PHIL KEOGHAN: The Amazing Race is back!
ASHLIE: So, one thing I know about this race
is that anything can happen at any given time.
-KEOGHAN: And we're pulling out all the stops. -(laughs)
Come on. You got it.
KEOGHAN: Circling the globe...
...the old-school way.
We need to book a flight.
First time in the tuktuk.
This is how you travel in style.
KEOGHAN: Taking it to extremes...
Aah! (laughs)
(whoops)
Oh, yeah.
That was hard. I don't think I got it.
I'm not looking down.
KEOGHAN ...with all the feels.
It's so hard not to cry.
KEOGHAN: Once again, the Express Pass is up for grabs.
And the U-Turn is mandatory.
MAN: Are you serious?
KEOGHAN: And for the first time,
we're kicking off this race with 13 teams.
(whooping)
-Couples... -(whoops)
KEOGHAN: ...friends and family.
-Namaste. -Namaste.
KEOGHAN: In the end, only one team will win $1 million
and The Amazing Race.
The Hollywood Sign is celebrating
its 100th anniversary.
Originally built as a billboard,
it is now the most famous sign in the world
and a perfect spot for the starting line
in this monumental 35th season of
The Amazing Race.
♪ ♪
(all cheering)
Let's go!
ASHLIE: I want to have fun
running this race.
So, what constitutes fun?
Winning. So I want to be a team that wins.
ANDREA: Let's go!
We are both competitive.
-Yes. -Even with my son.
I don't take it easy on an eight-year-old. (laughs)
MORGAN: We will 1,000% be fighting.
Now, will we be able to curb the fighting?
Will we be able to respect each other,
love on each other, support each other?
That's the real question.
(cheering)
Welcome to Hollywood.
(cheering)
Behind me, Los Angeles, California.
(cheering, applause)
This is the land of fame and fortune,
but you are gonna leave this land behind
and you will be going on a race around the world.
In the end, there will be only one winner on this Amazing Race.
You have no idea what or who you're up against.
So, to get things started,
why don't you tell everybody a little bit about yourself.
My name is Corey. Uh, this is my dad, Rob.
Uh, my dad's deaf. Both my parents are deaf.
What's the number one thing you're looking forward to, Rob?
(laughing)
On my first wedding anniversary, I got deployed with him.
I left my wife to be with him.
-Now on my 20th anniversary... -(laughter)
...I once again left my wife to be with him.
I think your wives will be okay with it
-if you come home with a million dollars, too. -GARRETT: Yes. (laughs)
We have our challenges when it comes to communication,
especially when one of us is stressed--
that's normally me. So...
And the other's not communicating,
which is normally me.
We're really hoping to really
strengthen our communication skills.
Well, strengthen one of our communication skills.
You will be testing your relationship.
I can promise you that.
Yeah, he always tests it.
We work at least 12 hours, if not more a day.
That's all we do, almost seven days a week.
-Yes. -So, yeah, this is our break
to hang out with each other and figure out who he actually is.
-(laughs) -Your name's Victor, right?
-Yes. -Okay. All right, just checking.
We're both very sassy, very spicy,
-but we're like best friends. -She's stubborn.
She doesn't listen to her mother.
Oh, and you're not stubborn?
-No, not at all. -Yeah, no, not at all.
-Not at all. (chuckles) -I'm always right. I'm always right.
I cannot believe we are here,
-frankly. -(laughter)
I'm a Navy vet, a recent Navy vet,
and my brother here is a Marine vet.
And I'm hoping that this is gonna be
a good opportunity for us to get some traveling in.
All right. You remember last season
that we had no non-elimination legs?
ALL: Yes.
Well, guess what? We're doing it again.
-Aw. -Ooh.
JOHN: Getting eliminated first would hurt a lot,
especially with 13 teams this season.
To look at 12 other teams and go,
"Dang, we couldn't take on one of them?"
(Greg laughs)
Along the way, you will come across the Express Pass.
It won't be easy to win but if you win it,
it will allow to skip
any challenge that you don't want to complete
and hopefully leap ahead of the other teams.
ROBBIN: There's nothing I wouldn't do to win this.
Robbin is really bold and outrageous.
You never know what you're gonna get out of her
and I think that spontaneity
is one of the reasons that she's such a close friend of mine.
The other thing you will encounter is a U-Turn.
What makes this U-Turn different is it will be a mandatory vote
for you to slow down another team...
-No way. -forcing them to perform both sides of the Detour.
-Wow. -Okay.
KEOGHAN: Everybody will be making a vote.
ANNA LEIGH: Mandatory U-Turn and it required
-a vote? -A vote.
We were like, "Oh, crap."
-TODD: It changes the whole ballgame. -ASHLIE: It does.
It's, uh, it's definitely gonna bring the drama.
You have a plane to catch.
And you should know
that airports are back in play.
No more charters.
You're gonna have to fight it out
to get on the best flights.
Everything else you need to know
is inside a clue
which is inside a car down the hill.
You guys ready to do this race?
-Yeah! -(cheering)
(whooping)
All right.
The world is waiting for you.
Good luck.
Travel safe.
Go!
(whooping)
Let's go!
-Got it? -Let's go.
Let's go!
Come on, come on.
Keep going. Keep going.
Up here, up here.
Go up to a front one.
Right there.
Oh, shoot. Can you grab the clue? It's on the...
-Got it. -Come on. Let's go.
All right.
-Let's go. -GARRETT: Okay, we need to figure out
how to get to the Biltmore Hotel.
Is anybody in front of us? People are behind us.
JOE: We're off, baby. Amazing Race!
Let's go!
This is the most exciting moment of my adult life.
(laughing)
♪ ♪
Downtown L.A. is to the left of us.
IAN: Yeah, it's southeast. You can't say left.
You have to give me, like, real directions.
Southeast. Okay, fine. (laughs)
Joe and I have been dating for...
-Do you want to answer this? -Nope.
Okay, good.
We've been dating for a little over five years.
JOE: And now we're engaged.
IAN: We are opposites in every sense of the word.
And, yeah, it has been kind of a blessing
in this relationship, because we do complement
each other in a lot of key areas.
I-I couldn't be more excited about all of this.
How do we get.. We got to...
-We got to get directions. -All right.
Should we ask that guy?
Sheridan, should we ask that guy?
Oh, oh, oh.
Sir.
Um, can you help us find the historic Biltmore Hotel?
101 South.
-MAN: Yeah, 101. -South.
Exit Wilshire. Okay. Come on.
Left on Hollywood?
Left on Hollywood, and then right on 101.
Okay, let's go.
(speaks indistinctly)
-Can I see the top one more time? I'm so sorry. -Yeah.
COREY: Thank you.
SHERIDAN: Okay. Can I just see the map really fast?
(barks)
♪ ♪
COREY: Whenever we'd go on family trips,
I would always sit in the back seat,
mom up front, little brother next to me.
So I'm pretty used to getting his attention.
Tapping on the shoulder, and he looks up
in the mirror, and we can talk up here.
I am a CODA, which stands for child of deaf adult.
So, my dad Rob is deaf.
I think we have a really unique dynamic, my dad and I,
because it's a pretty atypical role
that you'll see a deaf person in today,
where I feel like a lot of times
we see the deaf person as being reliant on someone else
or having sort of a provider for them.
Whereas in our situation, my dad raised me.
Finally. Yeah. We've been waiting for this
for years and years.
Have dreamt of this and made it here.
MALAINA: I'm so upset.
I've been to the Hollywood Sign,
and I don't have a phone to capture the moment.
You have your memories.
No, my memory is shocked.
(both laugh)
Malaina and I have been best friends for 27 years.
We first met at Kutztown University.
MALAINA: You know, our bond just grew stronger and stronger
as friends, and, I mean, really like sisters.
ANDREA: Yeah. Malaina, what you see is what you get.
As soon as you see her, she's... she's in there full-full force.
I'm a little reserved,
but then once you get to know me, then I'm like,
-you'll get to see the goofy side and the bubbly side. -Yeah. Yeah.
Whatever way the wind blow, I go.
-(laughs) -Yeah.
We on 110, right?
No, we're on 101 South.
So we're going down. So we...
-That is why Andrea's the navigator. -(laughs)
I said 110, and we're on 101.
-Thank you so much. -Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
-I'll drive and you navigate, okay? -All right.
(laughs): Doesn't feel good to be last, but that's okay.
-People are rushing. -Yeah.
We have a lot of similarities.
We share an apartment in Chicago.
SHERIDAN: We both work at the same consulting firm.
-We both kind of like routine. -I have the same...
-I have the same thing for breakfast every day. -(laughs softly)
-It's oatmeal. -Me too.
The race will definitely push us far outside
of our comfort zones, but we're excited for that
to really just shake things up
and kind of embrace something very new.
Traffic, very giving me anxiety.
Just get off here.
Iliana's my daughter.
It's special because it's a relationship
I never thought I was going to have.
She's my very first born after the doctor says
I couldn't have children.
We're very similar. She's a mini me.
-(laughs): We're identical in a lot of ways. -Which means, which means
we're very close, but we also butt heads. (chuckles)
But we get along. (laughs)
I know. It's, like, you love someone
and you want to strangle them so much
-at the same time. -Yeah, at the same time.
It's a special time, special moment for us to have together.
I never thought in a million years
this would come full circle on The Amazing Race.
IAN: Biltmore. Right here.
Let's go, baby!
IAN: Oh, my God, I cannot believe
-we're the first team. -Let's go, babe.
Oh, there's a team behind us. It's the brothers.
-JOHN: So this is good? -GREG: Yeah.
-Let's get it, baby. -It's all good.
IAN: Come on.
-Use the crosswalk, use the crosswalk. -There's the crosswalk.
Parking, Parking. Right here, right here, right here.
ANDREA: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
-Ooh, there's two cars in front of us. -All right, let's go, let's go.
GREG: All right, let's do it.
Okay, now, yeah.
-Got the clue. Here. -Oh, you got it.
There it is.
All right, Roadblock, baby.
This Roadblock will immediately put teams to the test
as they precariously balance
high above the city on a thin tightrope.
Once they've made a successful crossing,
they must unscramble these letters into three words--
the name of their next destination.
When they do, they'll receive a clue
-from last season's winners, -(both exclaim)
Derek and Claire.
That's correct.
There are two flights available.
Tickets are first come, first serve.
The first six teams to arrive at the airport
will get a 90-minute head start.
I'll do it.
-Greg is gonna do it. -I'll do it.
-You. For sure, you. -I'll do it.
-Come on, Andrea! -I'm right behind you.
Oh, pick a number. Three.
Okay.
Yeah.
-Roadblock. -Roadblock. Oh.
-That sound high. You do it. -I can-- I'll do it.
-I'll do it. -Okay.
GREG: My foot right there?
Oh, I'm fine with heights.
It's just the unscrambling part that I'm a little shaky about.
I'm a little nervous, but also so excited.
GREG: Let's do it.
I decided to do the first Roadblock,
just 'cause I was feeling amped. I was feeling ready.
We've tested this thing?
-Oh, yes. -Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
All right, baby. I am not looking down.
Your boy is not looking down.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Just get across, baby.
(whoops) Okay. This is crazy.
Mm-hmm. This is... cake.
I would never have signed up to do something like that
in my wildest dreams.
Stay the course.
I liked having someone in my head
telling me, like, "It's gonna be over soon."
So I just talked to myself the entire time.
Focus.
Mm-hmm. Okay.
We are up here.
Yep.
All the way to you. (whoops)
MALAINA: Go, Andrea!
Better Andrea than me.
(Andrea sighs)
MALAINA: You did good.
Yes.
Where do I go for the scrambled word?
I don't see any other teams.
I feel like we're not going in the right direction right now.
Like, can I get a sign for downtown?
Feel like we should have gone that way.
I just don't want to get on the highway.
Oh, God. Are we getting back on the highway?
Come on.
I really hope other people don't know how to get there.
CHELSEA: Right here.
Roadblock.
BOTH: "Who Wants to be Above It All?"
-You? -Yeah. -Me.
Oh, I rip it.
-I'll do it. -I do.
Okay. I'll do it.
Get in the right lane. Oh, wait.
Just kidding.
Left is a one-way.
Iliana, if we're the last ones, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
Hi. Can you do me a favor?
Can you look up Biltmore Hotel in your phone, please?
BOTH: B-I-L-T.
ELIZABETH: What's it say?
How far are we?
1.2 miles.
Okay.
-Thank you. -Oh, my God.
(sighs)
Okay.
Okay, okay.
"Of."
Um, okay.
So, I'm going "of," uh...
I was the first one to arrive at the billboard.
And I got there, I looked up at it,
and the adrenaline and the excitement--
it was so much to take in at the same time.
"Lost."
Your mind goes blank.
And I was just trying to focus
on what the phrase was.
Uh...
(mutters)
Um... F... F...
"Face."
No.
(mutters)
"On."
(groans, mutters)
JOE: Come on, come on, come on.
Roadblock.
BOTH: Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
-Get it. -It's gonna be me. Let's do it.
Green. Smithe, run.
-"Who Wants to be Above It All?" -You or me?
-I will. -Anna Leigh.
-Let's go. -All right.
"Who Wants to be Above It All?" I do.
I want to be above. I'm gonna be above it all.
TODD: Let's go. I am ready.
Let's go, babe!
-Aah! -(whoops)
Yeah!
ASHLIE: You look good!
One foot.
ASHLIE: Focus.
(strains) Yeah.
ASHLIE: Don't stop!
Slow and steady. We'll take it.
ASHLIE: There you go, babe! Keep going!
(exclaims)
Let's do the dang thing.
Okay, that's just a little awkward, huh?
Can I go?
(Ashlie whoops)
-STEVE: Go, go! -(applause)
She's cruising.
-STEVE: Uh-huh. She's a spider monkey. -(laughter)
Oh, my...
COREY: Yeah.
(grunts)
(exclaims)
MALAINA: She's killing it.
(exclaims)
ROBBIN: Come on, Chels.
STEVE: Anna Leigh, let's go, girl!
-(whoops) -ROBBIN: Come on, Chels.
She's been climbing stuff her whole life.
(speaks indistinctly)
I do a good amount of word searches,
and so first thing I always do is look to see
the number of letters.
I saw four, two, six.
And it was the "of."
I knew it was gonna be something "of" something.
Got it.
Yeah, yeah.
I love the movie La La Land.
And so I was like, "Oh, maybe it's gonna be like,
'City of Stars.'"
I was pretty confident on it.
And then when I did a second check,
there was some letter in "stars" that wasn't there.
-All right. -So I was like, "Okay, well,
"it couldn't be 'stars,' but I'm sure
it's 'city of' something, 'cause that's just too perfect."
-Hey! -Hey!
-(laughter) -I was just thinking about it.
It would be so sick to meet you guys.
You guys are so much taller than I thought.
-Okay... -Okay, okay, okay. All right. "City of Angels."
Unfortunately, man...
-here's your clue! -Let's go!
Let's go!
So go down these stairs to your partner.
You can open it.
-Good luck, man. -All right.
Good luck.
GREG: Ah. Let's get it, baby.
All day.
Thanks. Thanks.
"Race to LAX and fly to the other City of Angels,
-Bangkok, Thailand." -Bangkok, Thailand.
-SHERIDAN: There's the clue box. -Yeah.
-Okay. -Open it. Just open it.
Roadblock. "Who Wants to be Above It All?"
-Do you want to do it, or... -Do you want me to do it?
-I-I can do it. Or... Just pick. -It's up to you.
-You pick. -I don't care.
Think it's... maybe... I don't know.
-Do you want me to do it? -It's up to you.
I don't care.
(laughs): Um... Do you think it's upper body?
-I'll do it. -Okay.
-There's Morgan. -You're doing great, Morgan!
You got this.
Little stressed.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm kind of scared of heights.
MORGAN: So I did good?
All right.
(breathing heavily)
There you go. 50%.
Come on, man. Come on, man.
YEREMI: You got this, Liam!
Come on, Liam.
GARRETT: Let's go, Strasser!
Almost there, big dog.
And we're here.
YEREMI: Yes, sir!
(Joe sighs)
(groans)
"Frosty"? F-R-O-S-T-Y?
JOE: There's no "R." There's no "R." There's no "R."
TODD: There's no "R." Okay. All right.
-Okay. So let's help each other. -Yes.
-All right. Yeah. -TODD: Yeah, let's do it.
'Cause, listen, if we get this right,
we're all on the first flight.
-Yeah, exactly. -Yeah, we're all on together.
-Yeah. -Yes.
Something "is"...
ANNA LEIGH: Or maybe "no."
TODD: Thinking "cold."
-I don't know. -There's no "D."
JOE: It could be "on," "is."
TODD: Or "on" or, uh...
-(whoops) -Good job.
Is it "city of angels"?
That is correct.
Good job.
ILIANA: Come on.
Come on, Mom.
(panting)
Son of a ...
"Who Wants to be Above It All?" I'll do it.
It's like, a nice breeze, at least.
Make sure I'm hooked up.
I'm with my mother, so she'll kill you.
Amazing job, Sheridan!
ELIZABETH: That's not my daughter, is it?
ILIANA: Oh, that's pretty far.
ELIZABETH: You still waiting for your person?
ASHLIE: Yeah, to come down.
STEVE: Must be a tough puzzle.
IAN: Where is Joe?
What in the world is taking so long?
Starting to go delirious a little bit.
-I know, I know. -(chuckles)
I was keeping my cool,
but then I started losing my patience when...
it was all of us.
It was 11 teams up there trying to solve this,
and no one had a clue.
I need to figure this out.
It's imperative to get on that first flight.
"Goes in safely"?
DEREK: That's not it.
Is it, uh, "fling to safety"?
Not correct.
"Cast on flying"?
-Uh... -No.
(groaning)
-We are completely... -JOE: No, this is hard.
This is hard. This is really hard.
(indistinct chatter)
Think we'll be here forever.
-Literally. -(laughs)
I was just about to say that.
ILIANA: Go, go, go.
-VICTOR: What'd she get? -JOEL: I don't know.
What's... so what's left after "city of"?
-Is that it? "City of..."? -(shushing)
COREY: What are you thinking?
(indistinct chatter)
-VICTOR: Okay. -All right.
"City of Angels."
-Wait, hold on. -I think you're right.
-VICTOR: Yes! -(whoops)
-Here you go, man. -Thank you. Thank you.
Excuse me.
JOEL: Something in me said, "Go look at those letters one more time.
Does 'angels' even work?"
"City of Angels."
-What do you got for us? -"City of Angels," baby.
-That's correct. Good job. -Yes! Yes.
-"G." What? -I think I got it. I got it.
If I can get front, I'll-I'll tell you.
-Yeah. -All right.
Can I get front? Is that a deal?
-Yeah. -All right.
Everyone lined up to answer, and I'm sitting there,
six people deep in that line, knowing the answer.
But if I make a deal with everybody, right?
I could jump the line.
"City of Angels."
-(blows raspberry) -Yes. Yes. -We are in the "City of Angels."
(groans)
-"City of Angels." -Yes. There you go, man.
All right, thank you. Thank you, guys.
ALL: "City of Angels."
That's correct.
ALL: "City of Angels."
-Just give it to him. -Guess you can have this.
-Yeah. -Thank you, guys. Thank you.
-Yeah. Head on down the stairs. -You're gonna head this way.
-JOE: I will go that way. -For sure.
GREG: "Check in at the marked ticket counter for China Airlines."
-COREY: Hey. What's up, baby? -Let's go.
Oh, man, I'm psyched.
He's been taking, uh, sign language at Google.
Yeah, but I have not practiced at all.
Only Internet. That's it.
-(laughter) -COREY: Pretty good.
Yeah?
I'm a software engineer at an AI company.
And I'm a product manager.
-I'm the younger brother. -I'm the older.
Spent 18 years living in the same room,
-same bunk bed. -Sleeping in the same bunk bed.
-Even when we go back home, we sleep in the same bunk beds. -Yeah.
GREG: So, Johnny, kind of all growing up,
he was the person that I always looked up to.
I always wanted to do what Johnny was doing.
But over the time of our relationship,
I've just seen him grow more from, like,
a younger brother to really just, like, a peer.
And I think that is just gonna be escalated on the race.
Every time we see someone with the race, we're like,
"Oh, thank God we did it right.
We didn't mess up yet." (chuckles)
JOE: We're debating whether to go east or west on 10.
I don't even know if we should be getting on 10.
What do you think, babe?
Joe, you are the navigator.
I know, but I actually don't know the answer,
so now it's collaborative.
Right?
Right there. China Airlines, down at the end. Go, go, go.
GREG: Hey! (chuckles)
JOCELYN: Yeah! (whooping)
-VICTOR: Good job. Hopefully we're on the first flight. -I know.
Come on. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Let's go. Run, run, run.
-Whew. -Good job, guys. Good job.
ANDREA: There it is. Go, go, go, go.
-Hey! Top five! -(cheering)
We are so far away, Joe.
-I know. -Fatal error.
If we can't figure it out here,
I have not a ton of confidence
that we're gonna be able to, like,
get it together in Thailand.
-Hey, y'all. -(whooping)
-Hi guys. -Number six.
Oh, so we don't know how many they have.
-Right. -No.
Okay, but we're number six. We could be in.
Look, flag. Smithe, flag.
-Hey! -(cheering)
-Is this it? -Yeah, you're in the right line.
(whooping)
-You're not the last. -You're not last.
-See it? -ILIANA: Yes.
-Hey! -(whooping)
-Nice job. -Ah...
IAN: Parking spot.
-We went the right way. -Huge. Huge.
SHERIDAN: Oh, there it.
-Hey, hey! -(cheering)
SHERIDAN: Oh, we're probably last.
-LENA: Hey! -(cheering, applause)
IAN: Well, at least we lessened our U-Turn chances.
You guys are like, "Joe and Ian, no.
They literally couldn't even find LAX in the U.S."
"Joe and Ian are actually
U-turning right now on the freeway. So..."
-(laughter) -About nine times.
-Hi, there. -Hi.
Two tickets to Bangkok, Thailand.
We're currently in fourth place.
-It says, um, there's limited number of, uh, -Seats.
seats for this flight.
-So we're hoping that... -We're hoping top four, top five gets it.
-Enjoy your flight. -Thank you, thank you. We will.
-First flight. Yeah. -Yeah!
VICTOR: It's huge for us.
-We're not the tallest, the strongest, fastest. -Definitely not the fastest.
-(chuckles) -So we're-we're just doing our best to,
you know, stay as far ahead as we can.
-Thank you, Nicole. -Thank you.
Have a safe trip.
Thank you so much.
Did we make it?
Yes!
Lena.
Here it comes. Here it comes.
-There it is. There it is. -GARRETT: Yep. That's what I thought.
Onward.
-Sold out. There we go. -(Anna Leigh mock whimpers)
We were team seven in line, and we just had this feeling...
We're heading over to the other one now.
-Hello. -Hello. We're headed to Bangkok.
-Thank you. -Thank you so much.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
IAN: There's seven teams on our flight, so...
JOE: Seven teams on the second flight.
IAN: We feel like we can make up some lost ground.
Yeah. And that's what we plan on doing
-the second we get to Thailand. -Yeah.
First flight.
-Here we go, baby. -Here we go. Let's do it.
Let's go. We're on our way. We're on our way.
KEOGHAN: All teams are now leaving the City of Angels.
After a 14-hour flight connecting through Taipei,
they will land in another City of Angels:
Bangkok, Thailand.
If you scan the skyline of Bangkok, it's almost impossible
to miss this 230-foot-tall gold statue of Buddha.
This is where teams will pick up their first clue
here in Thailand's capital city.
Hi, how are you?
Cross, cross, babe, cross.
GREG: Uh, here.
-Name of the address... -This is the address.
Buddha statue?
-Let's go. -Very fast.
-All right, get in the car. Let's go. -Okay. Okay.
We got to go.
Let's go. Let's go.
(Victor speaking Thai)
He says about an hour and a half.
Can understand a little bit of Thai.
I speak Laotian, which is similar to Thai.
Over the last 20 years, we've kind of
developed this work marriage.
JOCELYN: One of us has to be the boss.
A lot of the time, it's more me than him,
'cause I'm always right. (laughs)
I think it is hard, because the-the lines
of husband and wife, coworker, boss-- they blur.
when you come home, you don't have a spouse to complain to.
"Can you believe that idiot coworker I have?
-Oh, oh, no. It's-it's you. Sorry." -(both laugh)
Being on the race is going to help us rediscover
what caused us to fall in love in the first place.
We're off to conquer the world.
Yes, girls, we're gonna conquer the world.
ASHLIE: Are we close?
We've seen most of the teams pass us.
Yeah.
But it's okay, 'cause we're still top six.
I will say, Ashlie, you are an amazing race partner.
I love you. You're my wife.
Um, the one thing...
Oh, I knew it. I knew that was coming.
-The... -I'm like, "Wait a minute. This is just too good to be true."
TODD: The one thing that we both need to work on is
not freaking out on things we can't control.
-Right? So... -I know. I know. You're right.
We are high school sweethearts.
We've been married for 15 years.
But I will say that there was a period in our life
where we hit a really rough patch in our marriage.
-And... -We almost didn't make it.
-It was pretty close. -Yeah.
We stuck together, got through the dark times,
and we came out on the other side better for it.
ASHLIE: Our marriage is not perfect but we have just decided
that we are going to stick together and work through,
because love is an action, not so much a feeling.
We got to get going, if you can, please.
(all speaking Thai)
MORGAN: All right, let's go. Let's go, Lena.
Oh, my God. That is so beautiful.
Wow.
MORGAN: "Travel by long-tail boat
"and then by tuktuk to Wat Suthat.
"When you arrive, search the temple grounds
to find your next clue."
Okay. So we got to read this.
-"Here's your chance to win the Express Pass." -(sputters)
The Express Pass could be the difference
between winning and losing The Amazing Race.
The team that wins it can skip any task
that they don't want to complete.
But it does come at a price...
...eating a plateful of exotic fried insects.
-Let's go, let's go. -Okay.
-Express Pass. -On a marked vendor.
Oh, here we go.
(panting)
Hi.
It's Express Pass. Oh.
LENA: Oh, fried insects.
Oh!
-Eat all of it? -Yes.
LENA: Handed the plates over.
I was like, "Oh, yeah. So one for both of us."
-They're like, "No, one for each of you." -"Each of you."
LENA: Are we really eating this?
Oh, my God. This is kind of...
(panting): Let's go.
Are we gonna do it, Lena?
-(Lena groans) -Are we gonna do it?
Okay, ready?
(mutters)
-Oh, God. -I'm scared to touch the big ones.
(grunts)
(gags)
(gagging)
Oh, my God.
MALAINA: I see it. I see it.
Come on. come on, Andrea. I see it.
Yes. Yes.
-All right, it says "Route Info -Okay, Route and...
-and Express Pass." -Express Pass! We got a...
Come on.
MALAINA: We're gonna do the Express Pass.
(coughing)
I just can't look at it.
I hope this tarantula is tasty.
(indistinct chatter)
-"Each of the must eat..." -Okay. Here's the marked vender.
-ANDREA: Oh. -MALAINA: Oh. Uh...
-Welcome to hell. -Um...
MALAINA: No. No.
We're not doing the Express Pass.
-Not eating no bugs. -Yeah, we're not eating those.
MALAINA: Come on.
Goodbye. See you somewhere else.
-Come on, dude. -Morgan, I'm going.
"Here's your chance to win the Express Pass.
"To win the Express Pass, find the marked vender
in the garden behind the... Buddha."
Try to win the Express Pass.
Lena.
LENA: You promise these are okay?
MORGAN: Lena, eat it. Let's go, Lena.
You're not supportive.
Uh, Lena and I have a very interesting relationship.
It's kind of a, uh...
-Oil and water. -Oil and water.
So, my sister is rather bossy.
She is the oldest sibling.
MORGAN: Old habits die hard.
Part of our growth and part of our evolution
is how do I start to look at Lena as...
as, like, another one of my girlfriends,
not as my little sister.
I'm a fun person. Morgan is a fun person.
So together, we should continue to be fun people.
-MORGAN: Lena, eat it. -I know. I'm going.
I don't think we went the right way.
"The garden behind."
Garden. Garden.
-VICTOR: Let's rip it open. -JOCELYN: Okay.
Route Info.
There's an Express Pass in here, too.
-So we need to go find... -Let's go.
Lena, eat, please.
How bad was the tarantula?
-(clears throat) -Lena, it's fine, just...
take it down. Let's go.
LENA: I know, I know, I know, I know. (groans) Okay.
Did you eat the spider in one bite or two bites?
-Morgan, I'm almost done! -Lena, just eat it.
Just put it in your mouth and chew it. Let's go.
-Lena, just eat it! -Okay, I'm going!
-It's the same thing as what you just ate. -I know.
-Now! -Morgan, just shut up.
-Let's go. -Why are you yelling?
'Cause you're taking forever.
Okay. I know.
Lena, don't look at it.
-Morgan, shut up. -Don't look at it. Just put it in your mouth.
♪ ♪
MORGAN: Why are you looking at the tarantula, Lena?
-Just eat it. -Morgan, I'm going.
Three, two, one, go.
♪ Kumbaya. ♪ Come on, Lena. We're about
-to do the Express Pass. -Morgan, shut up.
-VICTOR: Oh, there's another team right there. -JOCELYN: Okay.
MORGAN: Let's go. (panting)
Ah...
-VICTOR: They just did it. -Oh, they just did it?
VICTOR: Let's go this way.
-Ah. -Okay.
MORGAN: Amazing.
LENA: Thank you.
-Thank you, thank you, thank you... -Thank you.
MORGAN: Thank you.
Come on, Lena.
COREY: Did you guys find the marked vender?
JOCELYN: It's already taken. The girls got it.
"Here's your chance to win the Express Pass."
What do you want to do?
I say we bypass it.
-GREG: Beautiful. -JOHN: Wow.
BOTH: Express Pass.
GREG: What?
Do you want to go for it?
Yeah. Real quick. Real quick.
So, there's Pak Nam Alley right here.
We're right here.
Did the other team already win the Express Pass?
You guys got it?
Hey, go crazy.
VICTOR: There it is.
Get a life jacket.
We're the first ones to the boat, I guess.
-Find the marked boat. -This is the marked boat.
VICTOR: Well, we didn't get the Express Pass, but...
hopefully we're the first team in.
This is cool. I've never been on a-a riverboat
in Bangkok before. This is awesome.
(Corey whoops)
This is one of the sickest days of my life.
This is amazing.
(whoops)
MALAINA: Here's the life jackets. Get it on.
Grab one, grab one, grab one.
MORGAN: Okay, let's go, Lena. Lena, go.
We're ready.
Enjoy your cruise, ladies.
MORGAN: Wow.
We did good.
-Wow. Look at that. -That thing is huge.
This is what makes the race amazing.
-GREG: All right, we got some other teams here. -JOHN: Yeah.
GREG: See you on the other side.
(Malaina whoops)
Philly Jawns is in Thailand!
-I miss being in first place. -Me, too. What a luxury.
What a luxury.
We need to go very fast.
Thank you so much.
-Okay. You got the clue? -BOTH: Yeah.
We need to get to Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen.
This is the big Buddha?
-Let's go, let's go... -Come on, come on. Get in the car.
We're going fast. We're in a race.
Let's go. We're in a race.
-All right. Let's get it going. -Let's get it going.
All right, here we go.
ANNA LEIGH: (whoops) Let's go, let's go!
It stinks.
I did not plan on being on the second flight.
I'm really bummed but, at this point,
we have to just run our own race and keep our heads down.
I have been married for a little over two years,
almost three years.
And before that, no one could hold a candle to my dad.
STEVE: Anna Leigh was the boy I never had.
ANNA LEIGH: Pull.
STEVE: Everything you think you could teach a boy
Anna Leigh's learned out there.
We always have deer leases where you lease land to go hunt on.
Learn to build a fire, change a flat tire.
ANNA LEIGH: I think teams are gonna think that I'm just Little Miss Texas,
but little do they know, I come with a punch.
Dynamite comes in small packages.
That's right. (chuckles)
Next stop, Buddha.
(laughs)
-U.S.A. -Idaho.
I've never even been to Asia,
unless you count Iraq or Kuwait.
We met in the Army about 22 years ago.
We've been friends ever since.
We were both getting deployed
for an 18-month deployment to Iraq,
-and he got hurt, ditched me. -Yeah.
-I'm super excited to be here. -Yeah.
There was one thing that got me through, however,
on the Armed Forces Network--
The Amazing Race was always on.
And that's where I fell in love with it
and said, "Someday, we're gonna do this.
We can do this together."
We've kind of had this itch to get out there
and have an adventure.
So this is gonna be it.
Realistically,
-we're now in a race against the other six teams -Yeah.
that-that were on the flight with us.
This is the first leg.
At the end of this leg, there's gonna be an elimination.
There are 13 teams right now, um,
and we-we don't think it's gonna be us.
We were forced to... to grow up very young.
Our parents divorced, and it was a pretty nasty divorce.
YEREMI: That event in our lives,
it caused some-some deep scars in our family.
Mine and Liam's relationship, specifically,
took a toll for a really long time.
But as we spend more time around each other,
we've developed a lot more trust this past year.
Yeremi is just...
He's really the only thing that's just holding me together.
-(chuckles) -And keeping-keeping my life together.
-We hold each other up. -(laughs)
You know what I mean? We pull strength
and we pull support from each other every single day. -Yep.
I'm so excited. I'm sweating through everything.
(both laugh)
LENA: Tuktuk?
Yes?
(Victor speaking Thai)
LENA: We're in a race, so we need to go fast.
-(grunts) -Oh, my gosh.
MORGAN: All right, Lena, now we got actual work to do.
Thank you. Out-of-towners. Out-of-towners.
Where are you trying to go?
You want to go down this way and just go away from them?
I just don't want to have to fight for tuktuks.
ANDREA: Well, why don't you stay on one side of the street?
Andrea, we got across the street.
Yeah, but we don't know what direction we going.
-GREG: Oh, yeah, one here. -Yeah, yeah, let's get him.
ANDREA: Is he a tuktuk or a taxi?
GREG: All right. We're in a race, so we're trying to go fast.
Damn. How did they get...
-get here that fast? -They got there fast.
ANDREA: Fast as... What was that?
(speaks Thai)
-Yeah. -Okay.
-JOCELYN: This is the temple entrance, right? -VICTOR: Yes. Yes.
There's a clue box right over here.
-Okay. -Okay.
COREY: This is Wat Suthat?
Thank you so much.
(sighs)
-Detour. -Detour.
KEOGHAN: This traditional discipline of Thai martial arts
uses a daab, a sword.
Originating on the battlefield centuries ago,
it has evolved into a performance
of deadly combat maneuvers.
Teams need to learn 30 seconds of a routine.
They say that a good massage
is equivalent to eight hours of sleep.
It's good for your mood, your digestion,
helps you live longer.
And here in Thailand, it's even part of Thai medicine.
Teams are gonna experience
a massage from a professional masseuse.
Let's hope that the experience isn't too painful,
because they have to get through the entire routine
before they get a clue.
So, we choose to do Spa Day.
All right. I think we're choosing Spa Day.
Keep going. It's gonna be on the right side.
-130. -JOCELYN: Okay.
-Uh, Thai massage. Thai massage. -Okay, there it is.
VICTOR: "There are five pairs of therapists.
"If no therapists are available,
you may wait for a pair of therapists."
(all speaking Thai)
(speaks Thai) (chuckles)
(sighs)
-We have to take off our shoes. -Okay.
VICTOR: "If you stop it at any time,
"your treatment has ended for both of you.
"You must go to end of the line that is formed
-when you finish." -JOCELYN: Okay.
Right here?
Oh, God, please, no.
That really hurt. That really hurt.
(groaning)
VICTOR: You got it, babe. Babe, babe, babe.
-You got it. -JOCELYN: Okay.
(both groaning)
JOCELYN: Oh, my God. Please just don't break my back.
(laughs): God.
Hey, Jocelyn, this is easier than giving birth
to your child on the bathroom floor, right?
(Jocelyn groans)
Okay.
VICTOR: Our second child,
we actually delivered her at home.
I-I called 911. They were saying, "Whoa.
Tell her not to push. Don't let the baby come out too fast."
But I remember telling the 911 operator,
"I can't push her back in."
Oh, my God.
I think she's breaking my kidney.
(groaning)
-We are gonna do Spa Day. -We're going to the spa.
-Hands down, Spa Day. -Spa Day.
"Sword Play or Spa Day?"
We'll try Spa Day.
Um, let's do a Spa Day.
You want a deep tissue bod...? That hurt.
-You think so? -And we in pain.
Let's do Sword Play because we already sore today.
Sound like a plan?
ANDREA: All right, so let's do
-Sword Play. -Let's do Sword Play!
MORGAN: Oh, let's go. (laughs)
(panting): All right. Oh, my God.
-Hi. -ALL: (speaking Thai)
Who's gonna be nice, but good?
ALL: (speaking Thai)
-TODD: Ah, thank you. -ASHLIE: Hi. Thank you.
TODD: May we come in?
Thank you. Shoes off? All right.
-I'm Todd. -ASHLIE: Okay.
-Yes. -Nice to meet you.
-GREG: All right. -(John speaks Thai)
-(indistinct chatter) -Yeah, all right.
Oh, that hurt. Oh, my gosh.
That really hurt.
Oh, my goodness.
COREY: Ooh. This feels nice.
Oh, that didn't.
(straining): Oh, God, please stop.
VICTOR: Relax, relax.
Oh. My quads don't normally bend that way.
Oh, ho-ho-ho.
LENA: Hello.
COREY: Welcome, welcome, gang.
We're just serving up pretzels. Oh.
VICTOR: They're gonna fit you in a box after this, right?
COREY: Oh, ho-ho-ho. Ho-ho.
I said I wasn't a sweater, but apparently I am.
Jocelyn, where's your smile?
(laughter)
(both grunt)
You got this.
Oh, yeah. I'm not very flexible.
ASHLIE: Oh, this feels amazing.
Let's do it.
TODD: My back doesn't bend this way.
Oh, my goodness gracious.
If you need to tap out, tell me before.
-Definitely. Yeah. -We could talk it through.
MALAINA: On the right.
-Here's the entrance right here. Proper entrance. -Okay.
ANDREA: With a huge gate. Saranrom Park.
MALAINA: Saranrom Park.
Oh, yes.
Feels good. Feel like I'm graduating.
You had to get these sticks to practice with.
I thought that was fun.
-Need to see in front. Yeah, I have to see in front.
I can't see.
All right. Yeah. Let me do, like, this side.
MALAINA: I'm a visual learner, so I had
to make up a word to help me remember.
Shoulder, turn.
She looked like she's about to sneak somebody.
So I'm like, "Okay, here come the sneak."
And then when she, like, scooted up,
I'm like, "Okay, scoot."
Step, sneaky, scoot up.
ANDREA: Nobody's here.
Nobody want to memorize anything.
Thank you.
Let's go, guys.
This boat is long. Do you think that's why
-they made it a long boat? -If not, it's a good nickname.
(Joel chuckles)
-Ready. -Fast, fast, fast.
They're right behind us. Literally right behind us.
-God. How'd they catch up so darn quick? -We are gonna have to sprint.
ALEXANDRA: That the teams right ahead of us?
-SHERIDAN: Keep them in sight. -I know. I know.
-This is so cool. -Trying to enjoy it!
(laughing): I'm, like, so stressed.
It feels incredible. Like, there's no one I'd rather
-do it with right now. -It's just one of those things.
Like, we've had such a rich friendship for so long,
but life circumstances haven't allowed us to have
any epic opportunities like this.
I was married for 12 years.
One day, he wasn't feeling good,
and I talked him into going to the doctor the next day.
And he was immediately admitted into the hospital
and diagnosed with leukemia.
And two months to the day later,
he passed away.
Nine months after, I found out I had a brain tumor.
Thank God the tumor came back clean.
They were able to get the whole thing,
but I was completely depressed.
Until one morning,
I made a resolution to myself that I was gonna get
my health in order so I could be there for my kids.
Part of the reason why we wanted to come on to The Amazing Race
was hopefully it gives someone else hope,
that just because your life
seems in such despair
doesn't mean it's over.
Get in.
-Oh, my goodness. -Oh, yeah.
-First time in the... first time in the tuktuk. -What?
-Wat Suthat? -Yeah.
Dad, get in. Go fast, fast.
ALEXANDRA: There they are. There-there's tuktuks.
ILIANA: Oh, duh.
This way?
-The boys' life jackets are still there. -ELIZABETH: All right, perfect.
-Let's haul ass. -Go.
-There's our life jackets, Liam. -LIAM: All right.
This is a great opportunity for us.
We're not gonna focus on the negatives.
-We're just happy to be here. -We are, yeah.
Can't ever count ourselves out.
VICTOR: Oh, my thumb.
Oh.
COREY: Oh, my God.
I don't think elbows go there.
Not cool. Not cool.
MORGAN: This feels so bad.
That might make the bugs come up.
LENA: They were just grappling you in ways
that truly hurt your body at some points.
It was like wrestling, and there was no tap out.
Whatever they wanted to do to you,
you were just, you were just in it for the ride.
If I didn't know better, I'd swear she's my enemy.
VICTOR: We got it, babe. We got it.
LENA: Bye, guys.
MORGAN: Bye. Good luck.
JOCELYN: Bye.
Oh. (strains)
Thank you.
(whoops)
Let's go. We got massages.
LENA: Congrats, guys.
COREY: We'll see y'all there.
Enjoy the rest of your massage.
(laughs)
COREY: Hopefully that tarantula stays down.
Yeah.
Here we go. Here's the Route Info.
Please, let's go find Phil.
Route Info. Okay. "Race to the Pit Stop."
KEOGHAN: This temple, Wat Chaloem Phra Kiat,
on the banks of the Chao Phraya River,
is a popular place to pray before and after a trip--
something teams can do
when they check in here at the Pit Stop.
With no non-elimination legs, the race will
come to an end for one team here in Bangkok.
Got to find a taxi.
Route Info.
Over here. Over here.
Oh, over there. Over there, yeah.
COREY: Last team to check in will be eliminated.
Taxi. Taxi.
(groaning)
Oh, yeah, that hurts.
-(bones popping) -Oh.
-(laughs) -MASSEUSE: No, sorry.
TODD: In the rules,
it said you cannot let the masseuse,
um, stop at any point.
ASHLIE: Once he did that, she stopped,
and now we had to reset the entire Detour again.
-Yeah, foot in my mouth. -(Ashlie chuckles)
-I will no longer talk. -ASHLIE: It's fine.
IAN: That's it. That's it. That's it.
ANNA LEIGH: Dad, get over here.
-All right. Detour. -Detour.
-"Receive a Thai massage." -I want a massage.
"If both of you can endure a complete massage from..."
Okay, it's gonna hurt.
Let's go over here.
Detour.
Right here.
GARRETT: We're doing Spa Day.
-...be faster, don't you? -Sword Play. Sword Play. We're doing...
Wait, let's talk about it.
Massage. Spa Day.
Okay.
We'll-we'll bang that out easily.
Okay. Sword Play. We're doing Sword Play.
ALEXANDRA: Okay, let's go.
Where is it?
-Thai massage. -Yep.
-We'll try Sword Play. -Sword Play.
I've had, like, one massage ever,
and I... it was a gentle massage,
and I recall just telling her to lighten it a little bit.
Uh, just the way it was worded,
I wasn't sure if we could actually tolerate the massage.
We're gonna do some sword fighting.
VICTOR: Right here, right here. Phil.
-JOCELYN: Phil! -We see you, Phil.
KEOGHAN: On the mat. Beautiful.
-VICTOR: Yes. -JOCELYN: Oh, my God.
-Oh, my God. -(cries)
Welcome to Bangkok, Thailand.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
I see you have tears in your eyes
and I hope those are tears of joy,
because you are, in fact, team number one.
Yes!
As the winners of this leg of the race, you have won
OneKeyCash from Expedia,
which you can use
for a trip for two to Patagonia in Chile.
Travel experts at Expedia have organized unique experiences
for you, including a bike tour of the historic Punta Arenas,
a sail around the penguin colony
and a visit to Torres del Paine,
-one of the Seven Wonders of the World. -(excited chatter)
This is so awesome. It feels great.
Congratulations for making it through the first leg.
-Thank you. (laughs, cries) -Oh, my God.
KEOGHAN: Very good.
Rob and Corey, I am pleased to tell you
you are team number... two.
Let's go.
-Thank you. -Is it... (speaks Thai)?
-(speaks Thai) -(both speak Thai)
I feel like we're gonna run double speed after this.
TODD: Yeah, I know, right?
-You're nice and loose. -GREG: Uh-huh.
I feel great.
-Thank you so much. -GREG: Thank you.
-That was incredible. -TODD: See you, boys.
-See y'all soon. -Later, boys.
Enjoy.
-We shouldn't be too far, babe. -I know.
I'm just disappointed in myself.
-Trying to be all theatrical. -(chuckles softly)
Next time, I'm just gonna shut up.
Oh, these are real swords.
-Come this way. -Okay.
Hand together.
ANDREA: Out goes the wooden sticks,
-in comes the swords. -In comes the swords.
ANDREA: And it was like, "Well, wait a minute.
We didn't practice with the sword."
This is, like, at least ten, 15, 20 pounds
-heavier than the wooden stick. -Right.
I'm like, "Oh, my God. I don't want to cut myself."
So make sure when you do it, you get your blade out, okay?
-The blade all the way out. -Out on your shoulder. Rest it on your shoulder.
Yes, on your shoulder. The blade out.
-Blade out. -Blade out.
-Okay, blade out. -Okay.
INSTRUCTOR: Go.
(speaks Thai)
No, you not pass.
We were off just all around.
We were not getting the movement
with the wrist, with the sword together.
MALAINA: We need more practice with the sword.
ANDREA: But we're not practicing with the sword.
That's the problem. We're practicing with the wooden.
We can't get the feel of what direction
the blade's supposed to be, 'cause we didn't practice
-with a blade, so we didn't know... -Right.
how it's supposed to be looking.
It's the same, but it's different.
INSTRUCTOR: Let's go again.
INSTRUCTOR: Please hand back the sword.
-(groans) -Thank you.
-I don't know how long we should be doing this.
Huh? You want to go do the massage?
ANDREA: I think we should. As you see, nobody's here.
It would have took us too long of a time
to get it with the sword, because if he would've sent us
-back to practice with the stick again... -Right.
It made perfectly good sense to leave.
-We're gonna switch, um... -Because...
because this is a little too intricate.
So I didn't hesitate.
I'm like, "Okay, let's go."
That was a total waste.
"Spa Day. Receive a Thai massage.
"If both of you can endure a complete massage
-from the therapists..." -(sighs)
-That's painful. You know that. -I bet you I can.
That's painful.
What are we doing, bro?
Dude, obviously Spa Day.
Bro, get me there yesterday.
(both laugh)
GREG: All right.
KEOGHAN: Greg and John,
I am pleased to tell you that you are team number three.
-Okay. -Oh, wow.
Crazy.
Morgan and Lena, you are team number four.
Amazing.
KEOGHAN: You've had a good day, haven't you?
MORGAN: We got the Express Pass.
LENA: We made a promise to ourselves
when we decided to do this race together
that we're gonna be fearless, and we were gonna
put our money where our mouth was.
We're really gonna give people a run for their money.
ANNA LEIGH: This has got to be it. Yeah. Thai massage.
-Come on, come on, come on. Come on. Dad. -I'm here.
-Remove your shoes. -STEVE: I got it.
-(women speaking Thai) -Hi.
JOEL: Smithe, there's already four people here.
Oh, slide.
-(all speaking Thai) -Hello.
(chuckles) I knew you needed it.
TODD: Thank you.
-Oh, very good. -Thank you.
-TODD: Thank you. Thank you. -Thank you so much.
Thank you.
(indistinct chatter)
Hello, Steve.
-Hello, Anna Leigh. -Hi.
Well, hello.
(chuckles)
-ANDREA: Here it is. Right here. -MALAINA: Right there.
(women speaking Thai)
MALAINA: Everybody in here.
ANDREA: I'll pick you.
MALAINA: All right, let's go.
(straining)
Oh, my gosh. You're strong.
-MALAINA: This gonna be brutal. -We got to suck it up.
ANDREA: There we go. There you go.
MALAINA: Yes.
Oh, we should have did this first.
ILIANA: Oh, my God.
ELIZABETH: I feel like we're going so far.
We're far.
Let's go ask somebody in here.
Does that say "sauna"? (chuckles)
"Thai massage"?
-That one, across the street? -Where, where, where, where?
-ELIZABETH: Is it that? -No. Oh, my God.
Uh, "Choose your available pair of therapists."
-Hmm? Sure. Yeah. -Okay.
LIAM: Okay. There's a lot of teams here, Yeremi.
YEREMI: Come on, Liam. Let's go. Come on. Take them shoes off.
LIAM: All right.
-Hello. -Hi.
ILIANA: Do you know where this one is?
-Uh, the left. -Uh-huh.
But walk or drive?
At the, at the sign.
ILIANA: Okay. Thank you.
SHERIDAN: Oh, look at this.
Okay, I'm looking good in this nice traditional outfit.
-There's the sword teacher. -ALEXANDRA: Let's go.
I hope we can do this. I'm sure we can.
-SHERIDAN: Yeah. -No doubt. We got this.
-Like, I've never done, like, a sword activity. -It was nice.
Get your training sword.
SHERIDAN: Okay.
ALEXANDRA: Okay.
SHERIDAN: Something... Let's pick something light.
ALEXANDRA: Okay. Just pick one, Sheridan.
-All right. We're coming in, baby. -(whoops)
JOE: Yeah, I see them. Keep going around.
(both whooping)
Oh, it's those boys. (scoffs)
Sheridan, watch. Please.
(instructor speaking Thai)
Let's do it, baby.
-(groans) -Come on.
IAN: Upon arriving at the sword challenge,
we saw that another team was there practicing,
and we quickly joined them on the practice.
Okay. Let's go next to them.
Yeah.
Got it.
Let's just break it into sections.
Remember this, first position.
One.
(exhales sharply) Half and back.
And then get that done.
And then we'll move on to the next part.
One, two, land at the ear.
And that was key.
(whispering): We got this. We're gonna beat them.
ILIANA: Oh, right here, right here, right here,
right here, right here, right here.
-ELIZABETH: God. -Oh, my God.
Everyone's shoes are here.
(sighs)
-WOMAN: Hi. -Hi, we're here for a massage.
Yes, currently all our masseuses are in appointment,
but you could wait if you would like.
There was only five massages available at once.
We have to wait for them all to be done.
So if we're dead last here,
-we wait for every... we're gonna be last. -We're gonna be last, period.
All I could think of, like, we're really gonna wait
for these people to get their massages.
See them walk out the door, and we're in last place.
-Yeah. -So in my mind, I'm thinking maybe we should go
do the other Detour.
This is our worst nightmare happening right now.
-YEREMI: Wow. -CHELSEA: It's fine. It's fine.
-ROBBIN: Hey, buddies -YEREMI: Hey, guys.
Oh, looks like y'all are having fun.
ROBBIN: Oh, God. Yep.
-Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. -Okay.
(all groaning)
I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown right now.
I was angry. I was upset.
I was ready to go try something else.
We still have to get there, change, learn a sword thing.
I mean, the only hope we have is hoping one of them gets lost.
I don't know what to do.
I feel like if we don't do nothing, it's just...
I felt like I was sitting there
-for my last place, and it was a horrible feeling. -Yeah.
We have to decide, babe.
(Iliana sighs)
This sucks.
♪ ♪
ELIZABETH: We have to decide, babe.
ILIANA: You tell me. You make the decision.
ELIZABETH: You know, we're not ones to give up,
and it wasn't ever a thought on giving up.
I think we should wait.
We're waiting for very last.
Well, it's gonna be a waste of time to go all the way
over there when everyone's gonna be done here anyways.
Mom, decide.
Either come in and we're waiting or we're going.
-We're staying. -Okay.
ALEXANDRA: Wonder if we should have done the massage.
Are you guys leaving?
We're gonna give it a whirl.
Oh. All right.
-IAN: Go, baby. -Let's go. Baby.
-ALEXANDRA: Are you ready? -SHERIDAN: No.
This is fine. We'll get this.
Do they have any snacks out here?
(chuckles) I'm so hungry.
Todd and Ashlie, you're team number five.
-Yeah. Hey, it's not six. I love it. -I'll take it, I'll take it.
My goodness.
-That was amazing. -Done with it now.
Thank you.
Oh, my goodness. Thank you. We got it.
(strains)
-ILIANA: There's people leaving here. -ELIZABETH: They're leaving?
ILIANA: How was it?
It was amazing and painful.
Thank you.
All right, Andrea, come on.
ILIANA: Oh...
This is cute.
-Oh, thank you so much. -Thank you so much.
Thank you.
(groaning)
Ah, ow! God!
YEREMI: It was like nirvana mixed with,
like, just so much pain. Excruciating.
All at once.
-LIAM: Ooh. Thank you. -Thank you.
Steve and Anna Leigh, you are team number six.
-(laughs) -Yes!
Joel and Garrett, team number seven.
(laughs): Yes.
♪ ♪
(speaking Thai)
(band stops playing)
-Very good. -BOTH: Yes!
Let's go!
There you go.
Thank you.
Let's go.
Thank you, my friend.
-(band playing) -(instructor speaking Thai)
Mm, no.
Let's try it again.
(exhales heavily)
Oh, my God.
Ow!
I had two babies. I can deal with this.
Sorry.
No.
Okay, I think I goofed that one up.
-I did, too. I definitely... -Okay, let's do it again.
ILIANA: Mom, just close your eyes and breathe.
Okay.
(strains)
Ow.
No. Not yet. No.
-Hand like this almost the whole time. -Okay. Okay.
-Except for when we do that. Then we go back to this. -Okay. Okay.
Even if I wanted to stop,
there's no way I'm doing this over, so...
I am not stopping.
Ow.
(strains)
Ow.
Not yet, but you're better than the last time.
Let's try again. Let's just keep trying.
Okay.
Are we done?
Yes!
Mom.
(laughs)
(instructor speaking Thai)
(band stops playing)
Okay, you passed. (chuckles)
Thank you so much.
Route Info.
"Race to the Pit Stop."
"Search for Phil on the temple grounds.
The last team to check in will be eliminated."
Liam and Yeremi, you are team number eight.
-Yes! -Yes! Yes!
-IAN: (whoops) Here it is. -JOE: Oh, my God.
KEOGHAN: What are you looking behind for?
Wow.
-Look at this. -(exclaiming)
ANDREA: Let's go. Let's go.
-Let's go. Yes. -(whoops)
-ANDREA: Yes. Good job. -(Chelsea chuckles)
Joe and Ian, you are team number nine.
So we have nine, ten and 11 right here.
(excited chatter)
-ELIZABETH: Taxi! -Mom, this one?
Put it in the phone.
ILIANA: All right, come on, let's go, let's go.
ELIZABETH: I think there's one team out there.
I think we're close.
Oh, there's a temple.
Right there, with a white top.
No.
Come on.
Don't do this to us.
ELIZABETH: Phil, don't give me that look.
ILIANA: Don't do this to us.
Stop. It's okay.
You're not the last team to arrive.
-(Elizabeth gasps) -(laughs)
-KEOGHAN: Oh, my goodness. -ILIANA: You're lying.
I'm not. You are team number 12.
You are still in this race.
I'm being totally serious right now.
You have the best poker face ever.
There is one more team that has not arrived here,
-that has had a worse day. -ELIZABETH: This is very, very humbling.
-The most humbling thing I've ever experienced in my life. -Yes.
So proud of you. You just got to be a little faster!
Come on. We got to be a little faster.
SHERIDAN: Oh, there he is.
-KEOGHAN: Alexandra and Sheridan. -Oh...
I am really sorry to tell you
that you are the last team to arrive.
And there are
-no non-elimination legs on the race. -SHERIDAN: Yeah.
And unfortunately, you have been eliminated from the race.
Yeah, we thought so.
-Yeah. -Kind of knew it.
I know it was short, but are you glad you did it?
-ALEXANDRA: Yes. For sure. -Oh, absolutely. We gave it a go.
-ALEXANDRA: We gave it a go. No. -I-I have no regrets about coming here,
-giving it a try, meeting you and being part of this. -Yeah.
I'm very disappointed, but I'm also
really happy to have this incredible opportunity
to go on a race that we've watched since we were little.
And to have done it with my sister.
And just, like, a really special opportunity.
I think that I feel exactly the same.
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KEOGHAN: Next time on The Amazing Race...
teams dive deeper into Thailand,
where they look for peace...
JOEL: Where's the fanny pack?
GARRETT: We need to turn around and go back.
KEOGHAN: ...and tranquility.
(whimpers)
If I start to, like, freak out, that's not good for anybody.
-Which way is back? Okay. -Backwards. That way.
It's so hard not to cry.