If there’s anyone in town the tiger does take a liking to, Tony suspects it will be Steve. That’s just the way Steve is. A magnetic personality that someone can try to hate but ultimately can’t. Even, he thinks, wild animals.

“I could probably fix the furniture. And the doors if it – he, she, I don’t know – starts destroying them. It’s the socializing that I’m having trouble with.” Quite possibly, that’s because he has trouble with socialization on his own. Trying to teach something else how to function with people is like the blind leading the blind.

“We just need to get it actually liking us. Then it won’t try to eat us. In theory, anyway.”