The Amazing Race

Previously on The Amazing Race...

ten teams continued the Mega Leg

in Florence, Italy.

Double the Roadblocks,

double the Detours, double the pain.

The Roadblock pushed Dom

to her breaking point...

Why is this so hard?

...and gave Sharik second thoughts.

Got the clue, but at what cost?

A showdown for first place

between Marcus and Michael and Emily and Molly

ended in a victory for the long-lost twins.

You are team number one.

On the mat, Sharik made a decision.

Do you want to keep racing?

You good? -I'll do it for you.

-Strictly. -

While Rich and Dom bid a tearful goodbye.

You are the last team to arrive

and you have been eliminated from the race.

But there's a lot to be proud of as well.

I'm thankful to have someone like Richard, who...

who believes in me so much.

-Morning, everyone. Good morning!

So I did say to you guys

that this Amazing Race would have a lot of firsts.

-Yes. -Oh, my God. -

You are going to a country that we have never been to before

-on the race. -

You're going to the Kingdom of Jordan.

All aboard. Let's go, let's go.

All teams will now fly across the Mediterranean Sea

to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,

an ancient country

with more than 100,000 archeological sites.

With less than three days of rain a year,

more than 80% of Jordan

is covered in sand, including the Wadi Rum Desert.

Wow.

Teams are now boarding this iconic steam train

that dates back to the Ottoman Empire.

This is so cool. -

We're in the Kingdom of Jordan.

Yes!

Wow, this is gorgeous.

Look at this. This is absolutely beautiful.

Oh, we're rolling now.

Oh, what's-what's over there?

After beginning their journey

with a relaxing train ride, teams

have no idea what they will encounter next.

What?!

-Oh, my God! -

-Wow. -

Oh, my gosh!

Is that real or are we seeing things?

Wait, that can't be real. Are you kidding?

Out of nowhere, there's horses and camels

and people on horseback swinging swords, and they're coming

right at us. It was actually pretty beautiful.

Looked just like a scene out of a movie.

-Talk about Lawrence of Arabia. -Oh, Lawrence of Arabia.

This is crazy!

Wow. That is amazing.

Oh, that's so cool.

That really set the tone for this leg.

This is gonna be something out of a movie.

We're in a movie.

It's your lucky day.

-Yay! Thank you. -Thank you. Thank you. -This is your clue.

- Thank you.

-This is your clue. -Thank you.

-Welcome to Jordan. -Thank you. Thank you.

-Good luck. Thank you.

- -Thank you.

-Good luck. Thank you.

Good luck.

-Thank you. -Have a nice time.

"Route Info."

"Welcome to the Wadi Rum Desert in the Kingdom of Jordan.

-"You have just experienced a..." -"...scene being reminiscent

"of the 1963 Oscar-winning film Lawrence of Arabia.

"Now head into the desert to experience

this otherworldly landscape."

"Choose an available Bedouin driver

who will drive you to the desert to find your next clue."

Sweet. His car's close.

We got the boys just ahead of us.

We're gonna keep 'em close.

We came up with an acronym before the race.

It's called CAR. The C stands for complacent.

Like, we don't-we don't want to get complacent, ever.

Uh, A is for adversity,

to obviously push through adversity.

And then, uh, R is for resilience.

So when we do make mistakes, try and forget that

and then just keep moving forward.

There are no non-elimination legs,

so there's no margin for error.

And because we'’re military,

we review the leg, right? From start to finish.

Uh, what happened?

We'll learn from those mistakes and move forward.

I want to win every leg.

I'm so excited.

-I don't know what we're doing today. -I'm so pumped.

Whatever it is, it's gonna be so fun.

We are driving deep into the desert.

We are really out here. -Yeah.

- -I see it.

You good?

Ouch. You okay?

No, I got something going on with my thigh.

-Oh, no. -This is not good.

As soon as we started running in the sand today,

I had a shooting pain run up the top of my thigh.

-So, running is a little bit difficult for me. -

Okay.

-"Roadblock." -"Roadblock."

"Roadblock."

"Who Wants to Test Their Metal?

Let me know.

If Jordan's landscapes look familiar to you,

then chances are that you've seen them up on the big screen

in movies like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,

Transformersand futuristic blockbusters like Star Wars.

Teams must search the crash site of this movie set

for a piece of spaceship debris buried in the sand...

...using a metal detector.

Once they retrieve the piece, they'll have their clue.

Marcus will do it.

-I will. - : Okay.

Okay, this is gonna be interesting.

Hello, sir.

-Let me show you. -Okay.

- -Uh-huh.

You hear the sound? -Yeah.

That mean you dig, you search.

Okay.

The Roadblock-- Who Wants to Test Your Metal?--

it appeared to me that that could have been

one of the Roadblocks that-that took a long time.

That if people don't have some type of marking system

that they can get confused.

I'm marking where I walked, so I don't double,

uh, scan places.

Oh, man.

I have not used a metal detector before.

I must have pulled a muscle in my thigh.

I can't... I just, like, can't run.

-Really? -It's, like, right here.

I've never injured anything up here before.

-Oh, here we go. -

Please, please, please.

Go, go, go.

Petra, yep.

-Yes. -Yes! Oh, okay.

After driving an hour and a half

across the hot desert landscape, teams will be rewarded

with the crown jewel of Jordan, the city of Petra.

Carved into these pink sandstone cliffs

more than 2,000 years ago,

it's no wonder that this spectacular archeological site

was named one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.

All right, let's get after it. Marcus found something.

Didn't see what he did.

I should have been watching him.

Right now we got a lead, so

just let's do our best to...

-to-to maintain it. Yeah.

-"Welcome to Wadi Rum Desert..." -"...in the Kingdom of Jordan."

-Let's go. -Go.

Let's go!

Who wants to be our guy?

Ow.

Starting out hot.

We're excited!

We are departing in the second group

with Luis and Michelle and high school couple, um...

-Abby and Will. -Abby and Will.

We're, uh, ahead of four teams,

so it's three groups to the front, so...

Feels good to be back in the middle.

Just got to stay consistent.

I was telling Michelle, we're not a middle-

of-the-pack team. That's not who we are.

And I told her last night, like,

"I'm done being in the middle of pack."

Like, let's push it. Let's push forward this today,

our first leg.

Started off in tenth place, and, uh,

ever since then, we've improved.

Last night, we were dreaming about

-how we were gonna run up to the mat, what we were gonna do. -Yeah.

We were envisioning it.