PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously onThe Amazing Race...
Six teams raced to Lugano, Switzerland.
At a terrifying Roadblock...
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Ak, wait.
Oh!
...Sheri conquered fears.
-[screaming] -AKBAR [whooping]: Sheri!
She did that like a straight G.
KEOGHAN: But her victory was short-lived at the detour.
SHERI: Shut up.
[glass shatters]
AKBAR: It's killing us, bro.
KEOGHAN: Best friends Ryan and Dusty
powered through the leg...
DUSTY: This is what we like doing-- working out, dude.
We've been wanting it. We got it now.
[strains] Water.
[grunts]
KEOGHAN: ...for their second win in a row.
Team number one.
Yes.
KEOGHAN: Meanwhile, Arun and Natalia
had a confusing day in last place...
NATALIA: You said "Luzano."
-Yeah. -Oh, that's the other side.
ARUN: What do you mean to say?
It was going that way.
...but had a reason to celebrate on the mat.
This is a non-elimination leg.
-Thank you. Thank you. -[gasps]
There are three departure times.
-You will be leaving last. -Yeah. Yeah.
KEOGHAN: Ryan and Dusty came in first
and won a trip from Travelocity.
-Dominica. -All right, buddy.
Beautiful.
Ooh, the tree house.
DUSTY: We're staying in a tree house?
-Am I seeing this correct? -It's a tree house with your own tree house villa.
Well, a couple of monkeys like us
deserve a tree house to hang out in, my man.
Beautiful.
We're gonna be in paradise, man.
That is literally paradise.
♪
KEOGHAN: All right, good morning, everyone.
AKBAR: Let's go, let's go.
-Let's go. Yeah. -KEOGHAN: Come on board.
[Akbar whoops]
-Your charter flight is waiting for you. -All right.
Grab a seat.
-Destination unknown. -[Akbar whoops] -Unknown.
-All right. -Yes. -LALA: Excited.
PENN: We have sized up the competition.
Isn't this nice, Dusty?
It is so nice.
It is superb.
PENN: Dusty and Ryan are physical specimens.
KIM: There's no way we can stop Dusty and Ryan.
-Dusty and Ryan have to stop themselves. -Yeah.
KIM: But at this point, they're good at everything.
Where do you think we're going?
KEOGHAN: All teams are now leaving Lugano, Switzerland
and taking a charter flight south
to the French island of Corsica.
This popular Mediterranean destination
offers visitors a hot, dry climate
and more than 200 beaches to choose from.
After touching down,
teams will make their way to the capital city of Corte,
where they'll start the next leg of the race.
[whooping, cheering]
♪
KEOGHAN: Teams will start this leg of the race
from an ancient Roman bridge,
departing in three groups, every 15 minutes.
Today we are leaving with Ryan and Dusty.
We're in group one. Hey.
"Welcome to the island of Corsica."
"Make your way to the city of Corte."
Teams must find the spectacular Belvédère.
This 700-year-old citadel overlooking the city of Corte
is where teams will find their next clue
along with a canister of fresh goats' milk,
which they'll need for either side of the detour.
Let's do it.
Start heading up.
Let's go.
[grunts]
DUSTY: We have started leg six out
in number one.
I don't want to say that there's a target on our back per se
going into this leg,
nothing has really set me off yet,
but I would have to think that
the birds are chirping on the tree branches.
There's little rumblings.
-Little rumblings. -What those, what those birds don't know is,
I'm a sneaky little tomcat.
I'm gonna climb up in there
and eat all their little eggs and them.
Rip.
-Route Info. -Route Info.
"Make your way to the city of Corte."
"And search for your next clue."
-Let's go. -Okay, let's go. Come on.
Slow and steady. Slow and steady.
-We have to go fast, fast, fast. -We have to go to the front.
-All right, first out, first out. -Here. Here, read this.
Okay, don't lose that van specifically if you can.
Don't lose that van over there. We have to hurry and get behind.
Come on. We got to keep up with them. They're leaving us.
[church bell tolls]
Come on, come on, come on.
Let's do it.
-Lulu? You good? -Yeah. Yeah.
DUSTY: Pace a little bit, girls.
-RYAN: Yes, pacing. -Gonna burn out.
Belvédère right here. Belvédère up.
Up, up, up. Left, left, left, left.
RYAN: All right, ladies, we're on it.
Come on. Breathe with your nose.
KIM: Uh, how far is the drive, friend?
-Okay. -15 minutes left?
15 minutes more. Okay.
KIM: We have made it to another leg ofThe Amazing Race.
And I have fundamentally changed my personality.
Today, this Kim is just gonna go with the flow.
PENN: We're going to try to have a little more fun today.
All right, let's take a moment and enjoy this, honey. Remember?
Yes, this is the new Kim.
AKBAR: For me, the game plan is
-to be as one. All right. -For us.
-For us, the game plan. [laughs] -For-for... for-for us,
the game plan is to be more in sync and be in unison.
We haven't been in unison. We've been
operating at two different, you know, wavelengths.
It's not fared well for us.
I think that, uh, today is the day.
RYAN: This is the top, I feel like.
DUSTY: Look, look, look.
We'll be right behind you.
DUSTY: Oh, my God, dude, this is nuts.
RYAN: This is awesome, man.
-Yeah. -We got a detour.
A detour.
"Your choice-- Say Cheese or Mule, Please."
♪
Cheesemaking dates back more than 7,000 years,
and is an important part of Corsica's heritage.
Teams will now take part in this time-honored tradition
by producing three baskets of this popular fromage
the old-fashioned way.
Once they've delivered their baskets to the storage cave,
the big cheese will hand them a clue.
Mules are often described as stubborn and uncooperative.
Let's hope that's not the case today
because teams need to rely on these robust pack animals
to complete this side of the detour.
[clicking tongue]
After strapping their canisters on a harness
on their four-legged partner, they must make their way
along this rugged trail
to Jean-Paul and Claire's fromagerie.
If they can make it without spilling their milk,
they'll get a clue.
"Say Cheese."
I say cheese because the mule can act up.
DUSTY: I don't want to have to deal with a mule.
-Oh. Come on, guys. -Come on, guys.
-Let's get in the lead. -Let's go.
LALA: Gorgeous, beautiful, never seen anything like it.
"You have ten euros for this leg of the race."
-Ready. Go. -[exclaims]
NATALIA: We came in last in the last leg,
but we had a non-elimination.
ARUN: We are leaving in the last place by ourselves.
We are 30 minutes behind the first,
15 minutes behind the second.
We're pumped. We're ready to go. We're just gonna race hard.
This is our comeback leg. We've had a second chance,
and now we're ready to do this, and we are gonna come back.
Belvédère, Belvédre, Belvédère. Let's just go.
-AKBAR: Come on. -Oh, my God.
-PENN: Up, up, up, up. -KIM: Yeah.
PENN: Damn, y'all girls are fast.
[panting]: I feel... winded.
AKBAR: Belvédère.
Come on. I'm walking 'cause you are going slow.
[panting]
-RAQUEL: This is so beautiful out here. -PENN: Oh, wow.
KIM: This is amazing.
-We're gonna do Say Cheese. -Say Cheese. -Say Cheese.
We're gonna do Say Cheese. -Say Cheese.
-Okay, baby, I got this. -You sure you don't want
-to do the mule? -You have the pack? -Yeah.
DUSTY: I actually have made cheese before,
so we just need to make sure we capitalize on this
and not mess up.
KIM: Do you want to do the mule?
What-what does the mule say?
"Choose a mule with a pack and harness
"and another canister of milk.
"Once properly secured,
follow the marked path to the fromagerie."
On paper, that sounds easier.
Do you want to do that?
PENN: Yeah, we're gonna do the mule.
Oh, how cute are these cars?
Oh, look at these little freaking Jeeps, dude.
-Oh, yeah. -This is legit.
Let's go.
-This looks like a winner. -Oh.
LULU: Is cheese complicated?
DUSTY: Yeah, it's very precise.
I can make cheese. Just, we got this, guys.
LULU: Yeah. Dusty immediately was like, "Let's do cheeses
because I've done cheese before, I got this. I'm good."
I'm like, "Okay, he knows how to make cheese."
-Yeah. -We could just follow what they're doing.
RYAN: We're back in the mountains.
-This is where we belong. -DUSTY: Yeah.
-Say Cheese? -Say Cheese.
All right, let's go, baby.
ARUN: Oh, there's still one team here.
-Good luck, guys. -AKBAR: All right. All right, baby.
[Akbar pants]
-CAYLA: Got your milk? -DUSTY: Hey, girls. Yup. Thank you.
-We're hiking up this? -KIM: Hey, we're-we're... we're switching.
-CAYLA: You're switching? -RAQUEL: You're switching?
Do you want to stick with them?
It's your call.
RAQUEL: What do you think, babe?
CAYLA: I want to stick with them.
RAQUEL: I think it's important to run your own race,
but to play it safe when opportunities present itself
and to kind of work with another team,
because you know, four minds are better than two.
When Kim and Penn were like, "We're gonna do the mule,"
we're like, "Okay, we'll just do it together."
We're doing Mule, Please.
-[Arun gasps] -Here we go. Go ahead.
-We're gonna do Say Cheese. -Say Cheese.
NATALIA: Got it?
[bleating]
Oh, here we are. Let's-let's move fast.
'At's a milky, milky.
-Time to make some cheese. -Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
DUSTY: Now we're watching.
So, we're stirring.
DUSTY: You got to keep it moving, too, or it'll burn.
The process of making cheese--
you want to heat your milk up to 60 degrees.
And now we add... Let's see what happens here.
And then you had to add a shot of milk,
stirring constantly to keep it moving,
and bring that to 85 degrees.
Once it starts curding on the top
is when you strain it off and put it in the basket.
You have to keep the temperature in this small window.
RYAN: Just up there.
-PENN: Oh, God. -KIM: Dusty,
Ryan and Lulu, Lala,
-okay, are making cheese. -PENN: They're making cheese.
On to the mules.
[horn toots]
RYAN: Come back up. I'll start stirring.
DUSTY: Is it lit?
-It's okay. -[Ryan sighs]
LALA: Hers is, like, cranked up.
How do we make this hotter?
RYAN: It's taking so long to heat up, dude.
All right, dude, this is going to take forever, brother.
This mule thing may not be a bad idea, dude.
All we're doing's saddling a mule and riding it down.
RYAN: If you think it, let's do it.
Are we just being impatient?
This is literally... Nothing... Is hers curdling yet?
RYAN: So right now we're dealing with Dusty's,
uh, madness of thinking we should switch,
uh, and not knowing whether or not this is gonna work out.
We're thinking this could take quite a while.
We don't know what we're looking at in the other thing.
So, basically, we got to trust Dusty's instinct,
'cause he's the only one who's done it.
I don't know how to use a... a thermometer, guys.
Do you know how to use a thermometer?
My God.
43, 44. It's going up.
I mean, I just feel like nothing is happening.
Dusty, we-we staying or going?
Let's go.
RYAN: I feel like it's smarter just to stay.
-What's it at? -47.
Oh, my God.
Dusty seems to be, like, all over the place.
I don't know how Ryan has the patience.
I would smack my sister up.
All right, let's see.
-Tripping, dude. -What?
-Who? -Us.
-DUSTY: Why? -Just a little freaked out.
DUSTY: I know, but...
[mutters] Are you having a good time?
RAQUEL: I'm actually really excited to play with the mules.
I might eat my words on that, but,
and this mule might be a real jackass, but...
[braying]
There's our mules. I see our mules. Let's do it.
CAYLA: So this is where we can get ahead of 'em, guys.
-RAQUEL: Yup. -CAYLA: They looked concerned over there.
PENN: All right, that's the model.
KIM: You're so cute.
PENN: Kim, pick your favorite.
-Okay, this guy? -This... Go with the big one.
KIM: You okay? You want to go with us?
PENN: There's a bunch of different straps, okay?
-CAYLA: Yes. -This goes... Hey, buddy.
CAYLA: Hey, babe, the belt is in the front.
This is the butt.
Hello, friend.
PENN: You have to take a harness,
put the harness onto the mule. Now, the harness has
several straps, and the straps are all over the place.
You have to look at the model mule
and put the straps exactly where they're supposed to be.
And the-the knots
that you tie to get the straps all on there
all have to be just like the model.
There's a strap here
that goes around the front.
Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy.
-Hi, baby. -Sorry. I don't want to walk behind him.
Ooh. I'm gonna get his tail out. I think that looks
-really uncomfortable. -RAQUEL: Is it supposed to be...?
PENN: Got to get your hands in there.
-Okay. -PENN: You're doing awesome. -KIM: Honey.
Good boy. You're a good boy.
I got the tail.
Where do I put this?
Oh, the... We got to put the metal straps on.
-Yeah. -Um, and they go right here-- here and here.
KIM: This is not in all the way.
-[bar snaps] -[gasps]
CAYLA: You got it?
Okay.
We just need this front strap.
Front strap is on.
-Oh, oh. Buddy, I'm sorry. -Good?
-Our saddle is not good. -[buzzer sounds]
PENN: Let's take our time here. And our horse is, like,
getting slightly over us.
Hey, baby. Oh. Hey, baby.
There's a leather strap that has to go around their belly.
Take a look at the way it loops at the bottom.
Okay, I think I have it.
-Good? -Good? No?
[buzzer sounds]
That's the one I was saying you have to tighten.
Yeah, yeah, tighten it.
I'm so confused.
DUSTY: There they are now, too, man.
RYAN: Were we that slow?
SHERI: Okay, so she's heating it. What I'm thinking is,
we should probably go start our milk to boil.
-That's what I said. -Okay, so let's go do that.
AKBAR: She's definitely the best cook I know.
I would take us on a stove--
I don't care if it's a Bunsen burner-- over anyone.
SHERI: Anything you can name, we cook,
so we know that we can do the cheese.
60. We're adding the milk now.
RYAN: All right, we're at 60.
DUSTY: Add the milk, Ryan, yup.
-We just had to tie a knot. -Yeah.
Okay, what else we got?
-Let's load those up. -I think we put the milk on.
-It's okay? -PENN: Okay. Is that okay? We're good. Let's go.
Allons-y. Go, go, go, go.
Oh, yeah, we got the right horse for sure.
-Okay, see you down there, guys. -Allons-y.
-Like that? -Kind of looks like that.
He's gonna say "No."
-[buzzer sounds] -RAQUEL: Damn.
CAYLA: I'm not a knot tie-er.
I'm so confused.
-Look at you. -I mind-melded with Duke.
-Yup. -We're gonna have a great day, Duke.
-You and me, dude. -Go, Duke.
Duke, you okay? Come on down.
-Come on, Duke. -Go, go, Duke. Go, go, Duke.
Yes! Good job, Duke.
RYAN: Uh, Penn and Kim are moving along
with this donkey real easy,
so we're about to get blapped.
Go.
KIM: Bonjour.
[Penn and Kim speaking French]
-Ah, merci. -Merci.
Yup, we gonna get passed.
Hello, guys. Oh, my God, honey.
Oh, God.
Route Info.
KIM: "Make your way to..."
PENN: "...Verghellu Canyon Altipiani
and search for your next clue."
[whoops]
-Maybe this new Kim energy is... -[horn toots]
It's awesome. Stick with it.
KIM: Save me some cheese.
-NATALIA: Okay. -Let's go.
Somebody pulling up. That's Arun and Natalia.
Yup.
So at 60 degrees, we're gonna add that milk.
AKBAR: We're definitely in good hands. We haven't made
ricotta cheese, but we make our own roux
for our macaroni and cheese.
Yeah, this is right up our alley.
Here we go, Sheri.
Putting the milk in. Now we're gonna keep it going until
about 85, and then we're going to start to get the curdle.
We decided that if it was going to be a food challenge,
we'd do that since my dad works in the restaurant industry.
When I was eight years old, I used to go and, you know,
I thought it was the coolest thing. I used to,
like, wipe down the tables and things like that.
Never made cheese before, though.
Dad, I'm at 60 degrees.
-Pour the milk in? -Yeah.
-Pour. -Yeah, go ahead.
-So when it gets 85, we turn off the gas? -Yeah.
Ours is starting to curdle.
And I'm starting to smell the cheese.
I feel confident in staying. I think at the beginning
we got too panicky and we were too worried
about what the other teams were doing.
We need to just focus on what we're doing.
Okay. Yeah, yeah,
-yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. -It's real hot, dude.
DUSTY: We just couldn't control
navigating temperature in this stove.
It's cooking, dude. We got to kill it
to get it tepid and have her light it again.
RYAN: Yeah, just kill it.
No way that we can figure out how to, uh...
to keep it right at the perfect temperature
-without turning it on and off. -DUSTY: It's going down.
We need to get it lit.
AKBAR: I'm listening to Dusty and Ryan.
They, uh, keep wanting to cut it off and cut it on,
but it looked like they don't know what they're doing.
Again, we're better cooks than them, so
I got to, hopefully, see if my intuition works.
The only thing I can think is that this doesn't go up a lot,
but, like, we have to shove this in there.
-Is it this? -Well, then, take it out.
CAYLA: The problem was the bar
that the sheep's milk carafe, like, like, rested on.
-RAQUEL: Yeah. -Um, and we had one of them
upside down.
MAN: Très bien.
-Yeah? -Great, great. Awesome.
-Perfect. Great. Awesome. -MAN: Good.
CAYLA: Shall we name you?
-Colton Tony. [laughs] -Yeah.
Coltony. That sounds French.
-[mutters] -Yeah, I don't know...
She doesn't like that. I thought it was funny.
Raquel doesn't like this, but I'm naming the mule
after our boyfriends Colton and Tony-- Coltony.
-Coltony. [laughs] -[laughs]
-Hi. Hello. -Okay. I'll hold him. I'll hold him.
-Got him? -Come on, baby. Come on.
-Yes. -CAYLA: We're gonna walk at a brisk pace.
You're doing such a good job, buddy.
Coltony is great.
LALA: It's starting to look,
-like, cheesy. -Starting a little bit. Yeah.
Hey, uh, what's your temperature on that?
Right now it's at 85.
-Yeah. -I know, it says get up to 85.
Yeah, I know, but you want to turn it down just...
We'll get to 85.
-You don't burn me! -Sorry, sorry, sorry.
-Let me get on that side. -Why don't you hold it?
-Is that what it looked like? -Yeah.
I don't know how theirs went so much quicker than ours.
We had our heat off for a couple minutes.
We're more than a couple minutes behind.
Slow and steady. Trying to get it to curdle.
My legs are shaking, by the way.
Come on, we got this.
To the cave.
Hello.
-Okay? Good? Good. -Good, good, good, good, good.
Then, now we get this one, okay.
I see pink. I see pink. That's Lulu and Lala. Come on.
RYAN: Lulu and Lala just left.
They, uh... they had three baskets full. We got zero.
LULU: That felt amazing
-to beat the guys. -Yeah.
Dusty and Ryan. Aah!
CAYLA: Hi. Yes.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
[screaming]
RYAN: Raquel and Cayla just passed us
for the first time ever, and, uh,
now we are in fourth.
This is first time we've ever been ahead of the boys.
That feels ... great.
RYAN: What's our temp?
86. Dude, we're going real hot, bud.
We got to turn it down, though.
-Okay. Not-not all the way. -I'm not.
SHERI: It looks like it's curdling. Yes.
How's y'all's looking?
It started coming up to the top. Did you all's?
Yeah, I know. Not yet. We don't know.
SHERI: I think the trick to it was,
we were following the clue to a tee.
It said, heat it to 85 degrees Celsius.
So that's what we did,
and we didn't turn the heat down.
Oh, yeah, baby.
The main thing is... it has to curdle.
NATALIA: Because of the heat?
ARUN: Yeah, because of the heat.
It's not lit. The temperature's plummeting, dude.
-RYAN: Just, you're freaking out again. -DUSTY: I'm not. I'm not.
NATALIA: I think all the teams were happy to see
Ryan and Dusty struggling with that cheese challenge
'cause, you know, they were the team to beat.
And to see them struggle and see that they do have weaknesses--
it's a good thing for us.
There's no point in hurrying
when you're making cheese.
DUSTY: Ryan, dude, this is way too hot, dude.
We're cooking it.
[both blowing]
All right, let's go check.
-Want to? -Yeah.
-MAN: Okay. -Thank you.
-Thank you. Thank you so much. -Thank you.
ARUN: Okay, that's enough.
NATALIA: Are you ready?
-Thank you. That's good. -Thank you.
-Get the clue.
"Make your way to Verghellu Canyon Altipiani."
"And search for your next clue." Go. Go, go.
-RYAN: What do you think, man? -DUSTY: It ain't ready.
RYAN: Well, then, it ain't gonna be ready.
-We got to go do the other thing, man. -Yeah.
-We are switching challenges. -RYAN: Let's go.
-Not doing that again. -Sorry, brother.
-It's all good, man. -Sorry, dude.
We had literally invested,
you know, 40 minutes into this.
RYAN: Don't got time for that. We got to switch.
Can I push you?
We could not get this thing to go up the hill.
-Literally. -Not enough power to get going
in first gear on a hill
on a mountain.
You're on a rock, bro.
Get it going. You got it?
So you throw gas on fire after what just transpired
with the cheese, and then we're shoving cars up hills.
I'm like, "This can't get any worse."
Are you going? Are you going?
Punch it.
DUSTY: We're in dead last.
RYAN: The other teams are all done.
They all did the cheese right.
So... we messed up.
Leaving the first detour
in dead last.
Here we go.
RYAN: It was a feeling of despair.
Here. Help me.
DUSTY: We finally make it to our lovely mule.
We knew we needed to get through it quickly
to have an opportunity to try to claw back.
So the strap goes...
around his chest... on the front.
All right.
-You're all right, buddy. -RYAN: Sorry.
And so then, pull it up a little bit, center it.
-And then that... -That's gonna go...
...goes around his body.
How do we secure that thing?
PENN: See the clue?
-There's a clue right there. Let's go, come on. -Okay, okay.
It's a Roadblock.
"Who wants to make a splash?"
Canyoning is a combination of zip-lining, abseiling,
swimming, sliding and jumping.
And the best way to experience this thrill-seeking challenge
is in remote regions like this--
Verghellu.
To complete this Roadblock, teams must slip
and slide their way down this one-and-a-half-mile river
and look out for a clue hidden along the way.
-You do it. You got it. -I got it.
Okay, let's go. "Choose any available guide."
Bonjour. Nice to meet you.
You got this, babe.
[groans] Okay.
Have fun, be fast, find a clue.
Okay. This just got real.
DUSTY: Goes around,
over and back. Got it. Got it, Ryan.
-Oh, yeah. Let's go. -Yeah.
-[whoops] -Let's go, buddy.
-Yeah, good boy. -Good job, donkey.
Bro, we're gonna make up time, dude.
So, is this the natural rock slide?
-MAN: Yes. -Okay.
Oh, boy.
So these were rocks that had fallen who knows when
and settled into basically a course.
In the middle of the course was a ton of river.
We are going to make a little jump.
Opa!
[whoops] Oh, it's cold.
Slide?
Amidst all of these, like, crazy,
like, natural water slides and cannonballs,
there's a clue somewhere.
It was so intense going through this cave
and having to slip down through a waterfall.
And I just, out of the corner of my eye, caught it, I saw it.
-Yeah, let me do it. -You're gonna do it?
-I'm gonna do it. Okay. -You got this, dude, this one's easy.
[whoops] Yeah, dude!
-I'll do it. I'll do it. Okay. -Okay. All right.
[Cayla and Raquel shouting indistinctly]
I honestly do feel bad that Ryan and Dusty--
they've been in the lead, and they're in...
I don't know where they are at this point, but...
I'm kind of happy that it's us three up here. Let's be real.
-Everyone wants to be one, two, three. -CAYLA: Dude, and when
Raquel and I were leaving the, uh, detour,
they looked so, like, defeated, so I'm hoping
that they are just in their heads right now, honestly.
RYAN: All right. This is it.
Have a good one.
Let's get this clue.
Ah, thank you so much.
"Make your way to Verghellu Canyon."
-RYAN: Let's do it. Let's cruise, baby. -[bleats]
[screams]
[whooping]
[laughs]
-Raquel, we got this? -Oh, baby, we got this.
[gasps]
One, two, three.
[whoops]
-Do you see a clue? -Not yet.
If I see it, I'll let you know.
-RAQUEL: We'll do this together, babe. -Yeah.
Aah!
Oh, I'm good.
[whoops]
PENN: Ah. That was awesome.
[gasping, laughing]
Oh. I got to get the clue.
Raquel?
RAQUEL: Oh, my God. Yeah, I see it.
LULU: I saw the clue, and I told Raquel that the clue was there
because we said always from the beginning that
we're gonna stick together and we're gonna help each other out,
and we're gonna wait for each other.
♪ This water feels good!♪
-We're done? -MAN: Yeah.
-Do you have a clue? -Yes.
Feel like I just went through a spin cycle.
-"Kayak to your next Pit Stop." -"Kayak...
to your next stop-- Pit Stop."
Corsica is the most mountainous island in the Mediterranean.
These impressive peaks create rivers like this--
the Tavignano.
This 55-mile waterway is where teams will find kayaks
which they need to pump up
before paddling upstream to the Pit Stop.
The last team to find me here may be eliminated.
-Let's go. We got to beat them. -Okay.
-Good luck, guys. -Okay.
"Who wants to make a splash?" Akbar Cook does.
-Over there? -Yeah.
"Who wants to make a splash?" You?
-Yes. -Okay.
-Have fun! -Let's go, booby. You got it. -All right, y'all.
-Where am I going? -Have fun, Arun.
Thank you. Thank you.
Boy. All right, let's go.
DUSTY: Let's regroup, dude.
RYAN: We're always in a position
where another team can overtake us.
I didn't think we'd end up in last place.
I was very concerned about it.
This is gonna be one hell of a ride
-to get to this mat, buddy. -Let's do it, baby.
Let's go, dude. Come on.
Time to rage.
[panting]
AKBAR: The Roadblock for me, uh, was difficult.
One-- I'm a tall guy.
Then I got to wear a size 16, so I got these big, heavy shoes on.
I got on spandex. Then I threw a wet suit on top of it.
And we're going up hills, and I'm literally out of breath.
I can't breathe, we going high.
I don't know if it's the altitude.
I got Arun right there.
And now I see Arun.
So now that gives you some anxiety.
Okay, come this way.
I'm getting passed.
It felt very good
knowing that I passed Akbar.
Uh, at least we are a little bit ahead.
Let's go.
-Thanks, bud. -[sighs]
"Who wants to make a splash?"
-I'll do it. -All right. buddy.
Oh, there they are.
[Ryan grunts]
-All right, guys. -RYAN: Dusty.
-Catch. -CAYLA: You guys got this. -All right.
DUSTY: If anyone can catch up, man, it's my boy Ryan.
This is our opportunity to try to sneak back into this,
and we need the race gods to bless us.
Uh, and I hope there's no cheese involved, man.
I'll keep up with whatever, however fast you can go.
If I got to go out today, I'm gonna go out having fun.
If I ... go home, dude, I'm gonna be so pissed.
CAYLA: Be positive.
Ooh! Oh, God.
[screaming]
Okay, I'm good.
We got to get away from them.
We did it, baby. [whoops]
LULU: Stupid of me. I should have never waited for her
because as soon as we found the clue,
she took off, and I was like,
"Bitch!"
-Is that okay for you? -RYAN: Yes, sir.
You're going great. Faster is better.
[gasps] Lulu?
-Oh, no, it's Raquel. -[whooping]
[whoops]
Raquel just came through. Uh, my sister left before, but
I know my sister gets winded fast.
But, no, I just want her to be...
fine. [laughs] And she will be.
Raquel-- she did not wait for me.
[panting]: This is why we can't be too ... nice.
"Kayak to your next Pit Stop."
-Okay, come on. -Let's go. Go.
-KIM: Kayaks. There's no kayaks. -We'll find 'em.
-Yup. Hey, look. Marked left. -Yeah.
-KIM: Kayaks! -PENN: Got 'em?
Okay, come. Let's go.
Hey, what attachment did you use, honey?
Uh, I don't know. Let's see if it works.
I'm, like, busting it.
We were so relieved when it said, "Head to the Pit Stop,"
but we have to inflate a kayak.
This is the first time ever in my life
I've ever inflated more than a beach ball.
To inflate a watercraft was a little intimidating.
I feel like I'm doing it right.
You are. You're doing great, honey.
-So I'm doing the big one. -Okay, I got it.
I-I'm close to being good here.
-Don't forget the paddles. -Paddles.
-Merci. -Merci. -MAN: Good, huh?
-All set. -Okay.
-KIM: Going to the Pit Stop. -We're gonna see Phil!
KIM: Going to see Phil.
Oh, this way. Okay.
-PENN: All right. -I'll get in.
-I got you held. -Okay.
-[Penn speaks indistinctly] -KIM: Okay.
We got this.
Oh, fun Kim!
-How are you, Lu? -I'm good.
LALA [clapping hands]: Okay, okay, okay.
-Hey, Lulu, how long did it take you? -Not long.
"Paddle up the river and search for Phil at the Pit Stop."
-Okay, change fast. -Take it off.
It's cold!
AKBAR: The water-- oh, my God, it was freezing.
And now, if I'm already 275, I was
375 with that wet suit on.
My legs are burning out, but...
some people are gonna have trouble with this.
I'm gonna keep rolling.
Come on, baby. Ah.
ARUN: Okay. Now, thanks.
-I'm having a good time. -Okay. Good. Nice.
[groans]
[speaks indistinctly]
RYAN: As soon as I found that clue, I'm going.
Had my head down.
I was just feeling the pain and going.
[whoops]
Akbar, you got it, bud.
AKBAR: I don't think no one ever wants Ryan
to be in the background looming.
That's really a scary movie.
[whoops]
You know they're gonna do whatever
physically to catch you.
We got to go.
I did it! [whoops]
We just needed a shot.
And that was our shot, and I wasn't gonna miss it.
Let's pass that other team, baby.
RYAN: Can we pass them? I'm ready to roll.
Akbar looked like he was, uh, struggling,
but, uh, I was in survival mode.
Every step could be the difference
between us staying here and seeing the next leg
and going home.
Doing good. You're good.
So I was, like, "Good luck, man." Gone.
[groaning]
[yells]
-Someone coming? -See, I keep hearing,
but I can't really tell who it is.
Oh, yeah!
-[whoops] -Oh, wow.
Yeah! So proud of you! Killed it! [whoops]
Good job, buddy.
Arun just came back up, and I know that Akbar
was ahead of him when they went.
That's a little bit disheartening.
Hopefully, he comes up not too far behind.
[panting]
"Warning: last team to check in might be eliminated."
-Maybe. Okay. Let's go. -Are we ready? You good to go?
DUSTY: Go, Ryan! [whoops]
Oh, my God.
Let's go, baby!
-Wow. -Let's go, baby. Let's go, Ryan.
[whooping loudly]
No showing and proving, I guess.
Booby, let's go!
Mwah. Yeah, baby.
-Dude, you killed that ..., brother. -It was fun.
SHERI: So Akbar didn't get back yet.
So I'm the last one here.
I'm the only one waiting, so...
[Dusty laughing]
All right, brother. This is our chance.
See, we wanted physicality-- you delivered, dude.
[sighs]
We got this, dude. That's what we needed, brother.
We were in fourth. Now we're in last place, so that sucks.
All right, Booby. Let's go.
"Warning: the last team to check in may be eliminated."
Guess now he sees it's not as easy as...
what you think it is
until you actually get out there and you do it.
-You need water? -[panting]: Yeah.
SHERI: I'm sure he thought he was doing his best,
and I'm not gonna be the one to tell him that he wasn't.
KIM: Phil!
PENN: Phil! I see your hat, Phil!
-Wow. Good to see you. -Air hugs.
Air hugs. Give each other a hug.
Welcome to Corte, Corsica.
-Oh, merci. -Thank you so much.
Kim and Penn, I'm pleased to tell you
that you are team number one.
[laughs]: Yes! That's awesome.
KEOGHAN: And I do have some good news for you.
$5,000 each, which you can enjoy after the race.
-KIM: Oh, my God. -PENN: Dude, that's amazing. -So...
-Thank you so much. -Maybe a little, uh,
-family vacation. -PENN: Oh, yeah.
I'm coming back here. This is so beautiful.
PENN: It's amazing.
KEOGHAN: Kim and Penn, there are two departure times.
You've arrived first, you'll be leaving first.
What's going through your mind right now?
Being on this race is so far out of my comfort zone, Phil.
I love to know exactly what I'm doing at all times.
So to be so far out of control
of what my day's gonna look like is really hard for me.
I don't know how long New Kim will be here,
uh, but I would love to just
chill out and enjoy this race a little more than I have been.
-And I have to say, it-it is a lot of fun, right? -It is.
DUSTY: I told you my pops--
I asked him for a favor, and he hooked it up.
Before every leg, I have literally tried
to have a conversation with my dad.
I, uh... I lost him this April.
Um, pretty hard on me, very unexpected.
Uh, just after I moved, had my child.
My dad didn't even get to see my son,
which, uh, is heartbreaking to me.
Man, I just ask him every morning,
"Just kind of look over Ryan and I and give me your strength."
And if I can be just half the man that he was,
uh, I know I'm gonna make him proud today for sure.
And I know he's watching, and I hope my little boy,
when he watches this, he's going to see, man,
just stick through this stuff, man,
and have a... have you a down-ass buddy
that you can run the world with, man.
That's what matters, dude, and, uh,
I just... I'm so happy, man. These are tears of joy.
We're about to make old, uh, Chuck real happy here.
CAYLA: "Secure and leave your backpacks
-and race bag in your van." -Okay.
-Okay. Oh, they're right there.
They're right there. They're right there.
All right, let's just do this one?
[whoops]
We got it, baby.
There's an arrow here.
-Yes, girls. -LULU: Yeah, now she's cheering.
-Is inflating it hard? -No, it's not that bad. -No.
It's really not hard.
-[hissing] -LALA: Lulu. -LULU: Sorry.
-One, two, three. -Hey, don't let the oar fall, okay?
-RAQUEL: You got it, baby girls. -LULU: Thank you. Good luck.
-Let's not lose focus. -Oh, my God.
LULU: We should have
read the clue.
-We have to go return these. -Return the bags?
Yeah, we have to bring 'em to the car.
-LALA: The clue literally... -LULU: Clearly said...
BOTH: "Leave your backpacks and..."
"...the race pack in the car."
We had to run back up and drop it off.
NATALIA: Go ahead. Go fast.
-ARUN: Is it this way? -I don't know.
Let's do it.
-Gobble, gobble. -We about to eat, baby.
When we hit that beach, I made sure
I let 'em know we're here to grind.
You got to get it in and turn, dude.
[whooping]
NATALIA: Remove the tube and then quickly put it in.
-Ready? I'm gonna take it out. -Ah.
Go. Put it in! Put it in!
I'm tired. You got to help me.
I am trying to do the best I can.
-All right. -I'll run the back, brother.
AKBAR: You know,
I got us in this predicament, so I got to row
like no other and try to make up some time
so we can pass a team.
It ain't over till Phil says it's over.
-No, first check the... -You're good.
ARUN: Okay, let's... inflate the middle things.
-Here, here, here. Go. -You got it?
DUSTY: Can you steer?
-You steer. You're in the back. -All right.
-Nat, watch it. -Yup.
Don't stop. Just keep going.
We can go down these rocks.
AKBAR: Sheri, people are still doing it.
LALA: Akbar and Sheri.
We're still in it. Come on.
We're gonna try to pump this bad boy up real fast.
NATALIA: You're in the back, so you're gonna be steering.
-Dad, you're steering. -Huh?
-How do I steer? -Steer to the left.
It's slippery, Lulu.
-Oh, we still see Lulu and Lala. -How do we do it?
Even though we were in last place, we never say never until
we actually get to the mat.
Come on. We can catch these...
They're gonna have to deal with our upper body.
AKBAR: Come on, baby. Come on.
Yeah, this is it.
-Are you in? -Yeah.
All right.
-This side first. -No, we have to turn that way.
Yeah, you're right.
CAYLA AND RAQUEL: Right.
-Left. -This is so fun.
CAYLA: Phil, we're coming!
Back hard.
[grunting]
ARUN: Okay, right, left.
-Right. Wait. Don't get... No. -No.
You take one side, and I take the other.
LALA: It's the first time we've ever paddled a kayak.
There is a trick to it.
LULU: That we still don't know what it is.
-Lala, stick to one side. -I don't know what side to go...
I'm on the right, you're on the left.
-Okay. Okay. -Left, Lala!
AKBAR: Go. Go.
SHERI: Neither one of us have
ever kayaked before, so that was kind of stressful,
but we thought we had a good chance of catching them.
Left, left, left! You got to really...
I can't ... see you.
You don't know your left from the right? Right?
I can't see what you're doing, Lulu.
-AKBAR: Is that them down there? -SHERI: Yup.
Let's not look behind.
SHERI: Let's just dig down on that side.
-Dig deep on that side. -Okay.
-Wow! -There you go.
Yes!
You should be jumping for joy because you are team number two.
[whooping]
Which has got to feel good.
You guys are crushing it.
Do you feel better, like,
having come back and restarted the race?
You feel like you're stronger than you were before?
-Yes. -Yeah.
I would say it's been a pretty good day for you.
-CAYLA: Yes. -And is that another team in the back?
Yes! Yes!
Yeah!
That's what I call a comeback!
KEOGHAN: Wow.
Yeah! [whoops]
[Raquel whoops]
Good job, Ryan.
Wow. There's a lot of emotion there.
It just meant so much to you to come back
'cause you were way, way behind today?
-What happened? -Man, we fell.
Made a wrong choice.
Man, Ryan stuck with me.
I made a bad choice, but we stayed positive.
We got to some physical stuff, and we knew
-we was about to eat some lunch. -Good one. -[laughter]
This is our best performance we had.
It ain't a one, but it's the best performance we've had.
-RYAN: I'm happy about this. -[whoops]
Is that right? Explain that to me.
I mean, it's adversity, right? That's what life's all about.
That's what the race is about,
and, uh, we pushed through it.
We showed that we were capable of overcoming some obstacles.
We feel pretty good with it, you know, and, uh...
DUSTY: I love this guy, man.
We ain't done. We ain't done, guys.
No, you're not.
[whooping]
-Wow! -Pit Stop!
Holy mackerel!
Phil!
We told you, Phil. We looked you in the eye.
-You said... -That we're not gonna be the last team.
"We know we won't be last." I am pleased to tell you
that you are team number...
Give it to 'em, guys.
-ALL: Four! -[whooping]
DUSTY: Way to go, guys. Congratulations.
And there is another team coming in.
[cheering, overlapping shouting]
[Dusty shouts, whoops]
-ARUN: Good job, ladies! -KEOGHAN: You're on the beach,
-you're at the Pit Stop. -Hey!
I am pleased to tell you that you are team number...
-Give it to them. -ALL: Five!
-Not bad. I'm happy. -You are team number five.
-RYAN: You're in it. You're in it. -Not last.
Raquel and Cayla, there are two departure times.
You'll be leaving first.
The rest of you will be leaving in the second departure time.
-All right, have a good night, everybody. -Good job.
-Good job. Thanks. -Have a good night.
Yeah.
[Akbar groans]
KEOGHAN: Bring it in. Long day.
-Too long, Phil. -Long, long day.
Welcome to Corte, Corsica.
-Thank you. Thank you. -Thank you. Merci.
I am very sorry to tell you that you are the last team to arrive.
And I am sorry to tell you that you have been
eliminated from the race.
And you probably knew that coming in here.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Where-where did it get away from you this race?
AKBAR: Uh, we was... we was in it.
Uh, I-I got taken over on the mountains.
Yeah, and that was it, so, it was... it was me today, Phil.
All you can do is your best, and he did the best he could, so...
It wasn't good enough today, but it's all right.
AKBAR: We ran a good race. It's just,
they-they were better than us, and-and I don't mind.
If-if you leave it all on the court,
there's nothing wrong with losing.
You gave it your all. And I feel like we gave it our all today.
You know, we got to kick butt in real life now.
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KEOGHAN: Next time on The Amazing Race,
teams get a taste of a Corsican delicacy...
DUSTY: It's maggot cheese. There's bugs in it.
Ugh. Oh, yeah.
It is so bad.
[retching]
[coughing]
...while Ryan and Dusty take on the Mediterranean.
We're going under. We're going under.
All right.
[both straining]