alright, I dug into this a lot, and I'm pretty confident that the way nock works (overrides request in the local process) will not carryover to the spawned process. A LOT of testing with no success on my end supports that. 

Given the current method of test CLI (spawn a child process and look at stdout) I'm unsure if nock can support testing that portion.

I'm unsure if that's a vote for the tests to exist but require internet connectivity, or if they need to be rethought entirely.