Cage is the fourth episode of the Salad Fingers series.
Plot
Salad Fingers wears a beret and declares that he is going to try and find France. However, he is frightened by a mutated boy with disproportionately large eyeballs, who has been "watching him for a while now". Salad Fingers becomes uncomfortable with the child's proximity and begins to leave, saying that he'll find France another day. The boy, who speaks only in growls and grunts, approaches Salad Fingers and licks his hand, having apparently fallen in love with him.
Inside his house, Salad Fingers sees a gray woodlouse crawling out from a hole in the wall. He addresses it as "Bordois" and his "little sister". Feeling very comforted by its presence, he starts talking to the bug. He becomes jealous and goes to touch it and, in doing so, accidentally crushes it and looks at the crustacean with curiosity before turning to disgust. He then says to Bordois that she's "gone flat" and has become "all gooey". Salad Fingers order that he "shalln't play with her again, until she's had a wash". Salad Fingers then hears a knock on the door, which he opens to find a grubby tap attached to a string on the ground. Salad Fingers becomes excited about this "gift" and begins to fantasize about taps. He attempts to fetch it, but it is pulled away by the string (the tap is being used as bait).
He is so drawn to the tap that he ends up walking far away from his home and walks deep into the barren wasteland. Still attempting to fetch the tap, he walks right into a bear trap and gets caught in it; which causes him to lose blood and consciousness while savoring the pain blissfully.
He wakes up inside a cage and rubs the rusted bars, much to his pleasure. The grotesque boy approaches the cage and holds out a ring (on which a human tooth is mounted), as if he's proposing marriage. Salad Fingers becomes distraught, stating that he “doesn’t like this game”. He then pulls a curtain down over the window of the cage, angering the boy. The boy makes an unintelligible noise that sounds like "You're my own now." When the curtain lifts, the boy, seeing that Salad Fingers has disappeared, sits on the floor and cries. The episode closes with Salad Fingers, wearing his beret, flying away gleefully on a giant tap.
Character Appearances
Debut
- Stitch-Head
- Bordois (debut & death)
Trivia
- Stitch-Head (as named by fans) is rumored to represent a baby from Salad Fingers' past. It could be argued that he resembles that of an embryo, speaks with baby noises, and seems to treat Salad Fingers a bit like an authority figure in the sense that he always looks up to him.
Gallery
| Salad Fingers Episodes |
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| Spoons • Friends • Nettles • Cage • Picnic • Present • Shore Leave • Cupboard • Letter • Birthday • Glass Brother • Market • Post Man • Harvest |