The Snail Factory

The Offspring

The Snail Factory

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Episode Five is rife with issues of child care, dietary theft and the manner in which the choices of adults can effect in unforeseen ways the lives of the children they care for. As a seemingly abandoned child appears in the break room, the staff quarrel and debate the fate of this innocent child, eventually coming to a controversial yet hope filled decision that will liberate the soul- But too soon they'll realize the terrible truth behind the infantile abandonment and all will be forced to consider whether their good intentions have been the child's salvation- or have merely condemned it to a life of the same existential dilemmas they themselves so fear.

A bit of trivia- The actress playing the baby in this episode grew up to become a successful stand up comedian, talk show host and moderator on "The View".