park in Denham Springs, east of Baton Rouge, LA. Bottom, left and right: A pair of photographs show the installation of the Cadillac before various logs and underwater debris are dressed around it.