Take the Money and Run 8/9 *spoilers*

This is the first episode I've seen. Are there rules stating that the perps have to talk to the investigators? If not, then STFU! for the whole 48 hours, no matter how much they cajole or goad you. This couple said all kinds of things that might have helped in the field.

The daughter was specifically told by her mom to say that mom had just been checking in on the kids (which of course would not explain the daughter's call-back), and then NOTHING else. So the daughter then begins answering questions, including overplaying how mom HATES the beach, which the investigators immediately picked up on as a clue, but didn't really follow-up very well.

At the time, I wondered if the GPS log wouldn't note that they stopped moving for N minutes at a particular place. I would have stopped at a light instead, had mom go plant the case while I drove around randomly, have her take a cab or planted car (even a bicycle would give a reasonable distance) to a designated spot where I could pick her up, and continue the random course. It's unlikely that they would think to, or have time to check all the cab companies, and much like the employee in the convenience store, unlikely that the cab companies would give out details for an unofficial purpose like this program. The investigators might be sharp enough to look for vehicles owned by the family in the vicinity of the GPS track, so just park in a mall parking lot and walk a few blocks to dad. Even if they find the car, all that does is give them an indication that the GPS track is likely useless as a direct indicator of the final location.

Neenahboy said:

And last week, the interrogators were focusing on large breaks in GPS tracking and methodically exploring each one, so I'm not sure why they were so set on the 119th exit and convenience store. It had to take quite a while to run six blocks and find a hiding place in the house, yet it felt completely glossed over.

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Last week they were focusing on large breaks of time without a phone call being made, not breaks of GPS tracking. The assumption (which was correct) was that one of those gaps of time without a call was when they must have been hiding the case.
They're only getting the GPS route info - where the vehicle went; not when it went there or stopped (unless they turn off the car). The wife took advantage of that when she said to just pull off onto the side of the highway, leave the SUV running, and run the 6 blocks to the house. Because of that, the interrogators had no clue that they ever stopped the vehicle right on the highway.
I think the interrogators were focused on the section of the route between 119 and the store because it was the only section of the route that had multiples places to stop - various stores and parking lots and whatnot - which is where we saw the detectives searching. Before that, it was just open highway with no logical places to stop, and also the causeway which wasn't a logical place to stop.

I'm confused on the removal of the keys too. What's the chance that leaving a running vehicle on the side of the road is not going to be driven off by someone else or towed by the police? I guess crew could be there to protect the vehicle, but that seems a weird thing to do. The wife also asked if he had the keys when they exited the vehicle... no idea what's up with that.

I think the part that screwed up the last challenge, besides the idiot confessing, was they twirled around a lot, made a u-turn, and back tracked which would indicate a missed turn for a destination.

I really felt sorry for the detectives in this episode. The interrogators completely led them to the wrong area to search. They even tried to explain that they didn't think they'd hold onto the case that long into the hour and the interrogators argued them into the later location and insisted it was there. Even the last ditch effort of the "human lie detector" was clouded by the fact that the interrogators thought they still had the case when they exited the expressway.

The interrogators completely botched this one and the detectives paid the price; however, the detectives could have questioned them a little during the car ride. Plus, the return call from the daughter was really the key that everyone seemed to miss. They did float the idea of the daughter making the call on their behalf more than once, but both sides dismissed it as being too risky.

I love the concept but it's horrible executed. The first episode was completely worthless, cause one of the brothers caved. The second episode both the interrogators and the detectives were completely worthless and a disgrace to their profession (The detectives). The third episode the one sister was a complete idiot and pretty much took the detectives hand and showed them were the briefcase was. I couldn't believe the detectives actually had to rent a metal detective and that one wasn't provided for them. I bet the detectives found the case much earlier then the show would have you believe.

This show has one if not many flaws in that if they give the briefcase to someone to hide it their house then the person that hides it is under no obligation to let them in to search the house, which goes against one of their rules that state the case has to be accessible 24/7.

In the second episode the contestants should have never been allowed to hide it at someone's else's house. That should be against the rules.