Æon Flux/Gravity

Gravity
Shorts Season 2, Episode 1
Airdate	September 22, 1992
Production Number	—
Written by	Peter Chung
Directed by	Peter Chung
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Æon Flux — Shorts

Gravity is the first stand-alone short featuring Æon Flux and is the seventh short overall. It aired on Liquid Television on September 22, 1992.

Plot Overview

The short opens with Æon and Trevor making out through a window since Æon is in a plane and Trevor is in a train. As they're doing the deed, Trevor flips open Æon's artificial tooth compartment with his tongue and places a small document in there. A man exits out of the last car of the train and boards the plane before it takes off.

On the plane, Æon flips open her tooth and looks at the slip of paper to see a picture of a man and a briefcase, presumably a man she is supposed to kill and steal the briefcase from. She exits through a window, throws her coat to the wind and scales the plane to get to the back. She attempts to jump to the door but misses. Æon begins to freefall and contemplates suicide before her inevitable death.

However, in the distance, she sees two men pulling something out of the canyon. She attempts to see what they're doing, and uses a grappling hook to stop herself from slamming into the ground, but because she's so preoccupied with what the two men are doing, she doesn't realize that the line is wrapping around her neck. She starts to see what they were pulling up (which shines so brightly that we don't get a good look at it) when the screen goes black and we hear a disgusting crack.

Notes

Characters

• Æon: Æon is killed by her grappling hook due to a misplaced jump from a plane.

Trivia

The Show

• Radio: The political radio that is heard in the coach compartment of the plane is meant to give the notion of a dictatorship, so the audio engineer combined a kind of made up Breen language, cheering and what would become the Breen national anthem into the program.

Behind the Scenes

• Time: This short is three minutes and eleven seconds long.
• Genesis: Peter Chung came up with the shot of Trevor using his tongue to flip open the tooth compartment from the pilot to Rugrats where they were looking through one of the twins' mouths to the other one.

Memorable Moments

• Æon and Trevor make out in kind of a grotesque fashion, leading him to place instructions in her false tooth.