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Deep in the Brazilian Bahia state...

..the colonial town of Lencois.

- What animals do you think are in these trees?

- Monkeys.

- Got to be a monkey. - I want to see a sloth.

- The gateway to the Chapada Diamantina National Park,

a rugged plateau bounded by table-top mountains,

canyons and caves,

sprawling across an area larger than Wales,

home to the highly intelligent Atlantic marmoset...

- Dad, do the little monkey call.

- Oooh! - Ooh-ooh-ah-ah-ah!

- ..and the second checkpoint of the race.

- Ooh-ooh-ah-ah!

Wow, how beautiful is this?

- Having travelled over 1,500km...

- I feel like I'm walking on the moon.

- ..for two teams, a chance to recharge.

- Oh, that's fire.

Oh, it's deep here, though. You ready?

- Sculpted from ancient sandstone by millions of years of erosion,

this area dates back to the time

when South America and Africa were joined.

- Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Cold, man.

- Sorry, but isn't it absolutely crazy that the bottom two

are now the top two?

- And we've almost played the Uno reverse card and just...

- Yeah, we have. - First and second.

- Can't believe it's swung round like this. - I know.

- With Scott and Sam not yet at the checkpoint,

Jeff and Freddy are now leading,

over 15 hours ahead of their closest rivals, Kola and Mary Ellen.

- Considering where we both started the leg,

it makes you realise, actually, that anything is possible.

- I wanted to open up that book and not be dead last,

leaving a day after everyone else.

It gave me nightmares, you know, coming last.

We're right back in it and I'm over the moon, I'm chuffed.

Didn't realise how hard it was, though. - Yeah.

- As hard as it's going to be,

the fact that I'm going to be on the road, stressing about bus times,

I feel like tomorrow, we could do something for Mother's Day.

- When we set off, both of us need to consider exactly how Fred's going

to do something fitting for his mum,

so that you feel like you've marked the occasion.

- My mum, she passed when I was 15.

Usually, tomorrow, like, on Mother's Day,

all of my brothers and sisters, yeah,

they celebrate and reminisce.

Her mum's been like a mum to me, so Aunt Terese is my favourite aunt.

- Mum's a part of the race.

- Do it for the mums tomorrow, shall we? - Do it for the mums! - Yeah.

- Mumsies. - For the mums.

- Everyone's having a party.

- Following their adventure along the Atlantic Coast...

- Scott, there!

Oh, made it. - Oh, wow.

- ..Scott and Sam are the last team to reach Lencois...

- Ola. We're a bit hot.

There we go. As expected.

- Wow, Jeff and Freddy a day ago. - Wow.

- ..over 27 hours behind the race leaders.

- It's all well and good, going, "Tch, it doesn't matter."

When you see it in the book, it matters a bit.

OK. Kola and Mary Ellen got

a real shift on, didn't they? - They're 12 hours ahead.

Bom dia.

- Frontrunners Jeff and Freddy...

- Obrigado. - ..are first to find out where they're heading next.

- Go on, Fred.

- "Your third checkpoint is Sao Paulo."

- I think that's a big city, Fred.

- A journey of 2,400km to Brazil's beating heart -

the buzzing metropolis of Sao Paulo.

Located in the Southeast Region, home to almost 12 million people,

this is the largest megacity in the southern hemisphere.

Teams must negotiate the country's biggest and wealthiest urban areas,

a leg that could have sizeable impacts

on their diminishing budgets.

- Freddy, get the map out.

Oh, that's a long way.

- South-west of Rio De Janeiro.

- That's a long way south.

That is probably from England to Greece.

- To reach the checkpoint, teams could head west via the modern capital,

Brasilia, offering lucrative job opportunities

and a reliable transport network.

South via Belo Horizonte - following the most direct route,

but with fewer travel options - it could be a risk.

Or travel east, tempted by popular carnival destinations

such as Salvador and Rio De Janeiro,

it's the longest but most well-connected tourist path.

- Just don't know.

But we want to make sure that, before the end of the day,

we get to do something for your mum.

Salvador, Fred, is known for its sunsets and I think

we'd possibly get there today.

- Oh, that's a beautiful bird.

- Erm, you with me? - Yep.

- You don't want to talk about this, do you?

- I wouldn't mind walking through the towns

and the cobbled streets and that.

My mum was Jade Goody.

I guess some people know her as the Big Brother star.

I lost my mum when I was four due to cervical cancer...

..and that was on Mother's Day, which...is really hard.

- If you could go anywhere to feel like you've took some time out

for Mum, where would it be?

- Watch the sunset. I think all that sounds really nice.

- That will make you feel like you've

done something really special for her.

- Let's do it.

I don't really like showing my emotions.

I don't even really speak to my dad much about my mum either.

I just avoid it.

I prefer to bottle it up.

Shall we get the nine o'clock, arriving at 4.30 to Salvador?

I don't want to feel like I'm a burden to them.

Obrigado.

- Fred?

- Jeff and Freddy hope to make the most of their day,

planning a short 400km hop to the coastal city of Salvador.

- Looking forward to that sunset now.

- Yeah, it's going to be lovely. Going to be real beautiful stuff.

- It's so hard, isn't it?

- It's harder than I thought.

- We both went the same kind of road, so we feel you.

- Still at the checkpoint, previous race leaders Kelly and Jeremy...

- Coming third, it was a bit of a blow. I mean...

- We was hoping second. - We was hoping second.

He's still reading the map

and the route we've just done to see where we went wrong.

- ..followed by fiances Scott and Sam.

- It's a whole day? - It's a whole day.

- A whole day behind.

- We're the bottom of the pack.

It's annoying me more than I thought it would, being last.

Embarrassing.

We need to get a move on next time.

- With all the rivals still in Lencois,

Jeff and Freddy are fast approaching the city of Salvador.

- Maybe Mum's putting things in place and pushing us in the direction

of where we need to go.

- It's a lovely idea.

- Guarding over the entrance to the iconic Bay of All Saints,

the Farol da Barra lighthouse has stood tall since the late 1600s.

An unwavering beacon of hope,

it has guided countless vessels to safe harbour for over 300 years.

- We made it.

- Every night as the sun dips low,

crowds flock to the base of the lighthouse for a spectacular sunset

ritual, making it one of Salvador's most beloved traditions.

- This place is mad. It's, like, every day, there's a different view.

- I just want to get in the water.

That one year in Brighton on Mother's Day, I think it was,

we just jumped straight in.

I want to go over there.

It's lively over there, that's part of the experience, as well.

- OK, come on, then.

Come on, go where you want, darling, and let's get there quick.

- Ready?

- CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

- Thank you, Mother Nature.

A lot of my memories that I have of my mum

have come from, like, watching her documentary,

YouTube clips, newspapers...

They're not my memories.

Oh, man.

- You need to get in the sea.

- I don't really remember...

..being held.

Yeah, I don't really remember being held by my mum.

Erm...

If I had more memories with her,

it would have made it a whole lot harder for me... Erm...

..but I think I would have rather that than not really remember

the things that I had done with my mum.

It's just life, really, and I've kind of accepted that.

- Are you nervous?

- Do I have a nervous disposition?

- Yeah, the sweat on your forehead, love.

- Kola and Mary Ellen's checkpoint stay is over...

- Thank you.

- ..and they're 15 hours behind Jeff and Freddy.

- Sao Paulo. - Sao Paulo after Rio.

- Is this all Brazil?

- This place is far, man.

- With no time to spare,

the cousins need to find onward connections out this evening.

- Do you know of big stations between Bahia and Sao Paulo?

- Yeah, Salvador.

- OK. - If there's a cab...

- Quanto custa?

- 1,600.

HE WHISTLES

- 1,600?

We're not paying that money.

- No problem. - See you later.

- Ciao, ciao. Thank you for everything. - Bye.

- Oh, my God. The pressure's on.

- They rule out paying over £200 for a taxi to Salvador.

- If we can get a bus tonight, that would be ideal.

- Chancing their luck, they bump into some fellow travellers.

- All right, lads?

- Can you help us get to Salvador?

- I mean, you've just missed the bus.

- Just missed it? - Oh, is it?

And when is the earliest bus tomorrow?

- The bus at 9am tomorrow. - OK.

All right, see you later, lads, yeah? - See you later.

- Cool, thank you.

Right, we need to make peace that we might be staying in Lencois tonight.

- And then get the bus in the morning? - Yep.

Shall we have a look in that hostel?

To be honest, I'll take anything.

- Maybe the church will take us in.

- Ola. - Ola. - Do you have two beds?

- Two people? - Ay, ay, ay, man.

- Kola is a bit annoyed that we've spent money on accommodation.

I'll take the single this time.

We thought it was best to wait it out and take the bus tomorrow,

and alleviate all the stress of paying extortionate prices in taxis.

But we've just got to be careful with our money now.

- Right, Sao Paulo is here.

OK, we're quite far away.

- So, I think we go from Brasilia.

- You want to go to Rio? - That doesn't make sense.

- Kelly and husband Jeremy are next to leave,

almost a whole day behind the race leaders.

- I can't believe we've done all of Brazil

and now we're down to Rio, we're not going to do it!

- SHE CHUCKLES, HE EXHALES

- Babe, we are doing a race.

I'm not doing the coast again. That was a nightmare.

I really want to go very fast.

- I mean, let's be honest, Jeremy, the only thing you want to see in

Brazil is an empty guest book.

- Wow! Very clean, all clean.

- You know what that feeling is!

- Yeah, I know it, but I know what it is to be last, too,

and I don't like it.

I do miss competition in my life.

I'm competing in judo for more than 20 years.

I'm black belt.

My dream was to do the Olympic Games.

And I gave up judo around eight years ago, around the time I met

Kelly, so now it's not really a part of my life any more.

- I choose the last leg.

It didn't work out, really, did it?

So I'm going to take your lead on this.

- So, now, because I'm not doing any tournament any more,

so I need a challenge.

I will do everything I can to win

and it's really important for me to see how I will do this race.

So, if we do Brasilia, one...

- This one? - Or...

Here, with connection to Sao Paulo. - Straight to Sao Paulo.

It's the most direct route. - What do you think?

- If it makes you happy, let's do it. I don't...

- I will be depressed if I go back.

If I see the coast again, it's just... - I know, I know, I know.

I know. - ..too much.

- Jeremy plans a 1,000km journey to Brasilia,

utilising the fast road to the well-connected capital.

- I've been sacked from being the navigator,

so we're going to head to Brasilia because it is the capital city.

We need to make up some time.

I've got to sometimes let him take the lead.

So, yeah, this is Jeremy's leg, so we'll do what Jeremy wants to do.

Can't let Jeff and Freddy have a 20-hour lead on us.

- 22.

- Do you want to get some breakfast?

- Er, I think I'm fine for now.

- Have you made the wisest choice?

- When do we ever know if we've made the right choice?

- Despite leaving the night before Kelly and Jeremy,

Kola and Mary Ellen are a mere 400m from the last checkpoint

and yet to settle on a route.

- Hello.

Do you know how to get to Sao Paulo?

- With the lowest remaining funds,

the cousins opted for budget-friendly accommodation

over a pricey taxi out of Lencois.

- You're going to Sao Paulo? - Yes.

- You can go through the inner states. - Yeah, yeah.

I want to go to Rio.

There's Copacabana Beach.

- Yes, Rio is really nice.

- Yeah! - It's impressive.

- Yeah. I'm sold!

Rio, obviously there'll be more, like,

us doing things that we actually love.

- Me and Kola, growing up, it was like one big family, like, we were

merged, essentially, like, my mum would ring Auntie Julie,

going, "Mary's at yours for the week,"

Kola would stay at my house MONTHS.

We were just like one big, blended family, to be honest.

Irish mum, Nigerian dad.

It was so much fun - food, music, stories, dance.

I'd love to see Rio, but are we going to Rio because it's, like...

..it's...it's trendy to go Rio? Do you know what I mean?

Kola gets carried away, likes to party,

and so do I, but I'm going to have to rein us in.

It is a race and we've got to keep on goin'.

Shall we rule out Rio?

Also, there's a job in Porto Seguro - staff needed in bar -

and good connections to Belo Horizonte.

That would be a faster route.

- Yeah. So, you want to go to Porto Seguro and then go to

Belo Horizonte, on to Sao Paulo?

- I want to win, not just for me but for Kola.

I will be bad cop, but I don't want to let him down and I don't

want to disappoint myself, so there will be quite a bit of pressure.

OK, are you happy?

- Yeah. - Let's get tickets.

- Mary Ellen has her sights set -

head south-east to work in the coastal town of Porto Seguro,

then risking cutting inland via Belo Horizonte.

- 249. For both?

- Cash?

God!

Don't know if we've made the right choice.

- Off we go again.

- Scott and Sam are the final team to leave the checkpoint...

- I just don't want to be last.

- ..trailing 27 hours behind.

- Got a sort of plan. - OK.

- If we went inland, then we're travelling big distances.

It hopefully allows us to just speed, speed, speed.

- I think it's knocked my confidence now, being last.

I'm too scared to say a plan

because I don't want it to be the wrong plan.

- I'll take this leg, then. - All right.

- So, I think one of the advantages of us leaving this time of day

is that maybe we can work, get some cash, get an overnight travel

to Goiania, work, travel overnight,

race to the checkpoint.

- Just playing devil's advocate here,

I don't think that's as near as we think.

Sam calls me worst-case scenario

cos I'll always look on the...

..on the darker side, not the lighter side.

I'm a natural-born worrier.

Bit anxious.

The glass is always half-empty.

- I've got this. Trust me.

- Over to you.

I'm just going to take Sam's lead on this.

He seems to be pretty clear about what we should do.

- To haul them back into the race,

Sam plans a 1,300km overnight leap

to the city of Goiania.

- There's a job, so if we can rush out of here, earn some money,

travel overnight to Goiania,

I think the race is properly on.

Ola. Taxi?

Can we go now? - Let's go.

- We need to be there by one.

- 1pm. - 1pm.

- We need to get a shift on.

- Vamos, vamos.

- Love a man that can drive.

Let's just hope that luck's on our side

and I flipping hope there's a bus overnight tonight.

- We'll go wherever you want, Fred. You choose.

- See how much tickets to Rio De Janeiro are.

- Jeff and Freddy are leaving Salvador,

taking advantage of the well-connected coastal route.

- It's not every day you get to go to Rio.

- It is a bucket-list place.

To Vitoria, 1,074.

- Oh!

- You can then go to Rio.

- They're following a path avoided by all their rivals,

a colossal journey of over 2,150km on the longest road

to the checkpoint via Rio De Janeiro.

- Let's walk the market way.

Oh, Dad, these are the ones I would like. Look.

- You're such a wally.

- I like the little shell necklaces.

I'm not great with money, you know this... Erm...

..so I will need a bit of advice.

- No-one's ever great with money when they're your age.

- Dad, shall we get a matching knitted vest?

- Yeah, they're lovely.

- I buy stupid things, like that time I bought a white coat.

Why am I wearing...?

One, white is not my colour. I spilt everything.

And I bought a white coat and marked it on the train two days later.

Little watch. Oh, man.

- It would be really easy for me to take charge of the map, the money,

but that's what we've been doing for the last however many years,

is, "Let me take the responsibility, son, just so we're assured that

"everything's going to be as it should be."

- Shall we get a kettle?

- A kettle?

- Dad's raring to go.

Yeah, spent a bit of our budget without asking.

I got a key ring for my nana

and someone else a present

and that's only like, what, ten quid?

No. Probably.

- Fred, how do you think we're doing on the budget?

- We had 3,268.

- Oh, that's not a lot of reais left, is it?

- I bought this at the bus stop so that's also...

We haven't been writing down our spendings.

- That's because you're taking things out the budget

and not actually even telling me.

What did you spend on the presents and your necklace?

- Key ring, six reais,

12 reais,

so that's another 18.

105.

- 105. That is, like, quite a lot.

Do you not think because it's our budget

that I deserve to be... to be asked?

- Yeah, of course. - Why didn't you?

- Cos exactly that, I thought it was our budget.

- It creates trust issues, doesn't it?

- How many?

- It doesn't lend itself to, like, creating good sort of teamwork.

- Yeah.

As I chipped into the budget, I'm going to do some work

while you relax in Rio, just watch me.

- I appreciate that.

Can you call...?

Obrigado.

- Scott and Sam are running late, having underestimated

the distance to the job. Their employment is now in peril. - Hello.

OK. - It's OK? - Yeah?

- No. - No, it's not OK.

- No OK. - So that's not worked out.

- The couple arrive at the town of Itaberaba.

Six hours into their leg,

they are still only 140km from where they set off.

- Ola.

Nobody in there. - Hello?

- Are things closed?

Erm, the bus driver, the bus driver's there,

now I don't want to interrupt him having food.

- That's OK - we need... We're in a race.

- Sorry to disturb you. Erm, we need to go to Goiania?

- Goiania?

- No. - No. - Not today?

- No.

- Well, that's just messed up our plans.

- Let's try and ask some more people.

Ola. Goiania?

- Any today?

- Let's just try and find the first bus out of here tomorrow

and then we go on.

- Tomorrow, nine o'clock.

- It's 25-hour bus. - Wow.

- Let's just do it. - Yeah? - Yeah. Sim?

Dois.

1,002.60, the most expensive bus that we've had.

We're two hours from where we started

and we're not leaving till nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

We are staying in the same place for 24 hours,

essentially, from where we've left the checkpoint.

- Seems a waste of time.

- After committing to their biggest spend of the race so far...

- Ola. - Ola.

Room for two, 190 reais.

- Sim. - OK, obrigado.

- ..another hit to their finances.

- I thought today was going to be really easy.

- I feel almost back to square one.

- Let's go out, maybe get some work.

- Don't know anything about this area or where we are.

We're just near the station where we've been for ages.

- Well, don't ask, don't get.

Cos we do need to pick up some Brazilian money

cos that was a big blow to the budget.

- One more day like this will break us. - Yes.

- And I also feel that we can't win now.

- HE SIGHS

- See if we can do this in four days.

- Kelly and Jeremy have reached the transport hub of Seabra...

- Ola. Brasilia?

Ah, 3.40 in the morning.

- ..forking out on their most expensive bus of the race so far.

- We are spending a lot, babe.

- I don't think we've got a lot of options.

So if we get in at three,

are we going to want to have a shower and...

You don't really want to check into a hotel, do you?

- This is really, really, really expensive.

We'd destroy the budget in two days.

- SHE SIGHS

- Always been on a budget,

but when I met Kelly all of this, like, changed,

like, was more luxury and was quite amazing.

I don't forget where I come from

and I think it will be more easy for me

to do this adventure than Kelly.

- The pad, the pad and pen is out, this is not good.

He's not happy, but we've got to get a taxi every now and again,

we have to get on a bus and travel

and we have to have somewhere to stay and we have to eat and drink,

so sometimes I just think it's like, we can't not do those things.

- The prices are getting higher and higher.

Our budget for the day is £40 and today I already spent 120.

If we work in Brasilia maybe we make some money back.

- We're going to the capital - lots of job opportunities.

- I think my plan is still good and hopefully

we find a job tomorrow, we can, er, make some money.

- We've literally got a little pack of biscuits, bottle of water,

17 hours on this bus. It's insane.

Obrigada.

Jeremy's route better pay off.

Did you bring your CV? - No. I've never had a CV.

- After the big-city bus fares ate a hole in their budget,

Scott and Sam are hoping to replenish their funds.

- If we can get a little bit of money

and recoup some of it, then we'll be happy and...

- Although I feel the options are slightly limited.

- Scott's a bit of a pessimist.

Our outlook in life are slightly different. I'm always optimistic.

I'm always looking for the best case

and always what you can get out of a situation.

Am I asking? - Yeah, you're asking.

Bom dia. Hello.

- Can we sweep the floors for you for 40 reais?

- No. - No.

Negativity will stick in Scott's mind

and for me it's having to turn that around, pick him back up.

Ola. - We're looking for some work, er, to get money.

In there? - Sim.

- Sim?

- Yeah? - Sim. - How much?

- Sim.

- Sim.

- 50 reais.

- I'll take anything right now.

- Ola. - Ola.

Oh, it's hot. - Ola.

- Thank you.

- I'm off to clean the toilets, I think. - Good luck.

- Ellana. - Oh, OK.

- Andrea. - Andrea, nice to meet you.

- So... - No. - No?

- Sam is like his mum, he blooming loves a clean,

so this is probably him in his element.

Sometimes his mum will come round from Wales

just to clean our house, and then he'll do it again.

- Just emptied the dirty tissues.

The kitchen is very hot.

Scott's going to struggle with that because he's a sweater.

- Out of the new things I thought we might try in Brazil, this...

This wasn't it.

Hi, Andrea. Ah.

- Thank you so much.

- Thank you.

We got 50 each.

I think they could tell we were sad and took pity on us.

- I feel I let Scott down today cos I said, "Trust me,"

and within the first hour the wheels come off

and it all comes crashing down.

But I feel as if we'll wake up positive.

We've got a plan tomorrow. We're getting out of here.

Aww, thank you so much! - Oh, wow.

- Oh, wow!

And I'm hoping that the rest of the route will be positive.

Glad we got a hotel room tonight. - Mm.

- And we can get a decent night's sleep cos we have got

a 24-hour bus ahead of us. - Yep, no stopping.

- It's the longest we've ever done.

- This feels so different to anywhere we've been so far, doesn't it?

- Now 1,000km closer

to the checkpoint,

Kelly and Jeremy have travelled

through the night to reach Brazil's capital.

- Wow! I've never seen a cathedral that looks like that.

- A unique experiment in urban planning,

this futuristic city boasts large plazas

stretching between bold geometric buildings,

designed by modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer.

- Jeremy's gone, he's in.

He's already praying to get to checkpoint on time.

- QUIET PRAYING

- Amen. - Amen.

- As the most religiously diverse nation on the continent,

Brazil claims to have the world's largest Catholic population,

with over 120 million followers.

- My first job was working in a cake shop next to Rochester Cathedral

and there was this big advert on how to become a nun

and I thought, "God, what a lovely life. I could just wear a habit,

"make cheese, crochet all day. No stress."

Was definitely an option.

Then I became a Page 3 girl and it all went downhill.

- WHISPERING: - Shall we burn in hell?

Come on, let's get back to the race. - Let's go.

At the moment, money is our religion.

This is busy, isn't it?

- We spent a lot yesterday. The bus was so expensive.

Yeah, we would love some money back today.

- Hi, are you Roberto?

- To make the most out of their time at Brasilia intercity bus terminal,

Kelly and Jeremy have found a quick shoe-shining shift.

- Look how shiny his shoes are.

Wow. Yes.

- Local entrepreneur Roberto has been shining shoes

since he was 14 years old,

charging up to 25 reais, the equivalent of £3.50, per customer.

- Look at that technique.

It's all in the wrist, Jeremy.

Can't see anyone with shoes on - everyone's got flip-flops.

- I need to buy my lunch.

And I just see people with flip-flop.

- How does he make a living doing this?

- I'm in Brazil since two weeks now

and I know with 25 reais you can eat for the day,

so I must get somebody to give me one day of his money.

- Shoe shine, I'll do your shoes.

You've got to get the bus?

It's a big fat no from most people, so...

- This is a disaster.

- The Portuguese first set foot on Brazilian soil

in 1500, at the coastal town of Porto Seguro.

- I feel like every single Brazilian can twerk.

- Now known as a party capital,

its beaches are lined with bars

where north-east Brazil's Axe music,

a fusion of Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian rhythm, never stops.

- It's a great vibe, like, it's really super energetic.

- Kola and Mary Ellen are working with show host Vaninha Bahia

and dancer Fernanda Silva at the famous Toa-Toa beach bar.

Three times a year, at the start of the tourist seasons,

they welcome new recruits.

- Hello. - Hello.

- OK.

Cheers.

Yes.

All right.

- I haven't even shaved my legs.

The professionals are chiselled AF.

I don't remember the last time I actually wore a bikini

or been confident in my body to actually show this much skin

so today's actually really big for me.

- Mary Ellen grew up in my household and that was a household if you,

if you wasn't shouting, you might be forgotten.

So she is confident, but you know, with everyone,

everyone has their own insecurities.

On the race what I would want Mary Ellen to forget about

what other people think.

Be in the moment and lose herself a little bit.

- I'm incredibly nervous.

I'm just going to harness

all the beautiful Brazilian energy around me.

Hopefully, they won't boo me off the stage.

Fire! Oh, my God, ola!

So good. So good.

- MUSIC PLAYS

- Go on, Mary!

- Go on, Mary Ellen!

- I'm really proud of Mary.

Takes a lot of courage,

being confident enough to get on that stage

and dance and strut her stuff. It's really wonderful to see.

- Me and Kola, there's so much love in our relationship.

Kola!

He's one of my biggest supporters, like he's...

He will always push me to be the best version of myself.

Do you know what?

Absolutely buzzing.

I was like, "Haha, OK, we've got this."

I looked at every single one of those women,

I saw every shape and size

and the confidence that just radiated was insane

and I was like, "Do you know what? I need more of that."

I don't think I've ever felt that free being so vulnerable.

That was very magical and it was just what I needed, to be honest.

Ah, obrigada.

Obrigada.

- 140 up in the bank.

- 140 for shaking the booty.

- I was so proud seeing you up there, Mary. - Thank you.

- You're amazing. - It was mental. - So proud.

And I feel like today you've learnt something about yourself. - Massively.

- I hope you run with it. - Mm.

- You need more days like this.

You can use this experience

as like a propeller to start living in the moment.

- Cos I feel like we've needed this, big-time. - Yeah.

- I might not come back to the UK. Catch me in Brazil shaking my booty.

- SHE LAUGHS

- I've never been on, like, a 19th-century tram.

- Yeah, it's cool. - Get thrown around a little bit.

- Not the back massage I wanted, but I'm getting one.

- Rio De Janeiro, Portuguese for "January River",

named by explorers in 1502

when they mistook the bay for the mouth of a large river.

- Can't believe the whole city is just built into the mountainside.

It makes London seem quite boring and flat, doesn't it?

- The city is surrounded by the Tijuca National Park,

one of the world's largest urban forests.

Attracting over five million tourists a year, this hot spot

is one of the most expensive holiday destinations in Brazil.

LOUD DRILLING

- "Come to Rio."

This could quite possibly be the worst hotel we've ever stayed in.

- This is mental. What?

- I'm thinking, "Wow."

- There's probably better entries into cells.

- This isn't the luxury the images of the Copacabana conjures up,

but it's perfect for what Freddy and I need right now.

One room?

- MAN REPLIES

- 25 quid or something.

There'll be a reason it costs 25 quid, but that's OK.

It makes so much strategic sense,

literally 100 metres away from the bus garage.

I'm all about the sacrifice.

All right, this is lovely.

Thank you.

- Beautiful, the TV is probably two times older than me.

- It smells of 1970.

There's like a staleness.

Exciting, Fred - the world's most famous beach.

Copacabana.

Bit cloudy.

This looks like the man.

- Hello. Nice to meet you.

- Bom jia.

- To recoup his souvenir splurge,

Freddy's planned to work for beach seller Tubarao,

Portuguese for "shark".

- I'm going to tell him my name's Frog.

- HE GIGGLES

- We have to walk around with one of them on our backs, geez.

- Oh, wow.

- He has been selling Brazilian iced tea, called mate,

on Copacabana beach since he was a teenager.

- Yeah. Yeah, that's really nice.

Yeah. That's really nice.

Like Coke mixed with orange juice.

- Charging the equivalent of £1.40 per cup...

- OK.

- ..he sells over 100 per day.

- All right, OK.

What, and my dad don't have to carry any?

- I thought you was doing this on your own, actually.

- Mate lemonade. Mate lemonade!

- Mate lemonade!

How you say? - Maracuja. - Maracuja!

Mate lemonade.

Mate lemonade! Maracuja!

- We all had to start. My first job was on a beach running up and down

and bouncing on a trampette and sticking to a Velcro wall

wearing like a Velcro suit.

- My shoulders are tearing.

Mate limonada!

Why did I sign up for this?

- He'll get a lot of confidence as well when he sells one or two.

- Mate lemonade? Sim?

Lovely.

Obrigado. - Obrigado.

- Well done. - Mate limonada?

Help me get rid of this drink cos my shoulders are in bits.

Sim? Obrigado.

Your turn now.

I've pulled my neck, my shoulders and my back.

- You should be doing it though.

Why am I replacing what...what you spent?

My experiences in childhood have

probably really lent into how I've parented Bobby and Freddy.

It's your mess you've got to clear this one up.

My mum, probably against everyone's opinions, er,

decided to have me even though she was only 15 years old,

so I'm forever grateful for that.

- Mate limonada!

- I didn't ever have the company of my biological dad.

He died when I was nine.

I always obviously regretted never meeting him.

So, when it came to me being a dad, I was always going to make sure

that they had the experience of me

that I would have liked to have had from him.

- Obrigado.

- When I struggle with Freddy not taking responsibility

sometimes I...I struggle with that cos I had no choice at...at a very

young age, er, but it's, that's not his fault.

- THEY CHUCKLE

- Obrigado.

Mate limonada?

Mate limonada?

Obrigado.

Thank you. - Obrigado.

- Well done, Freddy. Well done.

It's hard, isn't it, sales? - Yeah.

Could have made so much more but there were so many, like,

fit girls, right, in groups and I just bottled it.

- I don't think it's about the money actually, Fred, I think

it's just about the fact that you went out and...and did it.

Well done. Proud of you.

Ah!

- We really have spent a whole day on a bus.

- I quite like it cos you're not spending any money.

- As part of Sam's plan to make up lost time, they're on a mammoth

24-hour bus journey to Goiania where they hope to take

another overnight bus 900km to the checkpoint in Sao Paulo.

- We've got a lot of ground to pick up on this leg.

- We deserve a good day.

- We do, and I'm hoping that we'll

manage to get some work to boost our budget.

But always in my mind I'm thinking, "Have I chosen the right route?

"Have I chosen the right bus?

"Have I chosen anything right?"

- Belo Horizonte, por favor?

- 1,550km east...

- Can you scratch my back, just there? Oh! To the right.

- ..Kola and Mary Ellen are the last team to leave the state of Bahia.

- It's 18 hours.

- This country's big, man.

- Mary Ellen's plan - head inland

via Belo Horizonte to propel them

930km closer to Sao Paulo.

- It's quicker than going to Rio,

we're closer to the checkpoint.

- The one time she has a chance to go Rio!

- 1,300km west in Uberlandia...

THUNDER RUMBLES

- Whoa! That's crazy rain.

- ..sticking to Jeremy's direct route...

- Holy Moley.

Go in that restaurant, babe. Let's splash out.

- ..the couple enjoy a rare treat.

- I mean, I have no idea about the budget cos you've managed

the whole thing. - Yeah. - Are you being too strict?

- No. - You should not be skipping meals.

I don't agree with that. I think that's a judo thing.

- I don't want to be the last three days without money.

- No, I know. - It's discipline.

So, I can be boring but I just... It's for us I do this.

- You really want us to finish this, don't you?

- Yeah, yeah. It will feel so, like, humiliating if I can't.

- What I'm struggling with is not having a regular shower,

not cleaning my teeth enough. - Ah, yeah.

When you do the race, we need to try at least our best.

- No, I know. I literally could cry, I'm like...

- I just do the maths, babe. - No, I know.

I'll do it because I know you want to save the money but I'm, like,

"Oh, my God I've gone another day without having a wash."

Like, it's a horrible feeling.

It's really not romantic.

Are you getting drenched?

We went from having a romantic dinner to now being

in an absolute thunderstorm. - Oh, my God.

- Oh, Jeremy!

- SHE CHUCKLES

- It's been a really long day.

We've got to find a hotel and time's getting on now.

I think we'll just worry about the bus tickets tomorrow.

Approach tomorrow with a clearer head. That's the plan, Stan.

Ola!

Check in? Jeremy? Ah...

OK, thank... OK, perfect. Thank you.

179 until 10am.

This is definitely by the hour, isn't it?

We're going for an all-nighter.

You drive in, you park your car,

you go in, no-one sees you.

Oh.

Oh.

Listen to the music.

- MUSIC PLAYS FAINTLY

- I don't know how to turn this off,

Oh, we might be listening to this all night. - OK.

- There we go, OK.

- LIVELY MUSIC PLAYS

- That was all getting a bit too sexy for me.

Babe, look at the Jacuzzi.

Oh, no.

Oh, look. Babe, there's a mirror,

like, literally right opposite the...

- SHE CHUCKLES

- Jezza? - Yeah.

- Don't think this is in...on our budget.

- What, baby? Five?!

Oh, it's too much.

- We won't be doing any of that - can't afford it.

Has this put you in the mood, though?

- Go to sleep.

- 340km north...

- Er, caipirinha? Sim? Enjoy.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

- ..in Goiania, Scott and Sam

are working for the second time this leg.

An evening job at a Wild-West-inspired bar

before their final journey to Sao Paulo.

- Obrigado.

I'm new.

- We've not been able to book our transport out of here tonight.

Obrigado.

I really don't want to spend a night here.

I think that will cost us greatly in the race.

Ola. I'm hoping that we can meet some people that can help us.

- We are in a race to get to Sao Paulo so we need to get a bus.

- Is there one tonight?

Last bus, 10 o'clock.

- Doesn't look like we're going there tonight. - Oh, God.

- There is no bus that we can get tonight to Sao Paulo.

We just want things to work out and it's a shame when they don't

and it can make you feel a little defeated.

Maybe we're just really bad at it, I don't know.

- This leg, you know I said leave this down to me?

- Mm-hm. You did say that.

- Have I let you down?

- What do you mean have you let me down?

- Well, I said trust me on this

and here we are in a hotel room and nothing's gone right.

- Of course you haven't.

- But this...this leg has been the worst leg.

If we're fourth by any more than an hour...

- What? - Then I'll feel like I've let you down.

- No, you never let me down.

Don't be silly.

You're the best.

Sam hates seeing me upset or down.

Sometimes things don't work out.

We're in this together. It's an experience of a lifetime,

and nothing can change that.

I wasn't expecting it to be this hard.

How is it hard to get around the world? It is.

- 585km north-east of the checkpoint...

- Er, no.

No, it's not them. No, it's over here. Of course it is.

- ..with their bus booked to Sao Paulo,

Kola and Mary Ellen take advantage of big city wages whilst they wait.

- Getting money, getting money.

- You should have been a dishwasher,

you're so good at it, like, honestly.

And it beats Copacabana beach, right?

- SHE LAUGHS

- I think we've done really well to scrape back time that we lost

in Lencois, we need to get a move on to Sao Paulo.

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

- You did well. Maybe this was the more logical route

cos Rio is quite far, isn't it?

- Sorry. There it is, there it is.

I think we made the right decision.

We're not far away from the checkpoint now.

Ola.

Bom dia, bus station?

I don't have a clue where we're going to come in that book.

- I don't think we're going to come last.

Checkpoint ready. Ready to catch a bus.

I don't want to be waiting even an hour.

- In Rio De Janeiro, 430km east of the checkpoint...

- Race mode. - Right, race mode.

Go, Fred. - Er, quanto custa Sao Paulo?

- Go on, then, let's book it. - OK. Er, dois.

- Freddy, well done.

- There it is!

- Approaching from the north-west, 588km away...

- I want to run fast tonight.

- This is a kind of a side to Jeremy I don't really know, to be honest.

- SHE CHUCKLES

- Oh, dear.

So far on this leg I think he's done an incredible job,

I wouldn't say we've had, like, the most fun.

- If we close the gap, I will be happy. - Yeah. - Very happy.

- In Goiania...

..900km north of the checkpoint...

- Sao Paulo? I just want to do my bit and have some responsibility myself

rather than Sam thinking, "Oh, God it's all on me."

457 each.

- The quickest one gets us in... - A few hours earlier.

- ..two and a half hours earlier.

It's 100 reais more.

Could make the difference between fourth and third.

- Let's do that.

- Starting to smell a bit.

- That's a new low.

- 72 hours' protection.

- It's different rules here.

- Have a smell.

- HE RETCHES

- Smells like fresh linen.

- Absolute madness.

We are on our way to checkpoint three.

- Here we go.

- Got the checkpoint feeling of dread.

The same feeling I used to get when it was school sports day

but I can't get my mum to do a note this time.

- I remember thinking the quickest route for this leg would have

been Brasilia, Belo Horizonte to Sao Paulo. I wouldn't be surprised

if the other teams are running to the checkpoint at the same

time as us, if not in before us.

- Nine, ten lanes of traffic.

This is another level.

- South America's most populus city -

Sao Paulo.

A skyline pierced with high-rises,

it's one of the most congested metropolises in the world.

- OK. And I know you want to get there quick.

- We've just got to claw back some time, I think.

- Home to Brazil's largest metro system, at over 74km long

it transports over 3 million passengers a day.

PAGER BEEPS

- "Race HQ.

"Travel by Metro to find..."

- MASP? - "..MASP." What's MASP?

- Suspended over a free-standing space...

..Sao Paulo's Museum of Art.

- Platform five? - Five.

- Five?

- Well, that's not any of those.

- We finally made it. - Yeah.

M-A-S-P. MASP.

- It's been to MASP, it's going that way.

- Ah. Ah.

- We just missed one?

- SCOTT: - Excuse me. Sorry.

- MARY ELLEN: - Oh, my God.

- SCOTT: - Just makes you paranoid that someone is following you.

- Right there it is, MASP, look, MASP.

- MASP?

This? Sim.

- PAGER BEEPS

- Stop.

"Walk toward the Brazilian flag and take a left down

"Avenue Brigadeiro to find the checkpoint - Hotel Unique."

- We've got to somehow cross this massive road.

- Brigadeiro there. - I see it. - Go.

- Brazilian flag.

- Oh, up. - Can you see it? - There.

- Brigadeiro that way. - Straight up. Come on.

- It's got to be here somewhere. - Can you see it? - No.

- Cross, cross, cross, cross, cross.

- Just keep an eye on both sides.

- We're going the right way on the road, yeah?

- Look for a big building.

- Do you reckon it's that building there?

- That looks like a hotel.

Quick, while it's red. - Whoa.

- KOLA: - Mary? - I'm coming.

- Welcome to Hotel Unique, please sign in.

- My God. My heart.

- Yep. - Fourth!

That's not bad.

It's not like we're 12 hours or 24 hours behind.

We're two hours behind third.

- Third. - Yes. Yes!

- We clawed some time back. - Come on. Amazing.

- We clawed back 13 hours.

- On the brink. - And we're not, we're not in last.

- No, that is really good. That's really, really good.

I am ecstatically happy.

I've been bronze before but it's never...

- HE CHUCKLES

- ..it's never felt this good.

I'm so proud of us. you also need to stop saying,

"Oh, you know, I've let you down", because you haven't, you haven't.

- No, I haven't cos I've clawed back 13 hours.

- I'm just saying you haven't. You didn't anyway...

- No, I know. - ..before you knew you were third.

- Yes! This has got to be it!

I'm so nervous about this.

Yes! - OK. Not bad.

- Yes. - Not bad at all.

- Jeff and Freddy, we're coming for you.

- Cos last week it was 22 hours' difference. - Yeah.

- Now it's nine. - Yeah.

- 13 hours. In one week, we did 13 hours. - Yeah.

Well done.

- Ah, stop it.

- Top floor of the hotel. What a view.

Feeling good, it's another victory.

- And honestly, a massive relief after a very long week on the road.

- End of the day, don't matter

who put in the most effort

but we got here together.

- We're quite happy with the time we've made up. - Yep.

- We'll catch them up for sure.

- I will try my best, er...

- You actually clenched your fist then.

- I just want to see if they can keep the pressure.

OK, let's go.

- Smell that lovely, nice hotel smell.

After the longest leg so far,

just over 16 hours separates

the teams at the halfway

point in the race to Frutillar.

- How do you feel, being first place?

- Proud of us.

I think we've still got a little bit more in our locker, as well. - 100%.

- We're just getting going.

Ready to step foot into another country?

- Off to Uruguay.

- Take me to Paraguay.

- We're definitely in Argentina.

# Tango, tango, tango! #

- This is chaos.

- We're in the waterfall.

The most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

- Oh, wow. This has been the reconnection that we needed.

- You all right? - Left my passport on the bus.

- Is it the fact that he's a celebrity

and he has people holding on to these things for him?

- This leg taught us a lesson and gave us a slap round the face.

- Let's just sit and smile and act like this isn't shit.