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| Patsy is perhaps the youngest Mallrat in Season 1. The
actress herself - Sarah Major - was ten years old. Her deaf brother
Paul is played by deaf actor Zachary Best. Her dog, Bob is/was in
fact Ray Thomson's own dog, Bob. Paul leaves the show early in Season
1 in unexplained circumstances. Bob is poisoned in Season 2. Patsy
herself is discovered by the Chosen to be a spy in Season 3. There
are many indications that she was executed. |
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Near the Mall is a play area where Salene (an older
kid) informally supervises younger kids Paul, Patsy (brother &
sister) and Cloe plus Patsy's dog Bob. Cloe is apt to go walkabout,
oblivious to the dangers of marauding Locos and Demon Dogz, rival
tribes in a city that has become a war zone.
Amber and Dal are on their way out of the City when they spot Cloe
and rescue her from certain pickup by the Locos. Cloe introduces Amber
and Dal to her friends back at the play-area.
Salene has no plans, where to stay or how to survive. She tells Amber
she was letting the kids play one last time before.... We can only
guess what she meant.
Amber and Salene discuss survival - a place to stay - when trouble
arrives in the form of Lex and his friends, demanding food. Then the
Locos arrive and then the Demon Dogz ready for a fight. Amber, Salene,
and their group escape and find the Mall first. Lex and his friends
soon follow, still demanding their food, but Jack, the Mall's unseen
resident, drops the grille, trapping Lex behind it until they can
decide what to do about him. |
I know what that is, that's a baby
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| Jack introduces himself and shows everyone round
the Mall, and most importantly the furniture/ Bedding store.
This is where everyone will sleep, at least for the first night,
though Jack himself sleeps in the electrical store (his workshop).
On the second day Lex, Ryan and Zandra are allowed to join the
tribe, and Bray introduces himself. The following day Bray brings
Trudy. Little Patsy knows why Trudy's belly is swollen "I
know what that is, that's a baby!". It's not long before
many decide to move out from the Furniture store to find privacy
in their own rooms. Salene alone will choose to stay with Cloe
and Patsy, until she eventually moves in with Ryan. |
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Food is scarce, and with Trudy now on-board, Salene
explains to Patsy and Paul why they must learn to expect less
food.
Another thing that Paul and Patsy soon learn is that Lex is
an insufferable bully. They were kicking a ball to each other
by the grille when Lex takes exception to
their noise. He shouts into Paul's face "Read my lips,
SHUT UP - you got it?" |
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Paul and Patsy soon discover that Jack supplements
his rations from a secret food stash in the Service Area. To
prevent them from telling Lex about it, Jack has no choice but
to share it whenever they are hungry.
Lex keeps the pressure on Amber to have Trudy thrown out, reasoning
that she will be an intolerable burden. Amber calls a vote.
Patsy votes with the girls (including Zandra) for Trudy to stay.
The result is even, so Amber must cast the deciding vote. She
says 'No.' It's too risky. |
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| Everything changes when Trudy goes into labor.
Only Lex continues to campaign for the vote to be upheld. After
hours of labor Trudy gives birth to a girl. Paul and Patsy find
the idea of Trudy breast feeding quite hilarious. |
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In Ep.5 Paul & Patsy pick the lock on Jack's
food store and help themselves. Bingeing themselves stupid,
they throw up, making a mess in the Furniture store. It's Cloe
who tells Amber. The immediate thought is they might have the
Virus, until Dal finds all the junk food wrappers.
Zandra decides to move out, away from the mess. She chooses
the Lingerie store.
Jack of course discovers his food store looted, and the doors
carelessly left open. This must not happen again. |
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| Next time when Paul and Patsy feel hungry they
find that Jack has upgraded to an electronic lock. Not even
Paul can crack this one! Jack has been hiding, waiting to enjoy
the moment! |
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Lex makes life so difficult for Trudy that she
agrees to a secret meeting with Zoot, arranged by Bray. It turns
out that Zoot is the baby's father, not Bray as everyone at
the Mall assumes. Bray hopes to persuade Zoot to give up his
warrior lifestyle as leader of the Locos, to become a responsible
father and look after Trudy and his baby.
Paul senses an intruder in the sewers (just as he once did with
Bray). He and Patsy wake Lex, who then investigates with Ryan.
Bray tries to explain the situation, that Zoot is alone and
unarmed, come to see his daughter, but Lex now considers Bray
as a traitor and Zoot as an unconditional enemy. There's a fight
on the balcony where Zoot falls to his death. |
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| Paul
& Patsy play poker - Ep.9 |
After Salene discovers rats in the Café, Amber
tries to introduce a chores roster, whereby everyone must contribute
to keeping the place clean.
From the start people find get-outs, and ways to offload their chores
onto other people.
Ryan offers to teach Paul and Patsy to play poker. They play for matchsticks
at first, and he lets them win. Then after offering higher stakes,
like chores, Ryan plays to win. Before long, Ryan has offloaded his
next 4 days' chores onto Paul and Patsy.
There's a similar story with Jack. He takes advantage of their hunger
and offers them food in exchange for cleaning the windows. |
| Things get serious in Ep.10 when Paul and Patsy play
Poker again with Ryan. This time they play for food, and as before,
Ryan is a much better player. Twice, Patsy is forced to go get supplies
from Jack to stay in the game. The second time Ryan follows her, while
Lex guards the table. |
| As soon as Ryan discovers Jack's food stash he tells
Lex about it. For now, Lex uses this knowledge to his advantage, blackmailing
Jack into voting for him in the upcoming election for tribe leader.
Lex becomes leader, and it's Ryan again who lets slip to everyone
that Jack has a secret food store. Lex is obliged to put Jack on trial.
Paul and Patsy vote "not guilty", making the result 5:4
not guilty. |
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brings new pets for the Kids - Ep.13 |
In Ep.13 Cloe loses her pet calf Bluebell while
trying to protect her from Lex. Bray brings home some chickens,
to help make up, though Cloe is still lost in the woods. Cloe
will call her favorite 'Henrietta' and Patsy will call hers
'Clara'.
Patsy is terribly upset that Cloe still hasn't come home. To
take the kids' minds of things, Zandra gives them a makeover. |
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A welcome storm brings much-needed rain to fill
up the water tank on the roof. And now that Jack and Dal have
finished making a filtration system, they can all try some,
including Bob, much to Patsy's delight.
Cloe still has not come home, she has been out in the storm,
lost. Jack & Dal's water system will not be enough to supply
all their needs, and the first priority must be to fetch water
from the stream, not to find Cloe. |
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| Cloe is fortunate to meet Tai-San. Not only does she
distract the attention of marauding Locos looking for their missing
leader Zoot, she also binds up Cloe's sprained foot, then accompanies
her back to the Mall. Tai-San becomes a member of the tribe, "The
Mallrats". |
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Wedding and the disappearance of Paul - Ep.17 |
Zandra has taken Tai-San's advice and talked Lex
into marrying her. Cloe and Patsy are her bridesmaids; Paul
also has a role as pageboy, but Patsy cannot find him. Zandra
wants to proceed without him. Suddenly she spots Ebony in the
mall and screams. It turns out that Ebony has followed Bray,
thinking she might learn what happened to Zoot.
The wedding is called of, and as for Paul, he is never seen
again. Patsy is terribly upset, and largely blames Lex, suspecting
that his mistreatment of "the deafo" caused Paul to
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| Although Ebony is captured and put in the cage, Lex
allows her to escape, and the fear is she will return with the Locos
to trash the place. Cloe and Patsy help Jack to get ready for an attack.
In the meantime Bray makes a secret deal with Ebony. |
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| Patsy and Cloe play hide-&-seek in the Service
area, but it's boring with only 2 people. For Patsy it's a sad
reminder that Paul used to be number 3. KC takes the initiative
in making friends. And later he amuses Patsy with a little make-believe
about buying an ice-cream, something they used to do before
the Virus. |
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| And later KC pretends to be a Loco, in hot (and
noisy) pursuit of a couple of strays. Even Trudy is amused,
though she reminds them that Brady is trying to sleep. |
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| Patsy
discovers that Salene is sick - Ep.27-29 |
| When Salene believes there is no one in the Café,
she raids the food store then takes the food down to the sewers to
binge and then throw up. This is the first time we suspect that Salene
has an eating disorder. |
| Then when most of the Mallrats have gone to the Tribal
Gathering, Salene does it again, only this time Patsy follows her
down there. Patsy is really worried that Salene might have the Virus.
She agrees to keep what she has seen secret. |
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just wondering, what would you do if you'd sworn to keep a secret,
but then you found out that if you kept that secret, the person
who'd asked you to keep it would end up being hurt? |
Patsy is so worried about Salene she's just
got to tell someone, and right now Trudy is the only other person
around (other than Brady). |
Salene soon guesses that Patsy has betrayed her
secret and is at first angry. She and Trudy sit down for a chat,
and Trudy is the first to really understand how Salene's problem
of Bulimia really works and why she feels so badly about herself.
Patsy interrupts their tête-à-tête with news
that the others have come back from the Tribal Gathering.
Patsy's role in this matter is done. Salene continues to steal
food (and worse), until she finally tells Amber about her problem.
Salene has a few relapses, even into Season 2. |
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At the Tribal gathering, the Mallrats found Dal, now
a slave bought by Ebony. Amber then made a wager with Ebony to get
Dal back, lost, and became a slave herself. Lex and Ryan were able
to free them both, plus Sasha who was chained to Dal, amid an all-out
intertribal fight that they had begun.
Sasha is an entertainer, loved by everyone except Bray, who regards
him as a waste of space and a rival for Amber, not that Bray has ever
told her.
Sasha works mostly with the kids, teaching them a little about music,
drama and entertainment in general. |
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KC, Patsy and Cloe perform their well-rehearsed
cheerleader-style chant in praise of The Mallrats.
Sasha might be making the kids happy, but Bray is driven insane
with jealousy. What's more, Salene feels redundant. She used
to entertain the kids, including piano lessons. Salene resorts
to a binge in the sewers for comfort. |
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| In Ep.33 Lex and Zandra get married. Following the
wedding Sasha and Amber take time out on the beach for a few days,
Salene leaves the Mall to find food at Roanne's trading post; and
Ryan leaves the Mall, intending never to return. Jack has a broken
leg and Bray is in a permanent sulk over Sasha and Amber. Lex reverts
to nasty, bullying Lex like never before. Trudy does her best to keep
the place clean but it's a losing battle, and Tai-San is no help. |
Trudy is at the end of her tether. It seems whenever
she manages to get Brady off to sleep Lex starts shouting again,
calling for room service from Ryan, who is no longer even at
the Mall.
The happy Mallrat family is falling apart. The Mall where the
girls once felt so safe, wanted and loved has become a fearful
place. Patsy tries to comfort a tearful Cloe "Don't cry
Cloe. There'll be somewhere else else for us, you'll see." |
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Next morning there's no one to make breakfast
for the girls, and they are hungry. They find Trudy in the Café
doing her best to clear the mess. She promises to make breakfast
if only they would help her first. Tai-San makes an appearance,
but not to help Trudy. Instead she takes the girls away to do
some "energy clearing."
It's the same story next day. They leave the Café without
breakfast and ask Tai-San. Tai-San doesn't believe in breakfast
and shows them a New-Age spiritual alternative.
After some time the 2 girls are still hungry. Without a word
they both stand, leave the Pharmacy, and head for the chickens
in hope of finding some eggs. |
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| When Amber and Sasha get back it's not a moment too
soon. Cloe has a tale of woe to tell. When they went to check on the
chickens, there was no sign of Henrietta, just a handful of feathers.
Amber takes them to the Café for a hot drink. She then explains
she has only come back to say good-bye. She and Sasha have decided
to leave the Mallrats and make their own life together. |
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Cloe and Patsy are distraught and turn to Lex.
Maybe he will persuade Amber to stay? The sight that greets
them fills them with horror. Now they know what happened to
Henrietta.
Everyone watches Amber and Sasha go. Patsy fights to hold the
tears back. |
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| Once outside, Amber cannot actually bring herself to
forsake the tribe, to leave everyone who needs her at the mercy of
people like Lex. Kissing Sasha one last time, Amber turns back, sorrowful,
back toward the Mall, a concrete prison compared with the life she
might have had with the boy she loved. |
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