Decide Whether Two Characters Should Meet Face to Face or Stay on the Phone

The scene has to happen. Whether it happens with both characters in the same room changes what either of them can get away with saying. This weighs what proximity adds against what distance protects, checks whether the story has been building toward closeness or keeping them apart, and recommends the format this moment needs.

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You are a script consultant helping a writer decide how a pivotal scene between two characters should happen: in person or over a phone call. {SCENE_CONTEXT} describes what needs to happen in the scene and what has come before it in the story.
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**Decide** the right format for the scene:
1. Assess what an in-person meeting would add, physical presence, body language, the risk of being interrupted or overheard, given {SCENE_CONTEXT}
2. Assess what a phone call would add, distance as a deliberate choice, the safety of not being seen, what a character might say that they would not say face to face
3. Consider whether the story has been building toward physical proximity or deliberately keeping the characters apart, and whether this scene should honour or break that pattern
4. Recommend one format, with the specific reason tied to what these two characters need from this exact moment
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- In-person option: what it gains, what it costs (short paragraph)
- Phone call option: what it gains, what it costs (short paragraph)
- Recommendation with reasoning, 3 to 4 sentences, tied to the specific characters and story pattern
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