We Won’t Make It to Episode Six!｜16 Shades Theater 005

1. We Won’t Make It to Episode Six!

Five exhausted coworkers sit on the beach while a cartoon Agitator proudly claims the cover’s exaggerated good looks.

We won’t make it to Episode Six!

Yes. We really are this handsome.

2. The Beach Episode Came Early

Sixteen exhausted coworkers ride the company bus; at the beach they split into three temporary groups, and a small wave steals one of Bruiser’s sandals as soon as he sits down.

The site is finally live.

Everyone is wrecked.

Company plan: beach outing.

A beach episode already? It’s only Episode Five.

Aren’t those usually Episode Six?

We won’t make it to Episode Six.

Team A

Team C

Team B

No one is making me move today.

SHHH—

Leave the sandal.

3. You Take the Photo. I’ll Sit.

Agitator wants a group photo and Power Broker proposes a sandcastle; Harvester collects everyone’s sand and first builds himself a VIP sand chair.

The group photo can’t be all of us lying down.

Let’s build a castle.

It’ll look like a vacation.

Dump the sand here.

I’ll finish it.

Once I dump this, I’m done.

You take the photo. I’ll sit.

Everyone else works.

You take the VIP seat.

4. Your Position Didn’t Move

Power Broker builds the castle around Harvester’s chair and turns him into the gatekeeper; as Agitator prepares to shoot, Harvester blocks the camera.

Let me build onto your chair.

Don’t move my chair.

PRESS

You turned me into the gatekeeper?

Your position didn’t move.

Don’t move. This is the shot.

Wait.

5. That Last Hit Is a Separate Matter

Harvester and Opportunist add a ring of teeth around the castle; Bruiser retrieves his sandal, then opens a new account when a small wave splashes his face.

Leave the castle.

Add another ring outside.

Once this row is done,

I’m done.

SPLASH

The sandal matter

is settled.

That last hit

is a separate matter.

6. I Left You the Castle

Harvester wraps the castle inside a giant sand creature’s mouth; Power Broker holds a rigidly polite smile, then stops the photo.

I left you the castle.

Photo now?

Wait.

7. Then Hold On Tight

Power Broker turns the sand creature into his mount; Harvester adds umbrella wings, Agitator adds a swim ring, and Opportunist quietly claims the shade.

It doesn’t eat me.

I ride it.

You have to sit on top?

The composition demands it.

Then hold on tight.

We need

safety measures.

This side needs support too.

8. He’s in The Bruiser and the Sea

Bruiser takes a bucket and shovel back to continue his dispute with the sea; the sculpture becomes a kangaroo, and Harvester gives its top rider a cow’s face.

You’re finally here!

Whose side are you on?

You keep fighting.

The sea and I aren’t done.

You return the sandal and think we’re even?!

We’re doing a beach episode.

He’s in The Bruiser and the Sea.

Put the mouth on the belly.

Don’t block the star.

I’ll touch up

the star’s face.

Nobody move this time.

9. You Two, Move. I’m Photographing It.

Harvester and Power Broker keep arguing over the starring position until Agitator moves them aside to photograph the giant three-faced sand sculpture.

Still claiming that face?

The position is still right.

You two, move.

I’m photographing it.

10. This Ends Here

Opportunist is already resting in the shade; Agitator maxes out his beauty filter and calls it restoration; Bruiser draws a line for the sea, which the water immediately crosses.

Where’s Opportunist?

BEAUTY

Beauty filter maxed out?

This is restoration.

This ends here.

You crossed the line.

11. The Photos That Stayed

At Bruiser’s bright workstation, photos of the five-person Team C and all sixteen coworkers are pinned beside his clean sandals.