| The Lost Love Letter of Captain John Smith | |
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 The love letter stuck to the camera-right tree. | |
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Production Number |
2-06 (46) |
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Airdate |
July 26, 1994 |
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Team |
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Contestants |
Derrick Kujak & Whitney |
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Artifact Location |
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1½ | |
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Temple Layout |
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Previous Episode |
The Walking Stick of Harriet Tubman (Production Order) |
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Next Episode |
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The Lost Love Letter of Captain John Smith is the 46th episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple. It was the 45th episode to complete production and the 57th to air.
Moat Crossing
In this Moat, both players from each team cross the water simultaneously by laying their four boards upon two parallel bars, continually adjusting them as necessary to cross the entire pool.
| Moat Results | ||
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| Finish | Team | Time |
| First | Red Jaguars | 0:51 |
| Second | Orange Iguanas | 0:58 |
| Third | Green Monkeys | 1:06 |
| Fourth | Blue Barracudas | 1:10 |
Steps of Knowledge
In the mid 1600s, the Algonquian Indians captured the governor of Jamestown, Captain John Smith. He was carried struggling into a clearing, and thrown upon a great boulder before Chief Powhatan. Four men held him down, and the executioners lifted two great rocks to crush him. Suddenly, there was a shriek and the sound of running feet. Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan, threw herself over the head of the captive.
"Do not hurt him, father! I love him!"
Powhatan spared the life of the Englishman, John Smith. All winter long, Pocahontas visited her boyfriend at Jamestown, bringing the colonists' food and warning them of danger. All of them were grateful except one: Prunella Pemberwick, who had a crush on John Smith herself. Legend has it that when Smith was suddenly called back to England, he left a love letter for Pocahontas, but Prunella threw the letter away and told Pocahontas that John Smith had died.
| Steps of Knowledge Results | ||
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| Question | Answers | Team |
| Was Pocahontas…? |
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Orange Iguanas (Correct - Two steps left) |
| Which of these was the first permanent English settlement in America? |
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Green Monkeys (Correct - Two steps left) |
| Which of these men was a governor of Jamestown? |
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Orange Iguanas (Correct - One step left) |
| Jamestown is found in which of these states? |
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Red Jaguars (Correct - Two steps left) |
| Was Jamestown founded in…? |
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Green Monkeys (Correct - One step left) |
| Later in life when Pocahontas visited England, did she see…? |
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Red Jaguars (Correct - One step left) |
| Which of these men named Virginia and founded Roanoke Island? |
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Orange Iguanas (Correct - Advanced to the Temple Games) |
| Raleigh is the capital city of which state? |
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Blue Barracudas (Correct - Two steps left) |
| Which of these food crops did the Indians introduce to the English? |
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Red Jaguars (Correct - Advanced to the Temple Games) |
Temple Games
The Orange Iguanas are 14-year-old George, who plays baseball for his high school, and Tathiana, who plays basketball for her school team. The Red Jaguars are 14-year-old Whitney, who dances, and Derrick (also 14 years old), who plays baseball and hockey. His favorite hockey player is Wayne Gretzky.
Land Ho! (Boat)[]
The Jamestown settlers sailed all the way across the Atlantic to plant the English flag in the New World. Derrick and George fortunately did not have to go that far. When Kirk gave the signal, they had to push their boat off and row it down to the island on the other side. There, they had to then hop out of their boats, plant the English flag, and pull themselves back to the dock and climb onto it. If either player touched the floor, he would have been disqualified. The player to plant the flag and make it back to the dock or the team furthest along in 60 seconds won. Derrick made it back with 42 seconds of spare time, awarding him a half pendant of life.
Food for the Winter (Cubbyhole Web)[]
The first winter in the New World was a difficult one for the colonists. Their crops failed and they had little to eat. When Kirk gave the signal, Whitney and Tathiana had to scramble up to an opening in the wall, punch through the cover, grab the corn inside, climb back down, place it in their scale bowl. The heavier ears of corn were at the top while the lighter ears of corn were on the sides. The player with the most corn by weight in 60 seconds won. Tathiana had more food in her bowl, awarding her a half pendant of life.
Jamestown to Windsor (Slingshot Wall)[]
In the early 1600s, English settlers started four colonies in the New World: (1) Jamestown, Virginia (2) Plymouth, Massachusetts (3) Odiorne's Point, New Hampshire, and (4) Windsor, Connecticut. When Kirk gave the signal, the boyes had to climb the wall to the first location while their partners had to load a marker in their slingshots and shoot it at them. When either male player caught it, he had to place it on the colonies, climb to the next one, and wait for the next marker. The first team with one marker in each location or the team furthest along in 60 seconds won. Both teams failed to get to Windsor, so they tied with three marked colonies each, leading to a tie.
Tiebreaker[]
Olmec: "Did the Jamestown settlers come from France, England, or Finland?" Derrick correctly answered "England", sending him and Whitney to Olmec's Temple in search of the lost love letter.
| Temple Games Results | |||||
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| Team | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Pendants Won | Tiebreaker |
| Red Jaguars | Won | Lost | Tied | 1½ Pendants | Won |
| Orange Iguanas | Lost | Won | Tied | 1½ Pendants | Lost |
Temple Run
The Guard in the throne room waits to pounce.
Derrick started by entering the Ledges and quickly crawls into the Pit of Despair. He then heads over to The Throne Room where he encounters the first temple guard. After a bit of confusion, Derrick then takes the path up to Medusa's Lair, where he encounters the second temple guard just as he was putting in the first snake into Medusa.
Whitney then goes in to follow Derrick's footsteps. While she may have been a tad bit slower, she was able to re-trace Derrick's path and enter Medusa's Lair with 1:32 left on the clock. She proceeds to put all four snakes into Medusa, but gets confused when none of the doors open. After pushing in the snakes further, she unlocks the door that leads into the King's Storeroom. She is able to find the key in the first pot that she smashes, but she later had to smash the others when the key didn't work on the first pedestal. After trying the key on the middle pedestal, she unlocks the door to the Shrine of the Silver Monkey and heads inside to assemble the monkey. Unfortunately, the third and final temple guard was waiting for her there and quickly takes her out of the temple.
Kirk then revealed that the half pendant was on an inactive actuator in the King's Storeroom at the end of the run, and Whitney's passing-up of the half pendant cost them dearly.
The half pendant in the King's Storeroom hanging on the inactive actuator to the Shrine.
| Temple Run Results | |
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| Victory | No |
| Grabbed the Artifact | No |
| Reached the Artifact's Room | No |
| Method of Loss | Triple Seizure (0:26 left) |
| Temple Guard Locations | The Throne Room Medusa's Lair The Shrine of the Silver Monkey |
| Half Pendant Location | The King's Storeroom |
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Notes
- This is the first episode where the contestants must retrieve an artifact placed in the Dark Forest. Subsequently, this was the first of many failures to bring the artifact out of that room.
- This episode contains elements from the 1995 Disney movie that are not historically accurate, such as Pocahontas being in love with John Smith (in real life, she was just a little girl when she saved him).
- This is the first episode where the Red Jaguars defeated the Orange Iguanas in the Temple Games in order to compete in the Temple Run.
- This was the first episode in Season 2 where a team of Red Jaguars advanced to Olmec's Temple.
- Whitney was the first person to complete the objective of Medusa's Lair.
- This episode marks the second of three times that a team Red Jaguars had their Temple Run ended by being captured by the third Temple Guard without a full pendant. The first time his happens was in Elizabeth I's Golden Ship and the next time this happens is in The Crown of Queen Nzinga.
- This is the only one of the three episodes where the run ended with less than a minute remaining.
- This is the only episode where a Triple Seizure occurs in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey.
- With 0:26 remaining when Whitney was captured by the third Temple Guard, this was the slowest loss caused by the Temple Guards in Season 2. This is the third slowest Triple Seizure, only outdone by The Lost Logbooks of Magellan, with eighteen seconds remaining and The Lost Taj Mahal Turban of Aurangzeb, with fourteen seconds remaining.
- This was the first episode to feature a half pendant in the King's Storeroom as well as the following:
- The only Season 2 episode to feature a half pendant in that room.
- After the King's Storeroom had been moved to the Observatory area for Season 3, it featured the half pendants for the three episodes where a team took 1½ pendants to the Temple in search of an artifact in the Quicksand Bog (The Lion-Headed Bracelet of Chandragupta, The Lost Hornpipe of the Pirate Captain and The Melted Head of Madame Tussaud).
- The last episode to feature a half pendant in that room space.
- Like the two Season 1 episodes that featured a half pendant in the treasury area (The Trojan Horseshoe and King Tut's Cobra Staff), the artifact was in the golden doors area and had Temple Guards in the center of the temple and the Shrine of the Silver Monkey.
- Derrick is one of the few contestants to be interviewed about his time on the show.
- The only Season 2 episode to feature a half pendant in that room.