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Looked up this online for you. Season 2, Episode 13. Wikipedia's summary in spoilers in case others here haven't seen Season 2's episodes:

Why two weeks? When did Sai find a second idol?

Smart to take Charity out first. A member of the big numbers tribe left and a real snake type. Yes it would have been funny if Sai's vote for vengeance against her own protector had lead to her demise. But Charity was the big shit stirrer. Besides I'd guess most people watching want Sai out and she does crazy things like vote against said protector so she makes a perfect villain for this season. Certainly more entertaining than Charity. Points for the kindness of Star but man, Cedric (spelling dif but I can't remember it), can you do ANYTHING well on Survivor? He was as useless as a sack of rocks in that challenge. PS: Loved Eva's comment in the voting both: "Why does everything look like garlic?"

Scott was never a villain in the least. He was a sweet guy. I'm going to knock him. He burned the express pass last leg. If he hadn't he still would have been double u-turned no matter what. You can't keep coming in first and NOT be targeted. And Phil said at the beginning they were doing all the stupid reality show artificial gadget junk in this Race and the u-turn is the most stupid of them so of course it was coming up and of course you save the express pass for it. But dingbat here didn't. So he didn't have it to skip the coconut part of the detour. He is an idiot as well as being a bully. (I never had heat exhaustion but I do horribly in heat. And I had heat stroke once and never thought to be rude to anyone when I was out of it). I agree totally, completely 100%. It was the crown jewel. It was truly AMAZING back then. "This is a Race like none other in history. This is The AMAZING Race" was Phil's voiceover to the opening credits on Season 1. And so it was. But now it is just a mere race like any other. And full of so much artificial junk to not even make it a race based on some sort of skill level. What next? Hidden immunity idols on every leg for the team that finds them preventing them from being eliminated? It is turning into Survivor quickly. Sad, sad, sad.

How many episodes are left this season?

You found a very good tell for sure with this show. If you look at an hour long whodunit it is is only 42 minutes of actual material because of endless commercials. That means the writers can only shoehorn so many characters into a show with that limit. First I look at what characters early on were not really needed. Like one show (forget which series) had a brother with his mother when she learns her other son was killed. There was no real dramatic reason for that "brother" character to have to be there. It could have been just the mother being told. So of course it was the brother that was the murderer. Those are the easy ones. What they often try to do is have a red herring. But as soon as the good guy team starts to seem sure one of the people is the guilty party and it is only a half hour into the show that kind of gives away that suspect was only the red herring so it was the only other person left as a possibility at that point. I never read detective novels but my mother liked them. A novel can actually make you guess based on actual clues. A TV show is more a deconstruction of script, seemingly unnecessary characters at the time and the time factor of the show itself. Well unless it is "Murder, She Wrote" where Jessica Fletcher figured out whodunit about 10 minutes before the hour when someone says some stray phrase that causes her light bulb to go on. Stray phrases are hard to anticipate in advance. (Yes I've been watching some of these shows in syndication and Angela Lansbury was an absolute delight so who cares whodunit in the end).

I liked the character. And the writers made her unhinged. She never acted that way until they started the b-o-r-i-n-g (especially the endless Tony undercover dating the daughter) season-long plot from hell that never made any sense at all. But NCIS writers tended to mis-write for women on the show a lot. I will never forgive them for turning Ziva into a victim type near the end. Let us hope the NCIS Origin writers are better at handling female characters. The Tish story line seemed well done. And Mary last week. But the whole Lala thing could be a disaster waiting to happen. We will see.

Next to impossible to see a mic. In fact I don't know whether Ive ever spotted one. They are very well hidden. It is what dgpolo said above. It's the battery packs you can sometimes spot.

If that was the case they would have brought it up in the episode. Instead they made it pretty clear she had to raise the children on her own when he left. No comment about something tragic about the kids at all. 🤷‍♂️ And there would be no mention of the children in the current day divorce papers since all the children were grown adults at that point.

This was a powerful episode. I really liked it AND am extremely grateful it was wrapped up in one episode and not dragged on endlessly for the rest of the season like original NCIS used to do at times. Like when they screwed the character of Jenny over completely and made her look like she was totally unhinged in her endless revenge storyline. I could see most of the people this episode. Maybe they finally bought some decent lighting for the show.

It's okay to do stuff like this on a TV show. TV shows aren't about how much something costs They are all about story. The kiln was used for humor and the restaurant was to show bonding finally happening.

Yes the Racers have their own battery pack (you can see it sometimes at waist level in the small of their back) and a mic on them. Been that way since Episode 1 of Season 1. An Ode to the Forgotten Hero of TAR - The Soundman The soundman is totally essential but he is NOT recording the Racers. He has a boon mic and records the people they interact with and ambient sounds. He also is the one that carries the cell phone to phone ahead to the set-up and camera teams at the various detours, roadblocks etc to alert them a team is coming in and to get ready. Same thing for the pit stop. Phil and the Local Greeter don't stand around on the mat all day waiting. They wait for the alert form the soundman's phone that a team or teams are arriving very soon. (And no, the teams can never use that phone themselves). The phone is also to call in the trailing private security team if real trouble arises like in Season 3 in Morocco when the cop and fireman team got taken out of town by a cabbie to a sketchy village where the mayor was demanding their passports. Security intervened and problem solved. The soundman also carries the permission slips people Racers talk to on the street or in a cab need to sign that allows CBS to show their faces on TV. He helps explain the reason to the locals. A few times you will see someone's face pixelated. They didn't sign a slip and are close enough to get in the frame but don't want their image seen on TV. The soundman is also the eyes of the cameraman when the cameraman is walking backwards filming a team head on. The cameraman can't see behind where he is stepping or where a curb is or if he is about to bump into somebody after all. The soundman also usually carries extra batteries for the camera or did in the early days. Don't know how long the more modern batteries last on a leg. Huzzah to the Soundmen of TAR!

Not only did she say Eva earned it by solving the puzzle but also she said in a confessional she had autistic family members. So emotionally she started feeling a lot closer to Eva. So there was an emotional bond created that transcended the mere game for her it seems. And I applaud it. It's nice when people like Joe and her see the bigger picture in life.

The Utah couple and Team Green Shirts agreed to that and assumed Jonathan & Ana (can't even remember her name) would join in with that scenario because the three teams were pretty friendly with each other they were saying. So they never mentioned it to Jonathan & Ana, just assumed it and you know what they say about assuming. Still I'd be pissed too. You can't get all the teams eliminated on one leg and to screw around with lead teams you had good relationships with and that you knew would still arrive way before The Screamer and Her Victim Team was ludicrous. They gave Screamer 25 lbs too and since they were last to leave to start with it was obvious they would be out of the Race. Also I want to commend Rodney here for not only knowing the names of the team eliminated but also who was yelling at whom over whatever. I never bothered to tell them apart. I just knew one was an annoying screamer always yelling at the quiet one and I wanted them eliminated as a result.

Mitch is the ONLY person on that tribe that gets anything done in the challenges. He is incredible. He had to get all three balls in that net thing himself. Nobody else came close. Heck, Cedrek managed to shoot his ball backwards. And about Cedrek. Why didn't he vote out Sai? He could have had a nice group of three other people to work with instead of a woman who plans to kick him to the curb as soon as she can. He doesn't read people at all if he doesn't know Sai is big time pissed at him already. And since he didn't tell her about this vote beforehand and he obviously told her most recent nemesis, Chrissy, she will now be big time double pissed at him. Good for Mary getting to celebrate a win. Bad on Sai for being a sore loser. Hey, Sai, you were the one who had to bail out once and then the second try you failed too. You cost your team the loss. And of course if Sai didn't go all diva and demand to "rest" at the super easy reward challenge; she could have sat out the immunity challenge instead. The one she screwed up.