Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A | 1 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT Go Overdogs!
By Miss Alli | Season 10 | Episode 13 | Aired on 12.09.2006
Charles de Gaulle. Tyler and James are looking for tickets. They learn of a direct flight tomorrow morning at 8:25 AM on Air France. It will get them to JFK at 10:15 AM. However! There are only business class seats. Of course, they can't travel business class. They ask about the economy waiting list, and they're told, "No problem." Other options include a 9:55 flight on Continental getting to Newark at 11:55 AM. (Half of TARcon crowd: "Nooooooo! Not Newark!") They set that flight up now, as their backup. Tyler interviews that the waiting list for the 8:25 flight looks to be really long, so they're not thinking anybody's getting on that one.
The next -- well, maybe the first -- significant thing happens when Lyn and Karlyn arrive at Orly and learn that there are no direct flights from Orly to New York. As in, There Are Not Any. They learn of the 8:25 AM flight from Charles de Gaulle, but not only is it full -- they can't even get on the waiting list from here. They beg, but nothing doing. The guy can't do anything about that flight without having them go to Charles de Gaulle to deal with it. They turn around to leave.
Rob and Kim are in their taxi. They look very tense. They arrive at the airport. Same deal -- 8:25 AM flight, but there's nothing available. They beg and beg, and they reference a million dollars, and they're finally told that they might be able to check with the manager about the flight. The manager agrees that he'll check. Meanwhile, in the Lyn and Karlyn cab, they have nothing confirmed at all, because they couldn't do anything at Orly about a flight to New York. Lyn is explaining all of this kind of wearily as Karlyn looks unhappily out the window. I think they know that this may be an actual Bad Thing.
Shockingly, the manager emerges on Rob and Kim's behalf and tells them that they are on the flight for sure. That's very... impressive. I don't know how that happened, but it never hurts to see how far you can get by begging and being polite but persistent. (And how!) Understandably, Kim is very relieved that they got on this flight, and she's desperately hoping that they might be on it alone. Meanwhile, Lyn and Karlyn go to check in at Air France, and the counter isn't even open at the moment. "This is down to the wire," Karlyn says.
So then it's evening, and then it's the next morning. As soon as the Air France counter opens up, Lyn starts pleading to get on the 8:25 AM flight. "No, because today is fully booked, you know?" They get themselves on the waiting list, and they're sent to the gate to wait. Meanwhile, at the gate, James and Tyler are getting the bad news that it looks "very bad" for them getting on the 8:25 AM. They run into the *lyns, and nobody really knows just what Rob and Kim's situation is, since Rob and Kim obviously don't have the same need to hover over the desk. Instead, they're preparing to board. In fact, elsewhere, Kimberly just hopes to leave without anyone else. They board. Tyler is stressing out in the gate area. It's so tense! Rob mutters to Kim, "We're going to win this thing." Apparently, he decided that putting a curse on them was the way to go. "No way, dude. It's over," says some Addict (And Model!) miserably. As usual, "it's over" means it's time for commercials.