For weeks now Bali officials have been insisting Schapelle Corby is no one special and her long-awaited deportation back to Australia will be "SOP" - the acronym commonly used here for standard operating procedure.
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But with 275 Denpasar and Kuta police officers deployed to shepherd the Australian locally known as the "Ganja queen" through a frenzied media pack, things were never going to be SOP.
As Corby remained holed up in her Kuta villa in the days before "D-day", as it is known here, anticipation built to a fever pitch.
Tiny mundanities were blown up into headline news - an "exclusive" of Corby peeking through a gap, a bucket of soapy water thrown over the fence onto a channel seven camera man, the prison doctor conducting a final health check.
"Is Schapelle pregnant?" one reporter breathlessly asked Dr Agung Hartawan, who had not even checked her physically after Corby said she was "sehat", the Indonesian word for healthy.
Denpasar police spokesman Sugriwo said about 200 officers had been preparing for several days.
"We will have officers from traffic, mass control, intelligence officers in plain clothes, regular officers in uniform," he told Fairfax Media.
"We will anticipate the maximum, to ensure the process runs smoothly and we avoid any possible disturbances," he said.
Within hours Corby, accompanied by bodyguard to the stars John McLeod, who has provided security for Leonard Cohen, Roger Federer and the Dalai Lama, will report to the parole office.
Here she will sign documents before being handed over to immigration, at which point she will be a free woman.
Corby, now 39, arrived in Bali almost 13 years ago to celebrate her sister Mercedes' 30th birthday. But the celebrations turned to hell when she was arrested at Bali's international airport with 4.2 kilograms of marijuana.
She was sentenced to 20 years jail, but served only nine behind bars, after being granted remissions and had five years shaved off her sentence by former Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
She also became one of the few foreigners in Bali to be allowed to spend three years on parole, after the Balinese husband of her sister Mercedes agreed to act as guarantor.
She is understood to have misgivings about leaving Bali, especially as it will mean leaving behind her boyfriend, Sumatran paddle boarder Ben Panangian and her two dogs.
Mr Panangian, whom she met in Kerobokan jail, has drug convictions and is unlikely to pass the character test required to get a visa to Australia.
Last month Corby asked Bali corrections chief Surung Pasaribu when she could return to Indonesia.
Asked this question by reporters on Friday, Bali justice chief Kompyang Adnyana said she would be banned for six months after being deported.
He said whether this ban would be extended would be a decision to be taken later.
Corby is expected to fly home on an overnight flight to Brisbane. This time tomorrow she will be back on home turf.