JON: Previously on The Amazing Race Canada...
MICHAEL: Ready to sprint, fellas.
JON: In Penticton, BC, the race got juicy.
-[Blowing] -Let's go!
KEVIN: There's still so many teams that aren't here.
As teams voted to U-Turn Kevin and Gurleen.
-Yes, baby! -Let's go! Come on!
JON: Tempers flared...
JULIA: I'm [Beep] pissed.
JON: When they set their sights on Julia and Olivia
in a surprise double U-Turn.
GURLEEN: We have decided to U-Turn Julia and Olivia.
OLIVIA: Let's claw it out.
JOHN: This race has taken a turn.
KEVIN: If Julia and Olivia are eliminated,
are we gonna feel bad? No!
TYSON: Just a couple of guys in their bucket.
JON: Michael and Tyson took aim for their second win.
-You're team number one. -Yeah!
[Laughing]
JON: Double Trouble, Lauren and Nicole,
scored an Express Pass.
LAUREN: Maybe utilize this to get a win.
JON: But couldn't shake their second place curse.
LAUREN: As expected at this point.
KEVIN: These people wanted us out of here.
We're not going anywhere.
JON: And while the U-Turned teams
scraped the bottom of the barrel to survive...
CONNOR: This is brutal.
JON: It was John and Connor who got hung out to dry.
JON: I am sorry to tell you this,
but you have been eliminated from the race.
JOHN: It has been the best experience of our lives.
AMARI: Fly to Regina, Saskatchewan!
MICHAEL: Oh yes! TAYLOR: Let's go!
KATIE: We're going to Regina.
JON: Now, 8 teams are heading to
Regina, Saskatchewan.
MATT: See you later. KEVIN: Peace out peach.
NICOLE: Saskatchewan, baby.
JON: As they race to win...
OLIVIA: Here we go.
The first ever 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV RS...
A trip for two around the world from Expedia...
A quarter of a million dollars cash...
And, The Amazing Race Canada.
♪
NICOLE: Let's do this. MICHAEL: What's up, y'all?
NICOLE: What's up? SAM: Hi, guys.
MICHAEL: Good to see you, good to see you.
Who do you think got eliminated?
LAUREN: We hope Kevin and Gurleen.
MATT: [Chuckling]
SAM: Kevin and Gurleen are always scheming.
NICOLE: I know. SAM: You know?
GURLEEN: It was a calculated decision to U-Turn
Julia and Olivia.
KEVIN: We knew we could smoke Julia and Olivia.
We did.
Every team who has a brain knows we made a great move.
JULIA: Kevin and Gurleen wanted to put us out,
so they're not going to be happy to still see us here.
And now we're halfway through the race and,
when you're at the halfway point of a marathon,
you are feeling your best.
So, we know we can go from the back
all the way to the front.
OLIVIA: Hello!
KEVIN: Oh, Julia and Olivia just showed up.
You want to go talk to our best friends?
GURLEEN: No, I'm hungry.
MICHAEL: Way to survive. GURLEEN: Hi, guys.
What's going on? Hey, guys.
KEVIN: Congrats on surviving, you guys.
Yeah, congratulations. You guys did it.
JULIA: Yes, we did, thanks. OLIVIA: That was great.
KEVIN: Congrats to us too.
SFX: [Crickets]
We'll stay out of that drama.
TAYLOR: It is so bloody awkward in there.
We're all just putting on our little fake smiles and
nervous giggles over here.
KATIE: Ha-ha-ha.
[Laughing]
OLIVIA: You can't hold us down that easily, guys.
JON: All teams are now traveling over
1000 kilometres on the same flight from Penticton, BC
to Regina, Saskatchewan.
When they touch down, they'll make their way to
Avena Foods, where they'll find their next clue.
♪
MICHAEL: First one, first one.
SAM: Go, go, go, go, go!
-Dad, are you okay? -Yeah.
MICHAEL: There. Taxi! Taxi! TYSON: Avena Foods Limited.
MICHAEL: That's a rush right there.
The Amazing Race Canada welcome.
Feeling amazing.
TYSON: We won the last two legs.
We do have an Express Pass.
MICHAEL: So can't complain. [Laughing]
MICHAEL: We're in Regina, Saskatchewan,
Treaty 4 Territory.
AMARI: Prairies, baby.
MICHAEL: Home court advantage, let's go.
-Are you okay? You ate it. -I did 'cause I can't run.
SAM: Are you okay? BRAD: I'm great.
SAM: Okay.
We love being top of the pack.
We dealt with some communication problems
at the beginning, but now going into leg five,
we've become teammates.
Vibrating at a higher frequency today.
We're gonna kill it.
BRAD: Just give 'er. Give 'er.
NICOLE: Is this the right way?
NICOLE: So this is faster? DRIVER: Yeah.
MICHAEL: Oh, they're gonna take a different way.
AMARI: Might have missed it.
LAUREN: Fingers crossed.
We've been finishing second every single leg.
We're feeling hungry and ready to
take home the win this leg.
Let's try to break the curse.
♪
NICOLE: Right there! A-ha, suckers!
LAUREN: Route info.
"It's time for a Switchback."
JON: The Switchback is a throwback to a classic
challenge from The Amazing Race Canada archives.
In Season One, we saw Hal and Joanne.
-Come on, big boy. -I can't do it alone.
JON: And Brett and Holly searching through lentils
for hours...
under the hot, prairie sun.
[Thud & crying]
HOLLY: I can't dig in this bin anymore.
BRETT: We'll take a penalty.
We're gonna forfeit the challenge.
-Good luck. -Thanks.
JON: And now, in our first Switchback ever,
teams will complete the same challenge, but this time,
we're losing the lentils and going gluten-free...
with oats.
Each team will choose one of these grain hoppers
filled with 15 metric tons of oats.
They will need to search both sides of the trailer
to find this waffle
to secure their breakfast reservation.
LAUREN: Alright, where do we climb up, here?
NICOLE: Yeah. LAUREN: Go up?
NICOLE: Yeah, go in.
Oh my god. So much oats in here.
Searching for a needle in a haystack.
TYSON: All these grains together are super heavy.
It's definitely a killer workout in the forearms.
MICHAEL: Let's go from right to left.
-Okay. -Just like straight in.
♪
BRAD: Argh! It is a workout.
No wonder Prairie boys are good hockey players.
Is there a plan, Sam? Is there a plan?
SAM: I think this is all just luck.
It's cold, and I can't really feel much.
My hands are getting numb.
BRAD: You're doing good, baby.
♪
KATIE: Honestly, I'm feeling like a dog when they-
[Laughing] TAYLOR: Arf, arf.
KATIE: Release the hounds.
TAYLOR: Ah! Got it in my ear.
OLIVIA: Make sure you're digging your hand deep in.
What are you doing?
JULIA: Just putting my wedding band away.
OLIVIA: They're insured, come on.
The oats are so thick, it's tough to get to the bottom.
So I'm gonna try to move them for Gurleen
to do the thorough search.
GURLEEN: Baby, you're hitting me in the face.
KEVIN: Come, come. GURLEEN: I'm coming!
COLIN: They did this in the first season.
MATT: Okay.
It's gonna take a long time. My knees are shot.
After the last leg, my knees are feeling a little bit sore.
MATT: Agh, how deep is it?
COLIN: It's pretty deep. Oh.
MATT: Colin's in a bit of pain, physically,
and this is gonna be a tough one.
COLIN: We don't have any allergies, which is good.
MATT: I have a bit of hay fever.
Took an allergy pill this morning, thank God.
NICOLE: Is there a smarter way to do this?
LAUREN: Should we try each corner,
like dig out each corner?
NICOLE: It just could be anywhere.
Son, I'm pointing with my toes and I'm walking.
I get pretty deep. AMARI: Okay.
MICHAEL: Ooh, ooh, ooh. AMARI: Got something?
SFX: [Bell chimes & toy squeaking]
MICHAEL: Let's go.
Nicole, it's like a yellow square waffle looking thing.
WOMAN: Good job, guys. MICHAEL: How are you?
WOMAN: Find your names and put it up on the board here.
MICHAEL: Thank you.
MICHAEL: We're first for breakfast tomorrow.
Saskatchewan, lucky hat, home court advantage, baby.
That's what I'm talking about. Let's go.
LAUREN: It's just, it's huge, it's so deep.
I don't want to consider the Express Pass yet.
I don't think we should waste the Express Pass on a sign up.
BRAD: Let's go. Come to me, papa.
Come on, luck. You've got to change.
Come on, baby. SAM: Dad! Dad, Dad!
Second place on the board, baby!
We're feeling good!
BRAD: We're in a good position.
[Laughing]
NICOLE: I felt something hit my feet.
I'll get it out. Don't make a big noise.
SFX: [Squeaking] NICOLE: Yes.
-Okay, put your shoes on. -Get it, get it, get it.
SFX: [Squeaking]
COLIN: Matt, Matt. We got a waffle.
MICHAEL: Oh, man.
If there was a metaphor, it is slipping through
the cracks of my fingers as we speak.
♪
OLIVIA: Alright, we've got to do this together.
JULIA: I'm almost done this side.
I'll come back to that side.
-Yes? -Hold on a sec.
JULIA: Just dig. Dig through this.
TYSON: This is one bay? MICHAEL: This is one bay.
♪
Just figured out that there's two freaking bays here.
Now we have to search this entire bay.
I can't feel my fingers.
TYSON: Hey. Let's go. SFX: [Squeaking]
KEVIN: We've got it babe, we've got it, focus.
We've got to get it. We're not going home today.
♪
KEVIN: Keep digging and keep praying.
Go on your belly like a snake, slither through it.
[Effort grunting]
JULIA: Come on. Dig deep, Liv.
Literally, dig deep.
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
Oh my God. SFX: [Squeaking]
Here. [Sighing]
Come on, come on, let's go.
KATIE: [Whispers] Taylor! Taylor!
I think I found it. I found it. It's a waffle.
SFX: [Bell chiming] TAYLOR: Okay, let's go.
[Exhaling sharply]
♪
GURLEEN: [Effort grunting] We're in last place.
This is gonna take forever. What should we do?
Should we ask them what the penalty is?
KEVIN: No, we can't.
If we take a penalty, we'll lose.
GURLEEN: I'm kind of freaking out.
KEVIN: It's okay. Breathe. You're so strong, baby.
Keep moving that grain, baby. It's gonna pop out, yes.
You're doing fantastic. We'll be here all night.
-We'll never quit. -No.
-SFX: [Squeaking] -Ah, I found it!
-Yes, let's go. -I found it!
You're the best. I knew you were gonna find it.
KEVIN: You're the best. GURLEEN: We are amazing.
KEVIN: Breakfast reservation for Hotel Saskatchewan.
Good job, baby. We were in there forever.
We were literally in there forever.
We just dug for over two hours in those oats.
We're in last place.
I think we're gonna persevere.
There's a lot of race ahead of us,
but that was incredibly difficult.
♪
JON: They say the most important meal of the day
is breakfast.
And teams are about to discover that the only
two items on the menu are pig brains
and bison testicles.
Mm. Kinda nutty. [Chuckles]
Breakfast will be served in the order
they finished the previous challenge.
And teams will have the choice to devour
one entire plate of local delicacies...
a pile of pig brains...
or juicy bison testicles.
One lucky team will win the Assist by Desjardins,
giving them a little extra help in completing this challenge.
MICHAEL: Ooh! Fancy.
SERVER: Good morning, racers.
For breakfast today, we have...
♪
...slow-poached pig brain and bull testicles.
♪
MICHAEL: Bra.
MICHAEL: We thought for sure
we're gonna be eating a plate of waffles.
AMARI: Thank you, sir. MICHAEL: Thank you.
We only have to eat one plate.
AMARI: What do you want to do? MICHAEL: Let's do brains.
Let's get smart, we'll do brains.
AMARI: Yup.
MICHAEL: Just swallow it and drink water.
Swallow it.
[Gagging]
MICHAEL: There's a trick where if you don't breathe
through your nose, you can't taste,
so if you take away- -[Retching]
[Laughing]
AMARI: [Retching] What the! MICHAEL: [Laughing]
♪
AMARI: Look it, he's crushing the thing.
[Laughs]
[Together] Check, please! SFX: [Bell rings]
AMARI: Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.
[Burping]
MICHAEL: [Laughing]
AMARI: Road Block.
"Who likes a good play list?"
JON: Teams must make their way to Mosaic Stadium,
the home of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
In this Road Block, one racer
will need to memorize 12 different football plays.
When ready, they'll take to the field and join the team
to execute one of 12 plays
called by the coach.
COACH: Trips left X shallow cross all go on 1.
PLAYER: 27!
JON: Once they successfully run the correct play
and score a touchdown...
[Cheering]
They'll receive their next clue.
AMARI: I guess I do. MICHAEL: Okay.
6-8. That might be the play, play 68.
Brains is good. I got smarter.
AMARI: I got dumber.
♪
SAM: Hello.
LAUREN: We love fine dining. What could go wrong?
SERVER: Good morning. For breakfast today,
we have slow poached pig brain and bull testicles.
SAM: Wait, what?
No. There's no way I'm doing this.
Oh my god, I'm gonna throw up.
BRAD: Box breathe, box breathe.
SAM: We only need to eat one.
BRAD: I'm going with the beef balls.
SAM: No, we're not going with the balls.
Let's do the pig brains.
BRAD: Thank you. Ready to go?
SAM: Okay, go, go, go.
[Coughing] Oh my God, no.
BRAD: Don't do it, Sam.
SAM: I don't feel so good.
I can't do it, I can't do it.
I'm gonna throw up. [Coughing]
BRAD: Don't throw it up. SAM: [Gagging]
BRAD: Don't throw it up.
SAM: [Coughing] BRAD: I got you, I promise.
LAUREN: Mind over matter.
NICOLE: Mm-hm. Oh my God, it smells.
"Congratulations, you won the Assist by Desjardins.
Present this card to the server to receive
your Assist. The same eating rules apply to you."
COLIN: Oh, that's some nice. That is some nice.
SAM: Oh my God.
COLIN: Thank you so much, Desjardins.
Thank you so much.
You got the eggs, I'll take the fruit.
SERVER: Slow poached pig brain and bull testicles.
TYSON: Which one? MICHAEL: The bull testicle.
TYSON: I've never had them for breakfast,
but I've had these before.
Also known as Rocky Mountain oysters.
Oof.
BRAD: Don't throw it up. SAM: [Gagging]
MATT: Oh, I'm gonna be sick.
SAM: [Gagging] Okay, I swallowed it.
SAM: Check, please. BRAD: Thank you, sir.
SAM: Okay, wait, we have a Road Block.
BRAD: [Burping] Yeah.
Me. "68. Study a football team's playbook."
BRAD: I think you can do that. SAM: Okay, let's go.
BRAD: Yeah, let's go.
SAM: Thank you for taking the reins on that.
BRAD: I've got to be honest with you.
I hated every bit of it. [Laughing]
NICOLE: Alright, check. SFX: [Bell ringing]
-Thank you. -Thank you so much.
TYSON: Eat some. MICHAEL: I'm eating.
LAUREN: "Who likes a good play list?"
NICOLE: You? LAUREN: Me.
NICOLE: Okay.
COLIN: Can we get a check? SFX: [Bell rings]
MATT: [Claps] Thank you, sir. COLIN: Thank you so much.
It was great, guys. Don't worry about it.
MICHAEL: Don't worry about it.
COLIN: You're doing this one, bud.
'Cause my knees are shot.
TYSON: Check, please. MICHAEL: We're bad.
[Singing] We're bad. [Laughing]
Oh, thank you.
MICHAEL: Now we're about to go run football routes.
I usually take like a protein shake,
a little creatine to get myself up,
but like a bull testicle, that might be
the new pre-game.
TYSON: Pre-game testo.
MICHAEL: Pre-game testo! Oh!
[Laughing]
AMARI: Number one, baby.
First place, and we're headed to Mosaic Stadium
to run with some Roughriders.
Oh, there it is.
♪
Damn!
What up? Coach Lindon, nice to meet you.
AMARI: Amari. COACH: Coach Higgs.
-How are you doing, alright? -Good.
COACH: You're gonna be the blue icon in
any of these given plays. -Okay.
Look at the word, see the position of the blue marker,
and then try and memorize as best you can.
AMARI: I've never seen a football play drawn up before.
There's 12 plays I have to remember.
COACH: Spread Z post route. Checked out on 1.
COACH: Shallow cross, all go on 1.
COACH: It's okay. Just, just slow down.
AMARI: What's difficult about this challenge is
how long the play call names are,
but the coach is helping me break it down a little bit.
COACH: X or Z, inside or outside.
AMARI: X, X is...
ah inside.
COACH: Correct.
AMARI: I think I kind of want to give it a go.
Hopefully I get lucky.
♪
JAY: Welcome to the special Amazing Race Canada edition
of Sports Centre with Jay Onrait.
Teams are hitting the field and Rider Nation
are there to cheer them on.
It's game day on the race.
[Cheering]
♪
MICHAEL: Let's go, Amari!
[Cheering & loud popping]
TREVOR: Ready to rock? AMARI: Ready.
TREVOR: Let's get it. AMARI: Alright.
COACH: Double right jet wide shallow cross on 1.
TREVOR: Double right jet wide shallow cross on 1.
-On 1. Ready. -Cross, alright. Let's go.
[Whistle]
JAY: Alright, the Rider's coach just called a
classic play where Amari has to run for five yards,
and then cut across the field where he'll
snatch the ball out of the air.
TREVOR: Wide 27!
♪
JAY: Amari, you lined up on the wrong side of the field!
AMARI: Agh!
MICHAEL: Get in there!
JAY: You blew it! SFX: [Buzzer]
[Whistle blowing]
COACH: It's the right side alignment.
You're on the left side.
COACH: Double's right, which side do you go to?
AMARI: I'm on the right. COACH: Correct, that's it.
Make it very simple.
♪
JULIA: We don't do testicles, so...
[Laughing] We'll go with this.
♪
OLIVIA: [Retching]
TAYLOR: Mind over matter.
[Gagging]
KATIE: You can't make those noises.
GURLEEN: You do it, just eat the whole thing.
KEVIN: [Gagging] GURLEEN: Last piece.
JULIA: "Who likes a good playlist?"
I'll do it.
KEVIN: That's you, baby. You love a good playlist.
-Let's go, let's go. -I'm gonna do it.
KATIE: You, this is you. TAYLOR: Me?
OLIVIA: I smell like a carcass.
JULIA: I know. It smells so bad.
OLIVIA: [Gagging]
[Cheering]
NICOLE: Let's go, baby! I'm so hyped.
My twins sister and I actually played flag football
in high school. We used to have a twin play.
We'd both run it in,
and I know she's gonna kill it out there.
COACH: Fake sweep trips left wide button on 1.
TREVOR: Fake sweep trips left wide button on 1.
-[Whistle] -Ready.
JAY: Here's Lauren of Double Trouble on the
line of scrimmage for her first attempt.
TREVOR: Play 20! Wide 27!
JAY: She turns around.
For some reason, she's running the wrong way.
SFX: [Buzzer & whistle]
MICHAEL: Oh, he's going for another one.
TREVOR: Fake sweep trips left wide button on 1.
[Whistle]
JAY: Second down for Amari. Will he score?
Or is it back to the locker room?
TREVOR: Wide 87!
♪
[Cheering] Yeah!
JAY: Amari snatches the ball.
Look at him run for the end zone,
and he's high stepping across the goal line!
MICHAEL: Let's go! COACH: Well done.
AMARI: Thank you, sir.
[Cheering]
AMARI: "Route Info. 68.
Fly to Jon Montgomery's home town, Russell, Manitoba."
For over a decade, the race has visited communities
from coast to coast to coast and around the world.
And today, it's my great pleasure to introduce you
to my home town, Russell, Manitoba!
[Cheering]
Teams must make their way to Kreos Aviation and
sign up for one of two flights
arriving 15 minutes apart in Russell.
MICHAEL: Let's go. Woo!
[Cheering]
AMARI: There's two flights,
so we've got to get on that first flight.
MICHAEL: He's not puking up W's.
-He's eating 'em. -I'm just eating them.
[Chewing]
My tummy's so full of W's right now.
[Cheering]
♪
[Cheering]
♪
TYSON: Let's go, baby!
MICHAEL: Football is definitely ingrained in me.
With a dad that came from the NFL and the CFL,
that was my first sport that I got put into.
TREVOR: Here we go. We've got double right
jet wide shallow cross on 1.
-[Indistinct shouting] -[Whistle]
JAY: Michael looking to make his family proud.
Makes the play!
Oh, he ran over the defender!
And he's into the end zone for the touchdown!
TYSON: Let's go, baby!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
[Cheering] Let's go!
JAY: Let's take a look at that one more time.
I feel like Michael could play in the CFL
with hits like that.
TREVOR: Double right jet wide shallow cross on 1.
-Ready. -[Whistle]
OLIVIA: This is epic! TREVOR: Wide 27.
JAY: Julia's in position on the field...
♪
And grabs that ball for the touchdown!
OLIVIA: Yeah!
[Cheering]
What a rush.
JULIA: We start at the back of the pack,
and now we're in third. This is huge.
There's two flights, Liv, there.
We've got to get to the first signup board.
AMARI: Gotta get up on that signup board, boy!
MICHAEL: Yes. AMARI: We are Sask, baby!
First place. Plane number one.
That's what I'm talking about.
TYSON: Flight one, baby! MICHAEL: Let's go, flight one.
Bop, bop, bop.
OLIVIA: Oh, intense.
JULIA: We're on flight number one!
[Cheering]
BRAD: I can't wait to see my daughter catch a football.
She's gonna kill it.
-Let's go. -Yeah!
SAM: He's so cute. I love him so much.
I've been in stadiums like this my whole life.
Usually hockey stadiums, always supporting my dad.
Now it's his turn to support me.
I really don't want to let him down.
Alright, let's do this.
-You got this. -Oh, God.
COACH: Fake sweep trips left wide button on 1.
BRAD: Catch the ball and take it to the house, baby.
Take it!
Let's go, Sam! Let's go, Sam!
[Whistle]
TREVOR: 3-27! BRAD: Let's go, Sam!
Let's go, Sam!
JAY: Mayday! Mayday!
Sam May scores the touchdown,
making her dad, Brad, proud.
SAM: I didn't think I could do that!
"Make your way to Kreos Aviation."
I just wanted that ball so badly.
BRAD: Aw, I'm so proud of you.
Kiddo, you did it.
SAM: Now I understand how it was for you.
NICOLE: Let's freaking go!
[Whistle] TREVOR: 3-82!
JAY: Second attempt for Double Trouble.
Lauren runs the correct way this time,
catches the touchdown and scores their next clue.
KEVIN: [Frustrated sighing] I should have done this one.
GURLEEN: Trips left X shallow cross on 1 go.
Trips left X shallow.
I've only memorized two.
I'm pretty stressed out.
COLIN: Let's go, Matt! SFX: [Whistle]
TREVOR: One-27!
JAY: Matt, from the Rock, making his third attempt...
And it is a completion, b'y!
[Cheering] Let's go!
So frustrated. I should have done this challenge.
I know all these plays. I play Madden all the time.
TREVOR: 3-27! JAY: Taylor's on the field.
♪
Touchdown!
Leaving Kevin and Gurleen last.
♪
KATIE: Let's go, go, go! TAYLOR: There's two flights.
KATIE: Good job, buddy.
TAYLOR: Katie, that was tough. KATIE: Yeah.
GURLEEN: Sweep double right fakes...
Okay, I have to calm down.
KEVIN: We're the last team here in Mosaic Stadium.
[Sighing]
And she got stuck memorizing the plays.
We're fighting for our life again. [Beep], man!
SAM: We got on the first flight. Woo!
Nice! We're on the first flight.
BRAD: Sammy, do it. What have you got for me?
SAM: Boom, and then a little dancey dance.
BRAD: [Laughing]
NICOLE: Agh, [beep]! We were so close. Agh!
-I'm sorry. -What are you gonna do?
KATIE: We made it. TAYLOR: We made it.
-We made it. -[Laughing]
MATT: Time to fly.
COLIN: Lots of pain here today. Lots of pain.
Not feeling too great to be on the second flight.
My knees are torn to shreds.
Not feeling too confident if we have to keep doing
a lot of running, but you know,
that's all we can do at this point,
just got to try to power through the pain.
[Cheering]
GURLEEN: Is this four yards or five yards?
COACH: Five.
GURLEEN: I'm a perfectionist, but I know that we're in
last place, so I have to get out of here.
Okay, I'm gonna try it.
[Cheering & clapping]] Let's go!
KEVIN: Yeah, baby!
TREVOR: Fake sweep trips left wide button on 1.
[Whistle] TREVOR: 3-82!
GURLEEN: Wide button.
♪
KEVIN: Yeah! Let's go!
JAY: Gurleen, you're into the end zone...
but you're also in last place.
[Grunting]
That's all from us at Sports Centre with
Jay Onrait here on TSN.
Back to you, Jon, in beautiful Russell, Manitoba.
JON: Thanks, Jay!
All teams are now traveling over 200 kilometres
on two separate flights
from Regina to Russell, Manitoba.
When they land, they'll need to make their way
on foot to Millennium Park.
For 35 years, Kids Help Phone
has been Canada's only free 24/7
E-mental health service supporting young kids
all across the country.
When they arrive at Millennium Park,
teams will need to unlock a box using a series of numbers
they've encountered on this leg of the race.
Once unlocked, they'll find pieces of a puzzle that will
reveal the Kids Help Phone text number:
6-8-6-8-6-8.
Once teams have assembled the puzzle,
they'll receive their next clue.
♪
AMARI: Alright!
JULIA: We're in Russell, Manitoba.
Pretty cool.
BRAD: Come on, Sam. SAM: I just needed a second.
Okay.
BRAD: Sam, let's go. Millennium Park!
AMARI: This is the park. Choose a station.
♪
Alright. 6-8-6-8.
Okay. Everything out.
MICHAEL: 68-68. That's it, right there.
OLIVIA: Could be any combination of 6-8-6-8.
You got it? Good.
BRAD: What's the combination?
SAM: Dad, I don't have the Road Block number.
BRAD: Why, Sam? SAM: Dad, I don't know.
AMARI: We don't know what the full picture looks like,
so we don't know what borders and what's what, so...
MICHAEL: Tys, what is "phone" in French,
do you know? "J'écoute", "libre".
TYSON: Je ne sais quoi. Not our thing.
JULIA: Oh-ho, bang!
Okay, it's coming together.
Olivia is amazing at puzzles,
so I know that we have the opportunity
to get out of there first.
JULIA: Okay, keep going, keep going, we're close.
SAM: 68, and... we don't have it, Dad.
We don't have it.
BRAD: Michael, what was your clue to get in?
MICHAEL: 6-8!
SAM: Wait! I got it, I got it, I got it.
BRAD: Go, let's go. SAM: Holy frig.
BRAD: Get this ready. Give me that stuff.
SAM: It doesn't matter right now.
We don't need this stuff. BRAD: Just get going.
SAM: You have to be really gentle with this stuff.
Really gentle. If we break it...
BRAD: Okay, Sam.
MICHAEL: It's massive to get out of here
before the other flight arrives.
♪
MATT: Watch your legs.
COLIN: Oh, my knees are gone. NICOLE: Just to the yellow.
MICHAEL: Yeah, second flight's here.
Here we go.
KATIE: 68-68. I think that's the Kids Help Phone.
LAUREN: Okay, here, got it.
NICOLE: Got it? Sweet. Good job.
KEVIN: Yeah, all the teams are here.
It's just such an important moment in this race.
GURLEEN: Sam, can I come look?
SAM: I don't know. I don't want people to look.
KEVIN: Yeah, we're not going home today.
We're not going home today.
TAYLOR: Kids Help Phone is a line
that kids can call when in crisis.
I'm a sport program coordinator.
I've also had the opportunity to coach kids in wrestling.
The kids crisis hotline, it's definitely a really
wonderful resource for youth to be able to utilize.
MATT: [Singing] 1-800-668-6868.
♪
JULIA: The French has to go with the French.
OLIVIA: That could be it.
JULIA: This is a beautiful, beautiful, just-
-Check, please. -Check, please.
SAM: They got a check.
♪
Congratulations.
-Good job. -Thank you so much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
MICHAEL: Oh, my god, they're done.
OLIVIA: Road Block.
JULIA: "Who wants to go for a spin?"
JON: In this Road Block,
the racer that did not perform the
previous Road Block will have to jump, kick,
and twirl their way into the world of
traditional Ukrainian dance.
DANCER: Ya!
Ha-ha. Good luck.
Racers must find the arch dedicated to yours truly
where they'll be welcomed by a cheering crowd
and the Ukrainian Yachminka Dance Ensemble.
Once they've learned the complicated Bukovina dance
and perform in step with the ensemble,
Baba Tania will give them their next clue.
DANCERS: Ya!
JULIA: We're in first place. OLIVIA: Are we?
-Yeah, we're in first place. -Actually?
Yeah, we're in first place. Let's keep it.
-That fits perfectly, right. -Well done, my son.
WOMAN Congratulations. MATT: Yeah!
-Thank you so much. -Thank you so much!
MATT: Thank you.
COLIN: I'm going to be in a lot of pain.
MATT: No pain, no gain. COLIN: No.
When do we start talking about our Express Pass?
LAUREN: Yes, this is it. Check!
WOMAN: Congratulations. NICOLE: Amazing.
LAUREN: Thank you so much. AMARI: The twins got it too?
TAYLOR: Okay, we're close, we're close.
KATIE: Just one. Got it, got it, got it.
Check, please!
♪
TAYLOR: Thank you! KATIE: Thank you, thank you.
SAM: One other team left. BRAD: Argh, frustrated.
JULIA: Going to dance on Main Street, baby!
See the arches, Liv? OLIVIA: Yeah.
[Cheering]
JULIA: Let's go!
♪ [Traditional] ♪
JULIA: We've got to find an instructor.
Hi, we need an instructor.
OLIVIA: Come on, girl. Let's go!
We have never had a lead like this in the race before.
This is huge, I'm feeling pumped up.
But there's gonna be teams on our heels.
INSTRUCTOR: Take a step forward.
Spin around, other way.
OLIVIA: I am not a great dancer.
This dance starts off slow.
Then it gets faster and faster,
and then it starts spinning in circles.
I need to take it slowly. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
INSTRUCTOR: Let's do that three times. Alright?
OLIVIA: Okay, maybe like 100 times, but yeah.
♪
AMARI: There's only four of us left here.
MICHAEL: This is very difficult.
We've tried many times,
and we still don't know what's going on,
so we're considering using our Express Pass.
Dude, I don't know what this freaking looks like, man.
We don't really have any strategy or system right now.
That's why we're not getting too far on this at all.
♪
Wannna Express Pass this thing, get out of here?
BRAD: Okay, Sam.
SAM: We're gonna be here forever.
BRAD: Okay. Sam, relax.
SAM: I don't understand.
KEVIN: Oh, baby, I got it here, I got it here.
This is it, here we go. GURLEEN: Check!
TYSON: Check, check, check!
WOMAN: Good job.
KEVIN: Thank you. Thank you, thank you.
MICHAEL: There's three of us from the first flight.
SAM: I'm gonna freak out.
MICHAEL: Dude, what do we think?
Dude, let's get out of here.
Not where I wanted to do this,
but we want to use our Express Pass.
WOMAN: Alright. MICHAEL: Alright.
Thank you so much.
AMARI: Boys are using their Express Pass.
MICHAEL: Should we use ours? AMARI: I don't know.
MICHAEL: I think we should, Son.
AMARI: They look more lost than we do.
SAM: Argh! We haven't made any progress.
I don't know what to do.
BRAD: I just don't see it.
SAM: This could be the end of us.
This is so frustrating.
but I feel like there's daggers going into my knees.
MATT: Yeah. Take it easy. COLIN: Yeah.
[Cheering]
COLIN: Are you my instructor?
Alright, let's do this. I'm in so much pain.
MATT: He's determined. He's good at choreography.
He nailed it in the musical in high school, so...
he's gonna be mad that I said that too, so...
INSTRUCTOR: Right and left and right and left.
COLIN: [Laughing] Love it.
♪ [Traditional] ♪
INSTRUCTOR: And step, step right, left. Up, up.
Turn and step together, step.
-Yes. -Okay.
Point, cross, to the side, behind, sit.
We're gonna go like you're going around a hula hoop.
KATIE: My nieces and nephew have been doing
Ukrainian dancing for a few years.
It's a lot of movements in one spot, a lot of hopping,
you know, a lot of this involved.
Put on a show.
INSTRUCTOR: Pose! OLIVIA: Okay.
INSTRUCTOR: And on a pose we say, "Ya!"
And I'll show you it, but it's high-pitched.
OLIVIA: [High-pitch] Ya! INSTRUCTOR: Yeah.
OLIVIA: Let's just try it out. INSTRUCTOR: Try it?
OLIVIA: Yeah, let's try it out.
[Cheering]
JULIA: You got it, babe!
♪
[Cheering]
♪
♪ [Music speeds up] ♪
OLIVIA: Oh, this thing's fast.
♪
SFX: [Buzzer]
OLIVIA: Yeah, it just got fast.
I think where I'm messing up is my transition.
That's all it is.
KEVIN: We've got this, baby, let's go.
You're doing great. Let's go, bro. Come on!
[Cheering]
TAYLOR: Woo! Who's coming?
MATT: Kevin and Gurleen.
KEVIN: You're doing great. Let's go, let's go.
INSTRUCTOR: Cross and point. Cross and point.
TYSON: I've always loved being a bit of a showman.
I don't half-ass anything,
but having hearing loss, being able to hear
the beat of the music, and I know that part of
the memorization is gonna be tough for me.
INSTRUCTOR: And then single and a single.
TYSON: And then, 1, 2. INSTRUCTOR: And then a 1, 2.
TYSON: And then a what? INSTRUCTOR: One, two.
TYSON: One, two.
♪
MICHAEL: We're almost there. [Muttering] ...go there.
-This, yes. -Oh! Check, please!
-Oh my God. -Congratulations, here you go.
-Thank you. -They got it.
AMARI: Like, you have to do this one.
Now we still got our Express Pass.
BRAD: Come on, Brad.
You need to stop being so frantic and line up the ones.
BRAD: I'm with you. Oh, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
♪
SAM: Yes, yes. BRAD: You go here.
BRAD: Getting out of our own head and trying to
slow things down, it was like the light bulb went off.
-Right there. -Okay, can we get a check?
WOMAN: Congratulations. BRAD: Let's go dancing.
SAM: Let's go. BRAD: Let's go dancing.
-Let's go dancing. -Okay.
KEVIN: Step, hop, step, hop, grinch, grinch, grinch.
INSTRUCTOR: Grinch, yes! Nailed it. Okay.
KEVIN: Great, I'm gonna try.
GURLEEN: I definitely think that Kevin's gonna channel
his great memorization skills and just kill this challenge.
♪
KEVIN: It's so fast. SFX: [Buzzer]
KEVIN: I'll be back! I'll be back.
MICHAEL: I choose one of you? DANCER: Yeah.
MICHAEL: Alright, I choose you.
BRAD: Way to go, big boy! SAM: Dad, here! Dad, here!
-[Indistinct speaking] -Oh, I love this.
GURLEEN: Did you guys use your Express Pass?
No?
SAM: Every other team is here. Brad needs to come in clutch.
BRAD: I'm in a hockey rink, which is my domain.
Who knows? We'll see what happens.
You know what? I love dancing.
I have a couple of epic dance moves,
but they're not choreographed
to a Ukrainian folk song.
INSTRUCTOR: Hey! BRAD: I've got that, okay.
-We're not doing that. -What are we doing?
INSTRUCTOR: Scoop the flowers.
Give them out.
MICHAEL: I went to a Beyonce concert.
She came to Saskatoon, Queen B,
and I was inspired to enroll in a hip hop dance class,
and I performed in a recital as a grown man.
[Laughing]
Hey!
OLIVIA: Ya! Okay, let's just try it out.
♪
OLIVIA: Ya!
[Cheering]
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
[Cheering]
INSTRUCTOR: Here's your next clue!
[Cheering]
JULIA: Let's go, let's go.
AMARI: That's fun to watch.
OLIVA: Route Info. JULIA: Route Info.
JON: Teams must now make their way by taxi to the
Asessippi Ski Area and Resort,
and locate the Vine Chapel.
It's here in the Asessippi Valley that teams will
find the Pit Stop for the 5th leg of the race.
The last team to check in here...
MAY be eliminated.
JULIA: Thank you, thank you.
We're going to see Jon! First place, let's go!
♪
[Cheering]
NICOLE: Yeah! LAUREN: Woo!
That was perfect, come on!
[Cheering]
NICOLE: Thank you so much. Thank you!
LAUREN: You killed that. Double Trouble, baby.
♪
[Cheering]
INSTRUCTOR: Congratulations! KATIE: Ah!
[Cheering]
We've got to go! We've got to go!
MATT: Okay.
TAYLOR: "Warning, the last team to check in
may be eliminated." Okay, let's go.
We're gonna go to the taxi stand.
LAUREN: Nicole, come on. NICOLE: I'm trying.
LAUREN: Taxi!
JULIA: Taxi. Hi. OLIVIA: How you doing today?
JULIA: We're going to the Asessippi Ski Resort.
OLIVIA: You are part of team #1 right now.
LAUREN: Julia and Olivia had that little bit of a lead.
I want to win now. We're in the 5th leg,
and we've been second every single leg so far.
KATIE: We're back in the game.
TAYLOR: We are. We were always in the game.
Always in it, but better being in the upper half.
TAYLOR: Jonny boy, we're coming for you.
KATIE: Ready to see Jon.
OLIVIA: Tell me this chapel's up this hill.
NICOLE: Is this where we get dropped off?
It's looking like deadsville.
KATIE: Where are you, Jon?
♪
OLIVIA: [Humming Wedding March]
Da-da-da-da...
[Shouting] Agh!
JOAN: Welcome to beef and barley country,
Russell, Manitoba.
JON: Thanks, Mom. OLIVIA: Mom?!
JULIA: No way! OLIVIA: Yeah!
JON: I'd like to introduce you to my mom, Joan.
JULIA: Pleasure to meet you.
So happy to be in your home town.
JON: Julia, Olivia, you're team #1.
JULIA: Yeah! [Laughing]
JON: [Laughing]
JULIA: I love you. OLIVIA: Oh, you did it.
JULIA: We did it! OLIVIA: We did it!
-All the way from the back... -To the front!
JULIA: I'm so proud, so proud.
JON: Expedia believes that we were all made to travel,
and as such, they're sending you on a dream adventure...
to Italy.
[Cheering & laughing]
That's where we wanted to go on our honeymoon!
We got married almost a year ago.
We never got the opportunity to go on our honeymoon.
OLIVIA: We put it off just due to training and the race,
and here we are.
We're going to Italy!
JULIA: Incredible. JON: Well, that's not all.
Expedia's giving you $10,000...
to make this a trip you will never forget.
Happy wedding.
JOAN: That's nice. [Laughing]
OLIVIA: Seeing Jon and his mom is so special.
A big inspiration for me is my mother who has
my whole life suffered from multiple sclerosis,
and I have watched her mobility just crumble.
It just gives you a different look on life that...
you can't give up.
And I'm very honoured to be here for her.
NICOLE: Woo!
[Laughing & sighing]
JON: Lauren, Nicole, you might have
heard this before, but you're team #2.
LAUREN: Ah-ha-ha! JON: Once again!
NICOLE: Would we have it any other way?
JON: Taylor, Katie, you're team #3.
Yeah! [Laughing & cheering]
TAYLOR: I'm so proud of you, buddy.
♪
[Indistinct instructions]
KEVIN: Five teams are here,
but there's some Express Passes out there.
I've got to do this fast. It's so close,
I just need to nail a little bit more of the footwork.
COLIN: Plant, kick.
The footwork in this dance is very intricate.
Hopping on 1 foot to the other leg for two hops.
Ugh!
My knees physically cannot keep up with the tempo,
and I can't get the hops down.
COLIN: I've got daggers in my knees right now.
INSTRUCTOR: Up and around and scoop and pose. Hey!
-Hey! -Are you good?
Okay, let's try it.
MICHAEL: Let's go, Tys! Come on.
♪
SFX: [Buzzer] INSTRUCTOR: I'm sorry.
You're gonna have to try that again.
TYSON: Can I go again? MICHAEL: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Rip it, rip it.
TYSON: It's extremely difficult for me to
hear along with the music.
I'm concentrating really close...
-SFX: [Buzzer] -But it's failure.
-SFX: [Buzzer] -After failure.
They're moving way quicker than I thought.
SFX: [Buzzer]
INSTRUCTOR: That's not quite right.
TYSON: I'll be back.
MICHAEL: We literally had to use an Express Pass
on a puzzle to get to this where you should be
using your Express Pass on this.
This is tough.
TYSON: Yeah, it's the speed and the tempo with them and,
and trying to hear the music on tune, it's just, yeah.
INSTRUCTOR: Demi. Yup, 1- Yup.
Nope. [Laughing]
♪
and you try and keep up. -Okay.
TYSON: Five teams are here right now,
and I'm trying to get out of here.
But I can't hear the beat of the music.
INSTRUCTOR: And then this way, and all the way around.
TYSON: I'm trying to focus in on her movements,
so it's gonna be strictly memory.
Hey! Okay, let's go.
♪
MICHAEL: That 'a boy! Good position.
Be a showman.
♪
[Cheering]
MICHAEL: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now here it is, the spin.
♪
Yes, yes... yes.
TYSON: Yeah!
[Cheering]
MICHAEL: Yeah!
INSTRUCTOR: Congratulations. Good job!
[Cheering]
Hell yeah!
"Search for the Vine Chapel for Jon
at your next Pit Stop." Let's go.
Thank you, guys! Thank you!
Let's go, baby!
♪
[Laughing]
♪
[Cheering]
KEVIN: Yeah!
[Cheering]
You're the best! You're the best!
[Cheering]
AMARI: I have not seen my dad yet, so I'm starting to
get a little worried. They're getting old.
-Some old farts, and... -[Laughing]
I don't know. I don't know if they're gonna
be able to handle this, their old bodies.
SAM: Yeah.
BRAD: I'm actually coming from the depths right now.
[Claps]
INSTRUCTOR: Grab flowers, hey!
MICHAEL: [Sputtering]
-Let's go give it a rip. -Okay.
♪
AMARI: Let's go! Nice! Nice!
♪
MICHAEL: Hey! INSTRUCTOR: Congratulations.
[Cheering]
-Here's your next clue. -Thank you.
MICHAEL: Wait, I got one more.
-Hey! Hey! Hey! -[Cheering]
AMARI: Go get changed! Let's go!
Going to see Jon. Let's go, baby, let's go!
♪
MICHAEL: Oh! Jonny baby!
♪
JON: Michael, Tyson...
You are team #4. TYSON: Ah!
MICHAEL: [Laughing] We'll take that, man.
We'll take that.
JON: Kevin, Gurleen. BOTH: Hi. Hello.
JON: Team #5. GURLEEN: Yeah!
We overcame it today.
We've been battling the battles,
but we're ready to win the war.
KEVIN: We are resilient. We're not going anywhere.
Should we use this chapel?
GURLEEN: You need a really nice ring, honey.
JON: Michael, Amari, you're team #6.
MICHAEL: Yes. [Sighing] AMARI: Safe!
MICHAEL: What a day. AMARI: Oh man.
MICHAEL: What a day.
♪
SAM: My dad still hasn't been out yet.
Agh!
BRAD: Right. No.
I'm not doing that. Start at the beginning.
♪
I'm not close.
♪
COLIN: 3, 4...
[Groaning]
This is painful.
Just me and Brad here now, and...
I can't even kick my legs up because
my knees are so shot.
I know the steps, I know the routine.
And my body just physically won't allow me to do them.
My knees, like, I just literally can't do it,
so it's not looking too good right now.
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
MATT: Here we go, buddy! Here we go!
[Clapping] Two teams left.
His knees are killing him. I feel helpless.
♪
MATT: Yeah! CROWD: [Cheering]
MATT: Unh!
Nice!
[Cheering]
COLIN: Hey!
CROWD: [Cheering] Come on!
INSTRUCTOR Beautiful. Congratulations!
COLIN: Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
Oh my God.
"Warning, the last team to check in may be eliminated."
-Let's go, buddy. -Alright, we need to get a cab.
BRAD: Double. Right, single.
Spin it around. I'm so sorry.
SAM: Hey, don't say sorry to me.
You've got this.
BRAD: I'm terrible. SAM: You're not terrible.
BRAD: Let's do it one more time. Sam's here.
SAM: You've got this. You've got this.
You're gonna kill it.
We're in this together and, I just want to support him
like he's supported me my whole life.
♪
MATT: Good? COLIN: Yeah.
How's it going?
JON: Colin, Matt, you're...
Team #7.
COLIN: Hey! Good job. MATT: Nice.
MATT: Good job. We earned that.
COLIN: Yeah, that was a rough one.
♪
SAM: Ah, I see Jon!
Ah.
JOAN: Welcome to beef and barley country
in Russell, Manitoba.
-Thank you so much. -Thanks for having us.
JON: Thanks, Mom.
SAM: You guys look so much alike. I love it.
JON: Brad, Sam,
you are the last team to arrive.
I am sorry to tell you this,
but you have been eliminated from the race.
♪
SAM: It's all good.
BRAD: Amazing Race Canada,
thank you for the opportunity, the experience.
I was stealing time with my daughter.
SAM: Yeah.
Oh, stop it.
BRAD: You impress me so much, the young woman you are.
SAM: Thanks, Dad.
I'm so happy we did this together.
BRAD: Proud of you. JOAN: [Laughs]
BRAD: Mrs. Montgomery, you should be so proud too.
Your son's a champ.
JOAN: I am, and I just love to hear
how well you two did together, so.
SAM: I am so proud of my dad.
You showed me so much today, like,
I never thought he could dance like that.
-Are you kidding me? -[Laughing]
This race has meant everything to us.
We've just had such a great time,
and I can't wait to look back on these memories
with you forever.
BRAD: I love that.
♪
SAM: I love you. I'm so proud of you.
♪
JON: Next time, on The Amazing Race Canada...
SFX: [Match bell ringing]
It's a no holds barred race...
in Guelph, Ontario...
where teams get stunned
by the Double Pass.
GURLEEN: I feel so defeated.
JON: The fight for first heats up
as racers try not to blow it all.
AMARI: I'm frustrated. SFX: [Glass shattering]
♪