Babatunde quickly loses patience with Alex
After arriving in the lab, Babatunde reaches for the task brief, but Alex instructs him not to touch it yet. When the air rocket then fires, it doesn’t take the envelope with it, and so the task brief remains on the launchpad.
Having read the task brief, Babatunde immediately picks up the air rocket from the floor and puts it in his pocket, but Alex tells him it’s not a rocket, but a “tube”. Babatunde then asks Alex whether the red cap at the top of the air rocket is a rocket, but is informed that none of its parts are rockets.
When Babatunde then asks where the actual rocket is, Alex simply responds with “Yes”. Babatunde then repeats the question more slowly, but gets the same answer from Alex in response, much to his annoyance.
In the studio, Greg suggests to Babatunde that perhaps he doesn’t know what a rocket is. When Babatunde says something vague about “the space people” having rockets, Greg apologises, stating that he didn’t know that Babatunde had a degree. This prompts Babatunde to subtly threaten Greg with physical violence, which Greg finds “exhilarating”, after he figures out what Babatunde was suggesting.
Back in the lab, Babatunde continues to try to get a straight answer from Alex on where the rocket is, and Alex continues to be unhelpful, much to his frustration. He then seems to realise that he can leave the room to look for rockets elsewhere.
Babatunde heads to the living room, where he looks under the table, before finding a print-out of half of a rocket underneath one of the legs of the table. He then spots something inside the model of the orca at the back of the room, and pulls out the modelling clay rocket hidden inside the creature, before placing it in his pocket.
When Alex asks him to confirm where the rocket was, Babatunde says it was in the orca, but then decides the say “killer whale” instead, because it sounds more “gangster”.
In the studio, Greg acknowledges that Babatunde does know what a rocket is, and that he’d found it quickly, before labelling orcas “the gangsters of the sea” (thus coining the episode title).
Alex reveals that Babatunde had put a rocket in his pocket after 5 minutes and 52 seconds.
After Rosie’s and Jack’s solutions to the task are shown, and Andy takes exception to their solutions based on the wording of the task brief, Greg asks Babatunde whether he thinks the pair should be disqualified. Babatunde decides to defer his judgment on this until after he’s heard how quickly they’d completed the task. Once he discovers that they were both quicker than him, he decides to back Andy’s argument that a bag or handful of rocket leaves does not constitute “a rocket”.
Greg ultimately rules that he is going to allow Rosie’s and Jack’s solutions, noting that he might not have done so if it weren’t for Andy’s objection. Babatunde therefore earns 3 points.
(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)
(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)
