The Amazing Race (2001) s37e01 Episode Script

1
PHIL KEOGHAN:
The Amazing Race is back.
In this season of surprises,
we bring back some ofRace's
most iconic game pieces.
NICK:
Every leg has something
amazing happening.
KEOGHAN:
If teams avoid elimination
- Yes!
- Yes!
[whooping]
KEOGHAN: they'll race
through the world's
most iconic destinations
JONATHAN:
Oh, my God.
ANA:
Wow.
KEOGHAN:
immersing themselves
in vibrant cultures
ANA:
This is such a gift.
KEOGHAN:
once-in-a-lifetime
experiences
JOSIAH:
It's constant adrenaline, fear,
questioning myself,
"Am I worthy?"
KEOGHAN:
and exhilarating adventures.
JONATHAN:
This season is unlike
any season
we've ever seen before.
We have to plan
for the unexpected.
- It's just, like, epic.
- ANA: Epic.
KEOGHAN:
Emotions will run high
Oh!
KEOGHAN:
as the tension builds
What strengths
do I have, Bernie?
'Cause you're stronger, you're
better than me on everything.
KEOGHAN:
to a final showdown.
BERNIE:
I did not leave
everything behind to lose.
KEOGHAN:
In the end, only one team
will win the $1 million prize
andThe Amazing Race.
Oh, this is awesome!
This is amazing!
♪
[cheering]
BERNIE:
Carrigain is gonna
help us stay in track.
My brain's gonna go
a thousand miles an hour
and I'm gonna count on her
to be able
to be, "No, this is our mission,
this is our step."
MARK: I feel like
we're a very competitive coupl.
- Yeah.
- But we like to have fun
- While we do it.
- while we're competing. Yeah.
We can destroy our friends
and laugh about it.
- Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.
- Right? Yeah.
HOLDEN:
I wouldn't say
we work well together.
He's kind of
my annoying brother.
Bold on "annoying."
[cheering, whooping]
Let's go!
Welcome, everybody.
Welcome to the capital
of moviemaking.
Welcome to the Academy Museum
of Motion Pictures.
I am so excited
about all the potential energy
in front of me right now.
And 14 teams.
Have you noticed that?
- We've never done that before.
- Ah!
- [mouthing]
- KEOGHAN: I wanted you all
to introduce yourselves
to each other
because, as you know,
in any competition,
you want to know
your competition.
So, why don't you tell us
a little bit about yourselves.
We've been applying
for the last seven years,
and, uh, our-our number has
finally been called, and we
We can't even believe
that we're here right now.
We thought we were
getting punked, honestly.
We are Dungeons & Dragons
streamers
ready for the biggest adventure
of our lives.
- [cheering, applause]
- We are ready. [roars]
We're both lumberjacks.
We're from St. Louis, Missouri.
I'm 35 and he's 64.
I want to look like that at 64.
Don't you?
That's goals right there.
That's my goals.
We've been married 25 years,
and we are parents
- of eight sons.
- Eight sons.
Oh, my gosh. Whoa.
KEOGHAN:
And I heard that
you were coming
on to The Amazing Race
because you wanted
to have one more child,
and you wanted it to be No?
- I'm out, I'm out, I'm out.
- KEOGHAN: No, you're out.
You're out. All right.
This season,
there are more big surprises
than ever before.
- Wow.
- [whoops]
KEOGHAN:
Right out of the gate,
you are gonna have to make
a pivotal decision
when you encounter
the first ever Fork in the Road.
- Oh, no.
- Fork in the Road?
KEOGHAN:
And when you get
to the Pit Stop,
there will be two eliminations.
[contestants groaning]
- Oh my God.
- Wow.
Your first clue is on top
of your luggage, which is
at the bottom of the stairs.
You'll rip and read
that first clue and you'll
find out where you are going to.
Is everybody ready to race?
[all assenting, cheering]
KEOGHAN:
All right.
The world is waiting for you.
Good luck.
Travel safe.
♪
Go!
- Come on, Jack. We got this.
- Let's go.
Be careful, be careful,
be careful.
Come on, Jack. Yes. Work.
Yeah.
Come on, Jack. We got this.
- Where you at, Bridge?
- Aah!
- I'm behind you, Dad.
- ERNEST: All right.
This way, this way,
this way, this way.
- Mama, where are you at?
- I'm coming!
- Coming, sis?
- Yup.
Come on, let's get it for Phil.
- Yes.
- Here we go, baby, here we go.
Come on, Pops.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Come on, babe.
[overlapping,
indistinct chatter]
- Okay, babe. Here we go.
- All right.
Route Info.
- "Fly to Hong Kong"!
- Hong Kong!
"When you land,
race to Tian Tan Buddha
to find your next clue."
- All right. All right.
- Come on.
Go. Got this.
CARSON:
"Exit the museum
and follow the marked paths
to cars parked on Sixth Street."
Come on, Jack. We got this.
Come on.
HAN [laughing]:
Oh, my God!
- Um
- Grab it.
- Is that marked?
- Yeah. Let's go.
- All right,
let's get in these cars.
- Okay. I see it.
- Come on, Mama.
- Hurry.
We got to ask somebody
how to get to LAX.
HAN:
Let's follow someone,
yeah? Okay.
Jack lived in L.A.
for four years.
So we actually think
we can get to the airport
without any directions.
I'm gonna try to follow this car
up ahead of us.
We got to get
on the first flight.
Hey, that's an hour
difference, man.
ERIKA:
We cannot be one
of the first teams eliminated.
And there's two teams
eliminated. It's not just one.
- Holden, we're
on the friggin' race!
- Yay!
- This is happening.
- Seven years, baby,
it's happening!
♪
♪
-Okay. There-there it is.
-Okay, there's a parking spot.
I see it.
- JONATHAN: Uh
- ANA: Okay.
JONATHAN: Lord, let us get
on that first plane, man.
- That's an hour difference.
- I know.
- There it goes. 9101. Okay.
- Okay. Yes! We found it.
- Okay.
- Does it say the parking spot?
- Yes.
- Okay.
Yeah, this is the blue team,
mom and daughter.
CARSON:
Mom and daughter, great. Yup.
HOLDEN: Wait, the parking spot,
behind.
What? Where are you seeing that?
- HOLDEN:
Right in front of your eyes.
- Oh, my God. You're a genius.
HOLDEN:
Turn left in here.
There should be an entrance
coming up, Dad.
Okay, cool.
Oh, my God. There's the team.
- Self-parking
- SCOTT: Entrance. Perfect.
- entrance.
- Nailed it.
- Yup, this is it, let's go.
- Yup, yup, up. Let's go.
You guys are all set.
- Thank you. It's that easy?
- Oh, my God.
Seat is 159,
boarding at 10:50.
- Oh, we got on the first flight.
- Oh, my gosh. It's earlier.
- We got on the flight!
- Yes, yes, yes.
- Yes, yes.
- [laughing]: Oh, my God.
Ooh. [laughs]
- Yeah.
- Come back.
Right here. Come on.
We need to check in.
Yeah.
- Hi. Hi.
- Welcome to Cathay Pacific.
- Thank you.
- MELINDA: Oh, my God.
It's on the first flight?
On the 11:30?
- Oh, my God. Hell, yes.
- Are we on the 11:30, as well?
Oh, my goodness!
- We are next. Okay.
- Okay.
- First flight?
- Correct.
- [screaming]
- Yes!
There. Go, go, go!
HAN:
Oh, it's sold out? Damn it.
- BOTH: Thank you.
- WOMAN: Thank you.
- Right there.
- Babe.
-Right here.
-It's right here.
It's right here.
- You're on our flight.
- [laughs]
- Everyone's here already?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- We're on the second flight?
- Oh, my God. You're kidding me.
- No 11:30 flight?
- 11:30 flight is sold out.
Somehow, we're
on the second flight.
How is that even possible?
- I don't know.
- Literally flew here.
It is what it is.
We're in it together.
This is gonna be competitive.
Damn.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Awesome. Thank you.
- All right. Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
-Thank you so much.
Appreciate you.
-Thank you so much.
Thank you. Appreciate you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- No problem. Have a good night.
- Okay. Thank you so much.
- All right.
- All right. Thank you, ma'am.
- All right.
Does anyone need to go potty?
As the mother of
One of the mothers
of the group
- As the mothers of the group
- Does anyone need to go potty?
- We have eight sons.
- Eight sons.
- LORI: From nine years old
to 24.
- Nine years old.
LORI:
And it's everything you think.
It's wild, it's loud,
it's smelly, it's crazy.
- The kids are jumping off
the wall.
- We have nothing new.
And it's amazing.
SCOTT:
Lori's done a great job
with our boys
of creating a safe space where
no conversation is off limits.
Scott works out of state,
and so,
I am often left
with all these kids.
And I think it's so important,
like, empowering her
to be able to make decisions
without necessarily having
to have my approval.
Because she's running the ship,
and I come in,
and I support her,
- you know, when I can, in that.
- Absolutely.
Because she's the
she's that number one,
you know, driver every day.
You're still in motherhood
more than I am.
- I'm just
in grandmotherhood now.
- Aw.
That was so sweet.
What's your name?
- Handsome stranger.
- Okay.
- [laughing]
I was named after my dad.
Are you tall, dark
and handsome then?
Uh no.
Mark and I--
we met on the Mississippi River
working barges in 1987.
Next thing you know, we've been
best friends ever since.
- We're old, broke rednecks.
- Yeah.
We don't have a lot of money
to go places.
I've never been out
of this country before.
But we both belong
to the same motorcycle club,
and we've been all over
the United States
on our motorcycles,
from coast to coast.
MARK:
So our seasoning
is definitely gonna help us.
We're the old guys. That's it.
- We know.
- [laughing]
Hong Kong, baby.
Knowing that
there's a double elimination
coming up means that
we have just scored huge
by getting on that first fligh.
-LORI: The news
of the Fork in the Road
-SCOTT: It's huge.
- blew our mind before.
- It's never been done before.
- LORI: Yeah.
- SCOTT: Which means two
- first-place winners.
- That's gonna be awesome.
But then, also, two teams
are gonna get eliminated,
so we hope not to be
one of those two teams.
LORI: The second flight gets in
only an hour apart, so,
with airplanes coming and going
and leaving early and late
and delayed-- really,
- anything's possible.
- SCOTT: Who knows?
We are headed to Hong Kong.
- Hong Kong.
- [laughs]
KEOGHAN: All 14 teams
are leaving Los Angeles
and flying across
the Pacific Ocean
to the neon city of Hong Kong,
home to more than
7.5 million people.
Once they've touched down,
teams will take a taxi
and then climb
hundreds of steps
to pick up their first clue
under the watchful eye
of this enormous bronze Buddha.
- Hong Kong, baby. Let's do it.
- [whooping]
"To city, to taxis."
See it?
- Taxi this way?
- Oh, yeah. Okay, perfect.
- Land to a taxi.
- Go, go. Get in.
- Do you speak English?
- Yeah. Where are you going?
We're gonna the big Buddha.
- Big Buddha.
- Okay, great.
Taxi!
We knew we weren't
gonna be the first.
I'm not worried about it.
We're gonna be great.
Can you take us
to Tian Tan Buddha?
- Yes. Yes.
- Okay.
In a race. We have
to catch up all the other cars.
- Okay.
- [laughs]
- I think we're first place.
- First place!
- I can't believe it.
- [sighs]
- Um, we are on our way
to the Big Buddha.
- Yes.
- It's nice to have a cushion,
but anything can happen.
- Yeah.
So you still got to be smart.
Slow is steady.
ANA:
Wow.
JONATHAN:
Look at that. Take a look, babe.
Look around.
You're in Hong Kong.
ANA:
So beautiful. I know, I know.
Take it in, baby. Take it in.
- It's cool.
- Ooh.
All right?
We're not going home today.
No. No, no, no.
I want to see it all, baby.
We can't go home.
Oh, you're gonna see it all.
Oh, you gonna see it all,
all right.
It's so beautiful. Oh, my gosh.
Look at all the mountains.
It's foggy, a bit.
Oh, there's the Buddha. Look.
- CARSON: Where?
- Up there.
- CARSON: Oh, wow.
- Yeah. Beautiful.
- CARSON: So cool.
- Wow.
- It is gorgeous.
- CARSON: So beautiful.
- Oh, my God.
- Wow.
- Take it in. It's so beautiful.
- Beautiful.
-JONATHAN: Oh, my God.
Look at that.
-Wow.
- We said we'll roll hard.
- Boo-yah. Yes.
- Yeah. Let's do it.
- Teng, wait here for us.
Wait here.
DRIVER:
There's some people there.
- JACK: Perfect. Thank you.
- CARSON: Perfect.
CARSON: Okay,
you'll just stay right here,
- and we'll be right back.
- DRIVER: Okay.
BOTH:
Thank you so much.
- You're the best.
- Thank you. Thank you.
JASMIN:
Oh, look, look, look.
You see that Buddha up there?
COURTNEY:
[gasps] Oh, my gosh.
- JASMIN: So pretty.
- COURTNEY: Wow.
ANA:
We pay after.
- We go somewhere else.
- Come on, babe.
- Let's go.
- Okay.
JONATHAN:
Hurry, hurry, hurry.
ANA:
Oh, my God.
Look at how cool that is!
- Two by two.
- [whoops]
- You good?
- Feel the booty.
- [whoops]
- Come on, thighs.
- Oh, my God.
- Let's go.
It is so beautiful.
All right, open it.
Whoa!
- Here we go. Okay.
- Route Info.
CARSON: "Take the Sun Ferry
to Cheung Chau Island
and search for your next clue
among the promenade."
- Okay. Let's go.
- Ooh! I'm out of breath.
- Oh, it's amazing.
- You ready, babe?
- Oh.
- [whoops] Let's roll.
Nice job, Mom.
- Nice job, Mom.
- [panting]
- All right, let's go.
- All right.
JONATHAN:
Sun Ferry.
What time do they leave?
ANA:
Chung, can I use your phone?
Yes. Thank you.
JONATHAN: It's 8:32.
ANA: Okay.
- There's one that leaves
in 28 minutes.
ANA: Okay.
JONATHAN: And then,
the next one leaves at 9:45.
ANA:
Ooh.
Then after, that they leave
in 30-minute intervals.
Chung, how far? How long?
- ANA: 25 minutes?
- What time's now?
We might be able
to make that 28 minute
Oh, my God.
If we can make that one,
game over.
- Oh, shoot.
- I mean
- Uh-oh.
- Uh-oh.
- Did they go this way?
- Wait, we went
- No, they went the other way.
- Are you sure?
Yeah.
We, I think, saw Ana
and Jonathan go a different way.
Um, we are
trying to go
to Central Pier Number 5,
um, and trusting
that we are on the right way.
- Hello.
- Tian Tan Buddha?
Yeah, baby, baby.
Hi. Do you know where this is?
Okay, let's go.
ERIKA:
Go here. Somebody in there?
MELINDA:
You got to get in the queue.
Taxi? Ooh! Hi.
Yes. Hurry up.
Hurry up, Scott! Come on!
Come on, Holden.
Pops.
We got to Hong Kong, we had to
hit the ground running,
literally.
It's the Fork in the Road
double elimination.
We are not going home today.
- I've told him.
- I see.
- MELINDA: Hi.
- DRIVER: Hi.
- Oh, my gosh. That is the ferry.
- You see it? Where'd you see it?
That is the ferry right there.
It says Sun Ferry. Sun Ferry.
- JONATHAN: Is that the actual
ferry we're getting? That's it?
- ANA: Yes.
- Let's go.
- That's it. That's the one.
Lord Jesus, help us, help us,
help us, help us.
- We need to get on that ferry.
- ANA: Oh, my God.
- JONATHAN:
Where's the terminal?
- Right here, right here.
JONATHAN:
Chung, where do we pay?
- ANA: Right there. Let's go.
- Show me, show me, Chung.
- Over there.
- JONATHAN: Thank you, Chung.
Thank you. Okay, come on.
Tickets? Two tickets.
Emergency. 9:00.
Emergency. Tickets.
- This is pier number four.
- This is four. Yes.
- Pier number five. Perfect!
- Thank you.
Thank you. You are amazing.
Thank you.
- ANA: Oh my God.
- Oh my God.
JONATHAN:
Oh, my God. Xiè. Oh, my God.
- ANA: Xiè xi. Xiè xi.
- [Jonathan laughs]
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
- ANA: Did we make it?
- JONATHAN: We got on!
- Oh, my God.
JONATHAN:
Oh!
- The ramp's going up. We did it.
- ANA: Oh, my God.
JONATHAN:
We pulled it off. [laughs]
We pulled it off.
[laughs]
That was huge.
That was huge.
[boat horn blowing]
Oh, it's just me and you
on this thing.
ANA:
After all we've been through,
I know that we work better
together than when we do apart.
And this just proves that.
We have been through
so much together.
It's been 14 years, going on 1,
seven years married.
We've been through the ups,
we've been through the downs.
A few years ago,
there was so much tension
within our family that
it left me
to leave the house, actually.
JONATHAN:
We separated for over a year.
ANA:
It actually took us
watching
The Amazing Race together
[laughs]
to start chatting,
and, you know, creating,
uh, a neutral space
where we can actually
conversate.
JONATHAN:
Amazing Race really provided
that medium
- for us to start talking.
- It was-it was the gateway. Yes.
- Teamwork makes
the dream work, baby.
- Yes.
[laughs]
Our babies will be so proud.
Oh, man. When they see us
on this boat in Hong Kong.
- I know.
- First place. Oh.
- [grunts] Okay.
- MELINDA: I'm hoping that
that's not it leaving.
- That's it?
- I don't know. I'm hoping not.
Jack, Carson, do you guys
already have tickets?
Where'd you get your ticket?
Oh, my God. What's up?
We haven't. No.
- ERIKA: This one's at 9:45.
- That's what that man told me.
- 9:45. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Hey, guys.
- Hi.
We're hoping
the other people
can't catch up to us.
It would be huge
if they don't make this,
'cause the next one's at 10:15.
That would keep us
at 30 minutes.
MELINDA: 30 minutes.
- Okay.
- All right.
- On our way back down.
- Oh!
Oh, Lord have mercy!
No, you're not.
You're doing great.
My sister doesn't do well
with stairs too much.
She's doing great today.
I am afraid of steps.
I've had a challenge
with stairs,
going up and down stairs.
So I'm just really scared
of stairs.
- I'm falling.
- You've got it.
- We're almost there.
- This is two of them.
We're almost there.
We're almost there.
You got it, and I got you.
I'm not gonna let you
go anywhere.
JACKYE:
When I lived in South Florida,
we were getting ready
for hurricane season,
and I had a pair
of flip-flops on, and I slid
and fell down a full flight
of stairs.
And I had hit so hard,
these stairs,
I had to have surgery.
You're absolutely doing it.
And it may not be stairs,
but it might be something else
for someone else.
And you're gonna help them
overcome that fear
- just by doing it.
- Okay.
Last set. One more together.
You got it.
- Beautiful.
- [whoops]
- All right.
- I did it.
I never thought
about going down stairs
- when we were training
for The Amazing Race, ever.
- I know.
- ALYSSA: Thank you.
- JOSIAH: Have a good day.
Whoa. Oh, my God.
Look who it is.
It's the first teams
from the first flight
- are up there.
- Good. Good, good.
Two for the fast ferry, please.
Thank you.
Hi. Can we get on the 9:45
to Chau Cheung Island?
Wait. I'm gonna cry.
I can't believe it.
- How did we catch up
to you guys?
- What's up?
JOSIAH:
It feels really, really good
to be caught up
to the first flight.
The Fork in the Road, and
the consequences of it--
two people are gonna
come out in first place,
but two people are gonna
get eliminated today--
and we cannot be
in that group
of who gets eliminated.
ERIKA:
I'm so curious
if Jon and Ana made the 9:00.
- They had to have. Yeah.
- MELINDA: They had
to have made 9:00.
ALYSSA:
All teams are here
except for Jackye and Lauren
and Jonathan and Ana.
[boat horn blows]
JONATHAN:
Welcome to Cheung Chau.
All right.
Okay. We're going north.
What's this?
- I see it.
- ANA: Oh.
- All right.
- Come here.
- Ooh.
- Beautiful.
- Let's do it.
- Okay. Okay.
- ANA: Roadblock.
- Road-- Wow.
"Who's ready
for some ups and downs?"
KEOGHAN:
This imposing tower
is where participants practice
for Hong Kong's
annual
bun-scrambling competition.
Competitors race up and down
to grab
as many buns as possible
while on the clock.
In this Roadblock,
instead of picking up buns,
teams must pick up a clue
tied to the top of this tower.
Do it now 'cause we have
a big lead, so do it now.
- Let's do it.
- Let's do it.
Is this it?
- ANA: Wow!
- How cool is this?
ANA:
"There are eight lines
available.
First come, first serve."
Ooh, it's coming down good.
I need you to move, babe.
You hear me?
Let's get up this thing.
- [whoops]
- You got it.
- Don't worry about it.
- It's slippery.
Don't worry about that rain.
Get your feet set. Yep.
[sighs]
Yeah.
Come on. Move up it.
How you feeling?
Exhausted.
You're exhausted already?
Ooh. Okay.
It's so slippery.
JONATHAN:
I bet the rain is
killing her right now.
- [grunts]
- JONATHAN: Probably making this
two times harder
than it actually is, so
Ooh! Aah!
It's hard to breathe. [exhales]
Ooh, that's not good.
[sighs]
Oh, God.
One at a time.
JONATHAN:
You're halfway there, babe.
- You're almost there.
- I'm working, baby.
[panting]
Yeah.
Show 'em what the girls can do.
Yeah, that's right.
- You got it. Come on, come on.
- [sighs]
You're right there.
Don't stop now.
- [shouts]
- You got it. Yeah!
Let out that yell. Come on!
Secure it. Secure the load.
Ready to come back.
- [whoops]
- Let's blow
-this Popsicle stand.
You feel me?
-[grunts]
- You did it, babe.
- All right!
- Score one point
for the girls, huh?
- Yes!
Try to catch up now.
- JONATHAN: You did great, babe.
- ANA: Thank you.
- Come on. Ready?
- Yes.
No time to celebrate.
- ANA: On to the next. Got it.
- [grunts]
- Route Info.
- Okay.
JONATHAN:
"Travel to Lok Kwan Street Park
to find your next clue."
JONATHAN and ANA:
"Fork in the Road ahead"!
This is the first time
in Amazing Racehistory
that teams have encountered
a Fork in the Road.
When they get here,
teams have to decide
which route they want to take
to the Pit Stop.
Only seven teams
can go in either direction,
creating a parallel race
all the way to the mat.
A 14-team race will become
two parallel seven-team races
where two teams
will be eliminated.
- Big decisions. Come on.
- Okay, let's go.
LAUREN:
We're going
to Cheung Chau Island.
- Okay, thank you.
- All right, all right,
all right.
I've got your backpack.
LAUREN: I love you for that.
Looks like
the ferry's here, huh?
Here we go. Cheung Chau Island.
JONATHAN: So, what time
does this one leave?
ANA: 10:45.
- JONATHAN: Oh, my God.
- ANA: Man, we got to wait now.
- Now we just wait.
- I need
to get some intel.
I need a phone.
-Yeah, we better get some intel
-I need to know
- where this is at.
- right now. What are we doing?
We should be
gathering information.
- Oh, my God.
- Let's go to McDonald's.
JONATHAN:
We need to find
where this place is.
HAN:
Okay, we're going.
We're off to the races.
- JONATHAN: Excuse me. Excuse me.
- ANA: Excuse us. Excuse us.
We're trying
to find Lok Kwan Street Park.
- NICK: Mike?
- MIKE: Yeah, I'm here.
Perfect. And let's get
a good visual on it.
MARK:
Yeah, so, it's literally
this street.
BRETT:
I know, I know, I know.
MIKE:
Right there, Nick. You hear it?
Look at this. So amazing.
NICK:
Go, Mike, go.
- JEFF: Pops, come on.
- POPS: All right, all right.
JOSIAH:
You got this, babe.
- Take this.
- Yup.
- Give me everything.
- Yeah.
I got you.
You got this, Jazzy!
I'm excited. Yay!
Yes. I know how to climb.
Just like rock climbing,
but with bamboo.
BRIDGET:
Where do we go?
BERNIE:
Am I ready?
CARRIGAIN:
Let's go, Bernie. You got it.
Let's go, Bernie. Go, go, go!
- HAN: All right, are we on?
- HOLDEN: Let's go, now, Han!
- [whooping]
- LORI: All right.
CARRIGAIN: You got it, B!
You got this!
BRETT:
I do this for a living. Perfect.
Clear?
[indistinct shouting]
CARRIGAIN: In my head, I'm lik,
"Oh, there's no way
these guys are gonna be able
to climb up this."
But then I see Brett,
out of nowhere, just, "Whoop!"
I'm like, "The heck?!"
MARK: Climbing.
SCOTT: There you go,
there you go. Nice job!
You got this.
JEFF:
Where the lineup at?
Right here? Right here?
CARRIGAIN:
That's it, Bernie! That's it!
- MARK: Come on!
- CARRIGAIN: Push! Push!
- Bernie, let's go!
- MARK: You got that, babe,
- get that clue! Yeah!
- Down.
[Mark whooping]
SCOTT:
A lot of teams here.
A lot of spots.
Everybody's here.
It's chaos, it's crazy.
ERIKA:
He's done.
Oh, my gosh. Can I go?
ERNEST:
Come on, we got to
get up there, Bridget!
JACK:
You got it, Car. Good job.
CARRIGAIN:
Let's go, Bernie!
You're almost there!
Final push! Final push!
Yes!
I'm ready.
- I'm ready to go.
- Okay.
Can I use this?
I'm ready to go down!
SCOTT: Reach! Grab it!
I got it! Let's go!
JACK: Yeah, Car!
Okay, I'm ready to come down!
SCOTT:
Babe, you killed it!
Thank you. I appreciate you.
SCOTT:
49 years old, she cruised up
that bamboo tower
like it was nobody's business.
Back to the ferry, guys.
Great job. Killed it.
ERNEST:
Let's go, Bubblegum!
Come on, Bubblegum!
Bubblegum,
you only got three more to go.
- You there, you there.
- LARRY: Climb it.
COURTNEY:
There you go, Jazzy!
Keep pushing!
LARRY: Come on, crawdaddy!
ERNEST: Now just let loose.
Come on down.
- BRIDGE: Okay!
- ERIKA: Got it. Belay!
- JEFF: Let's go, Pops!
- ERIKA: Down, down. Go, go, go.
You're good. Go.
- Ooh, foot's stuck.
- MELINDA: Come on, Erika.
Can you grab my shoe?
- [Pops grunts]
- LARRY: Heads up, big boy!
Climbing that thing
like a oak tree.
JEFF:
Pops is the best tree climber
that I know,
still at the age of 64,
but he ain't using his feet.
He's just using ar-arms,
which is harder.
He ain't putting his feet
in between the things.
JASMIN:
All right, Jasmin,
you know how to climb a tree.
LARRY:
He's right there at the top.
[grunts]
- MARK C.: Lower!
- JEFF: This is what you do,
Pops.
Keep on going. Keep climbing.
- COURTNEY: There you go!
- Please help me, Lord.
Let's get out this rain.
Come on.
[groans, pants]
JEFF:
Come on down, Pops.
It's always the hardest
right before the victory!
Let's go!
Snatch it like you want it!
There we go!
[whooping]
Coming down.
You did it!
I did it.
MARK:
Did great. Killed it.
- CARSON: It's a little farther.
- JACK: Oh, yeah.
CARRIGAIN:
Run. Run.
We're killing it.
CARSON:
Ticketing office?
Uh
Oh, my God. Everybody's here.
- You guys killed it!
- You guys are so far ahead.
- Did you guys
buy tickets already?
- No. It isn't open.
No. This is where you went
to buy 'em, I think.
Oh, my God, you guys are moving.
- Come on, Holden!
- NICK: Game of minutes, Mike!
ANA:
We were not expecting them
anytime soon,
and it was a bummer
that lead was gone.
Oh, my gosh. What do we do?
ERIKA:
All right, Mom. Central.
- Here.
- JONATHAN: Oh, my God.
- BRIDGET: Come on, Dad,
let's catch. We got it.
- ERNEST: I'm good, go ahead.
Wow.
I did not expect to see
everyone roll through like that.
LARRY:
Think we're still
standing in line.
ANA:
I'm trying to be positive,
but it's hard.
We worked so hard to get here.
- Sucks, man. Sucks.
- Oh.
ANA:
It's hard. Yeah.
Oh.
- What's up, boys?
- Hey.
JEFF:
All right. We made the ferry
with everybody again.
There's 13 teams
on this boat right now.
-One of them will be
-So it means one of these teams
- eliminated. Oh.
- will be eliminated today.
-It's heartbreaking.
-Like, that's crazy.
That's crazy.
Hey.
- There's that thing right there.
- LAUREN: Where?
JACKYE:
Oh! Yes!
- LAUREN: Roadblock.
- JACKYE: You got it?
- Okay. I'm going in.
- Okay.
LAUREN:
Somehow I'm gonna
have to get up there.
We know we've come so far.
So, we're just gonna keep going.
Um, okay, so
[sighs]
[groans]
Come on, let's go.
All right.
Already, I'm having some issues.
Thought there'd be something
for me to step on.
Just got to get up
to the first one.
It's too slippery.
[groans]
[sighs]
Oh.
Almost made it.
I'm gonna keep trying.
Each time I do it,
I learn something new.
- Just one right move at a time.
- Oh, God.
[panting]
- Let's go!
- Okay.
[grunts]
- [groans]
- Yes, sis.
- Aah!
- Yes!
- Yes!
- You've got it!
Yes!
[grunting]
[whoops]
You know this place?
Lok Kwan Street Park?
- Hi!
- We need to go
- to Lok Kwan Street Park.
- Get in.
Can you take us
to "Lock Khan" Street Park?
- No?
- No.
- Hi. Okay.
- Lok Kwan Street Road?
- LORI: Scott, please get in.
- Yup.
Hi.
Can you take us
to "Lock Khan" Street Park?
Okay.
- Are we the only ones?
- Yeah.
NICK:
Ooh. All right. Looks like
we got a good jump out. There's
a team to our right here.
We're on a race to get
to that Fork in the Road.
Mike and I have been watching
The Amazing Race
since we were kids.
We've watched
every single episode
of every single season.
This journey
to trying to be
on The Amazing Race
actually started
seven years ago.
Being on The Amazing Race
is our dream.
We're excited
to have another opportunity
to apply for The Amazing Race.
That concludes our fourth
and hopefully final
audition video.
If you really want something,
go after it,
because it doesn't matter
how many "no's" you get.
- All it takes is one yes.
- Exactly.
This is what we came for, baby.
Seven years.
The wait was all worth it.
MIKE:
So awesome.
I don't know. There's gonna be
some strategy involved
in picking the Fork in the Road
here, but
I think it's gonna be chaotic
'cause we all seem
to be very bunched up right now.
I think that we're both similar
in the fact
that we are go-getters.
And I think that's where
our similarities end,
because Alyssa is brilliant
in everything she does.
She was the first person
in our class
to pass the national board exa.
She was a D1 soccer player.
She just does everything
exceptionally well.
And I am the clown
to her genius.
ALYSSA:
I need someone
to balance me out.
I'm here to win.
We're here to win.
But we have to have fun, too.
And if we don't,
then what's the point?
Theme of the day is footraces?
JOSIAH:
Yeah. Footraces on footraces.
Almost there!
- Aah!
- Little more!
[shouting]
Oh, my God!
Yes!
You did it!
[crying]
LAUREN:
When I got that clue in my han,
something just happened
in my whole soul
that I will never
be able to explain.
You did it!
[sobbing]
It was myAmazing Race moment.
It's what I came here for.
[cheering, applause]
Thank you. Thank you.
[cries]
- We're getting back
on the ferry?
- Yup.
I'll carry this.
You've earned it.
Taxi!
Taxi.
Hi. Can you take us here?
"Lock Khan" Street Park?
Okay.
[groans]
JACK:
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Mike, let's go.
CARSON:
Fork in the Road.
Right there, Nick.
- Grab it?
- Yup.
- Go.
- Okay.
- Fork in the Road!
- All right.
"You have reached the Fork
in the Road. Dance or Sing."
We're dancing, we're dancing.
The Fork in the Road
changed everything.
Doubled the stakes,
doubled the eliminations.
NICK:
We were going up
against six other teams
because
of this Fork in the Road,
and that just
took the level of competition,
- like, that much higher.
- Yeah.
It's, like, you're halfway
down the race, legs-wise,
but in the very first leg.
- Yeah. Dance.
- All right.
-Let's do the dance.
I feel like you can teach me.
-Okay.
Let's go.
JACK:
Carson is, like,
a trained dancer.
I was in a Broadway play called
The Inheritance,
which won a Tony Award.
- You know where you're going?
- Yup.
"Take a taxi to Jao Tsung."
-Fork in the Road.
Dance or Sing.
-Dance or Sing.
We're gonna sing.
ALYSSA: When we got there, thee
was actually no teams listed
on the singing side, so it made
that decision
really easy for us.
JOSIAH:
Sing our ass off. Tell you that.
- Do you want
to do Dance or Sing?
- Dance. Dance.
Dance?
Okay, we're gonna do Dance.
The other option was singing,
and it was in another language.
So, just, automatically,
I was like, "Thank you, next."
- Okay.
- Okay.
We're definitely dancing
because I'm a very
strong dancer.
-BERNIE: We're dancing.
Let's do it.
-[Carrigain screams]
We're gonna dance!
BERNIE:
We're dancing. Let's go.
JOSIAH:
Tea House Theatre. Yeah.
- There it is.
- Here we are.
KEOGHAN:
Cantonese opera
is a symphony of emotions.
A captivating blend of music,
drama, elaborate costumes
and intricate makeup.
On the Sing route,
after being made up
and dressing for the occasion,
teams must learn how to perform
and sing lines
from a Cantonese opera.
Coming up
with the right movement
and proper pronunciation
could be overwhelming.
But if they can act the part,
they'll be rewarded with a clue
and can go to the Pit Stop.
[singers hold note]
- ALYSSA: Hi. Hello.
- MAN: Hi. Hello.
ALYSSA:
"Choose any available
Cantonese opera teacher."
- She looks so enthusiastic.
- Okay. Okay.
Ah!
ALYSSA:
I'm gonna have makeup
- like them?
- Yes.
Okay. This is so cool.
When we got there,
we pretty quickly realized
it wasn't just singing.
Wow.
Oh, my gosh. This is so cool.
- Okay. Let's go.
- JOSIAH: Thank you. We're there.
- "Duen" is you.
- Okay.
- "Sing yin saan."
- Yeah.
"Dung Ting."
[singing in Cantonese]
Okay. I think
we're getting this.
NICK:
Let's dance, baby, let's go.
Middle zone. This way.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you, sir.
- Let's go.
- NICK: We're here, Mike.
Who wants to teach us?
You, you, you.
- This guy. Let's go.
- Yeah.
Oh, my goodness. Hi.
Okay, who wants to work with us?
- Yes. Yes.
- Let's go you.
It takes two to lion dance.
One to lift the head
and interact with the crowd,
the other to wear the tail
and sometimes
to lift their partner.
This mesmerizing fusion
of athleticism,
tradition and symbolism
epitomizes Chinese culture.
On the Dance route,
teams must bring a lion to life
by learning
a choreographed routine.
Once Master So says
that they're in sync,
he'll hand them a clue,
sending them to the Pit stop.
INSTRUCTOR:
Who want to be the head?
Uh, he's the head.
You're the head.
Okay, great.
These pants are fresh.
MIKE:
Basically, you had to
put on
this lion's head
with a lion's tail.
[speaking Chinese]
- Okay, so, do, do, do,
then da, da, da?
- Yes. Yes. Yes.
MIKE:
And you had to memorize,
like, a classic,
traditional lion dance.
Left to the right?
- Got you.
- Oh. So, right to the left.
JACK:
We got this, Car.
HAN: Dance or Sing?
I think we can do Sing
because we know Vietnamese.
- I think so, too.
- Let's do it.
HAN:
We choose Sing.
- We have to do Dance.
- We're doing Dance.
We can't "pronunciate"
the street signs, much less,
you know, music.
Dance, dance.
JASMIN:
Excuse me.
Would you be able to get us
to Lok Kwan State Park?
Lok Kwan?
Courtney, where's the paper?
- It's raining. The-the
- Whoa. What?
We got to show them something,
'cause there's
a language barrier.
- Obviously, we're dancing.
- We're singing.
- We're singing?
- Wait.
I'm-I'm a dancer,
and we met dancing.
And that would have been
the obvious choice.
But there were a lot of teams
that had chosen dance.
Strategy-wise,
two teams are going home.
We can't be the last team on
either challenge.
Let's go.
Hi. Could you get us
to Lok Kwan?
- I have order.
- You have a pickup. Okay. Okay.
All right, Lord,
you got to send us a taxi.
Okay. Fork in the Road.
I think we can do Dance.
Dance better than any of them.
They're gonna go Dance,
so we go Sing.
- BRETT: Bam, baby. Let's go.
- MARK: Good job, guys.
- ERIKA: Come here, Mom.
- Okay.
ERIKA:
We are gonna choose Sing.
- MELINDA: All right.
- ERIKA: All right, let's go.
Could you get us here?
Lok Kwan Street Park?
Okay.
Would you rather dance or sing?
- I think I'd rather
- Sing, right?
- POPS: Let's sing.
- JEFF: Yeah.
Cause we can't dance
for anything.
- Come on.
- There we go. We sing.
JEFF:
Come on. Let's go, Pops.
SCOTT:
Scott and Lori.
- Here we go.
- We're gonna sing.
Okay. All right.
- Well
- It's okay.
No, it doesn't feel okay.
Well, it's out of our control
is what I mean, though.
- Okay?
- What in the world?
It's okay.
Can you take us here?
Oh, um, right here.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you.
So I guess
that's why we were given
- the Chinese.
- The Mm-hmm.
COURTNEY:
And so, that was just like,
"Oh, look
at the additional information."
And it has
the Chinese spelling of it.
And when they were
reading the words, I guess
- It didn't make sense.
- Mm-mmm.
We are nurses.
We're both used to,
-you know,
getting things right,
-Mm.
like, the first time.
COURTNEY:
we met at Duke School of Nursig
ten long years ago.
And that's where
our journeys began.
First as friends,
and then, now,
of course, as girlfriends.
I would love for us
to, like, seal our bond.
But we're also not wanting
to rush things.
We're not U-Hauling it.
You know what I mean?
I mean, we have
moved in together, but
I see Jasmin
as my forever partner.
Big sigh.
- Big, big sigh.
- Big sigh.
In here. I think we enter here.
Tea House.
- [singing]
- [band playing]
Backstage.
- Hi.
- ANA: Who's fast? Who's fast?
Okay, follow me, follow me.
- Tea House Theatre.
- There's the entrance. There.
HAN:
Hi!
Sure. Ah.
-HAN: Let's do it.
-BRIDGET: Dad, put on
Hurry up.
JOSIAH:
We just tried
to play to our strength,
which is singing.
I mean, we karaoke
the hell out of
any bar that serves Yuengling.
If you go to a karaoke bar
any given Thursday night,
we might be there, so,
we can sing.
- [band begins playing]
- [singing]
[buzzer sounds]
There's not enough Yuengling
in the world
to make this sound good.
ALYSSA:
But I think we were close.
[singing]
Left to the right?
Oh, so right to the left?
- We're going
in the left direction.
- To the left.
JACK: We got this, Car.
It's time to dance!
Let's go.
Girl, I hope
we're the first ones here.
Dad, look.
Do you want me to do the front?
- Yeah, you do the front.
- I'm gonna be the front.
Hi!
Who's the best dancer?
- Let's go. Right here.
- Okay.
There was three or four teams
already there,
so that was a little
nerve-racking. Like, "Oh,
"my gosh, there's teams already
here. We got to figure it out,
we got to figure it out,
we got to hurry, got to hurry."
- This is mine?
- Yeah.
Yeah, we're good.
We have been together
for ten years,
and married for about four.
MARK: And we're performers
on the Las Vegas Strip.
- BRETT: On the Las Vegas Strip.
I'm a dancer. I've danced
in a lot of different shows.
BRETT:
And I'm withKÀ
by Cirque du Soleil.
I work on some
very dangerous equipment,
- and I have to be on my toes.
- MARK: And then, like,
I don't know
what I'm gonna do every night.
Everything changes
every single night.
I work in a
It's practically a circus.
- So I feel like
we're prepared to do anything.
- Yeah.
Have fun, breathe,
listen to the music.
- This. This. Yeah.
- There's that one big pause.
- Should we try it?
- I'm ready to go.
- All right, let's try it.
- I'm ready to go. Yeah.
CARSON:
We decided not
to practice for very long.
I think we are gonna learn best
in that room
with the full production.
♪
[buzzer sounds]
- Outside.
- Okay.
CARSON: The steps themselves
were pretty easy for me,
but it was connecting
those steps to this rhythm
and the instruments that I thik
was the trickier bit.
- We're waiting for the "da"
to then go
- Right.
♪
No good.
- What's wrong?
- Your problem is no teamwork.
MIKE:
It's the teamwork. Yeah. Him?
Yeah. Yes.
COURTNEY:
Oh.
Let's let's dance.
We saw Nick and Mike
had selected dance.
- JASMIN: Mm-hmm.
- And then Mark and Larry.
-This is probably the side,
-Mm-hmm.
you know,
where we could get ahead.
- We're choosing Dance.
- Yeah.
- JASMIN: Oh, we look so lovely.
- We do.
SCOTT: Xiqu Centre.
Oh, perfect job, Tom.
Let's go. Up the steps.
LORI: Okay. Tea what, Scott?
SCOTT:
Tea House Theatre. Backstage.
[band playing]
[singing]
Too fast?
- Thank you. Thank you. Sorry.
- ALYSSA: Thank you.
[band playing]
[singing]
Okay. Thank you.
Tough judge. Tough judge.
SCOTT:
We got this, babe.
LORI:
Yeah, we do.
Scott, tell 'em
what you did in college.
I was a cheerleader.
- HAN: Oh, my gosh. Slay.
- SCOTT: Yeah.
HAN:
Hopefully, my parents'
investment in Vietnamese school
translates into
the phonetic soundings
of Cantonese and opera singing.
[laughs]
- I'm feeling exhilarated.
- [laughs]
Something about being out here
on the water.
We want to win. We want to
We want to be able to do that.
We want to experience life.
LAUREN: Tortoise and the hare.
Never forget that story.
MARK:
The last time I did a dance
is when I had a snake
underneath me.
- Yeah.
- [clears throat]
- That was called
the chicken dance.
- Yeah.
- Chick, chick, chick, chick.
- Aah! Aah! Aah!
"Get him off of me.
Get him off of me." [laughs]
This is it.
All right.
- Okay, so, first.
- MAN: Yeah.
Second. Up.
- MAN: Yeah.
- Okay.
- Left.
- Bend, squat.
Ooh! Look like
some good dancers.
Are you a good instructor?
'Cause we're dumb.
[laughs]
Okay.
♪
[buzzer sounds]
Mm
- No good.
- NICK: No?
What-what was it?
-
SO: More practice.
NICK: More practice.
Oh, correct!
- Yes! Yes!
- Yes! Thank you.
JACK:
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
- thank you!
- Yes! Thank you!
- Okay, let's go. Let's go.
- Okay, let's rip it.
Okay. "Race to the Pit Stop."
KEOGHAN:
This is Hong Kong's
newest city park.
A serene oasis,
enticing visitors
to immerse themselves
in this vibrant cultural quartr
of Hong Kong.
And for the first time
in Amazing Racehistory,
this is where two parallel races
will end at the Pit Stop.
The last team to arrive
at the Cantonese Upper route
and the lion dance route
will be eliminated.
All right, let's go.
- We keep the pants?
- We keep the pants.
Got it. Let's go.
We travel by taxi.
We got to beat these boys.
They're gonna be
two seconds behind us, I think.
Oh, yeah. There's the sign.
Jao Tsung "one" Academy.
JACK:
Oh, my God, I'm so tired.
JEFF: All right, there you go,
we're here.
- Come on. Let's go, Pops.
- All right.
Teahouse Theatre?
Mom, just keep walking.
[band playing]
[singing]
Walk slower, softer. Okay.
SCOTT:
Apparently in this culture,
they're looking
- for dainty.
- And that is not me.
Lori is not dainty.
Dainty. Dainty.
[both singing]
You got to hold me.
You got to hold my hip.
Ugh. God, that's tough.
- Just follow him.
- I can do that.
- It's a good job.
- Yes.
- Yes!
- Congratulations.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you, guys. Thank you.
- Thank you. Awesome.
Thank you, everybody.
Okay, let's go.
Hi. Thank you.
My calves are cramping.
- Aah!
- You got it. Yeah.
- All right.
- Bow.
- Just bow. Just bow.
- Remember, bow. It's simple.
- Just talk to me
while I'm doing it.
- All right.
- Just-just just take
- Talk to me while I'm doing it.
All right, take a deep breath.
MIKE:
I think my nerves were starting
to get the best of me.
Every team that goes by is just,
like, making you more crazy
in your head, thinking like,
-"Are we gonna get
through this?" -Yeah.
Too slow. Too fast.
NICK:
We need to keep
our stress level down
because it affected us.
Just speak to me, please!
I need to know.
- You got to wait for that beat.
- No, you don't wait for it.
I got to be ahead of it.
NICK:
You got it. Just calm down.
Calm down. Stay calm.
- Man, this is hard.
- You got it, you got it.
Simplify it. Simplify it
in your head, all right?
- Bow, lift, motion, all right?
- Okay.
Chunk it. You got it. Let's go.
- Oh, that's it.
- [bell dings]
- Yeah!
- Oh!
Thank you.
- Damn.
- Forget it.
- Congratulations.
- BRIDGET: Okay, let's get it.
ERNEST:
All right. "Keep pants on."
Let's go.
Good job.
- Yes! Yes! Let's go.
- Yeah! Let's go!
- Okay. Congratulations.
- We are not dancers.
Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you.
NICK:
[exhales] Let's go.
Aw.
I Hold on.
I'm blanking right now.
We knew that whoever
was the last team on either side
of the Fork in the Road
was gonna be eliminated.
And we know we fell behind, but
- we just kept saying
"never give up."
- Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh. I'm trying so hard.
[singing]
Do this, just like this.
This is my childhood dream, man.
WOMAN:
You want to be a female
or a male?
- A male.
- Male?
Yeah.
And then your father
will be the female actor.
Oh. Thank you.
So you look beautiful, Pops.
[laughing]
JEFF:
We started looking around,
and that was when we first
realized that only six teams
have made it here
for this Fork in the Road.
Knowing that
that team hadn't showed up yet
was cushion for us.
[sounding out Cantonese words]
[singing]
ERIKA: Okay.
This is really, really hard.
- [band playing]
- [singing]
Yeah!
Thank you, thank you.
- Thank you so much.
- Very good.
- Fast. Yeah.
- They got it, they got it.
"Race to the Pit stop."
ALYSSA:
Let's go.
- Thank you. Bye.
- Thank you.
- [band playing]
- [singing]
Nah.
ANA: So frustrating.
- Let's sing! [laughs]
- That's us.
We're gonna sing.
- I'm so happy about that.
- I know.
LAUREN:
Yes. We love to sing.
- CARSON: Yes!
- [Jack whoops]
- Yes!
- Come on!
- Yeah!
- Yes. Here we go.
BOTH:
Welcome to Hong Kong.
-Thank you so much.
-Thank you. Thank you.
It's amazing.
I am pleased to tell you
you are the first to complete
- the lion dance.
- Yes!
- Yes!
And you have won
$3,000!
- Oh, my God.
- Oh!
- Yes!
- Oh, my God.
JACK:
The self-doubt
creeps in the first leg, right?
You're like,
"How do I compare to everyone?"
I think everyone came in
with such big arms.
And we came in with big
- Hopes.
- hopes and dreams.
You should be really proud.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you, Phil.
Congratulations.
- Oh, my God!
- Yes.
[whoops]
Brett and Mark,
I am pleased to tell you
that you are the second team
Yes! Yes! Oh, my God.
to have completed
the lion dance
and arrive at the mat.
♪
- [buzzer sounds]
- [clapping]
Yeah.
- Okay.
- Let's go.
All right, but we're close.
JASMIN [whispering]:
Please be right.
Congratulations.
- Yes!
- Oh!
- Thank you.
- Okay?
All right, come on.
We got to go, we got to go.
Okay. Got it.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
We got to find a taxi.
Congratulations.
- Yes!
- Oh, we did awesome!
- LARRY: Yeah!
- MARK: Yeah.
All right. Thank you.
Thank you. Let's go.
We get dressed on the way.
- [band playing]
- [singing]
[applause]
[laughs] Hi. Thank you.
Xiè xi.[laughs]
NICK:
Taxi? Excuse me.
Where can I get a taxi?
- Taxi! Taxi!
- Taxi. Taxi!
- Taxi. Stop him, stop him!
- Yeah, he's not letting me.
Please don't let them
come out until we get our taxi.
- Thank y'all. Thank you.
- Thank you, man.
Taxi!
Please, God.
Oh, my goodness.
This is torture.
There's one more team
left behind us,
- and we're trying to get there.
- And we need to get our taxi.
Oh, they're
Oh, my God. They're out.
Taxi!
KEOGHAN: Ernest and Bridget,
you are the third team
- What?! No.
- [whoops]
- that has arrived here
- from the lion dance.
- Yeah!
Bro. [panting] I'm dying.
We're not giving up right now.
- My calves.
- You're good.
- I see a taxi.
- Where are you going?
Mike.
COURTNEY:
Taxi. Come on, Jazzy.
- JASMIN: Come on, guys.
- Come on, come on, come on.
- JASMIN: Give him the paper,
give him the paper.
- Okay.
MIKE:
We have to go fast.
We're in a race.
- Oh, hell.
- You got him, buddy.
Bernie and Carrigain,
I'm pleased to tell you that
you are
the fourth team
-that has arrived here from
-BOTH: Hey!
- the lion dance.
- We're not eliminated.
We're not seventh.
That's all I wanted to hear.
Phil!
- KEOGHAN: Oh. Wow.
- ALYSSA: Oh, my gosh. Hi.
- You look beautiful.
- [speaks Chinese]
Welcome to Hong Kong.
[speaks Chinese]
Thank you.
Alyssa and Josiah,
I am pleased to tell you
that you are the first team
- Yes! Oh, my God.
- to arrive here
from the Cantonese Opera,
and you have won
$3,000,
- which you can enjoy
after the race.
- Oh, my God.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
- Thank you. Thank you.
ALYSSA:
Coming in first place
feels really good.
But at the same time, we have
to really have a short memory
and move on from that
really quickly because
we have no idea what's coming
next with these surprises.
MIKE: Thank you. Thank you.
-Wish us luck.
Mike, you got everything?
-Yeah.
- Okay. Okay.
- Here, here, here, here.
Thank you.
MARK:
Yup. There they go.
Yeah, let's go.
MIKE:
Oh, there they are.
Okay.
Where are the stairs?
[Larry grunts] Is that
the east side they're going to?
NICK:
Mike, I got it. Mike!
- [Courtney panting] Coming.
- Come on, love.
- COURTNEY: Okay.
- We got to get up these stairs.
- Come on.
- My knee's not letting me.
We got this.
Come on, Larry.
- NICK: Let's go, let's go.
- MIKE: They're right behind us.
- They're right behind us.
- Go, go!
To the end.
If you think
you have what it takes
to be on The Amazing Race,
then go to cbs.com/casting
and apply now.
- COURTNEY: We got this.
- MIKE: They're right behind us.
- NICK: Let's go, let's go.
- They're right behind us.
- NICK: Let's go!
- To the end.
- [whoops]
Oh, my God.
Come on.
[panting]
I'm just gonna tell you
that you..
are both going to be racing
- in the next leg of the race.
- Let's go!
- You're teams five and six.
- [sighs]
- Great job.
- [Courtney sighs]
Beautiful.
- KEOGHAN: Come on in, guys.
- NICK: I'm proud of you.
- Proud of you.
- [Jasmin sighs]
- [Courtney cries]
I'm so sorry to tell you
that you are
the last team to arrive
from the lion dance
and, unfortunately,
you have been eliminated
from the race.
Hey, we had a hell of a time.
Hell, thing about Mark--
no matter
- I knew he was gonna cry first.
- [laughs]
Yes!
- It's okay. I'm a crier, too.
- LARRY: Yes!
- You pick up the phone.
- [laughs]
You never know
who's gonna be there.
I know he will be.
And that's a
- That's what a brother is.
- That's it.
Because we had this gift,
once-in-a-lifetime,
to be on The Amazing Race,
we got to come here.
- Yeah.
- I mean, this is
- Look at this.
- Yeah.
We-We've been playing
in this all day.
- Look at this.
- Yup.
We're in Hong Kong.
This is beautiful.
Enjoyed it, guys. Bye.
- [whoops]
- Gave it a run.
All right.
[singing]
Okay, I think we got this.
How'd you get over there?
Let's start over.
I'm sorry. I--
We gonna get it.
- Okay.
- [singing]
JEFF: It wasn't just singing.
It wasn't just about what
you were saying.
It was about the moves, too.
I do this.
Okay. Don't do no bouncing
like what we would normally do.
Okay.
- You ready to try it?
- Yeah, I'm ready to try it.
Let's get it. Let's get it.
I'm ready.
JEFF:
And I'm realizing,
stiffen up, just do it
the Chinese way.
Do it the way that
they showed us to do it.
- [band playing]
- [singing]
We got it? Yes!
POPS: All right. All right!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
All right, all right. Yeah.
Thank you.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Let's go, Pops.
- Let's go.
- All right. All right.
- The hardest one
we thought was gonna
- Thank you.
-Thank you.
-Man, thank you.
Thank you. Y'all just
LORI: Stiff.
JEFF:
Come on, Pops.
- Yes! Thank you!
- Oh, thank you.
- Oh, my goodness.
- Thank you so much.
[Scott and Lori whoop]
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Good? Yay!
Thank you.
All right, Mom, let's do it.
Oh, and that's it, right there?
- Whoa.
- Wow.
- We're here. Okay.
- Okay. What's it say?
"Make your way
to The Tea House Theatre"?
"Make your way
to The Tea House"
Walk on the grass, but
Hi. Can you tell me
where Kowloon Culture District
Art Park Terrace is?
Yeah.
Race towards it?
- Turn left and see it?
- Yeah.
Okay. Okay. Thank you.
- MELINDA: Are we sure
we had seven teams?
- Yeah.
- Crap.
- Should have done dance.
- Mom, you got to quit.
- No. I mean, why
did we didn't look in?
ERIKA:
Do not even.
Taxi! Taxi! Stop, stop, stop.
Hey, hey! There we go.
All right. My man!
We need to go
to the West Kowloon
Cultural District Art Park.
HOLDEN:
Uh, we want to go here.
Yes. Yes.
HAN:
Okay, thank you.
I don't see the building
he was talking about,
so that's unencouraging
at this point.
Let me see
what's around the corner.
- I don't think
this is the way we go, Mom.
- Up the street.
We don't go this way.
There's just no way.
- We should have asked that guy.
- Yeah, we should have.
- ERIKA: Hey.
- We're screwed now.
Mom, it's okay.
You can't say that.
It's The Amazing Race.
Ah. Ah!
All righty. There we go.
What kind of a day
have you had, guys?
We've been up high, down low.
- It was a day. [laughs]
- KEOGHAN: Yeah?
- Here's what you should
be feeling good about.
- ANA: Yes.
You are the second team
to arrive
from the Cantonese opera.
You've actually done very well.
That's not--
that's not good enough.
- That's not good enough.
- Yeah. Yeah. No,
-he-he wanted first.
He wanted first.
-Not good enough.
But it's okay. We're gonna
we're gonna keep hustling.
Yep. [sighs]
I think it's over by the water.
MELINDA:
That's not art anymore
over there.
- This is the art park.
- This is the art parking here.
ERIKA:
Do you want to go that way?
Okay, that's fine.
Well, Scott and Lori,
I am pleased to tell you
that you are the third team
to arrive.
[cheering, overlapping chatter]
And that means, Pops and Jeff,
that means that you are the
fourth team.
- My man.
- Yeah! Yeah!
[whoops]
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
- [whooping]
- Good job, guys.
We're gonna let you tell them
what place they're in.
- All right, hold it.
- Team number
ALL:
Five!
- [whooping]
- Thank God.
Let's go, baby. Good job, guys.
ERIKA:
Great job, Mom. You were right.
MELINDA:
Is there still hope?
We have to go up those stairs.
ERIKA:
You never know.
It still is The Amazing Race.
[sighs]
Here. Come here.
Hi, Phil.
I am pleased to tell you
that you are the sixth team
- No!
- to have completed
the Cantonese opera.
- [Melinda cries]
- You get to race another leg.
- MELINDA: Oh, my God!
- Congratulations.
- We did it.
- I can't believe
you said less.
Great job.
I can't believe
we're still in the race.
That's not even real.
Phil, that's not real.
We are still racing!
- Let's go!
- Oh, my God.
We survived
the Fork in the Road!
[band playing]
[singing]
Oh. Oh!
Aah!
- Very good.
- Thank you!
We're gonna go see Phil.
-Ah!
-We are.
We're gonna go see Phil.
When I think
about why we're doing the race,
our mom wanted to travel
and have a lot
of different adventures,
but was waiting
until she retired.
But unfortunately,
as soon as she retired,
she found out
that she had
Parkinson's disease.
And so, she was never able
to do those adventures.
- Oh. Hello.
- [whooping]
Welcome to Hong Kong.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- KEOGHAN: Jackye and Lauren,
I just loved
seeing your big smiles
at the start
of this Amazing Race.
Unfortunately,
you're the last team to arrive
on this side
of the Fork in the Road--
the Cantonese opera--
and I am sorry to tell you
that you have been eliminated
from the race.
Thank you, Phil.
It has been an absolute honor
to be here.
We will treasure this forever.
When I pass from this Earth,
I want
my tombstone to read,
"I ran The Amazing Race,
Season 37."
- Is that right?
- And that is right.
That's right!
I'm just loving it.
I'm just loving it.
We're still basking in it.
I think, it's basking,
but it's also,
like, our life has changed.
We get to see ourselves
in a different way.
And I-I'm just excited
about the future.
LAUREN:
We gave it our all.
- JACKYE: We did. We really did.
- [Lauren laughs]
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LORI:
Here we go, baby, here we go.
KEOGHAN:
Which teams will pair up?
We didn't know they were here.
- They've already paired up?
- I think so.
And now we wait.
KEOGHAN:
And how will it change the gam?
MARK:
Maybe there's not a way.