Angela Kinsey

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.

He goes in the hallway, and he's kind of hiding out, and he's whispering to camera, and he starts, like, jamming the doors.

He puts a key in.

He hammers it shut.

He puts his little wood wedges under and, yeah, blow torches the door handle and starts his speech.

And you guys, today cigarettes are going to save lives.

Yeah.

As he smokes a cigarette and then tosses it into a trash can and immediately a fire starts.