Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT For whatever it's Perth
By Miss Alli | Season 9 | Episode 9 | Aired on 04.25.2006
MoJo tries to turn in their crayfish, and they get the news that they need a second one. "We've got the crappiest luck!" Joseph complains as they run back to the water. That's not luck, of course -- that's failure to read the clue. Which is quite different, though equally vexing. Fran and Barry finish up their branch-dragging, and they get the prison clue and leave. So MoJo is still stuck in the water, and Ray and Yolanda are still dragging. Joseph orders Monica to dive down to a trap with a crayfish in it, but she gets scared and doesn't want to touch it. She's upset, he's telling her not to be upset, it appears that the task may not get done at all, and it's therefore a perfect time for another Commercial Break Of Obvious Misdirection.
We return from the CBOOM, and Monica promptly dives down, takes a crayfish, and surfaces with it in her hand. See? It wasn't that scary, Monica! They swim for shore and turn in their crayfish, and this time, they get their clue. Ray and Yolanda, meanwhile, continue to drag branches. In one of my favorite moments of the episode, Joseph mutters to Monica as they get ready to bike away, "We are the kings of...not reading the clues right and stuff." And what's genius is that he says this while putting his helmet on backwards. It's just...you can't make that up. They bike away.
Ray and Yolanda finish up and get their clue. Time to head for Fremantle Prison. This entire sequence has an awesome "I love you, baby! Let's go to jail!" thing going on.
Eric and Jeremy return to the bike shop, and they manage to get on a ferry that's just about to leave, so they've been lucky again. BJ and Tyler aren't far behind, but they don't make it. They learn that Eric and Jeremy got on the previous ferry, and some locals tell them that they can get on the next ferry that's leaving, which is going to Hillarys, and then they can grab a taxi to the prison. They are assured that this will be a half-hour faster overall, so they yammer happily about how they're going to have a lead of a half-hour over everybody except Eric and Jeremy. Fran and Barry return their bikes, and then they go to the visitor center, where they learn how to get to Fremantle Prison and also think to call for a taxi that should be waiting for them when they get off the ferry. That's a good thought.
MoJo returns to the bike shop. Ray and Yolanda do, too, and Fran and Barry. So...the last three teams all get on the same ferry together. So much for...much of what just happened.