# pistol.checkmate → TURNABOUT · DISARM · choreography doc v2 (coordinator OK 27 Oct with change: pinned flat, top-down XT; SMG SUPPRESSION owns kneeling-held-up) (KILLPAGES-A, 27 Oct)

Replaces the chess gag in the same key. EPIC. Victim **CHOTU** (headband; a pistol, then a gold machete). Faris has the pistol.
Style: DISARM: weapon-against-weapon technique. Both men are disarmed once. Every weapon changes hands, and the victim's own
blade, driven by Faris's rounds, opens him.
**Needs:** `{ kinds: ['FLOOR'], space: { w: 360 } }`, pointBlank–close, victims 1. Nothing from the map; every prop is drawn or
cast. The Deep adapts: slowed swings, bubbles, the same beats.
**Look:** a hard steel-and-sodium grade (cold key, warm rim), grain. Each disarm gets one punch-in frame and a chromatic flash.
**Length:** trigger to final about 20 s (scene about 17 s plus two slow-mo beats).

## BEAT SUMMARY (scene seconds; F = Faris, C = Chotu; C starts at arm's length, 1 m)

| t | CHOTU | FARIS | CAMERA / FX / SOUND |
|---|---|---|---|
| **0.0-2.4 GUNPOINT** | Steps in, his pistol at F's forehead, arm locked, sneering, the finger tightening. | Hands rising slowly, palms out, the eyes flicking from the muzzle to C's elbow. | 1 a tight two-shot down C's arm. 2 an insert on the trigger finger. A slow push. Breath, the hammer's click. |
| **2.4-4.8 THE STRIP** | Fires. | His hands snap: a C-clamp on the slide turns the muzzle off-line. | **SLOW-MO 0.15:** the round passes F's ear; the muzzle blast licks his cheek; the casing hangs in the air. Snap back. His thumb drops the magazine out (it clatters); his other hand racks C's slide back and OFF the frame; the spring flies. C is left holding a bare frame. F tosses the slide over his shoulder. Insert: C staring at his empty frame. |
| **4.8-8.8 THE MACHETE** | Throws the frame at F's face. **CAST (a)** 'blade': a gold machete inks into his hand. Three cuts: a forehand, a backhand, an overhead. | Slips the frame. Sways off the forehand. Parries the backhand with his pistol (CLANG, sparks). The overhead cuts his coat sleeve (a red line on the forearm). C's kick takes F's pistol out of his hand; it skitters across the floor. | 3 handheld with the exchange, cut on action. 4 a whip pan with the flying pistol. F is disarmed too. |
| **8.8-12.6 TURNABOUT** | A big overhead chop to finish it. | Steps in under it, catches the machete wrist in both hands, pivots under the arm (a turning wrist lock). **CAST (b)** 'slam': his foot stamps and a waist-high gold block inks up beside them. He slams C's straightened arm down on it and rolls C's wrist so C's own blade comes down through his own forearm against the block. | 5 a swing round the lock. **EXPLODING LIMB 1:** the hand comes off at the wrist, still gripping the machete. Hit-stop. F pulls the machete out of the dead fingers. |
| **12.6-15.0 THE KICK** | Reels back, the stump pumping (d58Stare). Kicks at F in rage. | Swings the machete low through the kicking shin. | **EXPLODING LIMB 2:** the leg comes off below the knee; the shin and shoe spin away and bounce. C drops onto his knees. F walks to his pistol and kicks it up into his hand (a toe flick). The headband is cut free in the swing and falls. |
| **15.0-17.0 THE OPENING** | On his knees, swaying. Grabs at the blade with his one hand. F's boot to his chest drives him over onto his back. | Follows him down: one knee on the floor beside him, the machete's point set under the sternum, pushed in a hand's width. Puts his pistol to the machete's spine. | 6 low and close, then straight down. **SLOW-MO 0.12:** three rounds hammer the blade down through the chest like a nail, through him and into the floor. **THE OPENING:** the chest splits along the blade, the ribs sprung, the cavity open. Snap back loud, chromatic flash, shake. |
| **17.0-20.0 FINAL** | PINNED FLAT on his back to the floor by his own gold machete: the hilt stands straight up out of his chest. The arm and the leg twitch once and go still. | Stands, lets go of the handle. Walks off, picking up C's slide on the way and dropping it on the body. | 7 a crane up to TOP-DOWN over him, a slow rotation settling. At the exit the block and the machete un-draw. |

## XT (TOP-DOWN)
- Flat on his back, pinned to the floor through the opened chest by his own gold machete; the hilt stands straight up at the lens,
  the blood pooled round the blade where it enters the floor.
- The dead face is upright to the top-down frame (the head's crown toward the frame top): half-lidded, bloodshot, a small drifted
  pupil, blood from the mouth. The headband lies cut beside the head.
- The chest is split along the blade: ragged skin, sprung ribs (uneven), the cavity, blood sheeting out over the floor.
- The wrist stump: a torn section with radius and ulna ends. The leg ends below the knee: torn cuff, tibia end, never a disc.
- Around him on the floor: the severed hand on the gold block, the shin and shoe a stride off, his stripped frame and slide.
- **Dismemberment / opening / end pose (ANTI-TEMPLATE):**
  - Dismemberment: the wrist taken by his own blade, then the shin. It's a DISARM kill, so every wound is done with a weapon that
    changed hands.
  - Opening: the chest split by his own machete, driven by pistol rounds hammered into its spine. The pistol is used as a hammer.
  - End pose: pinned flat to the floor, top-down. Not kneeling, not propped.

## LADDER (after the XT pass)
- **VH:** no opening: the machete through the belly pins him on his side; he dies curled round the blade.
- **H:** the wrist and the shin, then one round to the heart (d58Dn), he falls.
- **M:** F turns the machete flat and clubs him into the block, X eyes.
- **L:** after the strip, C stares at his bare frame and F flicks his forehead; he sits down, dazed.
- **VL:** F strips the gun and hands C the pieces back one by one; C tries to reassemble it, gives up and sulks.

## CHECKS
- LESSONS 1-3 as usual: torn stumps, the face upright, the headband off, nothing floats (the hand, shin, frame and slide rest),
  uneven ribs, the wound out-reads the gold.
- Uniqueness:
  - Not GUN KATA: no own-gun shot, no form.
  - Not SPLIT DECISION: no pinning.
  - Not the minigun RELOAD machete (that one shatters the blade).
  - The slide stripped off his gun, the wrist taken off by his own blade over Faris's block, and the chest opened by rounds
    hammered into his own machete's spine are new.