Several hours go by and Walter’s almost finished. Claudine, seeing a few areas that need improvement, decides it’s time to make an entrance. Spinners engaged, she approaches. (Walter is not surprised, he had noticed her lurking behind the faucet.) They engage in light conversation.
Enter the fly ... and this is when things get ugly: “I’ve been working for two hours straight while you’ve been sitting on your fat ass!” “But, I need my strength to clean up this mess you’ve made!” replies Claudine. “Mess?! Who asked for your opinion or for your help?” And with that, Walter leaps at the struggling fly and Claudine dives after him. Quite the battle ensues and not thinking to shut down their spinners, both are spewing silk all along the way. They make such a disturbance that the fly is bounced right out of the web and takes off.
By the time they realize the fly is gone, both Walter and Claudine are so tangled up that they can't move. One can only imagine what the conversation was like before they both starved to death.
