(Phil Keoghan) Previously on "The Amazing Race AllStars"...
seven teams continued racing through Sri Lanka.
Dave played traffic cop at the Road Block...
We're in here. Move, move, move!
While Rachel got stuck in a jam.
Green, you have to be here.
You push in here!
(Phil) At the Detour, the Afghanimals battled the Cowboys.
We gotta beat Leo and Jamal.
We gotta beat the Cowboys. Yee-haw!
(Phil) And the Country Singers battled bubbles.
- (both) Bubbles. - This is impossible.
(Phil) - A wild ride to the Pit Stop... Oh, he's trying to pass you!
Eat my dust, Cowboys!
Holy cow.
Set up a footrace for first place...
- We gotta move. - Let's go, Leo! Whoo!
And a win for Leo and Jamal.
You are team number one. (cheering)
Caroline and Jennifer came in last...
And I'm sorry to tell you that you are the last team to arrive.
But sang a happy tune.
This is a non-elimination leg.
(both ohing)
(Phil) - Seven teams remain.
Who will be eliminated next?
We're cooking right now, baby! Whoo!
♪ ♪
(Phil) Sri Lanka is an island nation
off the southeastern coast of India.
Formerly part of the British Empire,
it is home to spectacular colonial buildings like this.
Once the home to British governors,
Mount Lavinia Hotel is now the start of the seventh leg
in a race around the world.
Leo and Jamal won the last leg of the race...
(cheering)
and will depart first at 2:41 p.m.
Thank you, thank you.
"Fly to the Eternal City
and search Hadrian's Bridge for your next clue."
(Phil) Teams must figure out that the Eternal City is Rome, Italy.
Once there, they must make their way
to Hadrian's Bridge where they'll find their next clue.
- Let's go. - Eternal City?
We need to know where the Eternal City is.
(horn honking) Let's go, let's go, let's go!
- Where we going? - I don't know.
"Fly to the Eternal City and search Hadrian's Bridge."
- Sweet. Do you know where the Eternal City is? - It's gotta be Rome.
Hadrian was one of the emperors of Rome.
Taxi. I'm excited.
"Fly to the Eternal City and search Hadrian's Bridge." - Okay, let's go.
It's so fun to, like, wake up and just like eat, sleep, live the race.
- Do you know where that is? - Yeah, I know.
Jess and I are the only team in "Amazing Race" history
to get eliminated holding our Express Pass.
That was devastating,
but this race has given us an opportunity
to redeem ourselves and strengthened us as a couple.
There you go. Thank you.
Can I use your computer? Thank you so much, sir.
I think it's Rome, right? Has to be Rome.
'Cause that's where history first started and stuff.
The gladiators and stuff.
We need to find the quickest way...
Yeah, to Rome, Italy.
Okay.
- Direct flight? - Yes.
What time does it get there?
This is pretty good. I mean, this is direct flight.
We need two tickets to Rome, please.
Yes, on Sri Lankan Airlines.
1:20. That's the earliest flight.
- Book that flight, please. - Sure.
- "Fly to the Eternal City." - Okay, let's go. Taxi!
We need to go to this travel agency.
- You know? - Okay, yes.
All right, let's go to the Eternal City. Whoo!
It's the first time Rachel and I
have not left in last or second to last.
In like three legs.
So now I think we're really ready to turn it up a notch.
It's like the stock market, and our stock is going up.
Where the heck is the Eternal City?
- The Eternal City. - Oh, Ethiopia, Africa. Whoo!
- How do you know that's where Eternal City is? - I don't.
Here we go. "Fly to the Eternal City." - Here we go.
We are about to start our 30th leg
of "The Amazing Race" and we're pretty excited about it.
- Taxi! - We're halfway through the race.
And through the first half, we've been kinda toward the back.
But the last couple days, we really feel like we've ran,
you know, great legs.
We're confident in the way we're racing.
And like we always say, we just have to beat one team.
The Eternal City is Rome.
We are looking right now for another travel agency.
Air tickets, right there?
Pull over, pull over, pull over. Pull over.
Rachel!
- Babe... - What?
Calm down.
- Very sneaky. - Hey, long time no see.
We're going to the same place as them.
We want the same tickets as they have.
We don't normally do this, but USC and UCLA
might just be building a bridge. Yeah.
- We're like Hadrian's Bridge. - We'll break on Hadrian's Bridge.
(laughing)
"Fly to the Eternal City."
Okay, Eternal City. What is that?
Thank you.
We got on the earliest flight we could.
And I think all the teams are gonna be on it, so... With us.
We'll see what happens.
♪ ♪
- How's it going, fellas? - Hey, hey, hey, what's going on?
We're at the airport now picking up our tickets
and everyone's on our flight it seems like.
It's always better to be with everybody on the flight.
So we're all with the pack, we have a Speed Bump coming up.
At least we are on equal playing ground.
It will be fun for everybody.
(Phil) All teams are now making their way to Rome, Italy.
♪ ♪
- Come on. - Brr.
- Whoo! We love Italy! - Rome.
Run, John. We were all on the same flight,
but we were sitting near the front with the Country Singers
and Bren and Rachel and Leo and Jamal.
The Globetrotters, Dave and Connor, and the Cowboys
were all stuck in the back of the plane.
- Go, go, please, sir. - We're racing, we're racing!
- Go, go, go, go, go! - (all shouting)
(all cheering)
It's good to make up time when you can in the airport
because every second counts.
Yeah, can you take us? We're in a race,
so you need to go as fast as you can.
Ponte Sant'Angelo Bridge. Come on, Brendon.
- Ponte Sant'Angelo. - Okay, let's go.
- We're the third team to leave. - Third team to leave.
John and Jessica's ahead of us.
And so is Bren and Rachel.
We are leaving the airport fourth.
The 10 minute lead could be our Speed Bump,
so that's really great for us.
First bus has already left. Dang it.
We're gonna lose a lot of time.
Nothing we can do.
Is this Hadrian's... is this...
That's the bridge? Okay, okay, we're gonna get out.
Ponte Sant'Angelo.
"Detour: 'Gladiator' or 'Charioteer.'"
Built more than 2,000 years ago,
the Colosseum still stands
as an iconic symbol of Ancient Rome.
And in the shadow of this city's most popular tourist attraction,
teams will now get a chance to compete
in two of the most popular spectator sports
during Roman times.
Gladiators once fought to keep the gods happy.
Now teams must learn the sword skills needed
to fight a seasoned gladiator
and keep the crowds happy.
Once they have mastered a series of maneuvers,
they'll be rewarded with their next clue.
Chariot racing was a highlight of Roman sporting events.
Charioteer requires teams to race by remote control,
with one team member controlling the turns
and the other controlling the speed.
Charging around this course,
they must complete five laps
before the flame goes out to receive their next clue.
My inclination is "Gladiator."
I think we can do that. Okay, let's do that.
Let's go back to our cab, then.
- There's a clue box. - Okay.
- Ponte Sant'Angelo. - Okay.
- I say we do horse and chariot. - Yes, horse and chariot!
- "Charioteer." Let's go. - Okay.
"'Gladiator' or 'Charioteer.'"
Let's just do the "Charioteer."
- Oh, my Roman dreams are coming true. - Let's go.
- There's the clue box. - Caroline, hold on.
- Speed Bump. - Oh, here it is.
"Make your way to the Pantheon."
After arriving last in the previous leg,
Caroline and Jennifer must now complete
an extra task called a Speed Bump.
This Speed Bump requires them
to make their way to the Pantheon,
pick up an Olivetti from this antique dealer,
and then find the building it resembles,
the Altare della Patria,
known in Rome as the typewriter.
Once they've properly placed it on this pedestal,
they can continue racing
and try and catch up with the other teams.
Okay, "Make your way to the Pantheon."
Look straight ahead.
It's fun seeing Rome early in the morning.
It's beautiful. Our last race in Italy,
I kinda freaked out on Brendon.
"Amazing Race" is supposed to be fun and good.
It was our worst leg ever. We almost got eliminated.
So now we put that behind us, we're moving on.
I think it's right there. That must be it, right?
The gladiators, yeah.
- Go, go, go. - Hi.
We wanna be gladiators.
Look, there it is. Marked entrance.
- Okay. Okay. - I see it. Thank you.
Brendon and I both had to dress in Ancient Roman costumes.
Which is super cool 'cause we absolutely love dressing up.
Oh, definitely like giant diapers.
That's probably not right.
Why do they help Rachel get dressed
but they don't help the guys?
Somebody gonna help me?
Okay, ready? John, you ready?
- Yeah. - Oh, wow. Looking hot.
- Am I good? - Whoo! Let's go.
- Okay, are you ready to fight? - Okay.
- (both) Yes. - Good.
The first step was we had to meet with somebody
so they could train us on how to defend ourselves against a gladiator.
Head is this.
They went through a sequence basically.
And so, first they're coming down your head,
then they go for your neck, then they go for your legs.
This?
There were a lot of steps to it,
but I personally had done that sort of thing before.
I've done martial arts, you know, growing up,
and took a Tae Kwon Do class in college,
so it came pretty naturally.
Boom, boom, boom.
- Let's do chariot. - Gonna do chariot.
Let's do "Charioteer."
- We're driving horse. - We gotta drive the horses.
Let's go. "Charioteer."
- Okay, let's go. - Come on, Rach.
Little chariots.
These horses are like mini horses.
They're like this big. It's a remote control.
It's like toy car racing almost.
Not what we were expecting.
Choose a chariot and put on line.
Pick a chariot.
Is that the Colosseum?
We have one in Los Angeles where USC Trojans play.
- (cabbie speaking Italian) - (Leo speaking Italian)
Let's go, Leo.
♪ ♪
Go.
All right, babe, come on.
Go, go, go. You need to speed up, babe.
- Slow and steady, babe. - I know, babe, but if you go
too slow, we might not make it before the fire.
You have to race your chariot around the track five times
before the fire goes out.
And as we're racing around the track,
one of us gets to control the speed of the car
and one of us gets to control the turning.
You gotta slow on the turns, Rach. I'm slowing on the curves.
Not too slow.
So it was actually really beneficial
that Brendon and I were there by ourselves
so we could kind of work out all the kinks.
'Cause you kinda need practice, like, when you need to go fast
and when you need to go slow and when you need to steer
around the rocks.
- Fire's out. - Oh, my God.
We were about one lap short, which means we need to go faster.
- Ahh! - The gladiators are here!
This isn't real horses.
- Hello. - Hello, Princess.
Is this the Pantheon up here?
- That's probably him parked outside. - Okay, thank you.
Hi. We need an Olivetti. Olivetti.
This? Okay.
Okay.
Okay, so we just need to pick up-- is it heavy?
- Yeah, it's heavy. - I can hold it.
- Okay. - We just gotta figure out where to take it.
- Okay. Thank you. - Thank you.
Do you know of a museum that looks like an Olivetti?
We had to take it to a building that looked like a typewriter.
Well, of course, we don't know anything around here.
It was heavy.
I mean, my guns are like burning up now.
Where is that?
- Can we walk down to it? - Yeah.
(grunts)
No, Jess, you don't use the shield.
He said--
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah! Are we ready now? Can we try against him?
- Whoo! - All right, we're good. Let's do it.
We gotta remember the sequence.
In the first sequence, always use your sword.
The second sequence, use your shield.
Look who we have to fight.
What?! We have to fight that guy?
I can't watch.
I'm so scared. Is he gonna really hurt us?
(trumpet fanfare)
Yeah. Yeah!
(both yelling)
(booing)
Only knife.
Come on. Only the sword the first time.
I was shocked and intimidated
by the brute force of the gladiator
and I folded under pressure and used my shield
rather than my sword.
When that happened, it was game over.
He didn't do the right movements,
you have to start over.
Okay. Yup, yup.
- Okay? - Okay.
Slow down, Rach.
Rach, you gotta slow me down.
- Leo, don't go full throttle. - Poor guy.
Hey. - (Laughing)
- Uh-oh. Brandon, don't run into-- - Oh, God.
- Penalty! - Romans down, Roman down.
We're stuck. Try not to knock into each other.
There goes Dave and Connor.
We have to get this done before this other team gets in here.
With three, it's gonna be like frickin' crazy. I know, it's gonna be chaos.
- Exactly. - Especially when there's more teams there,
you're gonna keep crashing. Start again.
We should have done the other one.
Okay. Ready?
I wanna go first. Okay, you can do it.
(gong bangs) - Let's go, Jess!
(both yelling)
You had to be really theatrical
'cause it was kind of a performance as well.
So, like, you had to really be aggressive.
And that's kind of funny 'cause I feel like I'm like
the least intimidating person out there.
- (yelling continues) - You can do it!
So it was kind of cool to be like the angry gladiator.
You just feel like a badass.
(yelling continues)
Yeah, before you got murdered by the gladiator.
Yeah, you have to die. That is kind of funny.
Ahh!
(both yelling)
(booing)
No.
Go.
- I used my shield. - John!
♪ ♪
- Is there enough time for five laps? - Leo.
- Rachel, turn-- - Ah!
- All right, Dad, ready? - You gotta slow on the turns, Rach.
Oh, there's another two coming.
Dude, we're not gonna finish if all these people are here.
- You wanna switch? - What are we gonna do?
- You wanna just go? - Look what we got here.
Let's go, man.
- What do you say? - Let's go.
We're gonna go do the gladiator.
All right, guys, have fun.
Trying to get five perfect laps was almost impossible.
And by this time, other teams are arriving.
We see Dave and Connor and now the Globetrotters.
We had to make an executive decision right on the spot.
And we're like, dude, we have to change. We have to leave.
- (speaking Italian) - Sorry, no speak English.
That's Italian.
Oh, my gosh.
Go, Flight. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Keep 'em going, keep 'em going.
That's okay. Full throttle ahead.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh!
You don't have the most control over those chariots.
So the more teams that came to the Detour,
the harder it got.
- How many are we at? - I think that was four.
One more.
It was hard enough to navigate around the rocks.
So once everybody started showing up,
it became more difficult because now I had to navigate around all the other teams.
- Keep it going, keep it going. - Rach.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. - Oh, come on!
That was an accident.
Golly!
- It's a race, guys. - Jeez.
We were just about to finish our fifth lap
and Brendon and Rachel slammed right into us.
- It's over. - Got a little wild out there.
Yeah, we were there.
Cowboys are here.
They're going to sabotage each other.
Should we just switch Detours?
No need to stress. Just work together.
Brendon and I were actually really getting fed up
because we had been there for so long.
We were the first team there.
- Go. - Throttle.
And then Dave and Connor got there
and then the Globetrotters got there and then the Cowboys got there.
And it was just complete chaos.
- Oh, dude. - Come on, babe.
Sweetie, I love you. There's no way.
Do you wanna just switch? Are you serious?
- Brendon, what are we gonna do? - Brake it.
What the hell? It's impossible.
This is so frustrating.
Rach, what do you want to do?
We need to decide. We don't have a lot of time.
We have to work together on this and we have to get this.
- Rach, let's just switch. - Brendon, let's just focus.
- Let's just do this. - Okay.
- Start again. - We got it, Dad.
- Slow and steady. - Ready... go.
Go, go, go.
Keep her going, keep her going.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Flight, Flight.
Back it up, back it up. Cord, back it up.
- Yeah. - You gotta slow down, dude.
- What a ride, what a ride! - Now go.
Go, we're getting straightaway.
Well, it has to be that big thing.
That's looks like the typewriter.
- The white thing. - Okay.
You're probably gonna have to hold this for a little bit.
- Yeah. - You got it?
Is that a column?
Let's try this.
- This is it. - Okay, good work.
Hi. Okay, Olivetti.
Thank you.
Do you wanna do chariot? Yeah, chariot.
- We're gonna do chariot. - Okay, let's get a taxi. Taxi!
We're in a big rush.
- Come on, John! - (yelling)
That Detour, you know, made you kinda imagine yourself
back in that time period.
And if you actually were a gladiator
fighting in front of thousands of people to the death, wow,
that would have been intense.
Let's go, Jess!
(yelling)
That's gotta be good.
- Yeah! - We did it!
- Holy cow! - Yeah, we did it!
Thank you.
"Make your way to the piazza di John Keats' unhappy Roman Holiday."
(Phil) Teams must figure out that they'll need to make their way
to the Piazza Di Spagna,
the location of English poet John Keats' former home,
where they'll find their next clue.
- Okay, let's go get dressed. - All right, let's go.
Whoo-hoo!
We're going-- We don't know where it is.
"Make your way to the piazza di John Keats' unhappy Roman Holiday."
Plaza, yes, I know, but we need the piazza.
Plaza.
- John Keats. - No.
No piazza?
Are you sure, Sandro? Okay.
We trust you. We gotta get first place.
- Easy, Cord. - Keep going, keep going.
The chariot race is crazy.
There was like rocks and you really had to watch out
for all the other racers that were driving around like Sri Lankans.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Back it up, back it up.
Our charioteer, he had a terrible day.
I mean, he was a real person, um, he'd definitely would have
been on his way to the emergency room.
And he probably would've died, to be honest with you.
We just can't drive. It's hard.
You got to the point where you were just crashing
into each other's chariots and they were just imploding.
Horses were flying everywhere.
Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down.
Flight, Flight, Flight, Flight, what you doing?
Slow down, Rach. Rach.
- That was four. Keep going. - You are out of control with this thing.
Babe, it's Ancient Rome, they fall off their chariots all the time.
- Careful on these turns. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, Connor.
Whoa, whoa. Shoot.
Back up, back up, back up. I can't back up.
- Dang it. - Go, go, go. Speed, speed, speed, speed.
Come on, speed! Speed!
That was five! Whoo!
"Make your way to the piazza of John Keats'
unhappy Roman Holiday and search for your next clue."
All right, let's go. Come on, Brendon.
- Right here, Leo. - Oh, yeah.
Charge! (Yelling)
Ooh, look at the girls.
I'm doing it for Marcus Aurelius.
Piazza of John Keats.
Thank you.
- The Country girls. Shoot. - Hey, let's roll.
- Watch that rock. - Ooh.
- That was a big rock. - We're good, we're good, we're good, we're good.
This is four, one more and we're done.
Not much.
Straighten 'er out.
Straight-- straighten 'er out.
- Near home. - The home stretch.
Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on!
(cheering)
- The both finished. - Thank you so much.
- "Search for your next clue." - Let's roll.
Head. Neck.
Legs. Other side.
- Stomach. - Ahh!
Okay, let's go. We're ready. Vamanos.
- Let's go. - I do this for you.
- (women giggling) - I like her.
- Oh, we get real swords. - We're gonna fight this guy?
This guy is huge.
(both laughing)
I don't want to die. I'm too young.
Run, Jamal, run! (Laughing)
I am ready.
(both yelling)
(booing)
Ow! My knee!
Come on, go back, go back.
(laughing) Back to school?
This guy was like from that era.
He's flexing his chest, he spitting.
He's kicking us in the ass like we didn't know anything.
Are we gonna go again?
Come on. We got this.
Go, go.
Hit it, hit it.
Once the Cowboys and Dave and Connor left,
that gave us a little more room and not run into so many people.
That's it. That's it. That's five.
You know, we hit it right then and there.
"Search for your next clue." Let's go, baby.
Oh, wait, wait! These shoes hurt.
We did one lap around with the Globetrotters
and they got it and they were out.
So we were by ourselves.
- (both laughing) - Oh, God.
- Sorry. - (sighs)
- John Keats' piazza? - Yeah.
I don't think he's going the right direction.
Piazza, John Keats.
Okay.
Hey, if we go out this leg, I had a great time with you.
I've had a great time with you.
Our state of mind was, we're eliminated.
Like, there's no way.
So we thought, you know what, let's just have fun with it.
We're in Rome. We're doing some crazy car racing.
We're just gonna kind of embrace it.
Might as well have a good time, you know?
No need to get stressed here.
- Whoa! - Ahh! Reverse, reverse.
Oh, Hercules, man. Whoo! (Laughing)
We were taking forever with that challenge,
but we didn't feel bad for our warrior guy at all.
We knew he could handle it.
The horses were fine, that's all we cared about.
- Yeah. - Who cares about the man?
Okay, come on, babies.
Let's go!
Go, go, go.
- (yells) - We did it!
Oh, God! Thank God! Oh, my gosh.
- Thank you! - Holy cow!
- Thank you! - Okay.
"Search for your next clue."
- Okay. See ya. - Okay. Bye.
You think it's up here, Sandro?
Piazza of John Keats.
So our taxi driver drives us instead of to
"piazza John Keats," it says "via John Keats."
So it's John Keats Road.
It's definitely not the right place.
It's like this apartment complex.
- We say piazza. - It doesn't look right.
It's an apartment building.
Rome only street. No piazza.
Is this the piazza-- - Yeah, stop right here. Stop, stop, stop.
Thank you.
"Road Block."
"Who can sum up the Spanish Steps?"
♪ ♪
These are the Spanish Steps,
the widest steps in Europe.
They were made famous by Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn
in the movie "Roman Holiday."
This Road Block requires teams to count these marble steps,
making sure not to mistake the sidewalk for the first step
and add that number to the Roman numerals,
on the Obelisco Sallustiano,
indicating the year it was erected.
Using a postcard from the chestnut vendor,
they'll then need to write total in Roman numerals.
Once they've made their calculation,
they must show it to the couple, and if they're happy,
they'll receive their next clue.
Okay, I'm gonna do this.
You can do it, Boo!
You can do this, babe, I believe in you!
You're amazing!
Let's start with the obelisk.
So in this task, you had to find the obelisk
on the the top of the Spanish steps
and find out what year it was erected.
While you had to take that and figure out what number that was
in an alpha-numeric value,
and then you had to count up the number of Spanish Steps
in the actual, full staircase, and add that to the number.
And when you got that number in alpha-numeric values,
you had to convert it back into Roman numerals.
It sounds confusing because it was.
"Obelisk Sallustiano."
Which year was the obelisk put up here, erected?
I don't know. You don't know? Okay. Grazie.
Brendon's a math guy. He could totally do accounting.
He's like a physicist. He's a genius.
Brendon and I need to switch it up from the back up the pack
to the front of the pack.
Yah! Yah! (Swords clinking)
(both grunting)
(booing)
Yah! Damn it!
(Leo) Every time we fell, we had to go back,
but it was fun-- we were having a blast.
Like, we completely forgot we were in a race
and we lost track of time.
- (shouts indistinctly) - I love this.
I felt like a kid.
You watch all these movies and everything,
and you're growing up wishing, like,
"If I was like Russell Crowe in 'Gladiator',"
or, "If I was like Brad Pitt in 'Troy'."
We really played the part.
We were like, "This is Rome!"
(imitating Schwarzenegger) This is the gladiators!
(both grunting)
Hyah! Aaagh!
Nooooo!
Aaaah...
Don't do it!
I will kill you.
I shall take the arena and avenge my friend's death!
I watched all four seasons of "Spartacus."
- Hyuh! - Yah!
(both grunting and shouting)
Yeah!
Come on, Roman!
(shouting indistinctly)
Yeah! Yeah!
(both grunting)
We got it! Yeah! (crowd cheering)
- Yeah. - Thank you.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Long live Rome.
Let's go. Yeah, it says John Keats.
Thank you, King!
♪ ♪
(Brendon) So I ran up the stairs
and the first thing I did was look for the obelisk.
I was more concerned about finding out the correct date
that the obelisk was actually erected.
Do you know what year this obelisk was erected here?
It's written there.
What-- what year is that?
1789.
- 1789. - '89.
"M" is 1,000.
Oh, that's an "M"? Oh, okay.
An "M." Don't you see there's an "M"?
- Oh, in the middle? - Yeah.
- Okay. - 50 plus 30.
That's 80. Plus 5 is 85.
- Plus 4, 89. - Thanks.
I appreciate it. Grazie, signore.
Total number of steps.
(Connor) Piazza...
"A set of steps in Rome, Italy."
That's where we need to go, Dad.
It's the Spanish Steps, we hope.
- Find it. - You did?!
- Spanish Steps... - Ohh!
(Country Singers cheer)
The clue is sending us to the Spanish Steps.
So that's where we're headed.
Okay, what are you looking for, Sandro?
What are you doing?
We just need to get to a hotel and do our own research,
or we're done for.
We were like, "Let's just get out of this taxi."
It's hurting us more than helping us."
Okay, so now we've got to find a hotel as quickly as possible.
- Um... - Is there a hotel nearby?
- Hotel? - Hotel?
What's the best way to find a hotel?
I don't know. If we can't find Internet,
we can't find anything, so...
I feel like I'm having an Unhappy Roman Holiday.
♪ ♪
I see a hotel.
Excuse us, we have an emergency.
Can we use your computer, please?
(woman) - Okay!
This is pretty sad that we haven't figured this one out.
You think it's taking other people his long?
I don't know, it doesn't matter-- let's just get there.
♪ ♪
- This is the Piazza? - Piazza.
(Connor) I see it, I see it, I see it, I see it.
Where's the clue box?
I don't know. It's a roadblock.
Yeah, but where's the clue box?
The clue box is over there.
There's no clue box. There is a clue box.
She's just not telling us. Yeah, there has to be.
It's a roadblock. She's screwing with us.
I didn't tell 'em where it was
and I didn't tell 'em where it wasn't.
But I pointed them in the right direction,
so, technically, they should be thanking me.
(Dave) - Is this it?
- Oh, here it is, here it is. - Yeah.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Road Block. - Okay.
- I'll do it. - Do we take one of these?
I don't know why you wouldn't tell us.
I did, I pointed exactly where it was.
♪ ♪
- Ah, I'm starting over. - Do you want me to tell you--
hold your hand? Come on.
(Brendon) So I go to the bottom of the steps,
and there's one step at the very bottom
that kind of looks like part of a sewer.
This does not count, no? That's a sewer.
So I'm thinking it's not a real step,
and so I climb all the way up the steps and I get 135.
- You wanna write this? - Yeah.
- In-- in Roman numerals? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And hopefully that's correct. MC-M-X...
- X... - X...
- That's 1924, correct? - Exactly.
Thank you very much. And here is my happy couple...
on the scooter.
Hello, happy couple.
I, uh, hopefully have the correct date.
There are an awful lot of steps.
- Si. - Yes!
Grazie!
Rach, let's go!
Whoo, let's go!
"Make your way on foot to where the leg of the race ends,
and the Via "Flaminco" begins.
(Phil) - Teams must figure out
that they're looking for Piazza del Popolo,
known as "The People's Square."
This enormous plaza,
surrounded by impressive Roman architecture,
is the pit stop for this leg of the race.
The last team to check in here...
may be eliminated.
Via "Flaminca"? Okay, thank you.
Thank you! Rach, we're good.
- Okay. - We got a lead.
(Leo) - Piazza John Keats.
(cab driver) No mai piazza. Via John Keats.
Via.
Is this a Piazza in Rome?
Yes, is Piazza di Spagna.
- Piazza di Spagna? - It's the center Rome.
Son of a... we're a long frickin' ways
from where we need to be.
Excuse me.
Do you know, uh, John Keats'
Unhappy Roman Holiday?
(speaking Italian)
Do you know?
This good? All right, let's go!
We took us the wrong way.
John Keats's Unhappy Roman Holiday.
That's where he died. Let's just go there.
- Spanish Steps? - Spanish Steps? Okay.
Let's do it.
We're heading to the Spanish Steps.
Piazza de Spagna.
That's, uh, where John Keats died,
so we think that would probably be
a pretty unhappy Roman Holiday.
- Yeah, right here, right here! - Let's go!
♪ ♪
(speaking Italian)
Thank you! Grazie, grazie!
- Brendon and Rachel... - Yeah?
You are team number one!
(both cheering) - Yes, yes, yes!
As the winners of this leg of the race...
- Yes, yes. - You have won a trip for two
from Travelocity,
and you are going to Australia's Great Barrier Reef!
(both cheering) Oh, wow! I can't believe it!
(Phil) You're gonna indulge in five nights in a Lagoon Room
at the One and Only Hayman,
relax with an ocean massage,
and take an Air Whitsundays panorama tour
to enjoy the Heart Reef and Whitehaven Island
by air and sea.
We've been struggling every single leg
to stay in the race, so this is huge for us.
We were kind of on like a sinusoidal wave pattern,
where we go up in the beginning and then we went down horribly.
And now we're just starting to make our way up again.
- Sinusoidal. - And we're gonna finish
on the top with $1 million. Yes.
(laughing tearfully)
Come on, Dad!
Yeah, who knows what I'm doing?
I don't know Roman numerals.
I did my best to figure out what the Roman numeral would be.
I haven't looked at Roman numerals since I was probably
in the tenth grade.
And that's like 80 years ago, so...
He hasn't seen a Roman numeral for a long time.
Gonna give it my best shot.
- No? Correct. - Go back.
It was wrong, so I headed back down the steps
to get another postcard.
- These are the steps? Okay. - Okay.
- Oh, can we take this? - Si.
- Okay. - Road Block.
Okay. Oh, my gosh, there's another team here.
We're still in it.
Maybe you and Dave can work together.
I chose to do the Road Block
'cause it seemed like it was mathematical.
And I'm really good with that kind of stuff.
Me and math, you know...
we're not best friends.
(Connor) You got it, Dad. Come on, nail it.
Don't pull that Achilles going up those stairs!
Oh, my gosh.
- Piazza... - Piazza...
Via John Keats.
John Keats, Unhappy Roman Holiday.
Piazza di, uh, Spagna?
Piazza di Spagna. (speaking Italian)
- Piazza Spagna, okay. - Center.
Uh, center Rome. Grazie.
I knew we came too far.
(panting) 135... okay.
I counted 135 steps, and then I was running back down
asking anyone for help.
(Dave) - One, two...
And a "V" as in "Victor." That's five.
- Oh, X-X-I-V. - That's it!
"Hand it to the happy holiday couple on the scooter."
(Caroline) Come on, Dave and Jen, work together.
- Dave! Did you get it? - Hey! Did you find anything?
Yeah, I need to try it.
Where's the happy holiday couple on the scooter?
(Connor) Caroline and Jen are great.
We've worked with them for a few legs now.
They're smart girls. That's what I've got.
135 steps. Yeah, yeah. Let's go.
(Jennifer) We love Dave and Connor more than anything.
- (Caroline) We love them. - The bond will never break.
Hi! How are you?
Oh, thank you so much!
Thank you!
Okay... route info.
"Make your way on foot
to where this leg of the race ends."
- Okay, here we go! - You guys wanna roll?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah! - Let's go!
Hey! Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Ah, perfect. I missed the grip.
Road Block. You got that? It's me. Yeah.
Do you know where Via Flaminia is?
This street? Thank you.
(panting)
We got pretty lost. Um, now we're pretty far away.
So all we can do is hope
that we find other people at the Road Block.
♪ ♪
(Phil) Wow, get on there! Get on there!
Ah, very nice.
Caroline and Jennifer, you are team number two.
(women screaming)
- Oh, my gosh! Ohh! - I can't believe it!
(Phil) From last to second. Congratulations.
Way to go!
Dave and Connor, that'd make you team number three.
And I love the way... Yay, Dave!
You let them take second place.
That was very nice of you. You know what?
They have been such gems to work with.
We love these girls.
You have to be over the moon right now
considering you were in last place.
We can't believe it!
It's near?
Yes, on the left.
- Where the clue box? - Right here, right here.
Look at that. Here we go.
You got it.
I'm good with "X," "V," and "I,"
but the rest of 'em, I'm not sure about.
Find somebody that knows something about Roman numerals.
Do you know what number this is? Do you know what year this--
- "M," this would be 1,000... - Yeah?
"X-X"... - I-V. I-V.
I-V.
- Yeah. - Sweet, thank you so much.
You're welcome.
- Si. - Ha! Yes!
That is frickin' awesome.
Hey, hey! That's my runner!
- Ready to get out of here? - Yeah. Take these here.
I really don't have a great idea what's going on right now.
This could get interesting.
I have no idea about Roman numerals.
That was something I-- may have slipped past me
in school, but... once I got to the top,
I just started asking.
Anybody know how many total number of Spanish Steps?
135. That's it?
- You sure? - Si.
All right, 135.
Okay.
I have no idea.
♪ ♪
- Jet and Cord... - Yes, sir?
You're team number four, you're still in the race.
- Yes! - Thank you, sir.
- That's not bad, right? - (both) No.
Holding on to the Express Pass this long
I think has been huge for us.
From the very next leg, we have to play the Express Pass,
but then, on the other hand, I think that we've got
the bull's-eye on us.
So we're gonna have to beat everybody
the next leg of the race.
That way, we don't get U-turned at all.
- Number four, we did. - Yeah.
Right now, we're en route to the Spanish Steps.
And we've got our fingers crossed.
We got kind of like pushed all over town at this point.
I mean, we drove all over, ran all over,
so we're hoping other teams did, too.
♪ ♪
We feel like we're in last.
It's not a good feeling when you don't see anybody else.
But Caroline and Jen still have their Speed Bump, so...
hopefully the Road Block is really, really hard.
How many steps? 136.
All right, I'll it again.
No?
52, 53, 54, 55, 56...
Do you know how many steps this up here?
- 138. - 138.
I'm just gonna go and try. You sure that's it?
- Yeah. - Pretty sure?
I don't know anything about Roman numerals.
I'm back!
This is crazy.
You got it, Flight?
I'll try it one more time. Damn.
Hopefully there are more teams behind us, but...
you never know at this point.
You only can hope for the best.
People are telling me...
how many steps there are, but nobody really knows.
I don't think I can figure it out.
Hopefully, it'll be right.
(panting) Otherwise, I'll keep going up and down.
(speaking Italian)
- Right here, Leo. - Go, go, go, go.
Thank you, thank you.
I'm gonna do it! Comin'!
How many steps?
(Leo) I have no idea what place we're in.
All I see is Flight Time and Big Easy.
I'm really nervous right now, 'cause, you know,
we went from first probably to worst again.
I'm really nervous-- I haven't felt like this
all this race yet.
(Flight Time) How many steps y'all got?
Well, it's based off what this date is...
right here. She says the MA-X.
- It's based off the date? - Yeah.
(Leo) Oh, there's another team.
John and Jessica just got here, Jamal!
Oh, my God. Thank God.
(Jessica) - Hi!
- Here it is. - Okay.
- I think you should do it. - You want me to do it?
- Yeah, yeah. - Okay.
Count the Spanish Steps. Here I go.
18, 19, 20.
(Leo) - Come on, Jamal!
(John) I counted the steps, and I counted 136,
and I wrote that down.
What is the year on it?
We need the year on it. The year right there?
- That's 1789. - Yeah, 1789.
- "M-C-M-X-X-V." - Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna try this.
- No. - No?
Um...
- That would be 1924. - Okay...
- Try this one. - Okay.
This-- some local said it's common knowledge.
135. - 135.
Hopefully, this is it, sir.
(speaking Spanish)
I love you so much! (crowd cheering)
Thank you so much. Thank you.
Thank you guys so much. (women) Good luck!
Look, look, look!
- You go it? - Hell, yes!
- Yes! - Yeah! I'm outta here!
You can help John if you want.
- (chuckling) - Yeah, let's help them, dude.
"Make your way on foot where this leg of the race ends
and the Via Flaminia begins."
Okay, we'll help you guys
as long as you guys don't beat us!
And you guys-- And don't Uturn us.
- We will not U-turn you. - Is there anyone behind you?
I-- probably, right?
- I don't know. - I hope.
- Flight Time! - I'm comin'!
- You got it? - No.
Give it to him. Just give it to him.
What is it?
- You guys don't U-turn us? - You guys don't beat us.
You guys aren't gonna U-turn us?
- No, no, no. - The girls aren't even here.
- Take it. - Good luck, guys!
(John) - That's when we heard
that maybe the Country Singers
hadn't gotten to the Spanish Steps yet.
They're not gonna U-turn us.
And it's gonna go a long way, man.
- It's probably right there. - Go in, go in!
Let's go, let's go! Hurry, Flight!
I gotta get another postcard.
I got the answer, I wrote it down on the piece of paper
that I had, but I had to run down the steps first
to get an empty postcard.
Okay, someone's behind you.
(both laughing)
I'll say it if you make me say it.
Thank you. (Women cheering)
- That's it, John. - All right.
- (speaking Italian) - Ha ha!
Jamal, you da man!
"Warning: Last team may be eliminated."
Let's go. Let's get this lead on them. Come on!
They behind us! They right behind us!
We got it! Let's go.
John, run!
Where are they going? They're there.
We can catch up to the Globetrotters.
Let's keep a jog! I know you tired with all that stuff!
John, John, John! Let's stay positive, we got this.
They got it! Hurry, man, go!
It's right there, Jess, straight ahead!
(panting) - Good job, eh?
Bellissimo!
Turn around and get these guys running-- foot race.
(John) - Yeah, let's do it!
(Jessica) - Yeah! Come on, John.
Faster! Come on, Johnny! Come on, John!
- Let's go, let's go! - John, hurry, hurry!
Flight Time, Flight Time!
- John, come on! John! - Jess!
Nooo!
- She almost got us! - (panting)
Came out of nowhere, didn't she?
She came out of nowhere!
Yeah, she caught us!
Leo and Jamal, you're team number five.
Flight Time and Big Easy, you're team number six.
Jessica and John, I am sorry to tell you
that you are the last team to arrive...
and you have been eliminated from the race.
This race has been so super competitive.
I don't know if we've ever had a season
where teams are this close running into the mat.
John, you gotta feel some comfort in knowing
that you guys really came out and ran against
some really strong teams.
I think for, you know, both Jess and I,
it really was an incredible experience for both of us.
And I couldn't be more proud of Jess.
She's really pulled that team a long ways through this,
and she's an incredible woman, and...
somebody that I'm very lucky
to spend the rest of my life with.
I want an invitation to that wedding.
- (laughing) Okay. - I'll DJ.
Okay. (Laughter)
Jessica and John,
thanks very much for coming on the race.
- Thanks, Phil. - Sorry to see you go.
Okay, let's go.
Aww...
♪ ♪