Needle Drop. The build team gets this assignment to see if several suggested methods of keeping the needles on a live tree (or at least, a formerly live tree) will work. Let’s face it – the primary reason that fake trees have taken off is that we all hate cleaning up all the needles that end up on the ground during the time that the tree is up! So without further ado, the team splits up to make it happen.
Kari is given the task of building Needle Catchers. These are simple wooden structures that will collect the needles as they fall from the trees, so that they can be compared to see which methods work and which ones don’t. After she builds the first, she says, quite clearly, “one down, nine to go”. Remember that. It will be useful. Meanwhile, Grant and Tory head to the tree farm, where after taking out the sign to the entrance, they load up eight trees in the truck. That’s right – they have eight trees, there are eight tests, but either Kari has been mistakenly told she needs to build ten catchers, or she simply can’t count to eight. You figure it out. Either way, something is amiss.
