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Reincorporation

Reincorporation is connecting present material to material from earlier in the scene, usually material that happened so long ago that the audience has forgotten about it.

Reincorporation is a great way to find a Closer.

A good reincorporation usually comes as a surprise, makes all the previous action in the scene appear to have happened for a purpose, and makes the players appear brilliant.

Whatever theme was latent in the preceding action becomes more explicit in a reincorporation.

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See Disrupting a Routine for a technique that often sets up opportunities for amazing reincorporations.