  Black holes are conjectured to be the fastest quantum scramblers in nature,
with the stretched horizon being the scrambling boundary. Under this
assumption, we show that any infalling body must couple to virtually the entire
black hole Hilbert space even prior to the Page time in order for there to be
any hope of preserving the often-cited claim of the equivalence principle that
such bodies should experience `no drama' as they pass a black hole's horizon.
Further, under the scrambling assumption, we recover the usual firewall result
at the black hole's Page time for an initially pure-state black hole without
the need for any complexity or computational assumptions. For a black hole that
is initially impure, we find that the onset of the firewall is advanced to
times prior to the standard Page time. Finally, if black holes really do
efficiently scramble quantum information, this suggests that, in order to
preserve this claim of the equivalence principle even prior to the onset of a
full-blown firewall, the quantum state of a black hole interior must be a
Bose-Einstein condensate.
