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NPCs · first: BE E4

Humans (Burrow's End)

The humans are not met in this episode; when the family asks Bennett what was driven out of the burrow, he answers "Human." BE E4·01:45:57 He says they walk on two feet and are monsters. BE E4·01:46:09

The humans are the monsters the stoats of Last Bast fear. BE E4·01:46:09 BE E5·02:15:03 Tapes of Dr. Robert Wenabocker, a human lead engineer, are played to the family. BE E5·02:12:33 Sybil says the First Stoats told them the humans were driven off but would come back. BE E5·02:15:24 Ava says humans cannot stand the Blue and that a truck took her Ken, and Ellen confirms that the stoats will kill humans. BE E5·02:16:01 BE E5·02:20:24 BE E5·01:04:26

Kiran says the humans are coming back and that the stoats will obliterate them. BE E6·00:26:21 A human skull lies below the reactor pit. BE E6·02:10:54 After the pit fight Bennett says gunfire kept the humans away. BE E8·00:55:01

Quentin shows Thorn footage and photographs of humans, and Aabria confirms that the people in the photograph seem to have social groups more like stoats' than those of any other animal the family has met, and Tula works out "We speak Human." BE E9·00:06:11 BE E9·00:11:07 BE E9·00:13:17 Human camps appear on the fringes of Last Bast, and Thorn and Viola find a human woman, Dr. Tara Steel, a scientist with the military reclaiming the plant who says 14 soldiers were lost. BE E9·01:10:26 BE E9·01:46:16 BE E9·01:49:57 BE E9·01:51:50 She promises to keep their secret and leaves them her walkie-talkie on channel six. BE E9·02:01:20 BE E9·02:04:05 In the finale she offers to lure Wenabocker out of the tent and helps Thorn's speech to the humans. BE E10·00:19:59 BE E10·01:35:40 In the finale four humans approach, one of them Dr. Wenabocker, who raises the three crushed soldiers as revenants. BE E10·00:35:43 BE E10·00:39:09 BE E10·00:40:05 Thorn's speech to the humans is broadcast to the world, and Aabria says the Blue Forest is recognized as a nation. BE E10·01:37:07 BE E10·01:50:11

By episode

BE E4: Last Bast

Humans (not met) — Bennett: "Human." / "they walk on two feet. They're monsters." — 01:45:57, 01:46:09
Humans — "they walk on two feet. They're monsters." — 01:46:09; Bennett earlier answers Tula "Badger?" / Viola "A big bear?" with "No." and "Human." — 01:45:48–01:45:57

BE E5: Protect the Light

Humans — "the people that came before us" in Simon's words are the makers of "nuclear power" — 01:31:28; Talia: scavenged "human remains" — 00:24:18; Ellen: "They're very big." — 01:04:42; Sybil: "Humans." — 02:15:12; Jaysohn: "Well, they killed our dad." — 02:15:50

BE E6: Reactor Charlie

Humans — Kiran: "The humans are coming back. We know that to be certain." — 00:26:21; a human skull lies in the pool — 02:11:13; Ava recognises it ("Hooman! Hooman!") — 02:11:49; asked "Lila, they killed Grandfather?" (Jaysohn), Ava answers "Yes! But the ones that I saw were wearing..." [?] — 02:11:59, 02:12:01

BE E7: The First Stoats

Humans — mentioned: Thorn's image of humans ripping Last Bast apart (00:45:34); "the fight for the humans to come" (01:01:17); "The humans are coming back." (Sybil — 01:13:24)

BE E8: Five

Humans — "They've been getting closer. They are moving their vehicles." — 00:29:59; Ava saw humans in a truck who "started bleeding all over" — 00:54:32; Carter: a human showed up a year ago, up the road (Ava calls them "that one human scout" — 01:44:08) — 01:41:26

BE E9: Human

Humans — Quentin: "They work with fire and lightning and poison and smoke." — 00:07:38; Aabria's description of photographed people: "mostly hairless, a little bit on the top of their head and around their mouths and over their eyes" — 00:08:25; Tula calls them "more like us than any of the other animals" — 00:11:57; "yellow skin, no eyes" is Thorn's memory of the first humans he saw — 00:07:56

BE E10: Evolution and Revolution

Humans — "They did not have Feather Fall." (the three crushed) — 00:39:09; the family hears a human growl "for the first time" (Aabria: "And I think you hear a human growl for the first time.") — 00:24:47; the Blue-user human "just like you can" — 00:39:09