Soren

Season 1

"Clear Skies"

Soren first appears in surveillance photographs, recovered when the investigation seizes the Lynxley leverage archive. Luther finds the folder labeled with Pawbert's name still sealed: Milton had the relationship documented and never once opened the file on it. Inside are two teenagers in a garden, on a low wall under trees, and kissing at the edge of a reflecting pool. Looking at them, Pawbert says Soren's name aloud, the first time he has given it to anyone. Luther clears the room without being asked, and Pawbert burns the photographs in the safehouse disposal barrel.

"Stay"

Soren returns in a single flashback scene: the manor library, ten years earlier, where Pawbert tells him he is beautiful, Soren asks him to say it again, and Soren answers with the line Pawbert has carried ever since. Then footsteps in the hallway, and Milton in the doorway. The rest of the relationship comes out in the present, in Pawbert's own account of it to Luther on a safehouse couch at three in the morning: the garden, the poetry and philosophy books Soren brought him, his father's study and the word aberration, the calls that stopped two days later, the household staff whispering about an accident, and the answer Milton gave when Pawbert finally asked what had happened.

"Soft Launch"

Soren's face is the first thing in Pawbert's recurring nightmare, held exactly as it was the last time Pawbert saw him: a question shaped without sound, and never answered.

Season 2

"The Cartographer"

During a confrontation at maximum security, Milton reveals that Soren was not killed but relocated — his name changed, his identity erased, and his location hidden outside Zootopia. Milton weaponizes this revelation as part of a vicious homophobic attack on Pawbert, and when Pawbert calls him a liar he refuses to confirm it either way, leaving him with nothing but the claim. Separately, when the BAU raids Orin Draftwell's workshop, Penelope Garcia finds a personal file on Soren Natz among the operational records, eleven years old, its status reading RELOCATED, and overnight she traces his current whereabouts to a location outside the city-state. The discovery that Soren has been alive for eleven years — that Milton chose exile over execution — reshapes Pawbert's understanding of his father's cruelty.

"Return Address"

ZSI facilitates a secure video call between Pawbert and Soren. Soren's first word is "Paw" — the nickname he used during their teenage relationship. Now 26, Soren is harder and more guarded than the lynx Pawbert remembers. Eleven years of hiding under a new identity have changed him fundamentally. He tells Pawbert he buried all of it to survive, and that letting the past back in now would undo the life he has built. He says he is glad Pawbert found someone, meaning Luther, and then closes the door on reconnection permanently and asks him not to look for him again. He asks Pawbert to be happy. His last words before the screen goes dark are an affirmation that what they had was not imagined: "The garden. That kiss. That was real, Paw."

Pawbert processes the grief with Luther's help and arrives at acceptance: "And he's alive. He got out. That's... that's a gift." The Soren chapter is closed permanently — no further contact occurs in the series.