[Grant] Previously on The Amazing Race Australia…
Joey!
As the race reached Istanbul…
We've been yielded by our favorite friends.
No one likes someone who plays dirty.
…teams were in a lather,
and workmates Paul and Steve won the leg.
You are team number one.
Yes!
But it was a sad farewell to father and daughter Ross and Tarryn.
You are out of the race.
So proud of you.
Seven teams remain.
Who will be eliminated next?
[Grant] The historic heart of Istanbul, Turkey,
is dotted with reminders of its past
as the capital of three different empires.
And at the center of the city's old district is Beyazit Square,
now the starting point for the seventh leg…
…as our teams continue to race around the world.
Paul and Steve were the first team to arrive,
so after a mandatory rest period,
they will depart at 11:42 a.m.
"Fly to Paris, France."
Teams must now fly to the French capital, Paris.
The City of Light is home to spectacular monuments,
awe-inspiring architecture
and the greatest concentration of restaurants in the world.
Teams must travel to the legendary French cooking school,
Le Cordon Bleu, where they'll find their next clue.
-Excellent. -Let's do it.
Starting in position one, it just feels so right.
It feels like that's where we belong. I don't want to slip from that position.
Airport? International?
I'm super happy it's Paris. I'd love to go to France.
"Fly to Paris, France."
[both cheering]
[Michelle] We've come second so many times now.
We've stayed at the top of the pack. We've won quite a few challenges.
I think by now, we've definitely proved we're not just the pretty faces.
Boom. Let's go to Paris.
[Michelle] We are still learning a lot of things about each other along the race,
and we keep pushing ourselves to the edge.
Four hundred dollars.
So we might be able to go do some shopping?
"Fly to Paris, France."
Paris, France!
This leg's going to be a test of our abilities.
[Grace] Earlier throughout the legs,
I could see my brother just underestimating me.
-Airport. Departure. -International.
[Grace] I have to prove to my brother I want this.
This leg is going to be game on, I think.
[Sticky] To the airport please, buddy.
-"Fly to Paris, France!" -Yes!
I've taught French for years and studied French all the way through uni,
so I was ecstatic to be going to France.
Oh, my God.
To see that name on that clue was one of my top five spots that I want to visit.
-Do you think we'll see the Eiffel Tower? -Of course.
-You're going to Paris. -Oh, my God.
Where are we off to, buddy? "Fly to Paris, France!"
[both exclaim]
[Shane] Andrew and I are both married, and family is really important to us.
Quite excited to go to Paris.
There was only one problem: It was gonna make the wives very jealous.
All she's wanted to do is go to France, you know, Paris.
"Oh, you went there?"
[Paul] Flights to Paris, France. Two tickets to Paris.
Let's go buy some tickets.
We're gonna go to Turkish Airlines. They've got a flight to Paris soon.
We were lucky enough to be there
with eight minutes to spare before our flight closed.
Counter 15.
The twins have just hustled over there, trying to do a check-in.
We did notice the twins managed to queue-jump
using their charms, which we deemed as a threat to us.
Supervisor, we need to buy two tickets to Paris.
It's good to be coming back in equal first with the boys.
Thank you for all your help. Let's go.
Thank you very much.
Let's go.
No. We just missed the 1:45, so that's disappointing.
-Really? -Yeah.
3:15?
[Grant] Paul and Steve and Michelle and Jo
are on the first flight from Istanbul to Paris,
arriving at 4:25 p.m.
We would like to go to Paris if we could, please.
-3:15? -I can't believe we made this flight.
Lucy and Emilia, Shane and Andrew,
Joseph and Grace and Sticky and Sam
are on the second flight to Paris, arriving at 5:55 p.m.
"Fly to Paris, France." Oh, my God.
Paris, it's a girl's city and it's the city of love,
and we needed all the love we could get.
Hopefully when we get there, we get on a plane straightaway,
and all the other teams are there waiting for us.
Normally when you're last, eventually you might spot one or two other teams.
We hadn't seen a team in a long, long time.
Air France here.
The quickest flight to Paris, please.
[Sarah] Thank you so much.
[Grant] James and Sarah are now on the last flight to Paris,
arriving at 9:25 p.m.
-[Jo] You need to hurry. -[Michelle] We need to go beat them.
[Jo] Fast, fast.
[Steve] 8 Rue Léon-Delhomme. Go, go, go!
Finally, we're team number one.
Hopefully the traffic's not too bad, but it's 6:00 and into Paris,
so I'm assuming it's probably gonna be pretty terrible.
Hopefully we get to see a bit of Paris. I'm really excited.
-Boom. -Boom.
Oh, my God, I was so excited to go to Paris.
-Oh, my God, it's the Eiffel Tower. -[Jo] Oh, my God.
I was excited to share that with Joey.
-Wow. -[Jo] Sparkly.
[Steve] Paris is cool, and we had to go to Le Cordon Bleu.
[imitates French laugh]
[Paul] Thank you.
[Steve] Search for our next clue.
-Road Block. -"Who's a rising star?"
[Grant] In this Road Block, teams will need to master the art of cooking
one of the most difficult French dishes ever created: the soufflé.
The team member performing the Road Block
will be provided with the ingredients and a recipe to make a batch of soufflés.
Only teams who rise to the challenge will satisfy Le Cordon Bleu's director.
-I'll do it. -So you're doing it?
"Bake a soufflé following a Cordon Bleu recipe."
"When you've plated a successful soufflé…"
"…you will receive your next clue."
Boom. You can do it.
[Paul] We had to sign up for cooking classes,
and it was divided in groups of four.
We knew that the first class would be us,
the twins, plus the first two teams off the next flight.
Ours will participate at 9:00.
We knew everyone was gonna catch up, so it was a bit of a bummer,
'cause we needed that for our cooking skills.
Extra time.
Straight down here!
-Taxi! -Grace!
Le Cordon Bleu? The address down there.
-Do you know? -No.
You don't know where it is?
[Sam] Fast, please.
We're the first ones out of the airport. Doesn't happen often.
[Shane] Do you know where we're going?
All good? Pronto, pronto.
Okay.
[in French]
[in English] Straightaway, knowledge of French is coming into use.
We tell our students every day,
you never know when you're gonna need to use another language.
[in French]
[Emilia] Look, there's the Eiffel Tower!
It's all lit up.
Driving through Paris was surreal.
We drove right around the Arc de Triomphe,
and then we could see the Champs-Élysées.
It was a dream come true for me.
[Lucy and Emilia] Merci, merci. Au revoir.
Here it is. Look, Le Cordon.
Yeah, this is it.
Road Block.
"Who's a rising star?"
That sounds like me.
You do it. Do it.
[Lucy] We were one of those top four teams to make the cooking class.
Paris is definitely looking up for us.
I go here.
We just made it into class one.
And if I were to stuff up, don't worry. There's a team an hour behind us.
Road Block. "Who's a rising star?"
-You, I reckon. -I'm a rising star?
[laughing]
[Andrew] Shane can't cook too much.
Just the hot dogs on toasted sandwiches for me.
-My turn. -So it's your turn.
I'm always in there cooking the roast with the missus.
-I cook baked beans… -Fish fingers.
I'm pretty red hot on the old microwave.
9:00 class and then 10:00 class.
We're actually in the second group, so that was a bit of a kick in the gut,
'cause that meant we were an hour behind everyone else.
See? Taxi again, buddy.
-Bonsoir. -Bonsoir.
[Steve] The first group to go up and do the soufflé challenge
was myself, Grace, Lucy and Michelle.
We had to make a hot Grand Marnier soufflé,
and there was 15 steps,
and every single step was intricate.
It was pretty stressful like if you have nothing to do with the kitchen.
I can't cook.
I'm the one who collects the cookbooks
and ticks what I want someone to make out of it.
[Lucy] "Generously butter the soufflé molds."
If you've never made a soufflé before,
it's actually quite daunting to just follow these random steps.
"Sprinkle evenly with sugar, tipping out excess."
I've never made a soufflé before,
but I tend to have a repertoire of three cakes that I rotate through.
-And soufflé's not one of them. -No, soufflé's not one of them.
This soufflé challenge is gonna determine
whether I'm gonna be a good wife or not.
If you have a wife and she doesn't cook, well, what else is she good for?
It can't be that difficult. Just stir constantly until it's boiling.
"In a saucepan, heat 205 grams of milk, 50 grams of sugar."
I've never made a soufflé in my life.
The recipe was very detailed.
There was a lot of cooking terminology in there.
[Lucy] Good grief.
What happened to having a lesson?
The room was so tense,
having chefs and sous chefs staring at you, not being able to help.
No one really seemed confident in what they were doing.
[Steve groans] I don't think that's stirred enough.
It's chunky. Like, it's really clunky.
Mine didn't look like anyone else's.
Mine was quite a different consistency.
I don't think it's supposed to be.
[Grace] I forgot to put the sugar in.
You were supposed to boil milk and sugar in a pot.
I don't think my husband's gonna be too proud of me.
I totally forgot about the sugar and just popped it in.
What's burning?
That's when the sugar burnt down at the bottom.
Maybe I should do it again.
We arrived in Paris. We jumped into a taxi…
I just want to see another team in this leg.
I couldn't see a way we'd catch up.
-It's just good to be in the same country. -Yeah.
I'm now glad Mum made me cook when I was a kid.
After I made the mixture, I had to put it in the oven.
The recipe said to bake it for 11 minutes,
and I knew that would be the most important step.
I'm counting this baby down.
Okay. Okay.
The chef doesn't give you anything.
He doesn't give you any positive or…
He just looks at you like, "God, what have you done?"
How do you fold…
liquid?
Oh, my God, Steve, yours looks fantastic.
It's not coming up properly though. It's not rising evenly.
[Steve] I was a little bit nervous with the presentation.
They don't look too flash.
I was just hoping that the cooking time was spot on
and that everything was gonna be okay.
Thank you.
I was confident with how mine were looking.
[whispers]
[Emilia] The most important thing about soufflé
is that you don't let it pluff, because if it pluffs, it's not good.
[Steve] Once I got downstairs and presented my soufflé to the head chef,
I had to pass the taste test.
He had a look at it, had a good look around.
[Steve] I was extremely nervous
because it took a long time to make the soufflé,
probably around an hour.
If I didn't pass this test the first go,
then I was gonna have to start all over again.
It came down to the taste test with a judge.
It looks nice inside.
I was starting to get a little excited then.
I think you'll need this for the next step.
-Congratulations and good luck. -Thank you.
Good work, mate.
"Travel by taxi to Rungis Wholesale Market."
[Grant] Rungis Market is the biggest wholesale food market in the world.
Teams must search amongst 230 hectares of produce
and find this stall,
then collect a 30-kilo cheese from the cheese monger, Jean-Marie.
Teams must then transport their round of cheese
25 kilometers to the center of Paris and deliver it to this cheese shop.
If the cheese is undamaged, they can exchange it for their next clue.
Let's do this.
I was super happy to be the first.
I wasn't expecting it.
That was quite a surprise to be the first one out.
-[Sam] Get into it, I guess. -Straight into it.
It was 10:00, time for me and Sammy to start our class.
Sammy, we'll go through it together, buddy.
All a bit overwhelming, looking at the 15 steps we have to do.
-We're gonna be here for a little while. -It's not my forte, the old dessert.
I'll do you a chicken parma with veggies if you want.
[Sarah] Thank you.
Merci beaucoup. Thank you.
"Who's a rising star?" Oh, dear.
-Looks like you are. -Looks like I am.
-Hey! -Hi!
-How are you? -Hey.
Hey, Sarah.
It was the first time that we'd seen any other teams,
and it was like, "Oh, thank God. This is not over."
I've never cooked anything before, and if I have, it's just died.
The most she's cooked for me is Vegemite- and-cheese toasties in the morning.
[Lucy] I have no idea how long my soufflés had been in the oven.
I thought if you overcook a soufflé, that's no good.
[in French]
But if you undercook a soufflé, that's certainly not good.
Oh, my God.
I didn't realize I had to time it myself.
It's really heavy.
I put six soufflés in the oven.
It says to bake it for 11 minutes. This is the most crucial part.
Oven.
I poured the mixtures all in with the little cups and put it in the oven,
not realizing what time I put it in the oven.
I don't feel confident about my soufflés.
If I have to do it again, I have to do it again.
-A big smile. -Fine.
Uh-huh.
All right. Nice.
-It's light. -Oh, please.
Bravo.
Congratulations and good luck.
Good girl.
We're up in second place. We've never been in second place.
Never been in second place.
"Travel by taxi to Rungis Wholesale Market."
It can't hurt to overcook them a little bit.
"Fold one-third of the stiffened egg white
and sugar mixture into the 'grand manure'."
Did I say that correctly?
[Sarah] Add 60 grams of Grand Marnier.
I might have to get a bit into me.
Now, I've got to get 160.
I don't know why I personally need to separate eggs, ever.
Oh, shit.
All right. This is going so well.
I'm just ready to start crying in here.
I've got to put these egg yolks in.
Didn't go on the floor. Didn't fall in the toilet.
It was on the bench, next to the rest of the stuff, so I've just gone…
Start again my yolks.
I need you to take mine out, please.
Believe it or not, mine actually looked the best
out of everyone's that had come out so far.
[Jo] Say "bon appétit."
[Michelle] Bon appétit.
It looks nice.
[Michelle] Oh, my gosh. I was so nervous.
It's not cooked enough.
You have to try again. Sorry.
So I was very disappointed.
I've got enough mixture left for about one or two more soufflés.
If I stuff this up, I'm starting from scratch
'cause I don't have any more mixture left, and I'll be last.
Michelle had to do it again, and that would've torn me apart.
It took me two hours to make it.
Thank you. I don't think it's risen enough.
-Yeah. -Okay.
We'll chuck them in together, mate.
Sam and I, we popped our soufflés in at the same time.
-So what are we gonna go to? -The clock's 38. Two before the eight?
Yeah.
-Thank you. Bonsoir. -You're welcome. Thank you.
-It's gonna taste nice. -Not very high but…
[Grace] The taste critic didn't actually like the shape
and I thought, I'm finished. I've got to go do it again.
Wonderful.
Thank you so much!
Wow, I'm actually really good.
"Travel by taxi to Rungis Wholesale Market."
[Joseph] Taxi.
[Grace] The main street was back there.
We arrived at the market and got dressed in our gorgeous attire.
Do you know Jean-Marie Cheese Cellar?
The clue said we had to look for a Jean-Marie.
This marketplace is the largest in Europe.
[driver in French]
My second soufflé didn't look as good as the last time. The shape was different.
The taste is nice. Congratulations.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It doesn't have to be perfect, just had to pass.
We've got to go get some cheese.
Make sure that it's clean, 'cause otherwise, it'll get stuck.
[Andrew] Sarah smashed through that first lot of ingredients.
As we were taking ours out of the oven, she was ready to put hers in.
I was listening to everybody else's mistakes,
which was my way to catch up.
-Hello. -How are you?
-Good, thank you. -Thank you.
[Andrew] Enjoy.
This is exactly what I want.
It was up, it was round, and it was straight.
You are the number one tonight.
-How are you doing, mate? -Hello.
It's not the best tonight, but I think it's enough.
Enough?
"Travel by taxi…"
"…to Rungis Wholesale Market."
-Go back to the main road. -Let's go, buddy.
Jean-Marie?
[man in French]
Even though we could narrow it down to find the cheese section,
there was still 100 stalls of cheese, and they were the size of warehouses each.
"Collect a wheel of cheese from Jean-Marie in his cheese cellar."
The market is like five kilometers long. It's huge.
So we decided to keep our taxi,
and we drove by and got to the cheese section.
Jean-Marie?
[Sarah] Bonsoir, monsieur.
-Will you just like it? -Okay.
I think it's okay.
Thank God.
Congratulations and good luck.
[James] I was actually really proud of her.
She actually completed a cooking challenge.
It's like me completing a makeup challenge.
"Travel by taxi to Rungis Wholesale Market."
Do you know where Jean-Marie is?
-Excuse me? -Jean-Marie? His cheese cellar.
It was really hard to find this Jean-Marie.
Jean-Marie?
[in French]
-Let's go. [speaks French] -[Steve] All right. Let's go find him.
We could only see one entrance to Jean-Marie's, which was the lift.
Lift.
-Jean-Marie's in here? -Yes.
A local helped us out and pointed us in the right direction of the basement.
We didn't see any other teams.
-Help us out. -We're trapped.
-Hey! -Jean-Marie?
We were the first ones there, so we were totally surprised.
One of these.
[Lucy] Jean-Marie?
Fromagerie Alléosse.
Paul and Steve decided to take the lift. Sucked in.
We were the first to pick up the cheese and it was really, really heavy.
We've got to go up the stairs with this.
We had to work together and not damage the cheese.
-Otherwise, you'd have to start again. -Okay.
Be careful. Merci.
It was pretty heavy. I think it was about 30 kilos.
It's not something like a 30-kilogram dumbbell you can hold in one hand.
He just wanted to flex the muscles a bit. And good on him. Why not?
Merci beaucoup, monsieur.
The piece of cheese is massive and heavy.
Thank God for our trolley.
The address is 13 Rue…
Okay, let's go. Thank you, sir.
Just sit down. I'll put it onto your lap.
Once we got back to the taxi, I thought just to wheel it across to Steve.
He was sort of peeking over the top.
We've picked up our cheese
and are now delivering it to the address in the delivery invoice.
-It's a heavy piece of cheese. -[Lucy] Thank God we had that man.
So we think that there's only Paul and Steve
and the blondes ahead of us, which is good.
A good position for us.
-We're not at the back. -Yeah, that's good.
You're not gonna wait?
I need you all day.
I'll give you money.
It was strongly recommended in the clue
that the taxi driver had to wait for you to pick up the cheese.
I'm not gonna pay any more.
He did not want to wait, and so he left.
Grace, come on. It's somewhere here.
-Fromage... -The far shop.
Okay, in here?
Down this street? Thank you.
Fromage?
Yes.
Do you know where that is?
[in French]
There was cheese here, there was cheese everywhere.
Here a cheese, there a cheese, everywhere a cheese.
Jean-Marie?
[in French]
-Down? -Grace, Grace.
Jean-Marie fromage?
[man speaking French]
[Sarah] Stop, wait, and we'll go around. Okay?
We told the driver we'll be back.
-Jean-Marie? -Downstairs.
-Down? -Our bags and stuff is in the cab.
We're gonna take it and then go there.
[Grace] Jean-Marie. This one, right?
Joey just suck it up.
-Bye-bye. -Awesome.
Where are we off to?
-Fromagerie Alléosse. -That's where we're going.
All right, this way.
Hey.
[James] Went inside, grabbed the cheese, made really good time.
This is it. We're back in it, babe.
After you.
We need a taxi, Grace.
The cheese factory was isolated. There was no sign of any taxi,
and we needed to get into Paris, so any taxi we saw, we would grab.
Joe, get in.
Yes, I'll pay, yes. We'll pay you more extra.
We're perfectly fine to steal the taxi.
Get in.
I told him there were bags in the back, and he said, "Take them out."
We were running back out to jump in the cab,
and we saw our bags on the street and there was Joe and Grace.
-This guy is waiting for us. -We paid him already.
What do you mean?
He said yes.
Monsieur, you were waiting for us?
-There's another taxi at the front. -What?
-No. -You haven't seen the bags, have you?
Give them the money back.
Refund and we will pay for it, 'cause this is our taxi.
If they took off in our taxi, it was gonna be dire straits for us.
You have to ask them to leave, seriously. Out.
Go, go.
James, we're taking this taxi.
Just get in the taxi.
We're wasting time. Why can't we…
This is crap.
Guys, this is crap, seriously.
They were spitting and kicking sand in our face,
and you were standing back.
Just tell him we won't pay him then.
-They've paid him. -[James] You can only do so much.
You can't grab them by the hair and pull them out.
Let's go, buddy, let's go. We're not breaking any rules.
We're keeping by the rules, but it's just how it goes in this game.
That was a dog thing to do. That was very, very low.
It was a low-dog act, and it could cost us the race.
Jesus Christ.
[Joseph] Let's go, buddy.
[Sarah] Jesus Christ.
That was a dog thing to do. That was very, very low.
Joseph and Grace just took our taxi and took off,
and we were left in the middle of nowhere.
So let's find a taxi on the street.
I don't care if we have to stop traffic, 'cause I've had enough of this.
Obviously, there are no taxis.
No, there wasn't any cars, let alone taxis.
-We've just been shafted. -Yeah, I was there babe, all right?
Were you? 'Cause it was like you weren't. Just do something.
Don't do nothing, please. It just drives me nuts.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
If it were the Tassie guys, if it were the cops,
then I wouldn't take the taxi.
I guess I didn't feel as bad
because I'm not a big fan of Sarah and James.
I want them out of the game.
We've got to get ahead,
and we've got to have James and Sarah eliminated this leg.
-[Jo] Alléosse. It's open. -It's here.
-Got it? -Yep.
-Can you wait? -Okay.
[Michelle] We had a good driver, and I think that really paid off.
He knew the address,
so we went straight there, and were first to deliver our cheese.
No drops.
We were strong.
Thank you.
Merci, au revoir!
"Make your way to Debilly Footbridge
and search for a painter to receive your next clue."
Let's get in the taxi.
-For you. -Thank you.
"Make your way to Debilly Footbridge and search for a painter…"
[all in French]
Paris is certainly delivering everything we've asked for.
No cute Frenchmen, though.
-Almost everything we asked for. -Almost everything.
"Make your way to the Debilly Footbridge."
All right, go.
-[Sarah] We're gonna go in there. -[James] Yeah, go. See if they can call…
[Sarah] Bonjour, monsieur. I need a taxi.
After searching and walking, we finally found a pub that would call us a cab.
-We've just called a taxi to come here. -I know, James, but we can't see it.
-We can't see the taxi. -The road goes right past.
Far out, James. The taxis are goddamn coming down there.
What's the difference from standing here and five meters over?
The taxis are coming there and have to come this way.
-I don't want anybody… -Anybody?
What, the other ten teams that are standing around us?
-Well… -Just think-- Listen to yourself.
You know what, James? I'm gonna sit on the cheese, and you get the taxi.
I organized it and sat there while I had drunks leering at me…
-Whatever. -…in a cheese outfit.
Our relationship has never been at such a low point.
I'm that close to just ditching this because I feel like I'm doing it myself.
Going on this race, it could eventually be a make-or-break situation for us.
And in my point of view, it was break.
Merci.
He was a good taxi driver. He took us straight to the spot.
-The next one. -Hurry. Walk faster.
I'm glad that we took him. He was great.
No problem.
-Merci. -Thank you.
"Make your way to the Debilly Footbridge."
Let's go. Main road.
Bonjour!
Hello.
-"Fly to Havana, Cuba." -[shrieks]
[Grant] Teams must now fly to Havana,
the capital of the Caribbean island nation of Cuba.
Once in Havana, they must search the airport car park for a classic car
and drive themselves to the famous Tropicana Nightclub.
Once here, teams must find the lead showgirl
to receive their next clue.
Let's go!
[Jo] We're off to Havana, Cuba. I'm pretty excited.
It's gonna be warm, sunny. There's gonna be a lot of hot Black men.
Boom.
Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
"Fly to Havana, Cuba."
-There's a painter over there. -Beautiful.
[speaking French]
"Fly to Havana, Cuba!"
But we don't want to leave Paris.
[Lucy] I want to go to Cuba, but not when I'm in Paris
and not when we are kind of a little bit ahead.
We want to stay.
I'm pretty sure they speak Spanish.
Actually, they probably speak Cuban.
Either way, I'm excited.
[Andrew] All right, buddy.
-It looks okay? -Yeah. Okay.
Merci.
"Make your way to Debilly Footbridge."
-Do you know where Debilly Footbridge is? -Just show him.
We found this nice bloke who found the bridge for us on the iPhone.
He showed us where it was on the map. We thought we'd leg it.
Is this it? This is the taxi? Thank God.
I needed your help then.
-It doesn't help, bitching and moaning. -I'm not bitching and moaning to you.
We're in a race. They came, saw a taxi and took it.
-Really? -Yeah, really.
So why don't you just get in there and say, "Get the hell out now"?
I honestly didn't know how the hell we were gonna get back on track.
If we didn't, it was gonna be really, really detrimental to us as a team.
-You want me to drag them out of the taxi? -Yes, I do.
No. We can't just do that.
They dragged our bags out of the taxi.
Paris was not the city of love.
It was a city of hate.
-I reckon we're on the money there. -All right. Let's go.
The sun was well and truly up as we were running through Paris.
We could see everything. Trying to sucking it all in.
-[Shane] I enjoyed it, yeah. -[Andrew] All the beautiful old buildings.
[Shane] It was probably a good move
because we saved a bit of coin and didn't--
Didn't have to rely on cab drivers.
-Now, how do we get across? -Subway.
[Sam] I'm glad to see you.
-[man speaks French] -Excellent.
"Make your way to the Debilly Footbridge."
We ran outside, looking for a taxi.
Debilly Footbridge?
[Sam] We don't know the address.
It's a bridge, mate.
He said, "I need the address," and we're like, "It's a bridge.
We don't have the address."
We need to find a different way there.
Can we please get two tickets to Havana, Cuba, please?
[in French]
That's probably the easiest we've ever strolled onto a flight.
Merci beaucoup. Thank you.
-[speaking French] -Thank you very much.
"Debilly Footbridge."
Taxi!
[Sarah] We had to find a painter on a bridge,
and I said to James, 'cause I've traveled to Paris once before,
that I know where this is, let's just go.
[Sam] We've managed to find it on the map
and thought, "Stuff this. We'll just do it ourselves."
-[Sticky] The old Metro. -[Sam] I assume that's the Underground?
[Sticky] Yeah. Let's give that a go.
Jumped on the Metro and made our own way there.
-[Grace] There it is! -[Joseph] On the other side?
There he is. Here's the master painter.
Thank you very much.
"Fly to Cuba."
-"Fly to Havana, Cuba?" -Yeah!
Bye-bye, and off to Cuba.
One of the highlights of the day was the view,
but don't tell our wives that.
Fantastic. Thank you.
"Fly to Havana, Cuba."
-Oh, God. -All right.
Down here?
[Sarah] We still had to get to another country.
We still had another chance to redeem ourselves and to patch things up.
[Sam] I think we changed trains three times.
[Sticky] Yeah. That was a mistake which cost us.
We knew we were basically last, and we'd pretty much given up.
-Thanks, mate. -[Sam] Thank you.
"Fly to Havana, Cuba."
Oh, mate, that's back in the game for us.
-Nice. -Luckily.
We need two tickets to Cuba.
I need two tickets to Havana, please.
[Shane] Merci. Thank you very much.
We got on the 11:00 flight, so we thought, happy days, we've caught up.
[Joseph] I was definitely happy to get on that earlier flight.
We didn't want to be on the same flight as James and Sarah.
[Grant] Michelle and Jo, Paul and Steve,
Lucy and Emilia, Shane and Andrew and Joseph and Grace
are on the first flight from Paris to Havana, Cuba,
arriving at 3:10 p.m.
[Sticky] We need to buy tickets to Havana.
Thank you so much for that.
-[James] Havana. -[Sarah] When?
1:45 p.m.
I spotted James and Sarah,
so all of a sudden, our day has turned around.
We came out, and Grace and Joe are in our cab.
So they've chucked your bags out and everything?
-Yeah. -[Sam] That is the worst thing.
Mate, I'm like an elephant. I don't forget.
We told Sticky and Sam about what had happened to us,
and we realized that it was just us two teams left.
We were racing for our lives.
[Grant] James and Sarah and Sticky and Sam are on the second flight,
arriving in Havana at 5:50 p.m.
We got out of the airport, and there were some sweet old-school cars.
Let's go with this baby. I like this blue one.
[Jo] That red one looks really old.
We went with red and white for the Dragons.
This looks more modern than those ones.
I don't know how to use this car.
[Steve] Tropicana Nightclub.
So we've got to go all the way up there, yeah?
Michelle, this is where we're going. We're down here at the airport.
We've got to go all the way to the furthest tip here.
[Michelle] So we had to make our way to a famous nightclub, Tropicana.
We were pretty excited to go there.
The gear stick's not even in the normal place a gear stick is.
It was completely different to a normal manual car.
I had no idea what I was doing.
This is not a normal car.
There's, like, one gear there, two gear there…
It's a stick shift, and I have never driven that kind of car before.
I don't know how to drive this car.
[Paul] I'm so glad I'm not driving this.
[Steve] The fuel gauge didn't work. Speedo didn't work.
Either way, it was pretty cool to be in an old-school car.
Look at the black smoke coming out of that.
[Shane] No seat belt.
If someone was driving that with no seat belt
and half the stuff didn't work, I'd slap a canary on it straightaway.
-Geez, the brakes aren't good either. -It was a death trap.
[Shane] Where do you reckon we're going?
We've got to find old Havana.
Man, this place is insane to drive.
Cuba is a mix of old and new.
There's still horse and carts. There's still the old-school cars.
Doing repairs on the road.
A really interesting place that I would definitely like to explore a bit more.
[Paul] I don't see La Havana on this.
I imagine you have to drive towards the city.
[engine cranking]
It probably took me a good half an hour to get it to go a meter.
We need some strong men to push. Okay.
It was very, very difficult to drive that car.
Ready?
Steer, steer, steer.
It was a slow start. It was a push start, actually.
[engine puttering]
All right. Put it in drive.
-Just drive, Em. -Okay, jump in, jump in.
I finally get the car moving…
Bunny hops, stops.
Oh, gosh. I just need you to stay positive.
The car was just not working.
-[engine cranking] -This is so bad.
In the midst of all of this, the car was just not working.
-Okay, we'll switch vehicles. -You want to switch vehicles?
We need to change cars.
Oh, okay.
Eventually we took off.
It looked like things could be looking up.
-[Lucy] Just go straight. -Am I on the right side of the road?
I reckon it's got to be down there somewhere.
The blue one? All right.
[Sticky] We know we're last,
so we're basically just trying to beat James and Sarah.
We thought we should be able to knock off these guys.
[engine cranking]
[Sarah] Oh, my God. You are joking.
I've never seen a vehicle like that before.
It was a cross between a lawn mower and a truck or something.
-Have you got the lights on? -[James] Yeah.
What the…
I go to turn it on, and nothing happened.
[engine starts]
Turns out you're only supposed to turn the key halfway instead of the full way.
Gonna be an interesting little drive, I think.
-I think the key just fell out. -[Sarah] And it's still working.
[laughing] That's hilarious.
This is crazy.
[speaking Spanish]
Yes? Okay.
I was in charge of directions, but we didn't have a map.
Okay, he's gonna drive you.
We thought that we'd just stop and ask people along the way.
Did you get any indication from him of where we're going?
-[Lucy] Just follow him. -Okay.
[muttering in Spanish]
"The Tropicana Nightclub."
We were pretty excited to arrive in Cuba.
Hello!
Everyone had the same sort of vehicles. It was quite retro.
-Hola! -Hola!
We're trying to find the boot, how to open it.
We can't go anywhere 'cause Andrew won't be able to look at the map.
Andrew says, "I've got to get a torch out of the boot to read the map."
You think we could open the boot?
It's got to be here somewhere. Where is it?
We're under the dash, reaching under the number plate.
-That's the bonnet. -What's that button there?
Do you reckon we could find it? No. So off we went.
I was half holding the door open
trying to keep the inside light on, read the map.
It's only there, Tropicana. Beautiful.
[Paul] I hope this is the Pit Stop.
Here. There it is.
[upbeat music playing]
Tropicana Nightclub was pretty lively. Things seemed to be happening.
So I thought, the showgirls will lead you to your next clue.
-Hola. -Hola.
Where's the next clue? Is the next clue through here?
Do you have it?
-Yes! Thank you very much. -Thank you.
"Drive to the next Pit Stop."
[Grant] Havana's landmark Hotel Nacional
has hosted American mobsters, movie stars and heads of state.
This is the Pit Stop for the seventh leg of the race.
The last team to check in here may be eliminated.
All right. Beauty.
-[Paul] Are you ready? -[Steve] Yep.
We were the only car parked in the marked area,
so at that point we were confident we were probably first.
I think we're in the lead.
Doing well, buddy. Keep it going.
The bonnet popped. Look at it.
This is getting ridiculous.
While we're sailing along, up she pops, slowly popping up.
-Higher and higher up. -[Shane] And my vision…
My vision-- I can't get any taller.
-This is getting dangerous. -[Andrew] Pull her over.
Pull on the latch. Push it in.
-So are we mechanics? -No.
-Go now. -Go?
That's it.
[Grace] We need help.
We've stopped right in the middle of an intersection,
and Joey's stalled the car.
Don't know if I'm reading this right, but it says "battery zero."
Just doesn't want to work.
Hola!
There were a group of guys, and I said, "Can you come help us?"
We pushed it down the hill and jump-started the car.
-We need to go to-- -[Joseph] Tropicana Nightclub.
[Grace] Tropicana Nightclub.
[speaking Spanish]
-Okay. Thank you very much. -Okay, thank you.
[Grace] The Tropicana Nightclub.
-[car thuds] -That one hurt, but don't worry.
I just rolled it past all of these people lined up for the nightclub.
I was so embarrassed.
[Latin music playing]
We're checking the girls out.
[both] Hola!
I was like, "Yep, I want her body, her head, her costume."
Thank you.
"Drive yourselves to the next Pit Stop."
Okay, let's go.
We have absolutely no clue where we're heading.
-Pull in here. -Yeah, pull in here.
Pulled over at a service station to ask if we were going the right direction.
-[Sam] Hey, mate. -[Sticky] How do we get into Havana?
[man speaking Spanish]
And of course, we don't speak a word of Spanish, so that didn't help.
A bit of signage or something would be nice in this country.
[Jo] Turn right. Just put the blinker on.
-I don't have an indicator, Jo! Stop! -It's all right.
[brakes squeal, car thuds]
Oh, no. Joey, we're dead.
I kind of smashed into the gutter, and I couldn't start the car.
It wasn't turning over anymore.
Can you help push?
So we had another push start.
Joey, don't go near the front of the car.
Thank you, sir. All right, let's go.
-Chelle, you're in the wrong gear. -I'm not.
I was so worried 'cause I didn't want to go out like this:
on a driving challenge.
-You stopped it. -I didn't stop it!
Joey, you have no idea how hard this is to drive, okay?
We need a jump-start.
We had a flat battery.
[mimics sad trombone]
One, two, three. I'll get these men. Come with me.
Just push.
You come. We give you money to get back.
We had a local jump in our car just to oversee my driving.
So I am steering the wheel, and he's my clutch and brake.
Okay.
I got it.
This looks like a bit of a city now, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does a little bit.
I wish the city would give us a street name.
Yeah.
[Sticky] We had a proper map. We were just struggling to find the Tropicana.
We're not good at finding stuff.
-We know James and Sarah always… -Argue.
This is it. We're last. See you later.
-Are we going up a one-way street? -[Sam] Possibly.
-Where are we now? -We're here.
[James] We saw a guy on the road with a car,
so we asked him for directions, and he's a taxi driver.
Here, right.
-Can we follow you? -Yeah.
-Thank you. -Yes, fantastic.
Oh, my God.
We got a bit of money. Might as well use it to get back ahead.
[Sarah] We'll go end up in Timbuktu.
Man, this place is insane to drive.
During the day probably wouldn't be too bad, but at night it's hectic.
It looks like that'll be it there.
"Nacional de Cuba." Yep, that's the hotel.
Here it is straight ahead, Michelle.
Hola.
Bienvenidos. Welcome to Havana, Cuba.
Thank you.
Paul and Steve, you're the first team to arrive.
As the winners of this leg, you've won the right to keep racing.
There's your next clue.
Come on. It's not over yet. Go.
-Thank you! -Let's go.
[Steve] We were shocked.
It's a fake Pit Stop, but we were actually still keen to keep racing.
If any team can tough it out and keep going without rest, it's probably us.
Michelle and Jo, you're the second team to check in.
What?
Unfortunately, it doesn't end here.
You'll be needing this.
I was seriously like, "Are you joking?"
-Off we go. Keep running, girls. -Let's go.
-Now, I'm struggling to drive. -[Andrew] Keep going, mate.
[Shane] There was a red light, and I stopped,
and that was the end of the old girl.
It would not go into gear. I'm trying to clunk it in.
It keeps dropping back into neutral. Doesn't matter what you do.
We've got the lemon, of course.
The clue said you couldn't take a taxi. You had to go by car.
What's it say on our thing if it breaks down?
[Andrew] It's our own problem.
Just keeps dropping back into neutral. Doesn't matter what you do.
Well, that's it. She's stuffed.
I don't know what we're gonna do now.
[Andrew] It was really chewing up the clock,
and we thought we were in big strife.
-This could be the end of us. -[Andrew] Race over.
There's no gas.
Nope, it's gone.
-[Grace] There's smoke coming out of it. -There's a burning smell.
[Grace] Let's get out of the car. It's not safe.
[Joseph coughing]
[horn honking]
Okay. All right. Emilia, just stop the car.
Really, Lucy? That was funny. I was gonna keep going.
It was a helpless situation, and I think we were really getting frustrated.
This is the point where teams break on the race.
Move, car. Move.
Good girl. Go.
I can't get it to go anywhere.
Oh, God. This is a bad place to stop.
This is not good. Get ready to jump.
[Grant] Next time…
That's the last time you make a decision.
The race through Cuba reveals a big surprise.
-"Drive yourselves to Australia?" -[Emilia] Huh?
Aren't there a few more legs left before we go home?
At the end of a marathon leg…
I won't let her down.
-…will Taxigate… -[Joseph] Let's go, buddy.
It was a low-dog act.
-Jesus Christ. -I don't want to make it up to them.
…turn into all-out war?
-I find you a little fake. -Think whatever you want.
I just wanted to go…