Fleeced to Meet You

Fleeced to Meet You is the tenth episode of the first season of Sheep in the Big City. 
The episode was produced in 2000 and premiered on Cartoon Network on June 10, 2001.https://cnas.fandom.com/wiki/June_10,_2001
==Summary==
General Specific hires X-Agent to fool Sheep into a false friendship in order to have him be captured for the Sheep-Powered Ray Gun.
==Plot==
===Chapter 1: "Ain't MUTTON Better!"===
The Big City, despite being considered a place full of mean and dangerous people by some (as in three people in the shadows), is actually a happy, urban utopia where the people there help each other, including Sheep. Sheep helps the people of the Big City by either letting them walk over him to avoid getting wet from puddles or borrowing things like a cup of sugar, pound of flower, a roast chicken, or even a (literal) helping hand.
Meanwhile, General Specific complains about not being able to capture Sheep no matter how much he tries. The Angry Scientist, after complaining about being called “mad” and joking about having a plan to capturing Sheep, announces to General Specific that he has modified The Plot Device's hard drive, soft drive and squishy drive, to the point where she is a super-computer and very smart. General Specific misinterprets “super-computer” and thinks The Plot Device can lift a building in one or two bounds, which annoys The Angry Scientist. General Specific then fires The Angry Scientist and drops him into a pit, before sending in The Plot Device. The Plot Device explains to General Specific that Sheep is the only sheep in the big city, and has hired X-Agent to fool him into a false friendship and entrap him. After complimenting the plan and asking if X-Agent is with her, General Specific also fires The Plot Device and drops her into a pit along with The Angry Scientist. X-Agent arrives to the base and shows off his card to General Specific and Jay (who reads it out loud). General Specific complains about X-Agent's name as he initially misinterprets as an "ex-agent” and believes he could've picked a more better and mysterious letter like K or L.
Later, when Sheep and the people were working together to clean up the Big City, General Specific ask soldiers if they have a plan, if the helicopter ready, and if they're going in the helicopter respectively before firing all of them and dropping them in the pit and going into the helicopter along with Private Public and X-Agent.
In the helicopter flying above the park, General Specific instructs X-Agent to call him when he has fooled sheep enough and to use those collect services as he is tired of paying retail. X-Agent bleats in agreement, and is transported out by General Specific and Private Public. After the transportation is completed, General Specific remarks X-Agent as a “brave man” before Private Public corrects him as X-Agent is a “brave sheep.”
===Chapter 2: "FLEECED To Meet You!"===
X-Agent crash lands into the park, he greets Sheep for the first time. They get along very well since they're both sheep, and are having a grand time together as they graze on a football field, play bowling, and go into a photo booth (then running away due to its flash).
Back at the base, General Specific wonders how his plan with X-Agent fooling Sheep is going. A solider suggests checking a monitor that contains a Sheep monitoring system, General Specific agrees and pushes a button which supposes to drop the soldier into a pit but actually shows the monitor, upon realising this mistake General Specific presses the right button and the soldier drops into the pit. Private Public then informs General Specific that the Sheep monitoring system is currently being upgraded and suggests using a “dramatic” interpretation what X-Agent and Sheep are doing instead, which consists of two soldiers wearing masks that are supposed to represent the two sheep and doing a poor job at representing them. General Specific grudgingly agrees to it and after watching the interpretation, drops the two soldiers down into the pit. Private Public gets annoyed by General Specific's habit of firing his soldiers and dropping them into the pit.
At Sheep's apartment, he and X-Agent are playing a game of Chess together. Sheep is very happy that he has founded a new friend that he can hang out and play chess with, as his other sheep friends back the farm would always play Go Fish. X-Agent has already gotten Sheep's trust, but begins to think about his relationship with him and if betraying him was worth it. 
===Chapter 3: "You HOOF To Do What You HOOF To Do!"===
X-Agent ignores his thoughts and calls General Specific via a collect service, which had taken a long time to dial up. X-Agent tries communicate with General Specific and to meet him at the rendezvous place, but that doesn't go well due to General Specific not understanding bleating.
On Sheep and X-Agent's way to the rendezvous place, they encounter Lisa Rental who is excited to see the two sheep and want to have them as pets. Sheep is horrified by Lisa's appearance, but X-Agent is defensive and uses martial arts to try and scare her. Lisa is unaffected by this but upon seeing her doll break, she is scared of X-Agent and walks way from him and Sheep. Sheep is thankful for what X-Agent has done and gives him a hug. X-Agent is initially happy about being hugged by Sheep, but ends up betraying him by putting him into a spot and lets him get crushed by Anet, a big woman who is used by the secret military organisation as a net to capture Sheep, hence her name.
When they all arrive at the base, General Specific applauds X-Agent for his work of fooling Sheep, despite being a sheep himself. General Specific is about to fire X-Agent and drop him into the pit, when Private Public had finally had enough and stops him. He tells General Specific that X-Agent is a friend and that “friends don't double-cross friends.” X-Agent upon hearing these words being repeated over and over, feels regret for betraying Sheep and decides to betray General Specific and Private Public in order to rescue him.
X-Agent and Sheep get into a helicopter and flies away from base, General Specific and Private Public try to chase them to no avail. In order to help Sheep escape, X-Agent tells him that he needs to get out the helicopter. The two bid their farewells before Sheep jumps out of the helicopter and lands safely back on the ground, before getting hit by a truck.
In the post-credits scene, General Specific complains about X-Agent sending him and Private Public on a (literal) wild goose chase, before the revealing that X-Agent is still in the Big City as he is on top of a building.
==Production Notes==
*Although this episode premiered on June 10, 2001, it was actually produced in 2000 according to the credits, as with every other season 1 episode.
**This episode was finished on September 26, 2000.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1137703/locations/
==Trivia==
*This is the first appearance of X-Agent.
**In the post-credits scene, X-Agent is shown in his superhero form on top of a building in The Big City. This could be foreshadowing to the episode Flock, Up in the Sky (2001), though this is unconfirmed.
*General Specific's plan of hiring X-Agent to fool Sheep is called: "Operation: Use-That-Undercover-Sheep-To-Lull-Sheep-Into-A-False-Sense-Of-Security-Without-Him-Realising-That-This-Sense-Of-Security-Is-False-Storm"
===Full Episode===
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ztGA0vHRd-Z-77MjLgb61f2q3S04qakt/view?usp=drive_link
==References==
Category:Episodes
Category:Season 1
Category:2000