Season 1
Season 1 is the first season of We Can Fix Pawbert, consisting of 24 episodes. It begins immediately after Zootopia 2 and covers Pawbert Lynxley's journey from arrest through trial and conviction.
"I choose to stay." — Pawbert Lynxley, "I Choose to Stay"
Overview
Season 1 is about whether a villain can be redeemed through connection. Pawbert Lynxley, the youngest son of the Lynxley crime family, attempted to murder Judy Hopps and others during the events of Zootopia 2. Imprisoned and targeted by his own father's kill order, he is assigned a protector named Luther, a deep-cover ZSI agent, along with Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps on the same detail.
Over 24 episodes the four of them become what is later called "the pack," though the name is not coined until Season 2. Pawbert begins the season suicidal and self-loathing, and ends it choosing to stay rather than run.
Plot
The season begins immediately after Zootopia 2, with Pawbert Lynxley arrested, muzzled as a violent predator, and beaten in holding while his father Milton mouths a death threat from a passing transport. Abandoned by the Lynxley family's lawyers and assigned public defender Nikki Bramble, Pawbert accepts a cooperation agreement with the prosecution: full testimony against the Lynxley organization in exchange for protective custody and a determinate sentence. Under the protection of Luther, Nick, and Judy, he begins identifying and dismantling the network's enforcers, forgers, money launderers, and fixers across Zootopia.
In "Breach", a six-member hit squad assaults the safehouse. Luther orders the others to evacuate and stays behind alone, killing all six attackers before coding on a work table at Site Two. He survives, and the team learns he is a deep-cover ZSI agent rather than a ZPD officer. For Pawbert, someone had been willing to die for him. The episodes that follow deal with the aftermath. Judy retrieves Pawbert's mother's green sweater from evidence in "Convalescence", and Nick organizes a shopping expedition to turn Site Two into an actual home in "Home". In "Clear Skies", the team dismantles Mosaic, the Lynxley blackmail arm, and Pawbert comes out as gay, revealing that his first love Soren disappeared after Milton discovered the relationship.
The crossovers carry the investigation forward as well as Pawbert's own arc. The Reacher team arrives for the safehouse assault and its aftermath in "Breach" and "Convalescence". "Station 118" brings the 9-1-1 crew into the search for a Lynxley accountant, and Maddie gives Pawbert a handwritten card he keeps. The Brooklyn Nine-Nine crossover in "Precinct 99" and "The Heist" brings the annual Halloween Heist, which Pawbert wins. "Second Chances" pairs him with Nolan for a conversation about starting over, and the Criminal Minds crossover in "Quietus" and "I Choose to Stay" puts the BAU against psychological assassin Dr. Silris Mawl. Pawbert beats Mawl by confronting him directly and saying the line the series returns to: "I choose to stay."
Between crossovers, personal milestones accumulate. Luther and Pawbert's first kiss occurs in "Soft Launch". Pawbert formally apologizes to each of his victims in "The Words". His twenty-fifth birthday in "Green Candle" introduces flashbacks to his mother Lillian calling him "loud and determined." Luther and Pawbert exchange their first declarations of love in "Mandated Joy".
The trial opens in "Counsel", where the Suits team Pearson Specter Litt joins the defense at Luther's request; "Moot" runs a mock cross-examination during the continuance Nikki wins on an emergency motion filed overnight, and the case resumes in "The Trial". Prosecutorial corruption is exposed, and the Lynxley family is convicted: Milton, Cattrick, and Kitty each receive life without parole. Pawbert is sentenced to twelve years determinate with conditional release eligibility at approximately ten years three months, plus five years post-release supervision. The violent predator designation is struck, meaning he will no longer be muzzled. The finale, "Last Morning", follows Pawbert through prison intake at Zootopia Correctional Facility, where he surrenders his keepsakes except a laminated photograph of his mother and begins his sentence reading letters from his pack.
Season Structure
| Act | Episodes | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Arrest | E01-E04 | Arrest, cooperation, early threats |
| Breach and Recovery | E05-E08 | The Breach; Luther's reveal; recovery; homecoming |
| Investigation | E09-E12 | Investigation; crossovers; the Halloween Heist |
| Bonds | E13-E18 | Deepening bonds; relationship milestones; BAU crossover |
| Trial | E19-E24 | Trial preparation; the trial; conviction; intake at ZCF |
Episode List
| # | Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Weakest Lynx | A lynx who tried to destroy a city for his family's approval is arrested with no one left to call. |
| 2 | The Blacklist | A prosecutor puts a proffer letter in front of Pawbert, and the price of protection is every name he knows. |
| 3 | The Eraser | Before the trial can start, someone in City Records is rewriting Pawbert on paper. |
| 4 | The Architect | The only mammal who can identify the launderer moving the Lynxley money has to walk into an industry gala to do it. |
| 5 | Breach | A hit squad reaches the safehouse at three in the morning, and only one mammal inside is trained for what comes through the door. |
| 6 | Convalescence | In the quiet after the safehouse falls, Pawbert has to work out what he owes the wolf who stayed behind. |
| 7 | Home | Nick decides the safehouse needs furniture, and takes Pawbert out in public for the first time since his arrest. |
| 8 | Clear Skies | Blackmail packages land on the desks of city officials, and Pawbert realizes his father kept a file on him too. |
| 9 | The Vault | As the Lynxley fortune starts disappearing offshore, the team's only lead is a phrase Pawbert's father used at home. |
| 10 | Station 118 | The team goes to collect an accountant who kept his own copy of the Lynxley books, and arrives to find someone got there first. |
| 11 | Precinct 99 | A frightened courier will only talk to the strangest precinct in Zootopia. |
| 12 | The Heist | Precinct 99's annual Halloween Heist turns the whole squad loose on one gold-plated trophy, and the guests are expected to play. |
| 13 | Stay | A memory Pawbert has carried alone for ten years stops letting him sleep. |
| 14 | Soft Launch | A nightmare sends Pawbert across the hall in the middle of the night, and the hallway is not empty in the morning. |
| 15 | Second Chances | Pawbert joins a joint raid as the only mammal who can read the target's books, in a precinct where nobody has forgotten what he did. |
| 16 | The Words | Pawbert finally sits down to apologize to everyone he hurt, on terms his therapist sets. |
| 17 | Quietus | Three cooperating witnesses are dead, each leaving the same note, and the profilers called in to explain it agree on who the fourth will be. |
| 18 | I Choose to Stay | To trace the mammal who talks witnesses into dying, Pawbert has to keep him on the line. |
| 19 | Green Candle | Pawbert has spent years making sure nobody notices his birthday, and this year Nick catches him baking at five in the morning. |
| 20 | Mandated Joy | Two days before the trial, the pack is ordered to stop working and enjoy themselves. |
| 21 | Counsel | The Lynxley trial opens, and the defense is not the only problem in the courtroom. |
| 22 | Moot | The safehouse becomes a courtroom, and the witnesses have to survive it before they ever reach the real one. |
| 23 | The Trial | Pawbert takes the stand against his own family, and the case rests on whether the jury believes him. |
| 24 | Last Morning | Pawbert has one morning left in the safehouse before the van comes. |
Key Outcomes
- Pawbert: Convicted; sentenced to 12 years determinate + 5 years PRS; enters ZCF Cell 3C-17
- Luther: ZSI identity revealed to the team in "Breach", still concealed beyond it; deeply in love with Pawbert
- Nick: Overcomes initial hostility; part of the pack
- Judy: First to advocate for Pawbert; moral compass established
- Milton: Life sentence, no parole
- Cattrick: Life sentence, no parole
- Kitty: Life sentence, no parole
Crossover Episodes
| Episode | Show | Characters |
|---|---|---|
| E05-E06 | Reacher | Reacher, Neagley, Dixon, O'Donnell |
| E10 | 9-1-1 | Bobby, Athena, Chimney, Maddie, Hen, Buck, Eddie |
| E11-E12 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Jake, Amy, Holt, Rosa, Boyle, Terry, Gina |
| E15 | The Rookie | Nolan, Bradford, Chen, Grey, Lopez, Harper |
| E17-E18 | Criminal Minds | Rossi, Reid, Prentiss, JJ, Morgan, Lewis, Garcia |
| E21-E22 | Suits | PSL legal team |