"Any multi-cellular organism must, if it is to survive, contain a hard-wired bio-survival circuit, which very simply programs an either-or choice: GO FORWARD to the nourishing, the protective, or GO BACK, away from the threatening, the predatory." Prometheus Rising. 47,

The story begins with a desire to eat and a fear of being eaten. From the beginning of the story there are the child, the good mother, and the devouring bitch, or, perhaps the devouring bitch is the vengeful father in disguise. The game is to eat and avoid being eaten. This is the first frame of a film that ends in the frameless.

It is in the second frame that we see the child take up arms against that other who would eat him/her. It is in the second frame that the film becomes three-dimensional and in this three-dimensional fantasy we see that the child has aquired an appetite for the predator. "The second circuit, the emotional-territorial networks of the brain, is concerned entirely with power politics." Prometheus Rising. 63. In the second circuit is recorded the "primal crime", the conspiracy between the good mother and her sons, to kill the father and partake of his flesh in common. Eating the enemy is communal, is political.