Joan and Salma Hayek break into the Streamberry server room to confront a technician about the show based on Joan's life. They are forced to face a mind-bending existential reality when they discover they are not real people, but digital likenesses living within a multi-layered simulation. The stakes escalate from a corporate break-in to a total breakdown of their perceived identities.
BEPPE: Jesus Christ! Hey no-one’s allowed in here— even when they’re Salma Hayek.
SALMA HAYEK: Call security and I break your arm. Don’t think I won’t. I do my own stunts. I will.
BEPPE: Yes Ms Hayek.
JOAN: What’s that?
BEPPE: Joan is Awful.
JOAN: But that's me. It should be— her.
BEPPE: That's beca
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