For weeks our screenwriter had been haunted by dreams of gutters, drainage culverts and sewage pipes. His subconscious telling him something, but what? And then it clicked. Trapped in an intractable position, what his heroes needed more than anything was a maintenance tunnel. Everything needs maintenance, he thought, so why shouldn't there be a tunnel there? Toss in an extra janitor and no-one will ever think twice about it.

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 said on
October 9, 2009
Answer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242653/

Flurry of stuff to take care of today after the holidays. We'll get the annotated transcript up for you guys tomorrow.