2002 (Side A): Bullet Garden/Prologue 4—The Star Accepts the World

Synopsis
Claudia Walken and Charon Walken's finish up a reshoot of the opening for John Drox's upcoming film Shark Flight—a sequel to the comic book series adaptation Mode Gears—with flying colors, if John Drox's enthusiastic declarations of 'perfection' is any indication. The crew are no less impressed, praising Claudia's hard work and ability.

Half and hour later, Claudia joins Charon inside one of the studio's smaller dressing rooms and chatters at length about this and that while he removes his Gear costume. Their sibling bonding time is interrupted when Claudia notices John at the doorway, and John promptly falls to his knees in despair for having not filmed the bonding wen he had the chance. He then toys with the idea of making his next film a domestic comedy about forbidden love between siblings, though Claudia immediately shoots down the implication that there is any such love between her and Charon.

Once John calms down, he brings up the planned publicity campaign for Shark Flight in Japan and hands Claudia and Charon two project write-ups headlined, "Re: The Grand Shark Flight Publicity Plan (and We'll Shoot the DVD Bonus Footage While We're At It) On Board the Twin Luxury Cruise Ship Entrance."

Trivia

 * The movie distributor for Shark Flight mentioned in this prologue, the McDannell Company, is said to have connections to the talent agency Jack-o'-Lantern as of Durarara!!x4, Chapter 1. The official Yen Press translation of Durarara!!x4 spells McDannell as McDonnell.
 * Chapter 4 of the same novel mentions that John Drox has tabbed Japanese actor Kasuka Heiwajima—an actor with whom he has frequently worked—to play the lead in his pet project Cruiserfield.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Claudia Walken
 * Charon Walken
 * John Drox

Quotes

 * "The world hasn't accepted me. I've accepted the world! After all, from the moment I was born, the world was mine!" —Claudia