Moby Dot

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**Moby Dot** is the second segment of the 6th episode in season 2 of *Harvey Street Kids*. This episode's title is a reference to the 1851 book by Herman Melville titled, *Moby-Dick*.

## Synopsis

After a rare hornet terrorizes everyone on Harvey Street, Dot decides to stop the threat and rid herself of her haunting memories.

## Plot

The episode begins with a buzzing creature attacking Pinkeye, Bobby and Frufru. These kids along with The Bow and Lucretia head to the Harvey Girls HQ, but Bobby purposely leaves Lucretia behind and Audrey opens the door for her. The street kids comment that there is a hostile insect that wants to attack them and Lucretia also takes advantage of asking to stay with the Harvey Girls. Dot comments that the insect is a tormenting pearl hornet, and recognizes her because she used to capture insects to photograph them except for it. Only once could she see it, but it ended up being defeated by the bug when it stings her in the nose. Dot therefore comments that she focuses on a new hobby at all times to avoid that compulsion to have to see the tormentor's missing photo. Dot thinks that the creature returned as a result of climate change and intends to capture it to take the photo, and in the process prevent it from continuing to stinging the street kids.

In Dot's room, she prepares to catch the insect using her old net, while arming her friends with nets. She also plans to trap it with a fake picnic, which she does it in the park with various targets on it. The tormentor hornet goes after it and Dot confronts it. The tormentor prepares to sting her after removing the net, but Dot was prepared to catch the hornet sting with her inflatable dress cutting it, therefore the hornet retirees losing her stinger and is photographed by Dot's drone the Dotcopter. However, the photograph was not what she expected and Dot proceeds to take another, also says that the tormentor will try to find a synthetic stinger with which to attack.

Dot proceeds to take several photos to the tormentor's honeycomb, but the swarm ends up spoiling the machine by opening a gate of the Dotcopter. The tormentor ends up hacking the machine taking its honeycomb to Harvey Street in order to make it explode in a rain of stingers. Dot then has doubts about whether to turn off the Dotcopter since if the Tormentor drops it, the photos will be spoiled with the lake water where the drone was passing by. After thinking about it for a while manifested with two thought bubbles showing herself and Lucretia respectively representing their personal wishes and the people they want to protect. She turns off the drone, the swarm goes away, and the machine's artificial intelligence went corrupted by water. Lotta appreciates Dot's decision, gives her net back and shows that she was able to take a photo, but altered it to make it pretty to the point that the tormentor is unrecognizable. Dot happily accepts it and the episode's ending card hints that she puts the photo in the missing spot she had.

## Characters

* Audrey
* Lotta
* Dot
* Pinkeye
* Frufru
* Bobby
* The Bow (no lines)
* Lucretia
* Zoe (Cameo in a dream fantasy)
* Dotcopter
* Tormentor Hornet

## Broadcast

*"Moby Dot"* was released to Netflix on May 10, 2019.

## Trivia

* The "Bugshido" code is a wordplay to the *Bushido Code*; the code of honor among the Samurai of Japan as well as the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.