Although they have varying degrees of contact with it throughout the First Act, the Inciting Event here, as the turning point in the First Act, brings them solidly into contact with it. But it is not the event that engages the protagonist with the conflict. Of especial note here is the fact that opening scene-in which the “burglars” are arrested-is inciting in the sense that it begins the story and kicks off the plot. As a result of his hard work, he and another unknown reporter, Carl Bernstein, are given the story. Inciting Event: Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward discovers that the man Hunt-mentioned in the belongings of two of the Watergate building burglars-worked for the CIA.
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