Well, just how bad was the site, Rusty? We’ve seen six days of strips so far, and you haven’t dug a lick of dirt. For all we know, Robbie’s broken controllers are still underground.

But a bombshell drops as Mark clues us to the fact that mild-mannered Ranger Shaw is Robbie’s father! We met him last November in the deBait fishing lodge where Mark tried to run a survival program for clueless husbands (cf “For Men Only”). At that time, mild-mannered and largely insignificant Ranger Shaw seemed distraught at how to fill his days while his wife was on vacation. And no, I’m not going there, except to say that I found her to be a nicely mannered, largely insignificant person.

Thus, Rusty’s “e-waste reclamation visit” scene comes to an end. Whether Rusty actually accumulated any e-waste, much less Robbie’s, may take a backseat to Mark’s overriding concern with the fact of toxic solid waste abandoned in Lost Forest. Is Mark once again taking over Rusty’s story? Buckle your seatbelts, people; it might get rough.