RAW FOOTAGE

This scene follows six hours of alternating perspectives between Paige and Linc. Their teacher, Mr. Harris, holds them captive and forces them to perform a non-consensual sex scene.

Harris explains that a client has requested Paige to perform a scene, in which she’s “taken by force” by the male role. The role Harris chose Linc to play. But not before their teacher puts them through a degrading “rehearsal period.”

Paige wakes up gagged and naked—that is, except for the honeybee underwear. Linc is clothed on the other side of the couch, his mouth free, but his wrists also chained.

When Harris reveals himself Paige immediately compartmentalizes his identity. He becomes simply “the Man” in her mind. Paige and Linc quickly see they are on a sound stage with two cameras stationed on tripods in front of them, along with a single handheld right beside the couch.

Through the event, it becomes apparent that the Man is attracted to Linc. The first indication of this is when he strikes a bargain with Linc. He will take the gag off Paige, if Linc kisses him—convincingly.

And Linc does it. After the kiss, Harris removes Paige’s gag and he removes her chains, but he keeps her handcuffs on. The Man tells them he’s going to get some ointment for Paige’s wrists, which are mangled from her fighting silently as Harris forced Linc to kiss him. But before Harris leaves, he warns them that they are in a secure building. The door closest to them requires a code, and the one past that is fingerprint-access only. And his last warning is to Paige. “Stay put.”

Naturally, as soon as Harris leaves, Paige moves toward Linc. They kiss, and she tries to take what the Man did to him back. They lose themselves to the comfort for a moment, before Linc suggests Paige look for something she can hide in the couch cushions. A makeshift weapon.

Reluctantly, Paige goes, but as soon as she reaches the cameras—as soon as she looks through the code-entry door— she sees the Man standing there. He knew she wouldn’t stay put like he’d instructed. When he opens the door, Paige panics and shoves the cameras over, one-by-one, before Harris grabs her and everything goes black.

Even more horror awaits them. Paige wakes up receiving a “punishment” for breaking the cameras. This punishment is the Man’s penis in her mouth, her head on his lap. With her arms strapped to her body, she’s completely trapped. Linc is strapped to the couch, his pants pulled down. Paige’s lower half sits on his lap. He stirs just as Paige accepts her “punishment,” and as soon as he wakes up and sees what’s happening, he tries to get Harris to stop.

Harris “releases” Paige for only a second, so she can tell Linc why she’s doing this—she broke the cameras. Horrified and absolutely disgusted, Linc offers to take her place, but Harris tells Linc that his job is touch Paige. Prep her. Harris also tells Linc that he will be touching him.

Harris will touch Linc, get him hard. He’ll touch Linc, while Linc touches Paige, while she . . . takes her punishment.

Linc refuses to touch her without permission, to which Harris releases Paige again so she can grant him permission and it’s clear to Linc that she’s dissociated—that she’s not all there.

Eventually, Linc does as he’s instructed. Harris touches him while Linc touches Paige.

After long nauseating seconds of this, Harris graciously says Paige “deserves a breaK’ from her punishment and positions Paige on Linc’s lap, and instructs Linc to keep touching her.

He does, and eventually the feeling of Paige, her smell, her sounds all make Linc respond. As the Man continues to stroke Linc, Linc keeps touching Paige, and she surprisingly climaxes. Something she feels immediately ashamed of—disgusted by herself.

Linc can tell and immediately tries to make her feel better, telling her that he wanted her to feel good. But Harris quickly slides into conversation and says she would have never gotten off if some part of her wasn’t turned on by all this. Essentially, insinuating Paige was enjoying what was happening.

It invokes an angry reaction from Linc, who basically tells Harris that he knows how to find a clit, and that spurs a reaction from Harris, who immediately grabs Paige. He touches her, but just briefly (and Linc can’t see them, as he is still strapped to the couch). Harris touches her briefly between her legs and then her asshole, they’re stopped by an alarm on his watch.

They have to start shooting the film to make their deadline.

Shooting the film is terrible. Harris basically feeds them the dialogue frame-by-frame. Linc breaks—crying into Paige’s cheek right before Harris orders him to start having sex with her. But with Paige’s permission—”As long as it’s you,” Linc does it. He does it to survive. The two of them are forced to take each other’s virginity. On camera.

It ends with Linc finishing inside Paige. He hates himself for it, which forces tears just behind his climax. And as soon as it passes, Harris wraps it up. “I think I can work with this.”

He leaves a couple of water bottles by the couch. Paige is crying as he leaves, but just as he reaches the door, he lingers, looking at Linc. Linc meets his gaze with a silent seething promise. “One day, motherfucker.”

He doesn’t know what the threat means specifically, just that if this was it . . .

If he got what he wanted and was about to let them go, the only thing Linc knew was he would be back for him one day. His mentor—someone he thought was his friend.

But even more chilling than that—Harris seems to meet his silent threat with a wordless promise of his own. Something that seems to look like, “This isn’t over.”