OVERCLOCK · Episode 5 · 10:07
OVERCLOCK Episode 5: Under the Hall
The story
Hiding in a Robinson Road supermarket, Peter and Joanne find their neighbours Kevin and Amy, and the cashier makes Peter pay for his lollipop before anyone leaves.
Kevin, an army major on holiday, calls his friend Major Alex Ng, and Alpha Team’s five armoured cars split up to box the creature in.
Gunfire, grenades and a shoulder-fired rocket all fail as the creature rips Singapore’s Conference Hall open and starts digging.
The army chooses to evacuate before any air strike, and the police empty Shenton Way building by building.
Still hours away in a C-17, Deep goes over the morning’s footage and notices the creature walked straight to that one building without breaking another.
How this episode was made
- Episode 5 runs a little over ten minutes, the longest so far: 24 chapters and 26 clips, every clip filmed with Seedance 2.5.
- Chapter 1, in the supermarket, took six takes, the most of any chapter in Episodes 3 to 5. The store’s pictures were painted from frames of Episode 4’s finished film, so it matches from one episode to the next.
- Three chapters are cut from two takes each, and in one chapter two stretches of the same take were swapped in the edit.
- The rocket blast is one unbroken 30-second shot. The jaws coming out of the smoke were a single 30-second take, used whole on the first try.
Main characters
Deep
An engineer from Pune with no powers, only nerve and a habit of working things out.
The Burrower
The Singapore kaiju from Episodes 3 and 4, walking downtown and shrugging off every weapon.
Kevin Chen
An army major on holiday, and the Wees’ neighbour.
Amy Chen
Kevin’s wife, polite even in a crisis.
Peter and Joanne Wee
A couple just back from Bali, hiding in the supermarket.
Jess Wong
The supermarket cashier who doesn’t care.
Major Alex Ng
Kevin’s friend, who leads Alpha Team’s five armoured cars.
Lieutenant Rachel Ma
The Alpha Three officer who fires the rocket.
Made entirely in Agent Social and directed by Deep Bhalerao.