The Stalker

* Original Video
* Reaction Video

The Stalker is the first episode of the first season of *The Hidden Societies*, and the first overall episode which served as the series premiere. It was uploaded on July 22nd, 2023.

## Synopsis

Nolan meets a fearsome foe that he has deemed Barney

## Plot

The episode opens with an outside shot of Nolan's house. Inside Nolan's room, he is awoken by the sound of his alarm clock. He springs out of bed, and puts on his socks while doing a spin in his chair. Nolan runs to the door, excited to have breakfast and start his first day of high school.

Unbeknownst to Nolan, Treble Clef is lurking outside of his house. Treble Clef states that he has to make sure that he has arrived at the correct house, so he runs to Nolan's back patio to look inside.

Back inside the house, Nolan is sitting at his kitchen counter. Before he makes breakfast, he calls over his cat, Meka, to the table, where she lays down. Nolan then puts his breakfast in the toaster, while waving his arms in excitement. When the food is done, he is getting ready to eat it and sends Meka off to get him a fork. Just as Treble Clef makes his way onto Nolan's patio, Meka comes back with a full pile of forks. As Treble Clef is talking about how he plans to defeat Nolan, the forks fall on the floor and rattle around, blocking his speech. Nolan exclaims how he has to clean them all up. Before he makes it back to his spot at the counter, he spots Treble Clef on his patio, exclaiming: "Oh no! A robber!"

While Nolan is sitting in stunned silence, Treble Clef comments on how he has to leave before he is caught. He then laughs and jumps away. Nolan shrugs off the encounter, thinking that it wasn't that big of a deal, before checking the time and realizing that he needs to leave quickly in order to make it to school. He bursts through the door, knocking it off its hinges, and runs to school.

On Norfolk's main street, Treble Clef is hiding on the roof of the pizza shop, where he states that he has to be quiet to avoid capturing any unwanted attention. Nolan then hears a meow from a stray cat in an alleyway, which he goes to investigate, with Treble Clef expressing annoyance that Nolan is wasting his time. Nolan then meets Rob, who is living in a dumpster behind Norfolk Weedwackers. The cat sits on the dumpster beside Rob, who tells Nolan about how the cat is "sent from up above" to watch him, and how he must kill it in order to remain hidden. Nolan senses that Rob is slightly crazy, and starts arguing with Rob to get the cat back. At some point, Nolan realizes that Treble Clef is watching him on the roof of Norfolk Weedwackers, but, recognizing him from earlier, decides to not make any moves. Eventually, Rob gives the cat to Nolan, who sits on his head.

After saying goodbye to Rob, Nolan decides to make a move. He jumps on top of Rob's dumpster, grabbing Treble Clef and tackling him onto the ground. He taunts Treble Clef, who gets angry and retaliates by picking up Nolan and immediately killing him by snapping his neck. Rob stares at Nolan in shock, and Treble Clef maniacally laughs and taunts Nolan.

## Teasers

Before the release of the episode, there were 3 GIF teasers which were posted on the community tab of NolanAnimates. The first 49 seconds of the episode were also posted to the channel as a preview, but the clip has since been removed.

### Teaser info

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0:40 - 0:43
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### Teaser differences

* In the second teaser, when Treble Clef jumps over the fence, he immediately begins laughing. When the scene is shown in the episode, he speaks a few lines before laughing.
* In the preview video, the screen shake when Nolan jumps up on his bed (at 0:13) wasn't present. It was added into the full episode after the fact.

## Official parodies

These parodies have been created by ModMonster and uploaded on the NNReacts channel. They were uploaded after the episode's release, and are entirely satire.

### Nick brutally destroys EP1: The Stalker

A version of the episode where all of the characters have been voiced over by ModMonster. It was uploaded on the 24th of July, 2023.

### AI-Enhanced: The Stalker Unleashed in 4K60FPS

A version of the episode that has been run through Video2X and DAIN to upscale and interpolate the video to 4K in 60FPS. The thumbnail was also poorly extended around the edges using AI. This parody was uploaded on October 18th, 2023.

## Cast

* Nolan Hacker as Nolan Apptker
* ModMonster as Rob Cernick

The voice for Treble Clef was generated using AI.

## Music used

* Telecasted - Seasons
	+ When Nolan Apptker wakes up, before he leaves his house
* Godmode - Sloppy Clav
	+ Scenes featuring Treble Clef, and when Nolan is going to school
* Nat Keefe & Hot Buttered Rum - Salt Creek
	+ Scenes featuring Rob
* TrackTribe - Here it Comes
	+ When Nolan attacks Treble Clef

## Transcript

> For a full transcript of "The Stalker", click here.
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## Obscured speech

    When Treble Clef appears outside of Nolan's house, there is one sentence which is obscured by the sound of forks clattering on the ground. The subtitles have also been scribbled over to obscure the words from the viewer.

The first obscured word / phrase is still unknown. It would be likely to be some boss or role model who Treble Clef looks up to and is trying to prove himself to.

The second obscured phrase appears to say "The Blonde Haired Hero", which would be in line with Treble Clef's goal of eliminating Nolan, who has been deemed The Blonde Haired Hero since the end of the second episode.

## Trivia

* The design of Nolan's room is based on his real room.
	+ In both of ModMonster and Nolan's Minecraft streams, we can see his bed and the posters in their webcams
	+ In the reaction video for this episode, they talked about how they put a table in front of one of the posters at the front of the room.
* At the front of Nolan's room, there are 2 shelves in the top left corner with 36 of the same Funko Pop (Kiba with Akamaru - #1194).
	+ Nolan has stated that the only reason he did this is laziness, as it was difficult to find images of all of the Funko Pops, so instead he picked his favorite one and duplicated it to represent his collection.
* When Nolan is making breakfast, he puts a plate, a mug, a loaf of bread, an apple juice carton, and a stick of butter in the toaster.
* The sound effect used while is waiting to his food to toast is from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and appears in-game when cooking a meal.
* When we see Rob's flashback, we see Rob drop a sliver coin with a gold center containing an engraving of a cat-like animal. This design is reminiscent of the 2 dollar Canadian coin, showing that the show takes place somewhere in Canada.
	+ The show possibly takes place in Norfolk, Ontario, but this is entirely speculation and has not been confirmed.
* Nolan said that the episode took 2 months to make, meaning that Episode 1's production started in May of 2023.

## Errors

* When Treble Clef is snooping around Nolan's house outside, he has an object (potentially a backpack) strapped to his belt. Later in the episode, the object is not present.
* When Meka gets up to grab Nolan a fork, her tail is missing when she walks off screen, and remains missing until she lays down again.
* When the camera cuts back to Nolan after checking the time, his plate and mug are absent and are missing for the rest of the scene.

### Subtitle errors

* [0:36] Treble Clef's statement of "I think this is the place" should not end with a question mark.
* [1:38] "I got to scurry" is not gramatically correct, it should be "I've got to scurry" or "I have to scurry".
* [2:17] "I can't laugh I will give myself away" needs a comma as in: "I can't laugh, I will give myself away."
* [2:22] "Oh here he comes." should have a comma: "Oh, here he comes."
* [2:37] "Great, now *your* just wasting my time." uses the wrong word. It should be *you're*.
* [4:18] "I hate the both!" should say *them* instead of *the*.

## Videos

The Stalker - The Hidden Societies - Ep 1The Stalker - The Hidden Societies - NNReactsNick brutally destroys EP1- The Stalker - The Hidden Societies ParodyA parody video created by ModMonster and uploaded on the NNReacts channel.AI-Enhanced- The Stalker Unleashed in 4K60FPSAnother parody, uploaded on NNReacts after the release of The Man In His Mind