A clever young street mouse’s spectacular escape from a creepy NASA lab cat gets him recruited to become one of the first student ‘moustronauts,’ to go to Mars. 

SYNOPSIS:

Mouse Brains over Brawn - Episode 1

Walter runs for his life weaving and swerving to avoid the thuds of a cat’s paws as they land around him. He maneuvers his way toward a large grey building with writing on the side that says, “NASA Biomedical Research Building 1,” and dives into a crack in the wall. Walter presses himself against the dark interior wall as the cat probes. He’s just out of reach. Exhaling, then taking a deep breath, he smiles. Lunch is somewhere in this building.

Following the scent, he slips into a research lab, through a loose electrical outlet under a countertop. Sniffing, he looks up and sees the edge of a sandwich overhanging the edge of the counter. Walter leaps to a chair seat, then toward the sandwich, causing the chair to roll back just enough to cause Walter to fall short. He grabs the sandwich bag and hangs. As he does, the bag and sandwich slide off the counter, onto the floor, with Walter pinned underneath. Walter pokes his head out, breathes and sees a soda can plummeting towards his head, barely missing him.

Nearby the lab cat, known to some as “Zombie-Cat,” is awakened by the noise. He investigates. Walter, after extricating himself from under the sandwich, sees Zombie Cat approaching and visualizes a clever escape plan. He engages Zombie-Cat in a game of batting the soda can back and forth to shake it up. As Zombie-Cat prepares to pounce, Walter pops the tab on the soda, jumps onto the can and rides it like a rocket, flying high over the head of the dumb-founded cat. Walter is rocketed up over a file cabinet where Mouse-Cadet science class is in session. Professor Moises is lecturing on jet propulsion when Walter crashes into the “Travel to Mars” poster on the back wall. Professor Moises, impressed with Walter’s timely example of rocketry, invites Walter to join the class. Walter, just happy to get away from the cat, accepts. The professor congratulates Walter on joining the first ‘Mousetronauts’ to train for a mission to Mars. Walter asks, “What’s Mars?”