Mirna Goes-o Nutso
Updated 2007-03-02 16:00:00
The teams hop from Ecuador to Peru, starting with a pretty diabolical Roadblock that separates the sharp-eyed (Dustin) from the half-blind (Joyce) from the incredibly lucky (Mary). By the time this happens, David is already pissed off at Kevin and Drew because Drew (in grumpy Everything Hurts mode) hauled their backpacks out of first class storage, so when Mary sings out her answer in obvious earshot of Kevin, David decides this is clearly Kevin's fault. Meanwhile, David and Mary just lurve Mirna and Charla, meaning their taste in people is officially backwards. The teams bunch up again on the way to the Detour, a bunch during which Rob gets a little shirty with Eric and Amber eye-rolls at her husband and calls him out in such a way that it totally gives one hope for her, and he takes it in a winkingly faux-pissed-off way that might even give one hope for him. But that would be a lot of hope to muster. The Detour gives an opportunity for more bunching, and for Mary to scream at David some more, criticize everything he says some more, be wrong some more, and cause her team to fall behind some more. Also, Mirna and Charla are freaking the hell out. On a long car ride through the desert, all kinds of things happen. The BQs wind up behind Charla and Mirna, who have paid a cabbie to follow, but nevertheless proceed to totally lose it over the fact that the BQs are in turn following them. When the cabbie pulls over, the BQs get out, thinking they might be able to cooperate in getting things going, and while they immediately offer collaboration, Mirna and Charla start shrieking at them about how if they don't pay half, then they're all just going to sit here. To put it plainly, the BQs are like, "Whatever, crazies," and they get back in their car and go. They really don't need to follow that badly, and they get going. Mary also turns viciously on Mirna and Charla after they don't act like "friends," in that they pass her in their car. Mirna and Charla reveal that they hate being passed and they hate being followed, which means that they apparently intend for people behind them to just go away and go be on some other show. Somewhere along the line, Kevin and Drew begin to lose it -- starting back at the pit stop, where Kevin tows the truck out of the ditch (!) and then almost gets run over by Drew (!!) -- and by the time they're on that car ride, they're on the edge of disaster. They miss a critical instruction regarding the speed limit and they miss the directions, and the net result of these mistakes is that they're booted, and Drew has to take a rather heartbreaking moment alone before he can even return to the mat to be Philiminated. Drew explains that he's got a million things going on, and between the pain, the meds, and the exhaustion, it's been incredibly uncomfortable. It's a bummer for them, mostly because the spirit was willing and the flesh was totally uncooperative, but at least they can go recover in Sequesterville. This cannot have been what they wanted, but it just wasn't meant to be this time around. Adios, boys. Oh, and Rob and Amber win the leg -- again.