original_post:_11/1/2004____________________________ Orignally, I was going to skip this strip and just go to the shot of Naomi on the floor covered in "blood." But this scene was important. The point was not to make people think that Max had lost it. That was not the time to do a twist. They had tricked Naomi, and I needed more scenes letting the audience in to Max's problems. This makes more of an impact when it's MAX that is tricked.