Tara

Season 4

Tara first appears in "Radio Silence", already at the corner table when Lane brings Pawbert into The Watering Hole for the first time. Pawbert recognizes her from Snarlbucks only as the gazelle who works mornings, and gets her name off her name tag. She leaves early, citing an early shift.

She turns up twice in "The Apron Incident" — clocked out but still lingering at the morning station while Pawbert watches the closing shift work around him, and then falling in beside him on the walk to the bar. Over drinks she supplies updates on a complicated dating life involving three different mammals and what she calls "scheduling optimization," and when the rest of the crew moves on to Mika's studio she begs off with the line that scheduling optimization waits for no mammal.

Tara attends Pawbert's 28th birthday celebration in "Loud and Determined", arriving with the Snarlbucks crew and the apron they saved for him.

Season 5

Tara turns up in "Pattern Recognition" on her way out of Snarlbucks at the end of a morning shift, changing course when she spots Pawbert at the corner booth. She congratulates him on the end of his post-release supervision, proposes they celebrate properly at The Watering Hole, and negotiates around a commitment of her own before agreeing to Saturday and hurrying out.

In "Departure", Tara is at the gathering at Pawthorne Mansion, laughing near the refrigerator in a kitchen that has become the party's center of gravity.

In "Climate Control", Tara works the Meadowlands Community Center gymnasium during the weather wall crisis, settling a marmot mother and her three kits into a makeshift play area while the rest of the Snarlbucks crew runs intake and supplies.

Tara attends the double wedding in "Always", arriving beside Selma and deflating her assessment of the venue's seating capacity with the reminder that it is a wedding. She is also with the group at Mika's rebuilt studio above Zen Noodle, where the Snarlbucks crew gathers to paint together.