♪ ♪
PHIL KEOGHAN: This is Munich, Germany...
[cheering]
...where 12 new teams
are headed to theAmazing Race starting line,
Bavarian-style.
Use those long legs, bae.
-[squeals, chuckles] -Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
-We are Team Miami in the house. -Miami.
"Raised on croquetas."
We've been together 13 years,
and we've been married six of those years.
I am a professional dancer.
I am currently on tour with Pitbull.
And I am a firefighter.
I've been a firefighter for 12 years.
We are grateful for this opportunity,
and we're gonna, you know, kick some butt.
[chanting]: Hey, hey, hey, hey!
All right, what's winning so far?
Big Brotheror this?
-Yeah, yeah. Come on. -[laughs]
Are you kidding me? Fresh air?
-Get out of here. -[laughter]
We met on the reality TV show Big Brother,
and we've been dating for the past eight months.
DEREK: Claire is the smartest girl I've ever met.
CLAIRE: I work in software and tech.
I do machine learning.
DEREK: You're the brains of the operation.
CLAIRE: Yeah. You're the muscle.
It does concern me a little bit if I'm the muscle.
-[laughs] -That is, that is true.
-♪ ♪ -Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Oh!
MICHELLE: Wait, I'm sorry. Are we going down?
-Is there no seat belt?! -[cheering]
[screaming]
[screaming continues]
[laughter]
CLAIRE: Holy crap.
We are doing The Amazing freakingRace.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Go, go, go. Go, go, go, go, go.
[whooping]
[laughter, cheering]
I would like to officially welcome you
to the start of your Amazing Race
here in Munich, Germany.
[cheering, whooping]
A lot of history here.
This is home to the largest beer festival
in the world, Oktoberfest.
And you are about to be part of some Munich history
when you take part in this race.
[cheering, whooping]
We have highly competitive people here.
Rex, Tim, you guys know about competition?
For those of you who don't know, I was a head coach
in the National Football League for eight years--
six with the New York Jets, two with the Buffalo Bills.
I'm Tim Mann. I'm a probation officer
for the state of Tennessee.
So I got paired up with Rex on the golf course.
We golfed together and became good friends after that.
REX: I truly believe we can win this race.
Look, I-I thought my team
was gonna win the Super Bowl with the Jets.
So maybe it ain't gonna happen.
-No, I'm just kidding. -[chuckles]
But I truly think we can.
We're Team T-Rex.
This dinosaur is gonna devour the competition.
I'm not used to seeing you without the headset on.
Are you gonna be barking out orders to people?
-This guy right here, for sure. -Just me. [laughs]
[laughter]
-Ah! I'm Abby. -I'm Will.
I-I see you found it very difficult to contain yourself.
We've been watching this since we met.
We've known each other for 20 years.
We've been dating for eight of those.
We're high school sweethearts.
-[whoops] -It can be hard to get a word in with Abby, but...
-Sorry. -[laughter]
It is a dream of ours to be on the show,
and it's gonna be awesome to run a race with this girl,
-who's so passionate about everything. -[chuckles]
-Aw. -[whoops]
Now, I know you both have got some dance moves.
-Yeah. -[laughter]
Um, my name is Quinton, and...
-I'm Mattie. -And we are both former, um, NFL cheerleaders.
-[cheering, applause] -For the Los Angeles Rams, baby.
For the Los Angeles Rams, baby.
I met this lovely girl. She was my captain.
And we've been best friends ever since.
-Wow. -TIM: Awesome. -KEOGHAN: All right.
-Let's talk about the sisters. An amazing story. -[both chuckle]
I'm Molly. This is Emily.
And we are identical twin sisters.
We just met one year ago.
-[gasping] -Whoa.
NINA: Wow.
We were adopted from South Korea and separated at birth.
Molly was adopted to a Jewish family in Florida,
and I was adopted to a Jewish family in Pennsylvania.
We grew up not knowing that one another existed.
And as adults,
uh, discovered one another when my daughter took a DNA test.
Being on theRace gives us a unique opportunity
to make up for 36 lost years.
How amazing that you get this opportunity together, huh?
-Yeah. This is truly a gift. -Yeah.
[applause]
My dad and I are immigrants.
Which is, I mean, I don't know if you can tell
-where we're from... -We're from Jamaica.
...but we are from Jamaica.
We've always traveled
-vicariously through Amazing Race. -Yeah. Yeah.
-Now we're doing it on The Amazing Race. -On The Amazing Race.Yeah.
-[cheering] -I love it. -Yeah.
Looking forward to learning more about all of you
along the way, but right now we have a race to get started.
There are a lot of firsts on this race.
This is the first time ever that we have started
-outside the United States. -[whooping]
The other thing that's new and different about this race
is that you can complete the challenges
on this first leg of the race in any order that you want to.
-[gasping] -LUIS: Wow.
It's called the Scramble.
LUIS: The Scramble. That's something different where I was excited.
-I was like, "Let's do this." Bring it. -Yeah, I was so excited.
-Wow. -Wow. Wow.
The other thing you should know is, for the first time
in Amazing Racehistory,
there are no non-elimination legs.
-[gasping] -Ooh!
Okay. We got to be on our A-game
-every single time. -Every single leg. Yeah.
KEOGHAN: If you arrive last, you will be eliminated.
-This is do-or-die, you know? -Yeah.
Because there is no other chance.
When I say go, you can run around the fountain
and go over to your bags.
On top of your bags, you'll see an envelope.
Inside the envelope are three addresses
for the challenges that you need to complete.
You can complete those challenges
in any order you want.
When you do, you will have the clues you need
to find me at the Pit Stop.
[applauds]
Now, you're gonna be making your way around Munich
in one of the cars that's parked in the lot over there.
Is everybody ready to race?
[cheering]
The world is waiting for you.
Good luck.
Travel safe.
♪ ♪
Go!
[laughter, whooping]
DEREK: Let's go! [whoops]
MATTIE: Here we go.
I'm ready, let's go.
[screams]
-oh, my God. -Go.
-BOTH: Love and light. -Route Info.
BOTH: "Get ready to scramble."
"Use the map in your car to drive to each challenge
-in any order you wish..." -Okay.
"...to find your clues."
"The challenge locations are...
Roll at Luitpoldpark."
TIM: "Saw at Biergarten Seehaus."
LINTON: "Smash at Augustiner-Keller Biergarten."
[lively chatter]
This is arguably the tastiest beverage on the planet.
Ice-cold beer--
the number one ingredient at Oktoberfest.
Prost!
This Scramble requires teams to complete
three Oktoberfest-inspired tasks.
Roll a beer keg
through an obstacle course in under one minute.
Saw through a log.
And smash an enormous block of ice.
Once complete, they'll have the three parts
of a clue they need to find me at the Pit Stop.
We don't know what the challenges entail.
It just tells us where it is,
and then we should get our clues when we get there.
-All right. -Let's go. [squeals]
Scramble was mind-blowing.
Now you have to decide what order you're going to things.
-Go. Go. -Let's do this, baby.
I am not generally a patient person.
So when I identified Luitpoldpark,
looking at the map, I'm like, "Let's just go right now.
"'Cause I can get us there.
We'll get there fast."
All right, let's do it.
Yeah. Let's think about this before making a decision.
-Can you help us find some locations? -Yeah, of course.
We're trying to find these three locations.
If you can help us mark it on our map,
we would love you forever.
NINA: We had a strategy, and it was
asking for all these extensive directions
to all these different locations.
"Altstaädten l..." Oh, my God. German is so fun.
So, Luitpoldpark is right there?
We got directions to all three of those places,
and then we got further directions
on how to travel to those places.
We're Asian kids. You know, we're overachievers.
Like, all we do is study. So we're like,
"Oh, how do we get extra credit on this race?"
Okay, so that's the exact place of number one.
LUIS: Luitpoldpark, right here.
Right here. Look, look, look. It's right there.
-This one? Okay. -Circle that, yeah.
CLAIRE: Can you look this up for us?
Our strategy is find out where these locations are on a map.
We don't want to have to stop and ask for more directions.
DEREK: All right, Claire, what's your stress level right now?
Once we get out, I'll feel better.
[screams]
[both laugh]
This is crazy!
No.
-Any-any-any order you-you want to go in. -Oh.
[whoops] We're on The Amazing Race!
[squeals, chuckles]
Okay, so we're here.
Phil's always at a nice scenic spot,
so I figured this one is closest to the river.
MOLLY: The Pit Stop might be somewhere nearby,
so let's save that for last.
-We're going to Smash first. -Smash?
-[Molly whooping] -EMILY: Here we go.
And then we're gonna do, um...
Biergarten Seehaus to Luitpoldpark.
-EMILY: Molly, we're onThe Amazing Race! -[Molly whoops]
So now let's see what we can do.
♪ ♪
-All right, we're going to Roll. -We picked Roll first
because that was the first one that we found.
We just were like, "All right, go for it."
Let me just figure out where we are.
-I know this is beside the point, but your hair is so cool. -Yeah.
-You're so wonderful. Thank you, thank you, thank you. -[laughs]
[whoops]
Uh, we're from Los Angeles.
-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Oh, cool.
Babe, you're gonna make a right.
LINTON: We got to do them in different orders.
-SHARIK: Yeah. Definitely. -Whatever order we choose.
-Definitely. -Man. That's a game changer.
We don't know how many teams
-are in front of us right now. -Yeah.
And we're just, we're just trying to get on the road
-and get going. -Yeah.
Thank you so much.
-Thank you, thank you... -Of course. Good luck.
Are we the last to leave?
-Yes, we are. -[Nina chuckles]
But slow and steady wins the race on The Amazing Race.
♪ ♪
Breaking news.
This just in. Scramble.
They give us all three addresses
and we just go in whatever order we want.
You know, German is such a fun language, you know?
Like, say, like, butterfly in Spanish,
it's mariposa.In French, it's le papillon.
In-in German, you know what it is? It's Schmetterling.
Nina and I met on a dating app,
and we've been together for four years.
-We recently got engaged. -NINA: We did.
We're so different. I mean...
Aastha is very spiritual.
-She grew up Hindu. -AASTHA: I've meditated two hours a day
for the past ten years.
That keeps me focused.
NINA: I'm probably gonna skip over things accidentally,
but Aastha's going to be able to slow us down,
and then lead us to the finish line.
We're going to Luitpoldpark.
Luitpoldpark? All right.
We lived here before. I was stationed here.
Member of the United States Army.
Michael and I are both active duty military.
Air Force and Army.
The active duty part,
there's a great deal of family
and personal sacrifice.
We only see each other
once or twice per year.
The ultimate goal is just to have fun
and just reconnect with each other.
Park it, right here. Park it, right here. Right here.
-It's out here. -MARCUS: It said "Roll."
-MICHAEL: Red and yellow, right here, right? -Look for "Roll."
-Hey, found something. -I see it. I see it.
"Roll a beer keg through the slalom course.
"Cross the finish line before the clock runs out
to receive a piece of the Pit Stop clue."
Let's go.
MICHAEL: I see a sign.
-[group cheering] -[laughter]
Hello! -MARCUS: Hello.
MARCUS: Okay.
Up, up, up, up.
I got to go run down there. He's gonna run back.
In less than 55 seconds.
All right.
[speaks German]
[blows whistle]
[cheering]
-Oh... -[laughter]
♪ ♪
[clamoring]
MICHAEL: Come on, Marcus.
I was just like, "Screw that hay bale. We're just going over it."
-[whistles] -[buzzer sounds]
It's not good.
-How would you ever think that -[laughs]
that was the right thing to do?
Oh, let me just toss this bad boy.
It's an obstacle course for a reason.
MARCUS: We'll try it again.
DOM: I'm centering myself on my breath
and focusing on remembering why I'm here,
who I am, and my power and my strength.
-[horn honking] -Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
-Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. -[groans]
We have known each other for eight years,
and we're actually coming up on our third-year anniversary.
We work together as motivational speakers.
We go to schools and we help students realize
that they are important and that they matter.
And I must say, Dom has a fire that most people do not have.
It's just this internal flame that just, ooh, gets really hot.
-And... Yes. -Tends to burn a little bit.
-I-Is this it? "Kleinhesselohe." -Yep.
-RICH: Yep, that's it. Yeah. -Okay. "Seehaus."
"Biergarten." Come on, come on, let's do this.
-Okay. Okay. -[laughs] Yes.
-Oh, God. [mutters] -Okay.
-L... L... -Love and light.
-Love and light. Okay. Go. Here, here, here.
"Saw completely through a log to the music of Bavaria.
"Then bring the cut end of your log to the farmer,
who will hand you a piece of the Pit Stop clue."
-[speaks German] -DOM: Hello.
-Take the saw. Take the, uh... -DOM: Okay. Okay.
-[man speaking German] -♪ ♪
-Give me a kiss. -Thank you. Danke.
Thank you. Danke.
-RICH: We're gonna just crush it. Let's do it. -Okay.
Grab that side.
We're gonna put the saw right here, and then this, it's all...
It's a teamwork motion, okay?
So, look, look. We're gonna do this.
-Back and forth, back and forth, okay? -Okay, got it.
Until the whole thing's done.
-[shouts] -RICH: Teamwork. Pull.
You got to pull. Pull.
We had to saw off a really thick piece of log.
We don't stop. This is a workout.
I love a good workout.
Yeah.
[man speaks German]
MARCUS: We got to go up and down in 55 seconds.
-[speaks German] -[blows whistle]
[cheering]
MARCUS: Let's go, let's go, let's go! Come on.
[speaking German]
[clamoring]
[speaking German]
You've done it! Fantastic!
[cheering]
This is for you, okay?
All right. "To cross Luitpoldbruücke."
-They'll add up... and be a full sentence. -Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
MARCUS: I haven't worked out in nearly two months,
'cause I was in the field, sleeping on a tank.
♪ ♪
AASTHA: We are making an assumption
that the Pit Stop is gonna be near the park.
We're gonna go to the closest one, then the farthest one,
then the park where-where we think the Pit Stop is gonna be.
REX: If we can ever get started going in the right direction,
we'll be okay.
-Here we go. -The good teams don't worry about the other teams, Rex.
REX: Yeah, who-who told you that?
-We're gonna roll. -We're gonna roll.
Okay. Got it.
I hope it's a dance challenge.
I am a dance studio owner
in one of the largest Latin dance companies in Los Angeles.
We first partnered up four years ago.
She was the professional, I was the amateur.
We're ready for the next phase of our lives, and
what better than to test each other's communication,
-our love... -Yeah. Everything.
-than in something like this? -Yeah.
-This is, like, hard. -!¡AÁndale!
-Come on, cars. -That's how we say it in Los Angeles. !¡AÁndale!
-Oh, someone's already here. -Hell, yeah.
Zirkus Krone-Strasse, with a "Z."
WILL: All right, Abby, you're looking.
-There's the other team. -Yup.
AUBREY: Okay, let's go.
-[whooping] Let's go, guys. Let's go! -Let's go, guys!
-All right. All right. -It's this.
DEREK: Yeah. Yellow, red. Okay.
There it is right there.
Zirkus Krone. Right there.
Where we're going to now is called "Smash."
[whistle blowing]
-Go, go, come on, come on, come on, come on. -[chatter]
-WILL: Come on, Abby! -[overlapping shouting]
You got it back, babe. Come on.
CLAIRE: Derek tore through this.
I've never seen anyone
roll a keg faster.
-Hey. Let's go. Go. -Yeah.
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
You got this, Claire. Come on.
-Okay. Vamos. -Go, go, go, go!
-DEREK: We have 15 seconds. -ABBY: Will, be careful.
Stay in your lane, David.
-DEREK: Come on! Come on. Right. -ABBY: Nice and slow.
-[cheering] -Yeah! You've done it!
-Come on, babe. -[whistle blows, buzzer sounds]
-No good. Too slow. -[people groaning]
-My bad, Will. -No, you're good. You're good.
-Go back. -Think we got
to go again 'cause we ran out of time.
-Can we get our clue? -For you.
-Good luck, guys. -Good luck.
DEREK: Uh, now we're gonna go
to English Gardens to do Saw.
-All right. -Here we are.
Das biergarten.
-Okay, ready? All right. -Okay.
-Roadblock. -Roadblock. Uh-uh. Okay. Okay.
BOTH: "Who wants to chill?"
"Smash an ice block to free a container
with a piece of the Pit Stop clue."
-I'll chill. -You need to chill.
-[laughing] -I do need to chill.
LUIS: Look. We're here.
-All right. [laughs] -All right, you found the first spot.
LUIS: All right. "Who wants to chill?"
-Want to do it? -I'll do it.
[whooping, cheering]
Hello.
EMILY: Okay. Okay.
-You got this! -I've never done this before.
So the ice challenge, we had to basically chisel ice
and find a clue for the puzzle to get to Phil's Pit Stop.
LUIS: Yeah, baby!
Yeah.
There you go.
Oh. I'm so glad she got this one. [laughs]
MICHELLE: Yes. [whoops]
-[grunting] -Oh, my God.
Go, babe!
That's my husband! [whoops]
-[whooping] -[grunting]
Do I even have the right side?
-Okay. Me? -You can chill. All right.
All right, I'm gonna do it.
-You think it's beer? Okay. -I got it. I got it. I got it.
-[grunting] -[whooping, cheering]
[mutters]
Aah! Oh, come on.
Babe, you went so fast.
All right, let's go.
Yes! Let's go, baby.
Good job! [whooping]
Go, baby! Go!
[clank]
[whoops] Okay.
All right. Let's go. [whoops]
So now we're going to Luitpoldpark.
AASTHA: All right. I'm going straight, right, Nia?
Uh...
I cannot confirm or deny.
I have no idea where we are, and we're not going
in the right direction, that's for sure.
My wife said, "Listen to Tim.
He's gonna be the navigator."
-[laughs] -So I'm doing it.
But if we come last, I'm kicking his ass.
♪ ♪
RICH: We're gonna do this, we'll be in first place.
-First place. -Yeah.
-We got this. -[grunts]
There's a sign right here.
-SHARIK: Guten Tag. -[Linton exclaims]
-Guten Tag. -[speaking German]
-DOM: The outfits. -RICH: Want to switch?
Yes. Okay.
[vocalizing]
SHARIK: Oh, my God.
-Line it straight, straight, straight. -That's difficult.
-Okay. -Line it straight.
Put that muscle into it, baby.
You got those strong arms,
that back. You know I love your back.
-Let's go. -Okay.
The secret is rhythm.
Rich and Dom-- they were putting their entire body into it,
and they seemed really, really, really tired.
Come on, Rich.
We're almost there. We're over halfway.
SHARIK: I never have sawed it in my life, but I realized
-you don't got to do that. -LINTON: Right.
SHARIK: Because a saw is
just as sharp if you do little movements.
-LINTON: We're actually passing them here. -SHARIK: Yup.
There you go.
-Shorter? -Angle, angle, angle, angle.
We were not sawing efficiently.
DOM: We were getting a little bit out of the groove.
-[grunting] -Okay. Stop, stop.
DOM: It's hard to be positive because I was frustrated,
I was tired, I was a mess.
This is terribly difficult.
[Rich grunts]
Teamwork together. Now you pull down.
There we go. That's exactly how you do it.
DOM: Hallelujah.
-[Rich grunts] -Yes.
-[whistle blows] -[people cheering, shouting]
Let's go, babe! You got this!
[indistinct shouting]
ABBY: Oh, my gosh,
we are so competitive.
WILL: Competitive in games, competitive in grades,
competitive in everything.
AUBREY: David, focus!
-[overlapping shouting] -Go!
AUBREY: Come on, David! Work!
[indistinct shouting]
Ooh!
You've done it!
AUBREY: David, focus, focus!
-Yeah. -[whistle blowing]
-[cheering] -You got it.
-This is for you. -Thank you. -Awesome.
-I wish you good luck, okay? -Thank you.
-Congratulations. -Thank you. -Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Let's go.
-WILL: Let's go to Saw. -Okay.
We're going to Saw at Englischer Garten.
-Let's go. -Let's go, babe. Come on.
[people cheering, shouting]
LUMUMBA: Break that ice, babe! Good job!
-QUINTON: Got it. -MATTIE: Yes! Let's go!
-Let's go. Okay. -One down.
-Oh, there. -Yes. Oh there we go,
there we go, parking, parking, parking.
We got a team right there with us.
TIM: Team right there. There-There's our girls.
AASTHA: Seeing Team T-Rex
parking with us-- that really, like,
kind of shook us up a little bit.
'Cause we're like, "Oh, my God. We need to run."
"Who wants to chill?"
-That's gonna be Nina. -Okay.
-You're gonna chill. -Uh... All right, I'll chill.
LUMUMBA: You got it! You got it!
-Let's go! -[whooping, cheering]
LUMUMBA: Awesome!
Great job!
LUMUMBA: We are 40-plus-year-old newlyweds.
GLENDA: We actually met at church.
LUMUMBA: And I was looking dead at her.
-And she was looking directly over my head. -[laughing]
GLENDA: I definitely thought he was too short for me.
I'm six foot, two, he's five foot, seven.
But I got to meet
the person and realize that we had so much in common.
LUMUMBA: People say "When they go low, we go high."
Well, we can go low and high at the same time.
All right, next one.
-Yeah! -AASTHA: Yeah! Yeah!
-Good job, Nina! -REX: Put some damn muscle on it.
-That's good. -[grunts]
-Got it. That's it. -All right.
-Now we go to the other one. -Yeah.
-Oh. -AASTHA: You got it, baby!
-You got it! -[applause, cheering, whooping]
We're done, baby. Yay!
Come on, Rich. We're almost there. We're over halfway.
All right. So close. Look at it. It's moving.
Oh, there it is. Yeah! [sighs]
Oh, put that muscle. Shoulders, baby.
Supa, ja? Ist gut?
-Ah! Thank you. -Wunderbar. Wunderbar.
-Thank you. Danke schoen. -Wunderbar.
-Oh. God. -Let's go.
-Yes. Thank you so much. -[speaks German]
Danke.
-RICH: Danke. Thank you. -DOM: Let's go.
-Come on, come on, come on. -Yes, yes, yes.
SHARIK: Let's go, let's go, let's go.
-Lock it. Lock the car, please. -Yup.
DOM: It's right here. Go, go, go. Quick, quick.
RICH: Do you have the...?
DOM: We're gonna go to Luitpoldpark.
RICH: Yes. We're gonna roll it.
-♪ ♪ -DEREK: Okay, pull, pull.
Just pull. Don't push. Pull. Pull.
[applause and cheering]
MICHAEL: Use that big-boy strength. Let's go.
Okay. Good job.
[man vocalizing]
You got it. Good job, Claire.
CLAIRE: We are not seeing anyone.
No one is coming running up.
I don't know if this means that we are going fast
-or if we're going slow -DEREK: We're going super slow.
-and teams have already come through. -Mm-hmm.
DEREK: With a Scramble, you just won't
know where you are.
CLAIRE: So I guess let's just keep sawing.
LUMUMBA: Good job, babe. Pull it hard, babe. Harder!
Come on.
-[whistle blowing] -You got it!
-[whooping] -Congratulations.
-Good job, you guys. -Let's go. Awesome!
GLENDA: We're about to go to Saw. Let's go.
DEREK: Now we're going.
CLAIRE: Uh-huh.
-[shouting] -Go! Go!
MAN: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
CLAIRE: Cut, cut, cut.
DEREK: Oh.
[man exclaims]
Okay, passed.
-All right. -Danke. Danke.
-Stay tight! -QUINTON: One-take wonder.
Everything you've got. Let's go. Pick it up. Pick up speed.
Get it to me, fast.
With my sports background, you never
look at the clock. You know, you keep your head down.
You work until you hear the buzzer.
-Oh! -Oh.
-[whistle blows] -Yes! Let's go!
[Mattie whoops]
-That is for you and for you. -Danke. Bye. -Danke.
-Hell, yes. -Okay.
Wait. Where are you?
-You told me I had to turn. -I'm sorry. I was... Ugh.
-Okay. -Our twin telepathy is not working. [laughs]
We don't have that
'cause we didn't live together for 36 years.
-What are we doing? [laughs] -Oh, here.
BOTH: "Route Info."
MATTIE: Oh, no.
It's hard to gauge if teams
are ahead of you or behind you.
'Cause the twins came in after us, but we had seen them
before us
at Smash, so there's real...
There was really no way to know,
and we just had to hustle.
[overlapping chatter]
-Yeah! [whoops] -[whistle blows]
You got it!
-Clue. -All right.
Congratulations for you.
-Thank you. Danke. -Thank you. Danke.
-Yes. -Yes.
-We are headed to Saw. -Saw.
MICHAEL: Oh, man. Been on the road for a minute.
I don't like it.
Right where we are, the streets are really jumbled.
-Oh. -As the road bends left, we're gonna make the right.
Okay.
MARCUS: Make... Go... Come make it.
AUBREY: We have no idea where anyone is,
but we do know that we saw three teams finish in front of us.
So, it's gonna be interesting.
This doesn't look like where we need to go.
-♪ ♪ -LUIS: Ready? On top. Okay.
-Saw on top. -Ah.
-Right on top. Right on top. -Ah.
-MICHELLE: Ah.
Ah. Yes!
-Oh! -[woman cheering]
[exclaiming]
-NINA: Right here, baby. Grab this way. -AASTHA: Okay.
Okay. You want to get inside the groove, okay?
-Why way? Which way? Here? -Yeah. Pull back.
[grunting]
-What's up, guys? [laughs] -[laughs]
-Hey, guys. -MICHELLE: Hello. -LUIS: Oh!
Come on. [grunts]
-[gasps] -[laughs]
WILL: There we go, Abby. Work these muscles.
-MARCUS: Oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. -MICHAEL: Do an update.
-Uh-oh. Where we going? -My bad. We're going straight.
-Go straight. -Oh, my goodness. I hate this.
MARCUS: I've been here multiple times
before in the Army,
but don't know enough about the city to just move about.
Damn, I don't want to be on this road.
Michael, we're gonna make a left. We're gonna make a left.
There are no
-non-elimination legs. -Yup.
MARCUS: Oh, make the U-turn. Come back. U-turn.
MICHAEL: There are no second chances.
MARCUS: Oh, man. I definitely don't want to be damn
first team eliminated.
-Go back immediately? -Yeah.
-[indistinct chatter] -[whistle blows]
-You got it! -Oh, my God. -Oh, my God.
-Danke schoen. -Danke schoen.
SHARIK: Let's go.
KEOGHAN: Linton and Sharik and five other teams
have completed two of the three challenges.
All other teams have only completed one.
GLENDA: Ha, ha! We're here!
MAN: Oh! Hello. [speaking German]
MICHELLE: Go, go.
[Luis grunts]
Keep going fast. Look how they're going.
We're sawing to the beat, baby. [laughs]
LUIS: Will and Abby show up after us, and I'm think,
"All right, yeah, we're ahead of them. We're good. We're good."
And they're just sawing without any effort, and they just...
It's like butter.
-That log's infected! -MICHELLE: Go!
[whoops]
Nice.
MAN: Oh. Oh, oh, oh! [speaks German]
Thank you so much.
"Saw completely through a log
to the music of Bavaria. Choose any..."
-Hey, there they are. -Good luck, guys.
-Thank you guys. -Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
-♪ ♪ -GLENDA: Baby, small motions. They're going so fast.
MAN: Hello!
-Hello! -Hi.
-[man speaking German] -MICHELLE: Go!
-Why are you stopping?! -Want to switch sides?
-Go.
Our goal is to do it faster than the music.
We got to go faster than the music.
-Pull. -Okay, this is all we have left to do.
Set. Let's go, Mattie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on.
Smile, babe. You're on The Amazing Race.
DAVID: I know for a fact
Aubrey has never held a saw in her hand.
And she got it. She picked it up really quick.
[whoops]
AUBREY: David's more impressed about my sawing skills
-than how I actually got us there. -Yeah. No, I mean...
-Which was way harder. -[laughs]
-Here we go, baby. -You-you see...
-Yeah, right there. -Oh. Okay, okay, okay.
Damn. Everyone's already been here.
-BOTH: "Who wants to chill?" -CLAIRE: Do you want to take it?
Yeah, yeah, I'll chill.
-[cheering] -Ah!
-You got it! -[grunting]
-[cheering] -[grunting, yelling]
CLAIRE: Go, go, go, go!
-Go, go, go! -Aah! Come on! Damn it!
-Yay! -DEREK: I got it! I got it!
-Guten Tag. All right. -[cheering]
-Danke! Danke! -[whooping]
All right, let's just put 'em all down.
-It's wings. It's wings. -Oh, nice.
[both vocalizing]
DEREK: So this is what you get
when you finish all three of the challenges.
-And... -And it's a nice little puzzle.
you piece it together.
Immediately. -CLAIRE: And we have a beautiful angel!
KEOGHAN: Derek and Claire
have figured out the clue they need
to find me here at the Pit Stop.
Friedensengal-- angel of peace.
Keeping watch high above the city,
teams will find me here under the wings.
With no non-eliminations on this race,
the last team to check in will be eliminated.
"Park in one of the available marked parking spaces.
The crosswalk is located underground."
This is the most nervous I've been on this race.
♪ ♪
LUMUMBA: Wow, babe. I'm so proud of you.
Oh. Oh, oh!
[cheering]
Look, everyone's gonna beat us.
-They've been doing... -Come on, baby.
-Ooh. [whoops] -Ah.
-[Lumumba whoops] -GLENDA: Thank you.
Come on. Let's get to the car.
They're right behind us.
LUMUMBA: You can give me all three pieces.
-22 Widenmayerstrasse and 25. -We're headed to the...
Yes!
LUMUMBA: Have no idea where we are on the pack.
DEREK: In the worst case,
we are somewhere around, like, eight.
Best case, we could be first.
-Tim? -Yeah.
Come on, buddy.
Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
-MAN: Are you ready? -DOM: Yes!
-[whistle blows] -[overlapping chatter]
REX: Come on, Tim! Doing great, buddy! Doing great!
Tim gets ready for marathons. He's in great shape.
I don't want to be an anchor. I lost 50 pounds for this race.
Got it.
You know, I know what the fans are thinking.
That's a deck chair off the Titanic.
TIM: Come on, Rex!
REX: But it was important for me to get down
and give ourselves a chance.
[overlapping shouting]
DOM: Go, Rich, go!
Aah!
Yeah!
-Attaboy, kid. -Yeah, good.
-Good. -[whistle blows, buzzer sounds]
MAN: Congratulations. For you.
-Thank you, sir. -Thank you.
-So now we have to go to the Biergarten Seehaus. -Yeah.
MICHAEL: We're doing so poorly getting to this third one.
You know, the Scramble just makes it hard on this first leg
of keeping track of other teams.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! -Oh, my God! -Ah!
MICHAEL: When we left the first challenge in the park,
we hadn't seen any other teams, so who knows?
Go, go, go, go!
-Yes! -Yeah!
MICHAEL: Hopefully, we're still in, like, top grouping.
-Yes! -Yes!
-Okay. What street are we on? -MARCUS: Um...
DOM: Come on, girl. Attagirl.
This is physical. Okay.
Like, we cannot mess up. We have to make sure
we don't finish last.
-[whistle blows] -[panting]
Go, go, go, go!
You got this, baby!
-You got it, baby. -[overlapping shouting]
-[grunting] -Keep going! Keep going!
Roll it! Just throw it! Throw it!
[grunts]
Go, Rich! Go!
Don't lose control!
[whistle blows, buzzer sounds]
[groans]
RICH: Speed, but focus.
A little tired, but we're gonna make this happen
because we're gonna fight.
-[whistle blows] -[indistinct shouting]
Don't lose control! Don't lose control!
Don't lose control.
Let's go, baby!
The race is really gonna
challenge us personally,
and also as a couple,
and we know that we need
to support each other no matter what.
You got it!
-[whistle blowing] -[cheering]
-RICH: Thank you. -MAN: Congratulations for you.
-Danke. -Good luck. -Thank you so much.
DOM: Doing hard things, for me, is important,
and showing others that they can do it, too.
We're meant to go through the challenges
and through the journeys
to make us realize our fullest potential.
-Oh, here it is, to the right. -That took way too long.
-♪ ♪ -The other way.
[laughing]: Yo. This is hard.
Come on, Marcus.
-SHARIK: "Who wants to chill?" -LINTON: "Who wants to chill?"
Okay. Um...
Since you're hesitating, I'll do it.
-Yes! -[cheering]
CLAIRE: We're trying to get
to the Pit Stop. We're trying to find Phil.
Yeah, the Scramble-- you just have no idea,
'cause we could be racing for first right now.
-We're almost to the Pit Stop, babe. -Yeah, babe.
-We got to keep, uh, keep moving. -Just... Yeah.
Oh, I see the angel.
Derek, we might be first!
We got to keep moving.
-You know, run a steady race. -Yeah.
The crosswalk is located underground.
We have to go underground.
There, there, there!
-DEREK: Who? -Phil!
No, there's no way.
-Claire, there's no way. -What?
-Claire, it's Phil! -Aah!
Welcome to Munich, Germany.
Thank you. I like your beard.
CLAIRE: Danke.
KEOGHAN: Derek and Claire,
you are the first team to arrive.
-Oh, my God! What?! No! -[screaming]
-Come on, Claire! -Oh, yes!
-Number uno. Let's go! -Number one in the mat!
KEOGHAN: And I do have some great news for you.
You have won $2,500 each.
-[whoops] -Come on.
So you can use that $5,000 collectively
if you want to go on a trip anywhere you want.
CLAIRE: It's really, really wild that we got first.
Everyone hopes.
-They just don't want to get last. -Literally.
That's what we were racing for today.
-Was not last. -Not get last.
I hope this sets a tone for us
for the rest of the race.
-LUMUMBA: Right here. Yep. -You sure?
-My pants falling down.
-[laughter] -[whooping]
-Step on the mat. -[whooping]
My wife has skills I didn't even know possible.
-She can roll a beer keg like nobody else. -[laughs]
[man speaking German]
-Dude, are you pushing? -You got to...
I don't know what you're...
-MICHAEL: When I go, you got to push. -MARCUS: Are you pushing?
-I thought I was pulling myself. -As I pull, you got to push.
-Okay. -I'm pulling now.
All right.
-Hey, boys. [laughs] -What's up, gentlemen? Yo.
Right here.
MICHAEL: The way we relate as brothers,
there's no competition. Usually,
-it's a family vacation, you know, Christmas. -Yeah.
MICHAEL: And so, this adds a-a different dynamic
to our relationship.
You got to push, Marcus, come on!
We have to learn
how do we communicate the best way?
[shouts, laughs]
MARCUS: Oh, my God.
[whooping]
SHARIK: Yeah!
-Bye! -[whooping]
[indistinct chatter]
Challenges-- the last two-- we really crushed them.
Yeah. I think we're really trying
not to get too confident, though,
'cause it's absolutely not over until it's over.
Everyone else is also equally very good.
-So that's the problem. -Yeah. It's very competitive.
[whistle blows, buzzer sounds]
Too slow.
-Aah! -NINA: It's okay, baby.
-Almost. -MAN: Lumber, lumber, lumber,
lumber, lumber, lumber, lumber!
[shouts]
-[speaks German, laughs] -Danke.
-Hey, boys. -Hey.
They look sweaty.
-Yay! -Yeah!
-Oh, my God. You got to be kidding me. -MAN: Well done.
-REX: Thank you, sir. -Thank you, sir.
Let's go put the clue together.
-Let me read that thing. -Mm-hmm.
[Aastha whoops, pants]
-MAN: Hello. -Hey, guys.
Hey, what's up, girl?
-[whistle blows] -[indistinct shouting]
Good job, baby.
[indistinct shouting]
[Michelle grunts]
It's okay. It's okay, babe.
-You got it, baby. -Go!
[indistinct, overlapping shouting]
-Hey! -[whistle blows] -Oh.
[buzzer sounds]
-MAN: You got it! -Yeah! -[screaming, cheering]
NINA: Team Croqueta came by, literally came in,
-did it one time, and they left. -AASTHA: Yeah, one. Yeah.
And we were like, "Aah!"
MICHELLE: Phil, we're coming! [laughs]
-Let's go. -[shrieks]
Welcome. Feel good?
MATTIE: I think as far as the challenges go,
-we... beasted 'em. -We beast it. Beast it.
MATTIE: This is our dress rehearsal.
[overlapping shouting]
[whoops] Yes!
[indistinct shouting]
[whistle blows, buzzer sounds]
Oh.
Why is that so hard?
-So the bridge is south of us. -We're close.
Okay. Stay on Widenmayer
'cause that's the street we want to be on.
AASTHA: It was like, okay, now I got to do it. I know the technique.
I know the physics. I got to do it this time.
-[whistle blows] -[overlapping shouting]
-Here. Here. Here. -Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run.
-Run, run, run, run! -[indistinct shouting]
[whistle blows]
-[applause, cheering] -AASTHA: Yeah! Yeah!
Oh, my God.
-We got it! We got it! We got it. -Oh!
"Who wants to chill?"
-You want to chill. -I want-want to chill.
-[cheering] -MAN: Go, go, go, go, go. Go, go!
There you go, babe.
[grunting]
-[cheering] -Got it.
Let's go!
We have to go that way.
Thought it said the crosswalk was underground.
-Yeah. -Yeah, it's underground.
-SHARIK: Yes, we do see another team. -That team right there.
Okay, Dad, we can beat them.
-We're going there. We're going there. -Cross now.
SHARIK: I think Phil's over there.
-Did you see the sisters yet? -No.
Cross right here.
[whooping]
Nice. Land. Beautiful.
We have another team coming in.
-Oh. Hey, guys. -Hey.
-Oh, you guys are breathing. -This was a tiring day.
-This was... this was hard, for sure. -Oh.
There's no underground thing.
That's not an underground thing.
MARCUS: We got to turn around.
-Yeah. -Come on, Mike.
So we got to cross on this side?
[both laughing]
Classic.
-All right. -Phil.
Wow, look at this.
-Bring it in, bring it in. -Here he comes.
Had a good day?
Dying for beer, but had a great day.
Here comes another team.
[Abby gasps]
-[Abby sighs] -KEOGHAN: Abby,
Will, I thought you guys were gonna pass out
at the start of the race.
I mean, you looked so excited.
And there's another team right now.
[Dom panting]
KEOGHAN: Make some space. Let 'em in.
Crosswalk is located underground.
Right here, ba-babe. Right here.
-[sighs] Ah, Phil. -Oh, my God.
Luis and Michelle... you are not out of the race.
-Oh. -You are the tenth team to arrive.
DAVID: We're running out of time now.
I've never been under so much pressure in my life.
AASTHA: We have no idea what...
what place we're in.
We just hope we're not last.
-It might be coming up. -This says "O-E-T-T" right here,
-but I can't make a left. -Okay, you make a left.
-DAVID: It's only a right. -Oh, my gosh.
-We're almost there, baby. -Hope so.
Hope I'm not in last.
What a day.
Yeah. Come on.
Aubrey and David, you're nodding your head like you know.
We figured the odds are against us.
You knew it was gonna be competitive
at the starting line, right?
-Oh, right off the bat. -Right off the bat.
Everybody wants more, I know, but like I told you,
-no more second chances. -AUBREY: I know. I know.
-That's... Yeah, that's the challenge. -[gasps]
Can you see something?
DAVID: I told you.
-David! -I told you. I told you.
-Didn't I tell you? -KEOGHAN: I am pleased to tell you
-I told you. -you are not
-the last team to arrive. -Aah! -Yeah!
-You are team number 11. -BOTH: Oh!
You are still in the race.
Ah, Aastha and Nina.
Unfortunately, you are the last team to arrive.
-Yeah. -And you are eliminated
-from the race. -That's okay. We-we had fun. We had fun, Phil.
No regrets. We got to...
I got to go to Germany with my best friend.
I was so stressed out, but...
I was having a good time, actually.
-She's having such a good time. -I was having a lot of fun.
NINA: And that's how our life is, you know?
I'm-I'm the person who worries about every little thing.
And this person is a light in my life.
And I mean, without her, I-I wouldn't be in anything, so...
I still have my winner with me, and, uh, we're gonna go home
and laugh about this every single day of our lives.
My main rule was to have fun,
and I had a blast today.
There's no other place in the world that I'd rather be,
and there's no other person I'd rather be with.
KEOGHAN: This season onThe Amazing Race...
-♪ ♪ -GLENDA: We ain't playing!
-We ain't playing, we ain't playing! -We ain't playing!
[singing]
Why is this so hard?
-[train whistle blows] -DAVID: Is that real or are we seeing things?
Oh, my gosh.
AUBREY: This is unbelievable.
I've just been freaking out 'cause he's freaking out.
[whooping] This is all I wanted!
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