When a friend went to jail in Goa, Tom Thumb promised to take 37,000 rupees up to the charas dealer in the Himalayas and ended up renting a house there for the summer. For 15 dollars a month he lived in a clay and mud house at 2000 metres and spent a great deal of time alone communing with the lizards, spiders and crows.
When at the end of the season he climbed up to a holy lake at 4300 metres (and took a few hits of LSD once above the tree line) the crows ended up attacking him..
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Sound design for this episode by James Stevens
Theme song by the No Mercy Sisters with Adam Most and Ali Rasim Kocal.