Optical daggers in John Wayne's Viewing-Room group

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texture · 3 Nov YDAU

When: 3 Nov YDAU, during the Big Buddy small-group sessions between P.M. matches and dinner.
What: Peterson's first appearance parks him in the most coveted Big Buddy group at the Academy: "the Canadian John Wayne's got LaMont Chu and 'Sleepy T.P.' Peterson and Kieran McKenna and Brian van Vleck." His whole contribution is a shared glare of clique displeasure — "LaMont Chu and T. P. Peterson are sending van Vleck optical daggers as Wayne turns around to stretch a hip-flexor" — fixing the Chu-Peterson pairing that recurs in every later scene.