Andy seriously overthinks the task

Having read the task brief, Andy reasons that the locket isn’t necessarily in one of Alex’s pockets. He asks Alex if there are clues in his pockets, but Alex claims that “All I do is spin around.”

Removing his helmet and gloves, Andy observes Alex and notes that there appear to be pieces of paper in some of his pockets. When Alex asks if he’s ‘peeking’, Andy argues that he is “overviewing”, and that ‘peeking’ would be looking into a specific pocket.

Andy then leaves the lab for several minutes, and returns with an L-shaped piece of wood in his hand, which he has removed from the statue of Greg in the garden. However, Alex points out that it isn’t a locket, and hadn’t come from a pocket.

Andy decides to pick one of Alex’s pockets, and finds the image of Richard Herring on a red fish. He then picks more pockets and finds one of the rockets, and the jar of Chinese Five Spice (in response to which Alex says “That’s the spice for me”).

Andy then decides to again seek an alternative solution to the task, and so leaves the lab again, returning with a pineapple and some string. When Alex asks if it was in a pocket, Andy suggests that perhaps he could put it in a pocket. However, he then hands the pineapple to Alex and picks another of his pockets.

After finding the small container full of milk, he offers it to Alex, who reminds him that his time is running out. Andy then begins to pat Alex down, prompting Alex to point out that it “feels like you’re tampering”.

Andy finds the rubber duck in one of Alex’s pockets, and then decides to quit the task, telling Alex that “lockets are passe”, before leaving the lab.

In the studio, Greg summarises Andy’s attempt as “He picked about four or five pockets, he tried to redefine what a locket is.”

Andy reveals that he’d tried to find the nearest available snooker club, so he could check whether any of the snooker table pockets might have contained packets of Lockets. He also shares his frustration that he’d apparently almost solved the task in the first seconds (presumably he had checked his pockets, but this wasn’t obvious from the footage shown).

For failing to find the locket, Andy is disqualified, and earns zero points.

(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)