Get a Clue

'''It's crime-solving time on set as the cast participates in three mystery-themed challenges. As one castmate starts to apply herself, another castmate continues to be fed up with them. As a result, these two find themselves butting heads quite often. To make matters worse, the host is found dead on set and the murderer seems to be amongst them. In the end, someone wins a reward and uses it to make someone else jealous.'''

Plot
The episode opens with the castmates eating "breakfast tacos" in the craft services tent as they discuss how Chef has truly run out of ideas for breakfast foods. Harold bites onto something unusual in his breakfast, which turns out to be a flash drive. Beth suggests putting it into Courtney's personal digital assistant to find out what information it holds, but an annoyed Courtney tells Beth that her PDA isn't going anywhere near it. Duncan grabs it, and then reminds her that if she wants to win she'll have to play along. She concedes, and the device is inserted into her PDA. It shows a video of Chris subtly giving the castmates clues to use to open a safe. Lindsay suspects that Chris is dead, since Chris mentions that he was on "cloud nine," and goes on to say that since the common thing to do with dead people is bury them, they should start to dig. Courtney eventually figures out what the clues actually mean, and leads the castmates to the safe from Ocean's Eight - Or Nine. Using the numbers that Chris said in his video, Courtney opens the safe, which Chris is inside of. Chris thanks the castmates for freeing him, with something in his mouth. He claims it's chewing tobacco, but then admits that he was joking and told them it was black licorice, which he spits out. Courtney then demands a prize from Chris, but Chris says that he never said this was the challenge, and simply thanks Courtney for freeing him.

Chris then explains to the castmates that throughout the day, they need to collect DNA samples from their fellow castmates. They then leave to start the challenge. Lindsay and Courtney are shown getting into an argument, which Courtney resolves by offering Lindsay a spa treatment. Courtney then tricks Lindsay into giving her a DNA sample. Duncan is then shown leaving the trailer, and almost getting caught in Harold's incredibly complex trap. Duncan then finds Harold hiding in the bushes, waiting for the trap to work. Duncan then jumps on him and gets a DNA sample from him.



Courtney is then shown going to take a shower. Lindsay attempts to get her footprint by getting Courtney to walk in paint and then on a sheet of cardboard, but the wet Courtney drenches it with water, ruining it. She pats Lindsay on the back for trying. Next, Beth is shown tricking Lindsay into giving up her DNA sample by pretending that her retainer has fallen into some spaghetti. Then, in the confessional, Harold gets a DNA sample from Beth, after attempting to get a sample from Duncan again. Courtney is then seen tricking Duncan into giving her another sample, although she did it simply for the joy of it, as she already collected Lindsay's DNA. The castmates are then seen giving up their samples to Chris. Lindsay is the only one with no samples at all. Upon giving Chris two samples, Courtney demands a prize. Due to her whiny persistence, Chris ends up giving Courtney a bag of cheese puffs that he was going to have on the train, just to shut her up. The castmates then enter the train.

While on board, the castmates are submerged in darkness. Suddenly Chris is heard shouting to someone that they "can't kill the host." The lights turn back on, and on the floor of the train lies the dead body of Chris McLean. Courtney kicks the body several times, trying to prove that Chris is faking it. The castmates are frightened, and Courtney demands that Harold perform CPR on Chris. The action does not work, and Beth and Harold are shaken. Lindsay then compares the situation to her trip to cheering camp. Courtney ignores her, and convinces Duncan to climb on top of the train car, which she is convinced is fake, like the airplane in Full Metal Drama. Duncan then proves that the train is indeed a real train when it goes under a tunnel while he is on top.



While Duncan is outside of the train, the lights turn off once again, and Chris's body disappears. Harold finds one of Duncan's green hairs where the body used to be, and the castmates (with the sole exception of Courtney) immediately put blame on Duncan for the disappearance, prompting them to handcuff him to a guardrail in the car. Courtney objects this,  and insists that the rest of the castmates should stop listening to Lindsay. She then manages to get Harold to assist her in trying to stop the train so they can get off of it, while Beth and Lindsay continue to work as a separate team.

Eventually, Beth decides to assist Harold and Courtney as well. However, while they are attempting to get off of the train, Lindsay discovers a napkin with Courtney's finger prints on it. Thinking that Courtney had used the napkin as a murder weapon, Lindsay explains how Courtney is guilty to the rest of the cast, since she was the only one with access to cheesy puffs, and the fingerprints were composed of cheese powder. Courtney protests, insisting that she is innocent, but to no avail, just as the castmates are about to handcuff Courtney, Chris walks back into the compartment, alive and well. He announces that Lindsay won the challenge, much to Courtney's dismay. Chris then tells Lindsay that she gets to choose someone to take to the movies with her, as her reward. Beth anticipates and expects Lindsay to pick her, but Lindsay surprisingly chooses Duncan, in order to make Courtney jealous, and Duncan agrees, to see how jealous Courtney will become. Even Beth, in a confessional, admits that she doesn't mind Lindsay's choice of Duncan over her because Courtney's jealousy would be very interesting to watch. As expected, Courtney turns out to be very jealous, and although she initially attempts to deny it, she breaks down and starts crying in the confessional. Chris then signs off the episode, after admiring his rubber replica.

Exclusive clip
Lindsay compares going to the movies with Duncan with ordering the "Mega Combo" at the movies. At first, everything is working out fine; Courtney is losing her mind, Duncan is "pretty okay" most of the time, and the butter is glistering off the popcorn. But she then states by the time the previews are over, she's already finished both her popcorn and drink, and starts to gets sick.

Cast

 * Chef Hatchet appears; however, he has no lines.

Trivia

 * This episode contains many similarities to Hook, Line, and Screamer, such as:
 * Courtney dismisses everything as fake, similarly to Heather in that episode.
 * Chris pulls numerous stunts to really make everything seem real, similar to his unexpected exit from the island.
 * Murder plays a major part in this episode, similar to the killer "butchering" campers in that episode and Chris being "murdered" in this episode.
 * The zombies that Chris fights are redesigned models of the cameramen from Riot On Set and Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island. These two cameramen are based on Duncan and DJ's Camp TV design.

Continuity

 * This episode marks the first episode in which Courtney hasn't won the challenge or immunity since she joined the competition in Total Drama Action, although, she did win the first part.
 * This episode shows Chris's movie that he talked about in Million Dollar Babies.
 * This is the second episode that mentions that Courtney watches Total Drama Action prior to her debut into the competition.
 * This episode references the events of Full Metal Drama, Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, Million Dollar Babies, and The Princess Pride.
 * The Chris dummy used in this episode will reappear in Grand Chef Auto, serving virtually the same purpose.

Goofs

 * When Lindsay is in the confessional, her hand vanishes for a moment.
 * When Beth grabs the handcuffs, they have a chain link between them, but when Duncan is cuffed to the door, they have a metal rod between them.
 * When Chef wheels in the cart full of snacks there is no soda, but later there is, when the contestants throw soda into the wheels.
 * When Duncan goes on top of the train and falls back down, his green mohawk is damaged, but after he comes back from another room to look for Chris, his mohawk is back to its original state.
 * Beth screams in this episode, but she said she couldn't in The Sand Witch Project. This has been a recurring goof throughout the season.
 * Even though Chris says Courtney has her own bathroom in One Million Bucks, B.C., Courtney was shown showering in the communal bathrooms in this episode.
 * The napkin being used as the "murder weapon" would imply that Chris was suffocated, however, when the lights went out, there was the noise of someone being smacked and no gasping for air, implying Chris was smacked with something instead.
 * When Courtney hands in her evidence, she is seen to have two sets of hand prints and hair samples. However, she only collected Duncan's hair, not his hand print.
 * When Chris paints Courtney's hand on the train, she puts her hand down, but when she is shown again there is no paint on her hand at all.