Oversight: Ben Hagen and Isabel Marx last called their parents from Bogota, Colombia six days ago. The next day, they missed their flight off the continent. No one's heard from them since.
Mac: What did the State Department say?
Oversight: That they won't launch an official search.
Bozer: Won't? Why?
Matty: Because right before Ben and Isabel disappeared, they told their friends they were participating in something called a No-Go Challenge.
Oversight: It's a scavenger hunt, known mainly in the backpacking community, where you go to dangerous places so you can do even more dangerous things when you get there.
Mac: What did the State Department say?
Oversight: That they won't launch an official search.
Bozer: Won't? Why?
Matty: Because right before Ben and Isabel disappeared, they told their friends they were participating in something called a No-Go Challenge.
Oversight: It's a scavenger hunt, known mainly in the backpacking community, where you go to dangerous places so you can do even more dangerous things when you get there.
A young couple go missing while on a "no-go" challenge. The State Department won't help as the couple ignored warnings, so Oversight asks Phoenix to help. Following the couple's footsteps leads the team to uncover something much bigger.
Tropes:
- Commonality Connection: Oversight decides to help after seeing Ben's parents' appeal for news of their son. As a father whose son regularly goes into danger, he sympathises.
- Hypocritical Humor: When a challenge to find something in a football stadium leads to Bozer finding an airhorn.Bozer: They should be outlawed. Nothing more distracting to the players of this beautiful game.
Riley: Don't you have one of these in your room?
Bozer: Two, actually. But it's okay to use 'em when the other team has the ball. - Lured into a Trap: The No-Go challenge turns out to be a plot to lure healthy young people into isolated spots where they can be captured and sold into slavery under circumstances where their governments won't help as they ignored official warnings to do the challenge.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Subverted as kidnapping isn't a minor crime, but the team's investigation exposes a major people-trafficking operation.
- Noodle Incident: Mac and Desi are adamant that doing one stupid thing shouldn't cost Ben and Isabel their lives, which leads to a discussion of stupid things they've done.
- Whatever Mac did with a camel in Tangiers when he was 22.
- Desi once hiked in the crater of an active volcano.
- Mac once almost died after eating a Carolina Reaper chili.
- Desi swam in -25 degree shark-infested waters with no wetsuit.
- Portmanteau: Discussed when it's suggested that Mac and Desi might have some sparks.Bozer: Mac plus Desi equals "Messy."
Riley: Actually, Mac plus Desi equals... "Mesi."
Bozer: Don't nitpick, okay? You get my point. - Scavenger Hunt: The No-Go challenge has clues leading players through dangerous areas across the world. One clue leads to Mac climbing an electrical tower, to his displeasure.
- Too Dumb to Live: Discussed by Mac and Desi.Desi: I'm glad they're sending us. I mean, kids do stupid things. They don't deserve to lose their life for it.
Mac: I've certainly done my fair share.
Desi: Like steal the French president's limousine, or... ?
Mac: At least that served a purpose. I'm talking about monumental stupidity that accomplished absolutely nothing.
Desi: Idiocy of a higher order. - Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ben and Isabel's chosen challenge involves climbing an electrical tower. Evidently Tyler doesn't share Mac's fear of heights.
