The Scary Beginning

The Scary Beginning is the first episode of Poppy Playtime.

Synopsis
The twins and friends revisit their childhood place, which is abandoned 5 years ago.

Plot
The episode begins with a childhood flashback of the two twins, Jake and Emily, as they play in a place called “Playtime Co.” while their parents chat with the other parents. The twins play with toys during the time with the other kids. The two then find a VHS tape when Emily was trying to retrieve her pink stretchy doll. They watch the VHS they found, which shows a commercial for the titular doll Poppy Playtime and tours of the factory before abruptly cutting to spliced in footage of graffiti of a poppy.

Years later, the twins had grown up. Jake lives in a luxury apartment by himself after saving a lot of money from his family and old job and is currently working as an accountant. Emily owns a fishing club where people could fish and drink root beer whilst listening to styled music, like Queen. She also became something of a chef having kept some of their mother's old cook books. One day, Jake receives a mysterious letter that the mailman gave him. He reads it, and it reveals that it’s from the missing staff of his old job, Playtime Co, requesting them to "find the flower".

He calls his friends and twin sister over to come with him to help. They then enter the abandoned toy factory and encounter strange VHS tapes during the time. After solving the code to a security door, Claire decides to acquire the GrabPack, which she uses to unlock the door to the lobby. After entering the lobby, Jake and the gang are introduced to Huggy Wuggy, who is on display in the center of the room, and Emily reveals that he’s Jake’s childhood icon. While trying to unlock one door in the lobby, the power suddenly cuts, forcing them to restore power in the power room, much to Emily’s annoyance.

After heading back to the lobby, they discover that Huggy has disappeared from his display, much to Angelica’s suspicion. The group then restore power to a control panelin order to control an overhead crane and retrieve the right hand of the GrabPack, which they use to unlock a hatch to a conveyor belt that leads to the "Make-a-Friend" section of the factory, where they restore power to the machinery and manufacture a toy. After Claire participates, she then place the toy in a scanner and open a door to a hallway which, after the player enters, Huggy suddenly appears from and chases the friends through the vents.

After reaching a dead-end, Jake asks Claire pulls down a box and breaks part of the conveyor belt, but quickly realizes that his twin sister is left behind, causing both Emily and Huggy to fall to the bottom of the factory, causing a huge argument between the remaining friends. The argument quickly breaks up after they find a strange VHS tape, which reveals about a strange entity called “experiment 1006”. They then head to the aforementioned graffiti and open a door to a hallway, leading to a room where they find Poppy in a case which Claire opens, freeing Poppy.

In a post credit scene, it shows the body Emily, which is shown to be twitching and severely hurt from the impact. A strange, giant pink hand, similar to the doll in the childhood flashback, quickly grabs Emily by the leg, and drags her away.