Orchid Orientation film
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The Orchid orientation film is a set of clips/outtakes from the filming of the orientation for the Orchid station. It was first presented at Comic-Con 2007 by the Lost panel, and later appeared on ABC's website as well as on the Region 1 third season DVDs.
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ABC.com video
This is the video from ABC's official website, without the profanity and countdown alarm sound. When the object drops, it seems to make no crashing sound. For some reason, YouTube is removing the Orchid Videos.
Comic-Con Video
This is the video as it premiered at Comic-Con, with the profanity, countdown alarm sound, crashing sound, and audience reaction.
Transcript
This transcript is based on the video found on ABC.com. For a transcript of the preceding interview, including the introductory information for this video, see Official Lost Podcast transcript/August 2, 2007.
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[A test pattern card with a DHARMA logo is held up as indistinct whispers are barely audible. The film jerks and clarifies to show Halliwax. A woman is applying make-up to his face.] HALLIWAX: I'll never get used to wearing make-up. MALE VOICE: You look great! It takes away the shine. HALLIWAX: Who cares if I shine? I'm a scientist, I'm not a... [Film jumps to show a rabbit on a table. A female assistant lifts it up and passes it into Halliwax's arms.] MALE VOICE: Turn the rabbit around, please. [Halliwax does so, revealing a painted number 15 on the animal's side.] MALE VOICE: Got it. [Film jumps again; an image of Gerald DeGroot is shown for a brief moment.] HALLIWAX: Hello. I'm Doctor Edgar Halliwax, and this is the Orientation Film for Station 6 of the DHARMA Initiative. As you [the Narvik building overlaps for a brief moment] have no doubt surmised, Station 6, or "the Orchid", is not a botanical research... [cut, image of building in swan orientation film when "social engineering" is mentioned can briefly be seen] We apologize for asking you to deceive your family and colleagues. This is, of course, in the interest of their own security. The unique properties of this Island created a kind of Casimir effect, allowing us to... [A shot of the Room 23 film is very briefly shown, reading "God loves you as He loved Jacob". The film resumes with Halliwax holding the rabbit again.] HALLIWAX: The field you have been selected to study is highly volatile and potentially dangerous. But, over the next few minutes we will demonstrate the elaborate safety measures that have been put in place to ensure... [an object falls from above Halliwax with no crashing noise] ... the hell?! [On the shelf above Halliwax is another white rabbit with the number 15 painted on its side. Several people start shouting, and the assistant runs past Halliwax.] MALE VOICE: Hey, what is that?! What's going on...?! ASSISTANT: Oh God, it's fifteen! HALLIWAX: ... the hell?!* ASSISTANT: Negative 20! [A recorded female voice counts backwards from ten, cutting off at "three".] HALLIWAX: How long? ASSISTANT: Nine minutes, but we're still learning how to...! HALLIWAX: [looks at camera] Why is that still running? MALE VOICE: He told me to keep the camera running... HALLIWAX: Turn it off. Turn it off! [The camera cuts briefly to an upside down frame of someone riding a bicycle through the Barracks. (In the Comic-Con version, during this brief intercut, a voice—possibly Halliwax's—says something that sounds like "stop the virus".) The film then cuts back to Halliwax without any alarm or chaos.] HALLIWAX: Hello. I'm Doctor Edgar Halliwax, and this is the Orientation Film for Station 6 of the DHARMA Initiative. As you have no doubt surmised, Station 6, or "the Orchid", is not a botanical research unit. [The film cuts off.] | ” |
- *Note that Halliwax's line "... the fuck?!" from the original Comic-con screening was changed to "... the hell?!" in the publicly-distributed version on the ABC website. Also the alarm sound present in the original screening, apparently the same as the Swan's countdown clock alarm sound, was removed.
Trivia
- The logo on Candle/Halliwax's jacket is from The Swan.
- There are several split-second cuts in the film of images from other DHARMA Initiative videos:
- 0:40: Gerald DeGroot and students in a laboratory, from the Swan Orientation Film
- 0:49: The Hanso Foundation building in Denmark, also from the Swan Orientation Video
- 1:10: A title card reading "God loves you as He loved Jacob, from the Room 23 video
- 1:43: An inverted shot of a bicyclist riding through the Barracks
- A bicycle (in a rather deteriorated state) can be seen on the ground when Sayid, Kate and Miles visit the Barracks to rescue Charlotte from Locke's group. ("The Economist") It may or may not be the same bicycle as the one seen on the video.
- The Rabbits in the film have the number 15 on them. In "Every Man for Himself", a rabbit with the number 8 on its back is shown to Sawyer.
- The second rabbit numbered 15 does not appear until the after the incident, suggesting the arrival of this cloned/replicated/future/past 15 caused the incident to occur.
- In the episode "The Shape of Things to Come", Ben awoke suddenly in the middle of a desert wearing a hooded parka bearing a name tag reading "Halliwax", the alias used in the orientation film. There was also an unidentified DHARMA logo.
