We meet Alex, a cat that needs to drop a stool. Gainer meets Waylon. Gainer sees a cat, and everyone gets excited. The cat hides in a warehouse. Terrance and Craig meet everyone at the warehouse. Rudy and Maria meet with everyone, including Spike and Otto. Spike and Otto rush into the warehouse; Alex follows. Alex meets Sasha, and kicks Otto’s ass (well, actually, his eye).

Craig rushes into the warehouse. Terrance, Rudy, and Maria follow. Then Gainer and Waylon. Alex tries to become acquainted with Sasha, but she’s too stressed. Stupid humans allow Otto and Spike to butcher Sasha’s kittens. Maria cries. Then she finds one living kitten and feels better. She and Rudy take the kitten back to The Park. Alex pisses in Sasha’s face; she’s not impressed, but she’s happy to learn that one of her kittens is alive. Alex says he’ll take her to The Park. We meet Barry and Drake and smoke a big doobie with them. Barry shoots at Alex and Sasha.

Alex and Sasha were almost shot! Alex is not impressed. Sasha is not healthy. Alex is concerned. We meet John. He wonders where Alex is. He also wonders if the plague-ridden woman he found wandering the street will live; she looks harsh, all covered in scabs. He goes up to the third storey roof of his haven to call for Alex. He sees armed foragers coming up the street, but they don’t see him. He gets his rifle and returns to the rooftop to discover the gun-toting foragers are stalking Barry and Drake. John shoots one of the foragers in the leg; the foragers run away. Barry and Drake thank John for saving their lives. John goes back to his apartment to tend to the ailing plague-woman. Alex comes home and makes John follow him into the street. John sees suffering Sasha and takes her up to his haven. Sasha curls up on the mattress with the plague-sick woman. Alex finally takes a dump.

Gainer and Waylon back at The Park. Waylon and Felix. Waylon, Greg, Darcy and worm harvesting. Waylon and Greg visit the Garden. Terrance visits with Waylon and Greg. Waylon and Greg get special jobs.

Waylon tours the Garden. Waylon meets Malcolm. Malcolm lets Waylon be the farmer. Waylon and Malcolm tour the Garage. Nice tractor. Lots of guns. A can of fruit cocktail. Secret fertilizer. Vigilantes with a Shit-eater prisoner. Waylon stops a fight, Waylon-style. Greg gets another special job. Supper in the cafeteria. More prisoners. Waylon teaches compassion, Waylon-style. Prisoners in basement storage rooms. Greg, Waylon, and Gainer keep watch.

Morning with the prisoners. Garret returns, driving a tank. Alex, John, Sasha. . . and Heather. Heather is feeling better. John is feeling Heather.

John and Heather in love. John and Heather visit The Park. Park renovations (lots of nice barbed wire). Prisoners in a wire compound. Alex and Sasha make their way to The Park. Alex shows Sasha that he can swim. . . and catch fish! Sasha’s impressed. Then Alex makes Sasha swim. Sasha’s not impressed. Alex introduces Sasha to Simon. Neither Simon nor Sasha are impressed.

Maria and Ming. Sasha and Ming. So who’s really Mom? Sasha causes excitement, then runs away with Alex. John and Heather and Sasha. Rudy, Maria, and Terrance want John and Heather to stay in The Park (and Sasha, too, of course, but where is she?). Heather meets Doc Sheridan and gets a stamp of good health. Alex senses something gone wrong in The Park. He wants to leave, but Sasha won’t go—not without Heather. Alex introduces Sasha to Skidge. Skidge is impressed; Sasha isn’t. Alex needs to talk to The Park’s dominant tom, Ozzie.