Joyner enters an empty conference room for one of Shelley's ever-popular budget lectures. Conveniently enough, the conference room's windows overlook the lobby below. The lonely ladies bond over the uniformed hotness that is Levi. Also, Joyner tells Shelley that she lives alone, which directly contradicts what she told Kellerman about her kid. Madonna's improbable boyfriend from Desperately Seeking Susan interrupts the girl talk to relay the news that Wise Guy's Contrivance disappeared with the boys and the heart over the Sierra Nevadas. Shelley bolts with MIB for some damage control while Joyner purses her lips and stares into the middle distance.
Highway Of My Despair. We're to believe some time has passed since we last saw Our Intrepid Heroes, and yet they've managed to advance a mere ten yards or so. After another truck passes them by, Kellerman realizes that the drivers must think they're escaped convicts. Oh, the humanity! The boys spy a nearby homestead and head over in search of a phone. The house appears to be deserted, but I'm sure the owner's just down in the basement chanting, "It puts the lotion in the basket. It puts the lotion in the basket. IT PUTS THE LOTION IN THE BASKET, DAMMIT!" There's an answering machine with no phone, and a refrigerator with no ice. Kellerman snatches a set of car keys from a hook on the wall, and the boys dart back out to the yard in search of a matching automobile.
Amid impressive piles of automotive junk, the boys find a rusted-out sedan. The keys fit the ignition, but the engine refuses to turn over. Kellerman checks under the hood and winces at the tangled mess he finds therein. Wee Willie finally breaks his silence to berate Kellerman for his role in Jolly Green Gina's death. "You could have gone down to the ER to see that guy," he rages. "Send a resident, have him come up to see you, do something so we're not standing here in the middle of the desert watching the ice melt!" He growls in frustration and plunks his self-pitying ass down on the cooler. Kellerman apologizes, and the boys hone their scalpels for a bit of relationship dissection and analysis. Wee Willie admits that even though he knew Jolly Green Gina for all of three weeks, "it was the longest relationship [he's] ever had." Kellerman's of the opinion that Willie's grief is excessive, given how briefly he knew the deceased. Willie insists that three weeks is a long time, and challenges Kellerman on his own romantic history. "I was married for five years!" Kellerman protests. Yeah, and we'll be hearing about it for the ten. Right, Killer? That is, unless this series gets yanked from the schedule before Christmas rolls around. Which, if tonight's festivities are anything to go by, is a distinct possibility. In any event, Wee Willie gets Kellerman to admit that since his divorce, he's never had much more than a one-night stand. Kellerman, squirmy with discomfort, shifts the topic back to the rusted-out sedan. He spots a coil of garden hose on the ground, and we shift to the EngineCam to stare up at Our Intrepid Heroes as they examine the sedan's guts. Kellerman proposes that they utilize their mad vascular surgery skills to repair the wreck, likening the garden hose to the saphenous vein and the radiator orifice to the iliac artery. If they fashion three lengths of garden hose into a triple shunt, the cooling system will leak like a mother, but it should get them where they want to be. It's all so very MacGyver of them, only MacGyver would have accomplished the same thing with a matchbook cover and some belly-button lint. After a brief montage in which we see them performing the automotive procedure as described, the boys get the car going and head off into the commercial break in search of some ice.