 Deen admits that he had lost his focus while the pulley was being installed, while Cory is taken to task for not following instructions, as he admits that he likes to do things using trial and error.Matt, who has been keeping pace with the experts, makes small talk with them during inspections (Gail asking him if he had, in high school, passed as often as he did in rehab, to which Matt replies in the negative, as he had graduated from high school roughly three years ago).In the end, Matt's continuing streak of passed challenges, which had earlier earned him the nickname of "golden boy", earns him the golden hard hat for the most improved.