S05E51 - Post-Credits Scene (Pawlawan)

"Pawlawan" is the post-credits scene following "Always", the Season 5 finale of We Can Fix Pawbert. Three weeks after the double wedding, the pack takes its honeymoon on Pawlawan, an island nation half a world from Zootopia with no extradition treaty and a government that asks arrivals nothing about their pasts. Walking the beach alone, Pawbert runs into his older siblings Cattrick and Kitty, who walked out of Zootopia Correctional during the prison breach and have lived here ever since under other names.

Synopsis

Three weeks after the double wedding, the pack takes its honeymoon in Pawlawan, an island nation half a world from Zootopia that has no extradition treaty and asks arrivals nothing about their pasts. Walking alone up the northern beach, Pawbert Pawthorne meets his older siblings Cattrick and Kitty Lynxley, who walked out of Zootopia Correctional during the prison breach and have lived here since as Patrick and Kay, teaching yoga to tourists and selling beadwork at the market. Luther comes looking for Pawbert and finds them; Nick and Judy follow. Cattrick takes the whole group to a cliffside bar. Over drinks, Kitty says Milton used her and Cattrick as shields when Winddancer came for him at the manor, a detail that never reached the trial transcripts. Cattrick confirms he gave Luther the Central Weather Interface location during the Clawrence crisis, after watching the wolf break down in the prison visiting room, and says he did it because he chose not to be his father. Without that location Luther would have arrived too late. Luther tells them the pack will not report the encounter: the siblings are outside Zootopia's jurisdiction and no threat to anyone. The two groups part expecting never to meet again, Kitty asking Luther to take care of her brother. Each couple talks the night over in their rooms, Cattrick is quietly glad for Pawbert, and the pack is back on the beach at sunrise.

Plot

Three weeks after the double wedding, the pack takes a shared two-week honeymoon on Pawlawan, a tropical island thousands of miles from Zootopia that has become a refuge for mammals who would rather not be found. Nick walks the waterline in a ridiculous tropical shirt with Judy beside him under an oversized sun hat, the two of them still working out what her married name is going to be. Further up the beach, Luther sets up under an umbrella while Pawbert squares the corners of the towels, a prison habit he never lost. Pawbert catches Luther cataloging everyone within fifty yards and tells him so. When the four of them settle in together, Luther observes that Pawlawan has no extradition treaty, minimal bureaucracy, and a government that asks nothing about a new arrival's past. They swim, they nap, and they buy grilled satay from a mongoose vendor working the beach.

Late in the afternoon Pawbert goes for a walk by himself, wanting a few minutes of quiet; years of protective custody left him needing space from constant company more than most. He heads north, away from the tourist clusters, and finds a flat rock on a stretch of sand where the beach narrows into rocky outcroppings. A voice behind him greets him, quiet and controlled. Cattrick Lynxley is standing ten feet away in loose linen, his fur sun-bleached and thinner than Pawbert remembers, his shoulders down and his stance easy. Kitty comes up a path through the rocks behind him, the gold gone, her fur unstyled, wearing a plain sundress that would have appalled Milton.

Luther comes looking for Pawbert and rounds the outcropping mid-sentence. He does not reach for a weapon, though he goes visibly alert. Cattrick recognizes him at once as the wolf from the prison visiting room. Nick and Judy arrive a moment later on a standoff between six mammals on an empty beach, most of whom were last in the same space during a prison break. Kitty's first assumption is that the pack has come for them, and she says outright that they are not going back. Pawbert tells her it is a coincidence, and Luther says the pack is on its honeymoon. Pawbert tells his siblings that he and Luther married three weeks ago, and names Luther as his husband. Cattrick's answer is to invite the whole group for a drink, because there are things he owes that were never said.

The bar is a wooden structure built into a cliff face and open to the ocean breeze, and the old gibbon behind the counter greets Cattrick and Kitty as regulars. Sitting down with both siblings, Pawbert cannot remember the last time he did it without their father at the head of the table. Judy puts their time on the island at four years; Kitty dates it to the breach. Pawbert says he saw them in the corridor that day and recalls the distinction they drew at the time between leaving and escaping. Cattrick confirms it, and that they left Milton behind on purpose. Kitty explains why: Milton grabbed the two of them and put them between himself and danger when Winddancer came for him at the manor. The detail never reached the trial transcripts, and Kitty says they had always known what their father was capable of and had convinced themselves they were the exception.

Luther puts the visiting room on the table directly. Cattrick could have sold what Luther told him that day to Clawrence, to Milton, to anyone, and did not; instead he gave up the Central Weather Interface location, and without it Luther would have arrived too late to keep Pawbert off that floor. Cattrick does not dispute any of it. Asked why, he says that when Luther broke down across from him he saw something he had never seen before: a mammal who genuinely loved someone from his family, rather than working an angle. Milton had taught his children that love was leverage and that anyone claiming to care was hunting for a weakness, and Cattrick had believed it for years. He chose not to be his father. Pawbert thanks him, and Cattrick refuses the thanks, saying he helped because he could not have lived with himself otherwise.

The siblings describe the life they built. There is a small house up in the hills, yoga classes for tourists, and beadwork Kitty makes and sells at the market. On the island Cattrick goes by Patrick and Kitty by Kay, and Cattrick asks that the Lynxley name stay buried where they left it. Luther tells them the pack will not report the encounter: the siblings are outside Zootopia's jurisdiction and there is nothing to pursue. Judy says what matters more is that Cattrick helped save Pawbert's life, and Nick agrees. Cattrick admits he does not understand any of them, or why they are looking at him and Kitty as though the two of them are not monsters. Pawbert tells him that they did monstrous things and so did he, and that this is not the whole story.

They talk for hours, and the conversation drifts off the crimes and the trials into childhood: the three hours Pawbert once spent stuck up the pine tree in the manor garden, and the drawings and bad jokes he used to hide around the house for other mammals to find. Cattrick remarks that his younger brother was odd as a child. Kitty reframes it: what set him apart was hope. When they finally break it up, Cattrick says at the path split that he does not expect to see Pawbert again and is not sad about it, and the two brothers shake paws for the first time in their lives. Kitty hugs Pawbert, another first in a family that kept its distance, tells him to be happy, and asks Luther to take care of him. She and Cattrick walk up the hill without looking back.

Walking back to the resort, the pack settles what to do with the encounter, and the answer is nothing. Luther's reasoning is that the siblings took an opportunity during an attack they had no part in planning, which is not the same as initiating a jailbreak, and that two mammals teaching yoga on an island are no threat to anyone. Pawbert adds that leaving Milton behind meant they were already free of him before they ever left the country. In their room, Pawbert tells Luther that the night gave him understanding rather than closure: he was not the only Lynxley who wanted something different, and choosing Luther was the best choice he ever made. On the other balcony, Nick works through the distance between the mammal who once tried to kill him and the mammal who is now pack, and through Mr. Big's death, which he still carries. Judy tells him mammals can change. She cannot say whether Cattrick's effort qualifies, but she is willing to let the effort count.

Up in the hills, Cattrick and Kitty talk the evening over on the walk to their house, and then their father's death. Cattrick has heard that Milton's final act was giving up Pawbert; Kitty's verdict is that he died the way he lived, using everyone around him. They say goodnight to each other as Patrick and Kay, and Cattrick stands alone in the dark thinking about the brother he spent years dismissing, who came out of all of it with a family and a husband. At sunrise the pack is back on the beach in the same spot under the same umbrella, planning a day of nothing beyond the village restaurant the bartender recommended.

Key Moments

• The pack takes a shared two-week honeymoon on Pawlawan, three weeks after the double wedding
• Luther notes that Pawlawan has no extradition treaty and a government that asks nothing about a new arrival's past
• Pawbert walks north up the beach alone, wanting a few minutes of quiet after years of protective custody
• Cattrick steps out of the rocks behind him, with Kitty following
• Cattrick recognizes Luther as the wolf from the prison visiting room
• Kitty's first assumption is that the pack has come to take them back
• Pawbert names Luther as his husband to his siblings
• Cattrick invites the whole group to a cliffside bar over things he says he owes
• Kitty reveals that Milton used her and Cattrick as shields when Winddancer came for him at the manor, a detail that never reached the trial transcripts
• Luther confronts Cattrick with the visiting room: he could have sold what he was told, and did not
• Cattrick explains that he gave up the Central Weather Interface location because he chose not to be his father
• Pawbert thanks him, and Cattrick refuses the thanks
• The siblings describe their life as Patrick and Kay — a hillside house, yoga classes for tourists, beadwork sold at the market
• Cattrick asks that the Lynxley name stay buried, and Luther rules that the pack will not report the encounter
• Cattrick and Pawbert shake paws at the path split, the first time the brothers have ever done so
• Kitty hugs Pawbert, another first, and asks Luther to take care of him
• Walking back, the pack decides to do nothing about what it found
• Cattrick and Kitty talk over the evening and Milton's death at their house in the hills
• The pack is back on the beach at sunrise, planning a day of nothing

Key Lines

Locations

• Pawlawan — Island nation half a world from Zootopia; no extradition treaty, and a government that asks nothing about a new arrival's past
• Pawlawan Northern Beach — Narrower, rockier stretch where Pawbert meets his siblings
• Cliffside Bar — Wooden structure built into the cliff face, open to the ocean; Cattrick and Kitty's regular spot
• Pack's Resort — Tourist resort on the main beach
• Patrick and Kay's House — Modest hillside home with a garden and an ocean view

Items

• Wedding rings — Worn on honeymoon; Pawbert's silver band catches the light, and Nick notices Judy's on her paw
• Kay's beadwork — Made by Kitty and sold at the Pawlawan market

End Credit Song

"Somewhere" (From 'West Side Story'), Marni Nixon & Jim Bryant

"Somewhere" is sung in West Side Story by lovers imagining a place that would let them be together, a place the story never gives them. The post-credits scene grants it twice over, at opposite ends of the same family. The pack has two weeks of beach and nothing scheduled past a village restaurant. Cattrick and Kitty made theirs out of exile, living up in the hills as Patrick and Kay for the four years since the prison breach, on an island that asks nothing about a new arrival's past. The song lands on both of those at once rather than on the honeymoon alone, and Pawbert names it at the path split, telling his brother he is glad he found a place where he could be Patrick.

Notes

• This is the only post-series scene that addresses Cattrick and Kitty Lynxley's fate after their escape during the prison breach four years earlier.
• Cattrick's revelation about the visiting room recontextualizes a pivotal moment from the Clawrence arc. His decision to give Luther the location saved Pawbert's life, making him an unlikely participant in the pack's survival.
• The scene's structure mirrors the series' themes: mammals defined by their worst moments can become something else if given the chance.
• The island of Pawlawan is based on Bali but named after Palawan, a Philippine island province.