During the call, Mr Southerton claimed the two-year-old had stopped breathing, was pale and had not been well all day.

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Forty-two-year-old Edward Scheetz walks by them, looking a little pale and very out of place.

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But, with two pale central characters, a prisoner-contestant named Pannonique and Zdena, a guard, that is not quite enough.

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