so in this universe there are subspecies (specs) of human which are the furries :3 each spec has unique traits to them, and one of them for domestic cats (regardless of breed) is that they are extremely anxious when without familiar faces. of course there are outliers who dgaf, but at standard its safe to assume that if you see a cat alone Something Is Wrong. when adelaide called in a solo cat it usually means one of a few things, which the rest of the team will take time identifying. a caveat to the cat loneliness rule (the stray rule) is that they will not be alone if someone is metaphysically there (ear piece, in a car down the road, etc). because juniper appears neither calm nor anxious, so much as they look like they’re not with it, they were batting around the idea that they were drunk or high; but after watching for the full 3 hours, toward the end of the show they made the determination that it was most likely dissociative, and since they dont see any visible trauma and they conducted well in front of adelaide, the conclusion they wound up coming to was a breakdown. nicholas definitely took it a few steps further, but because no one could definitively say he was wrong, they want to take precautions. urn however was holding hope that it was maybe just a panic attack (aforementioned stray anxiety, his guess was a recent nasty break up) until they went quiet when he pressed about their plans, at which point the nicholas brain worms got into his head. RIP.