35x12 - A Sunset, Seattle Scramble

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Previously on

The Amazing Race

This season, The Amazing Race

returned to its roots

Go!

with old-school travel

This is old-school Amazing Race

suffering in the airport.

Tight fit.

classic gameplay

Express Pass, baby.

That was so worth it.

Me and you are on the U-Turn.

- It is?

- Yeah.

My God.

and thrilling adventure.

After ten eliminations

I am sorry to tell you

that you've been eliminated

from the race.

it all comes down

to three teams.

Father and son Rob and Corey,

who wanted the experience

of a lifetime together

This is one

of the sickest days of my life.

This is amazing.

and are in it to win it.

I'm hoping that we're

in a race for first again.

Corey's stumble

in India almost cost them

the race,

but his father's encouragement

got them through

their toughest moment.

Better, better. Thank you,

thank you. I'm feeling better.

From then on, they hit the mark

won the penultimate leg

Let's go.

You are team number one.

Yeah!

and their spot

in the final three.

Joel and Garrett

came on the race with a goal.

Get out there

and have an adventure.

So this is gonna be it.

But the best friends

had plenty of struggles

along the way.

I'm so thirsty, I am so hot, and

I don't know where I'm going.

Many people would

have gone insane by now.

Throughout the setbacks,

they kept a sense of humor

Use the power of the beard!

Yeah!

I'm not gonna follow my nose.

I'm gonna follow my beard.

and remembered

what they were racing for

"Dear Dad, I love you so much."

"Hope you and Strasser

are doing well and having fun.

I can't wait

for you to get back."

as the unlikely underdogs

claimed their spot

in the final three.

We're in the final.

Brothers Greg and John

took a calculated approach

to the race.

The wings look pretty complex.

- We'll keep building from the bottom.

- Yeah, yeah.

When things went wrong

- No. - No.

- No. Okay.

- All right?

- All right.

- Debugging time.

- Yeah. Debugging time, baby.

the computer scientists

problem-solved.

- Yes.

- Hey.

Yeah, there we go.

They began to hit their stride

through India

They are team number one.

reeling off three

consecutive wins in Europe

- savoring the experience

- Hey, hey, hey!

This was such a good move.

This is fun.

as they earned a spot

in the final three.

You will be one of the

three teams that will be racing

to the finish line

for the $1 million prize.

One of these three teams

will win $1 million

and The Amazing Race.

Route Info.

"Fly to your final destination:

Seattle, Washington."

Rob and Corey are the

first of the final three teams

to begin their journey

over the North Atlantic

and Canada to the west coast

of the United States,

landing in Seattle, Washington

perhaps the most

caffeinated city in America,

that's held the number one spot

of coffee shops per capita

in the country numerous times.

But what really

put Seattle on the map

is the iconic Space Needle,

which has towered above

the city

for more than six decades.

Teams will find

their next clue at the base.

"You must check in

for your flight to Seattle

at the marked ticket counter at

Dublin International Airport."

For us to be

going into the final leg

of The Amazing Race,

leaving in first place

such a confidence boost.

Hello. To the Dublin Airport?

- Yeah.

- Great.

Obviously, a million dollars

would be life-changing,

but once you start thinking

too many steps ahead,

that's where you start

to make some mistakes.

So my dad and I are sticking

with one step at a time.

- Do everything right.

- Let's do it.

I grew up

in Vancouver, Washington,

so, went up to Seattle

several times.

If the Roadblock is to find

the best piece of pizza

in Seattle, I'm winning, easily.

"Fly to your final destination:

Seattle, Washington."

Feeling amped.

This is where the race begins.

We always talk about

that final three being

a whole race in and of itself.

The way we've been performing

just shows

how far our bond can go.

Greg is someone who just,

like, makes me so happy,

and that really

makes me, at least,

perform better in this race.

Adding this competitive element

has been just

a real new chapter

for our relationship.

We're trying to cash it in

and just take it home.

And if you wouldn't mind,

if you have a smartphone,

we just wanted

to look up this airport parking

for Seattle, real quick.

Thank you so much.

Once we get to Seattle,

we have to find our parked car.

I visited Seattle

a handful of times.

I lived there

for a month in college.

We're city people.

We like cities.

So we'll hopefully be able

to figure it out

quicker than any other team.

"Fly to your final destination:

Seattle, Washington."

- Let's go to Seattle. Come on.

- Sea-Tac.

We are super pumped

that we made it this far.

In the previous legs,

we were pushing ourselves hard,

but in this leg,

we're not holding anything bac.

Airport?

We've proven

that we're meant to be here,

and no matter what happens,

we're gonna

keep fighting for it.

The real prize

after we get to the final mat

is gonna be our families.

We miss our families so much.

My wife and I have talked about

taking the kids up to Seattle.

So now, after

we've won The Amazing Race,

I can take the kids back and

show them everywhere we went.

- Let's go crazy.

- Let's go crazy.

For this last leg,

it's kind of an underdog story.

On paper, we're the underdog,

but I kind of like

being in that position

because we're underestimated.

And all we have to do now

is overperform and win.

It's gonna be a really,

really difficult leg.

You've got to be

on your absolute A game,

'cause you have two other teams

that are giving

everything they have.

Johnny and I

are ready to get this dub.

We're ready to get the dub.

We-We've been dreaming about it

since day one,

and we're gonna

make it happen today.

That's a bold take.

We're winning this race.

My dad and I have every

intention of coming out on top.

We didn't come this far

just to come this far.

We're gonna push

all the way to the mat

and we're gonna get there firs.

It's time for the showdown.

Let's go.

Malibu.

Where's the clue?

Is it there?

It's the Space Needle.

Space Needle, that way.

- Got the clue?

- Got the key.

Okay, Smithe,

know where we're going?

Space Needle.

Amazing Race, final leg.

- Million dollars, right here.

- Amazing Race, final leg.

There is the Space Needle.

There's the Space Needle,

right there.

We need to look for valet.

- There's the Space Needle.

- Down for a thrill?

Dude,

I'll do anything right now.

Looks like

another team's pulling up.

Look, it's Corey and Rob.

We'll park right next to 'em.

Rob and Corey are there alread.

Route Info.

"Walk around the rim

of the Space Needle,

"500 feet above Seattle,

to find your next clue.

"Choose any available rigger.

Only one member of the team

will walk at a time."

Clue box. Let's go.

Yeah, right there.

sh**t. That was close.

All right, let's do it.

All right. Cool.

There is a million dollars

on the line,

so we have to crush this

and get out of here.

Yeah, it's

a tight race from the jump.

This is gonna be so wild.

We get up there,

we get our harnesses on.

Team number one, baby.

Each team will have

one representative go first.

Come on.

This race just

gets cooler and cooler.

This is the greatest view

I've had in years.

This is incredible.

This is so cool.

"Look for the man

with the yellow and red tie

"standing at the gate,

located to the right

"of when

you exit the Space Needle.

"Enter through and follow

to the marked path

to the Chihuly glass house."

Sweet.

Aw, this is amazing.

This is so cool.

When am I ever gonna

have this great of a view

of Seattle again in my life?

Here I go.

All right. Nice and slow.

All right, to the Chihuly

glass house we go.

You were just

like King Kong on top.

Just walking around,

seeing the city.

The view was really scenic.

I'm somewhat afraid of heights.

I was pretty high up there.

But it was really cool.

All right.

That was awesome.

Just an incredible view.

We are heading to the

Chihuly Garden and Glass cente.

We're looking for a man in

a yellow and red tie

standing at a gate.

Cannot get up higher than this.

Yeah, with the sunset view

and the mountains in the back.

This is nice.

It was such a sick view

that you just

kind of take a second

and just look out.

This is really, really cool.

Holy Shatner.

I've been to the

Space Needle, but walking

around the outside of it,

trying to catch up

to every team,

it's completely different.

Good job, Gregory.

Let's do it, let's do it.

We're currently in first place.

But only by, like, minutes.

It's close.

This way. Let's go.

Thank you.

There it is.

Route Info. "Get ready

for a Seattle Scramble."

It's time for a Scramble.

Teams must complete

three challenges

inspired by Seattle's art scene.

In Grunge, they must be

a roadie for a grunge band.

In Grab, swing from

a high trapeze.

And in Glass, blow molten glass

into shape.

Because it's a Scramble,

they can complete

the challenge

in any order they choose.

At the end of each challenge,

they will get a piece

of their next clue.

Let's go.

I was very surprised

to see that it was a Scramble,

but I was pumped, because this

forces you to run your own rac.

You can't really

follow other teams around.

Other teams aren't really gonna

be following you around.

You're doing your own thing.

And my dad and I

felt like we've thrived

whenever we run our own race.

What an experience.

I cannot believe I'm up here.

All right, Strasser.

We just need to figure out

where these directions are,

and we can

circle them on our map.

So that one's 6th and Lander.

We marked the first two

and they were pretty close

to the downtown area.

And then the third one

was a little ways away,

and it wasn't even on our map.

And we think,

"All right, let's just

get directions

to the third place,"

'cause we know then it'll

be easy to just sh**t ourselves

back up

into the heart of Seattle.

Sorry. So close.

- Let's go, let's go, let's go.

- All right.

- Says with a yellow and red tie?

- Someone at the exit. Yep.

Rob and Corey

they're still ahead of us.

Can't make any mistakes

the rest of the leg, for sure.

All right.

Route Info.

"Get ready

for a Seattle Scramble."

We got a Scramble.

Okay.

Let's

Someone over here?

Would you mind

helping us real quick?

We just need your phone.

We're looking

for three different locations.

They're all around the city,

so we're just

gonna map it all out.

- Lander and 6th.

- 6th here.

All right, let's go.

Yeah, that's the glass house

right there.

It's Scramble time.

All right, grab the map.

We look over and see

the other teams still here.

We're super excited,

so we're gonna do our best

to move up in the race.

They're all on the

they're all on the clue.

For the Scramble,

the way we were trying to set

it up is whatever was closest,

and then work

our way to the furthest one.

There's

- 5th.

- We don't know what block is, though.

Let's go to 6th then 5th first.

We're going to Grab first,

'cause that's the furthest one.

Let's go to Glass first.

- Can you get us there? Hop in.

- Yeah.

Okay. Got it. All right.

- Thank you.

- Thank you so much.

All right, we're off.

We're gonna go to Glass.

We're gonna get one

of three pieces of a clue

that, when put together,

will reveal a destination.

This does say 6th Avenue North

and this says 6th Avenue South.

So this can't be it.

- U-turn?

- Yeah.

- You're gonna have to go back.

- sh**t.

We are doing a Scramble.

This is crazy, 'cause we're not

gonna have any idea

what place we're in.

No one's gonna have any clue.

A sunset Seattle Scramble.

Come on, the alliteration

it's too perfect.

This one's called Glass.

We chose this one first

because it's the closest.

We're trying

to go in a straight line.

All right, let's do it.

Route Info.

"Become a glassblower.

Create a glass sea float

to earn a piece of the clue."

- Okay.

- Okay, cool.

- Nice. We're glassblowing. Let's go!

- Glassblowing!

All right. Choose

any available glass artist.

Okay. Just

Kind of random.

Not to-not to insult anyone.

Left on 6th.

I see a clue box. Glassblowing.

"Create a glass sea float

to earn a piece of the clue."

So I'm gonna

get a little bit of glass,

- and we'll work through the process.

- Okay.

Hello. We want

to make a sea float.

All right,

so pick an instructor. You.

For sure.

- We go in the color.

- We want to stop.

Press down a little bit,

lift, turn.

So, we had to put some colors

on the glass,

then put it into the kiln

for it to heat up.

The biggest thing

was to keep it turning,

'cause it was molten hot glass.

We're gonna pop a bubble next.

The metal rod had a hole

through it, so then you could

blow an initial bubble

into the glass.

See if we got a bubble.

But the second part

is very much a team effort.

You want to grab just like that.

Go ahead and blow, Joe.

And continuously roll it

while the other person

is blowing air into the bubble.

We're gonna grab our diamond

shears and crimp, crimp, crimp.

Then we're gonna

go to our knock-off station.

sh**t!

What?

Our demonstrator made it look

so easy.

And then I'll put

a little dab of glass

and put a stamp there,

and that's when it's finished.

- All right. Ready?

- Yep.

It's like

putting sesame seeds on.

Beautiful. Keep spinning.

We got this. We got this.

So, looking for building 2702.

Right there. Right there.

Clue box.

Number one.

"Perform a knee hang catch

to receive a piece of the clue".

Hello.

We're excited.

Okay, let's do this.

Put your arms up.

I know, I know.

So it's gonna be like this.

We have to grab onto a bar

and then swing

our legs up onto the bar,

swing back, let go

and just hope that someone's

gonna grab your hands,

which in theory,

sounds terrifying.

- Good job.

- It's looking, it's looking hot.

To get glass to be molten

takes a lot of heat

and a lot of time

just to stand in the heat.

It definitely adds

just more to the frustration

and the uncomfortableness.

- Now, do I heat up first?

- You want to heat it up first, I think.

And then spin it so that

it gets more narrow at the end.

All right. You want to

give it a blow? Yeah.

Go for it. Go for it.

I don't think it went enough.

Go one more time.

Blowing my cheeks are busted.

Did the most I could.

I just don't think

it's big enough.

But I blew

like a million dollars

were on the line. Yeah.

You blowing?

All right.

So, a little bit of air,

and then seal it with the thumb.

It's drooping. Keep spinning it.

So, I think you have to

keep spinning it

while you're

blowing in it, maybe.

That's a lot to remember.

I'm generally athletic,

pretty flexible,

play a lot of sports,

but I've never done

any sort of gymnastics,

so I had zero expectations

for myself going into this.

Face the ladder

on the other side. Okay.

This is where I'm starting

to get a little nervous.

Hup!

Aah!

That was electric.

Let's go.

That was so fun.

Hup!

I think it's getting too long.

- Every time we hotdog it, it, like, gets longer.

- Yeah.

The pressure

was definitely there

with Greg and John side by sid.

Whenever they're

getting close to done,

you really feel the pressure.

You blowing?

Yep. Keep going, keep going.

All right, hold on, hold on.

- Slow down, slow down.

- Okay, I'm slowing, I'm slowing, I'm slowing.

Keep blowing more. I don't know.

- Maybe it's not hot enough.

- Wait.

- Okay, don't go too fast with the blowing.

- Okay.

- You're doing great. You're doing great.

- Yeah

And then squeeze,

squeeze, squeeze.

But not enough to break it.

Okay. Obviously,

it's not hot enough.

Okay. You want to try it?

All right, here we go.

On the top, maybe.

I think we're on the blowpipe.

- We're on the blowpipe?

- Your jack line.

That one's not coming off.

- Okay. Got it.

- All right, next one, next one.

Give us a demo

and emphasize what we did wrong.

You want more heat.

Heat is your friend in this.

Okay.

All right. Use the tool.

Okay. Here we go.

Let's see

if we got it big enough.

Not quite.

- A little bit bigger.

- Dang.

We had a perfect orb

with a perfect hole,

but it was too small.

Having been that close

and just knowing that

I just had to make one more

puff, and we would have been

out of there, was frustrating.

- We had that.

- Yeah.

Listo.

Because my dad and I

were fully alone, we

weren't sure if John and Greg

and Joel and Garrett

had finished

their first challenge.

We had no idea

what their status was.

We got to get this done

as quick as possible

and move on,

get to the next thing.

Take a minute.

Tell me when to blow

and how much.

Okay, blow.

You got to let me spin it.

All right, ready? I'm gonna

pull it out. Move. I'm ready

It's not spinning. Blow.

I-I think we're already screwed.

I have to be able

to roll it back and forth,

otherwise it just starts

dripping way down, like that.

Yep. Go, go, go.

- Go?

- Yep. Go.

Stop, stop, stop.

Aw, it popped.

Hup!

Yes!

So take it out

and spin it a while,

let it cool a little,

and then make sure to squeeze it

on just the right part.

- It still might be a little too hot.

- Yeah.

Yeah, we're not gonna blow yet.

- That's a nice little bulb they got.

- That's a nice little bulb.

Stop.

Blow soft.

Stop.

That's about

as big as it's gonna get.

- Okay.

- I think it's big enough.

See if it'll come off.

- Anything, Johnny?

- Johnny, focus on us.

A little bit of bulge.

Just a little bit.

Come on.

Come on, now. Get off of there.

Give it one good tap.

Yes.

- Yeah.

- Congratulations. I'll be right back.

That looks

like a beautiful float.

We seal it

so it actually floats.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you so much.

- Really nice working with y'all.

Okay, can you get it

a little tighter?

All right, let's get

out of here. We got to run.

I think they're

finishing it this time.

- That sounded kind of cracky.

- All right, try it.

Ready?

- Next location.

- Grunge.

We got there after Greg and John

and left before Greg and John,

so that was good.

I think it's big enough.

- So close.

- Really?

It's just barely big enough, but

we broke off part of our bubble.

- Dang.

- Yeah.

So, if your neck is too large

or if you break it too hard,

then the hole chips.

Got to do it again.

New problem. Yep.

So close.

You got it.

Hup!

Yeah!

Yeah.

Nice work, team. Let's go.

That's my dad.

- Yes. Thank you.

- Congrats.

So we got a wing of a plane.

So we are now headed to Grunge.

That's the one

that's closest to us now.

And I've got it on the map,

so we're gonna try

and take that one on next.

Feeling okay right now.

We got two more pieces

of the Scramble to go.

It's a little nerve-wracking

not knowing

where everyone else is at

or how they stand.

We have not seen Cory and Rob.

We assume that they went

to a different

Scramble event first.

This is Grunge,

which makes me wonder

if we have to learn a dance,

a grunge dance.

It's gonna be

a Nirvana thing, I hope.

Hell, I hope it's mosh-pitting.

Yeah, we have

to get in a mosh pit.

- All right, ready?

- Go slow on this.

- Yeah.

- On the blow.

Once Joel and Garrett were out,

there was a ticking clock.

- All right, ready?

- Yep.

We hadn't seen

Rob and Corey by this point,

so we knew that at least their

challenge or two challenges

were gonna take as long as

this.

- All right.

- You think it's big enough?

- Yeah.

- Let's give it a sh*t.

Go and tap it off.

All right. Go, go, go, go, go.

- Yep.

- Just a little harder?

Yep.

No

It's that same thing.

It's that opening.

In the final leg, you're

either first or you're last.

So we might

lose this thing, right?

'Cause it's been 30, 45 minute.

Smaller.

- It's smaller.

- Yeah, sorry, dude. My bad.

- It's okay. It's okay.

- Okay, third.

- That might be our destiny.

- That's gonna take forever.

Lost count of what try this is.

Yeah. There's a bubble.

There's a bubble.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

For sure, there's a bubble.

- So take your time at the bench.

- Yeah.

Go ahead and blow.

Hold on, now.

Not too much.

All right, TBH,

I think that might be good.

That looks good. All right.

All right, ready?

- Ready?

- Go.

Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

That looks good.

That's four inches.

I don't even have to check.

- Nice. Nice.

- Thank God.

Let's go. Let's go.

- That's it.

- That's it.

- All right.

- Nice work.

- That's your clue.

- That's our clue.

Thank you so much.

You're the b*mb.

We got time to make up.

You got something? Next place?

We're heading to Grunge.

Anything can happen.

People have

been so further behind.

What about

the marquee sign right there?

That's probably what it is.

What does this say?

- There's the clue box.

- Clue box.

Route Info. "Work as a roadie"

"for a battle of the bands

at the Showbox.

"Properly set the stage

for your band

to receive

a piece of your next clue."

- Okay.

- All right.

I imagine this is the Showbox.

This might be cool.

"Choose any available stage

with your band's name.

"Find your band's equipment

in front of the Showbox.

Use the provided stage plot

to set up your stage."

There's the Black Tones,

La Fonda and Smokey Brights.

- What you want to be?

- Let's be Smokey Brights.

All right.

Okay, we got power there,

power there.

And we just got

to follow the diagram.

Okay. So we got to go find

all the Smokey Brights stuff.

- Smokey Brights, right here.

- Okay.

"Equipment and instrument cases

may only be opened stageside."

Grab the guitars.

I'll grab this stuff.

- Okay, I'm right behind you, in a minute.

- Okay.

We got to start

setting everything up.

I'll work on the piano.

I have zero experience

in setting up a stage.

I played the trumpet

in marching band.

Never played in a rock band,

which might be cool.

Okay, that goes

up to there.

So far, we're the first team of

roadies setting up for the band.

Okay. Next.

So I'm trying

to get us to where Grunge is.

It's by the Gum Wall,

which I know

is over by Pike Place.

- All right, so the amps

- That's blue.

- That goes in the back corner there.

- Okay.

All right, I'll put 'em.

Blue goes from the amp

to the blue guitar.

- This is blue right here. This guitar's blue.

- Okay.

- You know what I just remembered?

- What?

I have a roadie jacket at home.

I have an official roadie jacket

for the band Weezer

- that my wife got me as a present.

- So you do know how to,

so you do know how to do this.

This one's Grunge?

- This one's Grunge?

- It's probably something

- having to do with

- Like, artwork or something.

I was thinking,

like, punk rock, like, grunge.

All right. This one

we're gonna do better.

Yep.

- Come on.

- Okay. Something's not right.

There's a component

that goes on top of this amp.

Okay.

See that component?

- It goes on top of that amp.

- Yeah.

We might need

to run out in the street

and see

if we've missed anything.

"Bring all your empty cases back

outside where you found them."

Okay, let's take these out

and find whatever one we missed.

This.

Joel and Garrett are also here.

Got to get moving 'cause

we got teams catching up to us.

- We don't have another case.

- I don't Right.

So it's got to be

something else we're missing.

"Properly set the stage

for your band

- to receive a piece of your clue."

- Okay.

Did we look through all these

boxes and make sure Yeah.

There wasn't a hidden

compartment or something?

We're missing

a piece of equipment

that's in the diagram

but wasn't in any of the boxes.

Are you telling me

that flips over?

- Please tell me that's it.

- Yeah.

Genius.

I don't know how,

but we finally found it.

It was tucked down into

the amplifier and you had to

figure out

how to take the top apart

and spin it over.

That was tricky.

Right there.

Can we get a check?

No.

All right.

Let's check,

- check every little thing, one at a time.

- Okay.

Are both cords hooked into that?

That goes into the guitar.

Okay. And the power

is it plugged in?

Where's that?

It should go off the side

of this, right into here.

Is it I mean, is it one

of these cords that's already

- plugged in down here, or

- It doesn't No.

We need a power cord on this.

- Where do you get that?

- I don't know.

We're just trying

to get all the stuff inside

so we can figure out the puzzle

once we get

everything stageside.

Looks like things

are color-coordinated,

so it shouldn't be too bad.

It's the two on the outside

that we don't have power to.

- It's these two?

- Yeah.

- Well

- There you go.

- If only I had known.

- Well, look at that.

What do you know.

We're about

to start digging through boxes.

All we had to do

is plug these things in.

Okay. Check again.

No. Again. No.

All right.

Something's not hooked up.

So far

I see a clue box there.

Okay, make a U.

They're both here.

We just want to stay

keep our lead if we can.

All right,

there's the stage, yeah?

- La Fonda?

- Let's start bringing stuff in.

Just bring everything in?

All right,

gonna try to roll these.

Yup, you got the ramp there.

I am not musically inclined

by any sense of the word.

I took guitar lessons

for, like, a year,

and then my parents made me stop

'cause I never practiced.

All right.

I don't know what it is.

Could be something

with the power in the back.

Never been in a band before,

so this is a little bit

out of our wheelhouse.

The Scramble gets wild

when all three teams are

in the same place.

It's intense.

This is not plugged in.

- I know what it is.

- Do you?

We need a power cord

for this amp right here.

Smithe, this is it.

There was another cord

in this box.

All right, that's it.

Okay.

Check?

You guys may

want to give that Weezer

roadie jacket back

at some point.

Smokey Brights,

sound check time. Let's go.

Yes.

Let's go.

The Smokey Brights

are gonna perform.

Get ready to rock.

That was such a cherry

on top for this challenge.

They started playing,

we started rocking out.

That was really cool.

Rock on!

Yeah!

Let's go.

All right, get us

to the last place.

- Don't sit on the plane.

- Yeah.

So we got to head south,

the other direction.

We're on our way to Grab,

the third of the Scramble.

And now I'm building a little

model airplane back here.

Something Street.

Kenmore, Washington.

We're looking for some sort

of box that goes on the, um

the top of this amp, supposedly.

Yeah, there's, like, a

There's another

You're looking for the thing

that goes on top of the amp?

- Yeah.

- We have no idea where that is either.

What?

All right, want to go out

and check one more time?

Yeah, I'll check one more time.

If we can find it outside,

- we're not too far behind beards.

- Yeah.

I don't see anything here.

Sorry.

Yeah, we need just, like,

power cables

for some of these, too.

In.

Right there!

Flip it.

sh**t.

- Find it?

- Nope.

- It's somewhere in there.

- They just found it.

Sure they found the top one?

Found it somewhere over here.

I don't see it over here.

Where the heck

did that come from?

We're missing

power cables, too.

- We're definitely missing power cables.

- Yeah.

So you guys are also missing

some power cables, right?

I don't think so.

Like, how are you

plugging this in?

This needs power.

I thought we were almost done.

Thank goodness

he said something.

I didn't even think about that.

I was like,

"Yeah, you're right.

Amps need power to work."

Thankfully, that hint

helped my dad and I think,

"Okay, we got to look a little

bit closer for the power stuff".

All right,

we're on our way to Grab.

This must have been the one

that Corey and Rob started on.

What do you think "Grab" means?

I think maybe

it's gonna be, like,

a grocery kind of thing

where you got

to grab a bunch of fruits

and deliver 'em

or something like that.

Or maybe we have

to grab a fish out of the sea

with our bare hands.

All right. See any numbers?

Not yet.

We're looking

for some sort of top, like,

preamp kind of thing.

And some of these

are just missing

straight-up power cables.

All right, let's go.

Let's go check again.

'Cause it's definitely

not on the stage.

Okay. Moving.

- You found 'em?

- Yeah.

Can we have a check?

- They found it?

- They found it.

We stepped out

at the wrong time.

At the very wrong time.

Black Tones,

please come to the stage

for the sound check.

- Here you go.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- Y'all rock!

- Good luck!

Thank you.

We got the second piece

of our puzzle another wing,

so, feeling more and more sure

that this is gonna be a plane

at the end of this.

Dang.

Anything on the clue?

We see two teams pass us,

and we know

both of them have already

completed another challenge.

So we are, by definition,

in third place.

And so we're both

kind of just freaking out.

And you checked in here

thoroughly?

This is tough.

What in the world?

Yeah, I have no idea.

I just feel we're missing a box

at this point.

I mean, we're not.

- Right? Like

- My gosh.

- I have no clue.

- I'm out of ideas.

No.

This is quite a search.

We're missing

power cables,

and we're missing this, like,

preamp that goes

on top of the bass.

And we couldn't

find it anywhere.

We were searching so hard.

We were in third

in this final leg.

Like, a million dollars

are on the line, and it's us

just, like, shaking our heads.

Gregory, Gregory.

Okay. Power is here.

That's one thing solved.

We need the thing to

Maybe it's in here.

Power cable?

In the

Here it is,

Gregory. There it is.

- My God.

- It's okay. It's okay.

- We just got to flip it.

- Okay.

- Just got flip it.

- Nice. Great job.

Now we a need a power cable

for this.

- I think I saw it.

- You saw it?

Yeah. All right, we have a

- It's in here. Greg, it's here.

- You found it?

- It's in here, yep.

- All right, let's set this up, man.

Can we get a check?

La Fonda, come on out

for sound check.

- Yeah.

- We love La Fonda!

Look at that.

A real band.

Yeah. Yeah.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

- You guys are awesome.

- Thank you!

Think it's like a wing

of some sort.

So we know Rob and Corey

are gonna take a long time

on the glass-blowing.

If we can just catch up with

- Yeah.

- Joel and Garrett

- on whatever this next thing is.

- Yup.

Stop. Clue box. U-turn.

Somebody's already been here.

- All right.

- Knee-hang, catch.

- My gosh.

- My, my.

I'm not in the best shape,

and so I'm a little nervous.

But I'm excited to get out thee

and show my kids

that even if something's

difficult, you can get it done.

The question is

do I have the core strength

to tuck my legs in like that?

- Glass.

- I found it.

I think we're here.

Route Info.

"Become a glassblower."

This way.

So, I'm gonna give you guys

a demonstration.

See, I'm keeping it turning.

The glass is 2,000 degrees.

Let's go. We'll figure it out.

Trapeze was

never on my list of things

that I was ever going to do.

How's it going?

My wife

she's a personal trainer.

If we win The Amazing Race,

we're gonna open our own gym

and maybe

I'll let her help me get

into shape while I'm at it.

Go, Strasser.

Hup!

Go.

There you go.

Crap! This is tough.

Greg and John haven't

shown up yet, so I have to

knock this out quick.

Hup!

Blow more.

It's not bigger.

Trying to get

that first breath of air

and then close it off

we just couldn't get it.

- Right here, right now.

- I got third ticket.

"Perform a knee-hang catch

to receive a piece

of the next clue."

- Okay.

- Done.

Hey, guys. It's super scary.

John and Greg ran in.

I said, "It's scary.

You're gonna hate it.

Be scared."

I was trying

to get in their head.

Okay, let's go.

The first time, I didn't get

it,

but I did learn some things.

Now I just have

to put it all together.

Compared to Joel and Garrett, we

might be able to pull this off.

I don't know how flexible

they are. This is physical.

- Yeah. Just be brave. Just be brave.

- Just be brave.

I mean, theoretically, we can

get this on the first try.

- Come on.

- Like, this is something

that, physically, we can do.

I know we can do this.

Hup!

- Nice job, Smithe.

- Hands off!

- Hup! Yes. Just like that.

- Nice.

I'm back.

My natural reaction

is to get frustrated,

but we just keep going.

- Come on in.

- We're gonna do

everything it takes to win thi.

Hup!

Let's go, Strasser.

There you go, there you go.

There you go!

Yeah!

Nice job, Strasser!

- Yeah!

- Yes!

I got to nail this.

All right.

Greg and John

are right behind us.

We have to somehow

stay ahead of them.

Okay.

We're gonna

keep fighting for it.

Hup!

Aah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Great job, Smithe!

I'm actually really happy

it only took us

each three tries.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you so much.

- Thank you so much.

- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Thank you, guys.

All right. Good

job, boys. Good job.

- You're gonna hate it.

- I'm sure. Let's do it.

Joel and Garrett

got through this quickly.

6321 Northeast 175th Street

in Kenmore, Washington.

That's where we're heading.

Should we go

in that gas station? All right.

Let's grab those people

in the cowboy hat right there.

Hey, can you help us real quick?

We're in a race right now.

We need to find an address.

Can you look?

Got it.

Dude, this is The Amazing Race.

- It's all yours.

- Awesome. Thank you so much. - Thank you.

- Thank you. You're All right.

- Hold that.

So we just want

to take the I-5 North.

Exit 175.

- Thank you guys so much.

- Of course. Hey, best of luck.

- Root us on. See you. - Rock on!

- Thank you. We appreciate it.

We're gonna want

to see another demo.

It was just really hard

getting that first bit

of air in the glass.

Most important part

for the blowing

making sure you're capping it

while you're still blowing

and it's in your mouth.

All right, let's go, Johnny.

Hup!

Nice.

Nice.

There you go, Johnny!

Let's go!

Let's go!

Getting your legs

around the bar

is the most difficult piece,

and from there, it was fun.

I very well might sign up

for trapeze when I get back

to San Francisco.

Great job.

All right. I got you, J.

I knew we had to get it

on our first try.

Joel and Garrett

were right in front of us.

Hup!

I already know.

The important thing is

keep blowing,

even through sealing.

So that way,

the pressure remains.

As soon as we figured that out,

it was much easier to work with.

Okay, okay, okay.

That's good.

All right, let's do it.

Hup!

Yeah! Trust it.

Yes! Go! Yes!

- Yes, Greg! Let's go! Yes!

- Let's go!

- Great job. Best to you.

- Awesome. Thank you!

- Please. Thank you. Thank you.

- Thanks so much.

Thanks.

See what we're working with.

Kenmore, Washington.

All right,

there's a person up here.

- Hi. Please.

- We're on a TV show for a million dollars.

- It's so quickly. For a million dollars.

- It's for a crazy

It's 175th Street.

All right, it's in Kenmore.

Yeah, that's it, that's it.

Exit 175?

All right. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Thanks so much.

You're the best.

So we know Joel and Garrett

are ahead of us.

Maybe Rob and Corey are ahead

of us, but we don't know

how long it takes 'em

to do the glass.

Check?

Sweet.

Check the size.

Over four inches.

You got it.

Get the stamp real quick.

- Let's go, guys. Nice job.

- Thank you so much.

Feeling nervous,

jittery, excited.

It's the big kahuna right here.

This is definitely not over yet.

Yeah. Anything can happen

in these end challenges.

People can freeze up,

people can get lost.

I'm just hoping

this final challenge is a doozy.

In the last leg, there's not

a lot of margin for error,

so I'm starting

to feel a little nervous.

This morning, we made a vow

to uphold the underdog tale

and give it our all

and go out and win.

And we're not in last place.

We might even be in first place.

Who knows?

We're living the underdog dream

right now.

That's the building,

right there.

- Kenmore Air?

- Yep.

Should be an entrance

right here.

- Okay, I see a clue.

- Clue box. Get that open.

- Get that open.

- Come on.

Start at the other side.

Come on.

How many

of these have we torn by now?

- That's not how we want to do this.

- Route Info.

This is the final challenge

before teams race

to the finish line

a memory game.

The Roadblocks and Detours

have been displayed

on these kayaks,

and teams need to lay them out

in chronological order

exactly as they encountered them

on the race.

Once teams correctly

line up the kayaks,

they'll receive

their final clue.

- Let's do it.

- Let's do it.

"Place your kayaks on racks to

represent each leg of the race

in order,

starting from left to right."

So let's separate 'em

so we can see what's what.

- The Roadblocks are red.

- Yeah.

When we got there,

nobody was there,

and we started knocking it out

as fast as we could.

Paper or Plastic was in Vietnam.

Roll that paper up.

Beauty.

Sword Play was one

of the first Detours.

We didn't do it.

We did the Thai massage.

Hello.

All Dolled Up

was relatively early on, right?

- That was Jaipur.

- Okay.

Okay. He's got a beard

and a mustache, which we like.

All right, we got

to move faster because

- Yeah.

- If we can get this done

"Who wants a bird's-eye view?"

That was the airplane one

I did, right?

- "Who wants a bird's-eye view?"

- Boy!

This is amazing.

- Bird's-eye view.

- No.

That is the very first one

that I did in L.A.

That was yours. Okay.

I'll take it down.

- You got it?

- Yep.

Right now, we're in first place.

We're the first ones here,

and we're trying

to get this knocked out,

or at least half knocked out,

before anybody else shows up.

Johnny has the best memory,

so if it is a Roadblock,

we're thinking he'll do it.

Hopefully,

it's another challenge

where we can make up time

with Joel and Garrett.

That's the goal.

And Rob and Corey, potentially.

We're at a point

where we've kind of lost

what my directions say to do.

I'm not seeing anything

that I wrote down anymore.

I'm starting

to get a little nervous.

We've lost

a decent amount of time.

"Who wants

to get their steps in?"

- That was your Irish dance.

- Yep.

That's all the way on the end.

Go all the way to the end.

We had two Roadblocks that day.

We had the Irish dance

and we had the swing.

"Who wants to be above it all?"

sh**t.

Let's go, Strasser!

Right there,

above House Work

and Field Work, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I see people

out there. Okay, turn right.

My God. Here.

Here's the clue box.

Okay, Gregory.

"Recreate your race

around the world."

- Got it. All right.

- Let's do it, baby.

Let's go.

Joel and friggin' Garrett

were almost done

when we show up

to the challenge.

- Let's do it, baby. Right here, right now.

- Right here.

- Do you know what you're doing right now?

- Yup.

Yeah, Johnny's just

going for it.

Johnny's got a crazy memory,

so he's just putting

all of the Detours

and Roadblocks in order.

"Who's feeling balanced?"

That was India.

- Special gift for you.

- Thank you. - Mighty job.

Appreciate it. Thank you.

- You're doing great.

- You're doing great.

Yeah, this is definitely

different than,

my life in New York.

Found it!

We're putting our kayaks

on one at a time as quickly

as we can, and we see

Joel and Garrett's wall

just light up with color

from kayaks.

- "Who's ready for change?"

- I don't remember that one.

That's the the wittens.

I repel down from the castle.

Let's go, Smithe!

- Let your mustache guide you!

- Yes, sir.

Okay. That was Cologne.

It's on the very top.

Then we did

Stand and Deliver

is all we have left.

But if we have

Stand and Deliver,

that must go over here.

Slovenia.

You got the second one,

I got the first one.

Which one was Sweden?

- Serve and Sort?

- Yeah.

Two, four, five, six, seven.

Check!

We're ready.

Guys, I'm sorry.

That's not correct.

- All right, what are we missing?

- Yeah, let's

Should we start

from the beginning?

Are there any more canoes?

The bird's-eye view

goes on top here.

This is the lake.

Yeah. There we go.

Matter of Taste was mustard.

Spicy food.

This is labor.

It was a physically-taxing

memory challenge.

These were not flashcards.

These were

massive kayaks

that we were trying to

individually move

onto their racks.

We're getting there.

Route Info. "Recreate your race

around the world."

Excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry.

- You know what it probably is? Stupid.

- What?

- We put these on the bottom instead of the top.

- What?

- These.

- That's stupid.

I mean, that's probably

what it is, though,

'cause it's the first thing

you did

and the second thing you did.

All right, put it up.

Move it up.

- Gosh. Damn.

- If that's it, that is so stupid.

Well, I mean,

it's our own mistake, 'cause

we should have known

to put it on the top.

- Check.

- Check.

All right, Johnny,

they're getting it checked.

Okay, something's missing.

Something's not right.

All right, Johnny.

They got it wrong. Let's go.

Deliver or Stand.

Yeah. That was

first second day in Vietnam.

Come on, man.

Come on, man.

Would you do this

for a million dollars?

You're doing great.

You're doing great.

- I think she's gonna break my back.

- My God.

Sword Play or Spa Day?

It sounds like the right order.

Scoop Up, Stock Up?

Who knows?

I think that one was

Stock Up, Scoop Up.

That is really hokey.

I mean, I don't know.

There's some little thing

that's preventing us

Yeah, I don't know what it is,

though, gosh dang it.

Dude, this sucks.

Something's missing.

We can do this.

We can figure it out.

- We'll We will figure it out.

- You're sure.

"Who wants a bird's-eye view?"

was the tightrope?

Yeah, it was.

Sword Play and Spa Day.

And then Sword Play and Spa

Day that was our first leg.

We have no clue what's wrong.

Dude, this sucks.

Something's missing.

- Okay, not too many left.

- Yeah. Come on. We got it.

The Big Picture.

That was Um, yeah.

I have, like, a

I have one earring.

It's on the on the other side.

Yeah.

- The first day.

- Yeah.

Let's go, baby!

That's easier.

Yeah.

That was the airplane

that I did.

Then we did either

House Work or Field Work.

- I'm frustrated.

- I am, too, because I see nothing.

I think Scoop Up was pomelos.

This is so many pomelos.

- All right, ready, dawg?

- Okay, give it a try.

- All right?

- Yeah. Can we go for a check?

Congratulations.

- Let's go! Let's go!

- Let's go!

- Let's go! Go, go!

- Let's go! Let's rip, rip, rip!

Teams will now make their way

to the finish line

here at Clise Mansion.

The first team to arrive here

will win

$1 million and

The Amazing Race.

Go, go, go, go.

Let's do it. This is it.

Crap.

- Let's go, baby!

- Let's go, Gregory.

- Let's go.

- Come on, come on, come on.

It's in Marymoor Park.

- What does that mean?

- I don't know.

We got to ask someone

where Marymoor Park is.

I hope it takes them forever to

find whatever their mistake was.

There's some little thing

that's preventing us.

Yeah. I don't know

what it is, though.

Do we need to flip

"Who wants a bird's-eye view?"

and the other one

that has to do with the air?

- Above it all? That's what it is.

- You know what?

That needs to go down there

and this needs to come up here.

All right, let's do it.

I can just take it.

You grab the other one off.

I don't know why we didn't think

of swapping those sooner.

Gosh!

- Gosh dang it. Check.

- Check.

- Bird's-eye view.

- Bird's-eye view. Of course it's gonna be

an airplane

flying through the air.

- Yeah. Thank you.

- Thank you.

God dang it, Strasser, why

didn't we think of that sooner?

- Head back the way we came.

- You think it's back in Seattle?

You keep looking.

- My God.

- The gas station down the road

- that we drove past on the way here.

- Yeah.

- All right, there's a person here.

- Marymoor Park.

- I'm gonna start waving people down.

- Yeah, yeah.

Hi! We're just curious

if you can tell us

which way Marymoor Park is.

Thank you, thank you.

This is truly

for a million dollars.

If we get to this location,

we win a million dollars.

If you could just

look up Marymoor Park.

Can you help us?

We need to find

- We need your help.

- We need to find Marymoor Park.

- Can we borrow your phone?

- Map. My map.

- I-405 South?

- 405 South?

- Looks like Cli-Clise Mansion is that thing.

- Yeah.

- Yeah. Thanks so much, guys.

- Thank you. We got to run.

- You guys are awesome.

- We really appreciate it. Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

- These are the directions of a lifetime, Gregory.

- Yup.

All right, we're gonna try this.

Now we're just hoping

we can overtake 'em.

And you're sure-you're sure

it was this way, right?

- Yeah. I-I

- Okay.

Well, like

My gosh.

I I'm pretty sure.

I'm pretty sure.

- Does it say Marymoor Way?

- Um, it says.

"Marymoor Park office."

Might be on our heels.

I mean, it's close.

Marymoor Park.

Willowmoor Farm.

- Smithe, we're gonna sprint it out. Do you hear me?

- Yep.

This I mean,

this is definitely

There's buildings on the right.

That's got to be the office.

- Who's that car?

- Johnny, what does it say?

I know, I'm sorry,

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I mean, we got to find

the parking, so

You see any kind of clues?

- Is this-is this the parking?

- Like

"The marked parking"

is what it said.

Let's go!

Let's go, baby!

Let's go!

Eight countries, 19 cities,

more than 23,000 miles.

Greg and John,

you are the official winners

of The Amazing Race!

You have won the $1 million!

Yes!

That is the most excited

- that I have ever seen a winning team run in to the mat.

- Yeah.

We came up, we thought

we saw another car.

And so we were like,

"We got to sprint there."

It's just wonderful

to see the connection

that you guys have

and the spirit

in which you've run this race.

Why is this such a special human

being, this person standing

next to you? It's

as a younger brother,

Greg is just such himself and

has all of his own strengths,

and this was really a great way

for him to highlight that

and see that

he is his own person.

Like, it doesn't have

to be following big brother.

And he just blew that out

the water, this race.

And I just really could not

have done this without him.

I couldn't ask

for a better partner, truly.

It just really showed how much

of a best friend Johnny is.

And I am incredibly grateful

for the rest of my life

that I get to do

even more adventures

- with this man next to me.

- Absolutely.

Okay.

Great job, man.

Thank you, guys.

Joel and Garrett

are the second team to arrive,

and they've finished second

on this Amazing Race.

- Congrats, guys.

- Great job.

- Very close finish.

- Did they just run up? Did you guys just run up?

- 120 seconds ago.

- Really? - Are you serious?

- Yes! - That close?

- What a close finish.

What does it mean

to have completed

this race

with your best friend?

We ran the entire race

without yelling at each other,

without getting ticked off,

without

calling each other names.

I've I keep saying this,

and I really mean it.

I got a lot of friends,

I got a lot of family.

There's nobody else

I could have ran this race with.

I couldn't have done it

with a better guy.

This guy pushed

pushed me through so much.

When I was having

a hard time running,

he just-he just kept me going,

and I'm just grateful for him.

The fact that we were able

to hang in there

until the final leg,

and not only that,

but to end in second place

I couldn't ask for anything moe

except for first place, but

There's that.

I do feel like this race

has brought us

even closer together.

Where we were

the most successful

was in those moments where

we could work side by side.

We just tried

to keep each other positive,

and so, this experience

has really

deepened and strengthened

our friendship.

- Check.

- Should we check?

- Congratulations.

- Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Bring it in.

Rob and Corey, everybody.

You are team number three.

Congratulations.

I know you're incredibly proud

of your son.

What do you love

about this boy of yours?

I'm so eternally grateful

to my parents

for raising me

with sign language

because they pulled me

into their world,

and I can have this kind

of a relationship with my dad.

I'm proud that I got

to do this with you.

I'm proud that we never quit

when things got hard.

We worked hard together

and built each other up, so

At the end of the day,

I really hope someone sees

how powerful of a relationship

my dad and I have

and how American Sign Language

is at the core.

Congratulations.

It's kind of been our thing

the whole race to just remain

positive no matter what happens.

I'm proud of you, big fella.

My one hope out of this

entire experience is

that my kids watch this

and see what can happen

when you don't look the part,

you maybe don't even act

the part, but

you can do the part

if you just keep going.

It's really bittersweet,

the race coming to an end.

Getting to do it with my dad

you don't b*at this.

This is

a once-in-a-lifetime opportuniy

and something

I'm gonna cherish forever.

I'm so elated

that we did the race.

It has been just, like,

a documented journey

of our relationship and

something that

we can show our kids,

something we can show

our grandkids.

We can now look back and say,

"We did this."

It was so much fun,

and the outcome

we couldn't ask

for anything more.

Yeah!