I can't believe we're already down to the final four teams. I miss everyone so much, except the gray and yellow teams because I didn't really get to know them. In a narration recapping last week's episode, Luke called Pink's decision to split from the group a "critical mistake," and I would still disagree with that. Anyway, I hope something crazy happens in this episode to make the numbers interesting.
Having camped in the aggressively athletic wilderness for 17 days, everyone was even grumpier. "I don't like white," Red told Teal just flat out. I don't really, either, but it's only because I don't relate to them or understand them. For the first time, no one really wanted to be the hunt team, now that they'd all had a taste of it.
Luke started off the hunt by telling the teams about the first advantage. The team who won this advantage would have the power to trap and confine another team within a small zone for the remainder of the hunt. If the sabotaged team leaves the zone their vest alarms will sound and location revealed. The second twist was that all four teams would start the hunt as prey, then ten minutes after the release, one team would get a secret message directing them to a secret location with talons. Everyone else would proceed not knowing who the hunt team was. Tasty!
Matt and Kaliesha, as usual, were sure they'd be targets so they were hoping to be the secret hunt team. Jade and Nikita were hoping for the opposite, since they do better as a prey team. Kareem and Antoine also hoped to be the hunt team. Talking about what they bring to the table, Jade and Nikita were shown walking through the woods and getting stuck in brambles.
A talon went up to Luke, who has been living life pretty cushy in a hotel just outside the village, I'm sure. The red team was selected to be the secret hunt team, so Luke sent them the message and directed them to the "hunt box" to get their talons. This is technically their third time as the hunt team.
The hunt box was in a ridiculous location: inside a box, inside a drainage pipe on the side of the road. What the fuck, Capture. Anyway, once they got out of the drain pipe, the red team was released and almost stumbled across the white team but decided it "could have been an animal." An animal! Not a smart one, that's for sure.
The Advantage Point location was revealed up North and white and green ran for it, constantly assuming they are targets. Also, Antoine has to wear those hilarious sports goggles now because he got something in his eye last time, or just to be high maintenance. Green found the advantage first, and put White in the box of shame. I wonder what would have happened if they chose Red?
Angrily, like a caged animal, Matt calls everyone "a bunch of snakes," and Kaliesha complained of the lack of coverage and abundance of loud, popping sticks in the quarantine zone. Even though the white team was contained, the red team still didn't know where that area was. They came across the green team first.
The green team crouched in quiet anticipation and spotted the red team, looking out onto the territory from atop a rock like a couple of gay John Smiths. Is it redundant to say gay John Smith? I mean, iiiiisss iiiiittt?
The green team escaped without sound, and then the red team neared the white team. Kaliesha boxes three-minute rounds, so she has a good idea of when their stationary time expires. With five minutes left on the clock, the teal team neared the red team. This is a horrible situation. Red team realized that they had to get Teal, even though they were allied. Run, Nikita, run!
If the Teal team is eliminated, this show could get a lot less entertaining. Sadly, the teal team was captured, with apology. "We wish you were someone else," Red said. At least they can't catch Teal twice, so whatever teams they find on the second day will be White or Green. The Teal Twins forgave the red team.
"I can't be bothered to be approached by people," Jade or Nikita told her twin in jail. Everyone was disappointed to have Teal in jail. White found out that Green sabotaged them, which meant their already shaky alliance was severed. This was good news for Red and Teal, proving yet again that an alliance is a great idea. Turns out it was about flirting all along.
Matt and Kaliesha were feeling good about their progress and their achievements, but they sure are talking about that gym and Kaliesha's father a lot in this episode, which tells me they are likely going home.
For the second day of the hunt, Luke's voice told the teams that the day's advantage could be key to their survival in the forest. Is it a bear trap? Almost! It's a case of digital land mines, which reveal a team's location to the hunt team if they step inside its 100 foot perimeter. One can only assume that teams could be snared by their own land mines, so this should be interesting.
Obviously it's pretty good to be the hunt team at this stage in the game. "Land mines, what the heck is that?" Antoine asked. And then they were off, to find digital land mines and learn what exactly that means.
"It's really important for us to get that advantage today," Antoine told Kareem, "so we can get those … digital land mines?" It sounds stupid to us, too, and we're not even indoctrinated. We do have the advantage of that demonstrative graphic they kept showing us. I see now, it's science. Once the Advantage Point was revealed, White and Green sprinted for it.
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Green found the advantage, and it appears that only the opposing prey team can be caught by the land mine, so it sucks to be the white team. Meanwhile, the red team was creeping around the perimeter, where they spent a lot of their days as a successful prey team. The green team traipsed around, planting these digital land whatevers into the ground, then the red team just ran into them. The white team was sabotaged twice, and they're starting to seem more like the white rabbits.
Green stepped lightly, escaping the path of the lumbering red team yet again. The red team argued about how to go East as the green team's dot drifted away from them on the map. The white team triggered a land mine because how could they not? The red team heard a team walking through the trees and both teams involved managed to stop bickering for a moment to avoid each other. With five minutes left, the red team grew anxious. Finally, they spotted the white team lying in wait and chased them down. Jacob caught Kaliesha, and what transpired was an astounding avalanche of emotions.
Jacob checked on Kaliesha to make sure she was OK after landing and Kaliesha was smiling. She said yes, she was fine, and congratulated the red team on capturing them. Then, she started crying. Kaliesha, of all people, began to cry. She sobbed into Jacob's shoulder and repeated, "good job, you guys," as Matt rolled his eyes and shook Jacob's hand.
"It was so genuine," Rob noticed, as taken aback as anyone. Damn, show, why you gotta make me like Kaliesha when her fate is sealed? Still not a big Matt fan, though.
The green team congratulated themselves on making it to the finals, and Teal tried not to look too excited when Red returned to jail with the white team. Green dealt with mixed emotions, seeing a team who did so well and who they respect in jail to a team who would be easier to beat.
Once she was captured, Kaliesha's emotions ran free, she struggled not to cry when Luke asked her what it would mean to be in the finals. It was basically a useless question, since White knew how the votes would go. Kaliesha was suddenly so sweet, so pretty when she was smiling. Too bad it didn't even matter how Green voted, since the hunt team breaks the tie. But Green voted for White anyway, so as not to draw things out.
Kaliesha encouraged the remaining teams to fight the good fight and said, "may the best win." My wish for them is that Matt never call Kaliesha "woman" again. It looks like the finale (airing this Wednesday, not week) features a race, one that draws blood from one of the twins so that we can tell them apart.
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