Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 53 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Opposites Repel
By M. Giant | Season 24 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.02.2014
Margie is the next to finish the task, as Connor calls out to Dave to hurry it up. Dave was here first, you'll recall. With the clues on their foreheads smudged beyond legibility, Luke starts carrying their car out of there on his head. Outside, Caroline & Jennifer arrive in time to see Mark & Mallory at their cab, and Margie and Luke come out right behind them. "Where you going, Mallory?" Mark calls out to his partner, and in a fateful slo-mo shot, Mallory comes running toward the camera, and the screen goes darker -- except for a tight circle highlighting Mark's small black backpack, which is still lying on the ground where she's left it. Something tells me this will be important later. There's a quick cut of Margie & Luke getting their cab, and then we see that Mark has attached the car to the wide-open trunk with a web of bungee cords. The taxi pulls away, with the two of them feeling pretty great inside it and Mark's backpack looking pretty lonely outside it as it gets left behind. Don't worry, backpack, Mark will be missing you soon enough. Well, not quite soon enough.
Dave finishes the Roadblock in third place after starting it in first. Meanwhile, Margie is trying to convince a cab driver to let her and Luke put their car on his roof, which they only get away with because she throws the big cloth over it to protect the finish and also because the driver doesn't know the invaluable English phrase "Knock that shit off!" Back inside, Jennifer decides that Caroline is the mechanic of the team. "You like putting stuff together," she says. "I hate putting stuff together," Caroline points out. "Are you sure I said that?" Jamal calls for a check, and outside, Luke & Margie have their car lashed to the taxi's roof, and Margie promises to hold it while they ride, because that's going to make all the difference if the driver has to slam on the brakes. Inside, Jet remarks, "I never thought it would come down to beating one of the country girls to keep from getting eliminated." Not that he'll be in much danger of failing to do so. Jamal has his clue in fourth place, and outside, Dave & Connor's new cabdriver laughs helplessly at the spectacle of the car that they're trying to his open trunk, but soon they're on their way. But Caroline is in a nasty mood, saying she hates putting stuff together and interviewing that this was her worst nightmare. She needs worse nightmares, then. But she's at a loss, and everyone can see it.