[Grant] Previously…
Come on, baby!
…on The Amazing Race Australia…
Stupid skiing!
-…teams struggled on the snow… -Joe, listen to me!
…and the ice.
-You can do it, Lucy. -I'm so scared.
-While Paul and Steve's winning streak… -[Paul] Don't fall over here.
…came to an end.
It felt so good to be in front of them.
Cops Shane and Andrew were first to the Pit Stop.
-You're team number one. -Yes!
But luck finally ran out for Lucy and Emilia.
Ladies, you're out of the race.
Now just four teams remain.
Who will make it through to the final leg?
Come on!
Who will be eliminated tonight?
[Grant] Banff is one of Canada's most popular ski resort towns
and lies within the World Heritage-listed Banff National Park.
Against this awe-inspiring backdrop of the Canadian Rocky Mountains,
teams will now begin the eleventh leg of our race around the world.
[laughs]
-That's what you wanted. -"Fly to Beijing, China."
Teams must now fly to the Chinese capital, Beijing.
This booming city of 22 million people is home to ancient palaces
and modern wonders.
Once in Beijing, teams must travel to the Ghost Street food district
and find this stall to receive their next clue.
All right, let's go, buddy. "Fly to Beijing, China."
This leg is so important, because we're down to the final four.
[Andrew] "You must travel by bus to the Calgary Airport."
There's no tomorrow. If you come last, you're going home.
Off to China.
[Andrew] We owe it to our families to have a go at the big 250.
They've done it hard without us.
They deserve it as much as we do.
"Fly to Beijing, China.
-You have $40 for this leg of the race." -Thank God.
We have this massive chance to get into the top three
and it feels so great.
"Teams must travel by bus, airport express…"
Someone coming. Joe and Grace are coming.
-Are they? Whoa. -Yeah.
Coming in second reaffirmed that we're actually competitors in this game.
-"Fly to Beijing, China." -Oh, my God!
-"Beijing, China." -Awesome.
There's one leg to go before the final
and this is our chance to prove to everyone that we're here,
we mean business. Who wouldn't want to win $250,000?
Let's go.
We want to be the first all-girl team to win The Amazing Race Australia.
-Boom. -Boom!
[Paul] We caught the same bus as Joe and Grace and the twins and the cops.
We got to the airport and it was back to game on.
-[Andrew] Let's go, buddy. -[Jo] This way!
[Paul] Go, go, go, go, go.
[Michelle] We need to get to Beijing.
Whatever will get us to Beijing in the shortest possible time.
[Andrew] We've had an unlikely alliance with the twins
-pretty much the whole way, haven't we? -Yep.
We've got a flight at 9:10, 10:10 and 11:10.
We'll take the first flight.
The cops and us have decided to work together and help each other out.
-I'll see if I can find a spot for you. -Yeah, see if you can find something.
What's the earliest we could get to Beijing?
[Grace] We don't want Steve and Paul in the top three.
They don't deserve to be.
-You arrive in Beijing at 4:30 p.m. -Yep.
-Thank you very much. Appreciate it. -There you go.
We've had all the other teams somewhat turned against us.
How are you going, girls? You good?
[Paul] Steve and I have had to play the most uphill battle out of all the teams.
I think we deserve to be in the final three
and we should be seen as the threat team and we're going to live up to it.
[Grant] All teams are now on a flight from Calgary via Vancouver to Beijing, China,
arriving at 4:30 p.m.
[Joseph] Come on, Grace.
-[Paul] Go, go, go! -Taxi! Taxi! Go to the big one, Grace.
[Shane] Just the first taxi, please.
Which taxi?
Yep, ready to go.
Steve and I hopped in the van first and he quoted us a price of about 700,
which was pretty much all of our leg money.
-Why did you pick this of all cars? -Okay.
-What the… What are you talking about? -I had one.
This is just ridiculous. We can't afford it.
Sorry.
Go straight, you know?
-Okay. -Grace, come on.
We jumped in the first taxi, 'cause we're in a race.
He's asking for 650.
I don't know how much that is,
but I know that we will negotiate once we get there.
And we only have…
650.
Let's go.
[Michelle] Fast, fast, fast!
-Okay, see them? Go. -Quick, quick.
Hopefully we can use our looks and blonde hair
and our luck of being twins and apparently that's lucky in China.
[Paul] We made a bad choice before.
I always don't want to go for the van, because I know they're expensive.
Very busy. The traffic was crazy.
Pretty much anywhere you look it's just chockablock.
Yeah, it's a bit of a madhouse here. The traffic's all over the joint.
Just a different world.
"Beep-beep, beep-beep." People nearly getting run over.
Beijing's off to a flyer.
[Jo] We're off to a famous eating street.
I'm thinking more of a food challenge or eating local delicacies.
We don't have. This is all we have.
I quoted six and then-- Okay, okay.
[Grace] I didn't want to pay 600.
It was about 90% of our leg
and we thought nope, we can't pay that much.
-That's all our money. -That's all-- That's everything. Sorry.
This guy's not happy.
Well, that's all we've got. You've got to…
[in Mandarin]
-He started hitting… -He was smacking his head.
[Joseph] He started hitting himself and he wouldn't budge.
And then he goes to his glove box and takes out something and I'm thinking,
"Joe, he's going to get out a gun and shoot us."
Five hundred.
-No, wait, wait, wait. -Joey, just give him the money and go.
That's it, 500. Thank you.
-[Michelle] Stop, stop, stop! -[Jo] Stop, stop, stop!
All right, let's go.
[Michelle] There's Joe and Grace. There's Joe and Grace.
Thank you.
"Detour. Waiter or Wheel"?
Teams must now choose between two authentic Chinese culinary experiences:
Waiter or Wheel.
In Waiter, teams must take the orders of eight customers in Mandarin,
then correctly recite the orders to the chef.
Once they've served all guests the correct meals,
they'll receive their next clue.
In Wheel, teams must take turns spinning a lazy Susan.
They must eat whichever delicacy lands in front of them
until they've completed four rounds.
-Eating. We're doing eating. -All right.
We'll go Wheel, spin the wheel.
-Thank you. We're doing Wheel. -Yep.
We chose to go with Waiter.
[Michelle] Pick a table with the nicest people.
-I've got these four, you've got those. -Okay.
[in Mandarin]
[repeating slowly]
We had to wait on a table of eight.
Nice and slow, nice and slow.
And recite their order in Mandarin to the chef
and deliver the right food back to them.
They're like 50 words each.
Mandarin is a very tonal language.
So it was really hard to pronounce.
[speaking Mandarin]
Start again.
Ooh!
When we saw what food was available on the menu,
they weren't your everyday delicacies, were they?
No, it wasn't the meat and two veg that's for sure.
Bon appétit, Andrew.
All right, spin the wheel for your team member.
[Steve] Hey, how are you going?
There were nice choices.
Cockroach, sea horse…
You sort of want to spin it to land on the difficult ones
so that your team mate has to do it rather than yourself.
Come on, testicle! Testicle!
-You're so lucky! -[Paul] I'd like some scorpion please.
[Andrew] Cicada, it's like a big cockroach thing.
Thank you.
[Paul] I was actually a bit concerned
whether it's actually safe to eat deep-fried scorpions.
I know they are venomous creatures.
[Shane] You're getting the good ones.
[Paul] I chugged it right down and extra tasty, extra crispy.
I enjoyed it.
Let's have a look at it.
Seven cicadas.
Seven. Not two, not three. Seven.
They'll be crunchy.
They're things that grow in the garden back home.
You know, you don't eat them.
They don't taste too good.
No.
The ones at home are bigger I reckon, the cicadas at home.
Don't talk about it, mate.
-Yeah, starfish. -Starfish.
You're thinking, a little starfish from the beach.
Thank you.
[shrieks]
I'm not eating that!
-Come on, Grace. -I'm not eating that.
It was this massive, thick starfish.
No way.
I didn't think it was going to be that big.
Once I heard that scream, I knew we were straight off to the next Detour.
She couldn't have done that.
[speaking Mandarin]
I think the hardest thing was that if you say something
even slightly mispronounced, it could mean a total different meaning.
No.
You just had to put on a little accent.
-Yeah. -Yes. That's how I'm doing it.
You've got to wear this. Have you got it?
We decided to switch to do the Waiting Detour,
so we went to a table and started taking orders.
[speaking Mandarin]
It was definitely difficult pronouncing some of the words.
Joe, you know what we're going to do? Memorize the first one off by heart.
-I'll do it. -It'll take us all night,
but at least we can do it, you know?
-[Andrew] "Bird's nest soup." -[Shane] "Bird's nest soup."
-Hit us with the bird's nest soup. -All right.
Bird's nest soup. Drink it down.
Thank you, brother.
Go for it, buddy.
Lucky we didn't eat too much on the plane.
It had little stringy bits all through it.
-Mmm. -A delicacy?
[grunts aggressively]
Apparently it's bird saliva.
[Paul] How would they make that?
Like choke a bird or something.
I don't know how they make it.
Just get it down, mate.
[Steve] Yes, "fish head."
I'd like some fish head please.
Lovely.
The first thing that hit me was the smell.
I could see two eyeballs staring back at me.
It's cold too.
Pretty disgusting just imagining eating the eyeballs alone,
but I have to prove to my own ego that I'm willing to do it.
-[Steve] Man, that's a big fish head. -[Paul] Lovely.
[laughs]
-The spring roll with duck anus, please. -It'll get you every time.
There were six of the buggers. Six.
Yeah, come on mate. Just get into it. How is the duck anus?
-Not too good. -Yeah?
It had a bit of a tang to it and it was just so chewy.
Yeah, interesting.
[Paul] So the final spin for me.
Please not testicles, please not testicles.
I'd downed two dishes and I only had one to go.
Please not testicles!
You are such a poo-face.
Sheep testicle soup.
-What is wrong with you? -I'm generous.
Oh, God!
[Paul] Delicious.
It was just two balls in soup.
Let's do this.
The testicles were very sinewy and chewy.
Mmm! Just full of goodness.
It's protein, man.
They were just gross.
[speaking Mandarin]
Start again.
[Grace] We struggled to memorize the dishes.
We were in trouble.
Oh, man. Grace, this is too hard.
-It's too hard. -Do you want to eat a starfish?
You have to eat it. I can't eat it for you.
-I am not eating a starfish, Joe. -It's fried. It's fried.
-We're not going to know all this. -Joe, I'm not eating that. All right?
[speaking Mandarin, singsongy]
I needed to find another strategy.
I started to almost rap.
That's the only way I could actually memorize the dishes.
It was like…
[singsongy Mandarin]
-Yes. -Yeah!
And it worked.
-Well done. -Thank you.
-[Joseph] Don't spill it. -Here you go.
-"Sss." -Sss.
No, no, not "sss." Yeah, yeah.
The poor customers were so patient.
By the time we got the pronunciation right on the order
and delivered the food, I think it was cold.
It was tough to get through those testes.
Good work, mate.
I never want to eat them again.
Congratulations.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
-Thank you very much. -Thank you.
"Travel by taxi to…"
"…Wooshesheng Foot Reflexion Health Center."
[Grant] Teams must now receive a traditional Chinese foot massage
for a continuous ten minutes before receiving their next clue.
Go, go, go, go!
-Taxi! -Taxi!
Taxi, taxi, taxi, taxi.
Guess not.
Okay?
A Chinese foot massage could be quite painful.
We've got to get there first. That's going to be the biggest challenge.
So final dish and it was up for me and she was a little ripper.
[groans]
When I saw the starfish, I didn't realize it was going to be quite that big.
Look at that.
It's not even fishy. It's…
I can't even describe what it tastes like.
It was really hard to put it away.
-Down the hatch. -Down the gullet.
[in Mandarin]
Yes.
-Here. -Thank you.
Thank you.
-Yes. -Yes!
-[Joseph] That's our last dish. -Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
"Wooshesheng Foot Reflexion Health Center."
-Taxi! -Taxi!
There's someone in there.
-Out here? -Out here?
Beat the other team, mate.
[Joseph] How much was your guys' taxi?
-Seventy or something? -Yeah.
[Joseph] Seventy bucks?
-Seventy? -We paid seventy Chinese.
They paid five hundge.
-Yeah. They'd been ripped a new one. -They've been ripped.
-He doesn't know. -Let him go.
If he doesn't know, he doesn't know.
Thank you.
-The girls are definitely in front of us. -Yeah, the twins are in front of us,
and we're happy with that 'cause we're in alliance with them.
[Grace] Taxi!
Finding a cab was terrible for us.
They're not going to stop
or this taxi driver has no clue what you're saying.
What's the name? Tell him the street name.
[Joseph] We actually spoke to some taxi drivers,
and they're looking at us like we're from another planet.
I think China's just been the hardest one.
We just got here.
-Ni hao. -Ni hao.
[Michelle] We arrived at the foot massage parlor.
We had to each get a ten-minute massage.
Can I have a neck massage instead please? Here.
It's actually relaxing.
It started off like a really nice massage and then all of a sudden…
[grunts]
It was the most excruciating pain I've ever felt in my life.
It was like she had her whole body weight in her knuckle up and down my foot.
[groaning]
-Here we go, buddy. -Is that it?
[Andrew] Being the weary travelers, we were looking forward
-to a bit of a foot massage. -R&R.
-In here? -In here?
When we rolled in,
all we could hear was this squealing and screaming and carrying on.
[Michelle groaning]
It looks like they go pretty hard. Michelle's having a hard time.
We knew you had to get the massage for a continuous ten minutes.
Five minutes each foot.
And if you pulled your foot away,
then you'd have to start again from the start, which would be a tragedy.
Yeah, it's hooking in.
Gee whiz. I don't know whether this is supposed to be good for you.
Do you wanna hold my hand, Chelle?
You are not going to be able to do this.
But you have to because I've gone through so much pain for this, okay?
Okay, okay.
It is intense.
[driver speaking Mandarin]
Okay. We're gonna have to find it. He's taken us to…
The taxi driver didn't know where we were, so we told him to stop.
I don't know if he's chucked us along here or here.
There is less forgiveness for making mistakes
because one mistake here and that could be the end of your game.
Just like that.
[speaking Mandarin]
Don't know. Okay.
It was getting frustrating because no one knew where we had to go.
Did he point that way?
That's why we have to double-check with the dude.
He said to the right.
[Michelle] Switch? Switch? Stop, stop, stop. Don't touch.
[groans] Get away from me, woman.
I'm so sorry you have to go through this, Joey.
I'm so sorry.
Oh, my God.
I have no idea why people would pay for a Chinese foot massage ever.
-Ever. -Ever, ever.
Joey, scream it out, scream it out.
Jesus! Oh, my God.
Bite into this.
I'm not gonna be able to handle this for ten minutes.
Please, please, please, ten minutes.
This is for a quarter of a million dollars, Joey.
The pain will be over in ten minutes.
Ten minutes.
[whimpering]
-Come on, Jo. You've come this far, Jo. -Hang in there.
[shrieking]
I was supporting Jo 'cause I just felt bad for her.
Ten minutes, Joey, ten minutes.
And it reminded me of my wife
when she was giving birth to my firstborn, Jake.
I hope you were more supportive to her than you were to me.
You're not even flinching.
I'm flinching, mate. I'm flinching. I'm flinching on the inside.
He was more worried about Jo than me.
-Well done, buddy. -Thank you.
Now I go in the hot seat.
Here it comes.
Yeah, see you just got to…
Mm-hmm.
She gets to the pressure point and it is excruciating pain.
Come on, lady, go soft.
-[Joseph] Thank you. -[Grace] Thank you.
I'm thinking, "Oh! I'm so excited to get a foot massage."
We needed to sit down and have a relaxing challenge.
That feels so good.
It was a bit suss. I knew they wouldn't just give us a foot massage.
None of the taxi drivers knew their way around and even--
[groans]
Oh, my God!
Hey, take it easy.
Is it nearly done? Five minutes yet?
Okay, I'll find out.
Give me this.
You're mean. You have a smiley face on your front.
Quickly give me Panadol. Give me morphine, give me something.
No, I need my feet for the rest of the race.
We needed to do five minutes on each foot,
and it was into the first minute where I thought, "This is torture."
Ow! No, no, no. That hurts.
Just have a break.
I pulled my leg out and the lady goes, "Nope, we're going to start again."
Ow!
I had to go through that minute again.
There's a certain spot that she's really pushing in.
Yeah, I can't believe you'd pay for this.
I know. Who pays for this?
-Finished. -Finished.
[Shane] Once Jo finished I was expecting the midwife to come out.
"Congratulations, Jo. Here's your baby girl."
"She's beautiful."
Xiè xie.
"Travel by taxi to the 800-year-old Marco Polo Bridge."
[Grant] Teams must now make their way to the Marco Polo Bridge.
Legend has it,
the hundreds of lion sculptures on the bridge are impossible to accurately count.
If teams can correctly count the lions, they'll receive their next clue.
Let's go.
We waddled out of there 'cause we were still in a lot of pain.
[grunts] Ow, ow.
We wanna be first, get the advantage. We need to win a leg.
It'd be the best feeling going into the final.
And I think we deserve it.
Come on.
[exhales]
[woman]
-Well done, buddy. -Is that it?
Thank you very much.
"Correctly count the number of lions on the bridge to receive your next clue."
Thank you very much.
It was painful, wasn't it?
It was, yeah.
But I must say the feet feel good.
-They feel all right. -They feel really good.
You're finished. You're done. There it is.
No, now you wanna do that?
I don't ever, ever, ever want to experience that again. Ever.
[Grace] Joe…
I thought Grace was putting on a little bit of an act or something.
-What is that? -You're all right. Keep going, Joe.
-What is that? -Keep going.
She was digging into the pressure points and there was no way to avoid it.
-Joe… -You've already done that.
-I know. -Man, what is that?
-Feel the pain. You have to feel the pain. -[woman chuckles]
[Paul] Foot massage. Yeah.
[Steve] We finally get to the foot massage place.
We're thinking, "Well, how is this even really a challenge?"
Okay, close your eyes.
-[Joseph] Not good, guys. Not good at all. -What?
-Not good. -What's not good?
-The massage? -You'll see.
I was just like, "What the hell's going on here?"
It gets worse.
Oh, God!
Steve actually grabbed my hand.
You know, releasing the tension through gripping each other.
[both groaning]
Yeah! Guys, come on.
Thank you very much.
"Travel by taxi to the 800-year-old Marco Polo Bridge."
All right. Let's catch a taxi.
This is worse than the fricking tattoo, man.
Steve was sweating, he was crying, he needed his hand held.
He was just being a big crybaby.
I actually did try to be supportive of Steve.
You've got to push yourself, otherwise you don't get results.
Get stuffed.
Is it going to be difficult to run after this?
-Is it time? -No.
Thank you. That was exhilarating.
Now it's time to enjoy and see how Paul goes.
-Do your worst, honey. -[Steve laughs]
Not even grimacing. Just a soldier, solid.
[Paul] I am human. I feel pain just like anyone else.
I suppose I was more mentally prepared to be receiving pain.
My ego… it's a strength and it's a weakness,
but in this case it's a strength because…
-Without a doubt. -You're not gonna get me screaming.
It comes with being a tough guy.
"Correctly count the number of lions on the bridge to receive your next clue."
Cheer up. We're still in this.
We've got about 75 left and the tab's up to 61.
So, it's not looking good for us.
We were running out of money.
We could just see the meter going up and up and up.
[Joseph] The bridge-- Is there a bridge around here?
[Grace] He says, "Yes, yes. Marco Polo. Marco Polo."
[exhales] Perfect!
We had to give him all our money. We had zero money left.
He's taken us to Marco Polo Hotel instead of Marco Polo Bridge.
How-- Is it far away?
-You-- -This way or this way?
How were we going to get out there, no idea.
It sucks because we can't get anywhere. We've run out of money.
And we can't ask for cash,
because people don't even understand what we're talking about.
They don't understand English.
The taxi driver assumed it was Marco Polo Hotel,
but we were after the Marco Polo Bridge.
We have no money.
We knew we had to start walking towards Marco Polo Bridge.
This sucks.
[Jo] Michelle, straight ahead, straight ahead.
Wait here. We come and pay you. Wait here.
[girls wincing]
Stay.
I knew it. There was an hours of operation at the bridge,
so we just knew every team was going to catch up.
Closed. Okay.
[Steve] Oh, my feet hurt.
[Paul] What do you know? It can't open until 7:30.
-You beauty. -That's great news for Steve and I.
Now we're relatively equalized with the teams that were ahead of us.
[Shane] Let's go.
[Michelle] Go, go, go!
-One big lion. Two. -[Jo] Two.
That would be a three.
Four.
All we had to do was count the number of lions on the bridge,
but there were so many of them.
-[Andrew] See these ones here? -[Shane] Oh.
[Andrew] See there's another one there, I think.
[Shane] Oh, this is hard.
There was definitely a trick to this challenge.
It wasn't just counting statues.
[Andrew] Within the one statue was maybe
two, three, four other smaller lions that were attached to the main one.
-Ten. -Is that a lion though?
Yeah, I'd say that's the young.
-You reckon? All right. -I do.
Thirty-nine, 40…
[Paul] Some of the lion statues actually had
a baby lion crawling up the back of the lions.
Wait. There's another lion on that.
Here. You can see it.
Okay.
Steve and I'd had the strategy.
Let's just get it right the first time. Let's take our time.
We felt that this is a challenge that does require concentration.
I want you double-checking me and agreeing with me.
Seventy-five.
Seventy-six?
Eighty, eighty-one.
All right. Let's see how we go.
Did you count both sides?
Only one.
Well, it says, "within the marked area" and there's two marked areas.
Andrew and Shane had only done one side.
We thought, "Okay, so maybe we should only do one side."
[Shane] What'd we get? Two four?
204?
-No. -No? Okay, I reckon-- Yeah.
Hello, sir.
No.
We shouldn't have listened to the cops.
-[Michelle] Okay. Start again. -[Jo] Okay, so--
Joey, you count this side. I'm gonna go and count that side.
Fourteen.
[Andrew] Joseph and Grace were still nowhere to be seen.
We hadn't seen 'em since the night before, so we had no idea where they'd gone.
Sixty-one.
-Yep. -Sixty-two.
This is a nice walk in Beijing, China.
It could be worse.
[Grace] It was a very long walk.
There were no points in the walk when I wanted to give up.
I just wanted to keep walking.
I knew where we were going.
We don't have time to dawdle.
I think the person who got us through was me.
You're not gonna make me give up.
We don't wanna give up.
It shouldn't even be an option for us.
[Michelle] 402.
-[Paul] 180. -[Michelle] Seven. Eighty-nine!
While Paul and Steve were counting their lions,
we thought we'd throw in a few extra numbers.
Twenty-five.
-Sixty-nine! -Sixty-nine!
That's why we write it down, girls.
The thing is, we were writing it down.
I mean, what is calling out numbers gonna do?
Idiot.
[Andrew] 220 and the other side was 204.
[Shane] Yeah, let's go.
One. A hundred.
I can't do maths, so I need a calculator.
[Shane] Cross your fingers.
-This is tough. -That'll do.
-No. -Come on. Don't joke.
No.
[Steve] There's one up on the top of that. Do we count that as well?
We did notice that there was lions on top of the pillar,
and I didn't think that the twins or the cops had even seen those ones.
[Paul] Okay.
-[man] Yes. -Yes!
The other two teams had already failed twice,
and yet, we got it right on our first attempt.
Good work, man. That was perfect.
Road Block. "Who can crack the Warrior Code?"
I'm gonna say that's you.
The Great Wall of China stretches nearly 9,000 kilometers,
the longest man-made structure in the world.
It was built to guard the northern borders of the Ming Dynasty,
and in this Road Block,
teams will have to break through the warriors that guard their next clue.
[warriors shout]
Teams must find the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall
and pass through nine rows of warriors,
but only one warrior in each row will allow them through.
If teams are blocked three times, they'll have to start again.
Only when teams have cracked the code, will they unlock their next clue.
"Travel by taxi to the Great Wall of China"!
Yeah!
Bam! We're back in first place again.
I saw the twins running past us.
I'm thinking, "They're not counting, surely?"
-They're just counting them all as one. -One, yeah.
Two, three, four. Happy?
Seventy-three. Seventy-four.
Paul and Steve were in and out pretty quick.
[Shane] It plays a bit on your mind.
They're our competitors and they've got away pretty quickly.
You've gotta move on 'cause we're going for the top three here.
There's one there.
-There's a lion up the freaking top there. -Yeah, correct.
[Jo] They had huge lions on the top and we totally missed them.
-Twenty-four. -Up there!
-Twenty-five. -Twenty-five.
Yeah. I think that's one there.
[Michelle] We'll just go 446.
Yes.
-Yes! -Good counting.
[Shane] 446?
-[man] Yes. -Yeah!
Road Block.
-It's gonna be your one. -"Who can crack the Warrior Code?"
Jo is gonna do this challenge.
"Great Wall of China." Cool.
[Shane whistles] Taxi!
"Mutianyu, Great Wall."
The Great Wall of China.
We have an alliance with the twins,
but where there's an opportunity, we'll take them along or they can take us.
Say we've got to navigate somewhere…
This taxi knows. We'll tell them to hold for us.
Girls!
We thought we'll try and get to the next Road Block together.
Girls, does he know where he's going?
We just said Great Wall of China.
'Cause our one doesn't know.
Just tell him the Great Wall.
Do you want to tell your cab to wait and we'll follow you?
'Cause we've just got one here.
We have an alliance with the coppers, but alliances can only get you so far.
Don't tell these guys. Do not-- Say nothing.
We were like no don't tell them.
-Sir, you need to go! Go! -We're in a race.
You go! No help him!
[Shane] They burnt us. Our allies burnt us.
I feel like kicking the car in there.
That was pretty much every man, woman
-and child for themselves after that. -We were burnt.
As much as we worked together in the alliance, you know,
it's getting down to the nitty-gritty bits.
-Let's go. -Can you take us?
[Shane] I don't know if we're stooges or what?
It kills you.
But that's the race and what can you do about it?
There's a flag there.
When we got to Marco Polo Bridge, we were exhausted,
but we knew we just had to power through this challenge.
We're going to count this one first on the top.
-One. -And then the big fellow here.
-Two. -Yep.
Seventeen, 18, 19.
[Grace] But we still had our faith, still had our brains working.
We were still okay.
Eighty-two, 83…
Thank you very much.
-[Steve] The Great Wall of China. -[Paul] Yeah!
I've always wanted to go there, so I was pretty excited about that.
[Paul] Wow. Nice view.
When we got to the top of the Great Wall of China,
we realized, "Wait, it's not actually the top at all."
This should be the stair master challenge.
Eventually I got to the Road Block
and I could see multiple rows of guards standing on the steps.
Looking up, I couldn't actually see how many rows there were to memorize.
It was a bit daunting. This was a memory challenge. It could be quite a long one.
Okay, which one.
Each time you get it wrong, it would count as one strike.
And you only had three strikes.
Thank you.
Only one soldier per row would actually let you pass.
You had to remember which ones let you pass and which ones don't.
Nice.
One right, two middle.
There were so many different sequences and opportunities to stuff up.
-Row three. -Ha!
Once you get three strikes, you'd have to go back and start again.
[Steve] Paul's just pretty much going to be methodical
and we're hoping to get all of that done before any other teams get here.
[Michelle] We were lucky that our taxi driver…
You wait down there?
He's going to drive us somewhere else after this and he understands.
…he took us straight there.
-Thank you. -See you soon.
-Okay. -You go up the stairs then, Michelle.
We thought we were team number one.
Look who's here!
-But no. There were two black bags. -Black bags.
Devastating.
[Paul] When they're wearing the armor,
it's very difficult to distinguish each soldier by their face and such.
You just had to remember it by,
"Okay, the first one's a far right, the next one was a far left."
-Far right. -Ha!
You.
-Ha! -Damn.
[Michelle] Good luck, Joey!
You just get here?
Go, Joey! They just arrived!
If Paul can do it, I can do it,
if not I can do better.
So, hopefully he gets it wrong and then I get to go straight up.
[Paul] After five minutes of me attempting the Road Block,
Jo was now standing there.
Where do they keep coming from?
It just feels like they teleport in front of us.
-Okay. -Ha!
Okay. Row one, number three.
There's always going to be pressure on me when I have to do something by myself.
I just feel like I'll let Michelle down if I don't do it good enough.
Oh, God, there's rows of them.
I'm looking up going, okay, how many of them are there?
All I could see was stairs.
A lot more stairs.
Oh, my gosh. Okay. Okay.
I didn't realize there were so many stairs on the Great Wall of China.
I thought it was a walkway and then every now and then stairs,
but, like, the whole thing was stairs.
Okay, let's get it right this time.
Once Jo turned up, I knew now the pressure was on me.
There was one particular row where I was finding it difficult to remember.
-Ha! -Damn.
Okay, which one was it?
Right.
Probably the exhaustion was catching up to me.
Second right.
It's just bad luck.
We want to go to the Great Wall.
Can you tell our taxi driver that?
[in Mandarin]
Is it far out of the way?
Uh... A little far.
And he said, "No, no, you're on the wrong freeway."
[Shane] My stress levels were going right up
'cause I thought, if this comes down to this and we miss the final three
'cause of a taxi driver, it'd be crushing.
Ninety-five, 96, 97…
-Two fourteen… -Plus two…
We came up with a number.
I reckon we do 446, just to add a few.
446?
-Yes. -Yes!
Oh, my God. Not bad, Joseph.
Not bad at all.
Now you come in handy.
-Numbers is my thing, I guess. -[laughs]
"Who can crack the Warrior Code?" You don't want it?
-No. -Okay, I'll do it.
We knocked that out pretty quickly and our morale is coming back up again.
Let's go to the Great Wall of China.
Mutianyu.
-Yes. You know? -Mutianyu, China.
-Okay. -[Grace] Yeah.
We made the decision of finding a cab driver
who knew where the Great Wall of China was.
So you want to go to the Great Wall with no money?
All right.
Once we arrived there, we would actually beg for more money.
What if no one's there?
All right.
Ha!
Go, Jo!
There has been a constant rivalry between Paul and Steve and ourselves.
I thought this is it, I've got to do it.
Yay. Three, two, three, two.
This is the last Road Block to get to the final three.
The pressure was on.
Okay.
Um...
Come on, warriors. Work with me.
Oh, no.
Smile.
Thank you, now let me go through.
So I got to the last row and I knew I only had one strike left.
I had to get this one in one go.
Oh, my God. You're all so serious, warriors.
I was devastated.
Oh, my God. I don't even remember where I went just then,
'cause I got, like, four advanced in that last go.
So, right, middle, right, second left, row five, second left.
Okay, you. Of course you'll let me through.
-Ha! -[sighs]
Okay, almost there.
Yes.
Getting up to the last row, I only had one strike left,
but I could see the cauldron lying just behind them.
All right. Come on.
Yes.
I got it right, naturally.
Awesome.
I'm the Great Paul of China!
Yeah! You legend!
[Jo] Did you get it, Paul?
No.
On the way out, Joey asked me,
"Oh, did you get it this time?" I actually told her no.
[Jo] Liar. He just lied.
"Make your way to the next Pit Stop."
[Grant] The Forbidden City in the heart of Beijing has 10,000 rooms
and is the biggest palace complex in the world.
For nearly 500 years,
the Forbidden City was the home of Chinese emperors.
Today it's the Pit Stop of the second last leg of the race.
The last team to check in here…
will be eliminated.
Oh, yeah!
[Paul] At that point it's a huge relief
to just feel that we're definitely in the top three.
We're hoping to get first, because it will be so sweet to come first again.
It just feels like that first place is just slipping away again.
[groans loudly]
Being out of breath and trying to remember the sequence of the warriors,
it was physically tough and it was mentally tough at the same time.
One, okay.
Oh, man.
Who do I choose?
I got to the final row again
and I knew if I didn't get the warrior this time,
that the boys were going to be long gone.
Ha!
Yes!
I was so relieved that I finally got it.
Jo!
Let's go! We've got to go!
But at the same time I was angry that I didn't get it faster than Paul.
I'm going to have a better bum than you, Michelle.
I can tell you now.
"Make your way to the next Pit Stop."
Where's our taxi?
Our taxi driver,
he had a sense of urgency, so I really wanted him back.
We need to tell him to go very fast.
-No. No, no. -Let's go.
-You took us the wrong way. -Come on.
You took us the wrong way.
When we got to the Great Wall, we told our taxi driver
-to head for the hills. -Yeah.
Because he'd taken us on a wild goose chase.
Here we go.
This way?
It was my turn to do the Road Block.
If I stuffed up on this one, we're out of the race.
Bring it on, buddy!
Oh, no. Okay.
Yes.
I've got good confidence he'll sort it out.
Going back.
Sitting pretty, feeling good.
Hopefully we can come through with the goods.
[Steve] Yeah, it looks like that's the Forbidden Temple.
[Jo] Our taxi driver found where we had to go
in the Forbidden City and he took us straight there.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, our cab driver overshot the Forbidden City by a kilometer.
Bloody cabbie.
So we had to actually jog a kilometer back.
Do you reckon it's that building straight?
Do you think it's that building?
[Steve] I don't think it is if I think it's in the Forbidden City.
[Paul] That doesn't answer my question.
[Steve] Yes, it does.
Which way?
The Forbidden City was huge.
How do we get to… [pronounces name]
[in Mandarin]
[Steve] Over there.
-[Michelle] This way? -[Jo] This way.
[Paul] I hope we beat the twins.
[speaking Mandarin]
Welcome to Beijing, China.
-Xiè xie. -Xiè xie.
Michelle and Jo, you're the first team to arrive.
So that means you are guaranteed a place in the final
and you'll be one of three racing for a quarter of a million dollars.
-Congratulations. -Oh, my God. Thank you.
And as the winners of this leg,
you will also receive $10,000,
courtesy of Southern Cross Travel Insurance.
That's $5,000 each to spend after the race.
-Yay! -Finally!
That's your first number one in the race.
-Yes! And it feels good. -Number one.
-Next leg you race for $250,000 cash. -[screams]
-[laughs] -[Jo] Cool!
Thank you.
[Jo] A one-in-three chance of $250,000, are you kidding?
We're going to work so hard. We're ready. We're ready for the final.
Paul and Steve, you're the second team to arrive.
-Yes! -That means you're in the finals,
and it means you're in the race for a quarter of a million dollars cash.
Looking forward to it.
We were a bit surprised to not see ourselves coming first to the Pit Stop,
but at the same time, we can take this all the way
and what an accomplishment to brag about thereafter.
Ha!
[Andrew] So I'd finally got to the last row.
By this point, I'm not sure how many times I've been up and down.
I was exhausted.
I can't do it again. There's no way I am going to remember the sequence.
Okay.
I was on my last strike.
If I got this one wrong,
I had to head back all the way down the bottom.
Yes! Through.
When that warrior moved to the side,
I was stoked. It was just like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.
-[Shane] Have you got it? -[Andrew] Yes.
[shouts] Big fella, get down here.
What's it say?
"The last team to arrive will be eliminated."
-Eliminated! -Let's get the hell out of here.
I think the Forbidden City, guess where that is?
-Where? -Back in Beijing.
-I'm pretty sure it is. -Oh, no.
We run back down the mountain.
Let's go.
...and sure enough, there's no cabs.
Taxi! This taxi here.
Is it a taxi?
Why'd he put that on there?
-It was bedlam, wasn't it? -[Andrew] Yeah.
[Shane] People trying to offer us to get in their own private vehicles.
-No, it has to be a registered taxi. -Yeah.
Has to be a taxi.
[in Mandarin]
This is ridiculous.
If you hadn't held your cab, bang, bad luck.
So we were in a bit of strife.
We need someone to call us a taxi.
If we can't get back, out of the race. I really don't know, mate.
[snoring]
We were just so tired.
[Grace] We went to sleep.
[Joseph yawning] Wake up, Grace.
Where are we going?
We're going to the wrong place, Grace. We're in the wrong place.
He pulls up to the Great Wall of China and the place was completely deserted.
[in Mandarin]
Yeah, where?
-But you didn't get us there. -I don't understand.
We had no idea where we were.
Where are we?
We need to go to Beijing.
Will you tell him to take us, please?
-He'll take us? Okay. -Yes.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Pop the boot, please.
[Shane] He was going to drive us back to Beijing, to the Forbidden Temple.
We still haven't seen Joe and Grace.
Unless they slipped past while we were there.
[Andrew] It was really nerve-racking sitting in that taxi.
Your whole race is depending on this taxi driver.
I started to think of home and everything we've been through
to get to this point.
-We've fought hard to get this far. -Yeah.
We've left so much at home. Other things going on at home.
Yes, yes.
Where is that?
We're in the wrong area.
Grace, we're at the wrong point. This is ridiculous.
This is bad news.
[Shane] Come on, buddy.
Here we go for the last time.
Shane and Andrew, you're the third team to arrive
and that means that you are one of three racing in the final leg
for a quarter of a million dollars.
-You thought you were out, didn't you? -Yeah, we thought we were gone, mate.
-It was touch-and-go. -Terrible day.
So we got a bit of a lifeline there, didn't we?
[Andrew] That's it.
[Shane] I'm emotional, mate.
[Andrew] We're so relieved to be in the final three.
[Shane] Absolutely rapt.
Now it's time to win.
[Shane] What a day.
784?
No, we have no money.
[knocking]
-Hi. -[Joseph] Grant.
Joseph and Grace,
you have in fact traveled to the wrong section of the Great Wall
and crossed into inner Mongolia.
The other teams have all reached the Pit Stop.
I'm sorry to tell you this is a predetermined elimination leg
and you are out of the race.
We were so close to the final and it's definitely heartbreaking.
The last two days was definitely hard,
especially last night.
You've come a long way.
-[Grace] I know. -[Joseph] Yeah.
I didn't think a brother and sister combination could survive this long.
That should be a challenge itself.
I see Grace as a girl that's capable of making her own decisions now.
Before, maybe I didn't really, but she's really surprised me throughout the race
and I'm very proud of her.
[Grace] He is an overprotective brother and that's what I love about him.
I'm on the other side of the world,
but I've got my brother here and he's going to protect me.
-[Grant] Next time… -Quick, Andy!
At the end of a race around the world, the grand finale.
[both whooping]
Michelle and Jo…
We're going to do whatever it takes. We're not going to give up.
-Talk to the hand. -…Shane and Andrew…
There's a big prize at the end of it, so we're going to give it our best shot.
Let's go! Let's go!
…and Paul and Steve.
[Paul] We'll get to brag to the other teams
that they just got their butts kicked by an accountant and a goofball.
"Fly to Brisbane"!
Who will trip up on the way to the final Pit Stop?
We just lost $250,000!
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