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Previously on The Amazing Race Australia...

..lifelong bonds were strengthened...

Great work.

- I love you. - I love you too.

..new friendships were forged...

Nailed it! That's the stuff!

..and the five final teams...

- This is The Amazing Race! - It's amazing!

..took on...

You know, the whole world is within Australia. It really shows that.

..the adventure of a lifetime.

Oh, my God!

We've made it this far. That's a confidence winner on its own.

We're here to do a job. We're here to win.

Tonight...

We have a 1-in-5 chance of winning the $250,000.

We're not here to come second, third, fourth, fifth,

we want to win it.

..our final five teams arrive in Newcastle...

I'm super-excited.

..and tap into a Steel City sensation.

I am the worst dancer in this entire race.

Wait, what's this part?

While the Hunter Valley...

We had to find a needle in a haystack, literally.

Literally.

..hosts the ultimate challenge.

Oh, babe, I got it.

With 250K on the line...

Oh, this is pure hell.

..which team will lose it?

Not how I imagined I'd be going home -

stuck here looking for this goddamn needle.

Our final five teams are waking up

in Tasmania's second-largest city Launceston.

It's from here that they'll begin the 19th leg

of the Amazing Race Australia,

departing in the order they finished at the last pit stop.

"Fly to the Hunter Valley."

- "Australia's oldest wine region." - Let's go! Let's go!

Teams are now all on the same flight from Launceston to Sydney.

They'll then need to catch a train to Newcastle to continue the race.

Trains to our right, Skye.

Come on, come on, come on! Let's go.

Aleisha. Aleisha.

Once known as the Steel Capital of Australia, Newcastle -

or as the locals know it, Newie - is the world's largest coal port,

a thriving metropolis and gateway to the Hunter Valley.

And it's here in Newie the teams will receive their next clue.

Ooh, the race is really on.

Our goal was always just to get to the top three,

and we're so close to that now.

But we're definitely on our own here.

The other teams have a strong alliance,

so we know it's going to be tough.

But we're ready for them.

We've got this.

It would be such a huge deal to win, especially as an all-girl team.

You know, we're fit, we're strong.

We're the whole package and we can win this thing.

- This leg is we've gotta survive. - Yeah.

We're doing this for our family and our kids.

We're here to win that prize for our boys.

So when they grow up they're gonna realise that Dad's done us proud,

and, yeah, we've done it for them.

We can't give up now. We've got to...

Happily.

I came into this to show people

that no matter what you look like,

no matter what people tell you, as long as you believe in yourself

you can achieve anything you put your mind to.

We've got this.

Being Sikhs, we've always been warriors.

It's all about being determined, being strong and never giving up.

We're here to give it all and we really want to win this.

Let's go. I bet you it's this side.

Go, go, go.

Go.

We have to find the stationmaster to get our next clue.

Hi there. We're looking for the stationmaster.

Other side of... On platform one.

- I see him. He's in a blue shirt. - Good job, baby. Keep going.

Hey, mate. Are you the stationmaster?

- I am. - Yes!

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

"Welcome to Newcastle, the Steel City,

"where you'll tap to the grind with Dein Perry and his famous Tap Dogs."

As one of the country's great industrial cities,

Newcastle Steelworks once employed up to 13,000 locals.

The plant closed in 1999, but Newcastle's story

of steel and working-class men lives on

through its world-famous dance production Tap Dogs.

Teams will come here to the steelworks

where they'll learn a routine.

Then they'll perform it on stage

in front of legendary Tap Dogs choreographer Dein Perry.

Once he gives them the thumbs up, they'll receive their next clue.

- First team to get off the train. - Yeah, boy! Whoo!

- OK, mate. Thank you very much. - You're welcome.

"Tap to the grind with Dein Perry..."

"..and his famous Tap Dogs." Let's go.

I can be a big dog. Thank you.

Go, go.

Go. Get in, get in.

- How are we? - Good, thanks.

Can we go to City Steel?

Yeah, but we need to get there first.

- Ash and Amanda in front? - Yep.

Cool.

We've built a bit of an alliance with Jas and Anurag,

Amanda and Ashleigh, and Skye and Jake.

The Awesome Foursome. We're all pretty close together.

So, the way I see it is

I'd rather beat tough competition to prove you are the best.

If you're going in there against people that are weaker

and, you know, it doesn't really prove much.

So we help each other out, we push each other. So it's a good alliance.

We definitely want to try to safely get in front of a lot of these...

- I'll get you in front, trust me. - ..taxis. Yeah.

Let's do this.

We saw some of the other taxis going straight,

and we ended up taking a right.

So we went a different route to all the other taxis.

Would this be the quickest way?

I hope you're right. I really hope you're right.

I've never heard of Tap Dogs.

People dressed in a dog costume, dancing on all fours potentially.

I'm hoping it's more the dogs doing the dancing than us.

- I hope they're real dogs. - Of course they're real dogs.

- Yeah, well, you never know. - True.

Can I teach you some basic tapping while we're right here?

I've been tapping for over 20 years and I'm a tap teacher too.

Bup-ba-bum, ba-bum.

Yep, and step. And step. That's right, that's right. Yes.

Who knew that all my years of tapping

would come in handy on The Amazing Race?

- Thanks, mate. - Thank you so much.

Thank you. Where are the flags?

We arrived there clearly in first position. No other teams in sight.

Hopefully we're going to learn this quickly

and maintain this position.

- Oh, wow. - That's cool.

Surely that's not what we're dancing, 'cause that's really quick.

We can't even clap that fast, how are we gonna tap-dance that fast?

- Alright, let's go learn it, yeah? - Yeah, go put our outfits on.

We've gotta put our outfits on.

We've gotta put our shoes on.

Mate, they make a noise alright.

In all of our other dancing challenges, we struggled,

so we're not sure if we can do this.

Hey, boys.

So we head over to the practice area and learn it slowly.

You've got step, clap.

- Step, clap. - Yeah.

- Thank you so much, Wanda. - Thank you so much, Wanda. Thank you!

- Yes, good luck. Good luck. - Thank you. Thanks heaps.

- See you later. - Are we the first ones here?

- Oh, the Sikhs are here. - Where is everybody else?

Where are they going?

I'm not sure if we've made a wrong turn.

Oh, no.

How are Skye and Jake in front of us?

'Cause he was following Skye and Jake.

We've got two cabs behind us now, Skye.

And the Cowboys were following us.

So all the taxis were lost.

I definitely don't think it's here.

They've spun around, so we might have missed it.

There's only three of us here too.

Chris and Aleisha, they've gone another way.

So, Chris and Aleisha rock up, and we know they're good at dancing.

We need to learn this ASAP, otherwise we've lost our lead.

But there's a lot of memory in it.

It's a lot of coordination,

and it is insanely hard getting the tempo right.

Yeah, for me, I get it slowly but when it speeds up,

it's confusing me.

I'm pretty sure Aleisha was ready

after seeing the performance one time through.

Heck yeah.

Hopefully we can stay in the top three.

Oh, dammit. I keep doing the wrong foot.

- Oh, yeah. Have you got it? - Yeah, yep.

One, two, three, four. One, two, three, tap.

That's it on the right.

Come on, Skye. Hurry, hurry, hurry.

- Alright? - Yep. Let's go.

I love how we were the first out and the last in.

Wow.

My jaw absolutely hit the floor. It was absolutely surreal.

There's sparks going everywhere, there's a bloke tap dancing.

It looked like Magic Mike XXL.

There is no way that any team

is going to be able to do what those guys are doing on stage.

We should be right.

Teams, just focus on it.

Hey, Blundstones!

Costumes! Again. And we love that.

We had our little flannos

and our boots with the tapping things on them.

- It was, like, pretty cool. - Let's go.

Everyone's here, bro, so we've gotta get in here and smash it out.

We headed over to the practice area, and Chris and Aleisha,

and Anurag and Jas were still there.

And Anurag and Jas struggle with dancing challenges.

- OK, forward... - Practice two, OK?

So I thought, well, let's just get in and get it done.

Might be able to get through to get into top three.

What are we doing?

Uh-oh. I see Chris and Aleisha leave.

They're headed over to the performance stage.

Every other team is still here trying to learn it.

Oh, man, they've picked this up really quickly.

One, two, three, stomp.

Three! One, two, step!

One, go!

Good one. Around.

- Whoo! - Yes!

That was so awesome! Thanks, boys!

I think I did alright.

I think you did. I think you did. We'll see.

- Yes! - Oh, thank you!

Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

- Thank you. - Thanks, guys.

- You guys are fit as. Thanks heaps. - Thank you!

Bye!

OK. "Make your way to Byalee Stables in the Hunter Valley."

Teams will need to drive themselves from Newcastle

to Byalee Stables in the Hunter Valley, just over 100km away.

Where they'll find a sign-up board for tomorrow's challenge.

Here they'll put their names down in the order they arrive.

The earlier they get there,

the earlier they get to start in the morning.

Chris and Aleisha have got it.

- Let's give it a go. - Are you sure?

If we get knocked back, we get knocked back.

Alright, let's go.

Holy crap, I'm so proud of you.

OK, the Sikhs are going to try it. The girls just went to try it.

Then let's hurry.

Chris and Aleisha may be in front, but we need to be number two.

We're not dancers.

But we can work this out, get it done and make up some places.

Just go back in and just a couple of steps that you're doing...

Yeah.

Just go back with the boys and work it out.

OK. Thank you so much.

Right, let's go back to rehearsals.

If the judge tells you to go back to practice,

you know you were doing something seriously wrong.

The awesome foursome teams are behind.

We've got to get this done

because Chris and Aleisha managed to get out of there first.

Wait, what's this part?

Wow! What a turn of events!

- What a turn of events. - The last are first!

All because of tap dancing!

It was so much fun. I loved it!

I have heart eyes right now.

He loves tap!

- Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da... - Yeah, I could go faster.

I love you.

Getting on that stage, in front of the judge,

along with those legendary tap dancers...

..it wasn't easy.

But it was time to catch up with Chris and Aleisha.

- That was a lot better. - That was a lot better, then, eh?

Thank you!

Whoo-hoo!

"Make your way to Byalee Stables in the Hunter Valley."

Let's go.

Do not slow down.

We can overtake Chris and Aleisha in just driving.

We need to catch up with Chris and Aleisha

so we can take that first position here.

- That'd be nice. - You know what? That's all I can hope for.

- Let's go, Skye. - We got this.

- Thanks, guys. - See you, boys. Thank you!

Let's go. The boys are gonna overtake us.

Two, three, go!

So, the first performance didn't go very well.

I'm normally the dancer and he's normally the bit shy one,

but it's gone the opposite way round -

I get on there and get bloody stage fright.

There was a lot of tapping and feet-kicking and sliding.

And it was insanely difficult.

Oh... ***!

My hopes and dreams are very low at this point

for us getting out of this challenge alive.

OK.

- Thank you! Whoo! - Thank you!

We managed to get it on our fourth attempt, which was great.

"Make your way to Byalee Stables in the Hunter Valley."

Let's go.

We didn't get lost.

Yes!

Want to do the honours?

- Are you sure? - Yep. All yours.

Let's savour this moment, hey?

We're in the top five teams and we're in first place.

That feels pretty good

because last few legs, we've been in last place,

we've had Sabotages, so...

feel good to have a bit of weight lifted off our shoulders.

Oh, yeah.

And we were the second team there.

Look, not ideal. That's not where we want to be.

We want to be first, Anurag, and I know we can do it.

- Yay! Thank you so much! - Thank you!

- Thank you so much. - Thank you. Thanks, guys.

- Thanks, mate. - Thanks, mate.

- Thanks, boys! - Thanks, boys.

- Thanks, guys. - Let's get out of here, bro.

"Make your way to Byalee Stables in the Hunter Valley."

Yes! Let's go!

Alright! Finally!

- If it's gonna be horses... - We were stoked.

Yes!

Yee-hoo!

We've both been here a bit, so if we can try to, um...

..get any short-cut possible...

I reckon we might just go our own way there, dude.

I'm born and bred in the Hunter,

so coming towards the pointy end of the race,

this is definitely a huge advantage for us.

And I'm assuming we're going right up here.

Yep.

I did all of my high school in Newcastle,

so I feel like we had a bit of an advantage.

Oh, my God. I know this place.

Awesome.

So, we could get quickly out of Newcastle

and on our way to our second challenge.

We're at a disadvantage in this state

because there's three other teams out of five that are from here.

The girls just overtook us, Skye.

Skye and Jake got out of the dancing so much before us,

maybe they got lost.

Probably.

Obviously, there's not a lot of teams left,

so any mistake could be your last mistake.

Skye and Jake just turned the other way.

Uh, look, turn around and follow the girls 'cause they went the other way.

Oh... Up here, on the right.

It'll be one of these gates.

Whoo-hoo!

- Yay! - Yay! Third!

We made up so much time on the Sikhs.

We came out of Tap Dogs in fourth

and then, because of our exceptional navigation skills and driving,

we ended up getting to Byalee Stables in third.

We were pretty happy with that.

Oh, who's this behind us?

We're goin' in now or...?

No, now's off. Write your name on.

Skye and Jake took a wrong turn in front of us.

- Oh, you're jokin'! - Nuh.

You guys are gonna slay this challenge.

You bet.

I was so pumped. I was like, "Yes, a horse challenge."

You know, this is what we wanted to do -

doing something where it's just second nature to us.

So, we were really looking forward to the next challenge.

Oh...

Last place.

I was a bit like, "Rrrr!" inside

but we're still going.

Not ideal.

Our plan is to go to the finale

and we're gonna do that.

Last night, teams put their names on the sign-up board

in the order they arrived.

This morning, teams must come here to Byalee Stables in the Hunter Valley.

The Hunter is a hot spot for horse and equestrian events,

and it's here that they'll learn the highest expression of horse training,

and perform a synchronised dressage routine.

But there's a twist.

What the teams don't know is that they won't be riding a real horse.

They'll be riding a hobby horse.

And believe it or not,

hobby horse dressage is a real sport that even has a world championship.

Once elite-level dressage coach Anne Marie

deems their performance pass-worthy,

they'll receive their next clue.

Giddy-up.

- How cool is this? - Byalee.

So, this is... Do you reckon this is the arena?

We've woken up this morning and we know we're in first place,

which is really good to see.

Our game plan is to maintain that position.

We can do this. We can totally do this.

Confident we can get in here and, um,

and get it done pretty quick hopefully.

We're comfortable riding horses so just go in there

and try to leave in a better position than when we come in.

Yes. I love it.

- They've got little jumps. - They do too.

Doing a dressage course.

I mean, we don't do dressage ourselves

but we've ridden horses our whole life, both of us.

So we knew we had a massive advantage.

- Hello. - Hello. How are you going?

Good, thank you. Please go and get your horses.

OK.

- Where's the rest of the horse? - Yeah!

Uh-oh. What is going on?

The horses are on a stick.

- Let's do it. - I'm the one on the left.

Welcome. Please go and get your horses.

Un-bloody-believable.

Stitch up. You're joking.

Like, well, this is no advantage at all.

We want to actually do a challenge with a bit of skill about it,

not jumping around like Looney Tunes.

Let's go.

So today you'll be doing a pas de deux,

so you're going to be judged on your synchronicity, your accuracy

and also your performance flair.

Awesome.

So we're just going to give you a bit of instruction,

then you can go and do some practice

before you go in and do the real thing.

OK.

We had to learn a very complicated routine.

Extend the trot.

Point your toes and lift your knees.

We generally we do pretty well

with kind of dance- or routine-based challenges.

So we go out from here with

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Yeah, OK.

A canter was the one where you put your feet out forward.

We thought we've got this routine down.

Yeah.

That's great.

Up to where?

OK. So...

Shoulders back.

Hello!

We've got all the teams in this area rehearsing,

just running around in circles, a bit confused.

I'll get this...

- H and E. - H and E.

That should be...

E, B diagonally. Phew, a lot of things.

The hardest part about it was this map.

It looked like a battleship's kind of drawing, or morse code.

Mine's the opposite to you.

No, no. We're going A to X.

Walk up to the long side, back to A.

It doesn't make any sense.

Here we go. This is going to be harder than Tap Dogs.

I'm facing this way, I'm crossing you this way.

I'm not crossing you this way.

A horse doesn't have a reverse gear.

And canter, canter, canter.

Once I started placing together this entire routine,

I'm like, oh, my God.

Basically it's another dancing challenge.

So, Chris and Aleisha have an advantage again.

Why have there been, like, two basically dancing challenges?

This is very unfair.

Let's give it a go, baby.

So be pompous and, like...

- Mmm! You know? - Yeah.

Here we go. Let's try.

Ready?

- OK, what are we doing? - Trot.

Half pass. Go.

And canter.

We quickly learned that the judges is quite serious.

All the way to the edge.

And trot back.

We couldn't put a hoof out of line.

Ready for the jump?

On six. Seven. Eight.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

And now canter forward.

And salute.

No good. Alright.

We decided to go practise it again and work out what went wrong.

We were second to the sign-up board last night.

Meaning we're second to start this challenge.

- How are you, horsey? Alright? - How you going, Jas?

- I'm alright, man. How are you? - Doing really well, mate.

- You ready for this? - I am, man.

- I hope... - Let's go.

Let's just put our head down, have tunnel vision,

do what we need to do.

If we get this right, we can overtake Chris and Aleisha.

Wait for my call.

- And... - Jump.

Trot. Draw back.

When I call it, we're going to skip.

Left knee first. Skip.

One, two, three, four.

Stop.

Alright. We'll do it again.

Thank you.

Did youse guys get clarification on 10?

Yeah.

Do we go opposite ways from where we just came or is it...

- You should've been at M. - Yeah? Yeah?

And then from there you just continue back.

They're huddling and helping each other out.

Oh, so when you cross, that's when you start the count. Righto.

So, that's pretty daunting.

From this point on, we can't make any mistakes.

Any tiny mistake could mean we're out of here.

Can you make sure your extended trots are really kicking them out?

Pick your feet up. Trotting.

So the other teams were still practising,

so it allowed us to keep attempting.

Crossover.

We've made some tweaks, and I just decide, you know what?

It's proper showmanship that's missing.

OK. Two feet over.

- And don't forget to smile. OK? - Yep.

So I just give 'em a big old cheesy smile as we go around.

You right?

Congratulations.

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

- Thank you. - Thank you.

Come on!

OK. Detour.

A Detour is a choice between two challenges,

each with its own pros and cons.

And for this Detour, teams will have choose between Pit or Paddle.

Teams that choose Paddle will come here to the RidgeView Estate Winery.

All they've got to do is row out there in the middle of the dam,

grab some grapes, bring 'em in,

and work together to squeeze 150ml into a wineglass.

When they do that, they'll get their next clue.

Oh, actually, I forgot to tell ya.

They won't be in a boat.

They'll be on a wine barrel.

Ahoy!

And teams that choose Pit will come here

to the Tintilla Estate Winery and Olive Farm,

where they'll get their hands on the Hunter's other great export.

Here they'll be given two trays with a whopping 200 olives on them.

They'll need to use their hands only to remove the pit from the olives,

separating them each into their own jar.

Once they've done that, they'll receive their next clue.

I'm thinking Pit.

It could be a massive pile but we can do that.

OK. Let's do that.

Pretty lucky so far this leg.

- Two dancing-type challenges... - Yeah.

..so that's pretty good for us.

Hopefully we can put many minutes between us and the other teams.

Hopefully.

Did you notice as well, the other teams were helping each other?

I'd like to think that being on our own

just means we can run our own race

and not kind of get distracted by other teams.

Yeah, so, it's us against the other four, and we're still out in front.

Keep going, hey.

I'll just follow your lead.

Salute.

Trot.

Chris and Aleisha had smashed through this.

If we get this right, I know that we can catch them.

And trot.

High knees. One, two, three, four.

Six, seven, eight, nine. Jump.

Salute.

OK.

Nup, they didn't get it.

It must be... It has to be the salute.

Chris and Aleisha at this point have a massive lead.

This is not good.

We are at the back end of the line.

And here was everyone else performing.

OK.

We could clearly see what they were doing wrong.

Some people were side-hopping,

some people were going the wrong way.

Guys, it's just a half pass.

Yeah, we *** it as well.

We knew this was our opportunity to catch up.

So we got there, we did our second attempt, and we were like horses.

We were natural horses.

- Well done. - Now to the middle.

Stop.

Yeah, baby.

Well done.

Thank you! Thank you.

Detour.

- "Pit or paddle." I reckon pit. - Yeah, let's go.

Quick, quick, quick.

- We can catch up to the other guys. - Exactly.

What does pitting mean?

"Neatly pit all olives between you using only your hands."

This is simple. Let's make the most of this.

I'm happy it's physical. We have a set number that we do.

We're really good at just pushing through.

- Yeah. - And this is what our advantage is, OK?

I know Chris and Aleisha are well in front,

but, mate, we need to get in front of them.

Now it's time to go, go, go. We're not holding back.

- We're not here for second, we want first. - Exactly.

Aleisha, Aleisha. Good job, baby.

We got here really fast.

There's no-one else there,

so we're so excited to be probably pretty far ahead of the other teams.

We've got a bucket for the waste and a bucket for the pips.

- Now, they do need to be neatly pipped. - Yeah.

So I don't care about the olives,

- but the pips need to be nice and clean. - Oh, awesome.

It is a lot of olives.

It is two huge trays of olives that we have to pit.

Let's keep this hustle, OK? Like, we can't slow down.

How much easier would it be to just eat them?

Oh, for a few, yeah.

I'm just attacking the soft ones

because they're much easier to get the pip out,

and I don't want my hands to cramp up.

And they just kind of slide out when they're a bit off.

So...

Oh, see, I've got a really good video gaming thumb,

so this bad boy can go all day, pipping olives.

OK, let's channel Nonna in Abruzzi.

Spin.

My hat was a tad too big,

so I couldn't really see much except for my feet.

Yes.

- Whoa. Whoa. That's alright, buddy. - Neigh!

Thank you very much. Thank you, guys.

- Detour. - "Pit or paddle?"

- What do you reckon? - What do you want to do?

- I reckon maybe paddle? - Paddle.

Alright, let's do it. Let's go.

Riding horses is a skill, you know? It takes years to master.

Jump.

Trot.

Whoo. Yee-ha!

And we're gonna be the last ones out of here.

This is such a joke.

"Pit or paddle."

- Pit might be easier. - You reckon?

- Yep. - Let's go.

If Chris and Aleisha are at this challenge...

I'm trying to catch up with them.

We need to see what's working for them.

'Cause they're good at thinking.

Chris and Aleisha are very strategic too.

They will have tried multiple methods and figured out what works,

and we just try that.

- Yeah. - We need to get in front of them.

That's our goal.

Oh, my gosh. That's way easier.

Easier. Stand up, use your body weight behind it.

- It's 10 times easier. - And just push down with your...

Just use the palm of your hand.

I just, like, use my entire body weight on it.

Yeah, that technique's way better, eh?

Yeah. If the other teams come, don't show them.

Try to hide that technique, I guess.

'Cause if they get that straightaway,

we may have lost a lot of time.

So if you can pick up your pace, babe, I'd be really grateful.

These are the kinds of things that, like,

you sort of get yourself into a groove and it's a slow groove.

Yeah.

Just, honestly, push yourself to, like, see how fast you can go.

Come on.

Let's go, mate.

Here comes another team. Crap, crap, crap.

- Hurry up, hurry up. - Well, then, you wanna sit down?

Yeah.

Don't let them see our technique, OK?

- Hey, guys. - Hey, team.

Professional dancers.

Oh, first things first, congratulations.

- Thank you, thank you. - You guys smashed that one.

That's a good technique, guys.

"You must straddle the barrel,

"paddle across the lake to the grape plantation."

So we're not in a canoe, Skye, we're paddling a...

Yeah, barrels are very hard. We've got them for raft building at work.

You automatically sort of roll off them.

It is almost impossible to stay on a barrel upright.

- They're very difficult. - Alright, do you want to swap?

Yeah, OK.

We decided to switch and went to pit.

So what am I looking for now?

I don't know. Maybe an olive farm, potentially.

I don't eat olives, but hopefully we can pit these olives

and get back on track.

Here we are in last place, third attempt.

We needed to get this right.

- Yay. - Thank you, thank you.

Thank you. Alright, let's go.

Detour. "Pit or paddle."

- What do you want to do? - Let's just do pit for now.

- OK. Cool. - Let's go.

I'm really frustrated right now.

Like, we're in last place.

This far in the race, when you leave a challenge last,

you have such a high likely chance of going home.

We don't ever want to hear Beau say,

"You're eliminated from The Amazing Race."

We want to stay here until the end.

This could totally go any way.

I think we've chosen a good Detour.

Then again, do you reckon it's gonna be hard to pit olives?

Have you ever pitted an olive?

I feel like...

..it's hard to get the seed out of them.

We left the dressage event in last place.

I hate losing, so much.

We'll just try our best at this next one.

I know that in these speed type of ones, we've done well before,

so, hopefully, we can pit them as fast as possible

and catch up some spots.

Right.

- Now we're on Wine Country Road. - Yep.

You're following this all the way up.

Originally, we chose Paddle

and then, as we were driving there,

we decided to switch to Pit.

Hopefully, we can pit these olives and get back on track.

I am so goddamn glad I didn't cut my nails.

I was gonna do it last night.

OK.

It's not easy.

I was trying so bad to keep it a secret,

to not let people see that I was squishing the olives.

But you can't - they're gonna be copying us

and ride our coat-tails.

Check it out.

Look at that! The Cowboys are here!

Never... never ate an olive before.

I've had one olive in my life and I nearly threw up, I think.

Putrid.

The whole smell of them was just repulsive.

Messy bloody things, aren't they?

Girls are here too.

Let's do this, Ashie.

We rock up at the olive challenge

and it felt really good to see

that there were three other teams still there.

Our hopes just sky-rocketed at this point.

We knew that, hopefully, we can just catch up and power through.

We can do this, babe.

Girls are here before us.

We left dressage second-last and arrived at the olives last.

- Oh, everybody's here. - Hello!

- Welcome to the party! - Whoo-whoo!

No-one wanted the wine.

All of a sudden, we realised, "Every single team is here."

No-one picked the other Detour.

So, it was game on.

There were hundreds of olives in front of us

and everyone was just hands in, peeling, peeling, peeling.

You're a machine.

Some of these are really hard.

I wish I didn't cut my nails.

Hey, Chris?

- Hey. - Olive you.

Aww, olive you, too.

Olive you.

We saw Chris and Aleisha have come up with a different technique.

Standing up, using their palm with a force on the table

was a lot more efficient and faster.

- Is that working? - Yeah, bro.

So much easier.

The other teams copied us and then they had so much hustle,

so they started to catch us

and we just couldn't pick up the pace

so I honestly thought we had no chance of maintaining our lead.

I'm feeling not particularly confident at the moment

'cause everybody's here

and we aren't really known for having lots of hustle.

I feel like this is a good chance to catch up.

Like, if I go as fast as I... humanly possible,

we might be able to make up a place.

Aleisha and Chris have been there for half an hour

and they were slow as anything.

Baby, I am.

Come on, Jas. We've got this, buddy.

Let's go full pace from here. Ready?

- Over there. - Careful, baby.

Go... don't drop them everywhere. 'cause it slows things down.

- I am. - No, you're not.

But when you just did that, it slowed everything down.

No, it didn't.

All the teams were on their legs, squishing down.

Look left...

There's Brendon and Jackson, they're just sitting there,

peeling them, using their thumbs, using their nails.

I'm just... I'm cracking all the hard ones.

- You're getting the easy ones. - I am not.

Have they not realised that every other team

is smashing through this?

I'd rather do this any day than shuck oysters.

Yep, I'm going much faster.

I want to make sure I can catch up to them.

- So, that's the goal. - Yep.

I got about... less than 10 to go.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Check, please.

So, let's have a look.

- Did you count them? - No, we didn't.

I don't know, guys. I don't know.

- Yes! - You got it.

- Thank you so much. Thank you. - There you go, guys. All the best.

- Well done, guys. - Thank you, guys.

"Make your way to the Pokolbin Farm Stay

"and find a needle in a haystack... literally!"

The next challenge is one of The Amazing Race's toughest

and most infamous ever.

There's nothing more frustrating than searching for something

that you know is there but you just can't find it,

the metaphor for which

is "Looking for a needle in a haystack."

Teams will need perseverance and a lot of luck on their side

to find the needle.

Once they've found it, the farmer will give them their next clue.

Oh...

Gonna need some... tweezers

to get all these olives out.

So, other teams started to notice

that we were squishing them to get it out.

Then, um...

So, we took five or 10 minutes to work out the best technique.

Exactly right, whereas they worked it out straightaway.

And they just copied us.

Our huge lead had really diminished,

so the next challenge, we have to do things really fast.

- Let's catch up. - There's a team in front. We need to push.

Come on, mate. Come on.

That's it. Well done.

We'll clear the table.

Check, please.

Thank you.

"Find a needle in a haystack... literally!"

Let's go.

We were out of there second

and we'd automatically turned that 20-minute lead

that Chris and Aleisha had

down to about five.

- We did catch up a fair bit of time but... - But the other teams...

..the other teams have also caught up time, too. That's the problem.

- Alright, I've done my plate. - You are killin' it.

Come on, pick up the pace.

I'm going as fast as I can.

We are definitely catching up, Skye.

We're ahead of Brendon and Jackson.

It was a little bit sad to look down the end

and see the Cowboys were really slow at this one.

Apparently, we're coming last.

Apparently.

How'd that happen?

Are we being too thorough, Bren?

Two teams arrived five minutes after us and they were beating us.

And I'm like, "What's goin' on here?"

I looked over and everyone was on the edge of the table.

- Squashin'... - Squashin' 'em.

- Give it a try. - Give it a try?

- You want me to do it? - Go on, give it a go.

So, we changed our strategy and it worked out heaps quicker.

- Yeah, we're gettin' there now. Isn't it? - This technique's heaps better.

Yeah, no, we should have been doing this from the start.

Yeah, I reckon.

We're probably about 20 minutes behind now.

Yeah, we wasted 20 minutes, half-hour.

Probably be last to leave.

Come on, babe. Quick!

- In here? - This is it, here.

- Roll it out? - Which way?

We start unrolling this giant roll of hay

and I'm thinking,

"We're gonna be here for hours."

So, how do you want to approach this now?

OK.

Be gentle, 'cause it might just be...

I think it's, like, a big needle.

Yeah, I'm hoping.

So, they've opened it up.

Looks like the needle's quite big.

- Looks like the Sikhs are here. - The Sikhs are already here.

We did not get much of a lead, did we?

Here. Start from here and just push it to the side.

That's what I'm doing.

We want to spread it out,

spread all the hay out as much as we can

and, surely, we'll see this needle pop out and off we go.

We don't know what this needle looks like -

how big, how small, what colour, what it's made out of.

We have no idea.

I do not want to go home

just 'cause I didn't find a needle in a haystack.

Over there, Skye. Keep goin'. Keep goin'.

Skye and Jake were pretty much neck-and-neck with us.

It's cool. We're almost done.

Check, please.

Let's have a lookski.

Try again, guys.

- Check, please. - Let's have a lookski, guys.

Have another go. - Have another go.

That's it. That's big chunks.

Some of the olive pits still had flesh on them.

He wanted them, like, absolutely spotless.

Check, please.

- How'd you go, guys? - Yeah, good, good.

- Little better? - Yeah, all clean.

Well, guys, I think that's a pretty good job.

- Great, thank you so much! - Awesome!

That's for you guys. All the best. Congrats.

Thanks. Bye!

Check, please.

Let's have a look, guys.

- That's for you guys. All the best. - Thank you so much.

"Make your way to Pokolbin Farm Stay..."

"..and find a needle in a haystack... literally!"

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

Oh, jeez. We're miles behind, bro.

By that stage, we were the last team there.

I was starting to really freak out a bit.

Pick the pace up.

If we get eliminated, we'll be walking out gutted.

Hope everyone gets lost.

By that stage, we were the last team there.

We just wanted it to be finished, be done with.

- Nearly there. - Nearly there.

Don't want to get flustered.

Jeez, we should've done that from the start.

I reckon.

Hey? Fair dinkum.

Thanks, guys.

- Righto. Check, please. - Let's have a lookski.

They're clean as a whistle, mate.

They are pretty clean.

I'm still going to have to say no.

- You're kidding. - What's wrong with ya?

I don't think there's enough in there.

- Enough in there? - Oh, one...

Are you talking about one?

I tell ya. There you go.

Guys...

- ..congrats. - Tanks, mate.

- That's all yours. - Unreal. Cheers, mate.

Thank you!

"Make your way to Pokolbin Farm Stay

"and find a needle in a haystack... literally!"

Do you reckon it's going to be, like, a big needle?

I'm assuming it will be some sizeable needle.

I hope so.

"You must both roll out a hay barrel and search for a needle..."

They did this on a previous Amazing Race,

and someone was out there for, like, six hours.

This was massively a challenge all to do with luck.

So we knew we were right in with a great chance to come first.

Yeah. Right here.

Oh, I can see a flag. We're good, we're good, we're good.

We basically arrived the same time as Skye and Jake.

Let's go this one, Skye.

We had to literally find a needle in a haystack.

- Slow. - This is slow.

It's rolling itself.

- How big do you reckon... - I have no idea.

No idea.

Skye and Jake and the girls are here.

- OK. - They did that fast.

They all did it so fast.

More and more teams started to arrive.

But we didn't let it phase us and we just...

We just kept searching.

Hey, remember in Mossman when you pulled out a miracle?

This would be a really good time for that.

Do you want to do a quick run-through?

A quick top layer run-through.

We were trying to employ very different strategies.

Sometimes throwing it into the air.

Like me untangling my hair.

Sometimes squishing it.

Now I'm going through and scrunching them all up.

Sometimes rubbing them. Sometimes kicking them.

We tried everything possible in the world.

Dammit. I was really hoping it would just be in the middle somewhere.

The Sikhs look like they're just

kicking hay around now.

They're not giving up. They're not ones to give up.

Jas and Anurag's strategy during this challenge

was not the approach that I would've taken.

It's really clumpy here so you've got to be very careful.

Maybe get right down to the bottom layer too.

We were being very particular...

..and they were being very aggressive.

Everything is so goddamn sharp, I keep thinking it's a needle.

I wish were, um, like, squashing them from the start.

I saw the other people doing it but didn't get past in time pretty quick.

So we were the last team to leave but we weren't going to get flustered.

We just thought it was another challenge.

Let's just keep going.

We'll try to make it up on this next one.

We're not very far behind.

We just gotta get in here

and hopefully we can find it pretty quick.

That's right.

Uh, we haven't done this section, clearly.

- I know. I know. I just... - Alright. I'll do here, then.

The only thing that was on my mind at that point is

we cannot be the last team here.

That's all that matters.

Hard finding the combination of fast, like, thorough...

Just look through everything properly the first time

so that we don't have to go back through.

Technique is to break up these more compacted piles first of all.

Just spread them out.

We don't know how big or small this needle is,

so I thought, if we just get in those bigger chunks first,

we might be lucky and find it if it's kind of a large needle,

and then we can go through more meticulously.

- Found it. - Shut up.

OK, let's go.

She found it.

Oh, the girls got it.

- Great job. - Thank you. Let's go.

"Make your way to Hunter Valley Gardens to find Beau at the Pit Stop.

"Hurry! The last team may be eliminated."

Nestled in the foothills of the Broken Back Ranges

in the heart of the Hunter vineyards

is the 60-acre oasis known as the Hunter Valley Gardens.

Overlooking this magnificent spectacle

is the Sunken Garden lookout,

which is the Pit Stop for the 19th leg for the Amazing Race Australia.

Amanda, Ash, what does it look like?

What does it look like?

- It's a knitting needle. - It's red.

It's red.

Finding the needle first was amazing,

and we wanted to tell our allies

because obviously we want the final four

to be the teams that we have been working with.

Big. It's a big needle.

Skye.

Like, bright.

OK. Bright in colour.

I think I saw that it had long red and yellow string on it.

Yeah... No, baby. It IS red. It's red.

We know what it is.

I cannot believe I just found that.

Holy dooley.

We were just so lucky.

I'm so proud of you for finding that.

- Uh, baby, I got it. - Oh, my God. Love you.

Oh, they found it.

Yeah, sounds like she just found it.

I found your needle.

- Well done. - Thank you.

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

"Make your way to the Hunter Valley Gardens

"to find Beau at the Pit Stop. Hurry."

What does it say, Hunter Valley Gardens? That was...

I found it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I found it. It is there, yep. Go.

We still have to rush

because we don't know if the Sikhs are just behind us.

They could be just... just behind us,

and Skye-Blue and Jake could be just behind us, and they can run.

They're really fast.

Cowboys still not here, mate.

Oh, damn.

We built up a pretty strong alliance with the cowboys and Skye and Jake.

However, one of us will now be going home.

Whenever you're ready to yell, "Yippee," and find it, Skye,

you go right ahead.

Jas, we don't need to worry about...

Just spread it out now. Let's just spread it out.

- We know it's red, yeah? - Yeah.

Well, theirs was red, so...

Maybe they're all the same.

When we pulled up, Skye and Jake and Rag and Jas were still there,

and the looks on their face were like, "This is just pure hell."

- Once it starts to, um, separate... - Unroll. Yeah.

Steady.

Alright, let's just get in here and start working.

I'm not rolling out the bale,

I'm just sort of sifting through it as it is here.

I just don't want to miss anything.

It's like going through the rubbish trying to find your car keys.

- Lisa, you have wine in your blood. - They say so.

- Yeah. - Yeah. Four generations.

Where's the Pit Stop? I think it's probably down there.

I see a flag. Straight ahead.

- Do you know where we're going? - I've not seen any flags.

What's your plan here?

- Should we go down the middle? - Yeah.

We're going the wrong way.

I'm thinking this way, babe.

- This way? - Yeah.

- Do you want to check this map? - Shit.

I don't like this. I do not like this.

This is harder than a needle in a haystack.

The gardens, it's just this giant maze with all these statues.

We had no idea which way to run.

There's tourists everywhere.

You reckon this way?

Cut across?

Have you guys seen Beau Ryan?

Or a Pit Stop?

Our goal was always just to get to the top three,

and we're so close to that now.

We have to win.

Should we go this way? Follow me. Follow me.

Yes, yes, Ash! I see it, I see it!

- The flag's over there, see? - Uh!

There. There, there, there, there.

You guys seen Beau Ryan? Or a Pit Stop?

Shall we go this way? Follow me. Follow me.

We're racing with Ashleigh and Amanda.

We managed to catch up to them.

Yes, yes, Ash! I see it, I see it.

- The flag's over there, see? - Uh!

There, there, there, there.

Yes, yes, yes.

You with me, Aleisha?

- No, baby. - Good job.

It's been all uphill.

Whee!

Alright. Up here.

I can't...

- Sorry... - Give me your bag. Give me...

Who is that?

Girls.

Welcome to the Hunter Valley Gardens!

Thank you!

Ashleigh and Amanda...

..you are the first team to check in.

Whoo!

- How do you feel? - Really stoked.

We didn't start the leg out in such a good position,

and then to make up all those spots is just amazing.

It's a really great feeling.

You've also won a QT Sydney and QT Bondi package,

with thanks to 10travlr.com and QT Hotels & Resorts.

Congratulations.

Enjoy the QT and enjoy the Hunter Valley.

- Thanks, Beau! - Say hello to Lisa too.

- Hi! Thanks for having us! - Hey, girls. Welcome.

Good on you for making it here.

She owns half of the Hunter.

- Oh. Oh, wow. - It's beautiful.

Winning six legs is absolutely amazing.

We never thought we'd win this many legs.

Let's go, girl!

Good job!

And he's carrying her bag again.

What a guy.

Hello.

Chris and Aleisha.

You are the second team to check in, man.

Oh, yeah. Feels good.

- The adversity you guys have faced... - Yeah.

- You've bounced back. - Yeah.

We've had three Sabotages, we've had penalties,

so, yeah, we've faced a lot,

so we got a lot to overcome and we're doing it.

There's not long to go. Can you see the finish line or what?

- Hell, yeah. - Very, very close to the finish line.

It feels real now.

You deserve to be here, and well done.

- See you, guys. - Thanks, guys.

Oh, they're still in love. How good.

- Still in love. - I'd be divorced.

Coming in second is honestly the most incredible feeling.

- Yay! - Good job.

I love you.

Alright, so spread it all out now, yeah?

Yeah, now we can go through... No, no, still a little bit here.

There were three teams left.

There was us, cowboys, Skye and Jake.

So now we're panicking.

We knew one of us would be getting eliminated.

Let's keep pushing, bro. Keep pushing.

My eyes are starting to play tricks on me, Skye.

Your eyes?

What, you're thinking of finding it and then you're not?

Yeah. There's a little bit of purple wood there,

and I was like, "Oh, my God!"

Oh, yeah, I saw that before.

All that was sort of going through my head was, you know,

I hope we find it before the other teams.

Do you want to just roll it out and just, um,

work from the back back towards me, Jacko?

Closest we've had to a needle in a haystack

was bloody Mossman Sugar Mill, mate.

I was furious.

Finding tongs in a pile of sugar cane.

Took us an hour and 20 minutes, and that was just torture.

Hey, Brendon, Jacko.

This bringing back some bad memories?

- Oh, sugar cane? - Yeah.

I flinch every time I think about it.

- Oh, mate. - It was...

I was having nightmares just thinking about it.

I'd rather be in hay than sugar cane, though.

Oh, they got it?

I'm like, here we go.

It's happened previously plenty of times,

we've gone from first to last.

Is it going to happen again? Hopefully not.

- Well done. - Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

- Thanks, mate. Appreciate it. - How big is it?

- Oh, it's like... - Massive.

Yeah. That makes it a bit easier.

"Make your way to Hunter Valley Gardens to find Beau at the Pit Stop.

"Hurry! The last team to arrive may be eliminated."

Let's go.

Once they showed us the size of it, I thought,

"I wanna go back to the middle and start sifting through.

I'll be able to feel it."

And as I went over there I saw a little red dot.

- Brendon. Brendon! - Well done!

There you go, mate.

Well done.

- Champion. - Thanks, mate.

Beautiful, hey. Thanks, mate.

"Hurry! The last team to arrive may be eliminated."

The Sikhs are still there.

We got Pit Stop.

Just got to get back there.

We're not last place, so...

I knew where to go when it said Hunter Valley Gardens.

I've been here a fair few times.

Got to find where Beau is.

There you go. The cowboys find it too.

They're off.

Now we're stuck here last looking for this goddamn needle.

We were standing in this field, sun belting down,

the only team left there.

We can't look at the surface.

Use your feet as well.

As Sikhs, we've learnt how to be strong physically and mentally.

Our motto is to never give up.

There's no other way out.

We'll find it.

Who's got the blue car, Jake?

Uh, that's the cowboys.

- Oh, yay! - So it is a foot race.

Oh, that is Jake and Skye in front.

We should try and hit the mat at the same time as Jake and Skye.

Yeah, that's true.

- That would be cool, wouldn't it? - It would be cool.

And we spotted an arrow and told them to follow us,

so we followed each other up and pulled up at the same time.

Let's go that way, I reckon.

We should all try to jump on the mat at the same time.

Yeah. I'm happy to do that.

We get along really well with Brendon and Jackson.

We knew we weren't fighting for last place,

so we were happy doing this mat run in together.

- Right, let's do this, guys. - Together, guys.

Come on, team.

Here we go.

Here they go.

Wow.

- Well done. - That was beautiful.

Guys, welcome to Hunter Valley Gardens.

Thank you very much.

Well, I don't know if Skye-Blue agreed,

but she just beat you there, man.

It's all good.

We did do a one, two, three count, and jumped on together,

but maybe my long legs just happened to hit the mat a little bit sooner.

Sky-Blue and Jake, you're the third team to check in.

Brendon and Jackson, that makes you the fourth team to check in.

- Great work, guys. - Good on you, mate.

- You killed it, man. - Well done, dude.

- Good job, bro. - Good stuff.

Good job, sister.

And they did leave the last challenge first, so...

That's right.

It's only fair.

And you are all still in the race!

- Yes! - Uh-huh!

You can taste the finish line.

- It's there. - So close now, mate. So close.

I'll see you soon. Welcome to the Hunter Valley!

Thank you.

You're wet again.

You're always wet, man.

- See you. - Thanks.

Clearly, we are the last ones left, yeah? By a mile.

This is not how I imagined I'd be going home -

looking for a needle in a haystack.

The cowboys, who were the second-last team,

had left probably about half an hour, an hour before us.

We were last.

Well and truly last.

We knew we might potentially be going home, we might get eliminated.

So we need to find this needle.

Clearly, luck is not on our side.

It's, uh...

It's a pretty shitty feeling.

I mean, we've done so well throughout the whole race,

but now, because we couldn't find a needle,

we were going home.

Oh, look what I found!

No way!

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!

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

- Well done. - Thank you.

Thank you.

"Make your way to Hunter Valley Gardens

"and find Beau at the Pitstop."

We know where that is. Let's go.

Well done. I'm glad we found it.

Thank God.

The race is a metaphor for life.

Sometimes you can try and plan it as much as you want,

but sometimes it all just happens the way it's meant to be.

- Alright, let's give it all. - Nice one.

We're not going to catch up to them.

But it doesn't matter.

- Down there. - It must be that way.

It must be that way.

Ultimately, the race isn't over until you are on the mat.

It's got to be up here. It's gotta be up here.

Phwoa!

Jaskirat and Anurag, you are the last team to check in.

We know.

How are you feeling, boys?

Just couldn't find that needle.

- It was hard. - It was tough.

You're better than this, boys.

I know.

But, unfortunately, you know what happens when someone comes last.

Being part of The Amazing Race has allowed us to achieve so much

and prove so much to ourselves and to the people out there.

We've had an amazing journey.

We've had plenty of highs, and some lows.

Today, it was a tough day,

but you know what, some days are made for you, some days aren't.

Well, boys, hold your head high.

And, finally... this is a predetermined non-elimination race.

You're still in the race, man.

Thank you.

Finally, some luck goes our way.

We are not going home. Not yet.

We know it means one thing - it's game on.

We are just going to take absolutely every single risk moving forward

and make sure we are untouchable.

We are here to win and we're not done yet.

Live to fight another day. Stay happy and I'll see you soon.

- You're a legend, Beau. - We'll make you proud.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- Good work. - Thank you.

Next time on...

In the jaw-dropping Blue Mountains...

Roadblock!

..nearly 100 metres above the ground...

That ladder's massive!

..and the finale so close, they can almost touch it...

..a favourite will fall...

Stay on there, stay on there, stay on there.

..and be eliminated from the Race.

Unfortunately, your time on the Race is over.