- [Phil] Previously on "The Amazing Race,"
nine teams raced from Salzburg, Austria, to Bran, Romania.
At the airport, Brad and Victoria took a gamble.
- [Brad] Gotta change planes in Amsterdam.
- It'll be tight, but I'm not freaking out over it.
- [Phil] That didn't pay off.
- [Agent] Your flight to Bucharest left already.
- [Phil] At the detour,
Kris's brawn propelled his team into the lead.
- Okay, go.
- [Phil] When a simple mistake.
- [Amanda] Where'd you put the fanny pack?
- [Phil] Allowed Mel and Mike to claim their first victory.
Mel and Mike, you are team number one! Yes!
Victor led Tammy up the wrong path.
- [Tammy] Where are we going?
- I can't tell you that.
- [Phil] Until Tammy spoke up.
- You wanna make decisions? Please make one.
- The siblings barely survived.
You are the second last team to arrive.
And married couple, Brad and Victoria, came up short.
You are the last team to arrive.
I'm sorry to tell you,
you had both been eliminated from the race.
Coming up tonight. - Yeah!
- Are you willing to use the U-turn. [laughs]
- [Phil] Margie and Luke target one team in a new twist.
- Blind U-turn.
You don't have to put your picture up on the board.
- Yes, it's part of the game.
I would do anything to win the game.
Yeah, I know, $ million, come on, Momma.
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- This is Bran, Romania, part of Transylvania,
home to the ominous Bran Castle,
one time residents of Vlad The Impaler,
the deadly ruler upon whom the Dracula legend was based.
And in the shadow of this menacing landmark,
Villa Panoramic.
This old world cottage was the third pit stop
in a race around the world.
Mel and Mike, who were the first to arrive at : AM.
- So awesome, dude.
- [Phil] Will depart at : PM.
- Fly to Siberia.
- All teams must fly through Moscow
to the city of Krasnoyarsk deep in the heart of Siberia.
They'll then travel by taxi
to the structure on the back of the ruble note,
the Soviet era Krasnoyarsk's hydro-electric dam
where they'll find their next clue.
- Here we go. - Bucharest airport.
[group speaking in non-English]
- My dad is part Woody Allen, part Billy Graham,
and a splash of Judy Garland.
- Ah.
- So I feel like with all of those qualities,
somehow we're gonna survive this race.
- Find the dam on this ruble note.
Oh, that's the clue.
- Make your way to Krasnoyarsk.
- You know an airport?
All right, [speaking in non-English].
We're going to Siberia.
- I know.
- I think the fact that we're young,
and we're both really competitive,
and we've been together so long,
all these things combined is just gonna make us like
really go above and beyond and just,
I think we're gonna win this thing.
- Make your way to Carnis Sokovia.
Oh, my ass hurts.
- We are flying to Siberia.
I know that's where they have Siberian tigers.
- Sound effects.
Fly to Siberia. - Oh!
- Airport, please.
Good, good, good.
I think Luke is living his dream.
He's gonna do his best
on every single task that's given to him.
When we are in a competition,
and it's shoulder to shoulder with other teams,
he is gonna absolutely, you know, g*n it.
- Fly to Siberia.
Go, go, get in.
You know, it's fly to. - Krasnoyarsk.
I think that's it.
- Fly to Siberia. - Yeah!
- Research is gonna be the most important thing right now.
- [Driver] If you want, you can find an internet cafe.
- Let's go to the internet cafe, please.
You're our new favorite cab driver.
- Yes.
- Make your way Krasnoyarsk.
So fly to the airport.
- Woo, let's go.
- Find the dam on this on the ruble note.
Pretty powerful beavers made that dam.
They must be females.
- Driver, do you have a phone I may borrow?
Sweet.
Probably the best tools that we've discovered on this
is while we're doing our taxi ride
is calling ahead to the airlines.
- Hello?
- The taxi driver got a phone call, and he handed it to us.
- Hello?
- I was like, oh my gosh, it's Mike and Mark.
I think his taxi driver just called another taxi driver.
And they thought
that they were placing some sort of call to Lufthansa.
You're calling Lufthansa Airlines?
- Calling Lufthansa.
- Yes, this is Lufthansa.
- From Bucharest international airport.
- From Bucharest international airport.
- Yes.
It's in America. - Yeah.
- I have a flight that leaves at : AM through Frankfurt,
but it is, I only have business class available.
- No, we can't do business class.
- Okay.
- I think you should hang up.
I think you should hang up.
- Oh, sh**t. Hello?
- That was so mean. I can't even believe I did it.
- Fly to Siberia.
- Cold. - It's gonna be so cold!
It was certainly hard to go from first place to last
all in one day, yesterday.
- All right, internet cafe, hello.
From flight attend experience,
where of, so many different ways
that you can route yourself to a destination.
- [Jodie] We have to go through Moscow.
- [Christie] That's only got an hour five connection.
That's too tight.
Bucharest, Istanbul, Istanbul, Moscow.
The :
from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk.
Let's see what time it gets in.
: AM. - Save time.
- [Christie] We want that.
- [Jodie] Yeah, it gets us in the earliest.
- [Christie] Let's look at our connection times.
That gives us three hours, that's gold.
Why don't we just book right here?
- I will become ice cube.
- We just pulled up to the airport here in Bucharest.
- [Mel] Is it possible to buy tickets now?
- [Kris] We need to get to Moscow as soon as we can.
But we're trying to ultimately get to Krasnoyarsk.
- [Contestant] Hello.
We have to connect in Moscow.
- [Agent] I understand.
- To hear, to Moscow, to Krasnoyarsk.
- [Agent] You can catch a flight through Frankfurt
and on to Moscow.
- [Agent] I have a flight to Moscow through Sofia, Bulgaria.
- [Agent] There is a flight going through Munich to Moscow.
- You're awesome. Thank you so much.
- The flight to Moscow and beyond is a Turkey sh**t
because from here, we can catch all kinds of flights,
connecting through all kinds of European cities
to get to Moscow.
- Our flight from Moscow arrives in Krasnoyarsk at : AM.
And we're traveling with Jen and Kisha.
- Even though all the groups have split up,
we'll still meet up in the end
to get on that flight to Krasnoyarsk.
- In the end, if there's only one flight
from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk,
it doesn't really matter what connections we make,
as long as we get on that flight.
[dramatic music]
- [Phil] All teams are making their way to Moscow
on one of four connecting flights.
When they reach Moscow,
they're scheduled to connect onto the : flight
in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, landing at : AM.
- Taxi, Taxi.
Dam, you know that?
I showed him at the ruble, and he knew exactly where to go.
- That's it. - Yeah, you take us.
- I wanna go to the dam.
[driver speaking in non-English].
- We're leaving in first place.
We're with Jennifer and Kisha and Jody and Kristie,
and everybody else actually got stuck
back in the other airport.
- From Moscow, we ultimately missed the ideal flight,
which was the earlier flight, which was a big bummer.
- Transferring in Moscow from one flight
to another was just really difficult.
So we ended up with five teams at the airport, late.
- Unfortunately, for the other teams,
we do feel good about the fact
that they didn't make the flight
'cause that should put us in the top three.
- Oh, yeah, look at that. - Mosque.
- [Michael] That definitely looks like it.
- Okay, we'll be back. - Yes.
Oh, we got :.
- :.
We didn't have to really be in such big hurry.
- All right.
- It opens at :.
[Michael laughs] Yay.
- I believe we have found our destination.
[playful music]
- [Christie] Do you see the man's face?
- [Jodi] Is he the one that built it or none of it?
- No, he's like. - The leader here?
- He's a leader. He's a bad like a dictator guy.
[dramatic music]
- Okay, let's go. - Come on, Kisha.
- [Mark] Right here, Mike. Right here, right here.
- [Michael] Yeah, that's it.
- Keep up.
Come on, you can do.
Come on, Kristie!
- Number one.
- [Mike] We're in close.
- [Phil] Teams must now race
to the church of Saint Innokenty.
It's here that they'll find their next clue.
- Make your way to church of Saint Innokenty.
- Ovsyanka.
- Ovsyanka village.
- Let's go. - Okay, show him where.
- Church of Saint Innokenty. - Okay.
- You know right there? - Yes.
- All right, let's go.
Looks like it's gonna be labor.
- It's gonna be cold labor.
- Now I gotta find a church.
- Oh, there it is. Right there, that's the spot!
- The gate, stop, stop. - Okay, okay.
Okay, here, we got a detour.
- In this detour, teams have to choose
between two things the locals use to protect themselves
from the bitter Siberian winters.
Stack or construct.
In stack, teams travel to the riverbank
where they must use a traditional method
to stack a pile of firewood.
Once their wood is stacked
to the satisfaction of a local expert,
he'll hand them their next clue.
In construct, teams travel on foot to this work shed
where they'll find materials
to build a set of traditional wood shutters.
Then they must correctly assemble the shutters
and take them to this house,
distinguished by the repairs needed sign in front
and properly install 'em.
When the installation is complete,
they'll receive their next clue.
- We're gonna go stack. - We're gonna stack, okay.
- I actually stack wood at home all the time.
So I thought it was gonna be maybe a better choice
than putting something together.
- Let's do the wood. - Stack, yeah.
- We already choose to stack.
- Let's stack. - Let's stack.
I don't see markers. I don't see wood.
- There's construct over there.
- [Jodie] Construct.
- [Christie] And there stack right there.
- [Jodie] Good job!
- There's some wood piles right there.
- [Mark] Should we go back?
- I don't know, let's go back.
- You all right? - I'm all right.
[locals singing in non-English]
- [Jodie] Okay, all we have to do is stack wood.
- [Christie] Holy-cannoli.
- I'm Musica, I love you!
[locals laugh]
- [Jodie] Let's take this stack right here in the middle.
You wanted to start on one, and I'll start on the other?
- [Christie] Yeah.
Build it straight across this line.
- You have to give it some space between stacks.
So that's too close to the deck, if it falls over,
it's gonna ruin that.
If we screw this up, we're in trouble.
- See Christie and Jodi. - Hey, girls.
- Hey. - All right.
- It's like Jenga.
I'm gonna start arranging the pieces.
The flat versus the triangle ones.
This is a lot of freaking wood.
- Oh, I see it up ahead of us.
- That's where they're building.
- Now we gotta figure out and pick the right one, Mike.
- The guys got here.
- [Christie] Mark and Mike get lost a lot.
- [Jodie] They do get lost a lot.
- Oh, Jen, the guys are here, so let's go.
- So all the pieces need to go this way first.
Four this way, grab two.
See how it is, Mike?
- Yep. - See the pattern?
- They have to be five across. - Four.
- Four this way, five this way.
- Give me, just gimme wood. - All right.
Not that big.
Not that big.
- Girl!
- Just does not look right.
- [Michael] Mark, what are you doing?
- [Mark] Huh?
- We're not working together here.
You're stacking that up wrong.
- Oh, those are regular, okay. Okay, I see.
- Hey, Mark, you're building a second column we didn't need.
- [Mark] Oh, that's right, Mike.
The other one would've been easier. [laughs]
- You think? - Yeah.
[dramatic music]
- Go fast!
- Taxi.
We have to go to the dam.
Do you know where it is? - Yes.
- Do you know where that is? - Let's do that.
- Yes. - The dam?
- We're in a very big hurry.
Taxi here?
Fast.
- Very fast. - You know?
- Yes. - Okay.
- They know, yes. - Woo!
[both speaking in non-English]
- [Margie] Five teams are fighting
for the final four places.
One team is gonna be eliminated, we think.
[dramatic music]
So, very nervous.
[local cheering]
[lively folk music]
- We good to go. Let's get moving.
And we gotta pick up our speed, they're high.
- We've got the most, come on.
- We can win, come on - I know.
- [Michael] You know what, Mike, this isn't gonna work.
- [Mike] It's gonna have a tendency to wanna tilt,
to fall over.
- Build your inside first.
Your wall's gonna get too big, and it's gonna be weak.
- Yes, keep it moving, we're doing good.
Ours is definitely more stable.
- Come on, Jen, gotta go.
[Mike grunts]
- [Mark] Oh, Mike.
[teammates gasping]
- They knocked down the back one, that sucks.
- Are you kidding me?
- Oh, that sucks.
- [Mark] Do we have to stack theirs too?
- [Michael] Yes, we have to stack there's.
If you knock their down, we have to stack it.
- [Jodie] Unbelievable.
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
- [Mark] Oh, Mike.
[teammates gasping]
- They knocked down the back one. That sucks.
- Are you kidding me?
- Oh, that sucks.
- Let's go do the other one.
Come on, don't even think about it.
- Mark and Mike just gotta b*at my girls.
- [Mark] That would've been another two hours at least.
- [Michael] Yeah, let's go find that workshop.
- Hey, they're catching up with us, Christie.
We gotta pick up the pace.
- Let's try to pick up our pace a little, all right?
- Cool.
[dramatic music]
- Can we go faster?
- Just go fast, please.
Go fast!
- [Luke] Go, go!
- Margie and Luke directly behind us.
- It comes down to a foot race,
I think Amanda and Kris would win, hands down.
This is it. - Let's go, baby!
- Make your way to church at Ovsyanka.
- Make your way to the church.
- Make your way to the church.
- Okay, stop, stop.
sh**t, Kris and Amanda are there.
- Oh, Luke and Margie, Luke and Margie.
- [Tammy] Yeah, they did b*at us.
- You ready, Tammy? Let's go!
- Let's go. - I see a flag.
- [Tammy] You're going too fast.
- [Victor] Come on, Tammy, you can do this.
- All right, let's go.
We've got a couple teams behind us.
So we're doing all right.
[dog barking] - Hey, hey, whoa, whoa.
- [Michael] Mark, leave the dog alone.
- [Mark] Whoa, man eater.
- [Michael] Here we are, okay.
- Hello! - Hello!
Those are our shutters.
- This is gonna be pretty heavy, Mike, to carry over there.
You know what we can do is leave this stuff here
and go find it.
I'm just gonna set them right here.
We need to find a house that says repairs needed.
- [Mark] Okay, I don't see any sign that says repair needed.
- This is gonna take all day.
[dramatic music]
- I guess it would help to be six feet tall.
- [Kisha] Advantage to being tall.
- Guess we're at a race to the finish.
First place will be nice.
- [Jodie] Come on, Kristie.
- All right, come on, come on. Let's go, let's go.
- Come on, we're almost there.
- [Jen] Last piece.
- [Jodie] Keep it up. Keep it up.
- Yeah. - Yes!
Thank you.
- Make your way to the Museum of the Novel, "The Last Bow."
Caution, U-turn ahead.
- This is the first of only two U-turns
found along the race course.
A U-turn appears at the end of a detour.
Teams can use the power of the U-turn
to slow down another team,
forcing them to backtrack
and perform the other side of the detour.
But in a new twist,
this is what's known as a blind U-turn.
Previously, when teams forced another team to U-turn,
they had to post their own picture
and be known as the perpetrators.
Now they can remain anonymous.
- Come on 'cause they right behind us.
- All right, is that it?
- You cute girl, the best.
- We did the best?
- Oh! - Thank you.
- Make your way to the Museum of Novel.
- [Jodie] Caution, U-turn ahead.
- It's right there.
This is a blind U-turn.
If you choose to use it, you can remain anonymous.
We choose not to U-turn anybody.
I know that five teams missed a flight,
and they're not gonna catch up to us anytime soon.
So we are in a safe position.
- [Both] Route info.
- [Phil] Teams must now take a taxi
to this local amusement park, Bobrovy Log Park,
where they'll search for their next clue.
- [Both] Taxi.
- It's in there.
- The girls are only a couple minutes behind us right now.
- U-turn.
Our personal philosophy was we probably won't U-turn anyone
unless it's for our life.
So we're not gonna U-turn anyone.
Make your way to the bobsled. - Bobsleds.
Sweet, bobsledding!
- Detour stack or construct?
I say we do the stack. - Stack, yeah.
Stack. Let's go.
We works strong, we're gonna do awesome.
- Detour, stack or construct, the first one?
- The first one, yeah.
- We're gonna do stack.
- [Mel] I like stacking wood.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Stack. - What do you guys wanna do?
- Let's do stack. - Stack, stack.
- Stack. - Let's go.
[locals singing in non-English]
- My mom used to make stack for wood.
- [Kris] This might take forever.
Let's go baby.
Mel and Mike back over here.
- Wow, this is a bitch.
This is crazy.
- [Mike] Here comes the other team.
- [Mel] Tammy and Victor just got here.
Margie and Luke.
- I see it.
It's gonna take all day.
How are we gonna blow past Mike and Mel?
- [Mike] They're all here.
- We're moving, babe. We're moving.
- Sure, it's finding the right ones.
- [Kisha] Oh, geez.
We'll be back.
Roadblock.
- [Phil] In this roadblock,
one team member must ride up to a speed of miles an hour
while completing a three-mile bobsled course
in under four minutes.
They must also look for seven letters posted along the way.
Once finished, they'll then have to unscramble the letters
to correctly spell the name of a famous Russian playwright.
Chekhov.
When they come up with the right answer,
they'll receive their next clue.
- I'm gonna do it.
- All right.
- [Kisha] Lord, protect me.
- Good luck. - Thank you.
Hi.
- So you ready? - I'm ready?
Four minutes or less.
- Where's that bobsled?
- There it is. - Yeah, there's a clue box.
- Kristie and Jody just got here.
- Why don't you go ahead and do it?
Have fun, have fun. - Yay!
- [Announcer] Team in position.
- Whoa!
Oh!
Woo-hoo!
Woo-hoo!
All right, CO, CO.
- Go, girl. - What's up?
[dramatic music]
- COHK.
KE.
COHKE.
Woo!
- She is flying!
- HKEH.
COHKEH.
- Keep going, all the way.
All the way. All the way!
We did it.
Woo-hoo!
- I only got six letters. - Damn!
- Oh! - Oh.
- Another time.
I'm sorry, Jen.
I gotta start over.
[dramatic music]
- [Kris] Mike and Miller catching up.
- My god, Mike and Miller,
like freaking lumber jacks over there.
They're almost halfway done.
- They're more than halfway done.
- Be careful with that, Dad, is totally Jenga.
- [Victor] We're not even focused
on how other people are doing right now.
- [Tammy] We just wanna get the job done right.
- [Victor] It's more about just us doing our job.
- [Luke] Be careful.
- [Margie] I'm trying to be careful, yes.
- Don't lean on the wood pile. Don't push on the wood pile.
Let me start handing 'em to you.
- She's doing nothing while he builds the thing.
- Look, you're using little pieces. This is no good.
- You surprised, Margie?
No surprise that down there,
Kris, he's stacking while she gives direction.
- We think the world of Luke and Margie,
their friendship has been something
we've really appreciated.
- [Amanda] Any many boys helping us.
Girls rule, boys drool.
- [Mark] Their house doesn't need to big repair, does it?
No?
- Our lead is gone,
and we can't seem to find the house
that we're supposed to apply the shutters to.
See, it says a house nearby.
This isn't exactly nearby.
I think we're way off, man.
Let's go back.
- [Michael] They're catching up, no doubt.
[dramatic music]
- [Jodie] Where in the world.
She doesn't have a chance of making this one.
[dramatic music]
Come on, Christie. Hurry, Christie.
Can you push it any closer?
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
[dramatic music]
Made it. You had four minutes exactly.
Do you remember the letters?
- Yeah.
- [Jodi] Good girl. You did good.
Hustle, hurry, hurry.
- [Christie] Famous Russian playwright.
- [Jodi] You can do it, Christie. You're doing great.
- [Kisha] All right, full speed ahead.
- [Jodie] You got it, girl.
Just guess.
- There's no way to guess. I have no clue.
[dramatic music]
- [Amanda] Right here, it's too close.
- Gently, gently, gently.
- Oh my god, we got a lot of wood left.
- You're almost there.
We can b*at 'em, come on.
[Luke speaking indistinctly]
- Careful. - Right here.
- All we need is for ours to tip over.
- We gotta pick up the pace.
Come on, girlfriend.
- Oh, it's falling.
It's falling. It's falling.
Oh no!
- [Cara] You gonna, oh.
- Cara, no, no!
- Oh, God! - Dammit!
- We're so close. - I know.
- Kris!
Oh my gosh, Kris.
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
- Oh, God. - This is.
- Cara, no, no!
- Oh, God! - Dammit!
- Oh my god, Jaime.
- Kris!
- [Tammy] Oh, theirs fell.
Their thing just fell over so we gotta be careful.
- I think we should do the other one.
- Do you really?
- So what do you wanna do?
- I don't know.
- That's probably gonna probably fall again.
Do you just wanna go do the other thing?
- Where is it? - I don't know.
It says you have to build shutters
and put 'em on someone's house.
- Let's go. - We're gonna do construct.
Oh man, we were totally ahead too.
[Jaime groans]
[dramatic music]
- [Mark] I don't know, Mike, I'm stumped.
- Hey, hey, hey. - What?
- House needs repair. - Where?
- Okay, wait.
- No, don't say that if you don't read it.
Let's go back into the workshop.
We're gonna go ahead and build it first.
Just to get my mind off driving ourselves nuts.
No, that's wrong.
No, doesn't go flush.
- I wondering if I got these backwards.
- Once we get the same put together,
we gotta go out and try and find the house again.
- [Michael] Don't break these babies.
- Whoa!
Come on, final letter, I have not seen you yet.
V. Woo!
- [Jodie] Yeah, she'll make it for sure.
- [Jen] Hope she's got that last letter.
- [Jodie] Good job, that was fast.
- [Jen] Good job!
Come on, Ki!
- [Jodie] Kisha's right behind you now.
- [Jen] Remember, it's Russian.
- [Kisha] I know nothing about no Russian.
- [Christie] I could be here all night.
- One more.
- [Margie] Hurry, hurry.
- [Victor] We're close.
- Okay, we're done!
Yay! Woo! - We're done, we're done!
- Thank you.
Caution, U-turn ahead.
- Oh gosh.
- [Kris] They finish?
- [Amanda] Doesn't matter. Ignore them.
- [Jaime] I hope that we're not U-turned.
- [Cara] I hope they get to it first.
- Should we do the other thing?
We were just so frustrated,
and I was thinking we could be here all day.
And so that's when we made the decision
to try to do the other detour.
Let's do the other thing. - Let's do the other thing.
- We're switching.
- We're done. - Okay!
- [Both] Yay!
- Let's just pray we're not U-turned.
[Luke speaking indistinctly]
- Let's go, baby.
- Hopefully, we can catch up with other teams.
- Yeah.
- It's part of the game.
- Yeah, it's part of the game.
Kris and Amanda, we're sorry.
We love you guys, but.
- They're strong.
- Make your way to the bobsled.
- We wanted to give Jaime and Cara a little more time
to finish their tasks.
Fast as you can, please.
We are so sorry, oh.
- Okay, feel bad for you Amanda and Kris.
It was not us.
We are not, it's already been done.
- Feel bad for them, but to be honest, Kris is so fast.
We've all been viewing him as a thr*at.
- Make your way to the bobsled.
Let's go.
- [Tammy] Thank God, it's not us.
- Yeah, thank God.
Nothing fell.
- [Tammy] I know.
- [Victor] That's Asian engineering.
- Victor and I just don't wanna come in last,
and I think. - We're not going to.
- We're okay for right now.
[dramatic music]
- [Jodie] Just guess.
- [Christie] There's no way to guess. I have no clue.
- I was familiar with a few Russian words or endings,
you know, like Chek or Khov.
So I just tried to take that knowledge
and arrange the letters in some way
where I'll finally get it.
[dramatic music]
- You got it? - Yes, yes!
- [Jodie] She got it.
What the hell is it that Christie doesn't know?
- Thank you.
- Travel by taxi to the next pit stop.
- [Phil] Teams must now take a taxi and find this place,
the theater of musical comedy.
The last team to check in here may be eliminated.
- All right, let's go.
I don't know how I assembled the letters
to get what I needed, but I did.
- [Christie] Russian playwright.
[dramatic music]
Is this, yes?
- Yes.
- Thank you.
- Take another taxi to the pit stop!
You did good. Boys aren't even here yet.
- I wanted to look brilliant.
[both laugh]
And I didn't.
- We got everything put together,
but now we're looking for the house.
- Mel and Mike. - Hey, Mel, Mike.
- Was really kind of relieved to see Mel and Mike
because we figured maybe with them,
we could, you know, work this out.
- You gotta build that. - You gotta build this.
And then find the house
on the dot. - Find the house
that needs to be repaired. - That needs to be repaired.
- If you'll up us put or piece together,
then we'll go looking together.
- Okay, we can do that.
- [Margie] Yeah, it's over there.
- [Victor] I think they're going the same place.
Oh, if we can b*at them.
Yes, it's them, awesome.
- Stay here. - Right up here.
- Stay, stay, stay.
Come on, Margie.
- Who's ready to speed read? Me.
Let's finish. - Okay, you can do it.
- Me. - Okay, go.
- Look for letters.
Look for letters.
C, C.
Cat, cat, cat.
Oh my gosh, this is crazy!
- [Mike] Where did you guys go?
- We filed the whole thing of wood, and it fell over.
- It was almost impossible.
- [Mike] We've been here all day.
We can't find the house to put the wood on.
- We can't find the house.
We walked houses down, and there's no street sign.
- [Kris] Let's build it, and we'll all find it together.
[dramatic music]
- [Kisha] That's right there.
You must enter the theater through the main entrance.
- [Jen] Main.
I don't know, homie.
- Enter the theater through the main entrance.
Right here?
This right here?
- I don't think this is the main entrance.
Here, let's go down. - Let's go down this way.
- [Jaime] This is not marked. Is there another entrance?
- [Jen] Is this the main entrance?
- Here, here, here. - You see it?
- Yep. - Yeah, yeah, go, go, go.
- [Kisha] Okay, this is the main entrance.
[lively folk music]
[dramatic music]
[performers speaking in non-English]
- Christie and Jody.
- Yes.
- You are team number
one!
- Ah, no way!
- Yes, way.
You are team number one, congratulations.
[audience cheering]
As the winners of this leg of the race,
you have each won a motorcycle.
- Yes. - Sweet!
- It's a very cool motorbike.
And you guys can use that after the race.
- Wow. - To go cruising around.
Are you into that? - Yeah!
- We don't wanna get low.
We don't wanna get too confident
because we've been at the very top,
and we've dropped down to the very bottom,
but we feel pretty good about being in first.
[dramatic music]
- Kisha and Jen, you are team number two.
[both laugh]
- Go faster, faster, fast.
- [Tammy] Oh, here comes. Come on, Victor!
- Woo!
- [Tammy] Yeah, you got it!
- Yes. - Okay.
- Good.
- Whoa!
- Once I saw the letters on the ground,
Chekhov instantly came out because, you know?
Who doesn't know what Chekhov, who Chekhov is?
- [Luke] Whoa!
- Come on, buddy!
- Whoa!
[both laugh]
- Is that right? - Yeah.
- Good!
- Yeah, Victor, you got it!
- Travel by taxi then [reading indistinctly].
- Yes!
- Okay, good luck, Margie! - Good luck, Margie!
- Thank you.
- Last part. Last part.
It was totally fun. It was like a little roller coaster.
- Rollercoaster.
- Come on, Luke. Come on.
Come on!
Yes, yes!
Yes, yes!
Go, go, go, go.
I had never had any Russian, English or literature classes.
I don't know who he was. I didn't have any idea.
[Luke speaking indistinctly]
- Poor thing.
- I don't know.
- Change it around. Change it.
I know he gets frustrated with himself.
So I am a little worried.
[dramatic music]
- [Amanda] This is hard.
- Just close these up.
- All finished, ah. - Good job, dad.
- Okay, now let's get down the street, you guys.
Come on, Mike. We're gonna go look for the house, guys.
- Okay.
I say we take it out there because there's is together.
And we could look at theirs
and find the house at the same time.
[Luke speaking indistinctly]
- I don't know, he's a little confused.
He doesn't know what.
I don't think he knows what they're asking.
He's gonna get down on himself
'cause he can't figure it out.
[Luke speaking indistinctly]
[dramatic music]
- [Margie] I can't help you.
- Mike, you wanna stack it all on the ladder?
- Stack it on the ladder and carry it.
- Good idea.
- I'll tell you guys right now,
we've walked that way for like a mile.
- I think all we can do is go down the street again.
One more time, and this time, peel those eyeballs.
- Okay, Cara, five pieces left.
- I know. - Five, we got this.
- He's done it three times and gotten it wrong all three.
I mean with English as a second language for him,
English literature was difficult enough.
So I don't think he knows what they're asking,
to tell you the truth.
- I don't know.
- You have to do it.
Just keep trying. Don't give up.
[dramatic music]
- Okay, oh, thank you.
Make your way to the Museum of the Novel, "The Last Bow."
- Thank you! - With no help from boys!
- While we're going, babe, keep your eyes peeled
for a thing that says repair needed.
- This looks like we're the last three teams here.
- It was like a caravan of idiots
holding their ladders with all their stuff in.
- Duh!
- I just feel bad.
I can see he's getting very frustrated.
I wanna help him, but I can't.
[Luke speaking indistinctly]
[dramatic music]
- Ugh!
He's very confused right now and frustrated.
[Luke groaning]
[dramatic music]
[Luke speaking indistinctly]
- Keep trying, keep trying.
Take a breath. [Luke exhales]
I'm getting very nervous that another team will catch up.
- Duh!
- Oh my gosh!
Oh, thank God.
Make your way to the bobsled to find your next clue.
Oh thank you, whoever did that.
Thank you, whoever U-turned Amanda and Kris.
- It looks like there's a couple cabs still here.
We're hoping that means people are still doing shutters.
- How can four smart guys
and the rest of us not be able to figure this out?
[ominous music]
[Luke enunciating]
- [Margie] He's trying to spell it out on paper now.
- Fine. - I'm suspicious.
I'm suspicious.
- I think, let's go back this way.
Just come with me.
- [Mel] They're walking up, Mike.
- Are they? - Yeah.
- Oh!
It's here!
- It's right here. - Let's go.
- [Mark] That's too funny. Look at that.
- Oh, God.
- [Mark] That is freaking nuts.
[dramatic music]
- I know he feels like he's letting me down, but he's not.
He's doing an awesome job.
- I don't know.
- Just keep trying.
[Luke speaking indistinctly]
[dramatic music]
- Yes.
[Margie and Luke cheering]
- Travel by taxi to the pit stop.
Woo-hoo!
You did awesome.
- It's Margie and Luke.
- Right up there, go.
Go, go, go, run.
- [Jaime] Come on, let's go.
- What? You did great.
No we're, I think we're number four right now.
Proud of you.
- Please read.
You're a great reader.
- I'm a good reader.
- [Cara] All right, Jaime, come on!
- Seven letters so.
- It' gotta be here, Dad. - That's it.
Yeah, that's it.
You got it.
You did it.
- [Mike] Done.
- [Mel] What a pretty lady.
Thank you.
- Caution, U-turn ahead.
- Thank you.
- Caution U-turn ahead.
I can't believe we're that stupid.
- [Amanda] Good job, guys!
- [Kris] Did they finish it?
- I think everyone did.
- [Mike] Oh, crap. They've already been U-turned.
- [Mel] Oh no.
- Make your way to the bobsled.
- Who got U-turned?
- Kris and Amanda.
- [Mark] Kristen and Amanda got the U-turn.
Oh, that sucks.
- Somebody blind U-turned Amanda and Kris.
I know that means
they have to go do the log thing over again,
and I think that'll just crush 'em.
- All right. - Thank you.
Caution, U-turn ahead.
- [Kris] Let's go, baby.
The last, oh.
- [Amanda] U-turn in there?
- [Kris] And we're U-turned.
- [Amanda] Are you freaking kidding me? Shady.
- Shady, shady.
We have to walk back to the wood pile, come on.
- [Amanda] What conniving people.
We've been nothing but so nice to everyone.
- [Kris] I know, it's stupid.
- [Amanda] This sucks, dude.
[lively folk music]
- Tammy and Victor.
You are team number three.
- Yeah! - Yeah!
[dramatic music]
- Charlie, COHKEH, awesome.
Charlie, yeah? Yes, I got 'em.
- [Cara] Okay on, baby!
- [Jamie] I'm just making stuff up.
- That's okay. - Just to make it up.
I don't know any Russian playwrights, Cara.
I'm sorry.
- [Jaime] I'm not mad.
Don't worry, you're doing great.
- [Cara] No?
- Yes? - Yes! [laughs]
- Go, go, get, get the clue!
- Thank you! - Come on!
[Jaime and Cara shrilling]
- Travel by taxi.
That was awesome, baby. You're my rockstar.
- Very fast, thank you.
- As fast, this is for the finish line.
- Oh, there it is, right there.
- Down here, left. - Go, go, go, go.
- Go, go, go!
Get, get out!
- Go, go, go! - Okay.
- Are you okay? - Yeah.
- Okay, go.
- You wanna go speed? - No, you go.
- [Michael] This is crazy.
[lively folk music]
- Margie and Luke.
You are team number four.
[both cheering]
- COHKEH.
- Come on, one more big time!
Let's go.
- I'm missing that other letter.
- [Mark] Excellent.
- [Michael] I gotta go again. I'm missing a letter.
- Do it again, that's all right.
Hurry up.
- [Mel] Oh, man.
[lively folk music]
- Jaime and Cara, you are team number five.
[Jaime and Cara cheering]
- Here, almost there. Last piece of wood.
Done? - Sure.
- Yeah? - Yes?
[judge speaking in non-English]
- Thank you!
Muah!
[lively folk music] - Hey!
- Back to the museum. We did it.
- You're awesome.
- You're awesome.
Make your way to the bobsled to find your next clue.
- Good job. - Oh my God.
- Give me a kiss.
- Oh, it was hard.
- It's a blind U-turn but we have a pretty good feeling
that it was Jen and Kisha.
They were the ones in the first flight.
So it only makes sense. - Or the blondes.
And the blondes are not trustworthy either. So.
- That could be them too. So.
Mike and Mel, when they saw a U-turn picture on the board,
they were probably like, aw, that the sucks.
They probably felt bad for us. - Well, you know,
Margie and Luke probably felt so bad too.
- Yeah, result.
- Can I go? - Let's go, good job!
- Travel by taxi to the next pit stop.
- [Mel] Is he still behind me, the little guy?
- [Mike] Yeah.
- We're at the end. We're we're second to last.
- Just when you think you're out of this race,
something happens, and you're back in it.
- Never stop racing.
You're doing really, really, really good though.
I'm really proud of you.
- Thank you. Oh, we both did so good.
Hopefully, we can catch up with other teams.
Fast, fast, fast. - We're in a race.
- Faster! Go faster!
Right on the money, Mike.
- Yes, yes.
- Okay.
- Yes!
- Bobrovy Log Park.
- It's the bobsled. - Bobsled.
- [Mark] We gotta get this done.
- [Michael] It came to mind right away.
The letters that I had in my head was Chekhov.
- Yeah!
Warning, the last team to check in may be eliminate.
We're in seventh place right now,
but it is "Amazing Race," and anything can happen.
- Who's ready to speed read?
I think you.
- Me? Okay.
- Yeah.
I love you.
- [Kris] Love you too.
[dramatic music]
[Amanda sighs]
- Mel and Mike, you are team number six.
- Yeah, we're alive.
- Yay!
He made it in less than four minutes.
- Yes.
- Think of how names are spelled here.
- [Kris] I have no idea how names are spelled here.
- Nope.
- [Kris] All right.
It's gotta be C-H-something. C-H.
- [Amanda] Yeah, babe, you're amazing.
- Thank you.
Warning is the last team check in may be eliminated.
Let's go.
- [Amanda] Okay, a taxi!
- I think we're here, somewhere around here.
- [Michael] Here.
- [Driver] Right there?
- How much?
- Ah.
- ,.
- [Mark] No, I got ,.
I don't know, Mike.
I don't have any. - I know what to tell him.
- This is all I have right here.
- Definitely don't want to go home though.
This is so much fun.
I feel like we haven't seen enough yet.
- Yeah.
- Give him your watch.
My watch.
[driver speaking in non-English]
- Oh, he's got a Rolex.
- We need to resolve this.
You take our jacket. You want the jackets?
- You want the jacket, brand new?
- I know, I know. - Brand new.
[driver speaking in non-English]
- I dunno what to think. I don't what to say.
- Still racin'.
Find out if we're eliminated now, huh?
- We're sorry. - You're okay.
- Anything, please.
Thank you.
- Thank you, sir. Thank you.
- [Michael] Okay, let's go.
- Right here, Mike, right here, right here.
[lively folk music]
- Mark and Michael.
You're team number seven.
- Yeah.
[gentle music]
[performers speaking in non-English]
[performers clapping]
Amanda and Kris.
You are the last team to arrive.
- We figured.
- Yeah, we thought so.
- I'm sorry to tell you
you have been eliminated from the race.
- Oh.
The best part of the race for me was traveling with Kris.
We've done everything together, but travel.
And to finally get to do that together has been awesome.
I mean, we bonded more than ever.
- [Kris] I'm so deeply in love with her, it's ridiculous.
- I definitely see ourselves together
for the rest of our lives.
[beautiful music]
[epic music]
- [Phil] Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.
Next week on "The Amazing Race,"
Luke gets a reputation for using the U-turn.
- [Mike] He's gonna create a whole new archetype,
the sinister deaf kid. [Margie laughs]
- [Phil] And in the ridged Siberian weather,
teams grin [Kisha screams]
and bare it.
- [Margie] Go Luke!
[local whistles]
- [Jodie] I knew it would be bare minimum,
but I didn't know it'd be my bare minimum.
[no audio]
[epic music]
[epic music continues]
14x04 - It Was Like a Caravan of Idiots
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