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What Did I Get Us Into? by Michael Gallenberg, Production Designer COLD OPEN FADE IN: 1 I/E. CLOUD 9 – ESTABLISHING / VARIOUS – DAY (D–1) 1 We're in CLOUD 9, a national chain of "big-box" retailers. Under what sounds like narration, we see shots of people shopping in some of the different departments. Garrett (O.S.) The American superstore. One-stop shopping for everything you could ever need or want. Do you want to be thinner? 1A IN FITNESS, a woman jogs on a treadmill –– which is on a 1A Second shelf display. Flashback nine weeks earlier, June 8, 2015, empty offices, two empty 12,000-square-foot stages connected by a single 18-foot door and an empty parking lot at the back of the studio off Barham Boulevard. Standing there with Art Department coordinator Síla Ó'Grádaigh, a single "Oh, holy crap" thought ran through my head. "What did I get us into this time?"