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
And Mark is trying to get their driver to take them back, frustrated that the driver can't speak English and Mallory doesn't seem to be helping much. They're still there when Dave & Connor show up, and they didn't see the bag back at the Roadblock either. Mallory is working the entire street, both trying to get them back and loudly making sure that everyone knows Mark left his backpack and that it's not her fault. Dave & Connor get their Detour clue in third place. Finally Mark & Mallory get in a cab at least, angry and frustrated with each other as Mallory continues to maintain that she's sorry, but it's not her fault, and if it were her backpack she would go without it. Easy for her to say.
After the ads, they're still locked in recriminations over who left the backpack, and Mark asks if Mallory really expects him to wear the same clothes for 23 days. It's true that backpacks have been lost before, and there were those seasons when people who came in last for non-elimination legs would have to hand Phil their backpacks, but I don't remember it ever happening to anyone this early. Mallory claims she would do it, and in a post-leg solo interview, Mark reminds us, "Listen, I don't have a lot of money." In other words, he's not in a position where he can just abandon stuff like that. And Mallory solo-interviews, "I guess it just shows that some things matter more to some people." Amazing how she can make such a non-statement sound so obnoxious. Back in the cab, Mallory tells Mark that people will give him clothes, and Mark says it's not even his backpack. Mallory rolls her entire head like he's being so unreasonable and offers to buy him a new one. "We're gonna lose the whole race because of this." In his post-leg interview, Mark reiterates, "I don't have the means she has. I'm not nothing to her. How can I communicate with her?" He holds up two hands at two different levels like thought you couldn't imagine it.
Margie and Luke's cab brings them to what a subtitle tells us is Liwanhu Park. Margie reminds us that they're better at physical challenges, and soon they're in the busy area of the park where the many Featherball circles are. We get to watch this ancient game being played by some pretty ancient players, including one ringer who likes to pull his shirt over his head and then kick the ball blindly but accurately back into the circle from behind his back. From the clue, Margie reads that they have to find one of the teams that are playing with a red-and-yellow featherball, and that they can hit it with any part of their body save their arms or hands. They get right into it, joining a group near a tree, and this is clearly something that's going to take a little getting the hang of. Margie's not feeling patient right now, though; when Luke misses a kick, she tells him to pay attention. Then he kicks it right between her feet and says it right back to her. She had that coming.