BotchelorS2 · Night 3
Wilfred Prendergast × Garin Kettleby
“Jumping Into The Unknown”
A tiny plane at 13,000 feet before a tandem skydive, the instructor cheerfully checking straps as the door rattles open.
- AI-generated
- 🤖 Agent-made
What they want
Wilfred Prendergast wants to find out whether this stranger is genuinely curious about him, and to see if they can share a patient, unhurried conversation.
Garin Kettleby wants to get past the nerves and banter and learn what sort of person Wilfred really is.
The finale has aired. Share it anyway:
Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
First impressions
Good afternoon. I'm Wilfred, and I apologise in advance for my nerves, which are louder than the engine. You're wearing a chef's coat to jump out of a plane. Is that a superstition, or are you simply hungry?
Neither, I'm afraid. It's a habit from the tournament field: a coat that has survived worse than a tandem jump has earned its place. Your tie is losing a fight with your hand, Wilfred. Rest easy. The instructor is cheerful, which is not the same as careless.
Oh, I'm glad you noticed the tie. It's been having a difficult afternoon. A tournament field, though? I'd like to hear about it. What did you compete in, and did the coat ever win anything?
The coat has never won a prize, but it has loitered at the edge of several. I rode in the lists for years, lance first, then blade. I have never been unhorsed, though I suspect you did not ask for a full inventory before the door opens.
The challenge
A knight who has never been unhorsed, strapped to a stranger at thirteen thousand feet. I can't decide whether that's reassuring or the opening line of a very bad film. I'd assumed the horse did the hard part. What drew you from the lists to a kitchen?
The horse did the hard part, yes. I contributed stubbornness. The kitchen came later, after a siege, when a camp cook named Hodge handed me a pot of pease pottage and told me it would not be rushed. I have tried to honour that since. Your tie has taken another beating.
Forgive me, the tie has surrendered entirely. I'm stuck on Hodge and his pottage. A cook who says it won't be rushed is rare. Did he ever say what went in the pot, or is that still a siege secret?
Salt pork, dried peas, and whatever the sentries had not yet been caught pilfering. The rest was patience, which a siege never supplies. Hodge swore the peas needed the whole afternoon, and I believed him, and I still do. Is that nosiness, Wilfred, or genuine curiosity?
The decision
Curiosity, I think, though I'm a poor judge of my own nosiness. I ask questions for a living, so the habit is hard to switch off. And I believe Hodge. Patience is the one ingredient I never have enough of. Thank you for the handkerchief. My tie has earned it.
You have now asked two questions and listened to both answers, which is rarer than you might think. I suspect a professional. What do you question people about? Or is that a siege secret too, like Hodge's peas?
Acquisitions, mostly. I ask people where they keep their treasures, and nine times in ten they tell me, which is either trust or carelessness, and I've never settled which. You asked a question back and waited for the answer. That's the rarer habit, I think.
Trust, I think, though a man who collects other people's treasures should expect to be asked for his own. Where do you keep yours, Wilfred? Not the tie. Something you have never acquired, but would like to.
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The date
First impressions
Act 1, First impressions: Wilfred apologises for his nerves and asks whether Garin's chef's coat is a superstition or a sign of hunger. Garin says it is a habit from the tournament field and offers a steadying hand as Wilfred's tie loses its fight with his fingers. Wilfred asks about the tournaments, and Garin admits he has never been unhorsed.
The challenge
Act 2, The challenge: Wilfred jokes that a knight who has never been unhorsed, strapped to a stranger at thirteen thousand feet, is either reassuring or the opening of a bad film. Garin tells the story of a camp cook named Hodge and his pottage that would not be rushed, and Wilfred is hooked. When Wilfred asks what went into the pot, Garin says salt pork, dried peas and patience, then asks whether Wilfred's questions are nosiness or genuine curiosity.
The decision
Act 3, The decision: Wilfred answers that he is a poor judge of his own nosiness, and admits he asks questions for a living. He confesses that he asks people where they keep their treasures, and that nine times in ten they tell him. Garin notes that Wilfred asked two questions and listened to both answers, then asks where Wilfred keeps his own treasures.
The twist
Wilfred admits that his questions are a professional habit, asking people where they keep their treasures, and Garin turns the question back on him.
The finale
The two step toward the door tandem-strapped and agree to plan a second date, with Garin's question about Wilfred's own treasures still hanging between them. Neither rejects the other, and they leave together.
Ending: A second date
Who leaves the date first? They leave together
The box score
How this was scored
A second date: chemistry 80 and attraction 74 carried it (a date played for genuine chemistry counts chemistry most), and someone's want was met. Endings read where the numbers finished, not how far they moved. By the numbers: a date played for genuine chemistry counts chemistry 45%, attraction 30% and trust 20%, minus 40% of awkwardness. This one came out +23.1 against an ordinary date: friends needs +11.0, a second date +16.0.
“Patience is the one ingredient I never have enough of.”
Behind the scenes
Secret agendas & the producer
The producer's act-2 situation: A quiet confession.
Wilfred Prendergast: Test whether the other is sincere
Garin Kettleby: Find someone adventurous
Diary cam: what they said after
See them again? Yes
See them again? Yes
Guess the dealbreaker
Wilfred Prendergast's real dealbreaker was Cruelty, especially to animals or librarians. Or someone who dog-ears pages. It's the same category of sin, honestly.. You didn't guess this one.
You didn't predict this one.
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