Summary

The next day, at the café, Joe, the regular customer, arrives and shows Fleabag two ukeleles he has been given in a pub. He suggests they should learn a song together on the ukeleles so that they could sing it to Hilary, a guinea pig that lives in the café. Fleabag tells Joe she is too busy and hides in the back of the café until she hears Joe leave.

Fleabag recounts buying Hilary as a present for Boo and how that led to them opening a guinea pig themed café together. Fleabag explains that Hilary has worked out how to escape her cage. She recalls telling Boo a news story about a boy who had been abusing a hamster at his school by pushing the eraser on the end of a pencil into its butt. Boo expressed sadness that the boy had...