The Amazing Race

Previously on the amazing race...

In puerto vallarta, Mexico, 13 teams began

a race around the world for $1 million.

- Go! - Let's go, baby!

Father and daughter Chris and Mary

- got off to a slow start... - Are you okay?

- Sorry. - No, no, don't apologize.

- While siblings Maya and Rohan... - Stop.

Got into a jam.

I don't know how we're gonna get out of this.

Military pilots Juan and Shane

navigated themselves to the back of the pack.

But by jumping through some hoops,

managed to jump ahead.

Shane, let's go, bro!

The detour tested teams mentally...

- No. - Focus.

I don't want to do this again.

Okay. Me neither.

And physically.

Hills are not your friend.

Karishma got tripped up at the roadblock.

"Must wear the provided hat and handker..." Handkerchief?

I don't have a handkerchief. Brb.

Dating nurses Amber and vinny felt the pressure.

I don't know where we are.

This is so hard to find.

But in the end, Maya and Rohan came up short.

I'm sorry to tell you that you have been

- eliminated from the race. - It's okay.

Married couple rod and leticia set the pace

I think you are the first team.

My god!

But got a huge shock at the mat.

However... You are still racing.

My goodness.

"Keep racing.

"Make your way on foot to puerto vallarta's

"zona romántica and find your next clue

at the center of the iguana bridge."

- Okay, baby, let's ride. - Let's ride.

Iguana bridge?

- Zona... zona romántica? - Iguana bridge?

- Five minutes. - Five minutes up that way?

Okay, got it.

Our whole strategy was, like,

it doesn't matter if we come in first or not.

Just don't be the last.

But now that we hit first, the bar is set.

But having to run two legs back-to-back...

Let's go, baby!

He's gonna realize as much as the athlete he's been

his whole life, I'm not.

Zona romántica? This way?

I think that's gonna be challenging in itself

to remember constantly, I can't train as long as he has

since he's been playing football since he was six.

But I'm not built like you,

I'm not as fast as you, I'm not as strong as you,

and I'm gonna do my best to keep up with you.

But I'm not you.

Right now, we're in first place. We got

Ricky and Cesar behind us,

so we're trying to keep a little five-minute head start on 'em.

"You will travel on foot for the next leg."

- "Foot for the next leg." Okay. - Let's go.

We didn't get first.

It was a little disappointing.

Bye-bye, sombrero.

But just knowing that, like,

we have another chance, we can get first

it really gave us the fire and the energy to, like, push.

When we first met, we were kind of just, like,

dating around, but eventually, I came around and realized,

"wow, this Cesar is the person

that I've always wanted to be with."

And I think the amazing race is, like,

the perfect opportunity

to really get to know each other and...

That we might be ready for the next step.

Yeah, we could... Yeah, this could prove

that we're ready for the next step.

Sure, sure.

- 131. Look at that bridge. - You think that's the one?

- Yeah. Possibly. - Okay, let's go.

Look, rod.

The other team is down there.

Okay. There's something happening here.

- Come on. - Come on, let's go.

Let's go. Don't let them catch up.

- You're not gonna let them beat you. - I know.

My god, we're losing so much time.

Okay, just breathe.

I can't believe we're still racing.

- Just got to find a bridge. - Number three.

Let's just keep it up.

I think the rest of the teams underestimate us a little bit,

which is good.

We've known each other longer

- than some of these folks have been alive. - Yes.

I think that really, really, really, really helps.

Yeah, and actually,

we could be, probably, some of their parents.

We're just running aimlessly. We don't even have a...

Let's just go the... Lisa, it's not that way. The water's there.

It's free?

Okay.

About downtown and all vallarta.

Okay. All right. Thank you.

- We're here, right? - There's a bridge here,

- and there's a bridge there, honey. - Okay.

It just has to be called iguana bridge.

It's two Bridges. Let's just go that way.

All right, you say, dah-dah-dah-dah, dah-dah-dah.

Shelisa's one of the strongest individuals I know.

And another word for that is "stubborn."

- That's true. - Um, but I love her for it.

I think when it comes down to it,

she's my best friend.

Aw.

And-and we'll get along, and we'll work out fine.

I'm really looking forward to this journey.

- Okay, let's go. - All right, we good.

You don't want to run at all?

- Yes. - Okay.

Uphill. You had to pick the uphill to do it.

- We saw... yellow. - Yellow.

- Come on, rod. Come on, rod. - Red and yellow.

That's it right there... up bridge, up high.

Go, go, go, go.

- You read it. I'm out of breath. - Detour.

"Balloon collection or color correction."

If there's one thing that's guaranteed

to make any child smile, it's a balloon.

A big seller here on cuale island,

the island of the children.

Each team needs to pick up balloons for a fiesta.

The transaction will be simple,

but carrying these party favorites

through the tight quarters of the island's craft market

has the potential to blow up in their faces.

Here in Mexico,

they say that no celebration is complete

without papel picado, punched paper

which dates back to the aztecs.

Teams need to search through this sea of color

for a strand of ten flags

that has a color sequence that doesn't match the others.

- Rock, paper, scissor it? - All right.

Okay. You win, we do balloon collection.

- I win, we do, correction. - All right.

- I'm exhausted. - So...

So I was thinking the other one might be easier.

So we went to our first strategy that we said, if we are

undecisive, we're gonna leave it

to the rock, paper, scissor gods.

One, two, three. Go. Okay, we got the balloons.

Okay, you got it. We're doing what's yours.

- We are doing balloon collection. - Okay.

- Balloon collection. - Okay.

We're gonna go all the way to the beginning.

- Get the red ones first. Yeah. - Okay. Then come back.

We ran by all of the balloons. We know where they are.

Yeah. We can beat them.

We're tired, but we're gonna keep pushing 'cause we know

- the other teams are tired, too. - Yeah, we're up for it. Yup.

So it evens the playing field a little bit.

- We're here for it. - Yup.

- So the iguana bridge, bro. - Nice.

The last leg of the race was so draining,

'cause it's an emotional roller coaster, you know,

where you start out down here, and...

- Is it through here? - This is it, yeah.

Felt good to climb back up to fourth,

not so good to realize that we're not done yet,

but, you know, we persevere.

Shane and I met at pilot training, and pretty early on,

we hit it off. Both pretty a type.

But we have disagreements

every day, whether it's over a game offortnite,

or whether it's racing in the amazing race.

But we just kind of know how to

- humble each other. - Definitely.

- What are you doing? - There's a fork in the road.

- I'm gonna trust my gut on this one. - Let's go.

- Gracias. - Gracias.

Make a knot.

One down, two to go.

Balloon vendors.

Right there.

Says each of us. I got to hold one.

This little heel bouncing crazy.

But we got some purple balloons.

Thank you. You want to have a ticket?

It does say one from each.

Yes. You want to carry this?

- My goodness. - We got to catch up.

We got to beat 'em. Come on.

They have two of each.

Read the clue again, please.