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PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously on The Amazing Race...

In Sri Lanka, at a live U-Turn vote,

Doug and Dylan got an unpleasant surprise.

Since you arrived last

on the previous leg, your penalty

is automatic U-Turn.

Michelle and Matt

and Daisha and Dalton were

the most popular U-Turn targets.

MATT: Just knowing you have

so much more to do-- it's a bad feeling.

DAISHA: We're gonna be fighting

-for our life this leg. -KEOGHAN: After the vote,

Michelle unleashed...

Anyone that has our names on the board,

I'm not-- I'm done talking to you.

Once you cross us, that's it.

KEOGHAN: But she and Matt got the last laugh

when they passed teams who voted for them.

MATT: Put some respect on our name.

-Aah! -Wow.

U-Turn who?

Ali and Joanna returned to form,

winning their second leg of the season.

That's how you compete, baby.

KEOGHAN: Daisha and Dalton processed

-being U-Turned... -DAISHA: These people--

they want us out.

...and needed a big swing to stay in the race...

-Yeah! -Yes!

Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

...to send Doug and Dylan home.

I wouldn't have made it to leg seven without you, man.

Let's go.

"Fly to Vientiane, Laos."

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

I've been to Laos.

Taxi?

Last leg, there was a Double U-Turn vote.

We voted for Michelle and Matt

and Daisha and Dalton.

Michelle and Matt have been the top team.

They've got three first place finishes.

We like the way that they compete.

They're not here to make best friends,

nor are we here to make best friends.

MATT: Our goal in Laos is shaking off the U-Turn.

-So let's keep doing what we're doing -Yeah.

and see what Laos has in store for us.

They're playing the game. I just think

it was a flop.

The two teams you U-Turned are here.

Fail.

DAISHA: So excited to see the other teams

after they U-Turned us.

The fact that we got U-Turned by

a lot of our close friends

makes me feel better because

whenever I put the claws out in the future,

I have nothing to feel bad about.

They've already done it to me.

We're here and we're ready to fight.

ANUAR: Get the passports.

Just a couple of world travelers going to our next city.

[grunts] Let's do this.

ANDREA: Hello. We're checking in for our flight.

Glad to see you guys still crushing.

-We survived a Double U-Turn. -ERIN: I know, you did it,

-you did. -That's all you can hope for. -That was-that was tough.

-Thank you. -Thank you so much.

We got it done. We're still here.

Terribly executed U-Turn.

I wouldn't expect anything else.

JAVI: Last double U-Turn, we voted for Michelle and Matt.

They're probably our strongest competition.

ERIN: Coming in third

-after a double U-Turn? -After a double U-Turn?

Like, that's insane.

You don't know what you opened--

Pandora's box.

-Thank you. -Thank you.

-MICHELLE: What's up, guys? -MATT: What's up?

MICHELLE: We wanted to be in the winner's circle.

MATT: The only team that handled the U-Turn like gangsters.

We get it, you know? We're not mad at anybody.

MATT: Yeah.

And then I found this.

-This is the hardest decision. -That came off someone's wrist.

-Oh, my God. -Is this yours? It was

by the-- your fish towel.

ALI: Thank you so much.

MATT: That was-that was half

-in your glove. -ALI: Matt just, like,

pulls out my bracelet

that my kids and my partner made me for the trip.

And I just thought that was so amazing

and really thoughtful,

and you didn't have to do that.

Thank you so much.

MATT: Your kids are with you.

-So, we'll see you in... -Okay. -Okay, see you.

-Laos, if not before. -Yes, see you soon.

MICHELLE: One big, happy season 39 family.

Let's go.

KEOGHAN: All teams will fly from the island of Sri Lanka

to the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia:

Laos.

Teams will make their way here,

to Patuxai Monument.

Inspired by Paris' Arc de Triomphe,

this iconic landmark

was built to honor Lao soldiers

who fought for independence from France.

ANDREA: Let's go, let's go, let's go.

Go, go, go, go, go, go!

-Whoa. -[exclaims]

-[all clamoring] -ANUAR: Let's go, let's go, let's go,

-let's go! -RILEY: Patuxai Monument?

-Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. -ANN-MARIE: Fast, fast, fast.

DAISHA: All right, all right, let's do it.

Can we go very fast?

ANUAR: We have to go fast.

We're in a race. Can you keep up with those taxis, please?

-ALI: Can we go fast, fast, fast? -JOANNA: Faster than this car?

-Go, go, go. -Go, go, go.

Those are million-dollar moves-- MDMs.

We got the million-dollar moves.

Oh, that's Dalton peeking his head out.

Hey, there he is. [laughs]

And then we got Matt and Michelle right here.

-Who is it? -Dalton.

Always so damn cheery.

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Oh, there's the monument. I see it.

-ALI: Oh, great. -JOANNA: Straight ahead.

Is this it?

Yep, right here.

-MATT: Okay, stop right here. -MICHELLE: This is-this is here. Perfect.

Here you go.

DALTON: There they are.

-All right, this is good. -This is good.

DAISHA: Thank you.

Right here is okay, boss.

-Thank you so much. -Thank you.

-Where is it? -Right there.

ANUAR: Thank you.

Detour. "Something to Taste or Nothing to Waste."

This Detour requires teams

to pick up 11 ingredients from this local market

to make the soul of Lao cuisine: larb.

This is recognized

as the unofficial national dish

of the country.

The ingredients include

cilantro, culantro, green onion,

fresh fish sauce, limes, shallots, minced pork,

toasted rice flour, mint,

and to really spice things up, dry and fresh chilies.

After choosing a cooking station,

teams must follow a recipe

to properly prepare larb.

Once their dish gets high praise from a local chef,

they'll get a clue.

It's as if everywhere you look around Vientiane,

you will see this country's

flagship beer: Beerlao.

Beerlao prides itself

in its zero-packaging waste program,

reusing beer bottles up to 14 times

before recycling the glass.

Teams will now hit the streets

to collect 15 crates

filled with empty bottles,

then deliver them to a truck driver

parked a few blocks away.

Finally, they must properly load

75 crates onto the truck

just like this...

-...to get a clue. -Good job.

We're gonna do Nothing to Waste.

-Let's do it. -We're gonna do Nothing to Waste.

-Nothing to Waste. -Yeah. -Nothing to Waste?

-We're gonna make larb. -Nothing to Waste? -Yeah.

Well, we're gonna do the taste one.

Everyone else is doing the other one.

We can do this one.

MATT: It's extremely hot.

Sometimes the physical challenges--

they're harder than they seem,

and we kind of made an agreement to cook

any time that it comes up.

I'm not Gordon Ramsay at all.

Michelle cooks, but we don't know what larb is.

ANUAR: I think I know what it is, but I don't know how to explain it.

Like worms-- the-the larv

before it-it becomes a-a...

No, that's larva, not larb.

Okay, then I don't know.

GARRETT: It was always our plan when we first joined the race to,

if we had a little downtime, pull over, grab a beer.

CONNER: A million dollars could get us a lot of beers.

-We won't even split the money halfway. -[laughs]

We'll just put it in a beer fund forever.

ALI: I think we're here.

Yeah, Beerlao.

-It's right here. -ERIN: All right.

Here you go.

Thank you so much.

-ANUAR: Thank you. -CONNER: Let's go.

-GARRETT: Thank you. -Let's ride.

RILEY: That way.

JAVI: Can we have a map?

ERIN: Thank you so much.

Okay, and then what does it say to do next?

Go left.

ERIN: Okay. All right.

Okay.

-Do you have a map? Thank you. -Thank you.

Let's get that map, let's get rolling.

[speaks Lao]

ANDREA: She said it was up here.

ERIN: What's it called?

Phone Sundry shop.

CONNER: So I think we go this way,

-make a left around this corner. -RILEY: Mom, come on.

ALI: Let's go. We can catch them.

JAVI: We're right here. We're going down this way.

Should be on the left.

CONNER: Is it not that Beerlao one right there?

I'm just kind of curious.

ERIN: Is this it?

JAVI: I don't know.

DAISHA: So we're doing Nothing to Waste.

We have to haul 15 crates of empty beer bottles

and then stack 'em up on a truck.

MATT: Who's following us? Oh, Dalton and Daisha,

-of course. -DAISHA: Okay.

They're parking.

Yeah, how much?

DALTON: I think it's good.

What's up? What's up?

-Which one are y'all doing? -Did y'all have to pay 'em again?

Uh, we're gonna-- Yeah, yeah, we had to pay him.

-How much was it? -Uh, a hundred.

[whispers]: Go, go, go.

DALTON: They moved fast.

-Inside? -Inside. Okay, thank you.

Let's go, Dad.

ANUAR: We got to move a little faster now.

What does the map say?

So, we made this left already.

-Yeah. -Go past the first street,

but, like, there's so many beer things.

ALI: They can't find it either.

MATT: Okay, larb.

Thong Khankham.

[chuckles]

I was thinking left like that way.

Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mich, Mich, Mich.

ALI: Look. There's Dalton and Daisha.

GARRETT: This is Beerlao.

DAISHA: I've seen that sign a lot of places.

-GARRETT: Right here. -CONNER: Yep.

-Oh, sorry, bro. -No worries.

-DALTON: Wait, where'd they start? -This is--

We have to go start over there to get our truck.

Where do we go, where do we go?

What are we look-- What does it say?

DALTON: It said, "Phone Sundry shop."

DAISHA: This isn't it.

CONNER: How's that feel for you?

Three's okay for me.

-JOANNA: Three. -ALI: Three?

Yes, yeah.

ANN-MARIE: Slow and steady.

We just can't break any, Mom, you know?

-So... -Okay.

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

-JAVI: Is it not this? -MICHELLE: You're doing market?

-ERIN: Um, Nothing to Waste. -MICHELLE: Oh, no.

ERIN: Oh, you're doing the other one.

DALTON: It's not over here.

DAISHA: Are you sure?

No, I'm not sure.

Can you show me where this one is?

The larb? Straight. Okay.

All right, thank you.

DALTON: Erin, Javi, where you going?

-Ya'll doing the beer one? -The beer.

-ERIN: Yeah. -Okay.

ERIN: You think it's further down?

DAISHA: We got to go get a truck first.

JAVI: What are you talking about? The truck is in

the covered parking lot at the entrance.

But we don't know where that's at.

-It's at the place. -You have to go down, to the right.

-Where he dropped you off. -DALTON: Okay. Okay.

JAVI: It's in the covered parking.

ANDREA: Outside, Dad?

Or is it down there?

-[speaking Lao] -Third? The four--

Oh, it's right there, that one.

Oh, there we go, Dad.

ANUAR: Oh.

-Hello. -Oh, here? Yeah.

ANDREA: Okay, we have to get a list.

ANUAR: We're the only team here, so we're gonna

go shopping for the ingredients.

Come on.

-You be in charge of the money, Dad. -Okay.

ANDREA: It's a completely different

culture experience, but I think it's cool

getting to go through the market.

Keep going.

All of those ingredients looked really fresh.

Hello. Can I have...

-How much? -[speaks Lao]

-GARRETT: Stock this. -ALI: Let's go.

-That good? -GARRETT: Come on, come on, come on.

-ALI: That was six. -JOANNA: Yep.

Come here, come here, come here.

Baby, we're just walking mindlessly right now.

MICHELLE: I think go a little bit more.

-MATT: I don't think so. -MICHELLE: No, okay, ask.

Let's ask. We got to ask again.

-That's okay. -Quick, quick, quick.

RILEY: Mom, come on. Mom.

Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom,

Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom.

-Great challenge for us. -Yep.

JOANNA: We can both carry about three at a time, which was great.

We saw some people carrying two, so we knew

that we could do this quite quickly.

-DALTON: Keep going. -DAISHA: Is it down here?

RILEY: Yeah.

DALTON: Let's find a station. Come on.

-Come on. -ANN-MARIE: Right behind you.

-Right behind you. -We got to make up time here, Mom, come on.

ERIN: Do you think the other teams have found it,

which is why we haven't seen them?

There's Ann-Marie and Riley.

JAVI: I see

Ann-Marie and Riley carrying beer crates.

-JAVI: It's right here. -ERIN: I'm telling you. Maybe it's...

JAVI: It's right here. It's right here. It's right here.

-ERIN: The thing that says Beerlao? -Yep.

Starting out, we ran right past it.

So that was definitely a kick in the pants.

MICHELLE: I don't know if it's this far. Want to ask--

-want to ask them on the thing? -Let's ask, yeah.

MICHELLE: We just couldn't find

where we needed to cook.

We're still running

like chickens without a head,

wrong directions,

getting turned around,

and it's really, really hot.

Oh, my God, I can't.

-ERIN: Okay. -All right, stack.

Stack two on me.

We got six.

-I got it. -JOANNA: Fifteen, right?

-ALI: Yeah. -Here, grab these.

ERIN: I could carry three.

We saw Michelle and Matt running a different way.

I haven't seen them hit the Detour spot yet, actually,

so maybe they're doing the other one. I'm not sure.

MICHELLE: No? Let's go.

Hurry up. We got to move.

ANDREA: Do you have any of...

-[speaks Lao] -You have?

We had a shopping list.

It was not in English. It was

in the native language.

-Okay. -That one. Thank you.

Oh, here. Can I have, um, 100 grams?

You're trying to communicate how much we needed.

So I'm trying to tell 'em I need 100 grams of

whatever the item is.

It said how to pronounce it.

-ANUAR: Thank you. -ANDREA: This is tough.

We have four things on the list out of 11.

I think I can do four.

DAISHA: Let's go, baby.

-ALI: Great job. -DALTON: It was super tiring

lugging those crates from one street to another.

The crates were about the size of me.

Babe, hold on, we got to get a marked section of the truck.

We're looking for Larb Tu Phuang.

-Is... -MICHELLE: Right there?

-Okay. -MATT: Thank you.

[sighs] Please, God.

-MICHELLE: You see it? -No.

Matt, want to ask someone here?

MATT: Oh, dude, I don't know.

MICHELLE: We're screwed, Matt.

-MICHELLE: What do you want to do? -MATT: Get to the market.

English? Anyone? English?

MICHELLE: We just couldn't find

where we needed to cook.

Everyone's nice and helpful, but

no one understands what you're saying.

Larb Tu Phuang... khob chai?

MATT: There's such a communication thing.

MICHELLE: Why is everyone pointing this way and then it's not this way?

JOANNA: Good job, Ali. Keep going, come on.

We're almost there.

Then we can start stacking.

Last trip to the far ones.

Now time to build a tower.

Fifteen.

-Now we got to stack 75 total. -Okay.

-Just wait there. -"Use the rest of the crates

around the recycling truck to complete your stack."

You got 15 crates,

but then you had to stack another 16.

So it's a total of 75 crates.

Here. Hey, move, move, move.

Try to stack the ones in the front in the back

so you have more room.

I'm really, like, Hulkish. I was Hulking

-all the way through. -JOANNA: Ali's so strong,

so for me, it's just like, "Keep up with Ali."

Stack these on the ground in the back.

ALI: I'm so focused on getting 'em all in there

as soon as possible.

Twenty-four.

Excuse me, excuse me.

Thirty-three.

Baby, you sure you don't want me to help?

ANN-MARIE: What are we doing now, guys?

Building this tower, just like the example right there.

The crates themselves were, like, almost like

Lego blocks, honestly, where, like,

it was kind of horizontal, horizontal, horizontal.

So, three rows of horizontal and then, like, a vertical.

So you put it in skinny and then

you kind of alternate that every row.

And the blocks-- if you did it right-- they'd actually, like,

fit into one another.

Mom, pay attention.

Look at the example.

-Hey. -ANN-MARIE: It's three back.

Is this the right--

-Mom, attention to every single detail. -Yes.

I need you to tell me what to do.

It's wide, narrow,

wide, narrow.

-We got to get to something and get started. -All right,

-let's do the beer. -MATT: We got to switch.

No one knows where... what we're looking for.

MICHELLE: Let's go to the start.

MATT: We're gonna figure it out.

Where?

Uh... Okay. 100 gram--

MATT: I think they went this way.

MICHELLE: This might be the market.

[Matt sighs] English? Anyone? English? English?

[sighs]

JOANNA: Great job, Ali.

-MATT: We got to find something. -MICHELLE: What do you think?

-[Matt sighs] -JAVI: Let's go.

Here it's masterminding the attention to detail.

We know who's better the... that than I am.

GARRETT: Those beer bottles brought us back to when we were roommates

in college. Usually we're drinking cans but, you know,

-beer bottles work, too. -Yeah, that would have been

a luxurious day, had we been

bringing back 15 cases of beer bottles.

-I'll get the final one over there, okay? -Okay.

We've been best buds since preschool.

Since age of three.

But we're kind of at this

fork in the road where, like,

I'm kind of settled down in my career,

taking it super seriously.

And he's always bouncing around, trying new things.

CONNER: This is the first time in our lives

we're going different directions.

GARRETT: So this is like a last hurrah

to experience our favorite

chapter that we've had together.

-Nice, brother. -Yeah.

-I'll hand 'em to you. -Okay.

Just set 'em down, please. That's not helpful.

-DAISHA: You know how they go? Okay. -Yep.

Good, good, good. Then next row is... is sideways.

-Don't box yourself in. -It's fine, it's fine, it's fine.

This looking good, bro-- you want to just give a quick check?

CONNER: That looks beautiful. Yeah.

-GARRETT: Can we get a check? -CONNER: Get a check?

-Let's go. Khob chai.Thank you. -Thank you. Thank you, khob chai.

-Whew! -GARRETT: Thank you so much.

-CONNER: Thank you. -GARRETT: Thank you.

-Conner and Garrett just finished ahead of us. -Okay.

-Boom. -Route Info.

"Make your way to Wat Thong Khankham

to find your next clue."

-All right, let's get out of here. -Let's get it. Let's get it.

MICHELLE: Can you Google

-where it is? We're lost. -MATT: Can we Google? Please?

-Please, sir? -Please, please, please.

This place right here.

-Thank you so much. -MATT: Thank you, bro.

-Thank you so much, bro. -MICHELLE: Thank you.

GARRETT: Do you want to get directions first? Let's get directions.

-Yep. -Okay, let's go. Let's ask her.

Come on, talk to me.

ANN-MARIE: Fourth one, sideways.

-Sideways up there. -RILEY: This--

-is this sideways? -ANN-MARIE: Yes.

-JOANNA: One more, one more. -No. No,

that's not sideways, that's full.

Turn it to the side.

Wat Thong Khankham?

GARRET: Okay, keep going that way?

-Okay. -Okay. Khob chai.

JOANNA: Yep. Okay, the next one's the same thing.

-Same thing for the next one. -Okay, same thing for this?

JOANNA: But there shouldn't be a gap.

That's the only thing. There's no gap here.

Shoot.

JOANNA: We got to move this over.

Let's call a time-out.

Let's look at the model. Let's slow down a little bit.

Oh, I think we're gonna have to take it down.

-Okay, all right. -Sorry, sorry, sorry.

-You want to switch? -Yeah.

Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.

ALI: I had to take it down a few notches.

-We're, like, "Hulk level six." You know? Not-not the ten. -Hu-- Yeah, not...

Not the full ten. Maybe a Hulk six at this moment.

I'm putting 'em down to you. Putting 'em down to you.

-MATT: I think it's this one. -MICHELLE: Little bit further. That's it, with the Beerlao.

MATT: Yeah. So what do we have to do?

MICHELLE: I don't know.

Leave your backpack right there.

JAVI: We see Matt and Michelle run in.

-ERIN: Yeah. -JAVI: And we're like,

"What?"

ERIN: That was a surprise.

JAVI: I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is great."

For the first time in, like,

-the whole race-- -Yeah.

aside from us using the Express Pass--

-we actually have a lead on these guys. -Yeah.

MICHELLE: Okay, we need 15 crates.

MATT: Fifteen crates. Let's go.

ANDREA: Can I have three, please?

-[speaks Lao] -Mm-hmm.

And then...

They're looking at me like

I'm totally pronouncing it wrong.

And they were just laughing. And I was like,

"Yeah, it's... I'm totally wrong."

I don't know what's happening with our pronunciation.

-I think they're laughing-- Yes, -[speaks Lao]

one bunch. Hopefully the other Detour takes a long time.

ALI: Here, let's do this one on the bottom.

So you can start doing the top.

-Great. -Okay.

-Let's keep going bottom. -Wait.

-Let's keep going bottom. -Okay.

We'll get a check and then we'll see.

ANN-MARIE: Can we get a check?

-How many we at? -We need one more row.

There.

Good.

Good?

-Yes. -Good.

Riley, you do it.

-DAISHA: How many more? -DALTON: One.

"Make your way to Wat Thong 'Khan' to find your next clue."

Taxi.

-Check? -Yeah.

Check! Check.

-No good, no good. -No good?

-So it's got to go in? -Yes.

All right, can we get a check?

We got to take these off. Talk to me, Goose.

DAISHA: You got to push these in, make 'em tight.

RILEY: Now we got to be smart.

We got to take advantage of getting out second.

-[speaks Lao] -Yes! Good job.

-Yes. -Good job. Thank you so much.

-Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. -Thank you.

ALI: No. The lion faces--

-the lion faces. -Okay.

I need you to just explain a little bit better.

I think we should find a taxi. Let's go to the left.

ANN-MARIE: How do we know it's not

-walking distance? -RILEY: We don't,

but a taxi is the only one who knows.

Right behind you. Keep it leaning on you.

-You're good. -MATT: We screwed this up,

but we're gonna make it back.

-It's not flush. -Is that okay?

-MAN: Not good. -No, we got to take 'em off.

DALTON: We had to start completely over.

It was very frustrating.

-They got to be flush, baby. -DALTON: Dang it! Okay.

Those crates-- they're not light.

And we could see Matt and Michelle right next to us,

so we knew that they were right on our heels.

There was no time to sit there and whine about it.

We just had to hurry.

GARRETT: Do you want to go right here?

CONNER: Um, I don't know about running without knowing where it is.

Wat Thong "Khan"?

-Khankham. -Yes.

ANN-MARIE: Thank you, thank you.

Four-minute walk, it's a four-minute walk.

Not far, not far?

Okay. Left right here. Okay, thank you.

RILEY: We got out of there

before Matt and Michelle.

So this is where we're, like, we need to capitalize.

-We're doing so, so good. -Uh... we're in a race.

Okay, Ali and Joanna are still there.

But we crushed that, baby. We went ahead of Ali and Joanna,

Michelle and Matt and Daisha and Dalton.

Let's just keep this lead.

-MATT: Let's go. -MICHELLE: Let's go.

Daisha and Dalton started unstacking their boxes.

I don't know where they messed up.

MATT: But we can't worry about that.

We started this day bad.

-MICHELLE: Yeah. -MATT: We need

to try to right the ship.

Keep up.

ANN-MARIE: We're stuck.

-We're moving... -Very fast, very fast.

Very fast, please.

We got out of there second.

The boys were in front of us.

I didn't see 'em running around,

so maybe they got transportation, too.

But we're just minutes behind them.

GARRETT: I'm keeping my eyes really peeled.

Should be right in here.

They said it's a building, though.

CONNER: Wat Thong Khankham.

Let's go left.

Do you have? Can I have...

Oh, she understood it.

Good?

I think we got everything on the list.

Now we're gonna go get to cooking.

ANUAR: I'm glad we did this challenge.

ANDREA: Told you.

Okay, we have to hurry.

All right, Dad. Let's start cooking.

This is the first time we've cooked together.

I'm-- Uh, my dad doesn't cook.

I hate to cook.

ANDREA: Okay, put the meat in, Dad.

ANUAR: Before Andrea, I was by myself.

And there was no point of doing all that.

And I don't like cleaning.

So, no.

"Stir in padaek dip and mak pet pong."

So can you get those ready while I cook?

Tell me what to do.

Can you get those rea--

Or do you want me to cook? You cook, then?

-Yes. -Okay.

Tell me what to do.

Dad, just... Yeah.

Luckily, you just really had to brown the meat

and then put it in a bowl and mix it

with all the other chopped ingredients.

-I-I-- -You know, before I moved in with my dad,

he didn't own a single pot, a single pan, salt, pepper--

literally anything.

I cook eggs in the morning every day

-for breakfast. -In a bowl in the microwave.

That's for the dog.

I cook one for me.

We see where we need to go

for our next clue box, which is so exciting.

-Go, go, go, fast. -Fast, fast, fast. -JAVI: I see the clue box.

-It's inside? -Yeah.

Here it is, here it is.

RILEY: Oh, whoa!

U-Turn times two.

Having faced a Double U-Turn

in the previous leg, teams will be surprised

to find a second one here in Laos.

A chance for two teams

to be forced to backtrack

and perform both sides of the Detour.

-Stop, stop, stop, stop. -ERIN: Okay, okay.

-We're first, we're first. -Wait, wait, wait, wait for us.

Okay-- Who's behind us? You want to do Michelle and Matt?

JAVI: Although we want to race

against the best, we also don't.

We are U-Turning Michelle and Matt.

JAVI: They're the strongest team.

-Let's get 'em while they're down. -Yeah.

We're honestly not afraid to be cutthroat.

Like, we have to do what you have to do.

Matt and Michelle showed their colors very early on

as to how strong of a team they were.

And I think it's turning on them a little bit.

Doing the same thing we did last time.

We're U-Turning Daisha and Dalton.

We know they're behind us.

All right, take it. All right.

"Make your way to Lao National Circus

to find your next clue." All right.

-All right. -All right, go, go, go.

RILEY: That way to taxi? Okay.

Fast, fast, fast. Fast.

Taxi will be faster than that.

-Taxi! Oh, my God. -Taxi! Taxi. Please.

-I'm surprised we're first. -Good job, good job. Yes, yes, yes.

We agreed on the U-Turns-- uh, Matt and Michelle

and Daisha and Dalton again.

RILEY: But they came back before.

Hopefully that'll... that'll get 'em.

We'll see if they make it back this time. I don't know.

Who knows, this might be the U-Turn

that gets them out. I mean,

-Who knows? -what a wild way to go out.

ERIN: So, that was wild.

We just ran into another U-Turn board.

-I can't believe there were... -I can't believe

-we made it first. -two U-Turns back-to-back.

ANN-MARIE: Same two we U-Turned

in the last challenge--

Matt and Michelle, Daisha and Dalton again--

that should slow them down, buy us some extra time.

-MICHELLE: Careful. -MATT: We're good.

Just don't fall, and we're good.

JOANNA: One more, Ali.

-Check. -ALI: Check, check, check.

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

"Make your way to Wat Thong Khankham

-to find your next clue." -To find your next clue." Okay, let's go.

-DALTON: Flush? -DAISHA: No.

-DALTON: That feels flush. -It's not.

Everyone else had already left

this Detour. It was just us and Matt and Michelle.

DALTON: We might be

fighting for last again.

DAISHA: Flush, flush, flush.

MATT: The beer thing was

hot and hard.

Get up there.

I'm gonna get 'em to you.

MICHELLE: We did run

for 30 minutes prior,

so we were gassed a little,

but we did the best we could.

Get on the thing. Yes you--

-Okay. -Matt.

Okay. Okay, okay, okay.

ANDREA: We're here completely by ourselves.

It's a little nerve-wracking.

We have no idea how the other teams are doing.

ANUAR: This was gonna give me

the opportunity to spend time with Andrea.

Okay, is that totally brown now?

-ANUAR: No. -I cook a lot at home.

My dad gets mad 'cause I make a mess in the kitchen

and I'm a terrible cook.

I've given a couple people food poisoning before.

I gave the whole fire department food poisoning one time.

I've given my mom food poisoning,

all my friends.

[laughs]: I've given myself food poisoning.

That's true.

Okay, stir it, and then we have to put it in the bowl.

CONNER: We got a lot of directions that tell us

to go a lot of different ways right now.

-JOANNA: Should we ask someone? -Yeah. Oh, wait, they're here.

-JOANNA: They're here. -ALI: Yeah.

-You find it? -CONNER: Damn.

It was a bummer because we watched our lead just

diminish immediately.

-GARRETT: They're not that way. -CONNER: And we're sure

it couldn't be down this thing?

JOANNA: Doesn't look right.

MATT: Can you please do this?

Let me be the bull and bring you the beer.

-Make the top front look better. -Okay.

Push the next ones in. Push it in.

The bottom ones. The bottom ones.

Here you go. All right, check.

MATT: More?

-Yes. Thank you. -Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

MATT: Good. Okay, good. Good, good, good.

Got one row good.

-Or is it going the right way? -Go.

How far is Wat Thong Khankham? Do we need to get a taxi?

Um, Wat Thong Khankham is-is very near.

DALTON: Four-minute walk.

-You got it? You got it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Thank you so much. Let's go.

-Go, go, go, go, go! -Whoo! Yeah!

-JOANNA: What about here, guys? -ALI: Oh, no.

Yeah, this doesn't look right.

-Dead-ends, too. That won't be it. -Oy.

-Here we go, come on. -CONNER: We're lost.

-MATT: We got this. -How many more?

MATT: I don't know.

MICHELLE: I think we did pretty well communicating

and trying to puzzle-piece everything together,

figuring out who should be stacking,

who should be moving the crates.

-Just get 'em all up. -We're good.

Yeah, good. Just tuck that in.

No. Good, good.

MATT: When we're in sync, we're strong.

We get a check?

MATT: We recovered pretty nicely.

-Good job. -BOTH: Thank you so much.

I know you don't want a hug. Thank you. Thank you.

-MATT: Great job. -DALTON: Just keep going.

MATT: That was horrible.

JOANNA: Here, this is it.

GARRETT: Oh, yeah, this is it.

JOANNA: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We see it, guys. We see it.

Oh, there's Daisha and Dalton.

-DAISHA: U-Turn. -ALI: Oh, wow.

-U-Turn. -Come on...

We got U-Turned again.

This was not on our radar. It's like PTSD.

-Double U-Turn. -DAISHA: At this point,

we know that we're still ahead of Matt and Michelle.

They don't even know that they're U-Turned yet.

So all we can do is get to the other Detour

and get to work.

If you see Matt and Michelle, don't tell 'em.

What the crap, Ann-Marie and Riley?

Ann-Marie and Riley U-Turned us.

We've been targeted because although we are not the smartest

and we're not the strongest,

we try to have good heads on our shoulders,

and I think that makes us a threat.

We're not U-Turned.

We were very surprised because

-our picture was not anywhere -Yeah.

on the board. So I was like, "Well, this is good for us."

JOANNA: To see your name up there again--

I just feel like it just

sucks the soul out of you.

Like, this is a bloodbath.

-There's a board. -Uh-oh.

JOANNA and ALI: They got Double U-Turned.

-ALI: Let's go. -Here we go, here we go. -CONNER: Dang.

Obviously, we're

so grateful to not see our face on the board,

-Yeah. -but it's also weird to see

the same people targeted again.

We see some big stuff going on right now.

We got some heavy hits right there.

It seemed like,

-"All right, we're-we're -That was a big play.

pushing 'em out no matter what" kind of play.

-All right, let's go, come on. -Let's get it.

Matt and Michelle are coming right down the road, so...

-GARRETT: Damn. -JOANNA: Oh, really,

-to get U-Turned? -GARRETT: Yeah.

ALI: You guys, don't think that we have time.

-CONNER: No, no, no -GARRETT: No, we don't.

MICHELLE: U-Turn.

I saw the U-Turn board,

and I-I knew it was gonna be us on it

before we even got to the end.

MATT: We got U-Turned.

We got to do the larb. They want us gone.

Breathe, breathe.

MATT: Okay, we're U-Turned.

Let's get to work. But we don't know

-where the place is. -Yeah, and we searched for it.

The only reason we did the beer

is because we couldn't find the larb.

We have to find the larb.

And now we're back to where

we were before the beer.

This game is a bitch. But it is what it is.

We got to find the larb place and we got to just attack.

-Stay positive. It's a long day. -Yeah, good point.

MATT: We need to find it and we're good.

We can do it.

Dad, that is not how you cut herbs.

-DAISHA: Should we ask? -I think it's gonna

be close to the other Detour.

DAISHA: It is. It's on the same street

-as the other Detour. -This is not the same street.

-That was the same street. -Okay. No, that's it.

DALTON: Let's go.

Is someone coming to do this challenge now?

DALTON: What's up, guys?

-ANDREA: Is there a U-Turn? -Yep, we got U-Turned.

-ANDREA: Did we get U-Turned? -No.

-ANDREA: Okay. -DALTON: Tell us where to go.

ANDREA: Matt and Michelle and y'all?

-Yeah. -Okay, so let me help y'all.

Go to the market, write down what these things are.

Okay? I'll help you.

At that moment, we knew Michelle and Matt

were in last place, and they've been the team to beat.

If we all work together, Matt and Michelle

could be eliminated.

-Good luck. -DAISHA: Thanks, y'all, we'll be back.

ANN-MARIE: What's it called?

National Circus.

Circus.

This is good, we'll get out here.

Route Info.

"Learn... 'Mao Lay.'"

Muay Lao is the traditional form of kickboxing

here in Laos, something teams

will take a swing at when they try to learn

a simple fight sequence

from this professional stunt team.

Once Master Koy says that

teams have all the right moves,

he'll reward them with a clue.

RILEY: "Choose any available pair of fighters

who will demonstrate your routine."

We got one lady. Come on, you guys. Let's go.

I thought we were gonna be doing something circusy,

but we were actually doing Muay Lao.

ANN-MARIE: Of which we don't have

-a lot of training. -RILEY: Well,

speak for yourself.

-Okay. I'll be him. -Okay, I'll be her.

ANN-MARIE: Yeah.

[shouting, grunting]

Oh, my goodness.

RILEY: The challenge reminded me more of

entertainment wrestling.

I've done some ground fighting,

but this was more following a script.

ANN-MARIE: It's a little bit

of, uh, learning martial arts, having fun,

acting, and throwing yourself to the ground.

Aah!

RILEY: Oh, my gosh.

This is gonna be a lot harder than I thought.

[exclaims]

I do have training in martial arts.

The Marine Corps is extremely skilled in what's called

the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.

It's kind of a mix of everything. It's not just

jiujitsu, it's not just Muay Thai.

They mix it up.

ANN-MARIE: Oh, we get to dress up, yay!

RILEY: Where's everyone else?

To our surprise,

we were the first ones there. We could not believe it.

We assumed Conner and Garrett were ahead of us.

So we got dressed and we got going.

We got some fighting in.

Jump.

-One, two. -Two.

BOTH: One, two.

-Who is the best? -I?

-You, you. Yes, you're smiling. Okay. -Go, go, go.

-Go. -BOTH: One, two, three, four.

MAN: Very good.

DALTON: Yeah, this is it.

Luckily, Anuar and Andrea helped us out.

DAISHA: They gave us their list that

already had the English version written down.

Long, white, root herb.

All right, one bunch.

-And that just saved us a little bit of time. -A lot of time.

Khob chai.

MATT: That's it. We found it.

I think straight ahead.

DAISHA: There's Matt and Michelle.

DALTON: We cannot mess up on this cooking.

DAISHA: I know.

-MATT: Right here, Mich. -MICHELLE: Let's do it.

[Matt groans]

-DAISHA: We got to hurry. -DALTON: They're on our heels.

They're looking for the stuff, still.

MATT: Yeah. Larb?

-Larb? -MICHELLE: It's not there.

It's got to be somewhere where they're cooking. Larb?

-MATT: Larb? -Where they make... No?

MATT: Nobody speaks English.

-Oh, great. -We were so frazzled.

Now we're gonna be running around again.

Thirty minutes behind.

Let's just follow them.

-There's no other... -MICHELLE: They're gonna do

the whole shopping first, though. We can't.

Do you think it's far from here?

MATT: I don't know.

I have no idea.

Oh, this is brutal.

We're jammed up right now.

I'm thinking we're jammed up right now,

but I'm not gonna quit. Larb? Larb?

MICHELLE: They're selling chips, they're not cooking.

MATT: They're here.

MICHELLE: If they could do it, we could do it.

All we need to do is find the ... place.

Relax. You're not gonna do it by cursing.

MATT: I know, I know.

Can you just start in?

I got it, I got it.

I can mix them.

-That should be good, Dad. Okay. -Yes, we're good.

Hopefully, we get this right the first time.

ANUAR: Let's go check.

-Good. -Yes! Yes. -Yes.

Thank you, thank you. Let's go, Dad.

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

MATT: Mich, Mich, what's this? Come!

-Come! Hello. -ANDREA: Hello.

-MATT: Hi, guys. -ANDREA: Good luck.

Thank you.

-ANDREA: Okay, go, go, go. -We saw Matt and Michelle

running in, but they have to cook

and find all the ingredients.

So we have a small advantage right now.

Let's go.

We're still in this. Let's get it.

-Up... and this. -Seven.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

[man groaning]

-Kick. Okay. -Okay.

ERIN: I've been dancing modern dance my entire life.

And there was a lot of, like, foot flexing and bending.

It's just like modern dancing, so...

-Okay, okay, okay. -JAVI: Yeah, okay.

ERIN: Got it, got it.

MATT: You're only dead till you're alive again.

-Hello. -Do you have anything on here?

MAN: Khob chai.

DAISHA: We saw Matt and Michelle,

so we knew they were right on our heel.

We also knew that they probably had more experience

in the kitchen together because they're a married couple

and they have two kids at home, so,

they probably feed 'em.

-[woman and Matt speaking Lao] -MICHELLE: We need three?

MATT: Slow down. We're-- We got this far,

we're gonna get further,

but now we really need to calm down, myself included.

-DALTON: Is that it? -DAISHA: Yes.

DALTON: Let's go.

Okay, what else do we need?

DAISHA: They're gone.

We got to make sure we get everything

-prepped first. -Okay. We got to hurry.

-So that? -That's the meat.

Where's it go-- in the pan?

Yeah. It says, "Careful. It's hot."

This ain't hot. Talking about that.

-It's gonna be hot. -I know.

Okay.

-Okay? Yeah. -Kick this way.

-Kick this way. -Okay, good.

-Kick. -Good job, guys. -Good job.

Around.

-Boom, the champions emerge. -MAN: Number two.

-Four, five. -Kick.

Ah. You.

[both grunt]

ANN-MARIE: What was great about it,

it was more like choreography.

I love dance classes, so, like,

trying to get the workout in the martial arts

to, like, a four count or an eight count

and land some good punches was

total fun.

Aah!

Yes.

"Make your way to Lao National Circus."

All right. We need to find a taxi fast, Dad.

MATT: We only need one more thing.

MICHELLE: I know, I know.

-Thank you, boss. Thank you. -Thank you. Thank you.

Okay, let's get back and get cooking.

One spoonful of the gray powder.

MATT: We're gonna have to cook our asses off.

Shh. "Cook meat in broth until completely brown."

-I cook probably every day. -Almost every night.

-Yeah. -I'm very lucky, like... Good...

-I like to cook. -She's a good cook.

Let's cook it up, baby.

DALTON: We normally don't cook at home.

We're fighting for second-to-last place.

Talk to me with the stirring and all that.

I don't know what to tell you.

We stir it for one to two minutes.

WOMAN: One, two.

Aah!

-Kick here. Kick... -Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

JOANNA: I'm a professional speaker, a leadership coach.

When I need to get pumped up for something, like a speech

or a big call, I'm always just, like, fake boxing

in my office, and I'm, like, doing high kicks.

So it felt, like, really natural for me.

And I'm like, "Okay, I'm just preparing for a big speech."

-Ooh! [laughs] -Hit me. Hit me.

Ooh. Ooh.

-Got it. Do you want to go try it? -Yeah.

♪ ♪

ANN-MARIE: You go into this wrestling ring.

You got to climb between the ropes.

You have to recognize some of the local customs, too,

of bowing to your opponent

before you start the match and then

basically getting our, uh,

-rear ends kicked. -Behinds kicked.

[grunting]

Aah! [groans]

I messed up, I think.

Sorry. No.

Thanks.

-RILEY: We were close. Okay? -ANN-MARIE: Yeah.

It sucks to be U-Turned again.

Give someone else a chance to feel

what a U-Turn feels like so they can try to survive,

but, no, we got two in a row.

MICHELLE: Just peel the shallots. Peel the shallots.

Peel the shallots. Peel the shallots.

I'm peeling the shallots.

It's okay. Just... It's okay. I can do it.

Just do the next thing. Quickly, Matt.

I'm trying.

ANDREA: "Learn Muay Lao." Dad, that's you.

My dad was a martial arts,

like, national champion in Mexico.

ANUAR: When I was a kid, I did karate-do.

Then I did Tae Kwon do,

and many years of kung fu, and

I always loved it.

ANDREA: Okay, yeah.

[grunting]

MAN: Okay.

-I think we got it. You want to do it? -Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

ANDREA: Come on, Dad.

Let's go, baby.

[grunting]

ERIN: Did I mess it up?

[grunting]

Dude, I messed up.

I missed my second move,

and at that point, I was just lost.

And so, the guy kept going.

[grunting]

GARRETT: And so, for some reason, I just kicked him.

Like, I don't know why. I just...

-It was an accident. -Dude, it was such good contact. He just,

-crack. -GARRETT: I just kicked way too low

and just nailed his shin, so...

Sorry, man.

-No. -Okay.

-[speaks Lao] -GARRETT: Thank you. -Okay. We got it.

-One, two, three. -Okay.

Yeah, that, that. I missed it, yeah.

JAVI: Let's go?

Yeah, let's go. We're gonna do it.

-Okay, let's go? -Yes.

-Kick. Ah. Okay. -Ah.

-Okay, are you good? -Let's go.

[grunting]

ERIN: For me,

-it just felt natural. -It just... Yeah, it felt natural.

ERIN: It felt great. I loved it.

It was fun.

-Good? Oh, my gosh. -Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[laughs] Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

-Thank you. Yeah. -[murmurs] Okay.

Okay. Thank you.

Okay, let's go. That way, that way. Thank you.

-Okay, here. -Yeah.

Oh, my God, we're the first ones out of here.

"Make your way to Wat Si Saket to find your next clue."

-Okay, let's go. -Okay, cool.

RILEY: We're gonna try for a second time.

We feel a lot more confident.

I think this is gonna be a good one.

ERIN: Ooh, babe, we crushed them. Okay.

RILEY: We were the first ones here.

We frigging take care of business.

And if there's a Pit Stop after this, this is where we pounce.

Let's go.

[grunting]

-ERIN: Okay. -JAVI: Don't fall.

ERIN: Okay, baby, let's go.

-Perfect. -Yes.

-Yes, yes. -Thank you. -Thank you, sir.

Do you know where this is-- Wat Si Saket?

-Okay, Okay. -Do you know?

Yeah, okay.

JAVI: We won the first leg,

and we've been pretty quiet since then.

ERIN: So this leg, we're happy that

we shot back up to the top of the pack.

We're preparing for our future lives with kids.

Right now, everything's becoming more and more expensive,

especially where we live, in Fort Lauderdale.

So being able to have a house with more than two bedrooms...

-Starting our life. -Having enough space

to start a family would be...

Yeah, I just want to start a family

feeling comfortable and not scared.

RILEY: All right, we got to figure out where we're going.

Hi. You know Wat Si Saket?

-Okay, okay. -You take us? -Yes?

-RILEY: Hurry. Fast, fast, fast. -ANN-MARIE: Can we go fast?

DAISHA: Dump it before you burn me, please.

And then we add the other stuff that we chopped up to it.

DALTON: Make it look pretty.

Yeah. It's all in the stance, you know what I mean?

It's just all in...

DAISHA: Okay, that's right, that's right. Look.

-Mwah. -Oh!

Beautiful. Can I eat it?

-Okay. -Yes.

-DALTON: Khob chai. Khob chai. -DAISHA: Thank you, thank you.

"Make your way to... [mumbles] to find your next clue."

That's where we were.

Daisha and Dalton just left. Uh...

We're almost done, though, so we're feeling okay.

DALTON: Let's go, let's go. Woo-hoo!

-GARRETT: Oh, yeah. -CONNER: Hey.

[grunting]

GARRETT: We really

-nailed it. If felt like -Dude, we really did.

we were really fighting. That was so fun.

-Yeah, that was so fun. -Yeah.

[speaks Lao]

-Yeah! -Let's go!

CONNER: We got whupped in

"the fight" but, honestly, dude,

I was, like, a second away from going up

and throwing the guy across the ring, dude.

-Yeah. -"Come here, buddy." Oop. Later.

-Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Khob chai. -Thank you, thank you.

-Heads up-- stairs. Whew! -Stairs.

-That was awesome. -That was sweet!

GARRETT: We just kicked some butt out there.

CONNER: We did kick a lot of butt.

MICHELLE: Smells, like, actually, amazing.

MATT: It smells good.

"Make your way to Lao National Circus to find your next clue."

MICHELLE: Okay, let's go. Put it in.

-Pour that baby in. -Oh, that looks good.

MICHELLE: All the juices, all the juices.

-Get it all in there. -Okay.

MICHELLE: So the hot meat is actually gonna cook

any of the greens a little bit.

-I would love to have a cooking show. -Let's...

And you know, like, behind the scenes,

like, the stuff keeps getting cleared, Matt. Keep clearing it.

You gonna roll your eyes or are you gonna make a show?

-It's all in the plating. -Please, God.

MICHELLE: Okay, we're good, baby. Let's go.

Hi.

Many...

Please, God.

-No? Yes. -Yes.

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

-Thank you. Thank you. -You want to try it?

Come on, come on, come on. We got to go.

Let's get it.

MATT: Excuse me. All right, let's get it.

"Make your way to Lao National Circus

to find your next clue."

MICHELLE: All right, taxi. Let's go.

[grunting]

JOANNA: For us as professional athletes,

you're always under control.

Control your emotions,

control your body, and when you get

on the mat, it's, like, it's about performing.

And being big

and funny and goofy.

[grunting]

-[speaks Lao] -[both cheering]

Open, read.

Muay Lao.

We started getting pretty excited.

We took Muay Thai lessons last year.

Muay Thai and Muay Lao are very similar.

-JOANNA: Good job, guys. -ALI: Good job.

-Good job. -You got this. You got this.

ANDREA: How far behind are Matt and Michelle?

DAISHA: Right on our heels.

ANDREA: Daisha and Dalton just showed up.

We just got to hurry.

-Bye. Thank you. -Let's go.

ALI: Hi.

Wat Si Saket.

Okay, sir?

MATT: Taxi?

Can you take us to the circus, please?

-Lao National Circus, please. -Thank you so much.

-Erin and Javi did. -Erin and Javi U-Turned us.

MATT: That's the game. We should have seen it coming.

MICHELLE: And we should have been there first.

MATT: We just stay positive.

It's never over.

[grunting]

ANUAR: It was very nice

to feel that experience again.

It took me back years ago.

Those are things that you never forget,

like riding a bike.

I mean, you get older,

you're gonna ride it slower.

-No. -No.

KOY: Technique. [mutters]

Uh, acting.

-ANDREA: I'm not understanding. -ANUAR: Punch faster or slow?

KOY: Faster.

ANDREA: Holy crap. We're so screwed.

ERIN: Yes, right here, right here, right here.

-All right. -It's okay.

Okay, take that. It's gonna be a Roadblock.

"Who's down for the count?"

The primary religion here is Buddhism,

practiced at temples like this--

Wat Si Saket,

where thousands of Buddhist statues

line the walls

to create a unique

spiritual experience.

The number of Buddhas is overwhelming,

which is exactly why we're

having teams count 582 of them

in a classic Amazing Race

counting challenge.

Keeping track of the numbers

could have heads spinning.

You do it. You're better at math.

-You're better at math. You do it. -Okay.

-Javi's gonna do it. -I'm gonna do it.

Those look like Buddhas.

This was the most amount of Buddhas

I'd ever seen in my life. I mean,

tall Buddhas, small Buddhas,

Buddhas laying down, Buddhas in the walls.

I read the clue and it says I have to go

to the back left wall. I'm like, "Oh, thank God

"I don't have to count every single Buddha in here,

'cause I'd be here all day."

[whispering]: This is gonna be hard.

There is a lot, and they're, like, not in, like, a way

that you can kind of organize it, mentally.

And you can't take notes. Definitely

a little overwhelming when you walk up to it.

[grunting]

ANUAR: Andrea made a mistake,

-so we had to restart. -Me? It was you.

ANUAR: I messed up.

-Messed up. -Dad.

-No, I mean, we... -ANDREA: He's blaming it on me.

It was not me.

-Okay, again. -Again.

-[speaking Lao] -Okay, okay.

ANUAR: I feel that the two teams

behind us are gonna catch up really quick.

That's very stressful.

We got to move and not get eliminated.

It's hard.

-[groans] -ANDREA: We got to get this, Dad.

If you think you have all the right moves

to be on The Amazing Race,

then go to cbs.com/casting

and apply now.

[grunts] Okay, and kick.

ANUAR: We just needed to do it faster.

I was 100% confident we could do it.

MAN: And rock. Bang.

[grunting]

-That's it. Let's go. -All right, Dad, let's go.

-Boom. -Yeah.

RILEY: I see it. I see it. Damn it, they're here. Okay.

Roadblock.

-"Who's down for the count?" Me. -You got it.

This is gonna be tough.

We had to count

Buddhas, and there was a lot of them.

[whispering]: Riley,

do you want to count from this side this way?

-I'll start on that, and you work this way. -Yeah.

When we get to the end, you come back,

-and we tell each other's numbers. -Yeah.

RILEY: And at that point,

Javi and I knew we are way ahead of every other team.

So let's work together.

JAVI [whispering]: It's gonna be rough.

[grunting]

ANDREA: Matt and Michelle are not here yet.

We want a little lead on them.

So, hopefully, we can keep this lead.

Aah!

Good job.

-Yay! -Yes! Yes. Thank you.

-Thank you so much. Let's go, Dad. -Yay.

-[grunting] -Yeah. Boom.

-Again. Just... -You get it?

-Yeah. -DALTON: They got it.

Be really performative.

-Boom. Boom. -[grunting]

Yeah.

Hey, tuk-tuk.

We're getting slammed by these guys.

We're supposed to be going that way.

I know, but I think we're just taking a different route.

I think we should double-check.

-[speaking Lao] -Hello, hello.

-ANUAR: Come on. -MATT: I think it's right in there.

-Let's go. Come on. -MICHELLE: Let's do it. Come on.

ANDREA: Careful, Dad.

Is this a tuk-tuk? Yeah.

We're just so nervous to make sure

we're going in the right direction.

-Scoot over. Scoot over. -I'm trying.

Matt and Michelle were literally running in as we ran out.

-They just ran in? -Yeah.

So we don't have that much of a lead.

"Perform what you've learned with Master Koy

to receive your next clue." We got it.

RILEY: Every time you guessed, you had to go pick up a flower,

present it to the judge,

and state your number.

Five hundred and eighty?

-It's not correct. -Okay.

Five hundred seventy-four?

-It's not correct. -Okay.

-Okay, let's just keep working in. -Okay.

RILEY: We decided that we'd meet in the middle.

I would go down a number.

Five seventy-nine.

He would go up a number.

Five seventy-five.

And we're like, "Something in here has to work."

Five seventy-eight.

Five seventy-seven?

-Five seventy-six. -Not correct.

Okay, let's just go back.

Damn it. This sucks.

[grunting]

-[exclaims] -Yes!

-Let's frigging go! -Let's go!

Thank you so much.

Dalton likes to think of himself

-as a Muay Lao fighter. -DALTON: Muay Lao.

[exclaims]

MICHELLE: Come on, babe. Quick.

DAISHA: But as soon as we finished,

Matt and Michelle came through the door.

It gave us

a little boost of confidence,

but we got through this very quickly,

which means Matt and Michelle--

they can get through this very quickly.

MICHELLE: Even though we chose cooking,

-we lean physical on most challenges. -MATT: Yeah.

MICHELLE: We're very athletic.

I started as a competitive gymnast at the age of five.

I transitioned into competitive cheerleading and pole vaulting.

I was top in New Jersey in pole vaulting.

I felt confident in ourselves and our abilities.

I think we'll be able to make up time.

Got it.

RILEY: I'm gonna try one more.

-You restart counting, I'll restart. -JAVI: Okay.

-I'll tell you if I get it, I swear. -Yeah.

Five eighty-two.

That's correct.

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

I'll tell you. Will you just promise

-that we can hit the mat first? -Yeah, I promise.

-Okay, 582. -582. Okay.

-Five eighty-two. -That's correct.

Thank you. Thank you.

Okay.

Route Info.

Wat Xieng Khuan

is known as Buddha Park

because of the more than

250 Buddha statues

scattered around these peaceful temple grounds.

This is where teams will find me at the Pit Stop.

The last team to check in here may be eliminated.

Okay.

Taxi.

"Race to the Pit Stop at Buddha Park and search for Phil."

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

-Yes, fast, fast, fast. Thank you. -Please, please.

RILEY: I told Javi, I was like,

"Listen, I will tell you,

just, you have to let Mom and I finish."

And I think they don't care.

-They just want to... -Come in second.

RILEY: They just want to come in second,

and I feel like that's fair.

Riley did help me with this one.

-Um... -Do you think you needed it, though?

Or could you have told her like, "Hey, don't help me"?

Um, I don't know. I honestly don't know.

-'Cause it was... -We could have been racing for first.

It's annoying when it's, like,

we have to give it away now that somebody helped us.

Like, we don't have to, but it's the right thing to do.

We're not ... people, so, like...

We're not ... people like that.

She gave him the answer. It's okay.

-Go, go, go, go, go. -Go, go, go.

JOANNA: Hey, follow that tuk-tuk. That tuk-tuk, follow, okay?

-Oh, it's Ali and Joanna. -Oh, it's Ali and Joanna.

-We see Anuar and Andrea. -Yeah.

Oh, I don't know how we passed them.

GARRETT: Oh, that's the Roadblock. You want it?

Yeah, I'll give it a rip. Yeah, let's do it, dude.

Conner's down for the count. Here you go.

CONNER: Just trying to get grounded first,

'cause there are a smashing amount of Buddhas here.

-Thank you. -ANUAR: Thank you.

Thank you. Bye.

"Who's down for the count?"

-You. -I can do it.

-I'm a mathlete, okay? -She's-she's...

I was a math minor in college with a 3.98 GPA.

She's not just a pretty face or a dumb jock.

I feel like I can count.

No way.

ANDREA: Oh, my God, there's so many.

Holy crap.

ANDREA: Yeah.

Hey, Conner.

-JOANNA: Conner. -CONNER: Yo.

ANDREA: Matt and Michelle are in last place right now.

-Do you want to work together? -Yeah, let's work together.

-Yeah, let's do it. -Do you have a number yet,

-or what do we... -I just got here.

-[grunting] -MICHELLE: You kick

then he kicks you.

[grunting]

No, no, no, no.

ANDREA: There's three of us. We're splitting up

the lines.

I just can't see anything.

-DAISHA: Khob chai.Okay. -DALTON: Bye-bye.

DALTON: Let's go, let's go, go, go, go.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Let's go try it.

DAISHA: Roadblock.

-Do you need me to do it? -Yeah.

-You got it. -Okay. I'm gonna do it.

Five hundred seventy-six.

Five hundred and seventy-three.

Five hundred seventy-five.

-That is not correct. -Okay.

Take your time. I love you.

Five seventy-four?

Five hundred and seventy-seven.

Five hundred seventy-three?

-Not correct. -Okay.

JOANNA: Would that count as one--

that faceless one? Yeah, right?

-ANDREA: Yeah. -JOANNA: Okay.

So we have to count all of these?

JOANNA: Yup.

So just the small ones in there?

We're still getting it wrong. That's the issue.

Daisha joined up, and at first she was, like,

trying to get answers from us.

And it's all of 'em, throughout the whole thing?

I mean, it's a counting thing.

As soon as you know the number, that person can go

from a 30-minute deficit to right on top of you.

Just this area? Okay.

[grunting]

-Good job. -Yes. -Yeah. Thank you.

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

-MICHELLE: Ready? -MATT: Let's do it, mama.

MICHELLE: Come on, taxis. Where you at?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

ANDREA: After Daisha showed up,

we had to make a decision

to either allow her to work with us or not,

because she kind of tacked on at the end

after we had really done most of the work.

Okay, I'm 204.

ANDREA [whispering]: Y'all...

ANDREA: Okay.

Five hundred seventy-seven.

Five hundred and seventy-eight.

Five seventy-nine.

Five hundred eighty.

Not correct.

MICHELLE: Go, go, go, go, go, go!

We just got to get in front of one team.

One team. One team.

-We can do it. -We're-we're not out of it.

We're not out of it.

-DAISHA: Did you get it right? -No.

DAISHA: Matt and Michelle--

they are on my heel.

We have to get this together.

If we can get this, we can get Matt and Michelle.

-Yeah, I know. -How many of us is there?

Let's all count a row.

Because by the time they get here,

they're already gonna be caught up.

They're gonna hear what we say.

-Like a footrace... -And it's gonna be...

Yeah, it's gonna be a footrace.

CONNER: I think, naturally, we were

all worried about letting her in,

as we had been there for so much longer.

JOANNA: But if we all work together, Matt and Michelle are out.

It's like slaying a dragon. That's what I would say.

And so we were like, "Let's do it."

-All right, fine, whatever. -Yeah.

-Okay, I'll do the third row up, right? -Right.

-Okay. -Which one are you doing?

So who's doing the first row?

-At the very top? -Yeah.

-DAISHA: I'll do the very top. -ANDREA: Okay.

-We're here. -Okay.

-Thank you so much. -RILEY: We got to get out.

ANN-MARIE: We've got to get our bag.

RILEY: I don't see Erin and Javi.

I see it.

[laughs]

Oh, my God.

RILEY: Thank you.

-Thank you. Thank you. -Ann-Marie and Riley,

eight legs of this Amazing Race.

Today is your day. You are team number one.

[laughs] We did it!

Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.

And I do have some great news for you.

As the winners of this leg of the race,

you've won OneKeyCash from Expedia

and you're going to Manchester, England.

-Aah! Where Danny's from. -Yeah.

My fiancé's from England.

-Are you serious? -Yeah, he's English. -Yes.

Expedia has put together a recommended five-night

unique experience that includes

a scenic tour of the Lake District,

an immersive walk

through Manchester's vibrant street art scene

and a guided exploration of the city's

iconic music heritage.

We got here first and we made history again.

We doubled it, mother-daughter win for the first time.

Season 25, the last time

an all-female team won The Amazing Race.

Well, and never a mother-daughter team.

-In what? 39 seasons. -39 seasons.

-KEOGHAN: 39 seasons. -Here we are.

Wow, look how cool. He's right there.

KEOGHAN: And look who we have here.

Yes!

-RILEY: Good job. -Congrats.

Today, wow-- bam-- another Double U-Turn.

I was surprised that we were there first.

RILEY: Matt and Michelle--

we were ahead of them, which never happens.

-Never happens. -Ever.

They are superstars, so the question is

how do you beat 'em to the finish line?

How do you get ahead, Javi?

-U-Turn 'em. -A little dirty. Got to play a little dirty.

That's not dirty, playing within the rules of the game.

We're in it to win, and to do that, we need

to take teams that are stronger than us out, and I think

U-Turning them was the best thing we could do.

We hit 'em one-two now.

We learned martial arts today.

-Yes. That's right.

After the second hit, it's... "Aah!"

-Then you got to sweep the leg. -Yeah. -Yeah.

MATT: Our backs are up

against the wall, but, uh,

we just got to get in front of one team.

We did it the other day with the tuk-tuk polo.

We could do it.

-Did anyone do the fifth row? -DAISHA: No,

-no one did it. -Okay, we're gonna count that.

-So, we're at 401. -Okay. 401.

-ANDREA: So, and I'll do the bottom one. -Yes.

We're not out of it.

-I was gonna say. -Hopefully, we can get there,

maybe see some teams and hope they're having a hard time.

MICHELLE: Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

MATT: We're close, we're close. Let's go, go, go.

MICHELLE: Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

-So we're at 490. -The bottom is 89.

The bottom is 89.

So 490 with our row plus whatever you've got.

-CONNER: I got 94. -JOANNA: 94, 95.

-So I'll try 581. -ANDREA: Try 581.

Five hundred eighty-one?

-Not correct. -Okay.

Hello.

Five hundred and eighty-two.

-That's correct. -Let's go.

-Good job. -Yes, yes, yes.

Thank you.

That was awesome. We're gonna go.

We're gonna try to get out of here

before Matt and Michelle get here.

It's kind of the-the grand plan, right there.

So let's get a move on.

Good job, you guys. Let's go.

ALI: Amazing.

-Taxi, taxi, taxi. -Oh, taxi, this way, this way.

-ALI: Taxi? -JOANNA: Yeah, taxi.

Okay.

Buddha Park? Yes?

ANDREA: Buddha Park.

DAISHA: Teamwork makes the dream work.

-Ah. -And I think we can all agree, like,

Matt and Michelle-- they've won so many legs,

and they are such fierce competitors.

It just makes sense.

-If all goes well right now -Yeah.

-the top contenders might be falling today. -Yup.

JOANNA: They're technically one of the strongest teams.

That means that we all have a great shot

of getting further in this race.

Ninety-seven, 98, 99.

Oh, God. I don't know if I'm at 400 or 500.

I think 500.

We survived this, babe.

-So, working together helped. -Oh, yeah.

It's gonna be a sprint, but luckily, I think

Conner and I got the beans to outsprint some of these teams.

CONNER: Daisha and Dalton were in front of us,

and we're like, "No way the team that

"comes in last at the Roadblock,

takes the benefit of everyone else, gets third place."

We don't want to be, like, sixth.

-We don't want to be sixth. -Or... Yeah.

DAISHA: So we're gonna

try to get on the mat before them.

-DALTON: This is it? -DAISHA: We're running to the mat.

This is good. Thank you.

GARRETT: Through here?

Got the water bottle. [laughs]

DAISHA: Where are they at?

CONNER: Where could he be?

[laughing]

Well, Conner and Garrett, I'm pleased to tell you that you're

team number three. That means that you guys,

after surviving a U-Turn today, you're team number four.

Congratulations.

So we understand why they would be targeting Michelle and Matt,

but you guys-- they target you again.

That put-that put a fire under us.

The claws are out, Phil. The claws are out.

Oh, here we are.

-Hi, baby. -Come on now.

Let's go.

-Yes. -Hey-yo. -Good job.

Anuar, take a breath. Take a breath.

You made it pretty clear who you would like out of this race.

JOANNA: We were trying to bury

a top team. This is a top team.

They made it through, but Michelle and Matt

aren't the ones here on the mat.

We all worked together in the Roadblock,

-and I think it paid off. -It paid off.

We divided and we conquered

-and we got it done. -JOANNA: We just slayed a dragon

-today, y'all. -CONNER: Yeah.

[cheering, indistinct chatter]

JOANNA: Top six, baby. Top six.

Whoo!

Flower. Where's my person?

Okay.

Five eighty-two?

-That's correct. -Oh, thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks.

Matt and Michelle,

you are the last team to arrive, and unfortunately,

I do have to eliminate you.

-You've had better days. -We have. -We have.

They executed the U-Turn perfectly. It's the game.

No hard feelings.

Huge respect for your competitiveness.

I don't want my wife to be hard on herself.

She's a superhero to me.

There were times where, like, growing up, you know,

the world seemed small,

and then...

I meet her.

And, look. So,

de-definitely drew an ace. So did she.

-No. -MICHELLE: [laughs] I did.

He's absolutely the best partner, best husband,

best dad.

-I love you. -I love you.

MATT: I think we can hold our head high.

We did win three legs.

It's just, you only have so many lives, right?

I'm proud of us.

I think our kids are gonna be proud of us.

-We had a blast. -MICHELLE: Yeah.

-MATT: So, it's okay. -MICHELLE: No regrets.

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KEOGHAN: Next time onThe Amazing Race...

Whoo!

...Andrea gets the cold shoulder.

Will you write it for me, too?

-I'm sorry, Andrea. -Bro,

we saved you in the last leg.

-I'm sorry. -Please.

KEOGHAN: And it's a kayak race

to the Pit Stop you won't want to miss.

ALI: Come on!

-We can catch 'em. -GARRETT: Never surrender!