Curtain Call...Encore!

Curtain Call...Encore!
General Information
Series	Rat's Nest
Episode	5
Production
Aired	July 27, 2025
Writer	Syp The Mighty Revoltge
Director	Syp The Mighty EprothStudios (animation)
Starring	Revoltge TheiDsStudios Daks Ebb! Pootan jaxbeetle Blankslate Monies The Great ethanchaotic J.C. Bourne CaramelizedChaos Corvaeraas Heza Annie Intro-Mind Ella Rhee Xanthe Folan Syp The Mighty Natasha
Continuity
Previous	The Last Dance

Curtain Call...Encore! is the fifth and final episode of Rat's Nest.

Description

Time waits for no one, and neither does HQ.

Characters

HQ

• Emily Vega
• Randy DeLuca
• Brigadier
• Valentine
• Hilda Frakes
• Denise Rocko
• Ignacio Dominguez (mentioned only)

Rat's Nest Guards

• Ellie Melons
• Polly Pockett
• Dina Jones
• Jace Casper
• Raven Carmine

Black Out Guards

• Geff Rodrigo
• Sarah Daws
• Nicole Vega
• June Vega
• Mitchell Miller

Trinity Advancements

• Robert Balboa
• Pathfinder
• 212 Exultant Forge
• Molotov
• Cocktail
• Primal (corpse)
• Raquel Rodrigo (mentioned only)

Other

• Trooper
• Prim
• Corvus

Trivia

• Various characters from Season 1 appear in this episode, including (in order of appearance):
  • Randy DeLuca, with ethanchaotic reprising his role
  • Denise Rocko, with CaramelizedChaos reprising her role
  • Brigadier, with Corvaeraas reprising her role
  • Valentine, with Heza reprising her role
  • Pathfinder, with Heza reprising her role
  • Robert Balboa, with Revoltge reprising his role
  • 212 Exultant Forge, with jaxebeetle reprising their role
  • Molotov, with Revoltge reprising his role
  • Cocktail, with Annie reprising her role
  • Geff Rodrigo, with Intro-Mind reprising his role
  • Mitchell Miller, with Blankslate reprising his role
  • Sarah Daws, with Ella Rhee reprising her role
  • Nicole Vega, with Xanthe Folan reprising her role
  • June Vega, with Syp The Mighty reprising her role
  • Corvus, with Natasha reprising her role
• Primal is revealed to have been hired by Trinity Advancements in this episode.
• The name of Trinity's co-founder first mentioned in Replacement is revealed in this episode, being Raquel Rodrigo.
• Forge is revealed to be a robot, after being heard in Invader. jaxbeetle reprises their role from the director's cut of Season 1.
• Carmine is revealed to have survived from being shot by Trooper in the previous episode, given a "healing salve" by Pathfinder.
• Molotov and Cocktail are revealed to be working for Trinity Advancements, after having swept Outpost Black Out in the post-credits of the Season 1 director's cut. Revoltge and Annie reprise their roles as Molotov and Cocktail respectively.
• The post-credits scene takes place after the events of Retrograde, with Trooper having mentioned Outpost Rat's Nest being his next destination in that episode.
• The music cues in the flashfoward scene are more faithful rearrangements of the tunes Revoltge composed for Guard Duty Classic.
• Corvus is shown to have continued following Trooper and the Black Out Guards since Outpost High Ground, killing the SAFE soldiers stationed there. Natasha reprises her role from the director's cut of Season 1.
• The song Corvus hums is We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn, which is the song that Trooper sang to the guards upon his reintroduction in the penultimate episode of Classic Season 2.
• Frakes and Rocko's dynamic was inspired by the dynamic of Presley and Barlowe from jaxbeetle's upcoming series Nine to Five, with J.C. Bourne cast as Frakes to act off of her Nine to Five co-star CaramelizedChaos as Rocko.
• The flashforward post-credits scene is a direct reference to Infinity, the finale of Classic Season 1, in which the guards briefly visit Outpost Rat's Nest before it is swiftly blown up by Trooper.