Unraveling the Shadows: How Blackout’s Screenplay Keeps You Guessing Until the Final Frame
And then, out of nowhere, you hear, “FREEZE!” And it’s a bunch of cops. And Matrix is arrested. It’s the ultimate “NO” to your character. He’s not able to do what he wants to do. We don’t get any “No’s” in this script. Sure, there are a few bad guys who cause some bumps in the road to Riley and Magnus’s investigation. But never anything that makes us say, “Oh no, how are they going to get out of this?”
When Matrix got arrested and placed in the back of an armored police vehicle, I literally had no idea how he was going to get out.