Joanne catches a fish

After trying to reel in the line using the fishing rod, which causes a giant mess of string spinning around the spool of the rod, Joanne gets interrupted by soundman Neil, who attaches the sign to her back.

Joanne then opens the hutch door and finds the mannequin inside, but she quickly notices that the string isn’t connected to it, nor anything else inside the hutch, so she moves on.

When Joanne asks Alex how she will know when she’s found out what she has caught, he merely reiterates that only one answer may be given. Joanne then enters the dome and wonders out loud if she’s caught a fish.

Joanne then heads inside the house and notices a fabric fish inside the lab, which she assumes is “a natural choice”. When Alex, again, reiterates only that she can give just one answer, and asks whether a fish is her final one, she tells him that it isn’t yet. Some time later, she finally locks in her answer as “a fish”, before telling Alex that the task felt impossible.

In the studio, Joanne is baffled that she had used the same strategy as Steve, stating that she envisions him as a “MacGyver meets Steven Spielberg” type of person, and yet both of them had ended up just chasing the string. Steve reveals that although he was trying to follow the string back to its source, it hadn’t worked for him, as the string had broken as he’d pulled on it. Joanne states that she felt like it was a boring task.

It is revealed that Joanne had first said “a fish” about three minutes into her attempt, but had not given it as her final answer until 18 minutes and 20 seconds. Despite not actually finding the fish at the end of the line, her guess is accepted as valid, and Joanne is awarded 3 points.

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

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)