I Love Turtles
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| “I Love Turtles” | |||||||
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| jPod episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
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| Written by | Douglas Coupland Michael MacLennan |
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| Directed by | J.B Sugar Peter DeLuise |
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| Production no. | 101 | ||||||
| Original airdate | January 3, 2008 | ||||||
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| List of jPod episodes | |||||||
"I Love Turtles" is the first episode of the new CBC show jPod, that premiered January 3, 2008.
[edit] Plot
Ethan Jarlewski works at a video game company called Neotronic Arts in jPod, a subdivision the product of a Y2K glitch in which random employee's with the surname beginning with J were placed in the same pod, hence the name jPod. Ethan is a gore specialist, and his job is to insert gore and carnage into videogames. His colleagues are Bree Jyang, a Chinese motioncapture expert with self described 'Major control issues'. Casper Jeperson, or Cowboy, a sex addicted code writer who dropped out of college to work at Neotronic Arts. John Doe who creates backgrounds for games and tries to be as statistically normal as possible to counter-effect growing up in an ultra-radical lesbian commune, and finally Kaitlin Joyce who is a Character Designer and new to jPod, trying desperately to get transferred. They are introduced to their new and awkward boss, Steve Lefkowitz, who says he wants to make jPod into his own personal ideal. He starts by making the podsters insert a turtle character into their skateboarding game BoardX, because his son loves turtles.
Meanwhile, Ethan's mother Carol is talking to a biker named Tim about the Grow-op in her basement. He tries to kiss her but when she turns him down he threatens to bust her operation unless she pays him. He gets rough with her and Carol accidentally electrocutes him in a puddle of water. Carol then shows up at Ethan's workplace while he is having a meeting and asks him to help her dispose of the body. They wrap him up in a carpet and throw him in the forest. While Ethan drives his mother home his father, Jim, calls him and tells him that he is having an affair with a much younger woman named Ellen at the set where he works.
Ethan returns to work, where he and his other co-workers taunt Kaitlin for being stuck in jPod. She decides to do something about it and she goes to Human Resources to get transferred, though does not have much luck. While she is out her co-workers google her and find out that she use to be a fat, high school drop out that went on a subway diet and lost weight. Ethan is called away from work again this time by his father, who has brought Ellen home with him. She ate Carol's prized marajuana plant nicknamed 'The Dude', and Jim asks Ethan to take the blame for it. He does and tells his mother that Ellen is his girlfriend.
The next day Steve takes the "podsters" and Carol on a nature walk to do turtle research. It's on this trip that Ethan and Carol come across a dog which has Tim's hat in its mouth. They decide to move his body to a more secure location. They dump him near a range of large powerlines, attempting to make his death look like an accident. Kaitlin goes back to Human Resources, where she learns that they found out she was a high school drop-out and they will not transfer her unless she completes high school.
Carol is confronted by Dwight, a friend of the biker she killed, who is looking for him. Dwight is looking for fifty thousand dollars that Tim had with him. Carol and Ethan go back to Tim's body which has partially been eaten by animals. They take the fifty thousand dollars out of his jacket and move him once again, this time so that the animals don't eat him. They bury him in the foundations of a yet-to-be-built home of Carol's other son, Greg. Late in the night Dwight returns to collect the fifty thousand dollars from Carol. At the same time Ellen arrives to speak with Jim. Ellen and Jim set up a date for the next day and Dwight tells Carol that until Tim returns, he will be keeping an eye on her.
Ethan stays late at work along with Kaitlin, and they begin playing video games together. Kaitlin goes back to Ethan's rent-free apartment, which is owned by "offshore Chinese industrialists," and is managed by his brother Greg. Ethan and Kaitlin almost kiss before noticing that Ethan's living room is filled with refugees.
