Episode Report Card Sara M: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Dorky Decimal System
By Sara M | Season 11 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.04.2004
Noah whips out a cell phone to call for help, but Nicole tells him not to; the Brotherhood will use the signal to "triangulate" their location. Noah says that triangulating locations using cell-phone signals is against the law. Nicole is like, "They just tried to kill you. I don't think they're real concerned with phone-tapping rules." If, that is, there are any phone-tapping laws in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Or if Noah's phone can even get a signal there when I couldn't get one in freaking Oklahoma City, despite the fact that my cell-phone provider said that was a service area. Noah argues that the Brotherhood didn't want to kill him -- just to inject him with truth serum so that he'd reveal the location of his language of the Birds book, even though it was pretty much sitting on his tray table for the entire flight. Of course, now it's safely tucked away in Noah's cool messenger bag.
Nicole straps a machete to her leg, prompting Noah to ask her how she got that on the airplane. Good question, but it won't be answered here. Instead, Nicole wonders where they are. Noah says he can figure it out if he can just get to the top of a tree. Nicole tells him to go ahead and climb it. Noah walks up to a very tall tree with no branches for the first hundred feet, and decides that this is the right tree to climb. He drops his messenger bag with the precious book in it on the ground where some crazy rainforest ants will no doubt be able to consume it in seconds, and attempts to climb. His efforts are met with failure and some aurally unpleasant grunts and groans of exertion.
Somehow, Nicole has managed to help Noah climb the tree, and they sit on top of it, looking over the forest canopy. Nicole asks Noah to use his amazing powers of knowledge to figure out where they are. Noah observes an "extremely rare blue condor" flying by them, which is only found in a certain area of the Amazon, and a large mountain that can only be Mount Portobello. From this, he knows that they are at -5.2 degrees latitude, -64.6 degrees longitude. Nicole angrily asks him to say it in English, which he totally did, but whatever. Noah says they have to travel 24.7 miles. Nicole rolls her eyes and climbs back down while Noah tries to appreciate the scenery.
Nicole hacks her way through the rainforest as Noah trails behind, attempting to talk while Nicole snaps branches in his face. She appears to be using her machete, as the sound effects would indicate, and yet I see no actual branches or underbrush being cut away. One particularly large branch smacks Noah in the face and he flies backward. On the ground, he is excited to see a previously undiscovered plant. Remember in middle school when you did a report about the endangered rainforest and how it had all those undiscovered plants that could be the cure for cancer or AIDS so people needed to stop burning it down? Well, this is just a flower. Noah tells Nicole that he'll name it after her, to which she predictably responds in a hostile and sarcastic manner. "Fichus narcissus," Noah responds. Oooh, burn.
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