LOGLINE: An encounter with a seemingly derelict spaceship forces Will and his cat Penny to confront oblivion.
TAGLINE: Never face oblivion alone.
Catwalk finished filming in 2021. The guest actor voice is Jesse Millpaugh, He recorded the lines for this episode at the same time he did those for The Feline Mystique. In Catwalk he voices the derelict spaceship's computer. The rest of the crew is James Hedges, Tim Raygor, and James Hanusek. James Hanusek is also the stunt double for the weightless spacesuit scenes. Catwalk was my fastest script to write, it just took an afternoon and practically wrote itself. The inspiration came from a cat pod I had built for possible use in the series. I had seen these cat carriers that look futuristic and I bought one for fun and fixed it up further with controls, arms, and thrusters to slightly resemble the space pod from 2001, A Space Odyssey. I had imagined two scenes with it, Penny suiting up in it and showing her floating in space as a kind of cat spacesuit, and in another scene rescuing Will like Dave Bowman did with Frank Poole in 2001. Starting with that first scene and knowing that I wanted to end with that last scene, it was easy to fill in the rest of the story. I had been thinking about obsolescence and this story seemed to be a good opportunity to work that in as a theme. When it was finished I liked it so much that I bumped it up to film it sooner. It was originally going to include the robot in the story who isn't introduced until later in the series, so the next afternoon I wrote his part out. There is an old childhood telescope of mine in the observatory to further the theme of saving some things from obsolescence. There are "Easter Egg" clues to what the next episode was to be about hidden in this episode. They are the comic Black Cat No. 65 with a cat woman on the cover and a drawing of a werecat on the wall.

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