Alexei, who was working at the research lab in Hawkins' secret Soviet base, becomes a hostage captured by Chief Hopper. But his hardship is short-lived—Alexei discovers he actually prefers "the taste of America" to the Soviets. The first signal of this is the <Woody Woodpecker> cartoon. Alexei laughs like a child watching this animation that wins with primal comedy without dialogue. A Soviet person who purely loves the most American cartoon of all. He's also happy when he receives a Woody Woodpecker doll as a gift at the town festival. But little did he know that gift would be his last...