Episode 12 · Lily, Mark, Vance
Outside the pen, Mark spots Lily sitting inside the cage with the bear and demands she exit. Lily ignores him to finish her math equations. Dr. Eric mocks the scene, warning Mark about the danger of treating wild animals like cartoons. Meanwhile, the black bear yawns at Lily's easy problems. Lily pulls a workbook from her bag and offers one final difficult test to see if the bear can truly teach her.
Dr. Eric and Vance talk outside the cage about the bear. Mark suddenly notices Lily sitting inside with the predator. He orders her out immediately. Lily refuses to move, so Vance tells Sam to ready a tranquilizer gun.
Dr. Eric ridicules the situation outside the enclosure. He claims the bear only performs trained tricks rather than real reasoning. Mark defends Lily against the insult, but Dr. Eric warns Mark that any injury rests entirely on him.
Lily writes equations in the sand, but the black bear yawns because the problems feel too basic. Lily pulls a math workbook from her backpack. She picks a tough problem and promises to make the bear her teacher if it answers correctly.
“Lily out now! Do you hear me?”
“Wait a sec daddy I'm busy busy.”
“First a tiger scared of geese, now a bear doing math, what's next, dancing pheasants?”
“OK last one, get this right and you're my math teacher.”
Lily flips open her school workbook to find the hardest problem for the creature. Outside, the adults watch in silence while Sam holds the tranquilizer rifle ready. The bear confidently accepts her final challenge. Can the genius beast solve this difficult test, or will the animal lose patience and attack?