The aim of this note is to give an elementary proof of the following fact: given three red convex sets and three blue convex sets in \(\mathrm{I\!E}^3\), such that every red intersects every blue, there is a line transversal to the reds or there is a line transversal to the blues. This is a special case of a theorem of Montajano and Karasev (Discrete Comput Geom 46(2):283–300, 2011) and generalizes, in a sense, the colourful Helly theorem due to Lovász (cf. Discrete Math 40(2,3):141–152, 1982)