When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky

Zookeeper Clive emerges from his cabin after several weeks of depression and illness. Clive accepts but does not fully understand the bouts of depression he struggles with; as an orphan, he can’t know if depression runs in his family. Clive’s traumatic experiences during the Great War also contribute to his fraught mental and physical states. Because his human attachments have been so fragile, Clive dedicates himself to animals. Clive helps Jack rescue a toy teddy bear stolen by a monkey and investigates the sickness of Dinah the hippopotamus with the help of his assistant manager, John Murkin.

Two writes a letter in the stables and Crawford enters, visibly upset. He reveals that his cousin Jimmy, an insurance salesman, was brutally beaten in a primarily black neighborhood. Crawford implies that the police refuse to help and that his family is trying to seek justice independently. Two thinks of the unsolved murders of Osage people near the 101 Ranch and understands their desperation. Crawford explains his family history: His grandfather was a white enslaver who freed his children and had them formally educated. Crawford is the only member of his family not to go to college.