Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT D.C. Follies
By M. Giant | Season 22 | Episode 11 | Aired on 05.05.2013
Max & Katie make it to the station and come in out of the rain, closely followed somehow by Bates & Anthony, and both teams end up getting on the same train out of town. For all the good it's going to do them.
Caroline & Jennifer are starting in a relatively distant third, at 5:27 PM (it's fully dark by now, obviously). Right now, their main reaction to the news that they're headed to Belfast is that it's going to be cold there. Before they start, Caroline interviews that the main reason they've made it to the final four is all of their positive energy. I disagree; I think the main reason they've made it to the final four is Caroline. Jennifer adds that they've been friends for seven years, and they go on about how they're the little engine that could. They manage to flag down a cab and immediately make friends with their driver, Charlie. So clearly they're sticking with the positive energy theory.
The last place team, Mona & Beth, are leaving exactly two house later at 7:27 PM, which is actually pretty impressive. After all, they landed in Edinburgh during the previous leg more than two hours behind the other teams, plus they had a Speed Bump and the U-Turn to contend with. Mona mentions as much in an interview, but Beth says it's no more than they expected, given how nervous they make people. She adds that even though they're good friends, their whole relationship is centered around competition, which she thinks gives them an edge. That must be why they're one of the two remaining teams that haven't won a leg yet.
The first train pulls into Stranraer, Scotland, with the hockey brothers and Team Newlywed aboard. They take cabs to the ferry station, where they learn that the next ferry is at 7:30 in the morning. "Looks like we're sleeping here," Katie obviouslies. And it also looks like the other teams will be joining them. It's later -- and colder -- when the country singers and the derby moms arrive at the station, happy to make it inside the warm terminal. Beth interviews quietly about how it's nice to see everybody still here, rather than having figured out a faster route and left them behind somehow. Like that would happen two legs in a row. Speaking of which, Max smugly rubs their previous leg's setback in Mona's face, asking her how it felt when she and Mona and Team YouTube got to the parking lot and found only two cars there. "You're still here, so it doesn't matter," he smirks. "I'm sorry, I gotta laugh." Yes, he seems quite sorry. The Amazing Editors salt the moment liberally with flashbacks to last week, and Max interviews that he also told the derby moms that he U-Turned them. "You know, they knew," he shrugs. Maybe because of the photo of you on the big sign saying you did it? Mona and Beth wouldn't exactly have to be master detectives to piece those clues together. Back in the station, Beth lets Max off the hook, saying they would have done the same thing. Which we already know, because we saw them and Team YouTube saying they would back when they still thought they would get the opportunity. But in an interview, Beth says that it doesn't make any sense to help "absolutely the strongest team in the race when you're down to four teams." Meaning Bates & Anthony. True, but alliances don't always behave rationally. This one, for instance, puts up with Max & Katie.
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