On Wednesday, we finally managed to get Rob, Ximon, Kymra and Cory together at Precision Body Arts ( http://www.precisionbodyarts.com ), in Nashua, to film the final clinic scene. I say "finally", because on our first attempt a month ago, we were hit with a blizzard, misplaced our costumes and our syringe, and had to call the whole thing off.

We still haven't found our costumes. Rob and I drove down to Heroes in Lowell, MA., and got a replacement lab coat for Dr. Marshfield, while Claire managed to scrape up a new syringe and some scrubs for Nathan. (Unfortunately, I didn't notice that the scrubs were just tops, until we got there. We had to film all of Cory's shots from the waste up, more or less.)

Precision Body Arts was more than accomodating, allowing us to completely re-arrange one of their rooms and stay until 11:30pm, when we'd tentatively told them we'd be out of their way by about 10pm. The room was small, so I lit it by bouncing the light off the ceiling, and filmed the scene with the camera basically standing in the doorway, except for one shot through the window leading to the next room. But the results were good.

This was a tough scene, with most of it being carried by a frantic Laura and a cooly professional Dr. Marshfield, but the cast pulled it off well, despite being very tired and stretched thin these days.

My one concern is that we got some more digital artifacts in the footage. Again, it wasn't enough to ruin any takes, but obviously, running a cleaning tape through the camera didn't solve the problem. We'll probably have to have the camera serviced, which will cost not only money, but time. Fortunately, we do have the Canon XL2, as back-up.