Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno, Episode 10 – Hail to the Hero

Time elapsed: 5:36. Remember when I said to get the red pen? Look at what you marked down. Dave said they had five minutes. Veronica: "I [bleeping] hate you!" Is it wrong of me to want Katie's cord to break, and for Veronica to break the fall? Shut up, Veronica. Holly in an interview: "Katie's time is not good for our team." Veronica: "What the [bleep] are you doing?!?" Finally, with 10:38 elapsed, Katie jumps. Cut back to a blurred, wavy Leah. Katie gets uncuffed. Elapsed time: 12:27. "Real World is stoked, because we know we won," Julie interviews, basically all eyes and teeth. "All we gotta do is wait for Leah to come down, and even if she takes a minute, it's gonna be okay, because we're gonna win."

On the platform, Leah gasps, collapsing into the arms of a production guy. He says that Leah is going down... via the elevator. On the ground, Coral cheers Leah on, not knowing of the drama. Leah lies down, gasping, squealing and crying. She still can't feel her hands. This is every bit as painful to watch as Coral's allergic reaction from last season. Various production guys attend to her as she gasps.

After the commercials, Leah is still gasping, getting carried away by one of the guys. Coral goes to her side. With tubes up her nose, Leah cries that she wants to jump. Darrell comes over, interviewing that he doesn't know what's going on. Leah hyperventilates, and Darrell wipes the drool off her mouth with his shirt. Leah gets on a stretcher and is loaded into an ambulance, with Coral riding with her. See, this is the Coral I like. This wipes out the bad vibes I felt towards her last week.

Dave fills everybody in on what happened. Leah will be disqualified, and receives the worst time logged, plus a five minute penalty, for a total of 17:27. "I feel bad for her," Shane interviews, "but I thank God for my team, because Real World was kicking our ass." Dave adds that they're going to finish the mission. "Let's see some smiles," he adds. Shut up. I miss Jonny Moseley. Julie: "It is such a bummer when you can taste victory, and you know you're going to win, and it just gets ripped out of your hands because Katie jumps and Leah doesn't!" Julie has a point, but she's smiling through the whole interview. Julie can shut up as well.

David interviews that he wants the Aztec Lifesaver. He somersaults off, with CT cheering him on. Final time: 0:40. "Every single mission I have, I had to undo a carabiner," David interviews. "If the Inferno has carabiners, I'm going home."

A nervous Darrell gets ready. "Today, I gotta bungee-jump handcuffed, pull some Houdini stunts," he interviews. "You ever see a black Houdini? No!" He voiceovers that he's trying to conquer his fear of heights. Are we still on that? He jumps, finishing at 0:22. Holly jumps. Her time: 0:17. Veronica yells that Holly did better than her. Shane jumps, the rope banging his head on the bounce up. It looks like he was perilously close to getting strangled by the cord. His time: 0:20. "In the Inferno, it's game time," he interviews while lying down. "This was the appe-teaser. Now it's time for the real meal."

Dave announces the final times: RR 18:07, RR 17:07. In other word, Katie's extended freak-out made Leah's freak-out even worse. If Katie had been disqualified, like she should have been, RW would have won. Instead, RR profits from the one person most of them cannot stand. Dave gives the win to RR, and there is subdued applause. "I'm glad that we won," Veronica interviews, "but I'm really not too happy that we won because the other team got a disqualification over a mental health thing." Dave hands the Aztec Lifesavers to CT and Holly. Syrus says that RW only has $30,000 (to RR's $70,000), and they're getting their butts kicked.

Hospital. Leah is in bed with Coral by her side. Leah interviews that she can't control her anxiety, and she feels bad because it affected her teammates. Coral asks the doctor if Leah can go to bed at the Villa. The doctor prescribes something to help Leah sleep. Coral wheels Leah out of the hospital.

Thirty minutes before the Inferno. CT and David decide to swap clothes. Must be a Boston thing. CT figures that the Inferno will depend on how David performs. He foreshadows, "Honestly, I want Dave to stay no matter what." The fellas whoop it up. "There's nothing I'm really not afraid of," David interviews, "but I don't wanna eat bugs."

Inferno site. Slow-motion walking. David sees milk and cookies, and he's not happy. Dave welcomes everybody to Don't Toss Your Cookies. David explains that both players drink whole milk and eat cookies, then spin around on a turntable for ten minutes. The first person to throw up loses. As if I can't hate Shane any more than I already do, he's wearing the "Where's Rachel" t-shirt. I hate her, and I hate him. "Going into the Inferno, I feel the best I've ever felt," Shane interviews. "I honestly feel like I'm going to win. David's not a competitor. There's nothing fearsome or competitive about him." Time out. Has Shane never seen David's season? David was a rough-houser back then. I don't care how weak his stomach is or how sore his body can get. Bottom line: I would not want to mess with David.

Dave goes through the motions, asking Holly if she wants to use the Aztec Lifesaver to take Shane's place, but she has faith in his eating ability. Dave asks CT the same question. CT says that he sat on the AL twice already, but he never had somebody close to him go into the Inferno. He interviews that David has a weak stomach. CT declares that he will take David's place. "That's a MAN!" David shouts. "Bye, Shane!" Poor sportsmanship? Yeah. Much deserved? And how! Shane interviews that he's not afraid of David, but CT intimidates him. You smell that, Shane? It's a big plate of comeuppance. Hope you like the taste.