The Amazing Race

Previously on The Amazing Race...

Eight teams continued racing through the Kingdom of Jordan.

The leg began with a shocking elimination.

We have received a positive COVID test from you.

You are officially eliminated.

It's definitely heartbreaking.

And the stakes remain high for the rest of the teams.

In the leg after this one,

the last team will be leaving all on their own,

45 minutes behind the first team.

At the Detour, Derek was at a loss for words.

While Glenda and Lumumba were out of step.

Oh. We missed the beat. Let's do it again.

Luis and Michelle fell apart...

The cart came-came apart.

...but recovered for their second win in a row.

-Back-to-back, baby. Back-to-back. -Back-to-back...

Meanwhile, Glenda struggled at the Roadblock,

and now the newlyweds will face the consequences.

You have arrived last.

I don't expect to go home

the next leg. We're still here.

All teams are now flying 1,600 miles

from the Kingdom of Jordan

to the South of France.

This is the Dordogne

Known as the land of 1,001 castles for good reason.

There are 1,001 castles.

Here at Château de Beynac,

teams will leave in four groups

as they start the next leg of the race.

Let's go, guys.

We got the lead.

We're leaving in the first group.

Let's go for the back-to-back-to-back win.

-Whoa. -Whoa! This is so cool.

You got it, babe?

Look at that. -Come on.

Here we go.

"Welcome to France.

Drive yourself to Château de Commarque to find..."

"...to find your next clue."

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

-Let's go. -Okay.

Let me have the map. All right, here.

All right, we're gonna mark it on the map first.

-We're gonna see where we're at. Ready? Let's go.

There was a side street there.

I need you to slow down at those signs.

Are you oriented on the map? -No.

-Do you have any sense of direction? -No.

Okay, let's be more effective with communication.

-If you need me to stop, let me know. -Okay.

-Then I need you to stop. -Okay.

We've been together for the last two and a half

years, but being on the race,

I think we're learning, just, so much about each other.

-So we're in Beynac, right? -Yes.

So go ahead and show me where that is, David.

And how similar we think, and how

very different we think.

-Let's-let's just start driving. -So we're heading north.

-We need to go this way. -That's south.

Baby, so look along the river, 'cause we saw water.

This is gonna be an interesting day.

-That's what I'm trying to find. Hey, any luck, guys?

-No, man. We're still trying to find it on the map. -No luck.

-All right, um... Do you guys want to try and work together?

I think, guys, we should start heading this way, for sure.

Yeah, let's just... And then we'll follow the road.

Whew. Yeah.

We're leaving in the second group today

with Quinton and Mattie.

This is awesome.

15 minutes behind the first one,

but a great 30 minutes in front of the last team.

-Hello, sir. -Hello.

"Welcome to France. Drive yourselves

to Château de Commarque..."

"...to find your next clue."

-Let's go. -All right.

Hurry.

Is it this one?

Our goal today is if we cannot maintain third, get higher.

We're self-driving, so we also want to stay

-on top of our navigation. Stay cool,

calm, stay cute and stay collected.

There's a lot of châteaus here.

Here it is. Okay.

We both lost

Big Brother,and we are hungry for a win.

We really want to get that million dollars,

figure out the rest of our lives together.

Derek's a little unemployed at the moment.

-Um... -I'm fun-employed.

The F is silent.

Let's go.

So money would be great.

There's no point in rushing at this point.

We're all in the same boat.

When you rush and freak out,

that's when all the big mistakes happen.

And no mistakes today.

-That's excellent. -Okay. Let's go.

We're trying to go to Château de Commarque.

Can you show us where we are on the map?

You're gonna go up there.

Oh, so we got to go up straight?

Yeah, you got to go away from the river.

Oh, it's Luis and Michelle.

Yo, guys, guys.

-We know it, if you want to follow us. Okay, let's go.

Let's go. Get to Derek. David, follow Derek.

Derek. Derek.

What?

-Babe, do you have the key? Follow us. Follow us. Follow us.

Follow them? I don't think so.

I don't want to, like, be like, "Oh, follow us, follow us."

No, this way, if we get lost, we bring them with us.

I don't know.

-It's win-win in my mind. - Okay.

We got good GPS, uh...

...info from the gentleman.

I think if we just go north we're gonna be all right.

Okay.

North we go.

I want to be the first car to get to the next place.

It's the best feeling in the world.

Yeah!

- First place! -Yeah!

This guy, there's one over here.

"Welcome to France. Drive yourselves

to Château de Commarque to find your next clue."

-Ayzi. A-Y-Z-I.

Is there an index on that map?

Wait, here we go. Right here. Found it.

-All right. Oh, here we go.

So right now, we're leaving

in the third group with...

-Molly and Emily. -...Molly and Emily.

Our goal is to obviously close the gap

to those teams in front of us.

We're not here just to win. We're here also to have fun.

We're learning a lot about one another.

In fifth grade, I got in trouble

for kissing my boyfriend on the playground.

I also got in trouble in fifth grade

for kissing my boyfriend.

We were also both in band in middle school.

We both played wind instruments,

-and... -We were both second chair.

We both like to eat hard boiled eggs in the morning.

Two of them.

We eat one yolk, and we each feed our dog

-the second yolk. -Yes.

-So weird. -

Like, I think we headed down and we should have headed up,

like, away from the river.

Oh. Okay, okay.

Yeah, we're definitely going the opposite direction.

Can you just get up to Derek?

They're pulling over. They're going back.

-We needed to go not towards the river. Back up.

-We need to go back up. -My bad, my bad.

It's all good, Derek. -Okay.

A little detour.

Whew.

Leaving in last place.

-How you feel, baby? -I'm feeling great.

-I'm feeling great, too. -I'm feeling great.

We're ready for this, because

it's never been about a place to begin with.

-Yeah. -It's always been about our strengths.

-Yeah. Yeah. -It's always been about us running our race.

Let's go to the first vehicle,

toss our stuff in the back and get it going.

I'm just grateful that I get to share this experience

-with my husband, the love of my life, my best friend. -Yeah.

-And we're grateful. -Plus, we're made. We're great.

-And we're grateful, and... -We're just great.

- -Yeah, exactly. I mean, like, literally.

Château. Oh, parking.

Arrow. Right arrow, baby. This way.

We're all about winning first.

The million-dollar prize.

I would love to do something special

for my mom and dad and for her mom.

They sacrificed so much for us.

My parents met in a shoe factory.

My dad worked in the farms, making very little money.

And we would love to give back to them.

I think we're first.

-Let's go. -

Look at this place. -Oh, my God.

-It's like a fairy tale. -

Oh, my God.

This... Oh, how cool.

Oh, clue box.

-This is beautiful. -Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.