A man's face fills the frame, his eyes wide and intense under a blue light. The scene cuts to a dark, smoky room where two figures clash with glowing staffs, one of them, a man with dark hair, lunges forward. The man's face reappears, contorted in a scream, his mouth open wide. The sequence ends with a silhouette of two men facing each other, one shouting, against a backdrop of vertical blinds.