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And here we have Agatha’s address in Beetleburg.

The locket itself has been created by Barry but this note had to been added later, after the Clays made Beetleburg their home. I imagine they added it when Agatha was still a little girl because they were afraid she will lose it one day hile playing with other children.

Please note the “reward” in the big capital letters - they had to be pretty sure that other people want return it just out of the kindness of their hearts.

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It seems that Beetleburg has at least one brewery - Moloch is drinking “Beetle Beer”.

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I think we’re all experts in plagues now and we know that if it would really be a plague and since the brothers were hitting the bars since they arrived the whole Beetleburg would be in some serious troubles...

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Any ideas about what is it that Herr Doctor is holding?

The only association I have are connected with the hearing aids, but it’s clearly not the case here...

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Ladies and gentlemen, Agatha’s room:

It has been her room for at least 10 years - take a look at these hand prints, the earliest was done when she was 8 years old (and now she’s 18).

Choice of decor is interesting, I love these handpainted stars and seashells. Probably Lilith and Adam did it for her, the same goes for the bed and wooden toys (or at least I hope this lizard-type of thing wasn’t alive at some point).

There’s carved “carpe diem” and some numbers - "2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79". These are prime numbers. Are these  Agatha’s method to learn math...?

There are some books too (she likes to read in her bed), a collection of plants and some technical plans and drawings. I can see many circles, maybe these are the plans of her little clanks...?

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Lilith / Judy clearly likes flowers. You could almost doubt if you’re still in Beetleburg.

Also: is this a small photo of younger Agatha on the wall?

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Let’s take a moment to talk about names.

Adam and Lilith, rings a bell? It would be probably easier to spot if she would use Eve as her alias, but if you know a thing about the Bible then you’ve probably heard about Lilith. She was the wife of Adam before Eve. Adam and Lilith were basically the first humans.

The surname, Clay, can be associated with a golem - a being made out of clay (= a construct).

And what about their real names, Punch and Judy? Again, these are puppets.

It seems that both names and surnames are rather ironic reference to the fact that they are first, imperfect constructs, created by the Heterodyne Boys.

They are constructs, but not just constructs - Barry trusted them enough to leave Agatha under their care.

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Adam was holding quite a heavy machine. I love the way the weight of it has been shown here.

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Beetles everywhere!

Beetleburg seems to be this kind of town where you just have to look around and you immediatly know where you are.

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Jäger should invest in some good PR company. I can imagine the amount of wild tales about them... And some of them are for sure true.

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Merlot can already see that he shouldn’t have confront Beetle. Now he’s in charge of the city and Baron is just waiting for an excuse to send him to Castle Heterodyne. I fear he won’t have time for his important “chalk into cheese” research.

This wasn’t the smartest move of the century either.

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Turning chalk into cheese would solve the problem of hungry proffesors and students at the university.

And again we have some decorative beetles!

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Marlot is clearly terrified - and he should be, he learned today that every action has it’s consequences.

And I guess the official version of the events will be that Dr. Beetle died in the lab accident. Well, he sort of did, he hasn’t planned to kill himself with his own bomb.

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It’s interesting how everything goes gray and the colors are much less vivid when Agatha doesn’t feel well. We could already see this in the first chapters.

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I’m pretty sure this isn’t a brain... But I don’t envy the university’s cleaning stuff their job - and I doubt Baron’s people will clean the lab.

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Killing someone permanently is indeed in very poor taste, Gil.

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It’s a steampunk lab, so I think both Agatha and goldfish had see a fair share of explosions - but I guess it’s their first murder attempt resulting in their boss being, well, sort of everywhere.