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  • Hyde's Establishing Character Moment comes when Tom Jackman is about to be attacked by a guy (who was originally attacking a girl but Jackman bumped into them) while already on the verge of transforming. Before the transformation, Jackman leaves Hyde an audio note on his dictaphone and specifically adds "minimum necessary force" - the reason being 1: to ease his own conscience, "while I still have one." 2: to save the guy's life. The sudden change in demeanor as he transforms into Hyde is evident from the moment he turns around and grins. Hyde gives the guy three goes with the knife, each of which he avoids... then he has the guy in a headlock and twists the guy's neck saying that while he does not get much pleasure out of killing kids, it is enough. He steps up to the girl who is beyond herself with terror, and fortunately he lets her go. Then he steps back to the boy... who was only knocked unconscious by the neck snap.
  • Hyde explains to Katherine why she has to keep the cameras and lights on: if she doesn't, she's going to be dinner because Jackman won't have the footage to turn himself in. Then he gives her a Jump Scare just to prove the point.
  • Katherine has to look for something in the apartment without Jackman or Hyde finding out. So she sedates Jackman and puts her in the chair... but neglects to put on the binds before turning off the lights and cameras. Cue a nightmarish chase scene with Hyde taking both sets of keys, which leaves Katherine whimpering and sobbing under one of the desks and begging Hyde to leave her alive in return for her telling him the secret of what she was looking for.
  • Said sedation has the side effect of Hyde and Jackman both being "awake" though Jackman steering the body while at the zoo.
  • The company after Jackman and Hyde use Jackman's outing with the boys to a zoo as an occasion to take one of the boys and put the kid into the lion's pen to provoke Jackman into transforming. Jackman is panicked as he tries to get a guard... nothing. He runs back to the pen, climbs in... and lands in front of the lion as Hyde. Seconds later the huge male lion is tossed out, throat ripped out by teeth, and lands meters away on top of the van of the company.
  • Hyde, driven by the still "awake" Jackman's fury, takes mere seconds to find out who put the boy into the lion's den, then kidnaps the guy with the van. When Jackman awakes at an abandoned place, Christopher, the guy in question, is undressed down to his underwear and tied up to a chair in a room, with arrows and the words "dinner" leading to the door.
  • While talking to the guy, Jackman discovers Hyde is still awake... and Hyde convinces him to send a message to the company. "Look at what happened to the last one." The guy's scream as he sees Hyde's Psycho Smirk is unsettling enough, but the next thing we see is Hyde carrying a garbage bag into a hospital then dropping it off for the nurses... it's Christopher, still alive but so badly hurt he will never be able to eat solids again. No wonder when Jackman finds out he nearly faints.

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