Angela Kinsey

First of all, you should know we reached out to a ton of people to share with us how they made this cold open happen.

It was fascinating actually finding out.

So many things to capture.

So Randy Cordray, you guys know we love Randy.

He told us they had several ideas.

planning sessions, right?

With all the department heads.

We had our director, Jeff Blitz, cinematographer, Randall Einhorn.

They had to walk through this whole dance that we did with the camera stunts, animal trainers, script supervisor, Veda, like tracking the continuity.

And then our rock star, first AD, Kelly Cantlie, she then broke it down into smaller moments.

Oh, way to go, guys.

Randy told us that we spent an entire day shooting this, one whole day.

To be exact, it was Thursday, December 11th.

Oh, yeah.

And we had tons of safety meetings, all the safety stuff.

I remember we did not shoot this in order.

Here's your overview of the cold open.

The first shot is Dwight opening his desk, and he sort of motions to the camera all sneaky, and he's got lighter fluid and what looks like to be a blowtorch.

Yeah, so you know something's up.

Something Dwight-ish.