Lloyd is on a horse
Lloyd enters the study and greets Tom Cashman by saying “Tilapia”. He then picks up the task brief and taps the sugar and cocoa off of it, before pretending to chop up the powders on the table with the envelope as if they were drugs.
After reading the task brief, Lloyd asks Tom what the likelihood is of getting some real horses for his attempt. While Tom responds that the chances are relatively low, the two men are then immediately seen sat on horseback outside.
Both men are holding tablets, using which they are playing a game of chess online. Lloyd explains that the game is the same as normal chess, except they are on horseback and, if the real horse moves, you have to move the “horse character" (knight) on the board.
Lloyd’s horse then immediately moves, so Tom checks with him that he is then required to move his knight on the next move. Lloyd confirms this, but points out that the player with the white saddle goes first.
As they play their game, Tom’s horse does not move, but Lloyd’s keeps moving constantly, leading Lloyd to point out that it’s going to be a horse-based game for him. Tom’s horse then moves over to the very edge of the field, while Lloyd is unable to get his own horse to move again.
Lloyd then suggests they just abandon the game of chess, as the horses apparently just want to hang out together.
When the time runs out, Tom doesn’t want to blow his whistle as he normally would, since he’s scared as to how the horses might react.
In the studio, Lloyd confirms he doesn’t know how to ride a horse, and that the “horse women” had told him they didn’t need to wear helmets. Tom Gleeson notes that they had definitely been playing chess, and that not wearing a helmet was also pretty cool.
Lloyd jokes that after they’d ridden the horses, they’d then both “got off” with the “horse ladies”. In response, Anne laughs and claims that she’d gotten off with the horse.
Tom awards Lloyd 4 points.
(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by JoGo and adjusted by Karl Craven)
