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PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously on The Amazing Race...

In Tirana, Albania,

Matt and Michelle were in the Driver's Seat...

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

MICHELLE: They can crush a few grapes.

MATT: Yeah, they can crush a few grapes.

...and caused a commotion.

100 pounds to Pops and my dad is crazy.

- DYLAN: Thanks for the 100, Matt. - MATT: Don't hate the player,

hate the game.

KEOGHAN: Their main priority...

MATT: To wash out

one of the Express Passes.

KEOGHAN: ...paid off...

We're gonna play the Express Pass.

- Congratulations. - [laughs]: Thank you.

...leaving only Michelle and Matt

and Conner and Garrett with their Express Passes.

Mission accomplished there.

KEOGHAN: At a surprise second Driver's Seat...

MATT: This is crazy.

We knew we were giving ourselves

the least amount of byrek.

KEOGHAN: ...Michelle and Matt doubled down.

MATT: You want to whine about that?

You're gonna make 16 byreks now.

KEOGHAN: After offering a key piece of information

to Daisha and Dalton...

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

- Two words. - Two words.

...Ann-Marie and Riley felt abandoned

by the dating couple.

Wait a minute. They...

We just helped them. They didn't help us?

- Damn it, Daisha. - [Daisha giggles]

KEOGHAN: Matt and Michelle dominated the leg

for their second win in a row...

You're team number one.

Yes.

...while Dafina and Saran's race

came to an end.

You are eliminated.

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

You're a rock star

and the best big sister ever.

MICHELLE: I mean, what do you want to do?

MATT: We're gonna go back to the square.

This is for sure a play, but I hope it works.

Do you think it's a bad idea?

Sometimes these uncomfortable

big decisions can...

- Can make you or break you. - ...can make you or break you.

- Do you see them? - I see 'em. Yeah.

Let's go, let's go.

Do you see them?

- Right there. - DAISHA: "Make your way on foot

"to the Pyramid of Tirana

and run to the top to find your next clue."

MICHELLE: All right, let's go.

Pyramid of Tirana.

All right. Let's go ask somebody.

- Okay. - Come on, come on.

Dalton! Daisha!

DALTON: Oh, they're showing us the way. Let's go.

- What's up? - You're coming with us.

I'll tell you what's going on.

- Leg six. - Route Info.

"Make your way on foot to the Pyramid of Tirana

and run to the top to find your next clue."

- There it is. - Yeah?

- MATT: It's-- that's it, that's it. - Yeah.

KEOGHAN: A former museum and conference center,

the 70-foot-high pyramid has been renovated...

- You with me? - Yeah.

...with 16 staircases, each with

over a hundred steps

to reach a panoramic view

- of the city. - [singing in Albanian]

Thank you. Thank you.

MICHELLE: Route Info.

"Drive to Jurgen Resort.

Watch out, Intersection ahead."

As teams approach the halfway mark on the race,

it's time for an Intersection.

When teams arrive here,

they must pair up to complete the next challenge.

However, any decision to work together

must be mutually agreed upon.

Okay, let's go.

Jurgen Resort?

- Yes, Jurgen Resort. - Resort.

So it's in Tirana. Photo?

- So that's what it looks like. - MICHELLE: Uh-huh.

MATT: It's on SH54.

MICHELLE: Uh-huh.

- MATT: 15 minutes. - Mm-hmm.

- MATT: All right? - Yep.

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

MATT: We found out that it's an Intersection.

We have to work with a team at the next place.

Hopefully, they can fi-find directions s-smooth...

You know what would have been smart, Matt?

- What, wait there? - Mm-hmm.

Want to turn around?

And just wait?

Drive there together?

Yeah.

We're pretty okay with navigating.

I would say, like, we're, like...

Compared to other teams, yeah.

Compared to other teams, we're, we're,

- we're winning the whole tour. - We're... I'm like Magellan

- compared to these people. - Yeah, you are.

I think we should turn around, Mich.

Uh, Michelle just came up with the idea

of actually waiting for the next team

and driving here together.

That would offset any wasted time.

We're just taking that first team.

They need to just follow us, and that's it.

And who wouldn't want to work with us, right?

Let's go hang out so we don't miss them and they don't miss us

and... let's intersect.

Follow us. We know where it is,

and the next thing's an Intersection.

- All right, let's go. - So, Pyramid of Tirana.

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

Oh, it's an Intersection.

Oh, shoot, let's go!

Come on, come on, come on.

MICHELLE: We wanted to kind of, like,

bamboozle Daisha and Dalton

and, like, just tell them to follow us.

- Whisk them away, yeah. - Like, "Take our hands, let's go."

We want to create the gap

- between you and three. - DAISHA: Yes. Definitely.

MATT: We explained

what was going on, like, mid-jog,

so it was definitely a whirlwind

- of a greeting. - MICHELLE: So, that's it.

You're gonna go to the top of those stairs.

- DAISHA: Got it. - Okay.

The first phase of this... crazy plan worked to perfection.

DALTON: Little warm-up in the morning.

MATT: See, they're walking up the stairs.

We ran up the stairs.

It's the difference.

- [singing in Albanian] - DAISHA: Oh, my gosh.

[Daisha cheers]

- Yay. - Woo-hoo.

DAISHA: Thank you so much.

MATT AND MICHELLE: They're a strong team.

MATT: Like, they're good people, good couple.

Like, this plan-- it was optimal...

- MICHELLE: Yeah. - ...that it was them.

They trusted us, they followed us.

- Blindly. They're blindly following us. - Yeah, blindly following.

- MICHELLE: We're right here. - MATT: Just pull out and make a right.

- DALTON: Copy. - DAISHA: Got it.

So far, so good.

Everything has gone according to plan.

And it turned out to be

like a power move, I think.

- [honks horn] - DAISHA: Okay, sweet.

MICHELLE: Apparently,

there was some sort of beef against Daisha and Dalton.

There's some sort of, you know, conspiracy

that if there's a U-Turn, everyone's U-Turning them.

I had no idea about this.

We told you guys what happened with Daisha and Dalton,

- obviously, at the Bunk'art... - Yeah, yeah, yeah...

As people, like, cool, like, w-we're nice,

like, we're not deceitful, but, like, you know,

they're, like, laughing and giggling and all this stuff,

and I'm like, "Oh... that's funny."

With Riley and Ann-Marie, we were at the Bunk'art.

Before I could even think about it, my legs were walking away.

It's not our responsibility for another team to work with us.

Let's not be overly helpful to any other team today.

We don't have to give them the secret sauce.

Yeah, so what's crazy is, like, we're the last two standing

- all-women's teams. - Yeah.

- Let's go, let's go. - The last boss ladies.

- BLA. - Which means

we got to, we got to make it through.

Yeah, we got to help each other make it through.

Together, together, together.

"BLA" on three. One, two, three.

ALL: BLA.

DAISHA: I really want

to make as big of a gap as we can

between us and the other teams.

DALTON: We're ready to get ahead of this whole pack

that's gonna be behind us.

♪ ♪

Right now we're following Michelle and Matt

to Jurgen Resort, and we know that there's gonna be

an Intersection there.

MATT: Oh, they're nowhere to be seen.

Oh, there they are. Slow down.

- Okay. - Thank you so much.

Uh...

- All right, I feel good. - MICHELLE: Do you?

MATT: For the first time in a long time.

[laughs]

Last leg, we were in the Driver's Seat twice.

- Might've ruffled some feathers. - We definitely ruffled some feathers.

You know, people had some, some time

to sleep on things, but they might,

you know, wake up ready for war.

CONNER: Well, I guess Matt and Michelle

- are, for some reason, targeting you guys. - Bro, I hope not.

- I hope not. - They're targeting you guys.

It's a compliment that Matt and Michelle consider us a threat.

I mean, we see them as huge competition, too.

They be gunning for you guys.

We need to work together, though.

MATT: So we're happy

to be running with them,

given the, uh, circumstances.

Let's hope the, uh, the plan continues to work out.

- Let's go, come on. - Let's get it going.

- [exclaims] The pyramid. - It's got to be

- those steps, right? - Yeah.

- We're feeling good today. - GARRETT: That's, like, our best finish

in a while, so we're feeling real good about it.

Still got the Express Pass, too, so...

It's got to be played today, so, looking forward to using that.

CONNER: We're feeling fantastic today.

We say it every day, but we're coming in first today.

GARRETT: Yeah, first place.

And just like all the other days,

we're actually gonna-- no, we're gonna do it this time.

[laughs]: Yeah.

CONNER: There it is.

There we go.

All right, up we go.

Them some stairs.

Whew.

GARRETT: Is there an elevator for this thing?

- [group singing in Albanian] - Whew.

Hello.

[laughs]

- Thank you. Thank you. - Thank you. Thank you.

- Let's go. - [exclaims]

"Drive to Jurgen Resort to find your next clue.

- Watch out, Intersection ahead." - Intersection.

"If you use your Express Pass,

"both you and the team you intersect with

must possess an Express Pass."

- Wow. - Let's go.

- Come on. - Let's get it going.

- Let's go. - Later.

- GARRETT: Damn, we're on an Intersection. - CONNER: I know.

We're going to have to wait for whoever's next.

ANN-MARIE: Excuse me, we're just trying to find

- the Pyramid of Tirana. - RILEY: The Pyramid of Tirana.

I think you're half the way.

Yes.

- Let's go. Let's do it. - Okay.

ALI: They're over here.

They found somebody.

- Left, and we'll see it. - Yes.

- RILEY: We got directions. - Okay.

- Let's go, BLA. This is our day. - [shouts, laughs]

"Make your way on foot to the Pyramid of Tirana."

DOUG: Okay, let's do it.

DYLAN: Pop, they're going that way.

I see them in our sight,

- so let's try to stay with them. - Okay.

DYLAN: Well, we're leaving in sixth place today,

and that's a pretty good start for us,

seeing how we usually are in last place,

so, yeah, I'm pretty excited to start the day.

ANDREA: The Pyramid of Tirana?

Just...

Okay, we'll see it, we'll see it.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

Let's try to catch up to Pops and Dylan.

CONNER: To the car we go.

I just want to ask someone.

GARRETT: Yeah, you want to?

CONNER: Excuse me, can I ask you a question?

Uh, Hotel Jurgen?

- All right, nice. - [laughs]: Okay.

- Um, what about these guys? - Hello.

Do you know where Hotel Jurgen...?

- Nope. - No? So hard getting directions.

- [man speaks indistinctly] - No?

- Okay. - Well, it's a tough one.

- Yep. - Yeah.

Literally nobody wants to help.

- It's hard to get directions around here. - It's absurd.

Can we ask you a question?

Okay.

- Oh, wow. - All right.

Can we just get directions, please?

Just really quick? No.

- Dude, cold as it gets. - This is really tough.

- RILEY: That's it. - ALI: Yeah, there's some stairs,

but we got this.

JOANNA: Here we go. We're doing this together.

RILEY: Yep.

Let's go, man.

Hey, it's-- that's what you trained for.

DOUG: There's an area in town where I go and I climb stairs,

and there's 250 stairs straight up this mountain.

I may not be the fastest out there, but I can climb a bit.

Whew!

[indistinct conversation]

[singing in Albanian]

[Joanna whooping]

Thank you.

"Drive to Jurgen Resort to find your next clue."

"Watch out, Intersection ahead."

Okay, let's go to our car, guys.

- DYLAN: Hey, guys. - JOANNA: Great job.

ALI: Great job, it's right up there.

- DYLAN: Good luck. - Good luck...

DYLAN: You good?

DOUG: Yeah.

- Hey, Intersection? - Yeah.

We're together, yeah?

- Regardless of who's there. - Yeah, at the resort.

- [group singing in Albanian] - Oh, look.

- Thank you. - DOUG: Thank you.

Excuse me, could you help me, please?

No? Please?

- Did you guys find it? - No, we've had no luck.

We've talked to, like, ten people,

and no one's willing to help.

Ma'am, excuse me?

- We've been getting cold shoulder... - It's not on the map.

- We looked at the map, there's nothing. - What about inside here?

DYLAN: They're right there.

If we can catch them, we can map with them.

Come on, Pop.

ANDREA: Come on, Dad.

ANUAR: I'm trying.

Don't stop.

Need a second.

We're almost there.

Take a breath.

Keep going.

ANUAR: It's hard to breathe right now.

I'm just getting old.

I mean, all my body hurts, so I cannot be

fast like the other guys, but I can

keep going.

ANDREA: We're at the end of the pack. Don't stop.

RILEY: Could you help me with directions, please?

WOMAN: Yes.

- I'm looking for... - JOANNA: Okay, we got someone.

...Jurgen Resort or Hotel Jurgen.

- WOMAN: I don't know. - Can you look on your phone?

Hotel Jurgen.

JOANNA: Jurgen Resort.

[singing in Albanian]

Do you have a clue?

Thank you so much.

ANDREA: We're gonna have to wait for Erin and Javi, Dad.

- ANUAR: No. We're not. - It's an Intersection.

Yes, we are. It sucks.

Ah, this is the airport.

ALI: It's also known

- as Hotel Jurgen. - The airport?

- Yeah. - She said it's near the airport.

SH2 to SH60.

ANDREA: We're gonna have to wait for Erin and Javi.

If we catch up with other teams, we might not.

- ANDREA: Okay, we have to hurry, though. - Yes.

ANN-MARIE: Thank you so very much.

- Follow signs to the airport. - Thank you.

- Pop, we can get to the airport. - CONNER: Let's do it.

- All right, all right, all right. - ANDREA: Hey, Conner.

Garrett! Follow them.

- Mom, you're gonna pull out, okay? - Yeah.

Let's roll.

- Pops, can we follow you? - Yeah.

- To the airport. - Yeah, follow us.

ANDREA: Hurry up, hurry up.

- ALI: Anuar and Andrea are here. - JOANNA: Okay.

- We got it. - Yeah.

We're all right.

RILEY: I feel good about these directions.

Doug and Dylan caught up to us.

Anuar and Andrea caught up to us.

So now it's even for, like, team number three through... seven.

DYLAN: Dude, Intersection's tough, bro.

The last one to get there has to wait for Erin and Javi to start.

- DOUG: Yeah. - Just don't let any car cut in front of you.

Like, really be on their tail today.

ANUAR: Hey, guys.

ANDREA: Do y'all want to work together on the Intersection?

- Yeah, let's do it. I love that. - Because one team is going

to get stuck waiting for Erin and Javi.

- Yep. - GARRETT: Yeah, yeah, I like that.

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

We're just gonna follow Conner and Garrett blindly.

I don't know if that's the best idea, but we trust them.

CONNER: I hope that it's actually by the airport.

But I'm also banking on the fact that Ann-Marie

and Riley were reading it correctly.

We're all gonna get lost together

- or make it there together-- one of the two. - Yeah.

MICHELLE: We're going up into the mountains

on these Albanian hills.

It's a two-way, but it's the size of half of a one-way.

- [car horn toots] - Oh, my God.

- Michelle, you are kicking ass. - [Michelle shouts, laughs]

- [loud grinding sound] - Oh. Oh!

Sorry, I wasn't all the way on the clutch.

- Just-- yeah... - Burning it out in Albania.

- It's fine. - MATT: The manual--

it's like burnt byrek. [laughs]

DALTON: This location is very challenging to find,

especially going uphill with a stick shift.

- Oh, look at that view. - DAISHA: Man,

we are up here.

DALTON: This is really pretty.

MATT: All right, I guess this is it.

MICHELLE: Wow.

It's gonna be Albanian wedding.

Intersection.

DALTON: Let's go.

MATT: Great job, guys.

- Go. - It's a Roadblock.

"Who wants to impress the father of the bride?"

You're gonna do this one, right?

- I-I thought I'd... - So, then I'll do it with you.

- [lively music playing] - [rhythmic clapping]

Two people from two different teams

must now dance together and perform Tropojë.

This centuries-old celebratory dance

is well-known for its precision

and fancy footwork.

Teams must crash a wedding celebration

and get in step with these professionals.

Once they bust out all the right moves,

the father of the bride will hand them a clue

and ask them to leave.

[speaks Albanian]

- [laughs] - Yes.

MICHELLE: My dad was an immigrant from Poland,

so, yeah, we just keep all the traditions alive,

but I've never done any traditional dancing at all.

DAISHA: Do you know how to dance?

I was a cheerleader, so I could kind of follow

- somewhat of a step. - Yeah.

MICHELLE: First trip together,

we did a Polish wedding together.

- Um... - Yeah, that was a lot,

- but it was awesome. - It was a lot. It was,

it was eventful.

MATT: If you don't drink vodka

at every moment of life, you are just less of a man.

- Well, less of a man was in a bush. - I paid the price.

- One, two, three. - One, two, three.

- Wait a minute, I messed up. - Four, five,

six, seven. Another time.

Okay, okay.

One, two. Uh, drop

- this hand. - Yeah.

We took the dance piece by piece.

I'll tell you this, it's nothing

- like the Cupid Shuffle. - [laughs]

And it's not like Soulja Boy or the Stanky Legg.

It's not like any of that, and

that's my dance experience.

- You got it. - I don't have it yet.

- That's okay. Let's do it again. - Okay.

- We're going to practice. No problem. - Okay.

It's The Amazing Race, so, might as well face your fears.

And my biggest fear going into this was a dance challenge.

One. No.

- The right is behind. - Right foot.

I knew that she couldn't go on

until I got it right.

So at that point, we're leaning on each other

and we're trying to get it done.

I am known to be the worst dancer in the family.

Oh, geez. Great.

- [laughs] - I'm not kidding.

[group singing in Albanian]

ERIN: Lots of stairs. Oh, so fun.

- JAVI: Okay. - ERIN: Okay, let's go.

But we got to get directions.

JAVI: Hi. Sorry to bother you.

Can you give us directions

to, uh, Jurgen Resort?

JAVI: Yeah, Google, Google. Google would be fine.

ERIN: Yes. Yeah. Google is perfect.

ERIN: It's probably that.

- The mountain is that one that you can see from here. - See there, okay.

- JAVI: Thank you so much. Nice to meet you. - ERIN: Thank you.

- MAN: Best of luck. - ERIN: Appreciate it.

We like the sign that says "airport."

It's just annoying when other people benefit off

- of your work. - I know. The entire pack.

But you know what? I don't care.

Like, I'd rather... Marines lead from the front, so... whatever.

I see it, Mom. Hotel Jurgen.

Good job, Mama.

That must be it.

GARRETT: Hotel Jurgen.

ANDREA: There's Ann-Marie and Riley.

I saw them running in.

- [bell dings] - ANN-MARIE: Hello?

RILEY: Hi. We're here for the race.

Where is parking?

- For race. - For race.

- Hotel Jurgen, right there. It's right there. - ALI: Perfect.

JOANNA: All right.

We're here for the race at this hotel?

ANN-MARIE: Special sign?

RILEY: What the heck?

- DOUG: Here's their car. - No, that's the soccer girls.

- Shoot, they beat us. - Okay. That's okay.

- That says Hotel Jurgen. I asked them. - Yeah. Yeah.

And they had no idea what we were talking about.

- What the frick, dude? - GARRETT: How confident

are you guys that this is the right one?

RILEY: We can't find it anywhere.

GARRETT: Jurgen Resort.

Maybe we should look up Jurgen Resort.

Should probably double-check that one.

Are we sure this is the right Jurgen Hotel?

Everybody's here.

Yeah, that doesn't mean it's right.

DAISHA: I'm gonna get it.

MICHELLE: Yeah, you're definitely gonna get it.

- No one's here yet, too. - No.

So hopefully we can try it

before someone else comes in. 'Cause the music.

One, two, three, four.

- I don't see the clue box, guys. - I know.

ALI: Okay, so, are we at the right spot?

GARRETT: Did you guys look up Hotel Jurgen or Jurgen Resort?

'Cause it could be Jurgen Resort, too.

- Maybe there's a different one. - [laughs]: Oh, my God. Yeah.

This is a mess. This is... This sucks.

Y'all, my concern is that we're at the wrong Hotel Jurgen.

Jurgen Resort? We know this one is.

But we think it's wrong.

It's in Tirana?

It's in Tirana. We're in the wrong spot.

ALI: It's in Tirana.

- [Riley gasps] - ALI: We're going back.

Oh, my gosh.

- Damn. - ANDREA: This sucks.

Yeah, I know.

ERIN: We're on our way,

and it should take us about 15 to 20 minutes

to get there.

This is definitely the mini equalizer

that we were hoping to get.

Our issues last leg were, obviously,

we got stuck at one of the Roadblocks

for a little bit longer than we wanted to.

ERIN: We did really good with just communicating,

talking, trusting each other.

But I do think that if we do that

moving forward in this next leg, we will do well.

We have the convenience of knowing

that one team at least has to wait for us.

- But hopefully we see a few teams there. - Yeah.

I hope they get lost and we're not going to get lost.

DAISHA: Nobody's here yet.

No one's here. We can do this.

Yeah, yeah. Smile.

- Oh. - Don't forget. Smile. - Smile.

[percussion playing]

Hey! Whoo!

DALTON: We're both full-time wedding videographers.

DAISHA: We're used to being at weddings.

I'm just not used

to having to perform

- at the wedding. - Mm-mm.

♪ ♪

[rhythmic clapping]

DAISHA: When you get up to impress the father of the bride

and the live music's playing and you have

a whole dance crew behind you, it's very intimidating.

We thought we started good, and then

me and Michelle's on the ground.

And I see in my peripheral vision,

everybody else is standing up.

- No. - That's okay.

- We got it. - It's okay.

- MICHELLE: Can we do it again? - You got it. Whoo!

DAISHA: Yeah, no one's here, so let's just keep doing it.

ANN-MARIE: Five of us went

to the wrong spot.

I played musical chairs as a kid all the time in school.

I think there's an uneven number of teams.

Someone's gonna be left out.

It's fine with us. It's not us.

♪ ♪

MATT: They're out of step.

DALTON: The timing is off.

No, no, no.

♪ ♪

We're ahead of 'em.

No, no, no.

MICHELLE: If I were doing the dance by myself,

we would have been out ten to 15 minutes from arriving. Easy.

One, two, three, four,

- five, six. - DALTON: There you go.

- There you go. - Seven, eight. Good.

DALTON: Whoo!

Seven, eight.

DALTON: Okay.

[song ends]

[applause and cheering]

DALTON: Come on.

- Whoo! - Yes.

[cheering and whooping]

- Thank you. Good stuff. - You, too.

- DAISHA: Yes, yes, yes, yes! - MATT: Thank you. - MICHELLE: Thank you.

- Amazing. - DAISHA: Yes!

- Attagirl. Attagirl. - [giggles]

DAISHA: I faced my fear today and overcame it.

It may have not been pretty, but I got that envelope.

- You crushed it. - Let's go.

- Good job, guys. - Route Information.

Mother Teresa is Albania's most famous person.

She dedicated her life

to helping marginalized people all around the world.

This tribute in front of St. Paul's Cathedral

is where teams will pick up their next clue.

- MATT: Go change. - Yeah. Let's go

- before we see someone. - Fantastic.

DALTON: I like your style, Michelle.

MICHELLE: In and out. I'm like a ghost.

DALTON: Good job, baby.

- You killed that. - You think so?

- Yes. - Do you like me doing those dance moves?

- Yeah. - I'll bring 'em home.

I'll shimmy it all the way home.

I am so proud of you, baby.

I am so thankful that's over with.

Also, no team is here yet. What?

MICHELLE: There's people. We got to go.

- Oh, teams? - Yep.

- Oh, yeah. - Everybody.

Thank God we got out of there.

Yep, that's a team.

And that's a team.

GARRETT: Right there. Straight ahead, straight ahead.

- Yo, let's go. - Yeah, here we go. We made it.

- JOANNA: Intersection. Woo-hoo! - ALI: Intersection.

I do not see Erin or Javi.

"Who wants to impress the father of the bride?"

- I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. - Do it.

I guess I do.

- I want to do it. - I want to do it.

'Cause you're getting married, baby.

- Let's go. - Hey, what's up?

- Are you a dancer? - I'm okay. Yeah, yeah.

- I'll do it. - Don't want to do it?

- We got to wait. - Looking for a partner.

- Looking for a partner. - Yeah, they're gone.

Too late. Rats.

I'd do the same thing if I saw a 72-year-old guy.

I'd go with the younger people.

I mean, it's kind of a form of age discrimination.

[chuckles] But, uh, it's wise to do so.

- ERIN: This doesn't seem right. - JAVI: I think

- we should have gone straight there. - I-I know.

And then, when you get a chance, make a left turn, okay?

- Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. - Nice and slow. Nice and slow.

Yeah, this is a lot of potholes.

I think we're off our path, but we're in the right direction.

If that makes sense.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Let's go.

You ready to impress the father of the bride?

- Let's do it, baby. Come on. - Let's do it.

GARRETT: Before the race, we would go line dancing together.

It's definitely not Garrett's first rodeo dance today.

Yeah, definitely not. Yeehaw.

- Yes. Let's go. - Okay?

- Yeah, let's do it. - INSTRUCTOR: Okay.

One, two, three, four.

ANN-MARIE: Riley is getting married

immediately after we get back.

We actually had to push our wedding date

out further for the race.

And that means he's setting up the final details.

And so I'm like, "Oh, my gosh.

Please make sure everything works out okay."

Between Danny and your dad,

we are in their hands planning a wedding.

Get ready for her wedding.

CONNER: How is Jo at dancing?

Jo's good. We've been up in the clubs before.

[laughs] Yeah, your first time.

- We've been in the clubs. - [beatboxes] Different vibe. - Come on, you got

your World Cup celebratory dances locked in.

- Right hand is out? - INSTRUCTOR: Right.

- Right, yes. - Like you're sprinting, yeah. - Okay.

I have dance experience, okay?

I've hit the clubs many a time.

I was well-known after every home game of the Spirit

to go out dancing at the gay clubs.

But it's more of just, like,

hopping around to-to house music,

like, no actual steps.

So I think my fear was just learning the choreography.

- Six, seven, eight. - Six, seven, eight.

- Better. - Okay. Good job.

- One, two. - One, two.

- Oh... - [laughs] I'm stuck.

One, two,

- three. - No, I did it wrong again.

I don't think we're in the right place, baby.

JAVI: No, I don't think so, either,

but we're getting to the other mountainside.

ERIN: I don't think I am going the right way.

This is very stressful.

Yes, it is.

One, two, three.

- Other foot. Yeah. - Want to go back?

- Three, four. - Oh, shoot.

- Four. - Four.

- Five. - Five.

ANUAR: Okay, who's not here yet?

- Javi and Erin. - Javi and Erin are not here,

and so you've got

Doug and Dylan out there waiting.

DOUG: Oh, bummer.

We just got to wait for Erin and Javi,

and this is one time we're gonna root for them

to have excellent navigation skills.

Baby, I don't think this is right. Like, I don't know

- how many times to say that. - Baby, baby.

ERIN: This is a neighborhood.

There's no way this is right.

Okay. Okay.

All right. All right, all right.

ERIN: I don't know what we're doing wrong,

but we can't keep doing this.

- You want to turn around? - Yeah, I want to turn.

All right, let's do that. Let's do that.

I think we missed our turn on that...

- ERIN: Main road? - on that first roundabout.

ERIN: Do you know where Jurgen Resort?

- This is it, right? - JAVI: Yeah.

Back the way we came.

- Back the way we came? - Yes. It's back the way we came.

- And then... - Did we go completely the wrong direction?

- Yeah. - Are you sure?

- Yeah. - Okay. Thank you so much.

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

Now we know we have the directions to get there.

It's about, maybe, ten minutes.

All right, so we're gonna get in this roundabout

and then just go pretty much, like, straight if we can.

MATT: We have an Express Pass

that we've convinced everybody we don't have.

We used our Express Pass at the rug.

Damn. Okay.

MATT: We have to use it today, so we even...

That's why I kind of want to be a little further away

- I... - from Daisha and Dalton.

- What are you doing, Michelle? - She's turning.

- MATT: What are they, one car behind? - MICHELLE: Yeah.

MATT: We're definitely not group project people.

We would rather get an A or an F on our own.

It's deceptive.

I'm looking at people and lying to them.

But...

I didn't come for the participation trophy.

- I-I... You know? - No, we're here to win.

We came to win a million dollars.

Not that I'm trying to lose them,

but if it happens, it happens.

DYLAN: It's gonna be a race between us and Erin and Javi.

We outraced them yesterday.

- Yeah. - Hopefully, we can outrace them again.

- Um... - I just keep reminding myself,

how many grandpas get to do this with their grandson?

- Yeah. - And race around the world, so...

There's nowhere else we'd rather be.

Oh, my gosh.

Lord, let this be the right hotel. Hotel Jurgen.

- Hotel Jurgen. - Okay.

DOUG: Here they are. Here they are. Okay.

- DYLAN: Oh. Yes! Hi, guys. - DOUG: Hey, hey.

Ah! Yay. Doug and Dylan. They've been waiting for us.

JAVI: Oh, there's... there... Everybody's here.

Hey, guys.

How long have you guys been waiting?

- Thirty minutes. - We got here with everyone else.

ERIN: Well, we can catch up. We can catch up.

Do you guys have any idea of what it could be?

- I think it's dancing. - I think it's dancing.

- I'm pretty certain. - Maybe I should do it.

- Okay, I'll do it. - That's fine. - Erin's gonna do it.

- Are you good at dancing? - I am very good at dancing?

- I'm very good at dancing. - Wonderful. You can teach me.

- Wonderful. - Okay. - We need to make up some time.

ERIN: Okay, so let's get going.

I have been dancing since I was two years old,

and then I danced all the way through college.

It's my absolute favorite thing to do.

I think it worked even better because, you know,

Dylan's a little bit younger, right?

So he's a little bit less experienced, so...

And Erin's got a lot of experience,

so, she's really good at giving direction.

Four, one, two, three. Four.

- RILEY and INSTRUCTOR: One, two, three. - One, two, three. Half one.

- One, two, three. - One, two, three. - One, two, up.

- Yes. Good. - Okay.

INSTRUCTOR: We are the best team.

- ERIN: You look great. Okay. - Thanks, guys.

We're gonna try an attempt.

We know it's probably gonna be a little bit faster than this,

- Mm-hmm. - so I'd rather us know.

JOANNA: All right, we got this. Whoo!

Sweating bullets, baby.

Honestly, we've been dying for an Intersection

to do it with these guys.

I was actually very excited to team up with Riley

'cause I felt like the two of us would nail it together

and be able to communicate well.

- ALI: Here we go, Jo. - ANN-MARIE: Let's go, ladies.

♪ ♪

Two, three, four, five, six,

- seven, eight. - Seven, eight.

BOTH: One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight. One...

RILEY: It's always different from the practice

to the actual thing,

'cause there's so much more going around you.

Back, two.

RILEY: But you've got to get

in that rhythm, and as athletes, I knew that.

- Five, six, seven, eight. - They're ahead.

Again. One, two.

You got to practice as you play.

And down there wasn't the best practice.

Right? You got to get the steps down,

but you got to see your atmosphere.

BOTH: Five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three. One, two... [exclaims]

- [song ends] - [cheering]

Yeah. So good.

- Good? - Yeah.

- No, no, no. - JOANNA: Okay.

- Do you want to try right away again? - Yeah.

- RILEY: Okay. - ANUAR: We're lucky

- no one else is ready yet. - ALI: Yeah.

- From the top. - ALI: Here we go.

JOANNA: From the top. Good job, guys.

- Oh, this is it. - DAISHA: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it is.

- You see it? - Right here. It's the marker.

MATT: Oh, look at you, girl.

Nice. Now we're no longer friends.

MICHELLE: It was fine working with other people,

but it's time to now

run our own race, block the outside noise

and just focus on ourselves.

We are looking for a Mother Teresa statue.

And it has our next clue in it.

- Mich. - Yeah.

- Come with me. - Yeah.

DAISHA: Matt and Michelle took off.

I think they wrapped around the building.

The cathedral.

I think they wrapped around it.

Are you confident?

All right, let's-let's ask someone.

MATT: Look for the statue.

DALTON: Michelle and Matt left, which we probably

- should have stayed with them, but... - Yeah.

- There it is. Come... left. - I see it.

I see it.

Detour.

"Heads or Tails?"

Around the world, hats are deeply rooted

in religion and culture.

Here in Albania, they wear the qeleshe.

They've been wearing it for more than 2,000 years,

and it's a symbol of national identity, heritage and pride.

Teams must make one the traditional way.

First, they must cover wool with soap and water,

filling in any holes as they go to create an even piece of felt.

They must stretch it over a wooden mold

to create a cone shape.

When the master hatter says that it's worthy for wear,

he'll cap off the Detour with a clue.

This poem...

WOMAN: Skënderbeu Heroi.

KEOGHAN: ...is among the most powerful

literary works in the country.

Celebrating the life of Albania's greatest hero,

Skanderbeg,

teams must learn a verse of it in Albanian...

Skënderbeu Heroi.

...followed by English.

Skanderbeg the Hero.

- We're-we're gonna do Tails. - We're gonna do Tails.

MICHELLE: Our priority is to get

to the first Detour we can find first,

use our Express Pass before anyone sees us...

and get the hell out of here.

- Detour. - Let's go.

"Heads or Tails?"

- We're choosing the Tails. - We're choosing Tails.

MICHELLE: We have to run a little.

MATT: Yeah, we're good. I'm running.

MICHELLE: You'll have to get out of sight.

We have a team that's riding on our tail.

The only way to get rid of them

and them to not know that we used our Express Pass is

to use it before they get there,

because we want to be the only ones

that know the game that we're playing.

MATT: If we get exposed, it would mean that

we have a target on our back.

I'm with you, I'm with you.

All right, go, go, go, babe. Come on.

MICHELLE: What are we looking for, though? Which one?

- Either, right? - Yeah.

All right, go, go, babe. Come on.

Excuse me.

- Can we use your phone for Google? - For one moment.

Thank you, guys.

We originally decided

to do Tails.

- It's on the other side of the square. - It is?

But when we Googled

the locations for each one, Heads

was closer.

- Hey, thank you so much, guys. Have a great trip. - No worries.

"Follow the marked path down the stairs to the workshop."

MATT: It's right there.

- Cut across this way. - Okay.

Hopefully, we'll be in, out,

and not seen using our Express Pass.

- MICHELLE: Right here? - MATT: Right here.

MICHELLE: In and out.

- Downstairs. - MATT: Hello.

MATT: We made it to Albanian Night,

the Head side of the Detour.

- BOTH: We're gonna use our Express Pass. - Okay.

- Thank you very much. - Thank you.

"Race to Mother Albania in search of Phil at the Pit Stop."

KEOGHAN: The Mother Albania statue

is the country's most important place to honor

and reflect on this country's fallen heroes.

Today, these grounds will serve

as the Pit Stop for this leg of the race.

The last team to check in here

may be eliminated.

- Let's go. - Okay.

MATT: I was, like, nauseous.

MICHELLE: We didn't know how far behind

they were-- Daisha and Dalton--

and we didn't want them to see us at all.

- Now we got to move. - Yeah.

DALTON: Oh, wait. This might be it.

This is it.

DALTON: Ooh.

- Oh, hello. - Oh, hi.

DALTON: Now we got to pick someone.

- You want to help us? You want to help us? - I'll help you guys.

- DAISHA: Okay. Okay, okay. - WOMAN: Come here. - DALTON: Ooh.

WOMAN: Who can perform Albania?

Who can perform English?

I'll do the talking, and he'll do the dance.

- No. - Oh.

- One of us have to do English. - WOMAN: Poem.

- Oh. - Poem. - I'll do the language.

The weird thing about Dalton is

he can't remember stuff if it's in English.

I don't know why.

DAISHA: But if it's in a different language...

Mirësitë.

...he can.

Skënderbeu Heroi.

Perform. Perform.

Oh, perform as in, like, say it out. Okay.

"Tremenente." Tre-tre...

- Trimërine. - Aah. Aah. Trimërinë.

- Trimërine. - Yes.

RILEY: One, two, three, four,

- five, six, seven, eight. - ALI: That's better.

Bend the knee. Two.

I kind of was like, "I'm gonna

call out the steps ahead of time."

Like, you will hear me vocalize. I'm used to it.

You know, I'm a Marine. I'm a Marine captain.

Five, six, seven, eight.

- Again, one, two, three, four. - One, two, three, four.

- ANN-MARIE: They got it. - One, two, three.

One, two, pop!

- Yes! Yes! Yes! - Whoo! - [cheering]

Yes.

- Yeah! - Whoo!

Thank you so much. Oh, my God.

JOANNA: Riley's a great teammate.

And I think we have a genuine love for each other.

You know, our teams, like,

- really care about each other. - Mm-hmm.

JOANNA: I think we both are prepared to, like,

win it for ourselves, but until then,

I think we'll continue to work together

and just, like, live it up

with the BLA.

- Oh, they got it. - Let's follow each other. - Yeah.

- RILEY: I need to change out of this. - ANN-MARIE: Okay.

GARRETT: Go faster.

Six, seven, eight.

Ooh.

No, no, no.

- Oh. No good. - No good? Oh.

Dang it. So close.

ANDREA: Maybe we were going a little too fast?

They don't know the pace of it, you know?

- Should we just try it again? - Yeah.

- ERIN: Five, six, seven, eight. - Six, seven.

So just think, the direction we're turning

is the leg you're picking up.

Oh, okay, so I-I had the wrong leg the second time.

- Okay, got it. - Yeah. So, that's when you kick.

DYLAN: I'm not a dancer.

Thank God Erin was.

She really coached me through.

The only thing I need to get right

- Yeah. - is when we're here,

- like, on the knees. So... - Okay. This.

I had some... some fun ways of him remembering the dance.

Nope. [stammering] You switched your legs.

Okay, so it's the arm that's facing the crowd

- and the leg gets away. - Yes. That's perfect.

You're showing off your ... to the bride.

- Okay. - WOMAN: Like it's here.

- So... - Seriously, it helps.

- It's here. - No. Are you showing it off or not?

No. Okay, so it's here.

ERIN: When it sticks in your head, it works.

- He never messed that up again, so... - Yeah.

- Nice one. - [laughs]

- Oh... - It's okay. Keep going.

My bad.

- That's okay. - My thing's falling apart.

[laughing]: Oh, no.

GARRETT: We lost a belt, bro!

- It's okay. - This is not good.

Attaboy!

[song ends]

- I'm sorry. - It's okay.

No, no, no.

- DOUG: Literally... - CONNER: Yeah, he wasn't coming out of that one.

Not necessarily like doing drills, but the steps work.

Like, when you drill, it's like,

[rhythmically]: "Left, left, left, right, left.

About face."

And I knew if I said it out loud, like, I could give

the prep command so Joanna can hear, and it reminds me.

I'm just so glad the timing worked out today because

these last four teams are going to be battling it out.

And I'm just, like, so proud that we're out of there.

MICHELLE: Whoo!

- Albania! - MATT: Look at it.

It's really beautiful.

Beautiful.

- Wow. - MICHELLE: Thank you.

MATT: Thank you.

That's your official welcome right there.

- We'll take it. - We love it. We love it.

And I am very pleased to tell you two

that after another epic day on this Amazing Race,

your third win in a row.

- Yeah. - Congratulations.

You are the first team to arrive.

You are team number one.

As the winners of this leg of the race,

you've won OneKeyCash from Expedia,

which you can use for a trip for two to Alberta, Canada.

- Nice. - Cool.

Expedia has put together a recommended five-night,

unique experience that includes a Calgary

street art and crafts beer walking tour

with tastings,

a Rat's Nest Cave adventure tour in Canmore,

a snowshoeing experience at Sunshine Village,

and taking in panoramic views from the Banff Gondola.

Anything you'd like to say to your teammate?

Just keep doing what you're doing,

and you're, like, the most badass chick ever,

- and I love you. - I love you.

Continuing

to impress me ten years later after meeting you, so...

- Thanks. - It was awesome

to see her kicking ass today.

You really go after life.

I love that about you,

and I hope our kids see that, which I'll make sure they do.

And, uh, I hope that they embody that

because you are one of a kind, and I'm lucky to have you.

Thanks.

Love you. Oh.

Gonna make me cry.

Skënderbeu Heroi.

Skanderbeg, the hero.

"Ketha" engjëll

urtesine.

Sing, angel of the wisdom.

"Ethegitha ortesina."

Mirësitë.

Not close. Leave.

- Okay. - That was scary.

- DALTON: I know what I did wrong. - Okay.

- ANN-MARIE: I got the fanny pack. - RILEY: Take this.

"Heads or Tails?"

- What do you guys want to do? - Heads?

- Want to work together? - Yeah, let's do it.

- Come on. - Let's do it, ladies.

RILEY: We knew we had a pretty good lead.

And even though the Intersection ended,

we'd stay strong with Boss Ladies, and we're like, "Hey,

let's stay together."

Pray for us, Mother Teresa. Let's go.

Come back.

Come back again.

- [song ends] - CONNER: Yeah!

- [cheering] - Whoo!

- Yes. - Yeah! Let's go!

Thank you. Thank you.

ANUAR: Lots of luck.

GARRETT: Thank you, thank you.

- Go crush it, guys, go crush it. - Okay.

- Thank you. Thank you. - Hey, well done.

GARRETT: Thank you.

DOUG: Yeah, it's gonna be a two-team race now.

- One, two, finish. - Ah.

Okay, let's go do it.

- You want to try? - You want to try? - Yes. They're done.

- DYLAN: Okay. - ERIN: Okay, we can do it, we can do it.

Can't wait to do this in front of my grandpa.

Don't even think about it.

Unless that helps you.

ERIN: That-that freaks me out more.

DYLAN: I did a lot of public speaking, so...

ERIN: Oh, good. You have?

DYLAN: I was, like, student body president, so,

- this stuff doesn't scare me. - Oh, my God, me too.

- I get it. - DYLAN: I just don't dance.

Y'all, we don't have that much of a lead on them.

- GARRETT: No. - CONNER: Yep.

Side. [mumbles]

Five, six, seven, eight.

There's a lot of people in that room.

I don't get nervous in front of crowds, but,

you know, I've never danced in front of a crowd,

so that was a little different.

- Five, six. - Turn.

- Turn. - DYLAN: I'm really glad

this guy didn't do it. Um, he...

- Me too. - I think he would have struggled.

Again.

This is it.

Finish.

- Whoo! - Whoo!

- Ah. [laughs] - [cheering]

Let's go! Let's go! Whoo! Whoo!

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

- Yes. - Thank you. I got to go get dressed.

Thank you!

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

It was so much fun watching my grandson do that.

That was awesome.

- All right, here we go. - Let's get going.

DOUG: Good job, man. You killed it.

- DYLAN: Let's go. - JAVI: All right, let's go.

DOUG: Okay, we got to navigate.

DYLAN: St. Paul's Cathedral.

We're definitely still in this race.

Um, and if it's a race between us and Doug and Dylan,

I think I like our chances.

But I don't want to get overly confident.

Yeah, I-I agree with that.

Well, we're gonna be on our own for navigation now,

so we'll just have to kill it.

- RILEY: There it is, right there. - ANN-MARIE: Oh, yeah.

- RILEY: Right here. - ALI: Great. - ANN-MARIE: Found it.

RILEY: Yeah, down here.

Here we go. Here we go, ladies.

- RILEY: Hello. - ANN-MARIE: Hello.

- Hello. - Here we have to make one hat.

Here we have some wool, and we have to...

When it's thinner,

we have to stick the wool by hand

- like this. - Okay.

ANN-MARIE: Put wool on inside,

water on outside.

You know, we can follow

recipes and instructions.

MAN: We have to rotate.

ANN-MARIE: And the hat process

had a lot of steps.

This is the third time he's done this.

A lot of soap

and a lot of water

and extra wool and a lot of pounding

and soaping and scrubbing.

We have to put the shape.

All right, I think slow is fast.

JOANNA: Slow and steady. Slow and steady.

Let's leave here together, guys.

Let's do it.

RILEY: So, first we got

- to look at where we need more wool. - Yeah.

JOANNA: So we're looking where the wool is thinner,

- and we're gonna patch it. - Yeah.

ANN-MARIE: I don't want the hole to have

- to be the thing that we missed. - Yeah.

- I'd rather overfill. - RILEY: 100%.

You can feel it being sudsy on the inside.

- ALI: Yeah. - So you can feel it sticking.

It's like a little manicure, maybe.

ALI: Our hands are the cleanest

- they've been in a long time. - Yeah.

- [sniffing] Yeah, for sure. - Yeah.

They still smell like the soap, actually.

It smells nice.

Guys, we fill all the spots and then

- start rolling the hat, right? - Yes.

- Yes. - And fill all the spots.

RILEY: In the military, like,

it's attention to detail. That's all we say,

is you do the little things right.

ANN-MARIE: "Soap the outside, and..."

I can't read your writing.

ANUAR: We're right now

going to a cathedral.

Saint Teresa, or Mother Teresa.

I know Mother Teresa.

Hmm. No.

Honestly, I'm not even gonna try.

Yeah, we don't know who Mother Teresa is,

but we know she kept it mellow.

Mother Teresa keeps it mad mellow, bro. [laughs]

Hey, you guys can't put that in the show right there.

- My grandparents are not gonna be happy. - I know.

This is the cathedral, probably.

You think it's this?

Oh, yeah. [laughs]

There's Mother Teresa.

ANDREA: Detour.

"Heads or Tails?"

Memorizing is our strength.

Is this an Express Pass?

- Could be. - Or do you want to save?

- What are you guys doing? - What are you guys thinking?

We're thinking memorization.

- Let's ask for directions. - Let's figure it out.

ANDREA: I think we can pass people with the memory.

DALTON: Skënderben

'e trimërinë.

Of Skanderbeg and his bravery.

[speaking Albanian]

That gave light to Albania.

[speaking Albanian]

- No. - [speaking Albanian]

- Okay. - Go out.

Okay.

- This way? - Go this way.

- Okay. - There's light.

This looks like a side gate.

- Yeah, it's this. - It's this. It's this.

ANDREA: Down the stairs. Down the stairs.

CONNER: We always have this idea that if we didn't

use our Express Pass today, it'd be pretty boss.

So we were hoping that we wouldn't have to use it, but

I've always had issues with focus.

It's-it's the biggest curse in the world,

and I always thought I was massively broken,

going through all sorts of school, you know?

So anyways, if I see someone says,

"Memorize words on paper,"

I'll try to stay away from it so hard, because...

- PTSD. [laughs] - I just...

Yeah, that's the worst.

We'd like to play our Express Pass, please.

- Bravo. Well done. - Thank you. - Thank you.

- Thank you so much. - Wow.

All right, let's head out of here.

Let's go. Let's go.

- Can you stay here? - ANDREA: Oh, s... Okay.

- ANUAR: Oh, wow. - And, uh, which one English?

Yeah. Sorry. I'm trying to look.

- Is it just this? - Ah, yes. Just this.

- It's not all of this? - Not. Just this.

Oh, my God, I thought it was the whole thing.

- [Anuar sighs] - No, just this.

ANDREA: Oh, just this.

- Just this, okay. - Just focus.

Sorry. I feel better now.

Skënderben 'e trimerinë.

Of Skanderbeg and his bravery.

[speaking Albanian]

That gave light to Albania!

Good job.

Let's go! My man Skanderbeg.

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

Thank you.

- Let's go. - [laughs]

"Race to Mother Albania

and search for Phil at the Pit Stop."

- Let's go. - Mother Albania.

The race is gonna come down to us or Erin and Javi, I believe.

I think we're gonna be the bottom two

for the most of the day.

I'm, like, 80% sure that we're on the right road.

Something I said I was gonna try and work on this leg is

be a little more confident, but

there's a fine line between confidence and stupidity.

Here. Is this something?

What is this?

- What is that? - JAVI: Is that it?

- That's it, that's it, that's it. - Okay.

- Pull over, pull over. - Where do I pull over?

- JAVI: Here? - I guess.

Am I allowed...

- I don't know how... - Dang it.

Babe, just make a right turn,

and then make another right turn and come back this way, okay?

Yep, I see the clue box.

DYLAN: Sweet.

DOUG: Okay, so we navigated

a little better than Javi and Erin.

Damn. Damn, damn, damn.

That's gonna set us back about five, maybe ten minutes.

- Should I turn this way? - Yeah, to the right.

We're gonna go all the way around the block, all right?

- You think that's faster - That's the plan.

than just making a... going this way?

Baby, we have to go park in that parking lot.

- There's no two ways about it. - I meant...

I meant, go around and make a U-turn.

- To go where? - Back!

Go back that way, turn around, come back this way,

instead of going back around this way.

Do you get what I'm saying?

I have no idea what you're saying.

Baby, there's two ways of going back.

- To go where? - Back!

We either go all the way back around like this,

or we go back around like this.

Okay. Fine. You want to do that one? Let's do that. We're...

No. I'm already behind a million things of traffic.

I don't know why you're explaining it to me.

- I-I can... - Okay. Don't freak out.

I'm not freaking out, but you said no

when I said, "Make the next left."

You said no.

No, no, no. I understand what you're saying.

So, yes. So the answer's yes.

- I need to take a left up here? - This is... this is...

Okay, yes, exactly. This is where we came out of.

- DYLAN: Whoo! - Come on. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it.

Detour.

"Heads or Tails?"

Okay, let's do the Tails.

- Okay, we'll try Tails. - Okay, let's go.

- All right, let's go. - Let's find out where we're going.

DYLAN: Wait. It's a different language, though.

You want to switch to hats?

Let's go switch to hats.

We're switching to Heads.

- Right here? - Right here, turn right. Yep.

Turn to the right. There's Doug and Dylan.

There you go.

DYLAN: Uh, we just saw Erin and Javi,

so we beat them to the clue box.

Um, but it's super tight.

They're gonna be right behind us.

You want to do the Tails?

Sure, let's do the Tails. We've been doing memorization.

- Let's just do. - Okay, let's ask.

- Okay, so we're gonna do Tails. - We're gonna do Tails.

[both exclaim]

We're both pleased to tell you that you're team number two.

- Congratulations. - Woo-woo! Yes.

DAISHA: Going into the second half of the race,

my mindset is Matt and Michelle

run a very competitive race.

And I think we're gonna try

to morph our game a little bit and be more like that.

Friendships are not as important.

We're really just focusing on ourselves

and running our own race.

Such a small percentage of people

get to experience what we're experiencing.

- It's true. - So we are really

just soaking in every minute of it.

- Whoo! - GARRETT: Good day, Phil.

- KEOGHAN: Good day? - GARRETT: Good day.

CONNER: It's been a day.

Conner and Garrett, I am pleased to tell you

that you are on the podium one more time...

- Let's go. - Yes.

...at number three. Congratulations.

- Nice, dude. Let's go. - I'll take that.

Are you still dancing?

We're still dancing. Come on.

Was it hard to learn?

Yeah, you know, before the race,

we would go line dancing every week

to prepare for something like that, so I think...

Wait a minute. You guys are line dancers?

- We try. - All right, all right,

- we need to... Let me... - Oh, no.

- No, we're not that good. - No, no. Phil, Phil, Phil.

We, uh... This is too good an opportunity.

It's the music.

BOTH: Seven, eight. One, two, three.

- Hey. - Hey. This way.

BOTH: Two, three. Hey.

- BOTH: One, two, three. - Wait.

- We don't know what we're doing. - Back.

BOTH: One, two, three. Phil!

Oh.

Okay, let's go, let's go.

It should be right here, but I don't see it.

- Does your hat still have a little soap on it? - Yeah.

JOANNA: It's kind of nice to have this place to ourselves, huh?

With the Boss Lady Alliance.

This challenge--

it was helpful to have another team to, like, check your work.

- Can I see yours? - Mm-hmm.

JOANNA: We were able to talk to each other.

Like, "What are you seeing in your hat?"

"What are we seeing?"

- A lot of wool, okay? - A lot of wool.

We're seeing a lot of wool.

No other team's here, so that's good.

There's flags up there. You want to check that?

Let's give it a try.

There's shops all in the back here, too.

We're so close.

JAVI: It's right here. There's the entrance.

ERIN: Okay. Kind of looks like St. Paul's.

JAVI: It's not.

ERIN: Obviously, it's not.

But it kind of looks like it.

Skënderbeu Heroi.

Skanderbeg, the hero.

ANDREA: Who would have known this guy was a theater teacher?

I learned that very recently.

ANUAR: When I moved to college,

the theater teacher at the high school

called me and said, "Hey, can you take over my class?"

And all the virtues.

And I fell in love with it.

Skënderbe 'e trimerinë.

Of Skanderbeg and his bravery.

ANDREA: That's crazy. I don't know why

you never told me that.

Well, you're learning stuff now.

That gave light to Albania.

- Good job. - Yes.

Oh, my gosh, Dad, we got it,

we got it. Let's go. Thank you so much.

DYLAN: Are we sure it's this way?

- I don't see it, dude. - I don't, either.

Just hammer this smooth?

Yeah. No, make sure it's the other side,

make sure it's the other side.

'Cause, look, that's gonna grab it.

Okay, this was only 45 seconds to 60 seconds.

You're doing great, Mama.

DYLAN: I think it's this corner up here.

- Oh. - Pop, we're so dumb.

Oh. Albanian Night.

- Okay, good. We got it. - We've had crazier things

- happen to us in this race. - Yep.

How'd you guys get it off?

Just, like, hold it against your body and just, like...

Oh, yeah.

ANN-MARIE: Yeah.

DYLAN: Oh, there's teams here. Hello.

- MAN: Hello. - DOUG: Hello.

JOANNA: Hey, guys.

ALI: We were super grateful

to see Doug and Dylan walk in a little bit later after us.

- Hey, we caught them. - I know. They were way ahead of us.

I mean, this could take a long time, though.

That could be a bad sign.

It's not the team, I guess, we were expecting to arrive.

That means everyone else must have done the other Detour.

Okay.

Can we get a check?

Yeah. He got the sides, got the edges.

DYLAN: Dude, I really think we start.

I know, I know. We're almost to that point...

Dude, you have no idea, though.

I think I was pretty impatient

just because I knew we were in the back.

You really think we should do this over memory?

Yeah, I think we can.

I was like, "Man, we at least need to beat one

"of these two teams here-- Ann-Marie and Riley

or Ali and Joanna-- or else we're out."

- Is this your first check? - Yeah.

- Okay. Good luck. - How long did it take, guys?

Like, 30 minutes.

- Okay. - Okay.

DOUG: Oh, I see. Okay. Good.

We're, like, having to wait.

So you're just like, "Come on."

- Thank you. - Thank you. Thank you very much.

- Good luck, ladies. - Thank you. - Thank you.

Do I put it on?

I give it to you. Please.

- RILEY: Please, please, please. - ANN-MARIE: Worked so hard.

RILEY: Please, please.

It's not good here.

Oh.

- Come on! - Look at here.

- This is not good. - ANN-MARIE: Oh.

The wool, and in some other places, don't block

- all the holes. - There's more holes?

You can try another one.

RILEY: We felt really good about our hat,

and he pointed out

- the smallest thing. - [groans]

"Oh, you have a small little wrinkle here."

It's not flat.

RILEY: You kidding me? Like,

it was actually, like, really good work.

You have to try another one.

RILEY: They're like, "Nope, sorry.

Here's another hat."

Oh, my gosh.

This not pass.

JOANNA: When you fail at the Detour,

you have to start totally over.

- RILEY: Both of 'em fail? - JOANNA: Yeah.

ALI: You know, Doug and Dylan-- they're starting fresh, too,

so now we're all starting at the same spot.

So of course, you start to think, "Okay, well,

"we better do this right, because

they're caught up now."

- No luck, huh? - Nope.

Cool. We're kind of on even footing.

DYLAN: Well, it was nice to catch up to some teams.

- DOUG: Yeah. - Now I know we're not fully out.

It just makes you think, like,

should we have done the other Detour?

Because I didn't think this was gonna be that hard.

Like, we spent so much time.

RILEY: Just go slow and steady right now.

I think where I've messed up is in these steps, so...

DOUG: They had to go back and completely redo hats.

And so, we're on

level footing again.

DYLAN: Every time I ring it, dude, there's more soap on it.

DOUG: Oh, yeah, there's a lot of soap on there.

I think I'm done now. Take a look.

Looks good.

He's pretty good at building things, making things,

and he was a lot quicker.

DYLAN: Pop, I don't think you're done. Let me check it.

- You don't believe me? - No.

I think he was going too quick, though,

to the point where he was forgetting steps.

Pop, not like that. Pop, trust... Pop, like this.

And I knew because this guy made us watch the demo.

If we can get out here with just one check,

we'll be golden, but we're not gonna do that if we rush.

Not rushing. I thought I had it.

Skënderbeu Heroi.

Skanderberg, the hero.

No.

- Oh, on mine? - No.

Go out.

Me? What did I do wrong?

- Maybe me or you? - That's you.

But it says "Skanderberg" on the thing.

JAVI: Double-check it.

ERIN: Since the last leg, I've been saying "Skanderberg."

Maybe that's why nobody helped us. They're like,

"Skanderberg? What is she...

- Who is she talking about?" - Maybe it's Skanderbeg?

Skanderbeg the hero.

But I knew it was such a quick fix.

Do it again.

Skënderben 'e trimerinë.

Of Skanderbeg and his bravery.

[speaking Albanian]

That gave light to Albania.

- Good. Very good. - Let's go.

Okay. Amazing!

JAVI: The cape is what really

- sealed it for me. - He loved his cape.

I wish I could have kept the cape and just

- gone on the mat with the cape. - He felt...

It felt... It felt natural.

Whoo! Fly away, babe. Okay.

♪ ♪

- [Anuar sighs] - ANDREA: Look how gorgeous this is.

ANUAR: One, two.

Anuar, I feel like your smile is getting bigger

with every leg that you complete.

Yes, I feel much better.

I'm happy to be with my daughter,

happy to be competing with

all these young kids and, uh, stay with them.

- KEOGHAN: Yeah. - That's very, very good.

[sighs] I can't get it to go down.

Come here. Get that down.

You're using it the wrong way.

Then how do you want me to do it?

- Really? - Come on.

You're asking me to help, and then you tell me

- I'm doing it wrong. - This way. Go this way.

ALI: This hat is so much better than my last one already.

- JOANNA: Yeah, I think it looks great. - Yeah?

JOANNA: I think in moments where

you had a lead and then you lost it,

that can either break you

or it can build you up to do better for the second time.

- ALI: Jo, what do you think? - JOANNA: Looks great.

JOANNA: Psychologically, when we're put in those moments

of high stress, we just turn it up a notch.

We don't crumble, we don't panic.

We're actually calmer, and we're like, "We got this."

- Can I get a check? - You guys got it.

JOANNA: And I think that's a huge edge

that we have through competitive sports.

It's, like, you've been in moments where you're up

two-zero, you lose that lead,

and it's just, like, gut-check time.

Please, please, please, please, please,

- please, please, please. - MAN: It's good.

- Oh. - Oh.

- ALI: Thank you so much. - Thank you. Thank you.

You guys got this.

Come on. Let's go to our car.

Okay, let's just try it and see what he says.

Girls are going up for their check.

It's better than the first time.

- Yes. - So much better.

I can't even look. I'm gonna cry.

This pass, this no.

You have to cut

- more carefully. - Trim-trim 'em. Okay.

He said my cut wasn't even, and

I thought I was gonna lose my mind.

Okay, I just have to trim.

But he let me take it and just retrim it a little bit.

My hands

were shaking from fatigue.

Much better. And just

the energy to get out of there and get it right.

Yes, yes.

- Now it's good job. - Thank you.

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

DOUG: Oh, they got it.

Girls got approved.

So we're the last ones.

Keep our fingers crossed that our gentleman up here thinks

this is a professional-looking hat.

DYLAN: Probably won't fit your big head.

Well, you know, it runs in the family.

RILEY: That Detour was hard.

We very well could be second to last.

All we know is Doug and Dylan are behind us.

DOUG: I think it's worth a check.

- What do you say? - Let's try it, yeah.

Okay. Check, please.

- JOANNA: All right, we really got to nail this navigation. - I know.

Knowing that Doug and Dylan are still down there

with the hats...

JOANNA: Well, we think they're still down there.

ALI: Maybe that gives us a chance.

I wish we knew where the other teams were,

so we didn't have to freak out.

I saw you from upstairs.

You're doing an excellent cut.

- Uh-huh. - Good? - Yes.

- Yeah. - Yay! Thank you.

DOUG: I thought he was gonna offer me a job.

I know. I thought he was gonna

stay in Albania with this man.

- Good? - Yes, good.

- Yes. - Yeah! Hey. Good job.

Yes! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

DOUG: Thank you, thank you. Thank you.

DYLAN: Let's pray someone gets lost, bro.

KEOGHAN: Erin and Javi, I'm pleased to tell you that

- you're team number five. Congratulations. - Let's go, baby.

Let's go.

- How has your day been? - ERIN: Our day has been

ups and downs and hills and lefts and rights, and...

- it's... - [kissing]

it's come to our final destination.

- Yes. - It feels amazing.

ALI: I need to find out what name of the street is.

Can you tell, Jo?

No. I really hope

Doug and Dylan got sent back again.

All right, let's get to the mat. Slow and steady.

RILEY: I know we need to get to SH3.

I just don't know where.

I'm not giving up. I'm-I'm hoping that

someone has some navigation issues.

Uh, you just never know.

JOANNA: Keep going straight, and then it's down.

- Are you sure? Are you sure? - Yeah. - WOMAN: I'm sure.

RILEY: We're close.

What's it called?

Mother Albania.

RILEY: After the park, it's a quick left, and we should be here.

We're four minutes.

Whoa.

DYLAN: I will confidently say,

for the first time in this race, we know where we're going.

I am confident. I feel it in my heart.

Mother of Albania.

ANN-MARIE: I see it.

RILEY: Get on that side.

We have no idea where we are.

- None. - KEOGHAN: Would you like to know?

- Yes. - Please.

You are team number six.

- Okay. - All right. We'll take it.

- Okay. - We'll take it.

When you were growing up...

...did anybody teach you about folding up maps, or...

- I did the best I could. - And somehow, you still

- made it here with... - We did. We did.

following the map like this?

ANN-MARIE: Yeah. It got wet.

Ladies Alliance on the mat.

- Let's go, BLA. - Ali and Joanna,

- you are team number seven. - Thank you. - Yes. Let's go.

You guys worked together quite well today.

- Yeah. - We did. - We're the Boss Ladies, Phil.

- Come on. - We did. - Yeah.

Oh, I see a lot of cars here, boy.

Four, five, six, seven, eight.

DOUG: Okay, there's Mother of Albania.

DYLAN: I think this is it for us.

DOUG: Yeah, it could be.

- DOUG: Okay. - DYLAN: There we go.

KEOGHAN: You made it. You made it.

DYLAN: Oh, yes we did.

I think we're at the bottom, but

for him to be able to still do this

physically, mentally, you know,

I'm-I'm truly blessed to have this guy as my grandpa.

So, man, it's been fun.

I'm hoping you got the strength to keep on going,

- 'cause this is a non-elimination leg. - Oh, my God.

Don't make me cry again on TV, Phil.

Don't make me cry again.

- And you are still racing. - DOUG: Oh.

- Oh! - DYLAN: Oh. Yes!

Oh, my God.

- Ah! - [laughs] Not an elim!

- DYLAN: What? - DOUG: Whoo!

Attaboy. [laughs]

Oh, my God.

- Oh. - You... you are good.

I'll give it to you. You got us twice now.

He's either good or he's cruel.

Well, listen, look how happy you are now.

Oh, yeah.

- Yeah. - The sky is a little bluer

than it was five minutes ago.

I do need to tell you that sometime

during the next leg of the race, you will

have to complete some kind of penalty.

- We'll welcome it. - But it is gonna slow you down.

- Know that that is ahead. - Yeah. Yeah. - Got it.

In other news, would you like to know where you're going to?

- Yes. Are you gonna tell us? - Yeah, we'd love to.

You're going to Colombo, Sri Lanka.

- Sri Lanka. Oh, wow! - What?! - I have a phone for you.

- Okay. - Cool. Okay. - Open up the Expedia app on it.

Tap on "packages," and you can

- book your hotel and your flight. - DOUG: Very good.

- Thank you, sir. - DYLAN: All right. - That sound good?

All right, let's book our flight and hotel.

MICHELLE: Let's open the app, Expedia app.

We're going to Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Packages. Boom.

DAISHA: Oh, my gosh. Look at all the options.

- Let's do this one. - Okay.

- Ooh, that's beautiful. - Ooh, and the water.

DAISHA: "Next up, choose flights for your package."

Let's build that bundle, baby.

- We got our flight. - We got our flight.

- DAISHA: We got our hotel room. - Hotel.

Simple enough.

- Let's go. - Sri Lanka in two minutes.

- Sri Lanka, here we come! - Here we go!

KEOGHAN: Teams are now flying to the island nation of Sri Lanka.

When they land, they'll make their way

to Kuttiduwa Beach.

GARRETT: Oh, no! Go, go, go, go, go, go!

- That it? - Taxi!

- Kuttiduwa Beach? - Go, go, go.

DAISHA: Taxi? Taxi?

- DALTON: Taxi! - DAISHA: Taxi!

We're trying to go very fast, sir.

CONNER: Yeah, buddy. Whew!

- Very fast. Very fast. Thank you. - We're in a race.

- MICHELLE: Very quick. - MATT: Number one.

- Let's go. - MICHELLE: We got to go quick.

DAISHA: We were all

on the same flight to Sri Lanka,

and we're all racing to this beach.

Sri Lanka, please be good to us.

MAN: Good luck.

RILEY: Go. Go, go, go.

Well, get ready.

MICHELLE: Oh, it smells.

- GARRETT: Let's go, brother. - CONNER: All right, let's do it.

- Let's ride. - ALI: I think it's this way. Come on.

- JOANNA: Do you see it? - ALI: No.

MATT: Wow.

- Whew! - Whew, stinky.

ALI: Let's go. Go, go, go.

- DOUG: Oh, there he is. - ANDREA: Phil?

DOUG: Oh, I see him.

- ANDREA: What is happening? - DYLAN: Why is Phil here?

ANDREA: Uh-oh.

- DOUG: Oh, I see him. - Come on, run.

ANDREA: Usually, when you see Phil

in the middle of a course,

it's some crazy surprise

that he's gonna spring on us.

KEOGHAN: Welcome.

I'm pretty sure you know why you're here today.

We are about to take part in a live

Double U-Turn vote.

- We know it's coming. We're not dumb. - That-That's fine,

but all we can do is prepare for the storm.

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KEOGHAN: Next time on The Amazing Race...

After the Double U-Turn votes are tallied,

tensions get higher...

Once you cross us, that's it.

[groans]

KEOGHAN: ...and it's every team

for themselves.

MATT: You know where the clue box is?

- Yeah, but... - You're not gonna tell us?

- Sorry, guys. - Are you serious?

The Amazing Race is

becoming the Amazing Nightmare.

No!