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TAR8 EP2~"How Do We Know We Aren't Going To Get Shot?"

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gingerman28:
Between watching the Redskins win, the Bosox win, and my man Dale Jarret win (how about them apples, Puddin?) I have been working on a time line.

If the teams arrived at the first pit stop between 3 and 5PM on the 8th, they would be leaving between 3 and 5 AM on the 9th  This is assuming that the normal and traditional 12 hour mandatory rest period is in effect.  It is about a 32 minute drive from the Pit Stop outside Lancaster to the Shoe House in Hallam, PA (that is assuming again that the teams can read a simple map) But we see the teams there in daylight so perhaps we have a typical bunch point waiting for the place to open at 6AM or 7AM. Once they get the clue it is no more than an hour's drive for the 53 miles to Frederick, MD and the Monocacy Battlefield. So they could arrive there by 8 or 9AM. Say it takes two hours to complete the Detour Task then they would be finished by 10 or 11AM. It is another 40 miles to the center of Washington DC but with traffic what it is on Interstate 270 and the infamous Beltway lets say it takes them an hour to make the trip.  This would put them at the Capitol location between 11AM and Noon. This matches the shadows we have for the Washington Roadblock task.

I have gut feeling that the line "Drive yourselves to Washington DC" had been lifted and inserted in scene of teams leaving the Shoe House and is typical CBS misdikrection.  It does not make sense to drive past Monocacy to Washington and then back to Monocacy. And the shadows seem to be mid morning rather than late afternoon.

puddin:
Fantastic Gman , nicely layed out ..I also agree that the Rolly Weaver kid had the " ..Washington DC inserted by the TAR Webmonkeys  .
oh and WHHooHOO for DALE  {**} ..I love the Old Time Drivers  |#'

puddin:

Chateau d If:
I think you're right Puddin.

And they are on a highway (not freeway) heading out into the country.



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gingerman28:
To me that looks like a folder of some sort not a briefcase.

Just to muddle things up some more:

Look at the map - the direct road from York, PA to Frederick, MD passes right through Gettysburg.  What if they are told to go to Gettysburg but actually are led on to Monocacy without telling the teams that they were actually in a different location? It is just a short jump down the road. Certainly the majority of people in the audience have heard of Gettysburg, but how many out there have ever heard of the Battle of Monocacy which happened a year later? (We here in the Washington area are well aware of the battle since it was the last time the South had a chance to invade Washington DC.) At least in Monocacy there were re-enacters already on hand July 9th. The field covered in the aerial shot does not seem to be in the Gettysburg Battlefield area at all.

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