Zoro in One Piece episode 3, “Tell No Tales”

“[When] it was in the linear structure I wasn’t able to use all that footage because there just wasn’t a place for it,” Litman said. “But now that we were intercutting it, we were able to find in the edit places to really add to that. Add these close-ups to that scene, find interesting ways to cut in and out of the sections of present day and to the past, and give us those character beats and those moments to really land what is going on in present-day Zorro’s head. And it was just two sequences, and I’m absolutely thrilled with how they turned out.”