diff --git a/engines/sci/engine/workarounds.cpp b/engines/sci/engine/workarounds.cpp
index 22bd3f0c003..8e3640c4901 100644
--- a/engines/sci/engine/workarounds.cpp
+++ b/engines/sci/engine/workarounds.cpp
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ const SciWorkaroundEntry uninitializedReadWorkarounds[] = {
 	{ GID_MOTHERGOOSEHIRES,-1,64950,  1,            "Feature", "handleEvent",    -1,    0, { WORKAROUND_FAKE,   0 } }, // right when clicking on a child at the start and probably also later
 	{ GID_MOTHERGOOSEHIRES,-1,64950,  1,               "View", "handleEvent",    -1,    0, { WORKAROUND_FAKE,   0 } }, // see above
 	{ GID_PEPPER,         -1,   894,  0,            "Package", "doVerb",         -1,    3, { WORKAROUND_FAKE,   0 } }, // using the hand on the book in the inventory - bug #3040012
+	{ GID_PEPPER,        150,   928,  0,           "Narrator", "<noname538>",    -1,    0, { WORKAROUND_FAKE,   0 } }, // happens during the non-interactive demo of Pepper
 	{ GID_QFG1,           -1,   210,  0,          "Encounter", "init",        0xbd0,    0, { WORKAROUND_FAKE,   0 } }, // hq1: going to the brigands hideout
 	{ GID_QFG1,           -1,   210,  0,          "Encounter", "init",        0xbe4,    0, { WORKAROUND_FAKE,   0 } }, // qfg1: going to the brigands hideout
 	{ GID_QFG1VGA,        16,    16,  0,        "lassoFailed", "changeState",    -1,   -1, { WORKAROUND_FAKE,   0 } }, // qfg1vga: casting the "fetch" spell in the screen with the flowers, temps 0 and 1 - bug #3053268