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PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously on The Amazing Race...

A first-ever Moroccan Scramble

had teams on the run.

Some teams continued to forge bonds.

DALTON: You'll be able to tell, trust me.

I gave Jaime advice because she had the same exact shoe I did,

and I didn't want her wasting time.

KEOGHAN: But it came at a cost.

[gasps] Hey.

I got to take it. And she can't have it.

KEOGHAN: At the Roadblock, Dafina and Saran played

the first-ever Roadside Assistance...

Okay, yes.

Gonna use our Roadside Assistance.

...with stellar results.

- Good job. - Yes, thank you.

- Ooh, wow. - Wow.

JAVI: They popped the Roadside Assistance,

- they are out of here. - First shot.

KEOGHAN: Michelle and Matt's lone-wolf strategy...

MATT: If we can

do our thing, run our own race,

- I'm happy with that. - Mm-hmm.

KEOGHAN: ...paid off in a big way.

I am pleased to tell you,

you're team number one.

- Congratulations. - Let's go.

I love you. Let's go.

KEOGHAN: Meanwhile, Cody and Jaime

lost their bearings in the Medina...

CODY: Why are we so bad at this?

Son of a... Oh, Jaime!

...ending in their elimination.

That's the thing, is that we're family.

We're always gonna look out for each other.

Yeah, forever and for always.

[bellows]

♪ ♪

Route Info.

"Fly to Tirana, Albania."

- Let's go. - Let's go.

[laughs]: Let's go.

Albania. Sick.

MICHELLE: Yeah.

- Hi, sir. - Good morning.

MICHELLE: Can you take us to the Marrakech Airport?

MATT: Our mantra coming in was just control

what we can control.

- Yeah, just worry about ourselves. - And... so far...

People have, like, tried to, like, link up

and become, like, a team and stuff,

and we would rather run the race by ourself.

So we still have our Express Pass.

If anyone asks,

we're gonna tell them we used it.

MICHELLE: We'd rather them think that we won first because we

used it instead of based off how good we are.

- So... - Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield.

Yeah, so...

We're hoping to, uh, continue being the windshield here.

There's two more legs that teams can use the Express Pass,

and as far as we know, three teams still have it--

Matt and Michelle,

- Conner and Garrett... - DALTON: Conner and Garrett.

- DAISHA: ...and Ali and Joanna. - DALTON: Joanna.

- We love you. - [chuckles]

Thank you.

We're gonna try to get

the best flight possible.

You don't see Matt and Michelle?

No.

Here come all the other teams.

- Here we go. - JAVI: Really?

- ANDREA: There we go. Okay. - ANUAR: Yeah.

Time to play...

Mr. Nice and Happy.

- Hey. - We were looking for you 'cause you're tall,

but we still couldn't...

Y'all barely beat us out yesterday.

We cannot get-get in front of y'all.

Did you run with the rug?

We used our Express Pass at the rug.

That was smart.

- So... - Wait, so if y'all wouldn't have used it,

we would have-- Damn, okay.

Michelle and Matt used their Express Pass last leg,

which we were not expecting.

We thought they just outran us to the Pit Stop.

But if not, we had it in the bag.

That's smart. They did the-- they did

the smart move.

So now we know there's only two Express Passes left.

MATT: Worked to perfection.

All right, let's get an espresso.

Okay, can you not walk away from me?

[laughs]

ANUAR: Albania, here we go.

DALTON: So we got all teams on the flight right now.

And I think everyone's really

excited to go to Albania.

Bye, Marrakech.

- Hello, Albania. - Yes.

KEOGHAN: All teams will fly across the Mediterranean

to Southern Europe and the capital city of Albania.

♪ ♪

After 39 seasons of The Amazing Race,

we've seen a lot of the world,

but there still are a few countries we haven't seen,

including Albania, our 99th.

Its capital city Tirana

has a striking architectural contrast

where the past and the future coexist.

CONNER: Oh, yeah.

- Let's go. - Let's go.

ANUAR: Get out, get out of here.

JOANNA: Let's go.

- Yeehaw. - Coming on through.

- SARAN: Ooh. - DAFINA: Cool.

- [Saran laughs] - DAFINA: Yes.

GARRETT: I call shotgun.

- ANUAR: Get one, Andrea. - JAVI: Got it.

- Let's go. - Let her rip.

- All right. - Route Info.

"Drive to the town of Mullet.

"When you get there, ask for directions to Turtle Farm

"to find your next clue.

Caution: Driver's Seat ahead."

We got to ask somebody.

- Driver's Seat. Let's get it. - Yeah, baby. Get after it.

- "Driver's Seat ahead." Okay. - Okay.

- All right, we got a map. Yeah. - Yeah.

- There's more map than I know how to deal with. - [laughs]

Can you look up on your phone "Turtle Farm"?

Thank you so much.

- Can we look with you guys? - Yeah.

Mullet.

Let's, let-let's go.

- Yeah? - Let's go. Yeah.

I'm gonna work this map. Let's go.

My manual-driving wife right there.

- Here we go. - DAISHA: We got to hurry.

RILEY: We're good.

Yep, we're ready to rumble.

- Thank you so much... - Appreciate you. Let's go.

- Thank you. - Okay.

ERIN: We are in Albania.

- This is so cool. - And there is a Driver's Seat ahead.

Hopefully, uh, hopefully we don't get screwed.

Who knows?

CONNER: We still got the Express Pass, and if need be,

just go to a challenge and Express Pass it

right off the bat, if we start falling behind.

DALTON: We're gonna follow Anuar and Andrea

and Doug and Dylan.

DAISHA: So...

Cody and Jaime

are not in the race anymore.

We were in alliance with them.

Come on, guys. What do you need? We're here to help you.

DAISHA: We just got to focus on ourself now.

Claws out.

We just got to do our own thing.

DALTON: That's the one good thing about us,

is that we know how to follow people.

MATT: That's it right there.

- MICHELLE: Parking. - MATT: Parking. Perfect.

- Yes. - Ba-boom.

First in? First in?

- Yeah? - MICHELLE: Yeah, we're good.

Make a left, and then it'll be on the right.

MATT: Yeah.

MICHELLE: All right. Let's do it.

Roadblock.

"Who's ready to crush this Roadblock?"

- Let's do it. I'm crushing something. - All right, open it up.

Raki is a licorice-flavored liqueur,

considered by many here in Albania

to be the national drink.

And for good reason.

It's good for a toothache.

It's good if you have a fever.

And it's even used as an antiseptic

to help in the healing of wounds.

Cheers.

Mmm.

While this drink of the people

is available on supermarket shelves,

most people like to make their own at home,

something teams will take part in in this juicy Roadblock.

Teams must use this hand-cranked grape crusher

to make must-- a thick,

pulpy grape juice.

MATT: Let's go.

As the first team to arrive,

Michelle and Matt will now be put

in the Driver's Seat

and can determine how many pounds of must

each team has to make.

50, 75 or 100.

All right.

- [mutters] - Take the pics.

Driver's Seat-- that's us.

- MATT: Driver's Seat is us. - Big mama.

- We're gonna give ourself 50. - We're gonna give ourself the lightest.

We'll go 50 here.

- 50 here. - 50, uh...

Yeah, 50 there.

MATT: The goal was

to wash out one of the Express Passes.

Ali and Joanna.

MICHELLE: And Conner and Garrett have the other one.

MATT: And Conner and Garrett had the other.

Who pissed who off? No, I'm kidding.

- It's b-- it's business. - They're too strong.

Ali and Joanna,

you're too good for us.

- I think, uh... - 75.

Conner and Garrett.

We wanted Ali and Joanna to feel the pressure

to use the Express Pass on that one.

So that's why we gave the different values.

- Um... - Anuar and Andrea--

they've been kind of, you know... [clicks tongue]

- They can crush a few grapes. - Yeah.

They can crush a few grapes.

MATT: They're a good team.

Everywhere we go, they speak the language.

Everywhere we go,

he's complaining about how it's too physical,

- but everywhere we go, they come in second place. - MICHELLE: Yeah.

75, 75.

Dylan's 18 years old.

- He won't even be sore tomorrow. - MICHELLE: No.

- We don't have time to think about it. - It's part of the game.

MICHELLE: Part of the game.

♪ ♪

Let's pick some grapes.

MICHELLE: You smush them grapes.

MATT: I have never done anything like this.

You know, I won't turn down a nice wine,

but I'm not, like, a big wine person.

- Here's the arrow. - Yep.

- ANN-MARIE: Right here. - RILEY: Perfect.

DYLAN: Parking. Race parking.

- DOUG: Oh. There we go. - Yes.

DAISHA: Let's not get stuck.

This is so muddy.

DALTON: Ooh.

"Who's ready to crush this Roadblock?"

Crush. You.

Dalton wants to crush it.

Dad, you got it.

- I think I should do it. - Okay, you got it.

[gasps]

RILEY: So we go down,

and it was this beautiful farm.

There was no turtles that I saw, by the way.

- No turtles. - Threw me off.

- ANN-MARIE: 50 pounds. Okay. - RILEY: 50 pounds?

[Dalton gasps]

DYLAN: God, they gave us 100, man.

DOUG: Oh, my goodness.

Thanks, Matt and Michelle.

DAISHA: 75.

[Andrea gasps]

ANUAR: Are you okay?

- [laughs]: We're good. - ANUAR: Whoa!

ANDREA: Oh, my God.

We're really sliding into this challenge

over here.

Oh, ...

They gave us 100.

You got this, Dad.

For the first time, I realized that

Matt and Michelle saw us as a threat.

ANDREA: Y'all gave us 100 pounds?

Okay, there was absolutely no rhyme or reason.

Like, I literally just, like...

ANDREA: I don't believe you. I don't know, girl.

100 pounds to Pops and my dad is crazy.

What do you mean, 100 pounds?

- Yeah, they give us 100 pounds. - Ah.

I think it's crazy to give to anyone.

- DOUG: Come on, Dylan. - DAISHA: You got this, Dalt.

- [groans] - Damn, we got 100 pounds.

Yeah, us, too.

- It's terrible. - Yeah, it's a game.

[sighs]

DYLAN: Ah, thanks for the 100, Matt.

MATT: It's business, never personal.

DYLAN: No, I get it, man.

Don't hate the player.

Hate the game.

MICHELLE: You got this.

You're doing great.

[panting]

You're phenomenal.

- You crank it! - [panting]: This is...

This is pretty straightforward.

Got it.

Going back out for my second crate.

JAVI: I think almost every team is ahead of us right now,

but that's okay.

I'm really hoping that people get lost today.

- Well, not us, everyone else. - [chuckles]

- People, not us. - Not us. We aren't people.

SARAN: We were going south,

which is the direction that we need to go.

- DAFINA: Yeah. - But now we're going...

DAFINA: We might need to turn around.

We're gonna have some making up to do.

SARAN: This is more than

- a notion. - DAFINA: Yeah.

This is bonkers.

JOANNA: We going the wrong direction?

Yeah, I'm looking at the map, but, um...

Did we reset the, uh, odometer?

I have no idea even where the odometer is.

- CONNER: Dang. Driver's Seat. Let's go. - GARRETT: All right. Here we go.

75 pounds.

That's right.

- That's so super nice of them. - You know what? That's not bad.

All right, all right.

Hello, hello. How you guys doing?

We made it. Come on. Hello, hello.

Ooh.

I'm gonna try it out.

I want to test it.

CONNER: I'm popping in right here.

RILEY: I want to try to take as least

amount of trips, strategy-wise, as I can.

These look nice and ripe.

I could probably eat some.

A couple more, and then I'm gonna go up.

- DOUG: Come on, D. - [clapping]

Dad, you got this.

I don't know if I need to get them off the stems.

It's not simple.

It's hard.

- Let's do it. - Let's do it.

Ooh. Ooh. Ooh.

[panting]

Okay.

ANDREA: Oh, he's doing it over the thing.

It's not going into the bucket.

Oh.

Fumble.

DAISHA: Good job, Dalton!

Dad, come on!

He doesn't realize it's not going into the bucket.

DOUG: Come on, Dylan!

ANDREA: My gosh.

MICHELLE: Crank it.

Go, go.

Go.

Ooh. Oh.

Oh, this thing's got all sorts of movement to it.

Nice.

And...

Matt and Michelle. There you go.

- We got really lucky. - Awesome.

- 50 pounds. - Awesome.

- That's not so bad. - JAVI: Okay, nice.

I'm gonna get a check just to see where I'm at.

Be careful! Slow!

Nice and slow!

[panting]

Check.

- Yes. Yes, you did it. - MATT: Thank you. Thank you.

- Thank you. - MICHELLE: Let's go!

- Let's go! - Thank you so much.

- Thank you. All right. - Bravo.

Okay, let's go.

- Okay. - You did great.

- Nicely done. - [sniffles]

Route Info.

KEOGHAN: Teams must now drive themselves

to the Instituti i Artit Kulinar Royal

for their next clue.

- Let's go. - All right.

We got to find out where that's at.

- [panting] - MICHELLE: All right.

Great job.

People were pissed at me.

MATT: Why?

"Oh, really? You gave me 100?"

Like, do you think I have time

- to think about, like, what...? - I...

Who was annoyed?

- MICHELLE: Andrea. - Get out of here.

I'm like, "Anyone's gonna be pissed, though,

- at 100." Like... - MATT: It's okay.

- Anyone's gonna be pissed. - And if anyone says anything else,

I'm gonna say, "You know what could have avoided all that?

If you got there first."

You know, not much I can do about having to do 100.

Not pleased with it, but...

I'll do the work I have to do.

- 75. - 75.

No, bro, you need more.

You got it. Don't give up.

- I need to fill it up. Uno más. - DAISHA: You're doing so good.

Do I drink a lot of wine?

There's a right and a wrong answer to that,

and the answer is yes.

Now, do I drink a lot of good wine?

No.

DYLAN: Okay.

- How much...? - No. Keep going.

DYLAN: 37?

Okay.

Y'all, my dad's been down there for a long time.

RILEY: Are you okay, Anuar?

ANUAR: Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. It's just super slippery.

I'm feeling exhausted.

It's harder than it looks.

[panting]

My dad is grinding it on the wooden plank.

- It's not even going in the barrel. - You got this, honey!

ANUAR: The crank is really hard,

I'm guessing, because of the stems.

Just, uh...

crank it...

slowly.

I thought it was just the juice.

Only juice.

[sighs]

ANDREA: No. No. Oh, my God.

He's putting it all onto the ground.

Oh, ...

ANUAR: See?

ANDREA: Oh, my God.

ANDREA: Dad!

He just put it all onto the ground.

I'm literally gonna cry. We're still at zero.

ANUAR: I'm super frustrated.

RILEY: Anuar, take your board out.

Take the board out.

Okay.

ANDREA: Oh, my God.

ANUAR: Okay. Are you sure, Riley?

RILEY: I'm positive. I got you.

I decided to help Anuar

because he's someone that we love and want to work with.

Oh, my God. Thank you.

ANN-MARIE: They're another

parent-child relationship,

and we know how much that means.

I was just getting the juice,

but now I realize that it's not the juice.

It's the whole thing... all very smushed.

So that makes more sense--

all the weight in here.

ANDREA: Thank you.

[pants]: All right.

I wasted so much.

- Yes, you did it. - Yes.

- Congratulations. Bravo. - Thank you.

"Drive yourselves

"to the Instituti i Artit Kulinar Royal

to find your next clue."

Dalton's at the wrong station.

[panting]

DAISHA: Dalton.

- I can't say anything. - Mm-mm.

How are your grapes looking, Dalton?

I'm getting there.

- CONNER: Looking good. - [Dalton chuckles]

- [exhales sharply] - Dalton got confused on the stations,

and instead of doing grapes

into his own barrel, he just did a whole

- crate into my dad's. - [grunting]

It sucks not being able to say anything.

[grunts]

Ah, yeah, baby.

DAISHA: Oh, my gosh.

JOANNA: We're looking for, uh,

- the town of Mullet. - Mullet.

- JOANNA: Oh, there it is. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We went all the way out here.

Wow. How did we get

- all the way out on the coast? - ALI: Wait.

Northwest. Thank you.

- Thanks. - JOANNA: Thank you so much.

We joked that we wanted to start today

with a two-goal deficit.

You know, like in a soccer game?

It means that you're already down two-zero

when the game starts.

So that's kind of how we wanted to start this leg.

[both laugh]

ALI: Oh, damn it.

- ANDREA: Come on, Dad! Don't give up! - [clapping]

Don't stop. Keep going.

DALTON: I think Anuar

is trying his best right now,

but this is pretty physically demanding, even for me.

Y'all ready to see this?

Dalton's about to freak out.

[panting]

Is he at mine?

[panting]

DAISHA: You got this.

Don't give up.

Don't give up, Dalton!

It's okay, Dalton. Don't give up.

- DAISHA: It's okay, baby. You got it. - It's confusing 'cause...

DAISHA: Don't give up.

...I thought that was a second barrel.

Look, I'll be honest, I was

not thinking straight.

I was out of breath, and I thought I was

at my barrel.

I wish I could put my backpack there or something

to know which is which.

Anuar had his jacket beside it.

DALTON: I didn't know that was his jacket.

I didn't even see Anuar's jacket.

DAISHA: Anuar's jacket was right beside it,

and you went up to it and you started filling it up.

And I was like...

DALTON: My brain was not braining.

We're still in this.

"Who's ready to crush this Roadblock?"

- I am. - You are.

DAFINA: In Morocco,

I strained my hamstring.

But this leg,

I'm feeling good.

I'll be all right.

- SARAN: Saran. 75 pounds. - 75 pounds.

SARAN: Damn.

Crush those grapes, G.

Come on, Javi!

- Let's go! - Okay.

How much you need?

I need 50.

Oh, I'm sorry, bro.

Still need some more.

Almost done.

- ALI: Oh, wait. Mullet is to the right. - JOANNA: Oh, Mullet.

Driver's Seat ahead, right?

ANUAR: Check.

MAN: You think you got it this time?

- I think so. - Okay, good.

Come on, Dad!

- MAN: How much do you need? - ANUAR: 100.

- MAN: 100? - ANDREA: Yeah, please.

Please.

Oh, my God. That's exactly 100.

- Congratulations. - ANDREA: Yes! Yes, Dad!

- Good job! Yes! - Thank you.

I knew you could do it. Come on.

Yeah!

- MAN: How much do you need, bro? - 75.

[laughter]

Yes, you did it.

- Congratulations. - Let's go.

- Yes, baby! - Yes!

- Yeah, you deserve more, bro. - Thank you so much.

- You helped the others... - Appreciate it.

- Yeah, thank you. - Let's go, let's go.

Anuar, you owe me five bucks.

- [laughs] - I know.

Yeah, thank you, Dalton.

- [laughs] - My goodness.

- Sorry, though. - It's okay.

DYLAN: Check.

- MAN: How much do you need? 100? - 100.

- Congratulations. - DYLAN: Yes.

- Yes! Let's go! - DOUG: Yeah! Attaboy!

Thank you, thank you.

- Attaboy, Dylan. - [Dylan panting]

100 pounds!

DAFINA: Ooh, this is a nice bushy one.

JAVI: I think if Ali and Joanna show up at some point soon,

they're gonna pop their Express Pass.

DAFINA: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I need to get as many grapes as I can, as quickly as I can.

Give me 75, will you?

- MAN: Yeah, 76. - CONNER: Yeah. Thank you.

- Congratulations, bro. - Thank you, sir.

GARRETT: Let's go, Conner.

What you're looking at...

You got this, Javi.

...is hopefully Javi's last trip.

[groans]

"Who's ready to crush... this Roadblock?"

I am. Joanna's gonna crush this Roadblock.

Oh, Ali and Joanna just got here.

Okay.

- 100 pounds, yeah. Okay. - ALI: Yeah.

JOANNA: We're gonna play the Express Pass.

[strains]

MAN: How much do you need, bro?

JAVI: 50.

50. You did it.

- Congratulations. - [cheering]

ERIN: Javi, yes, let's go, let's go, let's go!

- Bravo, bravo. - Thank you. Bravo.

ERIN: Good job. Come on.

- Congratulations. - Thank you.

Yeah. So easy for you. [laughs]

SARAN: Come on, G!

I need to get it weighed.

Woo-hoo. Whoo-whoo-whoo!

DAFINA: 35.

Maybe people got lost driving to the next Roadblock or Detour.

MICHELLE: I'm not so positive that we're

going the right way.

It is so tough without a GPS.

Mom, are we sure we're going the right way?

ANDREA: We're a little lost right now.

Signs were not-- are not clear.

Um, it's...

not labeled. It's hard.

I think we're going the wrong way.

It seems like we're getting further from the freeway.

Oh, we are going the wrong way.

- Are we going the wrong way? - We're going the wrong way.

I mean, it's not, like, super terrible, but it's just...

DAISHA: No, it is. It's super terrible.

- JAVI: Just-just slow. - It's okay.

- I'm going slow. I'm going slow. - Please.

You've got it, Dafina!

I'm hoping for 40 pounds.

Oh.

I'm 51 years old.

Saran's 50,

but we've always been very active.

We're D1 athletes.

SARAN: I was a personal trainer for a long time.

I've never really stopped training

family and myself.

DAFINA: I hope this is 40, G.

SARAN: I believe it will be, for sure.

[groans]

[grunts]

SARAN: This girl is she-woman for real.

[straining]

[panting]

I'm losing my berries.

Okay, here we go.

SARAN: See what we got, G.

DAFINA: 40 more pounds is the goal.

- MAN: I think you got it. - DAFINA: Okay.

All right, come on.

- MAN: Yes. - SARAN: Yes!

- MAN: 82. - DAFINA: Yay.

- Congratulations. - Thank you.

Whoo! Good job, G!

- Thank you. Yes. - SARAN: Whoo!

- All right. - Girl, that looked so hard.

- Girl. - DAFINA [sighs]: Oh, man.

- [engine starts] - SARAN: We needed that. - DAFINA: We needed that.

SARAN: Okay.

Oh.

DAFINA: We got to make this turn.

[both sigh]

- SARAN: Freak. - DAFINA: That's okay, Saran.

SARAN: W-We're stuck.

DAFINA: You got any ideas?

SARAN: I don't have a single idea.

Oh! What the hell?

[sighs]

Nothing is simple.

And it's getting deeper, isn't it?

Oh, man.

We're in last place right now.

Oh.

DAFINA: Yay!

Wait for me.

MATT: Now we're, like, close.

MICHELLE: Pull in, I see it.

- Pull in. Yeah. Huge. - We're here.

MATT: Oh, my gosh. We made it.

It's gonna be, like, here.

MICHELLE: Yes.

Roadblock.

- "Who wants to roll it out?" - Me. Me.

"Make a delicious breakfast pastry called byrek."

- Let's go. - Let's go.

MATT: Holy crap.

This is crazy.

In another Amazing Race first,

teams are about to face

the second Driver's Seat on the same leg of the race.

Michelle and Matt will decide

how many byrek each team has to make--

eight, 12 or 16.

After rolling out their dough,

teams must precisely fill

and fold this popular breakfast pastry.

When the chef says they're ready for the oven,

they'll get a clue.

- MATT: There's one eight, then 12. - MICHELLE: One eight.

BOTH: And 16.

- We're gonna do eight. - Yeah.

We knew we were giving ourselves

the least amount of byrek to roll out.

- We earned that. - We earned that.

16... 16.

Once again, just in case our first plan didn't work...

MATT: We wanted to get those, uh,

- those Express Passes out. - MICHELLE: We wanted to push the Express Passes out.

16. 12. 12.

- What? - You could do a 16 here, a 12 there.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

All right, you want to switch it up?

Matt chose to switch the besters.

MATT: Andrea started whining

with Michelle at the first thing.

Y'all gave us 100 pounds?

100 pounds to Pops and my dad is crazy.

- We got 100 pounds. - Yeah, us, too.

It's terrible.

MATT: Oh, like, you want to whine about that?

- You're gonna make 16 byreks now. - [laughs]

MATT: And now you can really whine, okay?

- So that-that was that. Yeah. - You're so nasty.

- Hello. Take your piece. - [speaking Albanian]

A little bit of oil.

MICHELLE: Nice and thin.

A little bit of cheese.

Corner, corner, fold.

Okay, where's the kitchen?

Let's get cooking.

So we are making eight byrek.

Two.

I started baking at a young age.

My mom would always bake with me and my grandma.

And then we get cheese.

During COVID, I started to sell baked things.

Like, I was making 13 to 17 cakes every single week.

I made our wedding cake.

It was huge. It was a big cake.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

I need one more.

RILEY: There's a Driver's Seat.

ANN-MARIE: Michelle and Matt have been here.

Twelve.

I've maybe used a rolling pin, in my life, maybe once.

You know those slice-and-bake cookies

that you get at the grocery stores?

Those are my children's favorite cookies.

RILEY: Me and my sister

can't stand Thanksgiving 'cause the food is not good.

And I love you with my whole heart and soul.

- That's Nana's fault. - No.

I can't say this plays to my strengths.

I'm gonna get this checked first.

Check.

Welcome.

No good. Bigger.

- Bigger. Sure. Easy. - Bigger.

Got you. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Chef.

DAISHA: We're trying to find

the "Institute Art" Kulinar Royal.

Oh, there's a team. They're asking for directions.

- We just got to keep going. - Okay, okay, okay. - It's right...

Okay, we caught up with Daisha and Dalton and Anuar and Andrea.

DYLAN: Whew. Well...

journey to get here, bro.

But I think we're almost there.

- I think, I think we're getting close. - CONNER: Yeah.

No good, no good, no good, no good.

Very good.

- Very good. - Oh.

All right, I got it.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- Faleminderit. - RILEY: Good job.

MICHELLE: I got one.

No good.

Good.

Ah. Yes. Okay.

- Thank you. Thank you so much. - Good job, Mom.

Now you know what to do.

MICHELLE: The triangle had to be, like, really symmetrical.

Like, everything had to be even, large.

Like, no extra folds, nothing.

I now, like,

knew what I had to do.

This is wild and crazy, but, you know, The Amazing Race.

ANDREA: Oh, I see it.

Up there. Right there.

Park anywhere here, I guess.

There's a parking sign. Let's go.

I'm gonna park right next to this car.

Lock the car, take the keys.

ANN-MARIE: Mine are too big.

A little less dough might help me.

This is the best.

- RILEY: Yeah. - MATT: Let's hope.

Come on, Chef.

CHEF: Very nice, nice, nice, nice.

- No good. - Okay, so redo that one?

- RILEY: Yay. - Good.

Good, good, good, good, good.

- All right. - One more?

- RILEY: Good. One more. - Yes, Chef.

It's a Roadblock again.

- "Who wants to roll it out?" Me. - You.

- Okay, I'll-I'll roll it out. - Flip it.

- I guess I'll roll it out. - You got it again.

DYLAN: Dude, two Driver's Seats. Are we kidding?

Okay, 16 is the highest.

We got the highest this time.

Sixteen.

- We got hit with 16. - CONNER: Yeah.

- 16, 16, 16. - 16.

DYLAN: Oh. Okay.

We don't have the most. We have 12.

We got the most again.

I was hopeful that we weren't gonna get the most amount

at the second Driver's Seat.

I got 16.

I honestly felt frustrated.

We were really trying to avoid

having a target on us.

"Choose any available workstation."

DOUG: I'll go right next to you.

DALTON: All right.

Let's do this.

MICHELLE: I had one more to do.

Now

teams are showing up.

I started to, like, rush a little bit, at this point.

ERIN: Javi maybe should have done this one

because he actually

bakes with his mom all the time.

Um, and I don't do any baking.

I just get a glass of wine and sit there and watch them.

Hey...

MATT: We love that, yeah.

That's exactly what we wanted.

I think this might be my best one.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

- Very good. - Okay.

- Congratulations. - [gasps] Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you.

Yes. Thank you.

- All right, thanks, guys. See you. - Good luck, guys.

Route Info.

BOTH: "Drive to Bunk'art 1 to find your next clue."

MATT: Can you help us find Bunk'art?

ANDREA: Matt and Michelle gave us the most again.

Is the most 16?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- Y'all got that? - Yeah.

I have six-- Yeah, we have 16.

- You do? - ERIN: 16, yeah.

Which is unfortunate,

'cause this is not the challenge for me.

The fold, the fold is the trick.

I've been around a kitchen a little bit,

done a little bit of baking.

Used to have this cupcake cookbook

when I was really little.

And every Christmas

I'd make cupcakes for my whole neighborhood.

So it was kind of similar to that

in terms of, like, prepping it out.

- You made cupcakes for the whole neighborhood? - Cupcakes.

For the whole neighborhood. We did a...

- We'd do an annual Christmas party. - That's boss.

- That's so boss. - A new cupcake every year.

- Dang. - Yeah.

DAFINA: Let's do it.

Cool. We got 12.

SARAN: 12. Okay.

Okay.

No good, no good. Watch.

Big.

This small.

Small. It needs to be thinner.

- Got it. Got it. Yes. - Understand?

No good, no good, no good, no good.

Okay.

- Small. - Small.

- Big. - Okay.

No good.

Okay.

I've never rolled a rolling pin on dough before.

That's not right. This is...

not a triangle.

I'm gonna go back and look at the example.

[laughs]

- You want to do it? - Sure.

We have to make 16 byrek.

ANN-MARIE: Check, please.

Better. Much better.

No good. No good.

Good.

- Okay? - Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Guys, this is brutal.

ERIN: I'm getting myself all sorts of disgusting right now.

[laughs]

I, like, can't even roll it.

ANDREA: You know what?

Honestly, I do make homemade dough quite often.

Ah...

At home, I like to...

[laughs softly]

I like to make homemade pizza and homemade bagels,

homemade pasta.

And I make a huge mess in the kitchen

with flour everywhere, and my dad gets

so mad.

- Four! - Good.

- No good. - Oh!

- Okay. No. - Yes. Okay.

We'll take two. Thank you, thank you.

- Good, good, good. - Yes. Yes. [chuckles]

DAFINA: Wow.

- CONNER: Good job. - Way to go, Andrea.

MATT: We're going

to Bunk'art 1.

- MICHELLE: To the right? - MATT: Yes.

- MICHELLE: Tirane. - MATT: Yes.

Our Driver's Seat, the first time, worked.

Joanna and Ali--

they ended up using their Express Pass, so...

mission accomplished there.

This doesn't seem good.

- [sputters] - How many do you have?

Not enough.

This Roadblock is insane.

Good. Good. Good.

Oh.

Good. Congratulations.

Yes! Thank you. Yes.

Ann-Marie, come here.

- Like this. - Yes.

ANDREA: Flatten out like this.

I know Ann-Marie was struggling,

so I went back in there and helped because,

in the first Roadblock,

Riley is the one that told my dad

that he needed to remove the cover

from the barrel. And that truly saved us.

Love you.

- I love you, too. - You got it. You got it.

- Thank you, baby. - You got this. - Good job.

- Good job, Andrea. - ANDREA: Good luck.

"Drive to Bunk'art 1 to find your next clue."

Let's go.

- Big. - Uh, too thick.

- Can I just take this one? Yeah? - No, no, no, no.

- Okay. Okay. - [chef laughs]

- Good. - Good. - JAVI: Whoo!

And those?

[groans] Okay. All right. It's okay.

Got it better now.

All right, this is better.

Andrea helped me out quite a bit.

We got this.

That's right. That's right.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

- Close your eyes, close your eyes, close your eyes. - Close my eyes.

Woo-hoo! Let's go, let's go. Outside, huh?

- Thank you. Thank you. - You did it.

- Oh! Oh! - Let's go, man.

Make Grandma proud. Let's go.

- No. - No worries. - DAFINA: Okay.

- Breathe. - No. ♪ Don't you worry 'bout a thing.♪

- Formë. - Can't make triangles.

- Okay. - All right, at least I got one.

All right, thank you.

MATT: Bunk'art 1.

- Oh, Bunk'art 1. - Where?

To the left.

Wow. Look at this tunnel.

This is pretty sweet.

MICHELLE: Let's do it, babe.

- To the right, babe? - Straight.

Route Info.

There's more than 100,000 concrete bunkers like this

scattered around Albania.

Despite the enormous cost and effort to build them,

not a single one was used in battle.

Many have been repurposed into cafés,

hostels, art galleries and museums.

The bunkers come in all shapes and sizes,

and today teams will be playing the role of a spy in this one.

Searching through a maze of hallways

that connect more than 100 rooms,

teams need to find one with a race flag.

Teams need to listen to a recorded conversation...

WOMAN: A lovely day for a conversation, dear friend.

...paying careful attention to every seventh word.

At the end of the conversation,

they should have collected 11 words,

which they'll need to crack a code

to get a clue.

"Enter Bunk'art 1 through the main entrance."

MICHELLE: Walk through?

MATT: I haven't seen any yellow or red yet.

MICHELLE: So we enter the bunker, and it is wild.

So many hallways, you could, you could actually get lost.

MATT: 100%.

MICHELLE: Oh, my God, that's terrified me.

Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right. We made it.

Let's do it.

MICHELLE: Every seventh word, right?

- I'm just going to listen first, okay? - Yeah.

Old-school.

"A lovely day for a conversation, dear friend.

"You picked a beautiful view overlooking Tirana.

"May this week before the weather turns.

"We have a mutual friend nearby.

All of my friends left for the coast in the spring."

You have to rewind it.

We had to...

- Listen. - ...transcribe everything

from the audio to paper.

That was not easy.

But at least there was no pressure.

MICHELLE: "For your sake, I hope no one drops by."

This in a, like, a pressure cooker environment

would probably be

- infinitely more stressful. - MICHELLE: Yeah.

"I would remain easy to find."

Done. Okay.

"Note these words to decode the secret location."

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

"Dear." Write down "dear."

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

MICHELLE: "Overlooking." 21.

"Weather."

28. "Nearby."

"The." "One."

"Why."

"Need." "Overlooking."

"No one."

- "To." - Mm-hmm.

All right, let's try.

MICHELLE: "Seventh word reveals a clue."

- You good? - Yeah.

Great job.

MICHELLE: Trench coat. There he is.

- Hey. - Hello.

"Dear overlooking weather nearby the one

why need overlooking no one to."

- No. No. [speaks Albanian] - Okay.

MICHELLE: What could it be?

MATT: We messed up the count.

ERIN: This is, like, awful.

I am so not getting this.

Hers were pretty thin,

so I want to make sure mine are just as thin.

I just don't know how you make 'em thin and long.

That's my best rectangle yet.

Yes. Yes.

Okay.

Yeah. Go get 'em, G.

Keep it up, you guys. We got this.

My strategy was just to make sure I stayed calm.

I started to think about our kids.

I started to think about, like, what's on the line.

And it just made me that much more focused.

- Good. Good. - Ah.

- JOANNA: Good job. - All right. Thank you.

Yes.

- Thank you. I'll give you a high five. Is that okay? - Yeah.

- Locked in! - Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Okay.

- Let's go, baby. Let's go. - [grunts]

Let's go, Erin.

Javi staying positive is

everything to me right now.

Like, he's just my rock.

I love that man. I wish he was doing this,

but I'm happy to be doing it with him.

I know that we need to go under the freeway

- and then I think left. - Then left.

- Is that correct? - I think so.

- Yeah. - We cannot get lost right now.

I don't want to get lost going the wrong way.

- We can't afford it. - I'm with you.

Slow and steady, I think, is good right now.

Excuse me?

Do you know where Bunk'art 1 is?

- Yeah. - Oh, God, we're so far.

This traffic's going to be really rough,

- I'll tell you that much. - Yeah.

CONNER: Man, we are stopped stopped.

Might as well... take a nap. [chuckles]

Do you know who Matt and Michelle remind me of?

- Who? - They remind me of District 1...

- The Hunger Games? - The Hunger Games. Yeah.

You know what happened to District 1 at the end, though.

[Dalton laughs]

They lost.

And it wasn't pretty.

MATT: "To one overlooking

- the weather nearby"? - How is that decoding

a location?

We just circled every seventh word and read it to the guy,

but we didn't decode anything.

What if we, like, write it down in a line

and, like, take the first letter of the word?

Something weird like that, you know?

Well, the first letter of our original one

spells a word-- "down."

- I don't know? Down? - "Downtown."

Oh, my God.

And then O-N-T. Ont?

Want to just try "Downtown Ont"?

Sure.

Downtown Ont?

- [speaks Albanian] No. - Hmm.

I'd be a crappy spy.

I don't know why I can't do this.

I think I made this one a little too thin.

JAVI: It's not going good. We are

third to last right now,

but compared to the others,

Erin's not coming in anywhere near as much.

This is definitely not her strong suit.

So I think she's really struggling back there.

DAFINA: Good job, G.

Please, please, please, please, please.

Good job, good job.

- What? What? What? - DAFINA: Yes.

Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh.

- Oh, oh. Ah, ah, ah, oh. - Oh, yes.

[shrieks]

- Oh, my... - [Dafina laughs]

DAFINA: G, let's get out of here.

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

- Good job. Good job. - Okay.

- No good. No good. - One, two, three,

- four, five, six, seven. - No good.

- Thank you. - That one's good?

No good.

Okay.

- JAVI: Ooh. - ERIN: I have to do seven more.

So, unfortunately,

both teams that were behind us are now ahead of us.

I just want to bang it out and just, like, come up from behind.

I just don't know if that's going to happen for us today.

We're done.

[singing in Albanian]

If you'd like to experience the world on The Amazing Race,

then go to cbs.com/casting and apply now.

The world is waiting for you.

I think I'm just psyching myself out.

We've just got to try and be as optimistic as we can.

Erin-- that was a really tough Roadblock for her.

Even despite that, she did such a great job

of just not letting it get her down.

ERIN: I was like, "Let's stay positive.

We'll see what happens."

JAVI: After the race,

the next step for us is, we want to have kids.

So we want to make sure that we're bringing

the best foot forward for our kids.

ERIN: You know, show them it's better just to have fun.

Don't take life too seriously.

I got to stay calm, cool and collected.

We said "Downtown O-N-T."

MICHELLE: But there's no words that we're thinking are,

like, one or two words that are messing up our thing, right?

"No one" is...

I think "no one" is two words.

- Maybe break up that one word. - Yeah, let's do it.

"Remain easy... one."

"Downtown One"?

Maybe... that sounds better than "Ont."

No, that's it. Downtown One.

Let's try that.

[Matt sighs]

Downtown One.

[speaks Albanian]

- I love you. You're so smart. - Oh, my God. Thank you.

MATT: "Drive to Downtown One to find your next clue."

MICHELLE: Downtown, though. Downtown Tirana.

Right now the map is not showing where we're going,

so I cannot figure it out.

ANDREA: I mean, it sucks that I got us a good lead

in the pastry challenge and now we're lost.

RILEY: "Choose any marked room with a number."

- Here's a room. - Is it marked?

It has to be marked.

DAISHA: Is it this way?

DALTON: There's arrows pointing everywhere.

DAISHA: Dude, this is kind of cool.

DALTON: This is really cool.

- I see it, I see it, I see it. - ANN-MARIE: Good job.

All right.

"Listen to a recording made in secret."

ANN-MARIE: This is old school.

Mama time.

- Hit the, hit the play button. - [clicks]

WOMAN: A lovely day for a conversation, dear friend.

DALTON: This is it. All right.

All right. You call out.

A lovely day for a conversation, dear friend.

Push pause. Push pause.

MAN: You picked a beautiful view

overlooking...

- Okay. - Two. Okay.

- Okay. - Okay.

Formë, forme, formë, formë.

Okay, I need to do four more.

[Javi and Erin sigh]

"Choose any marked room with a number."

Getting to the bunker actually went well for us.

We got there, and

there were still a lot of clues in the box.

So we were like, "Wow." Like, we made up some time

on that drive.

- This one. - Okay.

All right.

- A lovely day for a conversation... - Do you want this?

- I got this. - Okay.

ANUAR: Which one was the exit?

ANDREA: Not this one. Not this one.

Keep going around.

ANUAR: I don't think it's straight.

ANDREA: Okay. Well, then you do what you want.

I need help, and I just found someone here.

You can't do it without me, Dad.

ANUAR: Hurry up, then.

We're looking for Bunk'art number one.

Can you look in your phone?

Oh.

Okay.

So what do you want to do?

You're supposed to give me directions.

- Well, I'm trying. - Okay, so what do I do?

You just... I asked you to keep circling in the thing.

- So what do I do? - We're just gonna have to go straight.

- And then what? - I don't know.

You were supposed to take your first right,

but you didn't listen. You just sped off.

- Then you need to navigate. - But you're just driving.

I think the fact that my dad and I haven't spent

that much time together is tough

because we're still learning each other's

strengths and weaknesses.

I'm so frustrated right now.

I haven't felt like this during the entire race.

DYLAN: We got super lost.

So the chance another team got this lost

would be pretty low, I'd say.

Well, we're getting close, I think.

GARRETT: We know we're close, at least, you know.

How many cars are there? That's going to be the moment of truth.

That's a good question.

SARAN: Today is a day.

It's like, "Welcome to The Amazing Race."

DAFINA: We got to keep the joy, G.

SARAN: Yeah, that is true.

And not get so bogged down...

- No. No. - ...with being lost

and not knowing what the hell is going on.

- Oh, look. Bunk'art 1. - Oh. Good job, G.

- Come on. - If only we can just

continue to see those signs, it'll lead us right there.

Please show us the way.

ERIN: I feel decently confident about this one, but

he is a harsh... critic.

Last check, hopefully.

All right, check.

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please.

- Okay, yes. Thank you so much. Thank you. - Yes.

- Congratulations. - Thank you so much.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

All right, Javi, let's go.

Who knows? Maybe people will get lost and we'll get saved.

The only thing I can think of is to look

for something else I'm missing.

It kept saying the word "overlooking."

It said "overlooking" twice. So I'm like, "Oh.

"There's something in the bunker.

It's somewhere in here, we're overlooking it."

What the ...?

One thing our family does do in the holidays...

We're not baking.

One thing we are doing is going to escape rooms.

And we used escape rooms as part of our training.

- RILEY: We did. - To be able to look for clues,

to be able to solve riddles.

RILEY: I'm going through the briefcase.

I looked under the table. I couldn't even

read the language I was reading in.

ANN-MARIE: "You remain always

"for hope is near.

Weather is overlooking, dear."

It's almost like a riddle.

We're taking those words, and we're thinking

that it has to be some kind of, like, riddle

to tell us where to go because it was like,

"Overlooking, dear one.

"Overlooking here.

Don't worry. It's near."

"You always remain, for hope is near.

Weather is overlooking, dear."

Yes, let's try that.

ANN-MARIE: Other teams are here, baby.

RILEY: I know.

Hello, sir.

"You always remain, for hope is near.

Weather is overlooking, dear."

[speaks Albanian]

RILEY: Okay, let's try again.

- DALTON: One. - Okay, so "no one."

"Dear overlooking weather nearby

the one why need overlooking no one to."

Let's try it.

Hello.

- DAISHA: Exit? - Yeah.

[quietly]: "The one why need overlooking no one to."

[speaks Albanian]

Okay. Thank you.

DAISHA: I wonder if it's the same one

- as Riley and Ann-Marie. - DALTON: Let's talk to them.

Okay.

Hey, y'all. Do you think it's the same one?

- RILEY: What do you guys have? - DALTON: Did y'all get...?

DAISHA: What did y'all start with?

- DALTON: Here. Here, here, here, here. - ANN-MARIE: "Dear."

DAISHA: It is. It's the same thing.

Is "no one" one word or two words, guys?

- ANN-MARIE: "No one"? Two words. - "No one" is two words.

Yeah, so it's just "no"...

RILEY: Daisha and Dalton

had their last word wrong.

DALTON: It changes the "to."

RILEY: They thought "no one" was one word, and we're like,

"No, no, that's definitely two."

So we gave them the proper word

to replace that.

DALTON: Oh, this is gonna be tough.

DAISHA: I looked at the paper, and it just popped out to me,

and I knew immediately what it was.

Is it Downtown One?

Okay. [speaks Albanian]

Thank you so much.

And honestly, before I could even think about helping,

- I just left. - It felt good.

- [Daisha laughs] - [Dalton shushes]

DAISHA: I definitely think it's possible

that Ann-Marie and Riley are wondering,

you know, "Why didn't y'all tell us?"

They should have been paying attention once we walked out.

That's honestly on them.

- So you just want to get out of here? - Yeah.

RILEY: Did they, did they get it?

ANN-MARIE: Did they go?

"Dear one, the weather overlooking need no easy why."

- No. - No. - Did they just get it?

Did you see them come back? They must have got it.

RILEY: Daisha and Dalton would never have gotten it

if we didn't give them that proper word.

- ANN-MARIE: They got it. - RILEY: What the ...?

ANN-MARIE: Next thing you know, they were gone.

And we're like, "They're gone?

"Wait a minute. They... We just helped them.

They didn't help us?"

RILEY: Damn it, Daisha.

[Dalton snorts]

RILEY: Daisha and Dalton

got it, and they didn't tell us, and we were helping them.

It just kind of stinks because we gave them something,

and then they just didn't pay it back.

So, from a game standpoint,

like, we're going to U-Turn them.

We have that in the back of our heads.

When we've helped people, they've helped us.

You know, just, like, that decency.

Noted.

- Have you tried reading it in this order? - Yes.

- Keep your eyes open. - MATT: Yep, I'm looking.

MICHELLE: That could be the one.

- Downtown One parking. - Uh, yeah, Downtown One.

- MICHELLE: Yeah, I see it. - Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

- Perfect. That's it. - MICHELLE: Okay.

MATT: Great job.

- MICHELLE: Come on, babe. - I'm coming.

"Race to the Pit Stop."

This statue in the heart of Tirana

honors this country's most famous national hero--

Skanderbeg, who led a rebellion

against the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.

His statue sits in front

of a mosaic of geological stones

gathered from around the country.

Today it is the Pit Stop for this leg of the race.

The last team to check in here may be eliminated.

Hi. Do you know where Skanderbeg Square is?

- Thank you. Right, baby? - MATT: Yeah, right.

SARAN: This is massive.

- So we're looking... - What's the number?

- This is number three. - Let's go here.

This is a number.

It probably doesn't work.

Think we got to find another room.

"Dear one, the weather overlooking nearby

need no easy why."

No. [speaks Albanian]

RILEY: What the frick?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. "Easy."

Can we take this with us?

ALI: Mm-hmm.

- RILEY: You get it yet? - ANN-MARIE: "Overlooking."

- RILEY: Did you get it? - JOANNA: Yeah.

- Do you want to check our words to this? - Yes.

We saw our Boss Lady crew-- Joanna and Ali.

They are our number one allies.

So we're like, "Hey, let's help each other out."

- JOANNA: "Overlooking"? - RILEY: Yep.

- "No"? - Uh-huh.

- "Easy." - Exactly.

Okay, so that order will not work.

- Oh. - You have to riddle it.

Daisha and Dalton were here.

Freaking, we helped them get one word.

- Daisha did something... - Okay.

- ...and just left and didn't tell us. - Okay.

DAISHA: I do feel like

we got out of there, like, relatively quick.

I think Ann-Marie and Riley understand

it's part of the game, because I bet

if they figured it out, too, they would have done the same.

- This is the exit. - Okay. I don't see numbers.

- This doesn't have a number, though. - No. No.

We don't have a goddang old clue.

[laughs]

JOANNA: We have to whisper

the secret location, not necessarily...

- I think I got it. I think I got it. - What is it?

First letter-- "D," "O."

- Oh, yeah. - RILEY: "Down."

- Downtown. - Downtown One. - Downtown One.

- ANN-MARIE: Come on, Ri. - JOANNA: Should we try it? Great job, Riley.

RILEY: Yes. Come on.

Okay, I think I got it. I think I got it.

Downtown One.

- Yes. [speaks Albanian] - Yes.

- I saw it. I saw it. - Thank you. Thank you.

Let's go tell Joanna and Ali. That's it.

- That's it. - Okay. All right. Thank you guys so much.

- Got you, guys. - Nice job, baby.

Oh, my God. All right.

JOANNA: We're making up some time, baby.

MICHELLE; Let's go!

- [sighs] - Okay.

[both panting]

KEOGHAN: Oh, Michelle and Matt, what a day you have had.

[Matt sighs]

BOTH: Welcome to Tirana, Albania.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- Thank you. - Thank you so much.

Michelle and Matt, you're team number one.

- Yes. Oh. - Yes. Awesome job.

And you know what that means.

- What do you got? - What do you got?

Well, as the winners of this leg of the race,

you have won OneKeyCash from Expedia,

which you can use towards a trip to Cuzco, Peru.

- Cool. Really cool. - That's nice.

- You know where that is? - Machu Picchu?

- There we go. - Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

KEOGHAN: Expedia has put together a recommended

five-night unique experience that includes

a once-in-a-lifetime guided journey to Machu Picchu,

an adrenaline-filled ATV ride to Rainbow Mountain,

and a hands-on Peruvian cooking class

with a local market visit in Cuzco.

Just kept getting better and better.

MATT: The whole day was chaotic.

Maybe we smoked out two Express Passes today.

To anyone who feels a type of way about the Driver's Seat,

you should've got there first.

- Yeah. - And then you could have done it to us.

DYLAN: Oh, my God.

There's four clues in here.

"Enter Bunk'art 1 to the main entrance."

What the heck? Where are we, dude?

GARRETT: Okay, let's go.

Get going. Whew.

- SARAN: Guys, we have no clue. - Have you found the marked room?

- No. - Have you guys found a marked room?

- Have you guys found a room? - No.

We didn't go down here.

All right, every room

down the hallway, double-check.

- Here we go, here we go, here. - [Dylan shushes]

- "Taken." - Yep.

GARRETT: All right, this is us.

CONNER: Let's get to it, bro.

ANDREA: There's a sign.

Bunk'art 1 to the left right there.

There's a sign. Yes, we're good.

[sighs] That Roadblock was absolutely awful.

I'm really hoping it doesn't take us out.

But, you know, crazier things have happened.

And hopefully we can still make it there.

I think he says, "You picked a beautiful view."

- I need to rewind it. - Okay.

"I... will... remain... easy."

DAFINA: So maybe the first letter of each word?

[whispers]: Oh, Dafina, "Downtown."

ANDREA: What the heck? There's three cars here?

Dad, we have a chance.

Maybe. Come on.

- What do you guys have so far? - Well, we just...

So, we did the first letter of each word

to form "Downtown."

- Oh. - But... - I think we're stuck.

- That one's not right. - ...we're stuck with the O-N-T.

- The leftovers, O-N-T. - 'Cause that's not...

We got... We have "easy." Maybe "Downtown One"?

- Hmm? - We have "easy" as our last word, not "to."

How did you get "easy"?

Well, it could be, 'cause "no one..."

Are they counting "no one" as one word or two words?

"No one" is two words, I thought.

SARAN: Let's try it. Let's try it.

Downtown One.

[whispers]: Downtown One.

[whispers]: Downtown One.

[whispers]: Downtown One?

- Let's go, let's go, let's go. - DAFINA: Okay.

Here, Dad. This one doesn't say "taken."

Pens and paper.

Right here.

You have to put this in. How do you use this?

- It's from your era. - [laughing]: You're kidding me.

Uh, fun fact.

She has never seen a cassette player before.

ANDREA: Okay.

Back to your era, Dad.

DALTON: Downtown One.

- Let's go! - Yeah, Downtown One. Is this the right street?

- DALTON: This is it. - DAISHA: There.

"Race to the Pit Stop."

DALTON: Excuse me. Thank you.

RILEY: This is not where we want to be.

I mean, it's not not in the right direction,

but it's freaking chaos.

There's no easy way to navigate the city.

JOANNA: This is torturous.

It's, like, we don't know any of these streets.

- DAISHA: Albania! - DALTON: Whoo!

- [laughs] - [laughs] Whoo!

KEOGHAN: Welcome. Welcome.

You are team number two. Congratulations.

So, tell us about your day.

It's obviously a good one.

We ended up going through a bunker,

and then we had to decipher a clue.

We were with Ann-Marie and Riley.

And we said, "Hey, do y'all want to work together on this?"

They didn't really say much to us.

We knew that we had all the same words.

- "No one" is two words. - Two words.

DALTON: It changes the "to."

Thank you so much. Let's go.

KEOGHAN: Wait. You left them? You didn't tell them?

I did. I just walked away.

- But were you guys working together? - Yes,

but, Phil, the claws got to come out at some point.

Wait. Hold on a second.

What happens if they get stuck there all night

and I have to go eliminate them over there?

Send 'em my warmest regards, I guess.

- [laughing]: I don't know. - [laughs]

We'll send them an edible gift basket.

DAISHA: We love working with other teams

whenever it can benefit us, but

I think on the next leg, we're really just going to focus

on running our own race, because the second

that we started focusing on just us,

we started doing better.

ANDREA: All right. "Down."

"Town."

"One."

"Downtown One"? Do you want to go ask?

Just find the man with the trench coat.

"Dear. Dear overlooking..."

No, that's not right.

Downtown One.

[speaks Albanian]

Yes. Yes. Thank you, thank you.

- [Anuar sighs] - We did that so fast.

JAVI: And it says, "A marked room with a number."

- ERIN: Okay. - Okay.

ERIN: Javi's amazing at puzzles.

We felt confident, like, we could maybe catch up.

JAVI: I, like, blocked the world out,

put the headphones on, hit "play," and just, like,

started writing.

We're actually not out of this.

Javi's definitely the puzzle guy,

and he can do it.

DAFINA: We're headed to Downtown One,

but I don't know now

where we are, relative to that road we were just on.

I'm gonna try to go back the other way.

Back the opposite way we were going?

Yeah, to go back to our starting point maybe.

GARRETT: I think we'll be okay, dude.

- I think we got this. - Mm-hmm.

Then we got a free Express Pass to play an extra leg.

- Yeah. - Which will come in handy.

DYLAN: Now look for Downtown One.

The building's gonna be on a corner.

RILEY: So we need to go up to this street...

- JOANNA: And turn right? - ...so we can go this way.

JOANNA: It's just down there, isn't it? So close.

ANDREA: So you're gonna take a right on the giant boulevard.

The difference that good directions can make.

- JAVI: Oh, my God. - ERIN: What, what, what, what?

Every seventh word, right? So what is... Maybe it's, like,

- what the word starts with. - ERIN: "Downtown One"?

JAVI: We think we figured it out. I-I don't know...

ERIN: We think Javi figured it out.

Okay.

Downtown One.

Uh, yes.

- Yes. - Yes, Javi.

Oh, my God, you did so good. Okay.

- Okay. - Okay. Okay. Amazing.

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

DAFINA: We turn right before the roundabout.

I don't feel like we're going to hit a roundabout on this.

This is a highway.

Maybe it turns into a smaller road.

I don't think so.

My brain is fried.

Absolutely fried.

DAFINA: This is super critical because we are fighting

to stay alive, so any hiccup...

is a make-or-break.

Today we've been at the back of the pack the whole day.

But as we know, everybody is struggling with directions.

And hopefully

this is another instance where everyone is struggling.

GARRETT: That's it, that's it, that's Downtown One.

- Right. - And then just turn right here.

- See, that's Downtown One. - Yep. Parking.

DOUG: Okay, here comes Downtown One.

- Hey. How's it going, guys? - What's up, boys?

DYLAN: Right here, parking. This is it.

"Make way on foot

to Skanderbeg Square and find Phil."

All right, here we go.

- DOUG: Boys. - DYLAN: Is it Pit Stop?

- Yeah, over there. Pit Stop, yeah. - Yeah.

"...to Skanderbeg Square and find Phil."

Let's go this way. They went this way.

Okay. Yeah.

RILEY: Where is Downtown One?

Oh, my gosh, there's Conner and Garrett. Okay.

Ooh.

RILEY: We just saw Conner and Garrett,

which is not good 'cause they left way after us.

It's right after this yellow flower.

Is this parking for that building?

Where is the ramp?

- Okay. - RILEY: I lost Ali and Joanna.

Right here, to the right. Right here.

- JOANNA: Okay. - ALI: There we go.

- Who's there? - ANDREA: That's Joanna and Ali.

- Is that them turning in right there? - RILEY: Yeah.

That one, that one, that one. Follow them.

ANDREA: And another team, Dad. Holy crap.

Right?

Y'all, if we stay together, we're all still in this race.

We can do it.

[panting]

GARRETT: Come on. There's Phil. I see him.

- What's up, Phil? - KEOGHAN: What's going on?

- What's going on? - Not much.

- You keeping it mellow? - Yeah, we are keeping it mellow.

Ooh, look at this.

- Yeah. Let's go... - Wow.

- Woo-hoo-hoo! - Wow.

- [overlapping chatter] - Holy moly.

- Dude! - Oh, bring it in, brother.

[overlapping chatter]

KEOGHAN: Wow. And another team right here.

They can't beat you down. They can't beat you down.

Let's talk about what happened to you all today.

- Michelle and Matt... - They targeted us.

- Joanna, they made it very clear today... - Yeah. Oh, yeah.

...who they felt they wanted to slow down.

We're a threat, baby! We're a threat!

Andrea, was that a surprise to you?

I was surprised.

I didn't think we were that much of a threat.

I know it was tough, what happened,

but I hope you're all making choices to give yourselves

the best possible chance of winning this Amazing Race.

Yes, it's cutthroat, but you also get

to choose how you want to compete,

and each one of these teams standing in front of you compete

with class and integrity.

- Yeah. - Not malicious, helping when you can.

And I think each one of these teams right here

does that flawlessly, and I have so much respect for all of them.

ANN-MARIE: This competition's getting fiercer and fiercer

with less and less teams.

- Yeah. - But you can play a good, clean game.

And the game will determine

who crosses that last finish line.

SARAN: This is

the most frustrating thing ever.

Arkitekt Kasemi. That was it.

- That was it? - That was it.

DAFINA: Missing a turn could definitely be the difference

in staying in this race and being eliminated.

We have to do a U-turn, okay?

So don't freak out.

DAFINA: You go an extra block

in this thick traffic,

that's... minutes.

JAVI: Downtown One is gonna be on our right-hand side.

It might even be right here.

Yeah, Downtown One. Yes.

We have to run up the ramp.

Okay, go back up. Go, go, go, go, go.

- Downtown One! Oh! - Yeah.

SARAN: Here we are.

Okay. "Make your way on foot to Skanderbeg Square

and find Phil."

- What did it say? - There's a clue box over here.

ERIN: Oh, my God, we're still in it.

We're still in it. We're still in it.

- So, Skanderbeg Square. - And find Phil.

JAVI: I'm gonna have to tie my shoe.

Put it right here. Just put it up.

- Put it up. - I can't get my leg that high.

What do you mean you can't put your leg that high?

[panting]: Okay.

Where is the square?

ERIN: It's a little bit of a jog.

Where is the square?

- JAVI: Hold on. - You can do it. We're almost there.

- [Javi sighs heavily] - It's a footrace.

One step closer to a million dollars.

Let's go up here where this light is, G.

ERIN: Let's go. You can do it. You can do it.

Jog it out. Jog it out.

- Yeah, this has to be it. This is it. - Yeah. Okay.

Okay, we're getting close.

- JAVI: I think it's straight ahead. - ERIN: You see them?

- Is this him? - This has to be.

ERIN: Phil.

[Erin pants heavily]

Erin and Javi.

ERIN: Please give us some good news, Phil.

I want to put you out of your misery.

You are the second to last to arrive.

- Let's go, baby! Whoo! - [squeals]

KEOGHAN: You are team number eight. Congratulations.

JAVI: Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. I love you.

- KEOGHAN: Ouch. - Ouch, ouch, ouch.

- [Keoghan sighs] - In every way.

I am sorry to tell you that you are

the last team to arrive, and you are eliminated.

SARAN: This feels horrible

to be here talking to you

to go out like this, but...

You should be so proud of yourselves... really.

You got, you got through five legs of this Amazing Race.

- That's true. - You're right. You're right about that.

- That's how you got to look at it. - You're right.

And you got your sister

- right here with you. - That's true.

Why is she so special to you?

I know that she's my number one fan.

She's always here. I know I can count on her support.

You're a rock star and the best big sister ever.

DAFINA: We are being eliminated

a lot earlier than we had anticipated.

It still hasn't really sunk in.

But I hope, though, that it doesn't sink in.

We just want it to roll off of our backs

and remember all the good times and, you know, all the fun

- that we had. - That's what will happen.

- Yeah. - That's what we do.

- That's right. - Yeah.

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KEOGHAN: Next time on The Amazing Race...

At the Intersection, Doug and Dylan get iced out.

Looking for a partner, looking for a partner.

- Yeah, they're gone. - Rats.

KEOGHAN: And Michelle and Matt hatch a plan.

MATT: You're coming with us.

MICHELLE: We wanted to bamboozle

Daisha and Dalton.

MATT: It turned out to be

a power move, I think.

This crazy plan worked to perfection.