Big Man

"**Big Man**" is the eighth episode of Season 1 of the Netflix series *Sweet Tooth* and the final episode of the first season. It aired on June 4, 2021.

## Synopsis

His world shaken, Gus runs off and makes a rash decision. Big Man comes to grips with long-ago mistakes. Aimee makes a last stand against General Abbot.

## Plot

Sometime during the Great Crumble, Jepperd hurries his wife to the hospital because she's having a baby, despite the fact that it's off limits to the public. The guards however allow them to stay in order for her to give birth and Jepp stays inside the waiting room.

Back to present time, Jepperd and Bear search for Gus who ran away once he found out the truth that he wasn't born, he was created meaning that Birdie nor Pubba are his parents. With all the evidence they found about Gus being born before the other hybrids, Bear comes to a prediction that Gus may have been the first to be created, Jepperd saying the hybrid's creation was only to see if they could really do such a thing. Jepperd then goes to search for Gus one more time, telling Bear to stay put in case Gus came back.

Outraged, Gus roams the forest and throws away all of his closest belongings. Soon after, he spots a broken helicopter at the top of a hill and goes to check it out. Inside the helicopter is a working radio and with that, Gus gets an idea that he could call The Preserve and let them know his whereabouts. At the Preserve, Abbot arrives with his whole army outside the gates and contacts Aimee who is inside the building. Aimee refuses to work with the General on his demands and mocks him, while she prepares to set off the traps she set up. Pressing a button, a whole lot of fireworks go off, confusing all the soldiers, and with their loud explosions, the kids safely continue through the sewers without a noise. Even after the fireworks though, the soldiers still get inside.

Making sure the coast is clear, the hybrids hide in the church and begin to wait for Aimee, Wendy encouraging her fellow hybrids that Aimee did make them a promise and that she believes in her. However, Bobby runs off and some soldiers capture him. Wendy tries to flee back to the sewer but is grabbed by another soldier, with the rest of the hybrids supposedly being taken as well.

Finally, Johnny arrives with Adi and Rani at The Preserve and takes them to a building, separated. Adi is placed on the outside of a window while Rani is kept in a room with non reflective mirrors, meaning Adi could see her but she couldn't see or even him. The General tells Adi that starting from now, Adi would make due with all the hybrids they just captured to make a cure or else Rani would die. Meanwhile, Aimee gets to the church and calls out for Wendy. But seeing Bobby's cap on the ground and the sewer empty, she realizes she got there too late.

While searching through the woods for Gus, Jepperd remembers that day in the hospital when a nurse came to notify him that the birth was successful and that the gender of his baby is a boy. Going to check it out for himself, Jepperd's biggest fear comes to life when his newborn son turns out to be a hybrid, something he didn't want. He runs away and goes into the elevator. There he meets Adi who asks what kind of a hybrid his son was but Jepperd answers that he doesn't know. Before leaving, Adi gives Jepperd some words of encouragement that he'll be surprised of what he's capable of when it's for someone he loves and wishes him good luck. Staying inside of the elevator, Jepperd has trouble deciding whether he wants to leave or go back.

Back at the house, Bear keeps going through stuff to see if anything can prove useful and yet she finds nothing, though a specific teddy bear gave her a flashback of her and her sister when they were younger. Asking the lady about Fort Smith and how Gus was made, Judy answers that Gus was Birdie's idea with Fort Smith having another purpose, the virus, calling them both two sides of the same coin from what she was told by Birdie, nothing more. Though Birdie didn't tell her the whole story, Judy still looked after her research for all these years because they were best friends.

Up the hill, Jepperd finds Gus and still Gus refuses to go back. Jepperd decides to sit down with him and hands him back dog, saying that if Gus lost him, he wouldn't forgive himself because that's the only thing he has left to remind him of Pubba, though Gus reminds him that he doesn't have any parents so it's no use in his perspective. Regretting the day that he crossed the fence, Gus wishes to start over again since everyone hates him and wants to kill him. Angry that he wasn't told the truth, Jepperd tells Gus that sometimes the truth can hurt, but still, there's one truthful fact that he can agree with and that's Gus being special. Gus however doesn't want to be special and wants to be like everyone else, so he wants to go The Preserve in order to meet more people like him.

To comfort Gus a little, Jepperd shares his story about how he nearly left his son and his wife because of the mystery of hybrids back in the day, Realizing that he was just scared of himself rather than his son being a hybrid, Jepperd went back to get him but by the time he got there, his wife and son were already gone. So he cannot feel that same feeling again, he asks Gus to come back with him so they can go do whatever they want, wherever they want and whenever they want. Gus then informs Jepperd that he called The Preserve, with Jepperd realizing that that was a bad idea. Before he can say anything, Jepperd is shot and falls unconscious, Gus screaming for him to get up while the General and his soldiers arrive to capture him. Trying to fight back, Gus is put into a cage and Abbot, seeing that Jepperd was one of them because of the brand, calls him a traitor and a disgrace to humanity. Helplessly being driven off, Gus stares over at Jepperd thinking him dead.

Gus is taken to The Preserve which has turned more into a base thanks to the Last Men having control over it. There he meets Johnny who advises Gus to "wait a little longer" until he's called by Abbot. Gus is taken away to the lab where he meets Singh, trying not to talk for his own safety. Singh passes Gus a piece of chocolate and gets extremely curious of him when he says "Thanks." Wanting more time to study Gus, Singh orders Johnny to take Gus to a cell and to bring him another hybrid.

Since it isn't normal for a parent to call their child an actual name like Bear, Judy asks her what her real name is. Thinking that she's being nosy, Bear says that she's not looking to make friends, and still Judy continues, asking her how old she was during the Crumble. Bear says that she can't remember much because she was only young, but she still remembers that her family was murdered and her sister taken. Finally opening up, she corrects herself that her parents weren't actually killed, they were sick and fell victim to death like everyone less. For ages, she was alone, but then she found Tiger who gave her the name Bear, and they both became really close along with a few others. Furthermore, together they made the Animal Army, until she was betrayed. Bear reveals her real name is Becky, sort for Rebecca Walker. It is then revealed that Becky's sister was Wendy.

Meanwhile, Jepperd wakes up to discover that he had been rescued by Aimee. She tells him to rest up, vowing to get their kids back tomorrow.

Replaced with another hybrid kid, Gus sits down in the dark cell where all the other hybrids are kept. Seeing him all alone, they all show themselves and welcome Gus with a giant hug. As for the other kid, Doctor Singh has no choice but to kill him.

Back with Becky, she discovers a satellite phone and proceeds to make a call. Meanwhile, the call is picked up by another phone in a cold freezing place. Soon the call is answered...by Birdie.

### Starring

* Nonso Anozie as Thomas Jepperd
* Christian Convery as Gus
* Adeel Akhtar as Dr.Aditya Singh
* Stefania LaVie Owen as Becky Walker/Bear
* Dania Ramirez as Aimee Eden
* Aliza Vellani as Rani Singh
* James Brolin voices the Narrator

### Guest-starring

* Naledi Murray as Wendy Eden
* Neil Sandilands as General Abbot
* Amy Seimetz as Birdie

### Co-starring

* Marlon Williams as Johnny Abbot
* Jodie Rimmer as Judy
* Dallas Barnett as Delivery Last Man
* Luciane Buchanan as Louisa
* Jonno Roberts as Hazmat #1
* Rhys Darby as Hazmat #2
* Malcolm C. Murray as Last Man
* Anji Kreft as Head Nurse
* Cherie Moore as Masked Nurse
* Taine Rutherford as Young Guard