8AM

The titles move in an ever closer time frame - the velocity of events have telescoped. From ONE MONTH LATER to TUESDAY to SATURDAY to 8AM to 4PM.... The countdown to Something Bad Happening is carefully signposted.

Being 8am, Halloran asks what time the flight is due at Denver (being 8.20). This scene is excised in the European cut - possibly as the plane is flying in clear sunshine, yet lands twenty minutes later into a snowstorm : such a distance however could constitute 200 miles. The following few minutes are also excised completely - where Jack is seen typing, albeit briefly, which at least shows that he has not completely abandoned his original intentions - or his original personality - despite being absorbed by osmosis further into the hotel.

The following sequence - where Halloran arranges the hire of a Sno-Cat and also, likes any clever person, tells someone where he is going in case of anything happening, shows a possible prescience of the tragedy ahead. �Always tell someone where you�re going� is a piece of advice any parent will tell their children. (And, in Kubricks traditional fashion, the scenes claiming to be Denvers Stapleton Airport were actually shot at Stanstead Airport in East London).