In which Monk is safely captured and returned to the outdoors after more than two weeks of indoor operations, the stove apartment is discovered, Loki attempts to secure comment from the cats and receives silence in multiple frequencies, and the question of what it means to be released from a place you'd already furnished turns out to have no clean answer.

In which Loki confesses to having used a USA Network detective drama to name Clare's chipmunk, the cats demonstrate why "apex predator" is a relative term, and the backstroke emerges as the defining move of a creature who has genuinely won.