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-[Grant] Previously… -[Jarrod] Damn it.

…on The Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand…

[singing in Portuguese]

…teams were out of tune and out of luck.

-[woman laughs] -No?

A numbers game strengthened nation alliances…

We count each section at a time and confirm that we're all on the same page.

Beautiful. Let's do that, guys. Let's work together.

…but tore Ashleigh and Jarrod apart.

"Count all the yellow umbrellas."

-Far out! -Jarrod!

Sally and Tyson led the Aussie boys astray…

There goes the lead. We should ditch 'em.

…and teams struggled with some seafood delights.

God, this is disgusting!

Newlyweds Ashleigh and Jarrod were last to pit,

then had a lucky break.

You get a second life.

But it came at a cost.

In the next leg, you are going to have to complete a Speed Bump.

Three Aussie and two New Zealand teams remain.

-Yes! -Whoo!

Who will be eliminated next?

Located on the Iberian peninsula,

Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe.

And it is from here that teams embark

on the eighth leg of our race around the world.

Daniel and Ryan were the first to arrive…

You boys are team number one.

-Oh! -[both laugh]

Yes!

…so they will depart first at 7:51 a.m.

-Oh! "Fly to Dubrovnik, Croatia." -"Croatia"!

Teams must now fly 3,000 kilometers east to Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Known as the Pearl of the Adriatic,

Dubrovnik's Old City is world-famous for its perfectly-preserved medieval walls.

Once there, teams must locate the Ploce Gate and find their next clue.

-Awesome! -Croatia, man. Let's go!

[Ryan] We've come first in the last two legs.

We're really starting to hit our stride in the race.

[Daniel] You know, as an intensive care nurse, you realize how fleeting life is,

and you go, "I'm gonna live a life where I have a bit of adventure."

[Ryan] We're playing the same way as we always have played,

which is just, enjoy ourselves, soak up as much atmosphere,

-and make sure we don't come last. -And just-- Yeah.

[both laugh]

"Fly to Dubrovnik…"

"Dubrovnik…"

"…Croatia"!

All right, let's go. Croatia!

[Carla] Where on earth is that?

-[giggles] Croatia! Let's go. -Croatia!

-Yay! Let's go, Puppy! -Awesome! Let's go.

[Hereni] At this point in the race,

a lot of this game is going to come down to your endurance.

We are strong, fierce, Maori women,

and we are determined to prove, yep, we can win.

[speaks Portuguese]

Carla and H just went in that bus there.

[Tyson] Now we're actually engaged,

it's even more important for us to win this race.

We can go on here.

[Tyson] That 250,000 would help set us up for our future.

Our goal from here is, at some point, prove that we can come first.

We seem to almost prove it and then just let it go.

-[Carla] Croatia. Here we go. -Croatia.

-[Cat] Croatia. -[Jesse] Croatia!

-Happy birthday. -Thanks!

I just thought, for your birthday, maybe I'll take you to Croatia.

-Just a casual trip there? -Just a casual trip to Croatia.

The fact that we've been together for so long is an absolute advantage…

-I think huge. Huge. -…in the way we're approaching the race.

-What was already strong has enhanced. -Yeah.

-Our kids would be super proud right now. -[Jesse] Absolutely.

Miss them pretty bad.

I was gonna say, "Don't talk about the kids!"

We miss them pretty bad but we're getting to that point now,

we're getting close to that prize money which would be amazing.

The things we could do for the kids with that…

It would literally change our lives.

[Ashleigh] All right, let's go.

-"Fly to Dubrovnik, Croatia." -Whoo!

I pretty much know nothing about Croatia. I've heard it's real nice.

We know that it's surrounded by water.

[Jarrod] Yeah, I will.

At the moment, the race is definitely too friendly.

I want it to get a bit of mongrel in it. A bit of argy-bargy and a bit of oomph.

-I wanna win. -Yeah.

Wonder what their English skills are like in Dubrovnik.

-Well, it's not our strong point. -Let's hope they're better than Russia.

♪ It's your birthday ♪

Dude, we're gonna party in Dubrovnik for your birthday.

That's the place to be.

-Thanks, buddy. -Thank you.

-[Jarrod] Croatia Airlines. -So we're all on the same flight?

We saw everybody waiting at the airport.

Hey!

[Ashleigh] You could see in their faces, they were like,

"Why was this a non-elimination leg?

Now we've got them to compete with again."

Stiff.

-It's exciting, eh? Croatia! -[Sally] It does feel great.

[Grant] All teams are now on the same flight

via Frankfurt to Dubrovnik, Croatia,

due to arrive at 10:05 p.m.

-[Ashleigh] Oh. Hey! -[Jarrod] Whose cab?

[Ryan] Yeah, get the Merc.

-Do you know the Old City? -Yes, sir.

-As quickly as possible. -Ploce Gate.

-Ploce Gate. -Quick as we can, okay?

-Hello. -Hello.

-We want to go to Old City. -[driver] Yes.

After we got to Dubrovnik, it was game on.

Everyone was fighting out for the first place.

-Put the bag in the back? -Hurry up, hurry up, man!

-Yeah. Oh, God! -Hurry up.

-We're sorry! -Why are you waiting?

-Why are we waiting? Crikey! -Let's go. Thank you, thank you.

[Cat] Holy smokes. That taxi driver was…

-[Jesse] Insane? -Yeah.

I think he had been living for that moment.

-Right. -[driver] Seat belt.

-Seat belts? Yeah. -Oh, shit.

Yes. Shivers.

We were following Cat and Jesse and their taxi overtook a bus,

and our car was gonna do that too.

-We were like, "No. We're mums." -We said no. We wanna get there safely.

-We wanna go home alive. -Yeah.

-[Ashleigh] It's like a rally car. -[Jarrod] Good man.

We need this, 'cause we're sort of coming last at the moment,

-so we need a good start. -Yeah.

Even though we're coming first at the minute,

we've still got that Speed Bump ahead of us.

Because we came last in the last leg and it was a non-elimination round,

we had to do a Speed Bump.

[Ashleigh] It's an additional task that we had to do,

so we were a little bit anxious to know what that was gonna be.

[Jarrod] You're what's called a lunatic, but we like it.

Look at it, this street, guys.

-You need to go all around. -[Cat] They go that way. I see.

I park in here. But Ploce Gate is down there. You see down there?

-Okay. Right. -Yes.

I walk with you. That's gonna be more better.

[Cat] Walk? Yeah, okay.

-Excellent. -Hurry up, hurry up.

We go flying down and park on a bus stop the wrong way.

The wrong way.

He goes, "Come with me! I take you, I take you!"

We went, "Okay."

Hurry up. Hurry up.

Running down. Going down. Hurry up.

-Like, "Run faster! Run faster!" -"Run faster!"

What do you do?

Holy smokes!

-He's telling me to hurry up. -[Jesse] Who?

-The taxi driver. -He's running us to the gate.

[driver] Hurry up. Hurry up.

I don't think you realize I don't run.

We ran the fastest we've run the whole race.

He's the best taxi driver in the world.

[Jarrod] Let's go.

-Thank you, sir. -[driver] You are the first one.

-Thank you! Thank you so much. -You're welcome.

-Go, go! -Thank you!

There's a marking.

[Carla] Thank you very much.

-All right. Let's go. -Okay.

-[Cat] Here! -[Ashleigh] Where?

Babe, let's do a bag drop. That way.

-We were second to pick up the clue. -Boom!

"Take part in an ancient welcoming tradition…"

"…by collecting two building stones and delivering them to the Watchman's Keep."

[Grant] The city walls run for almost two kilometers

and were intended to protect Dubrovnik from attack.

Teams must take part in an ancient welcoming tradition

by collecting two large stones

and navigating the walls to the Watchman's Keep.

Once there, they will deliver the stones to the city guard.

Teams must correctly answer his question to receive their next clue.

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

Jarrod.

-There. -Is it a good one?

-I was hoping for little stones like that. -Little memory stones or something.

-Isn't that lovely? Nope. -That'd be nice, eh? No.

Let's go, babe. But we do need to keep a pace.

"…two building stones and delivering them to the Watchman's Keep."

"…you must correctly answer the guard's question."

-You all right carrying that? -Yeah.

[Jarrod] They were about ten kilos each, which is quite heavy.

And once we chose that stone,

we had to keep it for the duration of the activity.

They're coming, they're coming, they're coming.

"Before handing over your stones, you must correctly answer the guard's question."

We had no idea what the watchman was going to ask us.

I had thought maybe he was gonna ask us the correct spelling of Dubrovnik,

which would've been hard for me 'cause I can't even say it.

Okay. Yep, let's go.

[Ryan] I'm guessing Watchman's Keep is gonna be up high.

-[Tyson] Do you know where it was? -[Sally] Yep.

Let's put this down for a second, yeah?

The road to the Watchman's Keep seemed to go on forever,

especially when you don't know which direction you're going in.

So this is the main street.

We need to go up and turn right, basically.

It's getting heavy now. I didn't think it was that heavy to start with.

Here's all the others. They're coming back.

-[Carla] Oh, shit. -So should we go up?

-The right side, upstairs. -We're looking for the watchman's tower.

[Tyson] There was a restaurant on the street

and someone's pointed, "It's up there,"

and all of a sudden, all the teams knew that was where we had to go.

So there was a bit of a fight up these stairs.

Push hard, Sal.

When you see all the teams looking

as if they know where they're going, you jump on board.

You all right with your rock?

[Tyson] The rocks were actually very heavy

and I thought some of the teams are going to struggle carrying these.

And I've still got this rock weighing me down too, so…

I got two rocks.

[Tyson] Here's the place. Let's go.

When I saw the flags, we ran for it.

[Carla] Here's the path. Come on, H. Let's go.

-You all right with your rock? -Just suddenly got very heavy.

Yeah, yeah. Come on.

-The rocks are heavy. -And there's a lot of stairs.

A lot of stairs.

-I can't even swallow. -You need to get your breathing--

You need to get it sorted, babe.

I was pretty concerned that we're well behind the other teams at this point.

-Shivers! -Come on, babe.

[Cat] I didn't think we could do it.

[Tyson] When we got to the top, we were like, "That's it. We've made it."

But the watchman asks us the question.

How many stairs did you count to reach me?

Counting steps is not something you're doing

when you have a massive stone in your hand.

We should've been thinking about what the question was.

We have to carry a stone each

to a watchman at the top of a fort,

and the watchman asks us…

How many stairs did you count to reach me?

There was no way I was going to count those stairs first up without knowing,

so we just guessed it.

160 stairs.

Unfortunately, the answer is not correct.

[Sally] We had to go all the way down the fort

and climb back up again, counting.

[Jarrod] Yeah, here it is, Ash. Go! Go!

So we're trying to think, when we're running around,

what could the guard want to know? What could the question be?

And when we thought about it, it had to be stairs, didn't it?

-Come on, Ash. -'Cause the flags were actually

posted on the bottom of the steps

so it's like, this is where it starts so maybe we have to count these stairs.

[Jarrod] Come on. We're almost there.

How many stairs did you count to reach me?

We counted 140 stairs to reach you.

No. That is not correct.

[Hereni] The rocks got heavier and heavier,

and when we had to run back down and back up again,

that's when they got really heavy.

On our clue, it had said there's gonna be a question.

Maybe it's about our physical surroundings, so possibly the stairs.

So I thought to count the stairs on the way up.

73, 74, 75…

[breathing heavily] This stone suddenly feels-- weighs… like 20 kilos.

That whole journey

-to the top of the watchman's tower… -Pretty taxing.

-Don't forget to look up. -I know.

[Jesse] This place is stunning.

Knowing that we had a Speed Bump ahead of us, we really need to nail this.

How many stairs did you count to reach me?

-Yes. That is correct answer. -[Jarrod] Thank you very much.

-This is for you. -Thank you.

-And he said… -Winner winner, chicken dinner.

"Travel on foot to the old harbor."

[Grant] Teams will now make their way

to the old harbor on the other side of the city,

where they will sign up for one of three start times, 15 minutes apart.

[Ashleigh] Let's go, Jazz.

So we just grabbed our stuff and we bolted as fast as we could.

Quick, Jazz, 'cause everyone will be coming down really quick.

How many stairs did you count to reach me?

Yeah. The answer is correct.

-This is for you. -[Daniel] Thanks.

[Ryan] We got to the top and Dan knew the answer.

I knew the answer from the beginning. 139. Beautiful.

First time. Didn't have to go back down and up, which is good.

"Travel on foot to the old harbor."

-I know where that is. -Yep. Let's do it.

So it was on. We wanted to get there first.

[Ryan] And sign up for the first time. We've got Jarrod and Ash in front of us.

And looking at the map--

We could see there was a much more direct route to go down there,

and we just hoped we were the only team that figured that out.

[laughs] Whoa!

-One. One, yeah? -One.

I couldn't believe how quickly two teams got the answer.

It was so disheartening.

-[Cat panting] Oh, shivers! -Come on, babe.

[Cat groans]

Oh, God. I get to sit down.

-Hello, sir. -Hello.

-And we finally get to the top… -…of many, many stairs.

How many stairs did you count to reach me?

-[Cat] A billion. -Way too many.

As many as it took to get to you.

No. That is not correct.

I didn't know I had to count stairs!

-Okay. -One! Two! Three! Four! Five!

Six. It's not gonna last long.

-Seven, eight… -[laughs]

-[Daniel] Here we go. -[Ryan] Right here, right here! Whoo!

-We were going as fast as we could. -Full parkour.

And put our faces down first.

Awesome.

Good, my man.

Looking for the--

Oh, what? The boys are here!

Second. Go, quick!

Always a good feeling, beating Jarrod and Ash.

[both laugh]

How many stairs did you count to reach me?

139.

[watchman] This is for you.

[Carla] 139 steps to reach you.

-Congratulations. This is for you. -Thank you very much.

-Hi. Okay. -[watchman] Hi. Good to see you.

Do you know now how many stairs did you count?

-Yes. -We do!

…followed by a three, followed by a nine, followed by a full stop.

-[watchman] This is for you. -Thank you!

-You're welcome. -I appreciate that.

-Rip and read, babe. -All righty.

We had to find our way to the old harbor.

[Cat] But we were knackered.

[Jesse] We were pretty-- We were pretty tired.

[Tyson] Go, Sal!

We were pretty happy to find out we had the early start time

with Jarrod and Ash and Daniel and Ryan.

Come on, H.

Our booking was 15 minutes later than the top three racers,

so we had a bit of time to make up.

Look. There you go.

What a good looking couple that is.

-Tail-End Charlie. -Whoo! Nine o'clock.

We've got a lot of time to make up,

and that town is not easy to navigate through.

Thank you.

It was the three Aussie teams that scored the first booking.

Fast Forward. Fast Forward.

-Fast Forward it? -Yeah.

A Fast Forward is a task that teams can use

to skip all other tasks and go directly to the Pit Stop.

There is only one Fast Forward for the entire race.

Any team can attempt it, but only one team can complete it.

"Make your way on foot to the Dominican Monastery…"

"…and search for your next clue."

[Grant] Teams who choose to perform the Fast Forward

must make their way to this monastery.

Once the Fast Forward has been completed by one team, it is out of play.

Let's do it.

[Ryan] One of the reasons we took the Fast Forward

is to ensure that no one else could take it.

-Do you want to? -Let's do it.

A Fast Forward allows one team to do one challenge

and go straight to the Pit Stop, so it's a huge advantage.

Let's go.

When we saw the Fast Forward, we thought, "You beauty. This is ours."

Fast Forward.

-[Ashleigh] Do you wanna do it? -Nah.

Jarrod ripped the clue and it was full, actually.

It had a Fast Forward in there, and it also had a route marker.

"Route Info. Make your way on foot to the Big Onofrio Fountain

and search for your next clue."

[Grant] Teams who decide not to attempt the Fast Forward

must search within the city walls for an ancient fountain

where they will find their next clue.

"Note: Speed Bump ahead."

Because we came last in the last leg and it was a non-elimination round,

we had to do a Speed Bump.

All right. Let's go. Let's just do it.

-Catch you later, boys. -[Ryan] See ya, guys.

Tell me where Dominican Monastery?

We're running for it as well, guys.

We ran off with as much confidence as we could to give the impression that

we knew where we were going and what was gonna happen,

just to try and throw people off following us.

We had no idea where we were going.

So that's where we were. And that's the Dominican Monastery.

Okay. We've just got to keep going up. You know where it is.

No, no. It's up near the Ploce Gate. It's up near the Ploce Gate.

We're not going to do the Fast Forward because the boys have gone for it.

We are going to Onofrio Fountain.

Onofrio?

-Straight. -Straight? Okay.

[speaking Croatian]

-Quick, quick. -Speed Bump.

[Grant] Croatia is the birthplace of the necktie.

In this Speed Bump, Ashleigh and Jarrod

must each correctly knot a different style of tie on each other.

Only when the shop owner is satisfied may they continue racing.

-Cool. Okay. -I've never known how to do this.

I'm thinking, "No, no, no. I've never done a tie in my life."

[Ashleigh] We had a professional tie man

who showed us how to tie each of these ties,

and then we had to do what he had just done.

[Jarrod] Not that easy.

[Ashleigh] And he started twisting and turning

and doing all this intricate stuff and I was like,

"What the hell? I'm never going to be able to remember how to do this."

Well, I had to use Jarrod as my model

so this was probably Jarrod's first, possibly last, modeling opportunity.

[both laugh]

Don't count on it.

Don't stress, don't stress.

Road Block. Okay.

"Who's always looking ahead?"

I think that's you.

A Road Block is a task only one team member may perform.

Fort Bokar is one of the oldest preserved forts of its kind.

In this Road Block, teams must abseil face-forward

down its impenetrable stone wall.

-Yes! Oh, my gosh! -Awesome.

That's awesome.

I've never abseiled before, so I am super excited to do this.

Okay. Let's go.

"Act of devotion."

[Grant] In this Fast Forward,

teams must collect marked prayer cards

from three of the city's many churches

and deliver them to the local barber.

Only when they deliver the prayer cards

will teams discover the second part of the Fast Forward.

When they arrive here, teams must undertake a symbolic act of sacrifice.

For men, a tonsure cut

involves shaving the hair on the scalp, leaving a round bald area.

For women, a nun style haircut.

The Fast Forward said that we need to find three marked prayer cards.

We thought, "This should be straight forward.

We'll pick the nearest churches and should be able to find them."

Nope. It's not them, dude.

And then we realized they're not in every church.

It's only in a couple of churches.

No, it's not here.

Oh, my gosh. Fast Forward. I'm sure that's been taken.

"Make your way on foot to the Big Onofrio Fountain and search for your next clue."

Where's the fountain?

[Jarrod] Ash had finished.

-[Ashleigh] Yeah? Are we good? -Beautiful.

All right, this time I had to do it.

But I'd never done a knot, let alone a bow tie or whatever he called it.

-I've forgotten already. -Well, rewatch him.

[Jarrod] Mine was a complete and utter nightmare.

Literally, I'd forgotten the first step before I even started doing it on Ash.

I don't know if that's right. No, I'm going to have to watch you again.

We knew there were teams starting after us,

so we thought, "We've got to hurry up."

This is impossible.

I'm feeling so excited. I've never-- I don't think I've ever abseiled,

but I'm imagining it's like the end of a rock climb.

I'm a little bit scared of heights, but I wasn't worried.

Okay, we'll see how long this smile lasts.

She was going to absolutely nail this challenge.

-And you've got to start sitting. -Hang on, hang on. This is crazy.

[Tyson] It was a lot higher than I thought.

And I think from where she was, it was going to look even higher.

-This is really scary. -[Tyson] Hey?

This is really scary.

She looks like she's a bit more nervous than I thought.

-Are you ready? -No.

You can do it!

Baby, I can't.

That's it.

I had to abseil down the wall, headfirst.

Baby, I can't.

I finally conjured up the courage to try and go down the fort.

-Oh. Ah! -[Tyson] Sal!

-[Tyson] It didn't actually go to plan. -[Sally] No.

[Sally] What I'm supposed to do is walk down the wall at a 45 to 90-degree angle.

So my feet are supposed to be going along the wall, downwards.

But it just didn't happen.

I can't walk down.

[Jarrod] So the Speed Bump was each of us had to perform

a different knotted tie on each other.

[Ashleigh] 250 grand at stake.

-Yeah, did I talk when you were doing it? -I know, but it's--

-Did I or no? -I know. But I've never worn one.

[church bells tolling]

Just to amp up the stress a bit.

[Jarrod] The second time, somehow I just remembered a couple of key steps

and somehow I pulled it, pulled it and done.

Awesome.

Thumbs up.

All right, so what are we doing? Where are we going, Ash?

We've got to find the Onofrio Fountain.

[Daniel] So we saw Jarrod and Ash finishing up their Speed Bump.

-How'd yours go? -[Daniel] Good.

-Nice tie. [laughs] -Nowhere yet, mate.

And we hadn't even found our first prayer card yet.

I don't know what they're talking about. It's the same again. Marked prayer cards.

There was a bit of tension there.

We wanted to stay ahead, and we thought,

"This Fast Forward is not working out for us at the moment."

Damn it.

I've got this. I've got it. I've got it.

And once you got closer to the bottom,

-I think you got a bit faster. -Yeah, I got the hang of doing it.

If you go too slow, I'm going to start throwing rocks at you!

It was taking a little bit longer than I expected,

but no other teams had turned up yet, so I knew we still had a bit of a lead.

This is awesome.

[Jarrod] There it is. Straight ahead.

-[Ashleigh] There we are. -Grab it.

-[Jarrod] Then the Maori mums arrived. -H and Carla.

-[Jarrod] I thought, "We're in trouble." -It's getting close.

-Road Block. "Who's always looking ahead?" -You've got to do it.

-Should I do it? -Yeah, that sounds good.

We were so lucky with the way it worked out.

Hereni's a little bit afraid of heights,

-so it was good. -It wasn't a very good challenge for me.

Okay.

"Make your way on foot to the Big Onofrio Fountain and search for your next clue."

-Onofrio Fountain. Let's go, babe. -Okay.

-We finally come to our time. -Yay.

We rip, we read,

-and this is a full envelope. -It's a full envelope.

There's a little glimmer of hope that comes about then

because Ash and Jarrod have to do the Speed Bump.

Now we can make up some time hopefully.

I'm getting a massive wedgie.

That's it. Just get down as quick as you can and safely.

Let's go, Sal! You're nearly there!

[Sally] I'm coming!

[Tyson laughs] Awesome. You did good.

-It was fun. -Well done. All right.

-Bye-bye. -Thank you. Thank you.

[Sally] "Travel by foot along the city walls to the old harbor."

[Grant] Teams must make their way to the other side of the Old City,

to Fort Saint John, where they will find their next clue.

Let's do it!

Yeah, we go up the same path that I went up.

[Jarrod] I had to go to the viewing area,

and while I was traveling to that viewing area,

I saw Sally and Tyson running back, so I knew we were behind.

We just needed to catch up.

Another square.

That's where we started, isn't it? That's the big church.

-We did get lost. Once or twice. -[Ryan laughs]

-Is it? -[Ryan] Yes.

Mate, you are a shit map reader. Come here.

I was doing a rubbish job. I had the map upside down, didn't know which way was up.

-I know where we are. -[Ryan] You know?

-A hundred percent? -Yep.

It is really frustrating. You're realizing it's taking a lot longer than it should.

-Down this way? -Yep.

Okay. Cool.

[Daniel] So it took us awhile to actually find the first prayer card.

Sweet.

What's up here? What's here? Yes!

-Okay, cool. -Let's do it.

-[Daniel] Then once we found that… -We knew exactly what we were looking for.

[Ryan] Yes! Another one. Well done, man.

-Sweet. -Two down. Let's go.

Whoo!

[Jarrod] Let's go, Ash! Come on!

Well, I'm glad I'm not doing that.

-I'm not a big fan of heights. -No?

-No. -I wish I was.

I was just so glad it wasn't me,

but I knew Carla would be able to get down easier than I would.

[Carla] I was so stoked that we had caught up with Ash and Jarrod.

So if Carla's coming out down there, where is she going to land?

[Hereni] I don't know. Might go for a little bit of a swim.

Go, Carla! Woo-hoo!

The fact that Carla was just behind at that point, I was freaking out.

I thought, "I've got to get down here ASAP."

I don't think I'm heavy enough. Yeah, I want to go down.

Yeah, right on. Good girl.

Lean forward and just run.

[Ashleigh] Jarrod and I are both extremely competitive people,

and whether he's doing a Road Block or I'm doing a Road Block,

you've got the Road Block to focus on,

but then you also have that other person just glaring at you going,

"Please don't fail this.

Because if this is you that ruins it, you're going to be in trouble."

Get your feet wet. Good girl.

It's really hard.

It was an interesting challenge because I was not on 90 degrees.

My feet keep slipping off the wall.

It's okay.

[Jesse] This is the fountain.

[Cat] There's the route marker here.

-Are you ready? -Yeah.

-Road Block. -Oh, shit. I need to do it.

-"Who's always looking ahead?" -I am!

Road Block!

Those red envelopes, they scare me.

-Make the heart rate lift a little bit. -Only because I knew it was my turn.

-Are you going to smash it? -Yeah.

You're always looking ahead, babe. You got it.

I thought it was probably something-- you know, another watchman's tower

and you had to look out at something, looking ahead.

Yeah, I thought I'd have to spot something or something like that.

Awesome. "Perform a forward-facing abseil

down the side of one of Dubrovnik's ancient forts."

-That's killer. -At least I don't have to think or run.

Let's go.

[Sally] A harbor wall means along the water, doesn't it?

[Tyson] Yeah. Isn't it? Yeah.

It was just really confusing trying to get around the Old City

because everything looks the same.

Just sandy stone walls everywhere. The buildings look the same.

The streets aren't even marked. It's just a maze.

Up and left.

We just need one more.

[Ryan] We've just got to find the…

On our way to find the prayer cards,

we found the location of the address that we had to deliver the prayer cards.

Are you 17?

There's a barber.

Salon.

He looks keen.

Oh, man. Shave our heads.

I've been growing my hair for about six years. I don't want to lose it.

One more, man. One more prayer card.

Am I going into the water?

-You're doing well. Good girl. -All good?

It was only when I was getting all my safety gear taken off that I turned around

and Carla was still coming down, so I thought, "We've got a bit of a lead."

-Woo-hoo! -All right. All right. Good work, Ash.

"Travel by foot along the city walls to the old harbor."

-[Ashleigh] Have you seen Tyson and Sally? -Yeah, they did it before you.

[Hereni] Well done.

"Travel by foot along the city walls to the old harbor."

-[Daniel] Have you got 'em all? -[Ryan] I do.

Awesome. We know where to go now.

[Ryan] We find our final prayer card, and then we leg it back

seeing as we know where we're going.

-Are you seriously okay with this, man? -Not so much.

[Ryan] And from there, we would have to show

-our devotion… -Devotion.

-…in a traditional way. -Mm.

[speaking Croatia]

[Daniel] We wish there was anything but a barber.

[barber] Hello.

-[Ryan] Tattoo. -Skydive.

-Bungee jump. -I'd rather get tortured.

-What have you got for us? That good? -[barber] Yes.

-[Ryan] That one? -[barber] Yes.

That realization just dawned on us and we started to think,

"Is it too late to pull out? Are we really gonna go through with this?"

We gotta go the Friar Tuck look, man.

I was thinking, "Why did we choose a Fast Forward?

We could've done the other challenges. We were already ahead.

-We've made a mistake here." -[Ryan] Yeah.

I'll go first.

[Ryan] We had chosen the Fast Forward, and it turned out to be a haircut.

Be gentle with me.

A Friar Tuck haircut.

[Ryan] I've done the head shave a couple times. I don't mind it.

But the Friar Tuck, that's--

-You can't even work with that. -No.

Mate, all this hair.

[Ryan] I knew it was gonna be less of a change for me,

so I figured I'd jump in and get it done while Dan comes to terms with it.

Dude, you're gonna have a mad-looking Friar Tuck.

This is intense.

When I realized the reality of what was happening,

it was going through my mind, being like, "We've made a mistake.

We're sacrificing a lot. And we might not even come first."

Oh, well. I'm gonna be bald one day anyway.

[Ryan] Here we go.

-[Tyson] Harbor walls. -[Sally] Yeah.

-Below Saint John's Fort. -Below.

Yeah. Here. You must go here.

[Sally] I was so worried.

If we waste too much time, the buffer between us and the next team

is going to become less and I didn't want that to happen.

Over there. Over there.

-[Sally] Okay. -All right, Sal. We're nearly there.

Here, Sal. Bang. One.

We pick up the first clue, but we must be second

because the boys took the Fast Forward.

Road Block. Again! "Who's a social climber?"

[Grant] The team member who did not complete the first Road Block

must now ascend the stone walls of the local harbor

to receive their next clue.

-Whoo! Yay! -[laughs] Let's go!

-Hey. -[man] Hi.

This Road Block required me to ascend up the wall with nothing but a rope.

It was actually quite high, and I feared it was gonna be a very tough challenge.

They say the bigger guys can't climb very well,

but I'm about to prove them all wrong and earn me and Sally a bigger lead.

Here we go, here we go.

There it goes. [laughs]

I've sacrificed all of my hair.

Wow, that is weird.

I'm sitting in the chair and I'm almost finished with this Friar Tuck,

and he's squirming in the background, thinking, "Can I get out of this?"

I'm thinking, "I've gone through with it. He better go through with it."

[Daniel] Oh, shit.

This is a minor change for Ryan, and a massive change for me.

-Exactly. -What if I said, "I can't do it now"?

That's a weak move, if you do that. That's a weak move.

You gotta wear that the rest of the legs, mate.

Oh, hang on.

Oh, my God. I don't know if I can do this.

So I literally sat on the edge for about two seconds,

and he's like, "Go." And I'm like, "I can't do this."

You're awesome, babe.

You got it.

Put your feet on, babe.

Stand up, stand up, stand up.

Watching Cat come down the wall--

I wasn't willing her to go faster or anything like that.

We were racing, but I wanted her in one piece.

That's a big wall and a large drop.

Pretty sure this is not the technique.

-[Carla] Is this the marked entrance? -We did get a little lost.

"Enter the city walls near the marked entrance and follow the…"

Exit. Exit. Is this the marked exit?

Okay. Lift and lift your leg. Lift. Step in.

-Step in. -Lift.

With Jarrod close behind,

I knew he was gonna find this Road Block easier than I was.

There's a chance that he was going to actually pass me.

-[grunts] -[Sally] That's it. That's it.

He's like a massive muscle climbing up the walls of Dubrovnik.

Let's go, let's go. You're doing really well.

[Tyson grunts]

All of a sudden, it's like, "Oh, no, have we made the right choice

by Sally doing the first one?"

'Cause you had to do the second one.

Whoever didn't do the first Road Block had to do the second one.

[Daniel] I was trying to think of ways I could get out of it.

I was hoping someone was gonna come in and be like,

"We're gonna save you. We're gonna save that hair."

Goodbye, long hair.

-[Ryan] You ready for it, bro? -I'm ready for it.

I didn't want to, but I knew I couldn't back out.

Didn't wanna let Ryan down.

This is possibly the worst decision of my life.

[Ryan] He looked at your hair and just laughed.

-He had this big grin. -Evil laugh.

Like, "I'm gonna cut this guy's hair and I'm gonna enjoy it."

-See you later. -[Ryan] Adios.

[Cat] Okay.

Got to the bottom, quickly unharnessed,

-and ran to you. -[Jesse] Then you ran to me.

-For my welcome hug. -Yeah.

Well done, babe.

-Oh! -[Jesse laughs] Excellent.

-Oh, my God. -[Jesse] Rip.

"Travel by foot along the city walls

-to the old harbor." -I saw a sign.

"Ascend the south harbor wall."

So that's me.

-I've done a bit of climbing before, so… -Socially.

I did it, yeah.

We got there, we're down at the bottom of the climb,

and Tyson was still climbing.

And he actually looked like he was struggling a little bit.

He was making a few roars, a few moans, and groans…

Which was surprising 'cause I thought, "Is that a suit he wears?

Because he ain't that strong when he needs to be."

But he's got a lot of weight to carry up.

So it would've been a lot more difficult for him.

[Tyson groans]

[Tyson] When I saw Ash and Jarrod turn up, I was like, "All right.

I've got to pull even harder."

-How's it going? -Yeah, good.

Let's go.

Go, Jazza. Awesome.

I'm pretty light, so I'm not lifting that much body weight.

So once I got started, it was pretty easy.

You can do it.

I could see Jarrod doing it really quickly because he's not got as much weight.

You're doing so good.

I could tell Sally-- She was really getting a bit worried

that we were potentially gonna steal their place.

[Jarrod] Tyson is stronger, but we're coming.

-It's game on, isn't it? -[Ashleigh] Yeah. A hundred percent.

[Ashleigh] Let's go, Jazza.

You had to climb a steep vertical wall.

And when we got there, Tyson was still climbing.

[Tyson] The pressure was on.

We were very concerned about Ash and Jarrod passing us.

He's now climbed up the wall. He's done really, really well.

Thank you.

[Ashleigh] Whoo! Good job. Good job. Awesome.

Thanks very much.

-"Make your way to the next Pit Stop…" -"…Fort St. Lawrence."

[Grant] Fourteenth century Fort St. Lawrence dominates both sea

and land entrances to Dubrovnik.

This looming mass of stone is the Pit Stop for the eighth leg of the race.

"Hurry! The last team to arrive may be eliminated."

-Let's do it. Yes! -All right, Sal.

We're making a run for it to St. Lawrence.

We've got to get out of this maze-like city.

[Ashleigh] We were neck and neck with Sally and Tyson.

We were running as fast as we possibly could to the Pit Stop.

[Ashleigh] We're back in it, shorty.

[Daniel] We had chosen the Fast Forward

and it turned out to be a Friar Tuck haircut.

Oh, there we go, there we go.

Oh!

-Oh, man. Oh. -[laughs]

Can I see it?

[Ryan laughs] Oh.

[Daniel groans]

It was a big deal. We're sacrificing a lot.

It's okay. It's okay. I can glue it back on. It'll be okay.

Full props to him that he was gonna do it. He stuck to his guns.

-Nice. -You're badass with a shaved head.

-Thanks, dude. -But you look rubbish as a monk.

[both laugh]

-So, this is what… -…our Fast Forward looks like.

-Worst haircut of my life. -Me too.

Monastic chic.

Done.

[Daniel] We finish our cuts.

Thank you.

And we're given the next clue.

"Congratulations. Travel on foot to the next Pit Stop."

Cool.

-Bro? That's this way. -[laughs]

Oh, crap.

Okay.

"Note, the team member who did not perform the previous Road Block

-must perform this challenge." -Okay.

I wasn't very happy when I saw the climbing wall.

I was so shocked.

I think it's a lot of mental pressure, as opposed to the physical pressure.

We were so worried.

H, don't panic. Don't panic.

I was worried about Hereni's fear of heights,

so I knew that she'd struggle with it.

All I needed to do was just to look ahead, set my eye on the wall in front of me,

and slowly climb.

Girls can do anything.

Just know you can't fall, H.

-They've got you. Good girl. -Yeah.

Let's go.

[Jesse] We're heading along these city walls, knowing full well that

anything we do not quickly or not efficiently

could have us completely gone.

We are looking for…

-Two more minutes just straight this way. -Thank you. And then down?

-Hot chocolate, coffee. -Maybe later.

[Daniel] Mate, I feel so much more aerodynamic!

[Ryan] Whoosh!

Monks attack!

-Fast Forwards are a quick option. -[Daniel] Yeah.

So we were thinking this could be a chance to get in first.

[Tyson] All we had to do at this stage was not take any bad turns.

If we could get there without getting lost,

we were in second place.

Pretty sure right here.

-Pretty sure or definitely sure? -Yep. Let's go.

So when we picked our bags up, we were pretty close to Sally and Tyson.

We wanted to catch them.

Here. Look, it's here.

[Ryan] Keep going straight.

-It's there. Thank you. -Here? Okay.

Yeah, marked up here. Ash, let's go.

[Sally] Whoo!

[speaking Croatian]

Welcome to Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Oh, wow.

[Grant] Sally and Tyson,

you're team number one.

Whoo! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

It was unbelievable.

It is a great feeling, especially for the fact

we didn't know we were in first place.

As the winners of this leg,

you've won a $10,000 flight voucher to share,

which you can spend across the entire Virgin Australia

domestic and international network,

yours, of course, to use after the race.

Plus, you'll each receive a Velocity Platinum Frequent Flyer card,

-another great benefit. -Oh, my God!

Thank you, Virgin!

It's actually the perfect…

-It is. -…engagement present.

Now we just need to win the last leg so that we can pay for the wedding.

Well done today. Rest up. We'll see you in the next leg.

-All right. -Thank you. [speaks Croatian]

Ashleigh and Jarrod,

you're team number two.

Whoo!

-Two? -Two!

Two?

-Disappointed if we're not first, eh? -Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan] We've done these haircuts.

If we get a first place, it's all worth it.

Yeah, I reckon down.

Looks like there's stairs going up. Oh, no.

-No, no. -No, up.

-Up? -Yeah.

[Daniel] We couldn't find Fort St. Lawrence.

[Ryan] Although you can see it, trying to find out

how to get down to the stairs that lead up to it was pretty tricky.

Nope. Not there.

[Ryan] How do we get to it?

[Hereni] I want to come off now.

[Carla] Keep going, keep going. Keep going.

[groans]

It was a struggle. There was probably two or three times that I thought,

"I'm not going to make this." But I had to dig deep.

Good girl, H. You're there.

-Oh. -[Jesse] Oh. Ooh.

Oh, what? Another Road Block.

[Cat] That's tricky.

[Jesse] Let's go and ascend the south harbor wall.

[Hereni] Is that it now?

Well done, buddy.

[Hereni] I'm really proud of myself. I didn't know I could do it.

And I wouldn't have done it without Carla.

"Hurry! The last team to arrive may be eliminated." Oh, my gosh.

[Hereni] We were still feeling good at that point,

but I had my fingers crossed we wouldn't get lost again.

We've got to go back to where we were with the abseiling.

I'm not much of a climber. The upper body strength is not my--

Woo-hoo! Get it over my jacksy. The upper body strength is not my forte.

Well, let's just say abseiling and rock climbing is not what we do normally.

I have to use my leg and my arms?

-What? -I don't know. Give me a ladder.

[Cat] Are you alive?

[Jesse] I can't feel my nads!

[laughs]

And then…

I can't do it!

Did I look good?

Ah, it was interesting, because you're harnessed in,

but you were kind of lying in your harness.

[Jesse] I was relaxing.

Can you yell some encouragement?

[Cat] I'm not sure what to yell, babe.

-Just yell, "Go, fatso." -[laughs]

It's just not working.

How much is the time penalty?

[Daniel] We had had the worst luck all day.

I was freaking out how long it was taking.

We'll have to go the other way, mate.

That would be the complete tragedy.

Getting your head shaved and looking like this and coming last.

[Ryan] We want to stay in the race.

-That's it there. -Yeah.

-How do we get to it? -[Ryan] This Fast Forward is backfiring.

[Daniel] Unbelievable.

It looks like there's stairs going up that way. Oh, no.

[Daniel] Trying to get to the Pit Stop, I was freaking out how long it was taking.

We couldn't find Fort St. Lawrence.

-Nope. Not there. -[Ryan] How do we get to it?

-We ended up going, I don't know-- -We went in the wrong direction.

About 50 meters.

-Thank you. Thank you, sir. -Thanks.

-All right. Cool, man. -Let's do it.

Oh, man.

Inside my head, I slapped myself, because we are not quitters.

Come on!

We might struggle with things, but we're going to get things finished.

We're going to do things, and if we were to end up out of this race,

it wouldn't be because…

-You quit. -…I quit.

So I powered through.

-"Powered" is a strong word. -[Cat] Yeah.

I stumbled through and managed to get to the top of that wall.

We hold a sliver of hope.

A clue.

Maybe, just maybe, we can come in not last.

"Hurry! The last team to arrive may be eliminated."

-We're on our way to the Pit Stop. -We're on our way.

-Got to… -I'll ask here.

-Excuse me. To get to the fort? -How do we get to the fort?

[Carla] Which way?

Navigating the city was quite hard.

It was getting really, really frustrating and we lost a lot of time.

Thank you.

Daniel and Ryan, you guys are team number three.

[both laugh]

[Ryan] We were quite surprised there were two teams that made it in before us.

Which means they must've smashed out those Road Blocks.

[Grant] Fellas, I've got to ask one question.

Given that you've come in number three, is it worth it?

Hell no.

[all laugh]

It's worth it for the adventure.

Pit Stop!

Carla was cracking the whip.

She was just going, "Hurry up, Hereni. Run, run, run."

[Carla] 'Cause I was worried about Cat and Jesse just behind us.

You never really know if you're in last place or not.

You just keep running.

There's lots of twists and turns.

It was a wee distance. I was hoping people were lost.

-You just go up here. -Thank you so much.

Thank you.

More bloody steps.

[Carla] Dig it in, H. Dig it in.

[Jesse] Come on, babe. Do you think we're in last?

Carla and Hereni…

Yes, Grant?

You're team number four.

-Four's good. -Not last.

[Jesse] We kind of had a sinking feeling that we were at the end,

but that didn't mean we were going to give up.

-Come on, babe. -You all right?

-Yeah, don't stop for me. -No.

We had to run our race and do that well.

[Cat] Feels like you're flying off the mat.

-Cat and Jesse. -Hey, Grant.

You guys are the fifth team to arrive,

and I'm sorry to tell you,

but you have been eliminated from the race.

-That's what we thought. -I'm good with that.

The overall thing that we've learned about ourselves and about this,

during the race,

is that it works.

What do you think your kids are going to think?

My only regret is that we don't go home with anything for them.

We got to come and have an amazing time…

and I was pretty keen to take something home for them, but that's fine.

We take home…

We take home the fact that we ran this as ourselves

-with honor. -Yep.

And we were true to our word with other teams.

It means a lot to you, doesn't it, mate?

My kids mean everything to me,

and I work hard so that they can have a good life.

And this would've been a cool way to be able to take home that money or something.

It would've been a cool way to just take away some of the stress of that for them.

I'm super proud of him.

Some of the stuff has been full on,

and he's just kept going and kept it really lighthearted

and has kept pushing me and said, you know,

to stop, look where you are,

enjoy the view,

say hi to some new people.

I'm super thankful he's been able to keep that perspective

in amongst all this craziness.

Cat and I together have done this, and we'll always have this experience.

And we've seen places I would never have visited.

I've done things I would never have done.

And hopefully, we're just that little bit richer on the inside because of it.