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-[Grant] Previously… -[roars]

…on The Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand…

-Shut your [bleep] face, mate. -[John] I will drop you in a second, pal.

…family loyalty…

I want to beat Johnny. I want to mess Johnny up.

…took over from national pride.

I would've sprint past him and given him the middle finger.

-And as temperatures rose… -Ah!

…Carla and Hereni cashed in their Express Pass.

-Girls, you're team number one. -Whoo!

We're in the complete wrong place.

Aussies Daniel and Ryan narrowly escaped elimination.

You did so well.

And Emily and Jono's spark was extinguished.

-You have been eliminated from the race. -Damn it.

Three Aussie and three New Zealand teams remain.

Who will be eliminated next?

[Grant] Namibia is home to the wildlife of the African savannah.

It boasts one of the largest wildlife populations in the world.

And it is from here that teams embark on the fifth leg

of our race around the world.

After using their Express Pass, Carla and Hereni were the first to arrive…

Girls, you're team number one.

[both scream, laugh]

Mighty mums in the house. Whoo!

…so they will depart first, at 8:56 a.m.

"Fly to St. Petersburg, Russia." [squeals]

[Grant] Teams must now fly 14,000 kilometers

to the cultural capital of Russia, St. Petersburg.

Teams must find the Russian battleship Aurora

and search for their next clue.

-Oh, my gosh. Russia! Oh, my gosh. -[laughs]

[Carla] We're the oldest here. We're mums.

We're the only female team still left.

We feel we have something to prove.

Oh, my gosh, we've so got to get there quick.

We're up right now, and this feeling that we have,

we're gonna try and pull that through in the race.

-The speed limit was 120 on this stretch. -[Carla] I know. Awesome.

-"St. Petersburg, Russia." -Whoo!

[John] We've isolated ourselves on purpose

because I think we really focus on this race.

If we get too pally-pally with everyone,

I think that'll distract us from our strategy.

We're booked to go at 2:45 from Windhoek,

but we can change and search for better flights at the airport.

I'll trust you with that, mate. You're my go-to fly guy.

[Carla] 12:40. Okay.

Coming in first in Namibia definitely paid off for us.

We hustled for a while and got on an earlier flight.

-12:40? -Yes, you can.

-That will be great. Thank you. -Cool.

[Ashleigh] All right, let's go.

-Oh! "Fly to St. Petersburg, Russia. -Whoo-whoo!

Russia's one of those countries you'd never think about going to yourself.

I was expecting it to be really friendly people.

I just expect for everybody to be really good at gymnastics.

-Yeah. -[laughs]

-[Jesse] You ready, babe? [laughs] -[Cat] Here we go again.

[laughing] Oh!

-"Fly to St. Petersburg, Russia." -Yes!

We're going to the motherland.

There's a bit of collaboration going on between some of the teams.

-We seem to be straddling that line… -[laughs]

-…between Kiwis and Aussies. -[Cat] Both countries.

-So, we're calling ourselves the Anzacs. -The Anzacs.

[both laugh]

I think if we stay consistent,

some of the other teams are starting to become inconsistent.

[Jesse] Yeah, starting to lose a little bit of cool maybe.

-And we just got to keep our cool. -Yep.

-"Fly to St. Petersburg, Russia." -[laughs] Oh, yes! Awesome. Let's go.

We've been together for almost four years.

On the race, we're bonding together even more every day.

I actually learned a little bit of Russian.

I think we've been working together really well,

-and we're loving it. -"Goodbye" is "do svidaniya."

Do svidaniya.

-[Daniel] Okay. -Oh!

"Fly to St. Petersburg, Russia."

[grunting]

-Do it. -Yes.

On the last leg, we thought we were done for.

Being an hour behind and trying to make it up minute by minute.

Some people crumble under pressure, but he rises to the challenge.

[exhales]

-It was amazing. -Yeah.

As ICU nurses, we've dealt with some stressful situations, that's for sure.

And it's probably an advantage in the race.

-Dude, we get to go to Russia. -Russia!

That's bucket-list stuff, bro.

[John] Yes, we're trying to go to St. Petersburg, please.

We're currently booked on the 2:45 p.m.,

but we're looking for an alternative route to get there earlier, please.

We're going on South Africa Air.

There's an earlier flight, 12:40.

Okay.

You can do it.

The boys have been awesome to us. They gave us the Express Pass,

and we're hoping we're gonna work together as a team.

Did you get confirmation?

-Yeah. -Okay. Thanks for that.

-Holy moly. -Whoo!

[Ashleigh] Can we swap our flights through you?

When we started lining up at the counter,

they had a really good guy helping them out.

[Jarrod] How come they're getting it?

This is so frustrating. We don't even know what we can do.

It just seemed that something was happening on their side of the counter.

Nothing was happening on ours.

They're making out as if there's no flight for us.

The Kiwi girls have helped the guys out,

which is putting us at a huge disadvantage.

It's so frustrating because they're working together

and being so tight-lipped, but whenever we're ahead in something,

it's like they latch on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was Australia versus New Zealand in the airport,

bar Jesse and Cat, 'cause they're pretty much adopted Australians.

We know how they roll, and this is how we roll.

John and Murray were running an independent race,

and that's how they've been running from day one.

I think they're really here playing the game for themselves.

I don't think--

-Oh, well, see ya later, Africa. -Nice to see you, Africa.

So, when we left Namibia, Johnny and Muzza were on the same flight.

-[Hereni] And we're getting better. -[Carla] Well done, Kiwis.

[Jarrod] Are there any tickets on the next South Africa flight out of here?

It was damn frustrating knowing the Kiwi team's

on that first flight to St. Petersburg.

Can we put that on hold from Johannesburg to Dubai?

We prebooked the second flight stopping in Dubai.

We ended up on the third flight. Us, Sally and Tyson,

and Team Jesus, Dan and Ryan.

[Sally] I think all three teams were quite deflated

knowing that we were at the back of the pack.

[Grant] Teams are on three separate flights

arriving in St. Petersburg, Russia, 30 minutes apart.

-[Carla] Let's try to stay together, okay? -[John] Yeah.

Do you know battleship Aurora? Da? [chuckles]

Bystreye, bystreye!

John has been doing a phenomenal job at learning the local lingo.

I'm trying to tell him to go quickly.

I wanted to get some crucial words.

Prekrasno is "awesome" in Russian. I learned the real important stuff, so…

Prekrasno! Awesome.

[Jarrod] Go, go, go, go, go.

Freezing. Taxi there.

We ran out the front, and we were absolutely freezing.

Oh, my God. This is the first time we've ever seen snow.

[Jarrod] It was what we expected Russia to be.

-How much rupiahs? -Shh. Rubles.

Rubles. We're not in Indonesia.

[Jarrod] It was pretty dark, gloomy, windy.

-I reckon it's about minus ten. -I've never been so cold in my life.

It was like, "Welcome to paradise," wasn't it?

[Ashleigh laughs]

-[Carla] Thank you. -[Hereni] We were the first to get there.

[Carla] We just ran straight onto the ship.

Okay, search for our next clue.

We had no idea what we had to do.

We needed, like, a clue.

We hadn't read the clue properly that told us to get a clue

before we started it.

It's not in here.

[John] Just here. Just here. Here, here.

Danke!

Okay, Muzz, legs, let's go.

I noticed a young fella there, and he had some clues there.

[Murray] "Road Block. Who's ready to crack the code?"

[Grant] Semaphore flag messaging

is a traditional form of naval communication,

and in this Road Block, teams must crack the Russian code.

Not until teams have deciphered the meaning of the Russian flag signals

will they receive their next clue.

So Johnny went straight for me. Muzza's the puzzles guy.

[Murray] I thought I'd better crack the code.

I got up there, and the girls were already up there.

Right hand up, left hand middle.

-[Murray] I thought, what's going on? -Did you get a clue down there?

We saw Johnny and Muzz with the clue.

Did you guys get a clue?

Yeah, we got a clue when we came here.

Then we realized that the girls hadn't got the clue yet.

-[John] You guys not got the clue yet? -No.

Are you serious? [laughs]

-[Hereni] They didn't really help us. -No.

-[John laughs] -Okay, let's go.

I was so shocked.

Is it under those?

[Hereni] We helped Muzza and Johnny at the airport.

[Carla] They weren't about to tell us. It was a hard challenge.

Search for your next clue.

We were on our own.

Again.

-[woman] Yeah! -[man] Go.

Whoo!

-Hoo! Ha! -Taxi!

[Jesse] St. Petersburg Airport. We boost out the doors…

-It's freezing cold. -It's really, really cold.

Where are those fellas going?

[Sally] Taxi!

[Jesse] Sally and Tyson have boosted it right across the car park.

We're like, "Where are they going?"

They're running to the center of St. Petersburg?

[Daniel] Taxi! Taxi!

We stood back a little. We looked this way,

and we kind of looked that way, and we went, "Look at the taxi."

Boom.

Go, go. Go, go, go.

Yep.

[Sally] Okay.

[speaking foreign language]

That looks-- Open that. Can we open it?

Looking for the clue on Battleship Aurora was hard work.

We opened every canvas flap.

Oh, man.

[Murray] Sixteen, 17, 18, 19 digits. Twenty, 21.

You had to draw what the guy was doing,

and then go down, and there was a code wall

with the symbols and letters.

I had to write it down in Russian, and I thought I'd nailed it,

and I said to the el capitán…

"Prekrasno. I think I've broken the code."

And he sort of gave me a nod, and then he gave me a shake.

Incorrect? So he sort of gave me the yes/no.

-The old yes/no. -[Murray] I had to start again.

[Ashleigh] Come on, come on, come on.

Look out for a marking or something.

He's got a clue.

Once we arrived at the Aurora battleship, we saw the guy at the front

who was dressed in uniform handing out the clues.

Thank you.

"Who's ready to crack the code?"

You want to go? I did the code one last time.

Okay, I'll go.

[Hereni] Ah, there's the other team that just arrived. Shit!

We got to get moving.

I'm getting a bit frustrated.

We were really worried that we couldn't find the clue.

-[Carla] We were on that first flight. -[Hereni] We were the first to get there,

and there was a lot of pressure on us when the other teams were running by.

-With the clue. -With the clue.

[Carla sighs]

[Carla] We'd looked absolutely everywhere.

-It was so frustrating. -[Hereni] Just ridiculous.

We were starting to think this is the end.

Oh, H.

We were first to get to the battleship, but we couldn't find the clue.

So this is the Battleship Aurora.

Abpopa? The Battleship Abpopa?

-Not Aurora? -No, it's just the way they write it.

I just lost it. Brain freeze, cold… I'd had enough.

Shit!

[Ashleigh] I actually saw the girls on the other side of the ship…

This way?

…and I sort of thought maybe they've already finished.

Look over there. There's a man.

Got it, got it, got it. Come with me, come with me.

[Carla] So we actually decided, let's go right back to the start

-and start afresh. -[Hereni] And bingo.

Thank you. Let's go away quickly.

-Okay, "Road Block." -So one of us can do it?

[Carla] "Who's ready to crack the code?"

-Do you want to do this? -Not really.

You gave me no choice and made me do it.

-Are you good? -Yeah.

Okay, cool.

When we saw the clue, we were like, "baby brain."

I've been surprised at how ditzy we've been, to be honest.

Let's move, let's move. Yep. Thank you.

[Jarrod] The Road Block was a bit of a challenging one actually.

There was a ship commander who was waving different signals

where you had to jot down a few ideas, go back down below deck,

write it on a blackboard and try and crack the code.

Some of those were confusing 'cause they had some upside-down N's

and backward N's and M's and two E's.

Sometimes, trying to write them down, you sort of confuse yourself.

[Murray] I was breaking the code, and Jarrod came up to the party.

He was in behind us. He came in third. The girls are trying to crack the code.

I was getting a little bit flustered there.

I just can't get it, boys.

Why am I not getting this right?

[Jarrod] When we were doing it, there was no collaboration at all.

It was strictly individual, and I knew Muzza had been there for quite a while,

so anytime I could get back on him was an advantage to us.

I'm just trying not to panic. I'm getting a bit nervous now.

When I saw he was struggling with it, it gave me a bit of confidence.

[Daniel] Are you strapped in? I hope he's going to the right place

because we're getting to the wrong place very quickly.

-[Carla] It was a hard challenge. -[Hereni] I had no idea what I was doing.

-[Carla] And it was all in Russian. -[Hereni] The other teams

are starting to arrive, and then the pressure was on.

[laughs] Oh, my God!

[Jarrod] I got a little bit stuffed up

because I didn't realize you had to wait for a start sign.

So I actually walked in halfway through somebody else's commands.

So my first turn at showing the commander…

-It's not right? -…was completely wrong.

[Murray] After a couple more yes/nos, he finally gave me the yes/yes.

And el capitán gave us a postcard clue, and it was just a location.

[Grant] Teams must now make their way to this museum

on the main street of St. Petersburg.

[John] Here. That's yours there. Good luck, guys.

-[blows] -Good luck, Jarrod. See ya.

Steady, steady, steady.

We went from second to first.

-We think Muzza did good. -You did good.

[Jarrod] Dude, I should just stop, pay attention and take your time.

-Whoo! -[Ashleigh] Good work, Jazza.

[Jarrod] The ship commander gave me a photo of a landmark in Russia.

[Ashleigh] Let's get the hell out of here. Where's our taxi?

[Jarrod] Taxi?

[Ashleigh] There's one over there.

[Ryan] Battleship Aurora.

As always, we go barreling through

and blow straight past where the clue is.

-[Daniel] We did. -[Carla] Hey.

We missing the clue box?

-Have you got a clue here? -No.

Why don't we work together? Ask them if they want to work with us.

[Ryan] We realized this is gonna be really hard. We need to team up.

-We can work with you guys if you want. -We'll help you if you help us.

We help out people that help us out or that we like.

Go down the ramp, look on your right. There's a guy there with a buoy.

[Daniel] We figured that if they'd been waiting a while to find it,

then we would probably be in the same boat.

No pun intended.

Hey, my friend. Just looking for one of these clues.

"Who's ready to crack the code?"

-You want to do it or me? -You. You're great with this stuff.

Whoever's doing it, chat to H about everything she's done so far.

My thought is…

[Carla] It was definitely a relief to have Daniel and Ryan help us out.

-[John] Just look for some signs, mate. -[Murray] Over there.

[John] Look for some signs.

There's a marker box here.

"Detour: Cossack or Coat Rack."

A Detour is a choice between two tasks, each with its own pros and cons.

The choice here: Cossack or Coat Rack.

In Cossack, teams must perform a traditional Cossack dance.

This folk dance is the national dance of Russia

and requires great speed and energy.

In Coat Rack, teams must identify which number coat tag is missing

and search hundreds of coats to find the tag.

Only once the tag has been located and handed to the attendant…

Da.

…will the team receive their next clue.

Teams who lack energy and frustrate quickly

could find themselves making slow progress.

Should we go Cossack dancing?

John chose the dancing.

I wanted to go for the coat hangers simply because I didn't want

to put ourselves in a situation where we were going to be judged.

-You didn't want to be judged. -I didn't want to be judged.

"Travel by taxi to Belozersky Palace." Here we go.

Let's go. Whoo-hoo!

[Jarrod] Hey, taxi. Can we go here?

We probably should have kept our taxi

because in Russia, once you've got a taxi…

-Where do you get a taxi? -…you don't want to let it go.

-Taxi! Can we get in? -[Ashleigh] Taxi! Taxi!

[driver] No!

-[Ashleigh] Far out. -[Jarrod] Nobody wanted to help.

-They're not that friendly. -No.

Why was that guy so rude? Everybody here is so bloody rude.

We thought, let's go back, and maybe one of the teams still arriving,

we'll pinch one of their cabs when they get out.

Taxi!

[Jarrod] And just as we got there, we saw a cab arrive.

-[Ashleigh] Yes, yes, yes, yes. -And it was Sally and Tyson.

[Tyson] We come back, you run inside, we come back.

Tyson, it is bloody hard.

[Ashleigh] So we grabbed Sally and Tyson and said,

"We have a proposition for you." [laughs]

I'll give you a clue in there.

It's the hardest shit. We've been in there an hour.

[Jarrod] It's up to you guys, but it's a tough code.

-Jarrod was getting pretty intense. -He was very frustrated.

We'll send the cab back. We'll just… And we'll send it back.

They were desperate. There were nearly tears.

[Tyson] Right. I say we do it.

We'll send the cab back.

They'll come back. We'll only be five minutes.

[Jarrod] All right, I'll give you a clue.

[Ashleigh] Sally was a bit apprehensive to just throw away a cab

because she wasn't 100% confident in the Russians.

Which was smart. I wouldn't have thrown it away either.

But after a bit of convincing, we got her. And Jarrod gave her quite a vital clue.

Do not start until he signals start.

That's the start sign?

I was skeptical when Jarrod gave me the clue

because it didn't sound like it was gonna be that helpful.

[Ashleigh] We'll send him straight back.

Jarrod and Ashleigh, I actually like them, and they're team Australia.

So, we can't not help them.

All right.

-"Who's ready to crack the code?" -That's you, Sal.

-Okay. -Let's go.

-Thank you. -Thank you.

-[Jesse] There's Tyson and Sally. Come on. -[Tyson] Quick. They're right behind us.

-Hello. -[Cat] Hello.

-This is for us. -[Cat laughs]

-"Who's ready to crack the code?" -That's me.

Let's go.

Right hand up.

That looks like a backwards R.

We actually teamed up with Carla and H.

H had actually written down word for word "left hand up, right hand down,"

which seemed really tedious for me.

I was going straight off of visual, so draw a stick man,

and then you just do the arms up, down, whatever it happens to be.

So I did that, and went down, wrote down the code

and actually got it first go.

Okay! Yeah!

Ryan considers himself to be an absolute sudoku genius.

-Loves the puzzles. -Thank you.

-You slammed it down. -That's exactly right.

I'm just helping H, seeing as she helped us.

You guys are awesome.

-Five minutes? -Five minutes, they had it.

-He finished the clue. -It was a good collaboration.

Thank you.

[Jesse] So, Ryan basically gave H the answer.

There's been kind of an unspoken Kiwis-look-after-Kiwis kind of thing.

But H made a very strong point of cleaning her board properly

-before she sat it down next to you. -[Cat] Yeah.

Team Kiwi was very clearly…

Do we got a clue? Is that it?

[Jesse] Can you believe she did that?

[Carla] Cool. Well done, buddy.

[Cat] We had to go up on the boat and decipher the code.

I'm just helping H, seeing as she helped us.

[Jesse] Ryan basically gave H the answer.

H didn't help us out at all.

There's been kind of a Kiwis-look-after-Kiwis kind of thing.

There was very clearly…

[Sally] As soon as I got on the boat, I realized that the clue Jarrod gave me

was completely useless.

And now they've got our cab as well.

Come on.

Half the difficulty was writing some of the Russian letters.

They're sort of upside down sometimes.

Flipped left to right.

But you're very good with that. You can write Japanese.

Thank you! Thank you!

[Cat] Oh, go you.

While I was trying to figure out what to do, Sally had gotten…

-…had cracked the code. -Had cracked the code.

-Thank you. Spasiba. -Thank you.

[Cat] She came back to the table and put her chalkboard down.

-[Sally] Do we take it with us? -[Cat] Do you want to show me or not?

I watched her. She's like this:

"Sally, do you need to clean your board before you go?"

[Cat] It's up to you, Sal.

And she looked at Tyson, and he said, "Come on, babe, let's just go."

Or Puppy. Whatever he calls her.

-She calls him "Puppy." -Okay, right.

-He's a large puppy. -[laughs]

Well, in that case, I'll just clean out my hard work.

-Let's go, Sal. -[Jesse] Go hard. Well done, Sally.

-Go hard. -[Cat] Bye.

-It was super kind of them. -[Jesse] It was, but they're kind people.

Unlike the Kiwis. who said Kiwi all the way…

-[Cat] Yeah. -…and left us here in the lurch.

-I think we're gonna change teams. -[Jesse] Ya think?

All right. It's okay?

Yay!

[Murray] We arrived at the Detour in first place.

We made our way to the hall,

where we had to perform this traditional Russian dance.

We chose our instructor, and he stitched me up a beauty.

We had to go and learn the dance.

I looked like a giant Tickle Me Elmo

who was about to come on The Muppet Show.

-[laughs] -I looked ridiculous.

[Russian folk music playing]

-Can you wait here one minute? -One minute.

We're gonna go get something and come back.

[Ashleigh] So, even though we told Sally and Tyson…

[Jarrod] …we'd have their cab returned to them, we didn't.

[Ashleigh] "Cossack or Coat Rack."

-What do you reckon? -Dance?

I've done about 14 years' worth of dancing,

and Jarrod's done his deb ball.

"Travel by taxi to Belozersky…"

Let's get the taxi and read the rest, 'cause they're probably at the same place.

Up and down, punch, punch. Bring that one down. Muzz, Muzz…

I've got it. I'm following him. I'm following him.

-Okay. -I'm following him.

The training of the dance was frustrating.

-I remember we got four of these. -Eight grapevines.

-No, four. -Muzza, please listen to me.

I am. I'm helping you out with the order as well.

You remember every second order. I'm gonna remember every first one.

Do you want to walk down to that bridge? See if there's a crossover bridge?

Okay. Yep.

Getting another cab was just horrendous.

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

We want to go here, okay?

Taxi, taxi, taxi! Hey! Yes, yes, yes!

Whoo-hoo!

Taxi, taxi!

It's a little bit the luck of the draw, isn't it?

-[exclaims] -We lost so much time.

Horrible feeling. We left first this morning,

and I think we're now gonna be last.

[groans]

I'll run ahead.

Ahoy!

[Ashleigh] We ran in, and I saw Muzza and John wearing these costumes.

They looked so funny. Oh, my God. I couldn't stop laughing.

We're gonna boogie it out, then we go--

We'll just remember the numbers.

We need it in order to get this right.

[Jarrod] I can see Muzza getting frustrated

because John overanalyzes absolutely everything.

So, first one is seven. Seven of these. Next one is what?

And Murray, let's be honest. He's more of a simple sort of a guy.

Uh… Um… [exhales]

-We are here. -There's a flag over there.

-Yeah. -Let's go.

-Oh. [laughs] -Oh.

"Detour: Cossack or Coat Rack."

-Do you want to dance? -Coat Rack.

[music playing]

Hey!

Hand on your hip.

[Jarrod] Basically, this dance, there was like eight parts to it.

[Ashleigh] It was the hardest thing,

and I didn't think it was gonna be that long and intricate and precise.

Oh, man, I'm getting my feet confused.

He was doing it so wrong, and watching those boots go…

And all you want sometimes is a bit of encouragement.

-And did I get any encouragement? -God, it was a good laugh though.

It's not that easy. Ash, let's just slow it down for my legs.

So, first position is…

-Hup! -Hey!

[Murray] We got on stage and had a couple goes.

You're going left. Go left first.

-We've got to go together. -Just relax.

No, tap, Muzza, tap.

-I am tapping. -Tap down the bottom. It's not kick.

Two, three… Together, together.

Thirteen, 14, 15, 16.

Hey!

-[man] Nyet! -[Murray] The judge said, "No, no."

Let's just go to the coat hangers.

No, it's all right. Mate, we've got it. Just relax. Stay with it. It's cool.

-Whoo! -All right, let's do it.

There's still another clue in there, babe.

"Detour: Cossack or Coat Rack."

-Coat Rack. -Let's do the Coat Rack.

-Coat Rack. -Let's do it.

-You're a dancer, aren't you? -Yeah. Yep, Cossack dance.

[Tyson] Straight ahead.

Coat Rack here.

[Tyson] All we knew is we had to find the missing tag number

and then find the tag in the coat pocket.

-Oh, my goodness. -[Sally] We find 300 of them.

-You want to start from reverse? -Yeah.

You're putting them in order?

-[Tyson] Yeah. -[Sally] Puppy?

This is what we excel in.

160.

Kick it. So, here, Muzz.

-I've got it. -Okay.

-I've got no idea. -After jump…

-Just try. -Ash--

Just relax. Relax.

-We knew Murray was struggling. -He's like a baby elephant.

Don't worry. They're not doing much better than you.

So, while Murray was still in the room, I felt confident.

-I want to go to the coat hangers. -[John] Muzz, can we please one more--

I'll try one more time.

[Jesse] We arrived at exactly the same time as Team Jesus, Dan and Ryan.

We got our tags, and we just started trying to sort them.

[Cat] 300 tags?

-[Ryan] What do you have? -One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

So just put it sequentially.

The strategy we'd gone for was to divide 'em up into under a hundred,

100 to 200, and 200 to 300.

And then from there, divide 'em into groups of ten.

Is that cool?

I'll try to organize them.

[Ryan] Then we had to count each of those stacks.

If there's ten, you knew nothing was missing.

You didn't have to put them all in order.

[Daniel] I'm slightly regretting this, but we're gonna do it.

[Ryan] As intensive care nurses, what we do is to make order out of chaos.

And that's what this challenge was, and that suits us.

-Are you confident? -I'm happy doing this.

[music playing]

Ready to go, boys?

[exclaims, whistles]

The funniest thing was that Jarrod thought that he was doing it right,

and I could see that he was doing it so wrong.

I could see the frustration building up in his face. [laughs]

[Jarrod] Seemed like a damn lot of steps to memorize.

So I started to panic, get a bit flustered.

-How many? -I'm thinking, I cannot do this.

-Oh, my God. What's next? -What are you doing?

Go again.

Thank you.

Hold on, hold on. He's saying no.

-I was sweaty, I was frustrated. -This way.

-All right, let's go. -You know, I wasn't happy.

-Let's just go to the coat hangers. -Relax. We're here.

[Murray] John gets in my skin and winds me up 'cause everything is like a lesson.

And John's never wrong.

John, we've done it four goes. We talked about this.

No, we didn't get four goes.

I got so frustrated that I said, "Let's go have a look at this coat hanger job."

Thank you, guys. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Come on, big cat.

[Ashleigh] We actually see Muzza and John go and get changed and run out.

[Jarrod] They've done it.

And we thought, we really need to nail this.

[Sally] I'm starting to drop them already, so, Puppy, please.

So don't drop.

[Jesse] In come rushing Murray and Johnny.

-[Cat] They were sweating. -[Jesse] Sweating up a storm.

[Cat] Sweating!

-Did you switch, Muzz? -Yeah.

-[Daniel] Who's switching? -[Ryan] I think the boys.

[John] There's no tables over here.

[Daniel] I looked around, there's only three tables,

so they realized it was going to be really hard.

Phew! That was sweet, sweet.

There's no tables.

[Jesse] There was like this little whirlwind, and we're like,

"I'm using all of my table. I'm sorry about it."

If you can think of any other way to organize this…

[Tyson] They hadn't done any favors for anyone, so no one was gonna help them.

-I wasn't gonna share our table. -No.

[John] It was impossible to convince them to help us get through this challenge.

We had no idea what we were gonna do.

-Let's just go to the coat hangers. -Relax. We're here.

[Murray] I got so frustrated that I said, "Let's go look at this coat hanger job."

[Ryan] Boys, you switching?

-[John] There's no table. -[Jesse] There was this little whirlwind.

"All the tables are being used. I told you we should've stayed through this one."

[imitates arguing] "Fine, we'll go back there."

-[John] See, Muzz? Come on, mate. -Then let's go back to dancing.

Okay, I'm saying, just listen to me.

[Daniel] Listen to him, Muzza. Listen to him.

[Cat] Ooh, looks like a team's getting frazzled.

[Jesse] When you're relaxed and someone else is stressed,

-in normal life, you don't like that. -No.

In The Amazing Race, you love that.

-[John] Please, listen to me. -[Murray] John, I am listening to you.

That make me sound like a bad person?

-A little bit. -[laughs]

[Jesse] Just owning my space.

-[Cat] Yeah. -[Ryan laughs] Yeah.

[Daniel] You don't know how much pleasure I take in hearing them crumbling.

-[laughs] -I just heard an almighty crack.

That was really good to know that we had caught up

and we were all on a level playing field.

-[Carla] The outfit-- -[Hereni] It was really sweaty.

[Carla] It wasn't flattering, but it was funny.

Four.

I felt like one of the Seven Dwarfs with this massive big--

The legs kept coming over my shoes, and I was slipping.

Whoo! [laughs] My shoe.

-[Hereni] I'm too tall to be a Cossack. -[Carla] A Cossack.

I must have looked so ridiculous.

[Sally] Don't worry about that.

[Tyson] I'm going to mix them into the hundreds.

[Sally] You just need to organize them for me so I don't push them off the table.

-You doing hundreds now? -Yep.

It was really intense because you're trying to concentrate.

You can hear strategy going on at these other tables.

[Jesse] Thirty-two, 33.

You've got pretty Russian girls. It's all happening.

What are we missing here? Boom, boom, boom.

187, 187.

We thought, let's try this, and ran downstairs to the coatroom.

187.

-Da. Da, da, da. -Thank you.

The coatroom was just this basement room, and there was row after row of coats.

Let's start here, and we'll go alternate racks, yeah?

[Daniel] You've got to search every coat to find this number.

It's like hundreds of coats.

[Ryan] I found a button. How about a button?

Yeah, let's trade that in.

[whooping]

[music playing]

What's next?

[Jarrod] Three times, four times, five times, six times.

It started to get repetitive.

Ready, go, go.

[man speaking foreign language]

[man whistles] Nyet, nyet!

We're thinking, are we ever gonna finish this stupid bloody dance?

[Daniel] There's pockets inside a lot of these jackets, remember.

[Ryan] Hang on, hang on. I found one.

Dude, bang.

-[grunting] -Let's go.

We happened to jag the right number first time.

We got excited, ran straight up to the lady at the coat desk,

gave her the number.

-Thank you very much. -Thank you.

Okay.

"Make your way by taxi to the Taleon Imperial Hotel.

Once there, search for the Imperial Ballroom."

[Grant] This hotel was built in the 1840s,

and outside the main ballroom, teams will find their next clue.

-"Intersection ahead." -Intersection.

An Intersection requires each team to pair up with another team

to perform a task together.

We'll see who's there,

and if it's the boys, we're probably not gonna take 'em.

[Ryan] I'd be very surprised if any Aussie team teamed up with Johnny and Muzza.

[Daniel] Definitely. Very surprised.

It'd be interesting to see if we could cut the boys down

by not Intersecting with them. That would be pretty cool.

-[cheering] -[music playing]

[Murray] The anxiety and the pressure, it's just building and building.

-[whistling] -Hey!

[man] Da! Da!

-And we got through it. -[John] Finally.

[cheering]

"Make your way by taxi to the Taleon Imperial Hotel."

Let's go.

Thank you!

-Five. -I think we've got it.

-[Cat] Six, seven… -[Jesse] 204.

204. 204.

Let's go.

[Tyson] The team we had helped an hour earlier at the battleship,

Jesse and Cat, passed us as well.

-Hello. -Hello.

-We'd like to search for 204. -Da.

-Yes. -[Cat] Thank you.

-[Jesse] Thank you. -[Cat] Okay.

Let's start at one end and go all the way around.

248 there.

249, Puppy.

Let's go for 249.

Okay.

-Yeah, well done, boys. Let's do it. -[John laughs]

249. 249.

All right, let's go.

Let's go!

Hey, toilets? Toilets?

-Oh, my goodness. -Sal, I gotta go.

In the moment of the rush, Tyson has to do a wee.

I sunk into the stairs when you told me.

Right now, I don't care if he pees in his pants.

[music playing]

Whoo-hoo!

[Carla] We thought it might be a little physical,

-but we didn't expect it to be-- -[Hereni] That physical.

Hey!

[Hereni] Spinning around-- What do you call that move?

-[Carla] That's called a coffee grinder. -[Hereni] Yeah, the coffee grinder.

A 44-year-old woman should not be doing the coffee grinder.

The only coffee grinding we do is the ones that we drink.

[man] Nyet, nyet!

Wrong order, wrong order.

[Jesse] We started it, and we had no luck.

[singsong] Got to do it systematically.

-Nothing. -And no luck, and no luck.

-Holy smokes. -[Jesse] And no luck.

I found an old tissue.

[both] 249.

Da. Da!

Thank you.

-[Cat] Hey, hey! -Stay with me.

-You go through every-- -[Jesse] We've got company.

We knew what they were thinking, and they knew what we were thinking.

We needed to get out of there first.

The old needle in the haystack, eh?

[Cat] The old needle in the haystack.

-Only no hay and no needle. -No.

-[John] The two Aussie boys have gone. -[Murray] Wait.

We don't know if they have gone because they had to go and search coats.

Did they? Okay, maybe.

[Murray] As far as teams ahead of us, we have no idea.

We know there's three teams behind us for sure.

[music playing]

[Jarrod] So, pretty much every second minute,

I did want to quit the activity and get out of there.

-[whistling] -[exclaims]

Because I'm thinking, I cannot do this.

-[whistling] -[exclaims]

It took a while, but when we got the thumbs-up

and they started to sing and dance and cheer,

-we were pretty happy. -It was all worthwhile.

[Jarrod] Can you do it? I'm buggered.

"Make your way by taxi to the Taleon Imperial Hotel.

-Warning: Intersection ahead." -All right, let's go.

[cheering]

We did go past this before. That's where we started.

That's where we pulled up in the taxi before.

We had the absolute cab ride from hell.

Worst cab driver in Russia.

I had a map. He had a GPS…

[Ryan] And still couldn't even get us to the place.

[Daniel] We're looking for the Taleon Imperial Hotel.

[John] Wait there. Muzza, money.

Thank you.

What's this, mate?

Intersection. We knew an Intersection involves another team.

"Make your way through a vault

armed with a sensitive laser detection field

to retrieve a jeweled egg."

In this Intersection, one member from each team must navigate this vault,

negotiating these highly sensitive detection beams

to retrieve a jeweled egg.

One false move here could make this a very costly task.

"What's inside the egg will guide you to the next Pit Stop."

We just wanted to get it done. We're hoping the team

coming up behind us wanted the same thing.

"If there is another team waiting,

you may choose to work together or wait for another team to arrive."

Let's sit down. There's no one here.

[Sally] You guys started from the end, didn't you?

-Yep. -[Sally] That's strange.

We're kind of meeting up.

[Cat] Oh, my word.

-Did you find it? -[Tyson] Yeah, yeah.

[Cat] Oh, wow.

Probably went through half the room before we found it.

But when we found it, it was pretty exciting.

-Da. -Da! Spasiba!

-Thank you. -Thank you. Oh, yes!

[Jesse] Damn it.

They found their tag.

-So, we're like… Ugh. -Ugh.

-Come on, babe. -Yep.

[Jesse] Let's up the ante.

"Warning: Intersection ahead."

Ha!

-Which leg? -Any, any.

[Jarrod] When we were leaving the dancing, we went past the other activity.

-They've done them all. -[Ashleigh] Have they?

We thought, these guys finished it already.

We arrived in second, we could've been leaving in fifth.

We were a bit worried.

[Ashleigh] We know there's people behind us.

We know there's one group behind us at least.

How did the boys find it so fast?

We were, at this point, a little frustrated with how long it had taken us.

[Cat] Mmm.

-Who loves me? -Go. Don't hang around.

-Yes? -Da.

[cheering]

Thank you.

-Oh! Thank you so much. -Thank you. [laughs]

-[gasps] -"Warning: Intersection ahead."

If we're at the tail of the pack, someone's got to work with us.

-[music playing] -[whooping]

-Hey! -[man] Nyet!

-[music stops] -No.

What did we do wrong?

-We got all the way. -[Hereni] I was sweating, and it was hot.

-I'm wrecked. -I just couldn't cope with it anymore.

Bright side: I don't have to go to the toilet for at least another half hour.

-So, toilet stop mid-race is always good. -Thank God for that.

[Ashleigh] That's it, the Taleon Imperial Hotel.

[Jarrod] Ah, beautiful.

[Jarrod] Everyone was saying, "If we have an Intersection,

we have to make sure we don't team up with Muzza and John, leave them standing."

[Jarrod] And that means if they're first,

you come second, you wait for a third team.

You do whatever, but you don't join up with them.

[Ashleigh] Hello.

We want them to fall down the pecking order a little bit.

[John] We were worried 'cause we did hear a murmur

that if an Intersection came up,

the Australian teams would wait for another Australian team.

[Ashleigh] Oh. Bloody hell.

[Jarrod] We know in an Intersection, you have to join up with another team

-and solve a problem together. -Hey, guys.

Everyone was saying, "If we have an Intersection,

we have to make sure that we don't team up with Muzza and John."

They've distanced themselves from the rest of the group, really.

[Jarrod] Playing the game probably harder than anyone.

Get the clue quickly.

[Ashleigh] But before we even had a chance to get the clue out of the clue box,

they were like, "Blah, blah, blah."

I'll go with you, Ash. I'm going in.

-So, what do you reckon me-- -Just nimble.

[Ashleigh] "Come over here. We're gonna use you. Not you, Jarrod.

We need Ash 'cause she's more agile and nimble."

[John] Quickly, guys, 'cause if another team comes…

"Oh, my God. All right."

When push comes to shove in the race,

we're willing to sacrifice a lot of things.

We might say throwaway comments that we don't stick to.

-Do you want to follow me or lead? -I don't mind.

Doing an Intersection with a team that's been the best so far,

-that's not gonna hurt us. -It's an advantage, yeah.

Number 15, okay?

-Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. -Okay.

The taxi just drove us around in circles for ten, 15 minutes?

[Ryan] Completely lost.

[Daniel] What should've been a five-minute cab ride was a 35-minute cab ride.

It was frustrating.

Any lead we did have is probably dissipated.

[Ashleigh] Johnny and I open up the door, and we see this laser maze setup.

Looks like something off a movie. It looked pretty intricate.

There's the two eggs there.

We had to get to the Fabergé-style eggs on the other end of the room.

You go first, and I'll guide you.

We knew we couldn't trip over a laser,

so our first thing was to identify a route.

Under, really flat. Straight to the middle. Get to the middle.

Ashleigh first, and I'll talk her through it.

I reckon-- Hey, look at me, Ash. We have to go there and then that way.

-[Ashleigh] Yeah. -[John] Step over that one.

-[Tyson] Oh, look at that. -Wow.

Oh, my goodness.

[Sally] It was beautiful. It was stunning. It had the red carpet going up the stairs,

and the chandelier was massive.

There was something a little bit romantic about it.

-[music playing] -[whistling]

-[cheering] -[man] Da! Da!

Such a relief to not have to do it again. Our thighs were screaming.

Thanks.

It was good to finally get that clue.

"Intersection ahead." Yay.

Thank you! Whoo-hoo!

[John] Ash, we have to go over there and then that way.

I was pretty confident, so I decided to pull rank and take the lead.

-Nice and steady. -[Ashleigh] Am I right? Watch my ass.

[John] Yep, and then get flat again when you get over.

[Ashleigh] I led the way, even though Johnny thought that he was navigating.

-[John] Just go forward. Walk it out. -[Jarrod] Johnny likes to be in control.

Johnny likes the sound of his voice.

[John] Good girl. Steady. Good girl.

[Ashleigh] I let him say what he wanted,

and I made out like I was listening, but I was just wanting to get to the end.

[John] Good girl. Good girl.

Good girl.

[Jesse] Taxi, taxi, taxi!

[Cat whoops]

On our way to an Intersection to the Taleon Imperial Hotel.

[John] Yeah, I'll push you through. Stay still. Keep your hands still.

It ended up being quite easy. I just pushed her through.

[Ashleigh] He just laid there like a starfish and said, "Pull me out."

[John] Now we have to…

Wait, hold on. They might come on if we get out of the mark here.

We thought it we stepped out of the marked area to grab them, they'd fall down,

so I held on to Ashleigh.

Can you reach that? I got you.

-You got it? -[Ashleigh] Yeah.

-[John] Right. They're right here. -[Ashleigh] Yay! Whoo!

He definitely didn't carry me, and if he thinks he did,

he's got rocks in his head.

-Whoo! -Whoo!

[Murray] Essentially, we've got to make our way to the Pit Stop.

[John] And the Pit Stop was the little ornament inside the egg that we opened.

[Grant] The breathtaking architecture of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood

makes it one of St. Petersburg's most iconic buildings,

and it's the Pit Stop of the fifth leg of the race.

The last team to check in here may be eliminated.

[Ashleigh] Quick, quick. Let's go. Quick.

Where is it?

Where is it?

[Carla] Hello.

-Oh, we suck at that one. -Yeah, we're not very good at this game.

It was definitely a relief to find out

-we were going to an Intersection… -Yes.

We must go fast.

-Wow. -[Hereni] Whoo-hoo!

…knowing that we were gonna be last with another team.

Possibly use that to our advantage to get ahead again.

-I feel like I need my seat belt. -We're going, like, 100 miles an hour.

[Ryan] Imperial Ballroom? In here?

-[Sally] Up the stairs come-- -[Tyson] Ryan and Daniel.

-Oh, yes! -[Tyson] And we all started screaming.

[laughing]

[Daniel] We were absolutely stoked to finally get there.

[Ryan] Where's everyone else, guys?

They're our besties. It was a huge surprise.

And at this moment, we realized

that there's actually another team out there as well.

Love Intersections.

-Especially with Tyson and Sal. -We read the clue

and we basically knew it was gonna have to be someone flexible

to get around all these lasers.

Tyson's not a flexible man, so that was an easy choice,

and Dan does yoga and Pilates and all that sort of thing,

so he's much more flexible than me.

-[Sally] I'll follow you. -[Daniel] I went first…

[Sally] Watch me.

[Daniel] …and helped Sally over a few of them.

-Watch the laser at your back. -[Sally] Which side?

-[Daniel] Come over just like that. -We worked so well as a team.

In your position now, just flip-- Watch-- Sorry, just watch that.

[Jarrod] As soon as we left the ballroom, we went straight to find a cab

and saw the boys run the opposite way.

Quick, quick, quick, quick.

-It's in a race. -[Ashleigh] We jumped in.

This is where we're going, yes?

-That's the way, fast. -Wait a sec. Isn't it that way?

-I don't know. -'Cause we went past it to get here.

It is about as frustrating as you get when you don't know where you're going,

and we're trying to get to the Pit Stop ASAP.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Start to panic, don't you?

Damn.

Isn't it that way?

[Ashleigh] We were racing to Pit Stop.

We're thinking, are we heading in the right direction?

[Jarrod] We started panicking.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

I don't think words could describe how frustrated we were.

Can we stop and run?

[John] Excuse me, where this is? This building.

[Murray] We had no idea where the building was.

I definitely was getting worried.

[John] That's right, this building.

-[man speaks foreign language] -Straight.

-[Murray] We just hoping we'd get lucky. -[John] Straight and left.

[singsong] Intersection.

"Hurry! The last team to check in may be eliminated."

-[Daniel] No. -No, I can stand up straight.

-[Daniel] You can stand up straight? -Yep.

-Just bring it over and down again. -[Sally] Ooh!

We didn't make any mistakes.

Oh!

[Daniel] We've got to be in a marked area to deactivate it.

-We good? -[Sally] Yeah.

-And we got the egg first go. -[Daniel sighs] Okay, we got the egg.

-[Sally] Good. -[Daniel] Beautiful.

[Sally] Everything's deactivated. Oh, yes. Yes!

Okay, guys, we got this.

It looks like something from a fairy tale.

[Daniel] We know where this is.

[Ryan] As soon as we saw it, "We know where that is."

So we just had to navigate ourselves there.

[Tyson] You reckon?

[Carla] Okay, up to the right.

[Cat, Jesse] And who bounds up the stairs? Carla and H.

[Jesse] Now we have to work with them.

[Carla] Hi, guys.

We hadn't seen them since Battleship Aurora,

where they made a very strong point of cleaning their board properly

before she set it down next to you.

"The clue will guide you to the next Pit Stop."

Hurry up!

[Carla] One member each. Are you doing it?

I'm doing it.

I'm gonna do it. Okay.

I was a little worried about Cat.

-I'm not as nimble as you. -That's okay.

Although I'm getting old, I'm still quite flexible.

-Quite proud of that. -Right up your alley.

[Cat] Looking at those lasers,

my first thoughts were, "How am I gonna get through this?"

[Carla] Get your bum down now. Bum down. Yep.

Yes, good girl.

The pressure of knowing that you'll come in last,

it's a huge deal.

Stay low, stay low. Come--

[Cat] I did feel the pressure of having to perform quickly,

and that's not something I can do quickly.

[Carla] Keep that leg up. Not too high.

-[alarm sounds] -[Cat groans]

When the alarms went off, I was gutted.

[Carla] We quickly got escorted out quite roughly,

so we had to go right back to the start and attempt again.

I didn't think we could do it.

-[Ashleigh] Go, go, go. -[Jarrod] Let's go.

It was a footrace to the Pit Stop.

[John] Left side, please.

[Murray] We know we're close to the Pit Stop,

and we were hoping that Jarrod and Ashleigh hadn't actually gone past.

Sorry. Sorry.

[Daniel] Does that mean Jarrod and Ash

-worked with the boys? -[Ryan] Yeah.

[Daniel] They swore to us they weren't gonna do that.

[Carla] Yeah, okay. Lift one leg over.

That's it. And the other one.

[Cat] She'd watch me to make sure that I was not too high or low,

which was the game-changer, really.

-[Carla] Okay, sweet. -[Cat] Let's grab them?

-Sweet. -High five.

-Do we have to go back? -Yeah.

-Go out that door. -[Jesse] You did it!

Carla was awesome!

[Jesse] Cat wouldn't have got through without Carla.

[Cat] I wouldn't have got through without Carla.

At this point, all was forgiven.

[Carla] Ready, H?

[Cat] And then all of a sudden, got really scared.

-[Carla] Well done, guys. -[Cat] Thank you.

[Carla] We are the last two teams. One of us will have to go home.

Let's see if our taxi's still there.

[John] Just go! Just go for it.

There they are. They're just there. Go.

[John] Come on, big cat.

[laughing]

[speaks Russian]

Welcome to St. Petersburg.

[speaking Russian]

-John and Murray… -Yeah.

…you're team number one.

-Yes! -Yes!

[cheering, whooping]

But, gentlemen…

you haven't finished racing yet.

Here is your next clue.