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Come on, buddy. Stop bloody sliding!

-[Grant] It's a race like never before. -[man shouts]

Oh, my goodness.

-The pride of two nations is at stake. -[whooping]

-We can't do that. -Well done, Kiwis!

Australia!

And personal pride is also on the line.

Old age and treachery win every time.

For some, it's survival.

This is for our kids.

-Yes! -[whooping]

A chance to discover…

I didn't realize how tough he is.

I love you, sister!

-…or to just be themselves. -[screams]

You need to trust me that I'm seriously injured right now.

Far out!

Okay. No, this is happening.

But for all, there's a will to win…

-Get that psychological warfare going. -Those bloody Kiwis.

…with new levels of conflict and collusion.

-Damn it! -Pretty girls get it so sweet.

[both laugh]

Who will come out on top?

[shrieks]

-Australia… -We're the Aussies!

…or New Zealand?

[whooping]

[Grant] The magic and majesty of Australia's Red Center.

It's here that ten teams of two will meet for the very first time.

Some of these teams have more in common than they know.

For the first time in Amazing Race history,

teams will compete for their country.

This year, it's nation against nation, Australia versus New Zealand,

in a race around the world.

The teams are on their way to the spiritual center of Australia.

Ahead of them lies 90,000 kilometers of travel,

spread over ten countries.

From Australia, the teams are dating bodybuilders, Sally and Tyson…

Amazing Race, here we come!

…intensive care nurses, Daniel and Ryan…

No worries, man.

…mother and son, Elizabeth and Todd…

[Elizabeth laughing]

…pageant models, Inga and Tiharna…

[both] Yay!

High five. Yeah!

…and newlyweds, Ashleigh and Jarrod.

Good Aussie vehicle, made for the outback.

And from New Zealand,

siblings Emily and Jono…

This is so Crocodile Dundee, it's not even funny.

…fitness mums Carla and Hereni…

Watch out, Australia.

-We're coming to get you! -Yeah.

…foster parents Cat and Jesse…

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

…best mates, John and Murray…

Where are we, mate? Honestly.

…and feisty friends, Aston and Christie.

Have you seen any kangaroos yet?

They come from all walks of life, but share one common goal:

to win the life-changing quarter-of-a-million-dollar prize.

Their destination is Uluru,

the traditional meeting place for the local Aboriginal tribes

and the setting for the start of this historic race.

This part of the world abounds with stories of great survival,

courage and determination,

all qualities teams will need to win

The Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand.

Welcome to the first-ever Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand.

-[cheering] -Yeah!

This will be a race like no other.

Not only will you be racing for your personal pride,

this year,

the pride of your country is also at stake.

-Go New Zealand! -Australia!

-Let's go! -Aussie!

[Grant laughs]

How you choose to play this contest is entirely up to you.

Will your fellow countrymen be your friend, or your enemy?

You decide.

One thing that hasn't changed is the prize money.

One winning team will receive $250,000.

[all cheering]

There are ten legs in the race.

In each leg, you will receive clues that will ultimately lead you to the Pit Stop.

Be the last team to check in, and you could be eliminated from the race.

However, the winning team in each leg will receive rewards like never before.

Ooh!

Yes.

Your first clue is on your backpack.

When I give the word, the race is on.

-Are you ready? -[all] Yeah!

[Grant] All right.

Now I did say that this race would be like no other, didn't I?

That all starts now.

Follow me.

Ah.

We really had no idea what was about to happen.

-No. -It was crazy.

[Ashleigh] Coming up against New Zealand

is such a great opportunity to show them who's boss.

The little brother can remain the little brother

and the big dog will remain the big dog. [laughs]

[Carla] The Australian couples look physically stronger,

maybe they're the brawn and we're the brains.

[John] We'd love to get one over the Aussies.

Underarm bowling. Haven't forgotten about that.

[Jesse] Kiwis versus Aussies.

It's like packing down the scrum.

Aussies and All Blacks. We know who wins those.

-Go the All Blacks! -Ah!

-New Zealand! -Yeah!

Australia!

Yeah!

The battle begins now.

A simple, age-old tradition, the purest form of contest,

-a tug-of-war. -[Jesse whoops]

-Yeah! -[laughing]

We think we're in a race against nine other teams,

-and all of a sudden… -A Kiwi versus Aussie tug-of-war.

Kiwis on this side.

Aussies over here.

-Oh, yeah! -[Tyson] All right.

Go Aussies!

-Yeah, we've got this. Come on. -We can do it.

-[Jesse] Come on, New Zealand! -Looking at the other team,

I was a bit worried about what was about to happen.

Honestly, my heart started pounding.

-You scared, Aussies? -[whooping]

-Nah. -[Jono] You should be.

Tyson's pretty strong. I think I'm pretty strong.

We look like a fit team. We should have this.

Relax, Australia. I've got this one for youse.

Tyson, you'd bloody better pull.

This is awesome.

[Daniel] Our strategy for tug-of-war was five letters.

T-Y-S-O-N.

We looked to him, and were hoping he was gonna carry the team.

You gonna give us instructions?

I was wondering, "Do I actually need to pull?"

Like, maybe I'll just stand aside.

I'll even call, "Pull, pull!"

So, rather than all be pulling at different times, we all "bang."

But we gotta keep the power on.

Good old Hercules.

-Big boy. -[Ashleigh] He's lifting weights.

I mean it. You'd bloody better pull.

Physically, they looked a lot fitter than us.

Big Tyson at the back. You know, he's two men in one.

-[both laugh] -Huge.

[John] Guys, rather than pull, sit and drain them out.

[Jesse] Are we gonna drain Muscles?

I didn't know that the Hulk was coming on The Amazing Race.

-[Jesse laughs] -[Cat] Like, "Say what?"

His biceps stick out as far as my belly does.

[John] Don't worry about him.

After ten seconds, he'll be gone. Too much weights, not enough speed work.

[laughter]

[Grant] The rules are simple.

[exhales sharply]

First team to pull the flag of the opposing team

across their own marker line,

will be declared by me to be the winner,

and, ladies and gentlemen,

-will have a head start in the race. -Whoo!

-[Christie] Come on, team. -[Jono] Let's go, Kiwis!

Come on!

The other team will suffer a time penalty.

Take your positions.

-Let's go, Aussie! -Go, guys!

-New Zealand, are you ready? -Yeah!

Go Kiwis!

The Aussies are going down!

-Down? How do they say it? -Down.

-Down. -Down.

Australia, are you ready?

-Yes! -Come on!

I feel a bit sorry for the Kiwi teams.

Now take the strain. Bring it this way a little.

No underarm bowling here.

Take the strain.

Guys, the world awaits.

-Race hard. Race safe. -Whoo!

-Good luck. -Let's do this.

-Go! -[Jesse] Come on, New Zealand!

-[Tiharna] Go Aussies! -[Tyson] Set, set, set.

[Ashleigh] Come on!

-[Jesse] Come on, come on! -[Cat] Get down. Get down.

-[Todd] Yeah, come on! -[Ashleigh] Come on!

-[Daniel] Pull! -[Todd] Come on, you…

-Go! -Pull!

-[Hereni] Set. -[Jesse] Set. Don't pull!

-Don't pull. -Set. Set. Set.

[Jono] The boys, Murray and Johnny,

they really stepped up and took charge of the situation.

The idea was to exhaust them. Wear 'em down.

Now snake! Snake!

[Jono] Come on, let's go!

[Tiharna] Pull!

[John] Snake it! Snake it!

-[Ryan] Go! -[John] Snake, snake, snake, snake!

-Hold the rope! -Set!

-Hold! -Hold!

[Tiharna] Pull!

-[Tyson grunting] -[Tiharna] Again!

[Ashleigh] I don't know whether Tyson's got a muscle suit on

because we weren't feeling a whole lot of pulling from the back.

[Murray] Three! Pull! Pull! And again!

[Carla] I think a lot of them just thought they'd rely on Goliath,

you know, to do all the pulling.

-One, two, three, pull! -Pull!

-Pull! -Again!

All of a sudden, you could just feel it.

[John] One, two, three, pull!

[Jesse] Anchor, anchor, anchor!

Pull!

[John] One, two, three, pull!

[Jesse] Anchor, anchor. Rest, rest, rest!

It was like a well-oiled All Black scrum. I kid you not.

[John] We got them!

-[Ashleigh] Oh, no! -[Elizabeth] Not the mud.

[Jesse] No wrist movement. Come on!

-Come on! -[Jesse] Come on! Kiwis!

-Kiwis! -[Daniel] Let it go.

When I saw I was getting close to the mud, I said to everyone, "Just drop it."

[shrieking]

I don't think the guys in front got the memo.

-No. -[both laugh]

[shrieking]

Gosh. When we saw the mum… [gasps]

She just face-planted.

-[Tiharna] Are you all right? -I took it for the team.

-New Zealand! -New Zealand!

[cheering]

It was quite obvious that the weight advantage

is what got them across the line.

[New Zealanders cheering]

They should be proud of themselves. They can pull a rope.

[laughs]

New Zealand, you are the winners!

-[cheering] -Your clues are on your backpacks!

Go!

-[Tyson] That was it, then. -[Inga] Yeah.

We'll get it back!

Australia!

You've lost the tug-of-war

and incurred a time penalty.

Everything was a blur. It's like… [blows raspberry]

Light speed. [imitates rocket]

-[laughs] -[gasps]

"Fly to Christchurch, New Zealand."

-Whoo-hoo! -"You're to travel by taxi…"

"…to the Cardboard Cathedral."

[Grant] Teams must fly to Christchurch, New Zealand,

where they will travel by taxi to the Cardboard Cathedral.

The Cardboard Cathedral was erected

after the devastating 2011 Christchurch earthquake,

which claimed 185 lives.

The Cathedral represents a major milestone in the city's recovery,

and it's here, teams must select one of three departure times

for the following day.

"Warning. There are two flights available, one leaving an hour apart."

"The first flight has limited availability. First come, first served.

You have $125 for this leg of the race."

-Okay, okay. -Let's go.

Get the best car, Muzz!

Whoo!

Let's go!

-Great. -That was the best stuff.

First, we'd just won the tug-of-war, and then we're going to our home country.

-We're going home! -Yes!

To be on the home turf, that's a home court advantage.

-Oh, man. -That's huge.

Yeah, run slow!

I was in disbelief. I couldn't believe we'd lost.

[Jarrod] How the bloody hell did we lose that?

[Grant] You guys need to wait out the sands of time

before you can follow New Zealand on the race.

Grant flips this massive egg timer.

And we're sort of sitting there, going, "How long is this sand gonna pour for?"

[Jarrod] To start the first leg,

and just to give the five teams that sort of a head start…

-We were shattered. Bad start. -Not what we wanted.

Team Australia, they're one up. We're going to have to pull together.

We're gonna dig deep and we're gonna catch those Kiwis.

Hopefully.

[Tyson] We lost the tug-of-war to the Kiwis,

so now we're serving a time penalty and we're on the back foot.

Team Australia, they're one up.

We're going to have to pull together.

Winning the tug-of-war gave the New Zealand teams a massive advantage.

-[Carla] I think we wasted them. -[Hereni] Amazing.

So, we are coming first.

H, what's going on?

-We're little Maori mums from New Zealand. -I know. I know.

[Carla] Our motto is kia kaha.

It means, "Be strong." We're gonna be using that a lot in the race.

We're so proud of our Maori heritage.

Maori mothers from New Zealand.

Whoo!

[Carla] We're fit, we're feisty. Strong. Competitive.

We do something called Acroplanking.

We made up the word.

It's basically holding one another's body weight.

Whatever the task may be, we're never going to give up.

Just because you've got kids, your life's not over.

Forty is the new 20.

Look, look, look. Left.

[Jono] Kiwi mums are in front?

I like those two.

I think we could have a little alliance.

-They look like mums, don't they? -Yeah.

Maori mums.

[Jono] We're brother and sister, but we're best friends.

We do have a really, really great relationship.

-We finish each other's… -Sentences.

-We say, "Sandwiches"! -I was gonna say, "Sandwich."

-I knew you were gonna say it. -Wrong answer.

He's the older brother,

so sometimes I want to stand up and be like, "I know what I'm doing."

[Jono] People always ask me,

"How do you have such a great relationship with your sister?"

I was like, "Have you met my sister?" She's awesome.

[Emily laughs]

-Yeah. Okay. -That's so nice. Stop being so nice.

-He's being so nice. -Is it weird?

-He's not this nice all the time. -Not at all.

-Emily, we're going home. -I know!

Oh, my God! This is so much fun!

The sister, brother.

We've called them the von Trapps.

Sometimes we might get them to sing a little bit of "Goodbye, Farewell."

"We wish you all adieu.

-Adieu. Adieu. To you and you and you." -"Adieu. And you."

-We call ourselves Raspberry and… -Coke.

[Murray] 'Cause I'm raspberry.

And he's like Coke.

Now that we've got ahead.

Muzz is my second best mate.

-[Murray] And Johnny's my best mate. -You're right up there.

I'm working on it.

I'm gonna get that spot. I'm gonna have a shot at the title.

[John] Will we win at any costs?

[Murray] We will do things

to win at all costs.

You just concentrate on the driving and I'll do the info.

We gotta get on that first plane.

So exciting!

I spent my weekends up in Christchurch. We know Christchurch well.

I may look tough and rough, tats, piercings,

but I'm the guy that cries at a decent TV ad.

That's me.

Hi. I'm Jesse and I'm a cryoholic.

-Dad! -Give it back.

[Jesse] We have three kids.

Three is not enough, so we take in other people's kids.

[Jesse] So far we have fostered maybe eight children.

-So… -Keeps us on our toes.

-We're not necessarily the fittest team. -[Cat] We are not.

[Jesse] And by not necessarily,

I mean we're probably very unlikely the fittest team.

We're not Team Brains.

[Cat] We're not Team Bikini.

[Jesse] We're probably Team…

Live Life Loud.

I've got blooming red dust all over me.

-Babe. -Yep?

-We're doing this. -[laughs]

[Christie] AC. Something. I have to breathe.

[Aston] Hang on. I just need to focus on driving.

Well, they're in front, so…

[Aston] We have a really great friendship.

We're a little bit like sisters,

but that means we can also get on each other's nerves really easily.

[Christie] A little bit volatile.

Perfect storm, right here. Perfect storm.

[both grunting, laughing]

She believes in crazy things.

Like a crazy lady.

She's all into the auras and all that faffery.

I spend a lot of time in meditation.

I'm mildly telepathic, so I--

-No. Don't say that. -Yeah.

-Seriously? Are you serious now? -But…

[Christie] I'm glad I hitched my star to your wagon.

You complete nutbar.

Oh, Aston, there's a frosty icon.

See? Frosty. Yes.

[Grant] Team Australia,

your time penalty

is over!

Go!

-[Daniel] Let's do it. -"Fly to Christchurch, New Zealand."

"There are two flights available, leaving one hour apart."

"First come, first served."

-I've got those. You take that. -Clue.

-[Inga] I'm driving. -[Todd] You're in the driver's seat, Mum?

There could be a sixth spot on that first flight up for grabs now.

We're trying to be the first of the five Aussie teams.

I am absolutely covered in mud.

I'm an academic. I'm a university lecturer.

Running is not something that I am…

When is the last time you ran, actually?

-About a decade ago. -Yeah.

…the map up the right freaking way!

Where's my glasses? [laughs]

Doing it with Mum is setting about the biggest challenge that you possibly could.

It's like winning, like, from an outside barrier.

I wanna try and win.

[Elizabeth] We'll give it everything we've got.

[shrieks]

-It's been a little bit-- -Old age and treachery.

That's my strengths.

[Todd] Pedal to the metal now.

-[Ryan] That must be the mum and son. -Maybe.

I think they're gonna be strategic though.

I'm not sure I'd take my mother on the road. Sorry, Mum.

I've been an ICU nurse for six years. Ryan's been doing it for 11.

-About 11 years. -I think you've genuinely gotta care.

You're there on someone's worst day ever.

With our nursing background, we have an ability to charm.

I think we'll be able to utilize our charisma in the race.

He's bringing a hair dryer.

It's like a finely-sculpted contemporary art piece.

-Don't touch it. Don't touch it. -[laughs]

When it gets down to it, the competitive streak comes out in both of us.

-We love a challenge. -Yeah.

-You ready, bro? -Dude?

-Boom. Left. -We're on the race, buddy.

-[Jarrod] How did we lose tug-of-war? -[Ashleigh] I don't know.

We had Hercules and we still lost.

When I saw-- I think his name's Tyson.

Yeah. Tyson.

When we saw Big Tys, I thought we had it in the bag.

All show.

-Yeah. -All show Tyson is.

In our marriage, Jarrod and I definitely play our traditional roles.

I try to do a lot of the woman's work, like the ironing and the cleaning.

He's the man-of-the-house type thing and--

Men have grown up doing one way, women another way.

I mean, you do what you do and…

Jarrod is known by all of his mates to be one of the most patriotic Australians.

[Jarrod] I want an Aussie team winning the race.

-That's for sure. -And we want it to be us.

Damn, those bloody Kiwis have got that first flight.

Oh, well. They might get lost on the way to the airport.

Yeah. Knowing them, they probably will.

[Ryan] Who's behind us, do you know?

The Lorna Janes.

The Lorna Janes, always wearing their workout gear, trying to look fit.

Tiharna. When you get to Christchurch, what are you gonna eat?

I'm going to eat some fish and "chups."

We refer to ourselves as the three B's.

[both] The brainy, busty brunettes.

[Inga] So, we're pageant models.

We met at a blondes versus brunettes comp and the brunettes won, so…

Oh, yeah, baby.

[Inga] Whilst I'm a model, I'm also a CPA accountant.

[Tiharna] And myself, I work in the stockbroking industry.

[Inga] We've been training hard.

We can take anything that's thrown at us,

and we're hoping that will give us a little bit of an edge.

-[grunts] -[both] You ready for us?

And think we'll definitely use our assets to our advantage.

Everyone's gonna think we're idiots. I wanna prove 'em wrong.

[Sally] I'm so excited.

Are you excited, Puppy?

I call Tyson "Puppy" because he gives me unconditional love like puppies do.

We are both bodybuilding competitors.

We've competed in a couple of international events.

We know what it takes to put 100% into what we're doing.

[Tyson] Some of the other people might look at us

and think we're just silly bodybuilders.

-[Sally] I'm a veterinary surgeon. -Beautiful.

[Tyson] And I'm a personal trainer.

[Sally] He can look a little bit aggressive from the outside,

but really Tyson's a big gentle giant.

[Tyson] And we're currently in last place.

That's all right. It's early. We got plenty of time to catch up.

Let's just focus on getting that first flight into Christchurch.

There's little things.

We definitely want to crush Australia. That's without a doubt.

And then we've got our own objectives as Team Raspberry and Coke.

We want to crush everyone

and that's obviously going to include some New Zealand teams.

-Here we go. Look at the sign there. -Got it.

Yes. These are the boys in front of us, Jono.

An Amazing Race arrow pointing straight ahead.

There's-- There it is.

[Carla] We've got to go fast here

'cause there's limited availability on the first flight.

[Hereni] Yep.

[John] Let's go. Let's get out.

To the Virgin counter. Let's hustle.

-Go. Let's go. -No, but keys on the driver's seat.

-I've got it. -Got it?

-I'll just double check, but I've got it. -You've got it?

[John] Hello. How are you?

-Two tickets to Christchurch, please. -Absolutely.

For 11:35. We've got no check-in luggage.

There was limited space on the flight.

We didn't know how limited it was, but we knew that there were going to be--

that there were going to be some people who missed out.

-These two are all great to go. -Thank you very much, ma'am.

[man] We've got availability on the 11:35 flight.

-Yes! Let's go. -Yes, please.

[Christie] All Kiwi teams on the same one?

-[Cat] I don't know. -Just thinking the whole thing.

Keep going straight.

-You can see the other cars parked. -Beautiful.

Let's go.

There's the mum. The mum's in front of us.

-[Ashleigh] Is she? -How the hell did they get there?

[Aston] It's the Aussies. It's the Aussies.

[Christie] Guys, the first Aussie team is here. Just a heads up.

We got to the airport. "We're the first Australians."

A really cool feeling.

I got the racing bug.

[Ryan] Let's go.

Ash, in here.

[chattering]

[Carla] Wouldn't it be funny if, like,

all the Aussies got out on the first five legs?

[Aston] Yeah, I know. Serious.

[Carla] Let's start manifesting.

Hey. Sorry.

Hopefully, they stay back here.

-[Jesse] Thank you so much. -Marie, you're a legend.

-[Aston] I'm scared that's gonna be-- -That we're gonna be bumped off.

-I'll be with you guys. -Yeah.

[Tiharna] Passports.

-Two seats for you guys. -Cool. Awesome.

Are we able to get on the first flight?

Well, we had two flights. We need to get on the first flight.

Please, good flight.

[woman] Unfortunately, the first flight is full.

[both groaning]

[Jarrod] Four teams could go on the first flight to New Zealand.

And the other six had to wait an hour later.

Damn.

Unfortunately, the people that were on that first flight were all Kiwis

going back to their hometown.

We didn't make it.

So we were stuffed.

Please, please, please. Good flight.

[woman] Unfortunately, the first flight is full.

[both groaning]

We came in last of the Kiwi teams and missed the first flight.

-You're with us. -We're with the Aussies!

Come on, there! With the Aussies!

[Aston] We had to catch the second plane. We were stuck with the Aussies.

-Keep your enemies closer… -Keep your enemies close--

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

And not the flies.

[Grant] New Zealand teams John and Murray,

Emily and Jono,

Cat and Jesse, and Carla and Hereni

are all on the first flight from Uluru via Sydney to Christchurch,

due to arrive at midnight.

Food could be a problem.

[Sally] We eat six meals a day so that we can keep our metabolism going.

Our biggest worry at the moment is when and where we are going to be able to eat

and what we're gonna be able to eat.

We're intensive care nurses.

-[Aston] Are you? -No way!

-Seriously? No. -[Christie] Are you seriously nurses?

-Yeah. -We've nicknamed them the Naughty.

And we liked them 'cause we're a little bit naughty.

I think more than a little bit, to be fair.

At the moment, I've been doing a bit of life modeling.

Do you know what that is?

Is it when you strip down naked and people paint you?

-Yeah. -I love that.

-That's the main-- -That's cool.

-That's my main source of revenue if you-- -How do I get into that?

-I mean the painting. -[laughs]

[Grant] New Zealand team Aston and Christie

and Australian teams Elizabeth and Todd,

Sally and Tyson,

Inga and Tiharna,

Daniel and Ryan, and Ashleigh and Jarrod

are now all traveling on the second flight.

They're due to arrive in Christchurch one hour later than the first teams.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Guess who we got to sit next to the whole way to Christchurch?

Hello there.

[Jarrod] Aston and Christie,

very flirtatious on the flight over there, weren't they?

It's a bit lame.

We were happy that they were on our flight.

Because if we're gonna have a chance against any Kiwi,

we were gonna be able to beat them.

-It was a security blanket in a way. -[laughs] Security blanket.

[John] Right, right, Muzz.

[Cat] Keep going, going…

[Jesse] Taxi, taxi, taxi, taxi!

Really quickly, please.

[Emily] Cardboard Cathedral, as fast as you can.

We're in Christchurch, New Zealand!

We got into Christchurch.

And we had the hometown advantage.

-Nice. Good job. -Nice!

That's what we're talking about, taxi driver!

Yeah!

-Fifty dollars. -Fifty dollars?

From here to the-- Can you do me a deal?

Can we do $40?

Jesse thinks it'll be a good idea

to negotiate a taxi fare with the taxi driver.

You don't do that anywhere in New Zealand. What the heck?

Save it for countries you do that, Jesse, I think.

As fast as we can.

[driver] Welcome to New Zealand.

-We are. Thank you. -Thank you very much.

-[Emily] Boys. Boys. -What have we got? The fellas.

Nyah!

We need to get in front of this car because they were behind us.

We've got local knowledge,

so we'll just take it easy and just work on our strategy.

-Yeah, I think we just play it cool. -Yeah.

-Muzza and Johnny. Nice boys. -Yeah.

Nice boys, but they've got their head in the game.

They gave us a word, didn't they? They'll play as a team--

They'll play as a team for any Kiwi stuff we need to do, but other than that--

-They're running their own race. -They're on their own, which is cool.

-[Emily] Go up here. Yep. -What's that? Just here.

-Now! Pull in here. -Pull in.

-[Emily] Now. -[Jono] Yeah, go!

-Do you want bags? -No, I've got bags. Go.

-Okay. -Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

[Emily] Looking for a number.

-Picking a departure time. -[Jono] Departure card.

[Emily] It's open.

Go inside.

We ran in with John and Murray.

Hey, Jono. 8:00 a.m.

And we got the 8:00 a.m. start for the first one in the morning.

-Nice one! -Yes!

We got in right beside them. It was 8:00.

-[Hereni] Whoo. -[Carla] All right, quick. Thanks, guys.

Go, go, go, go! Come on.

[John] Go, go, go. Come on, come on.

There were three 8:00s, three 8:15s and four 8:30s.

-Eight o'clock. Okay, cool. -[Hereni laughs]

We were so lucky to get the very last 8:00.

-[Jesse] Thank you, Solomon. A pleasure. -[Cat] Thank you!

-Thank you. -[Cat] Do we need to…

We got the first of the 8:15s.

[Carla] When we were at the Cardboard Cathedral,

we went around the back and we saw

the 185 chairs of all the people that had lost their lives.

We were there at the same time as Jono and Em.

[Jono] This is a memorial for the earthquake victims.

[Hereni] Did you know anyone?

I did, yeah. My…

[Emily] Our family doctor.

It was a moment for us that really hit home,

just sort of standing there and taking the time out of the chaos of the race…

-Yeah. -…to stop.

And to pay our respects and reflect on the memorial

with the 185 chairs there for every person that died in the quake.

[Cat sobs]

The whole nation of New Zealand felt every bit of that Christchurch earthquake.

Obviously not as much as Christchurch people did.

But we all-- We were all together in that.

They're all somebody's family.

Someone's kids, someone's dad, someone's mum.

[Jarrod] Go, go, go!

-Third one, third one! -[Tiharna] Go, go, go!

-[Tyson] There. -[Daniel] All right, central Christchurch.

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

-[Ryan] The Cardboard Church. -[Daniel] Perfect.

-The Cardboard Cathedral. -Cardboard Cathedral.

[Inga] Can you open the boot?

-[Ashleigh] Big race. -[Jarrod] Big race.

My God! Excuse me, please.

There's just so much pushing. Like, I don't know about you,

but I just totally just got whacked, pushed back.

Yeah. We're all doing it.

Whoo!

Okay, we need to beat these guys.

Sally looks very serious right now.

-She does. -[laughs]

We've just traveled all the way from Australia, so…

I'm still in my shorts and singlet from Ayers Rock.

I'm actually getting quite hot in my merino.

[shouting] On the green, my boy! Let's do it!

-[Todd] We gotta beat that cab. -Quick! Go!

Go. He's blocking you. Bastard!

There's the married couple. That's the married couple.

Yeah.

Is there only one way to get there or…

That cab's passing us.

Oh, no.

Oh, no. You are kidding.

-That bloody red light! -[sighs]

[Sally] Oh, yes!

-Yeah! -Yes, yes!

Thank you. I knew we had a good driver.

-Yes. -All right. We've found a shortcut.

We've just left the other two taxis in front and…

I think we're going to come in first out of this group now.

I'm very hopeful! [laughs]

We ended up being the only Kiwi team that didn't get on the first flight.

We're the only team that checked in luggage.

We're in last place in the race.

-It can only get better from here. -It can only get better from here.

[Sally] Is that all cardboard?

-Wow, that's all cardboard, Tyson. -Awesome.

-All right. I think we're here, Sal. -Okay. All right.

He got us there first in the second group.

Quick. Quick.

There's another cab there already.

-Thank you. -Thank you.

[Daniel] Grab a time.

[Ryan] We got there second out of the people coming off the flight.

I saw Tys and Sal at the cathedral.

They didn't take the tag.

I saw some times at the church, hanging at the church.

Did you see that?

[Tyson] Times? Do you think we were meant to put a number up?

Hey?

That's the original cathedral.

-[Christie] That's the original one. -We need some light.

[Christie] The transitional one has to be close.

Somehow, there was something lost in translation

and we ended up at the original cathedral that had been demolished.

[Aston] There's the transitional cathedral.

-[Christie] So we need to go-- We need to… -We're not even anywhere near there.

-Aston… -Across Madras. That way.

-[Christie] Yep, that way. -'Cause I've seen some people.

[Christie] Okay.

Let's just manifest the cathedral right there.

It's not gonna be there just 'cause we want it to be there, dude.

I know, but maybe I'm wrong and it was on the other side.

We should get off the road 'cause there's a car coming.

Hey! Cab, cab, cab, cab, please!

Come on, come on, come on, come on!

-[Aston] Let's get in. All right. -First, we'll find out--

[Aston] Do you know where the Cardboard Cathedral is?

-[Christie] Awesome. -And you're sure you know where it is?

-He knows Madras Street. -Okay, good. All right.

There's the other teams. They've all got it.

Yeah, that's it.

I just, I saw some times at the church

and I think we might have missed something in the clue, so…

[Jarrod] Let's go.

[Tiharna] Come on. Come on.

[Jarrod] Go!

"Change a departure time for your next clue."

-Ugh [bleep]. We have to go and pick-up. -[Tyson] We need to go back.

We need to run.

[Jarrod] This way. This way.

[Ashleigh] What are we looking for? What are we looking…

[Tiharna] When we got to the cathedral,

there was only the 8:30 time slots left which sucked.

[Sally] If we'd grabbed the time when we first got there,

we would've gotten 8:15.

Yeah. When did you see these?

When we first got here, I saw them. But I didn't know it meant anything.

-Sal! -I'm sorry.

That fifteen minutes could mean

the difference between staying in or being eliminated.

Anything you see, just ask a question straightaway.

We both have to-- I actually--

I didn't actually even see them, so you at least saw them.

So, we've just got to relax and not get flustered and too excited.

We didn't read the clue properly, so we missed picking up the time.

So now we're in the last group.

-Let's learn-- -Onwards and upwards.

Let's learn from our mistakes and now we won't let that happen again.

[Aston] Okay, so now what?

[Christie] Departure time, 8:30. Do you want to depart at 8:30?

-Well, that's all that's left, so… -We've got no other choice.

It looks like we'll be going at 8:30.

Eight o'clock buzzer.

-Thank you very much. -Hell for leather.

-"Search the area…" -"…for a marked car."

"Drive yourself to Rangitata Rafts."

[Grant] Teams must now drive themselves to Rangitata Rafts,

150 kilometers south of Christchurch,

traveling through the stunning mountain scenery that formed the backdrop

for the blockbusting Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Once here, teams will navigate their way through Grade Five white water rapids

to retrieve one half of a unique ring and receive their next clue.

[John] Rangitata Rafts.

-[Jono] Go. -[Carla] Yep, flag. Awesome.

[John] Let's go, Muzz.

[Jono] This one. Let's go.

-You. You're driving. -Tell me where to go.

Rangitata.

Okay, let me know when you're comfortable, Muzz,

-and I'll give you some more info. -Yeah.

[Jono] In Peel Forest.

It's ages away.

-Peel, Peel, Peel. -It's in Geraldine.

-South. -Okay. South.

[Carla] In front of us at the moment, we've got Murray who's from Christchurch,

so we're not gonna stop and look for directions. We're gonna follow him.

Our plan of attack for the day was to follow John and Muzza.

Let's also be aware, Muzza, they're following us.

So, we've gotta make sure we've got a bit of game play happening as well.

[Carla] Keep going straight ahead. They're on the right.

[Hereni] They're trying to lose us.

[Carla] We look like the nice, sweet mothers, but…

[cackles]

We are terribly competitive.

We still have Muzza in our sights.

"Rangitata Rafts."

"Embark on a river quest for navigating Grade Five rapids."

-Yes! -Whoo!

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

[Ryan] Red goes faster!

[Cat] Go down there.

If I go down this way, and I can get right along,

I'm sure that takes us towards Geraldine.

Follow the white car. It's the Kiwis. They're gonna know where this is.

If you can just keep with them, we're sweet.

Dude, you reckon Jesse and Cat know where they're going?

We're getting lost together, bro.

[Jesse] We've got a car behind us. Is that the boys or is it…

Uh, that's Todd and Elizabeth, I think.

We don't know where we're going, so we're just following the Kiwis.

The Kiwis are very trustworthy, except when they're not.

Go, go. Follow 'em. Go, go, go!

[Jesse] The mum from the mum and son team,

she's probably got an answer and a story for pretty much everything.

I don't know that we actually have strategies so much,

as is, sort of, we're seeing this more like survival.

[both laugh]

Old age and treachery win every time…

This is like having a bit of fun.

…to the extent that I can play a few jokes on them.

Elizabeth on the Australian team,

she was telling us that she was one of the first women that ever went into space.

And that's amazing.

[Elizabeth] She asked me,

"How long does it take to get to the moon?"

I said, "Well, about four days."

"What's it like up there?"

I said, "It's a bit dark."

[laughing]

[Tiharna] The mother, don't trust.

-She's a rocket scientist. -[Inga] She's been to the moon twice.

I think she was telling pretty much everyone about her space missions, or…

-[Ashleigh] She's an astronaut. She's not… -Astronaut.

Rubbish, she's an astronaut.

[laughing]

[Tyson] Go, go, go!

-[Tiharna] Good morning. -[Inga] Thanks.

-"Embark on a river quest…" -"…by navigating Grade Five rapids…"

-"…to retrieve one-half of…" -"…a legendary ring."

-This way. It's down here. -Let's go.

We were like, "We've got this. Let's do it."

-We're in front. No one's behind us. -That's right.

I wanna break away from them.

I'll jump in. You jump behind.

-[Christie] This is your opportunity… -To shine.

…for your internal GPS to shine.

-Yep. -Like the noonday sun, girl.

The first day wasn't a great one. And we knew we needed to bring a bit more.

Yeah.

I don't know where we're going. Should we follow these people?

-Just follow. -Should we pull over and ask this guy?

We've got no clue where we are. We've never been to New Zealand.

Sorry. Do you guys know where "Rangatiti" Rafts on the Waikari Road is?

[man] "Rangatiti" Rafts?

You'd think a road worker in New Zealand would know a road.

Let's go.

Just follow. Back out. We'll go further down.

-Are you joking? -I'm not joking. Just…

-None of them want to help you? -No.

-Welcome to New Zealand. -Those bloody Kiwis.

It's almost worth buying a bloody map.

Petrol station on the left.

-Go into it? -Yeah.

[Christie] Oh, they're there.

Damn.

That's all right. We won't tell them where we're going.

[Inga] Do you know where Geraldine is?

-I want to get the info before them. -[Christie] No. Don't give her any info!

Don't give her any info.

She's an Aussie and we're competing against her.

Aston and Christie pushed me out of the way.

Came out of bloody nowhere.

-[Inga] Can I just butt in for a second? -[Christie] No, no.

This one. This one. We need a map.

[Inga] I was at the front of the counter,

and they went, "Don't talk to her." "Don't talk to her."

They were pushing me to the back.

Can we get our change? Sorry. We're in a race against her.

We really want our change.

Aston and Christie got the last map and I was so frustrated and angry at them.

Dude, pretty girls get it so sweet.

Back off, bitches, and find your own frickin' servo.

It's just disrespectful, man.

Honestly. They're like leeches.

-[Christie] Take them. Take them. -Ta-ta!

Psychological advantage.

-Bye-bye. -See you later, girls.

Outta here.

We've made a few errors in the race to start with,

but as long as we learn from it…

Quick. Quick, Sal.

[Sally] I'm sorry to bother you, but we're a little bit lost.

We were already lost getting out of Christchurch.

So, I wanted to stop and I wanted to ask for directions.

Can you look it up on the Internet and print it out for us?

We got them to print out the Google map

with complete directions all the way to Rangitata Rafts.

So, now we can drive and relax, know we're on the right track.

[John] We're at the front, so we can get out first.

'Cause people will back in front of us.

We were confident we were maybe in at one or two.

Needy little chick at the counter.

If they're getting dressed or something…

When we arrived at the rafting location,

Muzza and Johnny were there. So, we were hot on their heels.

[Emily] The boys are ahead of us. Damn it!

We're hot on their heels.

-That's the good news. -Yeah.

[Murray] All righty. Let's go rafting, Wildcat.

Jumped in the raft, and this was the biggest Houdini of the whole clue,

the search for a half-ring.

-Muzz, you got left. I got right. -Yeah. Rings, rings, rings.

It's hard 'cause you just have no idea what you're looking for.

Oh, my gosh. There they are.

-We can do this. -They're going to be crapping themselves.

We could see them in front of us,

and we figured if we kind of kept them in our sight,

we'd see them get off to get the ring.

There's the girls behind us.

Yeah, I saw it.

We had to raft a certain stretch.

And while we're doing that, we had to look for a half-ring.

-Let's get that ring first, though. -Yeah.

Those boys got panicked when they saw us.

[John] Whoo!

We're going in. Hey, hey! Hello!

[Carla] Whoo-hoo!

[John] Get down. Get down.

Get down, brother! Hold the stick!

Hold your stick!

[both whooping]

Great work, Johnny!

[Carla] Wow, that's beautiful.

[Jono] Whoa!

[Emily] Oh, my goodness.

When it said Grade Five rapids, we're both, like--

I was shaking in my boots a little there.

Hold on tight, babe. Let's go!

-[Emily screams] -Oh, yeah!

Get in that raft.

[Emily screaming]

[Murray] Whoo-hoo-hoo!

[John] The pressure was on because when you're at the front,

you actually pave the way for the people behind to do something

because they follow you.

Is that a ring there, Muzz?

[Murray] Nah.

We knew that the girls were pretty close.

We'd seen them a couple times.

There they are, right behind us, Muzz.

The less visual they have on us, the more they're going to panic.

[Murray] Now we're thinking, "Okay, no ring.

What are we doing? What's going on?"

Maybe we missed something?

Look, that's been climbed on, H.

-[Hereni] Yes. -Yes, yes, yes, yes. Good, mate.

My goodness.

We stopped the guy, and made him back-turn at one point to go and have a look.

[Murray] No, stop. They've gone for something.

Let's look on this rock.

Then we thought, "Oh, no." We could have went straight past it.

They might not have eagle eyes.

They could have missed it.

As we were rafting, we needed to look out for half of a ring.

We weren't going to take any chances.

Thank you.

Sorry about that.

We'll keep looking.

[John] Okay. A couple of big ones. Let's go.

There's a half-ring there.

Can we go there, please?

And then, hallelujah.

-Come on, mate. -That little beach there.

Ten rings.

Yes. Let's go.

Muzz, just got a visual.

We're about a hundred on the girls.

[Carla] Come on, boys. Watch out.

Oh, my God. Look at them all.

When we found the half-ring, there was half of a saying on it.

And so, we didn't know what the whole phrase was.

[Murray] There you go, Big Cat.

-How are you? -Yeah.

Oh, thank you very much.

"Drive yourselves to Rata Peak Station."

[Grant] Having retrieved one half of the ring,

teams will now drive 21 kilometers west to Rata Peak Station,

where they will find their next clue.

Thank you.

"Drive yourself to Rata Peak Station and search for your next clue."

[Jono] Check it out.

-[in Gollum's voice] My precious. -Yes.

Half of them.

[Aston] It's the boys! It's the Naughties!

The Kiwi girls have caught up with us.

Interesting, 'cause these guys started in the round--

in the departure time before us.

So, we caught up to the Naughties along the way.

I think we've really cut some time.

[Ryan] Dude, I think there are other teams up ahead.

Okay, that's cool.

I've probably got more trust in Jesse, up in the car ahead of me, than myself.

[Elizabeth] Todd's map reading skills: We follow somebody.

It's a very good move, Todd.

-Well, how do we have three? -Three!

Team Jesus and I don't know who's at the back.

We've either got a team from the 8:30 crew…

And then we actually caught up to the two teams in front.

Whilst keeping within the speed limit.

Oh, this could be big.

It could be anyone's game.

-[Aston] Go, love. -[Ryan] Got it?

In a changing race, in a get-your-clothes-off race,

that's where we really shine.

Come on. Come on, Mum.

Todd and Elizabeth are gonna realize where the ring is if we find it first.

Maybe that's why they let us go first.

They're pretty smart.

I wasn't gonna let them go first, though.

The most important thing, Mum, is

what it'll cost us time is if you don't hold on to the raft.

-Are you suggesting I'm going to fall in? -I know you're gonna fall in.

[both laugh]

This one here, this one here, Muzz.

Good. Let's see here as well.

Yep. Let's go again.

Road Block.

"Who's got better traction?"

-Definitely you, Murray. -Okay.

A Road Block is a task only one person can perform.

The team member performing this Road Block must use a tractor

to navigate their way through a slalom course and collect hay bales.

They must then reverse back through the course,

and stack a total of four bales in the marked area.

Once the hay has been successfully delivered,

the team member must search the flock of sheep

for the second half of their unique ring.

No two rings are the same, so they must look for their exact match.

When joined, two halves of the ring will lead them to the Pit Stop.

Oh, my God.

[Hereni] Yeah.

[Carla] Oh, my God. It's a Road Block. Awesome.

"Who's got better traction?"

-Do you wanna do it? Okay. -Shall I do it? Okay.

-Yep. Number four. -[Murray] Hey, sir, how you doing?

I grew up on a farm, so those raspberries--

I actually grew up on a raspberry farm.

Wish me luck.

Big Cat.

You've got about a two-and-a-half-minute lead on them now.

[Murray] A little nervous to start, but once we got the big fella going…

Big Red.

Rather than go one, then back through, and then one-- doing that four times--

I actually decided to go for two, so I took one off.

Popped on the ground.

-Got another. Popped it on top. -[John] But it was good to go two.

If you went four, you pierced them and they split,

then it would have been over.

[Carla] Okay, let's do this.

Whoo-hoo! Go, Carla!

The tractor is so big that I can barely see over the back.

Or the front.

I'm quite small.

Do you-- Do you look like a hobbit in a wet suit?

-[Jesse] I think. -[laughs]

Or am I one of the dwarves?

-You're that guy! -I'm like Gimli, the dwarf.

The thing that I know most about more than anything

is to listen to you like my life depends on it.

There are the girls, not much in front of us.

[Inga] Good.

Ash and Jarrod are behind us.

Damn, we are last.

[Ashleigh] Is it Sally and Tyson?

[Jarrod] Driving in there, we thought we were last.

So we thought, "Let's go, let's go, let's go."

[Tyson] All right. Sal?

Geraldine. We're in Geraldine. Okay.

All right, so…

-There are not many signs here. -It's a right turn.

No mountain bike tracks.

The directions we printed out were to the Rangitata Raft ticket office.

This is going straight to the office. It's in here somewhere.

The office must be on the right here.

But we couldn't see any other teams or any markers.

[Tyson] You might have-- You might still have it.

Something just does not feel right.

Where is everybody?

Sal!

[Tyson] The directions we printed up were for the ticket office

and not to the rafting location we were hoping for.

Rangitata Rafts.

To the Rangitata Rafts.

There's a road that says "to Peel Forest."

We were a good half hour away.

-That's a long time. -Mm.

So, if we turn out of here and we go left…

We ended up in the wrong location because we didn't read the clue properly.

So now, we're probably coming last.

[Emily] There. Let's go.

Oh, it's a Road Block!

[both] "Who's got better traction?"

-You got this one? -Yeah.

-Let's do it. Go. -Cool.

[John] Awesome, Muzza!

Good work! Nice and steady!

[Murray] So, the Road Block challenge

was to drive a tractor through a slalom of hay bales.

Nice, Muzza.

Then I had to pick up four hay bales.

And then reverse through that same slalom of hay bales.

And then put them on a marked square box.

I only moved one bale at a time but I was awesome at reversing.

Go, Carla! Whoo!

[Emily] Okay. You can do this, Emily.

You're gonna rock this!

Rocking it out.

This is your time to shine.

Now, go faster!

-One, two… -One, two…

-One… -One, two…

[shrieking, laughing]

[guide] Get down!

[cheering]

[Ryan] Yeah!

The funny thing is, at some points we would say,

"Mate, have you even been looking for the rings?"

-[Daniel] Do it staggered. -Hang on.

Is that something glistening?

[Daniel] Where? Just-- Yeah.

I'd like you to concentrate here 'cause--

-I am concentrating! -So we can have a second set of eyes.

I'm technically blind without my glasses on.

-There they are. There's the gold ring. -Where are they?

-[laughing] -Where? Can you see? I can't see them.

You didn't do a lot of paddling, did you?

I did a fair-- I did my fair share of paddling.

[Elizabeth squeals] So, wait, wait, wait.

I'm in quicksand.

Wow.

[Inga] Who's that?

-The two girls. -Oh, yeah.

[Tiharna] Can we please catch up to them?

I kind of want to conserve a little bit of energy,

just 'cause I really badly need to pee.

[Aston] You won't see a thing. It'll be in your wet suit.

-Oh, God. No, I can't go pee. -Just do it!

Take it for the team.

Come on. You can do it.

Get it out.

Let's get those Kiwi girls.

We knew we could make some time up. And we could…

potentially pick up a place.

And in this game, a place is massive.

[Ashleigh] Come on, Jazz, let's go.

So we literally just powered past Aston and Christie.

[Aston] We only really had a consistent single paddle going.

Why am I not surprised that you slipped that in.

They'll wear themselves out. I guarantee it.

We'll be able to catch them up.

[Jesse] Hard! Pull it hard!

[Cat] Stay down!

Whoo!

[Ashleigh] Get down.

It was so much fun,

and it got even more fun when we got to the next Kiwi team.

Okay.

-[Cat] And they… -[Jesse] And they just went…

straight past us.

-It's like… -Ah!

You've done well. You're professionals, aren't you?

You almost feel bad passing teams that you really think are genuinely lovely.

No.

Come on, babe. We're gonna do this.

Dig deep.

What have I done wrong here? [exhales sharply]

Have I lost gears, or what have I done?

[Hereni] Whoo!

Looking good.

[Jono] You've got ones to the right.

Try and get it perfect.

Whoo-hoo!

-One down! -[Jono laughs]

[Emily] Whoo!

[Jono] Oh, no, no, no, no!

No. Pick your things up.

I did start to panic a little bit when Emily didn't lift up the forks

after dropping her first hay bale.

I need some air con in here.

[Jono] Oh, God. She doesn't know!

Oh, my God! Stop!

She did the whole next part of the course with them digging into the ground.

She has no idea what she's doing.

[Emily] Through the bales.

How can she not see that?

-[Emily] Oh, shit. -It's all right!

You see me digging up the ground?

The look on the farmer's face of you just destroying his tractor.

[Emily] Oh, God.

I was quite enjoying myself. You know, I was in the zone.

I might get a job in the mines after this.

That's it, Emily. Whoo-hoo!

[Jono] Yep. Lower down.

Two more to go! Whoo!

[John] Lock it up, Muzza!

You did really well. I'm really proud of you.

[Murray] The second part of the challenge,

I had to jump in a pen with a whole heap of lambs.

[John] Get in there. Let's go.

[Murray] There's the half-ring.

I had to find another ring, so it would go like that and connect.

You're my boy, Blue!

[John] You got a visual?

There's a lot of visuals in front of me, Johnny.

-Yeah. -Most of them are sheep.

Yeah, it was a little bit of a tippy-toe approach.

And then charge.

[Carla] Shit.

[Hereni] Well done, Carla!

-[Carla] Is it-- -[man] Well done.

Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank you.

Carla finished the tractor, and then we had to run across.

And Carla had to tackle a sheep.

[Jono] Whoo-hoo! Awesome.

[Hereni] Yeah, they're over here.

Stay there, bud.

[Christie] Oh, my God! Are you serious?

[screaming]

-[Christie] I can't hear you! -Hold on! Hold on!

[Christie] How much more of this bloody river is there?

[Jarrod] Quick, quick, quick, quick.

Run, run.

Yeah. Let's go.

Oh, yeah. The big rings.

We're coming to get ya!

We have a ring!

Half a ring.

-Thank you. -You're a good man.

"Drive yourself to the Rata Peak Station and search for your next clue."

Let's go.

After the rapids, we'd gone from eighth to sixth.

And eighth to sixth…

-That's huge. -…in the first leg is massive. Massive.

So, we're stoked.

[groans]

[Ashleigh] Relax, relax. Let it go, let it go, let it go.

It's left open.

Yes!

-Got a ring. -[Christie] Get it, get it, get it!

[Aston whooping]

[Christie] Good job, Atty!

Good job.

-Jump in. -Good spotting.

[Tiharna] Come on. We can catch those girls easily.

We gotta catch the Kiwi girls.

How can they beat us?

[Inga] Yeah, good. 'Cause they're mean.

[whooping]

We were going down the rapid, and then all of a sudden, like, bang.

The raft just flipped over, and we were in the freezing cold water.

[Tiharna] The next thing I know, I'm drifting away,

and panic hits me.

[Inga] And I'm trying so hard to reach for Tiharna,

and I just can't find her hand or see her anywhere.

I just didn't know what to do.

Hey!

So we had to go down these rapids, and look for a ring,

and then the next thing you know, we're in the water.

All of a sudden, like, bang.

The raft overturned.

I reached out and I grabbed Tiharna's hand.

And then our guide managed to get back into the raft.

-[Tiharna] So cold! -[laughing]

[Inga] And then he pulled us back in.

He was laughing. I was laughing. We were laughing.

I tried to save you!

We're trying to look for half a ring, not even knowing what we need to look for.

I can see it. It's in the sand.

Look, look. On that beach. Go, go.

Half of it. That's it. It's ours.

Waikari Road. Here we go, here we go.

All right. We're back in the game.

All right, Tys. Let's strip off.

We're thinking we're last.

But there's always hope, so we're not gonna give up.

[cheering]

-[Tyson] All right. -We're gonna smash this up!

Come on, we can do this.

Hopefully, we can make up some ground, so we're not in last position anymore.

We can row really hard.

Forward, baby.

We can do this.

We've got nine teams to beat.

We're still in the race.

"Drive yourselves to Rata Peak Station, and search for your next clue."

We knew we weren't far behind them,

but one silly mistake could cost us the game.

[Emily] Like a glove.

Emily was kicking butt at the tractor challenge.

[Emily gasps]

-Yes! -[Jono] Like a glove!

She's done. This is it. [laughs]

-Did I do it? -Yeah, Emily!

-That was so much fun. -You're amazing.

So proud.

You have no idea how much time you made up on those girls.

I had to tackle, tackle, tackle.

There's sweat, blood, poo.

-I would have-- -Whose poo?

-Sheep's poo. -Okay. [laughs]

[shouting]

[cheering]

Finally, after what felt like an hour, I got it.

"Continue west to the Pit Stop."

[Grant] The rugged mountain ranges of New Zealand's Southern Alps

provided the location for the fortress city Edoras

in the Lord of the Rings films.

And it's among this majestic scenery that we find

the very first Pit Stop of the race.

The last team to check in here may be eliminated.

Okay, so, the sun rises in the where?

-West? -No, it goes WE, west to east.

It's two o'clock in the arvo now.

Well, that's going east.

We are pretty good, between us, on navigation.

So I reckon that's east, but I could be wrong.

People might assume because I'm small, I don't have any guts or anything.

But I was looking forward to wrestling the sheep.

He was running away and it fell off his neck.

That one just flew off.

Perfect. I didn't have to wrestle him after all.

-Perfect. -Awesome.

-[Jono] Keep working. -[Emily] Good job.

[Murray] Let's go, Big Cat.

-You're driving, Johnny. -Yep.

[Jono] How'd you go?

[Emily] Yeah, it fell off, you lucky bum.

[Jono] Catch those boys! Go, go, go!

All right.

I thought they were kind of semi-stupid animals, but they were fast.

-Get it! Oh! -[grunts]

Yes.

-Road Block. -Road Block.

-"Who's got…" -"…better traction?"

-You. -I've got better traction.

-You. -You're fatigued. It's gotta be me.

[Ashleigh] Quick, quick. Go, go.

As we walked up to the Road Block,

the two Kiwi teams that were behind us,

which were Aston and Christie and Jesse and Cat,

had pulled up in the car park and were running down.

-Guys, where do we get a number from? -[Emily] Do you know?

Huh?

She hasn't given us the time of day, so…

-They're not giving anything either. -[Jarrod] Bloody hell.

We're here.

The boys had only just left maybe three or four minutes before us.

[Murray] "Continue west to the Pit Stop."

West. Is this west?

Can we have a look here for these marked roads, please?

Mate, you're driving. You're gonna have to take control of this.

Anything can happen along the way. There's a chance we can still catch them.

We are so close. It might be a footrace in a minute.

[bleating]

[Jono] Get him. Yeah!

-I'm sorry. -[Jono] Yeah, that's my sister!

[Emily] I'm sorry, little lamby.

I tackled a sheep, like every New Zealander girl would, you know?

Ah!

You only need four bales.

-Okay? -Well, yeah.

The hay bales obviously go in the front.

Where am I supposed to stand?

[Ashleigh] Go Jazz, you can do it!

Good work, Jazza!

[Jarrod] Oh, bloody hell.

[Cat] Go, Jess!

Owning it!

[man] You're all right. Just back it up there.

Get it up there, mate.

You'll be right proper.

Here's the ring. I got the ring. Here, we go, H!

Whew! Good times. Let's get home.

Grant's gonna be so proud of us.

-It's in front of us. -We've got those guys on our tails.

-[Murray] Here we are. -We're gonna have a footrace here.

Right. Let's go, Big Cat.

-Clear? -Yeah, lock it.

[Carla] Oh, sorry.

Let's go, Big Cat.

[laughing]

Tell me some good news, babe.

And Grant. [laughter]

[speaks Maori] Welcome to New Zealand.

[Grant] Well…

Say it.

John, Murray…

-You're the first team to arrive! -[shouting, laughing]

[Murray] I don't know if I can explain it, really, how proud we were.

We've won the leg in New Zealand. It was amazing.

-As winners of this first leg… -[John] Yeah?

…you receive two Virgin Australia business class return flights to LA.

[cheering, laughing]

That's not all.

The winners of this first leg also receive an Express Pass.

An Express Pass entitles you to skip any task of your choosing

and immediately receive your next clue.

However, there's not one, but two.

He pulled out one Express Pass, then pulled out a second Express Pass.

So it was like, "Hey. Change of dynamics."

A double Express Pass gives you an opportunity to give one away.

This is a very powerful tool.

It put some pressure on us. A target on our back.

Do you build an alliance? Do you not?

What do you do?

Here are the rules around that.

You must give away one Express Pass by the end of the third leg,

and you must use your own Express Pass by the end of the fifth leg.

[John] We've got our Express Pass. When are we going to play it?

We've got the second Express Pass. Are we going to build an alliance?

Or are we just going to basically wait to see who greases us the most?

-Definitely, mate. Cheers. -Well done.

[Murray] I got to do it with my best mate.

And me with my second-best mate.

So, it's pretty special, right?

Carla, Hereni…

-Yes. -Grant.

-You're the second team to arrive. -[cheering]

-[laughing] -Yeah!

-You're the third team to check in! -Yeah!

You did well. Good job.

-I love you. -I love you too.

[Daniel] Oh…

Love you. I'm gonna treat you better.

There was a lot of pressure. We're at the first Road Block.

I've got this shit.

Whoa, whoa!

Oh, shit.

I felt sorry for the guy who owned the tractor,

because it's probably not coming back to him in the same condition.

Whoa, whoa!

I nearly, like, put it on its side.

[Ryan] Looked like he was gonna roll it. [laughs]

-I owe him a tractor. -[both laugh]

[Aston exclaims] Oop!

No, no, no, no!

I've never even set foot on a tractor before.

I just got in there and pedal to the metal.

Yeah. Oh, yeah! [laughs]

Who needs to do two trips when you can do it all in one?

Oh, damn.

All right. We lost two bales. It's all right. We don't need them anyway.

It wasn't as graceful a job as could have been done.

But it was fast and effective.

Come on, Aston!

Whoo-hoo!

Go, Aston! You're killing it, mate!

-Good stuff. -[Elizabeth] Todd, you've done it!

Stop!

You wanted to keep going with the hay bales. [laughs]

Stop! Stop!

Stop!

I was keen to do eight.

Todd!

Stop! Come back!

Todd!

-Yeah! -Yeah!

Whoo! Yeah, boy!

[man] You only had to have four!

-Four? -Yeah, you've done four.

You didn't read the clue to tell me there only were four.

[Elizabeth] Out you get, kiddo!

-It's up there. Over here. -Okay.

Ow, [bleep]!

-[bleep] -Did your ankle roll?

-Bloody hell. -Come on. Come on.

[Sally] Whoo!

When we got to the rapids, it was so much fun.

-Good relay, Sal! -Whoo!

-Hey, right there? -Yeah, that's it. That's it.

Go, Tyson!

[Inga] There it is, there it is.

-Road Block. -Knew it.

[both] "Who's got better traction?"

-Me. -You.

If I can nail this Road Block,

I can get us back in the race, back in the game.

"…search the flock for the matching piece of your legendary ring.

-Together the two ring halves will lead--" -Do we have the ring?

We gave it to the guy.

How could we be so stupid?

-We don't have the ring, do we? -No.

We're out.

"Proceed to the sheep pen and search the flock

for the matching piece of your legendary ring.

-Together the two ring halves will lead--" -Do we have the ring?

We gave it to the guy.

-We don't have the ring? -No.

We left our half of the ring with the rafting guy.

Far out, man! [groans]

We're eliminated, I reckon.

That's a massive mistake that's just cost us.

What do we do?

We have to backtrack all that way and go get it.

Let's just hope Sally and Tyson frickin' made the same mistake.

[Sally squeals]

"Drive yourselves to Rata Peak Station…"

We're still in the game. It's not over yet.

I've become a professional rafter now.

-[Tyson] You did well. -Whoo!

Oh, yes! Like a boss!

[Christie] Nice job!

[Jesse] Get out of my way, mates.

Ooh, that one was close.

Come on, Jazz! Speed it up a bit! Come on!

[Christie] Yes, yes, yes, yes!

Okay, easy!

[Aston] Whoo-hoo!

She absolutely smashed it, to use an Aussie phrase.

That's how you drive a tractor!

-[Christie] Whoo-hoo! -Yeah!

-Well done. -[Jesse] Whoo-hoo!

-Thank you, Rodney. -Got ya.

Can we stop for a sec?

I've really badly injured this left calf now.

-Okay. Let's carry on, okay? -So I'm, like, hobbling.

[Aston] I'll do all the work.

Something went very badly wrong in my leg.

Let's keep going.

You need to trust me that I'm seriously injured right now.

-Let's do it. -You need to trust me.

I could hardly actually walk at that point.

I'm gonna walk. I can't run.

That's fine. That's fine. Come on. Push through. We're almost there.

It's not about pushing through. I've torn something, Aston!

Do you want me to piggyback you?

Ow! Oh, God. I hurt just getting on you.

So, she actually tried to piggyback me.

That lasted about four meters.

-Mind over matter. -It's not about that.

I've gotta have two legs to run the race.

Transcend the pain.

Eat a dick.

This is the flock. All right.

You got this, Dan.

That's it. That's it. That's it. Go! You got heaps of time.

Mother and son are just showing up now.

[Todd] I'll get that sheep.

-Just get there nice and quick for us. -Why didn't you bring your brother?

A friend. Don't you have friends?

Oh, Daniel!

-Gets it when he needs it. -[Daniel] That's what the ladies say.

-Oh, yeah! -That's better than a fist bump.

[Ryan] Good luck, guys.

I totally tired them out for Todd.

[Elizabeth] Okay, that fella there. Get him!

-I got him in about 35 seconds. -It was fantastic.

-[exhales] -It's going to be so shit…

if we're eliminated.

Can you stop for a sec? I need you to stop for a minute.

Are you okay?

As we were going back to get the half-ring,

I felt so sick.

[retching]

-I really need to throw up. -Oi, drive. Do you wanna drive?

I felt so stressed and so anxious.

[retching continues]

Oh, man.

[Ashleigh] Just let it drop. Doesn't matter.

[Jarrod] Bloody hay bales.

Speed it up! Quick!

No, no, no! Leave it!

After we'd had such a great lead coming out of that white water,

Jarrod is going so slow in his tractor.

Frustrating.

I actually thought I was going all right.

What are you doing?

He just needs to hurry because all the teams are just smashing us now.

Two teams that came in after us, gone.

I wish I would have done it myself.

We'd still be there now if you were doing it.

I'm really worried that we're just too slow.

Come on, Jazz! Hurry!

Hurry, hurry!

Whoa! That's awesome.

I have to go wrangle a sheep now?

[Cat] Wrangle away.

Come on, buddy.

There's a lot of sheep, but I can do this.

Just stand still for a minute. I'm not gonna hurt any of you.

We had to match the color.

Being color-blind has its disadvantages.

-Slightly awkward. -I'm color-blind.

-Oh, my God! -You!

Stop running from me!

Come here! Hey, you!

I'm sure this will come in handy at some point.

So we'll have to hold on to it.

[Tyson] The girls.

[Tiharna] Frickin' hell, man.

We're on our way back to the rafting to get the half-ring that we forgot,

and on our way there, we passed Tyson and Sally heading to the Road Block.

We had, like, 40 minutes on them.

Frickin' hell!

I knew instantly we were last.

Bummer.

I just hope they go the wrong way.

Inga and Tiharna.

They've just passed us going the other way,

so, not sure what problem they've had.

I think they've gone back to do another challenge.

Whoo-hoo!

I've lost a shoe.

How are we gonna do this?

I wonder if I can, like, call it?

[bleating]

[Ashleigh] Drop it! Let's go! Come on. Let's go!

The Kiwi girls beat ya.

Come on, Jazz, we can do this.

[Cat] Oh, nearly!

I would have ankle-tapped it!

-[Cat laughing] -[Aston] Hut, hut, hut!

I tried picking up the grass, feeding it grass.

You guys want some grass? Come here. Hey, hey, hey. Come here!

I tried telepathically sending it vibes, going, "Come on, sheep."

"Let me in the flock." You know?

-Walk up to the sheep, and grab the ring. -Just walk up to it.

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Christie] You have a talent for wrangling sheep!

-Whoo-hoo! -Whoo-hoo!

-Here we go. There we go. -Where?

-Keep going. Straight. -Dude, come on.

[Elizabeth] Is that it? Yep, yep.

Oh, God, that's gorgeous.

Let's do this.

Yeah.

-Whoo! -Whoo!

Daniel and Ryan.

You're the fourth team to arrive.

Elizabeth and Todd.

You're the fifth team to arrive.

-[Cat] Jump on it! Jump on it! -Oh, come on!

I was standing there for some of that challenge, going,

"This is how it ends for us? I'm that guy in the sheep pen that goes,

'I can't do it! I can't do it anymore!'"

Any tips, Cat?

I don't know.

Pretend you're a sheep.

Oh…

[Ashleigh] Hey, hey!

[Aston] Oh, look forward to the next one. It's tough.

It's real tough.

-[Jarrod] Bloody Kiwis. -You've got this. We can still beat them.

[yelps]

-How you doing? -[yelps]

-Ash, can you read the clue? -Here. I'll just pass it to you.

I actually need a hand…

I go to reach for his hand, and he says, "Just give me the clue."

-Chuck us the clue. -…to get out.

That's when it got dirty.

-All right. You all right? -I don't need your hand now. [panting]

"Go chase your sheep or whatever you're gonna do,

and leave me the hell alone."

Don't run. No need to run.

Come here, you little…

Gotcha! Stay down!

-Stay down, you little… -[Ashleigh laughs]

Hey, stop, stop, stop.

-Stop. -[Cat] Yes, babe!

-Wow! -Yep.

"Continue west to the Pit Stop."

[Sally] Rata Peak! Rata Peak! Stop!

-[screaming] -Yeah.

It's here!

-Road Block. -"Who's got better traction?"

-What's traction? -It's gotta be me.

This is for me, definitely. I can do this.

"…two ring halves will lead you to the next Pit Stop. Hurry.

The last team to arrive may be eliminated."

-All right. -Okay.

We need to get our brown thing!

-Come on. -[Tiharna] We need to get our brown thing.

Thank you.

-[Inga] Thank you so much! -Thank you!

They've got ten minutes on us. That's ten minutes I can [bleep] up.

Let's go.

Ashleigh and Jarrod,

-you're the sixth team to have arrived. -Whoo!

-[sighs] -Aston and Christie,

you're the seventh team to arrive at the Pit Stop.

-[Cat] Hey! -[Grant] Make some room.

Cat and Jesse, you're the eighth team to arrive.

[Aston] Go Team Kiwi!

Do you wanna hold the keys, Sal?

Yeah, but I wanna eat and drink.

When we arrived at the Road Block, there's no one there,

so there's a good chance we're in last place.

There they are. They're on the course!

Holy crap. We might actually have this.

We have a chance of actually not being last.

We're right there with them.

We're so close. We're so close.

There they are. They're on the course!

[Inga] We lost all that time going back to get the half-ring.

And we thought we were definitely last.

And when we got to the Road Block, we saw Tyson and Sally just arrived.

And we thought, "We've still got a chance to get back into the game."

Come on, Sal!

Oh! Puppy!

-Puppy, Puppy, Puppy. -Yeah?

It's all right. Yeah, I saw 'em.

Inga and Tiharna turn up at the hay bales,

so we're not last.

They must have had to go back for some reason.

I don't wanna stuff this one up and let Sally down.

If I nail this, we're still in the race.

[Sally] Look at him go, look at him go!

Come on, T. You can do it.

It's very close. She's doing extremely well.

I thought if I could get two bales in one, I'd only have to do two trips.

[Sally] Yes, yes, yes.

It's neck and neck at this point, and I'm telling myself,

"Come on! Come on, Tiharna. You can do this."

It was just like-- I just wanted to get it.

You gotta get the two bloody prongs and you gotta lift them up.

You gotta move them around and you gotta reverse.

It's not that easy.

[Sally] You're doing well, Puppy!

Tyson is smashing the hay challenge.

I'm falling in love with him all over again.

He's so good at this.

Then the farmer's going up to him.

[laughs]

-Well done. -Thanks, mate.

[Sally] Go, Tyson.

Ah!

Keep going. I'm--

I'm trying hard here to-- I don't wanna be in the mud.

[grunts] Come here!

Mine saw me coming and he just dropped on the ground,

rolled over and let me take the ring off, so…

Go. Good boy.

He's up and racing.

-[gasps] -Boom!

I'm so proud of Tiharna. She did really, really well.

You did it so good!

Can you carry me?

-Yeah. -I don't wanna go through the mud.

Okay.

Go, go, go!

That's it. That's it.

-Let's go! -No! No, don't run!

[shrieks, laughs]

-[Inga] You're awesome, man. -[Tiharna] Really?

Good job, girls!

There's the one left.

Corner it!

I said to 'em as we ran past, "Just try and corner the sheep."

Head back to the car.

I don't know if I would have given that clue out.

I thought to myself, "I can definitely do this."

You wanna go?

Ugh, I've got to-- I forgot to take my boots back.

My shoes were halfway across the paddock, so…

-We had to make a dash. -We had to run back across.

-You-- We'll drive it there? -Nah.

-Don't-- -It's right there.

-[grunts] -[Inga laughing]

She's trying. It's so hard.

So Tiharna's doing the Road Block and I looked behind me,

and Tyson and Sally still haven't left.

And I thought, "We've got a chance. Tiharna's just gotta catch that sheep."

So, I'm staring at the sheep, and I'm thinking, "Game on, sheep."

The girls aren't far behind.

I think we've only got five minutes on 'em.

So it's anyone's game still.

[Inga] That's it. [laughs]

Okay, what does it say?

"Continue west to the Pit Stop."

Just look for markers. I'm looking too.

[Tiharna] I was hoping they went the wrong way, or went past it.

Oh, my God. Like, maybe they haven't finished yet.

[Sally] We're just gonna make an absolute dash for it.

Have a look on the side. See if you can see the girls.

Let's go. It's gonna be a footrace.

There's someone up there.

[Sally gasping]

Sally and Tyson.

Yes?

You're the ninth team to check in at the Pit Stop.

You are safe by the skin of your teeth.

-Come here. -[crying]

Hey.

You did good.

Oh! Oh, God!

[Tiharna] Go, go!

[woman speaks Maori]

-Welcome to New Zealand. -[Inga] Hi.

Inga and Tiharna…

Girls, you're team number ten.

[Tiharna crying]

You're the last team to check in.

And I'm sorry to tell you that you've been eliminated from the race.

If it hadn't been for leaving that half-ring behind,

we would definitely still be in the race.

It was that one mistake that cost us the whole game.

It's been fun. It's been great.

-Yeah? -Yeah. It's an experience.

Take care.

-[Tiharna] Thanks. -Thank you.

I'm so proud of us. Our friendship is stronger than ever.

This experience is something that we're gonna share together forever.

And it's a bond that nobody else has.