S03E07 - No Time to Die

"No Time to Die" is the seventh episode of Season 3 of We Can Fix Pawbert. It features an extended car-by-car combat sequence on Leodore Lionheart's train and culminates in his takeover of City Hall.

Synopsis

Luther and Pawbert fight car-by-car through Lionheart's twelve-car train, clearing six cars in thirty minutes of sustained combat before being stopped at Car 6. Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps find a paid agitators manifest at Dead End Station proving the crowd is manufactured. Lionheart switches train routes to outmaneuver ZPD, takes City Hall, and a ZSI wolf guarding Mayor Winddancer reveals himself as a traitor and opens the safe room.

Plot

The episode opens in the rear maintenance compartment of Lionheart's twelve-car train as it accelerates through the ZTA tunnels. Luther crouches in darkness with the stolen service weapon—loaded and ready—while Pawbert nurses a shoulder wound from the junction firefight. They count twelve cars between them and Lionheart at the front. Luther decides they'll work forward silently, taking down Lionheart's people car by car.

The train fight spans six cars across thirty minutes of sustained combat. In Car 12, Luther silently neutralizes a jackal and a stoat while Pawbert improvises weapons from a fire extinguisher bracket and a dismantled luggage rack pole. Car 11 turns loud when a honey badger spots them and roars a warning. Luther grapples the honey badger into unconsciousness while Pawbert confronts a charging lynx—family-shaped but wrong family. Using the training Luther gave him, Pawbert blocks, ducks inside the lynx's swing, delivers an elbow to the ribs, sweeps the legs, and drops the mammal with a controlled strike to the temple. The lynx who attacked him is unconscious, not dead. Luther's single-word assessment: good.

Cars 10 through 7 escalate in intensity. Luther uses the service weapon sparingly—gunfire draws attention, and he prefers to fight quietly when possible. In Car 9, five of Lionheart's better people have barricaded the aisle with ripped-out seats. Luther goes over the barricade like a wave, taking knife cuts and baton strikes while fighting through. Pawbert helps where he can—throwing distractions, drawing attention, following through when Luther creates openings. By Car 7, Luther is bleeding from a dozen wounds. His ribs are cracked. A knife wound in his side bleeds freely. When he tries to move toward Car 6, his knee buckles. They pause in the cleared car. Luther stares at the door ahead and admits they've been fighting for thirty minutes. Half the train cleared. Half still waiting.

Car 6 holds eight of Lionheart's best fighters—a jaguar, a margay, a caracal, a painted wolf with a chain, two coyotes (one with a baton, one with a taser), an ocelot with a pistol, and a serval. Luther kicks through anyway. The jaguar gets his paws around Luther's throat. Luther fights through, disarms the ocelot, takes down the serval, but the coyote with the taser finds his mark. Luther goes down convulsing. Pawbert throws himself at the coyote with no skill and no plan—just desperation—and manages to turn the taser against its owner. Luther forces himself up on willpower alone and hammers the jaguar into unconsciousness. The last coyote sees seven mammals on the floor, sees Luther bloody and broken but still standing, and runs. They cannot pursue. Luther's legs give out. Pawbert catches him, and they retreat to Car 7. Halfway through the train. Stuck.

Meanwhile at Dead End Station, Nick and Judy eliminate the three-mammal skeleton crew Lionheart left behind—a mongoose, an ocelot, and a tapir. While securing the station, they discover documents scattered across Lionheart's makeshift command center: a manifest of names, photos, addresses, and payment amounts. Instructions for each name detail when to arrive at City Hall, what to chant, where to stand, how to blend in. The crowd gathering at City Hall isn't organic support—it's purchased. Nick recognizes the architecture of manipulation immediately. They radio Chief Bogo with the intelligence and head for City Hall.

At Savanna Central Station, ZPD has positioned at the Line 3 exit—the logical terminus for the Inner Loop. Officer Fangmeyer notes the train is running late. Then Officer Delgato's voice comes over the radio: Lionheart switched routes at Agave Avenue, jumped to Line 5, then switched again at Oasis Hotel to Line 1. He's emerging from Line 1, not Line 3. ZPD is out of position. Bogo orders all units to City Hall at a full sprint, but they're minutes behind.

At the Line 1 exit, Lionheart's army pours onto the platform. Surprised civilians scatter—a giraffe, a family of meerkats, an elderly elephant frozen with his newspaper. Lionheart steps out last, his mane catching the station lights, and leads his people toward City Hall. Behind him, Luther and Pawbert are trapped in Car 7 by a remotely locked door. Luther slams his damaged body against it until the frame cracks, and they break free—minutes behind Lionheart, barely able to stand.

At City Hall, Lionheart's advance team sweeps through the lobby, neutralizing security guards and breaching corridors. In the safe room buried deep in the building, Mayor Winddancer waits with two aides and a ZSI wolf on his security detail. When the pounding starts on the door, Winddancer assures his staff it will hold. Then the ZSI wolf steps away from the door, crosses the room, and strikes both aides unconscious with trained precision. He enters the unlock code—the code Winddancer trusted him with—and opens the blast door. Lionheart steps in. Winddancer is captured, zip-tied, and dragged to the press room where cameras are already broadcasting live. Lionheart takes the podium, looks into the lens, and begins.

Key Moments

• Luther and Pawbert clear six train cars in thirty minutes of sustained combat
• Pawbert defeats a lynx in combat, proving he's no longer defined by his family
• Luther reaches his physical limits in Car 6 after a jaguar nearly kills him and a coyote tases him
• Pawbert saves Luther by tackling the taser-wielding coyote
• Luther and Pawbert retreat to Car 7, stuck halfway through the train
• Luther admits twice that stopping Lionheart is personal but refuses to explain
• Nick and Judy find the paid agitators manifest at Dead End Station
• Nick recognizes the architecture of manipulation—the crowd is manufactured
• ZPD positions at Line 3; Lionheart switches routes and emerges from Line 1
• Bogo orders all units to City Hall but they're minutes behind
• The ZSI wolf on Winddancer's security detail reveals himself as a traitor
• The wolf takes down both aides and opens the safe room door
• Lionheart captures Mayor Winddancer and drags him to the press room
• Lionheart begins a live broadcast to all of Zootopia

Key Lines

Characters Introduced

Locations

• Lionheart's train — Cars 12-6, Car 7 (where Luther and Pawbert are stuck), front car (Lionheart's executive car)
• Dead End Station — Platform, broadcast area, makeshift command center
• Savanna Central Station — Line 3 exit (ZPD positioned), Line 1 exit (unguarded, where Lionheart emerges)
• City Hall — Main lobby, various corridors, safe room, press room, plaza

Items

Notes

• Nick's line about liberty dying with thunderous applause is a Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith easter egg (Padmé's observation about the Empire's formation).
• The ZSI wolf's betrayal completes the traitor setup from E06, where he was shown as part of Winddancer's security detail.
• The title references No Time to Die (James Bond). All Season 3 episode titles reference novels from the James Bond, Jack Reacher, or Jack Ryan series.