Lars leaves the lab

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Lars immediately decides to trust Olli, and not open the task brief. He leaves the lab and returns with another pot of coffee and two mugs, and just hangs out with Olli for a while. However, he is disappointed that he can't get a conversation flowing with Olli, who he has known since they were at school together. After 17 minutes, he leaves the lab, and doesn't return again until the timer reads 1 hour, 43 minutes, and 24 seconds (it's unclear what happened in the interim, but it seems very unlikely that the production crew just stood their waiting for him to return for almost an hour and a half). He decides to open the task brief, and then immediately regrets his decision. However, he finds a way to hold the coffee pots up with his elbows on top of the microwaves, which makes it significantly easier. He decides to put the coffee pots down after about 1 hour and 51 minutes. In the studio, he remains unsure whether he'd done the right thing, apparently anticipating being caught out by some rule that would mean he'd be disqualified. However, Bård assures him that he'd successfully completed the task, and initially awards him first place. However, after the subsequent 'Do something better' task, in which Hani chose to redo her attempt at this task, and Bård allowed her improved attempt to apply retroactively, Lars' ranking in this task dropped down to second.

(Written by Karl Craven)