In Episode Four, “Nature’s Social Union,” we finally have the meeting Zahava’s been talking about, to determine the fate of the unnamed planet. James and his slitherfluff friend watch Clinical Trials, many people go for walks in the rain, and we learn a whole lot about the mission. You know. The mission. Saving humanity.

Content Notes: this is a heavy one. As always, none of this is gratuitous or described in detail. (There’s more swearing than usual as well.) 

• Interpersonal conflict: [10:55 - 16:22]
• Mention of genocide: [15:37 - 15:45]
• Panic attack, hyperventilation: [15:10 - 16:22]
• Mention of violence, murder, torture: [42:00 - 43:10]

The transcript is available. If the transcript link is broken please email [email protected] and we’ll get it to you as soon as we can. 

This is a collaborative, ensemble project. Many of the character decisions are made by the actors as part of the story and script development process. Please check out the links below for more of their work:

• Trevor Bean creates and voices Mandry
• Trace Callahan creates and voices Kolian
• Alexander Endymion Hernández Díaz creates and voices Cyrus
• Alexander Doddy creates and voices James
• Sawyer Greene creates and voices Quill
• Anjali Kunapaneni creates and voices Devi
• Dominic Mendez creates and voices Ángel
• Caroline Mincks creates and voices Zahava
• Evan Tess Murray creates all of them and voices Zei
• Nerys Howell currently voices Nessa the Doctor Detective

The poem at the end of this episode is “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns. It seemed extremely fitting. Alexander Doddy gave us his best Scots when he read it. You can find many excellent renditions, including translations, on youtube. 

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