A more grounded-in-reality prequel episode that takes place in a one-off location: the Mombello Psychiatric Hospital. The episode follows a day in the asylum life of a freshly traumatized Peppino Spaghetti, suffering from major depressive symptoms and vividly detailed flashbacks throughout the episode. The episode starts with Peppino narrating over his morning routine in the hospital before heading out to the cafeteria to grab breakfast: a sad slice of pizza from leftovers last night. This atrocious pizza offends Peppino to such a degree that he promises to make his own restaurant, to right the wrongs committed against his livelihood, but he gets cut off when the bell for activity time rings, leading to the first flashback where the audience is introduced to peppino's small, old friend group: Him, an older corporal named Bruno, and a younger, Trans private with a camera named Ray. The flashback ends when Ray takes a selfie with all three of them, fading back in to Peppino being forced by staff into an activity room. He tries to socialize, but to no avail. There's even see a cameo of Noise when he was a child star in a show called "Yo, Noise!" The episode then transitions into another flashback, this time with younger Peppino crying at bedside when Ray walks in on him mourning the loss of Bruno. Ray comforts him by asking him about his favorite things, like animals. Peppino answers frogs, and Ray answers peacocks before handing him a peacock tail feather as a good luck charm. The flashback ends with a fade into Peppino sitting alone, holding the feather while smiling, before being startled by an alert that a patient had breached containment. With the chance given to him, he books it back to his only safe place, his room, hiding under the bed while holding the feather and praying in Italian, sobbing and shaking as the scene transitions to a third flashback of him hiding in a bunker, having to stare at Ray as he slowly bleeds against the wall, before being shot off camera by a soldier as peppino cries harder. The episode ends with a staff member curtly snapping peppino out of the flashback before leaving as peppino crawls out from under the bed, leaving him to sit against the wall in silence as the episode fades to black.
The episode was developed in secret, only shown to the producers once development was complete. Of course, the episode was canned for being too dark, as well as having a Trans character in the episode. No trace of the episode has been found since, except for the small script written by the creator.
