Meanwhile, after driving Stacy away, Ryan went with Susie to try to coax the bird.

Ryan was a little exhausted with Susie’s rules. They couldn’t catch the bird, only convince him to come with them. But the parrot wasn’t human, how was he supposed to convince him?

“Little parrot, please come down. If you do, I’ll give you some meat?” Ryan offered unconvincingly.

The parrot stared at Ryan, then shook his head back and forth like a swinging pendulum. “Don’t eat meat, don’t eat meat!”

He just wouldn’t come down.

Ryan took a deep breath and decided to play his trump card. “Susie, let’s just go, we don’t have time for this.”

Susie was immediately terrified, grasping at Ryan’s clothes and pleading, “No, no, Uncle, we can’t leave Alex…”