[Grant] Tonight, after a race around the world,
one of these teams…
will win The Amazing Race Australia grand finale.
[both] Whoo!
-[Grant] Eleven teams… -Go!
…set off on a 65,000-kilometer adventure.
-"Fly to Istanbul." -"Jaipur."
-"Manila." -"Beijing."
-"Delhi." -"Paris."
-"Dubai." -"Vancouver."
-"Banff." -"Havana, Cuba." [screams]
-[Grant] Along the way… -[both] Whoo!
…teams battled their limits…
[screams]
-[Sarah screams] -[James] Oh, no!
…and each other.
-Are you gonna be reasonable? -No, I said!
They beat the odds…
-Oh, I got it! -Yeah!
…and raced ahead…
-Hey, hey, hey! -…no matter what.
But eight teams didn't last the distance.
You're the last team to arrive,
and I'm sorry to tell you you are out of the race.
Now it comes down to the final three.
[Shane] I think our background as police definitely prepared us for any situation.
Cops Shane and Andrew…
-Up! -…fought travel mishaps.
-Mate, do you know where we're going? -He doesn't know.
But a strong partnership…
Good work, buddy!
…carried them to the final leg.
The stupid cops are just starting to warm up.
-[whoops] -Twins Michelle and Jo…
Most of the time we're a double act,
but Michelle likes to be quite dominant over me.
I didn't stop it!
They overcame sibling tensions…
We're catching you boys!
…and pushed hard…
[Michelle] Joey!
…to stay at the top of the pack.
Finally we're team number one.
And workmates Paul and Steve…
Suck it up, kids. Paul and Steve are back.
…raced with confidence…
I have an IQ that places me in the top two percent of Australia.
Who's a genius?
…and steely determination.
Now it's time for evil Paul to come out.
[Shane and Andrew] Whoa!
-We choose to U-Turn Paul and Steve. -Paul and Steve.
Paul and Steve.
We just don't like 'em.
Paul and Steve, you're team number one!
Yeah! Boom!
Who will win The Amazing Race Australia…
Whoo!
…and a quarter of a million dollars?
See them? Go, quick.
We're relieved to be in the final three.
To win something like this-- chance in a lifetime.
Oh, yeah!
[Paul] It just felt like it was us versus every other team the whole way.
But we're gonna show we can take it to 'em.
[both squealing]
[Michelle] We have a one-in-three chance of winning a quarter of a million dollars.
It is a massive motivator, and we are gonna fight.
-Fight, fight, fight. -Good luck, buddy.
Yeah!
[Grant] During the mandatory Pit Stop rest period,
teams were transported from Beijing by plane
to the city of Guilin in southern China.
This spectacular landscape
is considered by many to be the most beautiful in China.
Guilin is now the starting point of the final leg
of our race around the world.
Michelle and Jo were the first to check in.
Michelle and Jo, you're team number one.
[scream]
So they'll depart first at 5:07 a.m.
"Welcome to Guilin, China.
Travel by taxi to the Lijiang River
to find your next clue among the traditional fishermen."
[Grant] Cormorants have been used for fishing in Guilin for thousands of years.
Teams will need to search
among these dozens of traditional fishermen
and ask in Mandarin for their next clue.
You have $250 for this leg of the race.
[Jo] Can you please take us to Lijiang River, Yangshuo District?
Okay.
[Michelle] It's a good start to start in first place.
This is the last leg.
You've only got one chance of this and a one-in-three chance of $250,000.
It's pretty good odds, so…
-Girl power. Let's do it. -Girl power.
It's meant everything to run with Michelle.
I've learned many different things along the way,
and we've had fun together and it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
that we've got to share, and we'll have that forever now.
It says turn right. I can see the arrow and the flag.
[Michelle] This experience has made us closer together as sisters,
and I have learned I need to step back and listen to her opinion sometimes.
"Hours of operation: 8:30 till 5:00."
"Welcome to Guilin, China.
You have $250 for this leg of the race." All right, let's go.
It's been a great experience, great journey.
[in Mandarin]
[in English] Can you take us?
To have had the opportunity
to do the race in its whole entirety is something to be proud of.
Okay, let's do it!
Let's go!
[laughs]
[Paul] What a ride it's been, and I can't wait for the end,
when we are crossing the finish line first.
We'll get to brag to the other teams
that they just got their butts kicked by an accountant and a goofball.
[laughs]
"Hours of operation: 8:30."
[Steve] At least it'll be before the cops.
The twins have proved consistently
that they're good at getting between destinations,
securing good flights and such.
So that is why we've always felt they are our greatest threats,
that we always have to overtake them at challenges.
Awkward much?
[Steve] Time ticked over, 8:30. We've got to put these on.
We had to get dressed up in this haystack cape.
[Jo] Oh, gosh. I definitely think it's becoming more personal now.
Paul is just so serious. Just crack a smile, mate.
I can't let them beat us. It's really eating at me.
-Hey, I don't want to stack, mate. -I know.
How cool is this, man?
[Paul] Yeah, I'm worried I'm gonna slip in, though.
We have to ask each fisherman if he has something to give us.
The paddle's so heavy, Jo.
[Steve] We're neck and neck with the twins.
-[Paul] Ready to start asking? -We split off,
so they went left and we went right.
[Jo] Great job, Chelle.
Get a little closer.
Now there's fishermen everywhere,
and we had to ask if they had something to give us in Mandarin.
[in Mandarin]
[in English] Yeah!
Can you chuck it in here?
If you didn't get a clue, you got a fish.
-Which Steve seemed just as pleased about. -Yeah.
Hey! [laughs]
[speaking Mandarin]
Another fish. [laughs] Hey-O! Oh!
[Jo speaking Mandarin]
There were so many, you didn't know where to start.
Just start asking.
[in Mandarin]
[in English] Yes? Yes.
Get back. He's got it.
-Woo-hoo! -[Jo speaking Mandarin]
The first fisherman we ask, we get the clue.
We were pretty stoked about that.
Thank you!
-[speaking Mandarin] -[both] Whoo!
First one! Yeah!
-Turn around. -Which way?
[both] Whoo!
-It's a Detour. -Detour.
In this final Detour, teams will go back to school Chinese-style
as they choose between Teach and Learn.
In Teach,
teams must choose a local student and tutor them on ten Aussie words.
Once their student can repeat the ten phrases,
they'll receive their next clue.
In Learn,
teams must learn the same ten phrases in Mandarin
from one of the students.
They'll then need to correctly recite the phrases back to the teacher.
Okay, so Learn.
Taxi!
We need to go to a kindergarten school.
We had a map, so we knew where the school was.
It was far away, but it's all a directions game with the taxis again.
So hopefully we can have some luck on our side.
"Travel by taxi to the Lijiang River."
We need someone that can speak English, though.
We've been underestimated the whole race, and that's fine.
-We like it that way. -We're happy to play it that way.
-This is countryside. -In countryside? Okay.
Yes. Countryside.
We've both been caught in the rat race, having kids,
and jobs, and mortgages, and all that sort of stuff.
Thank you.
[Andrew] We owe it to our families at least to have a shot at the big one.
They've done it hard probably without us. They deserve it as much as we do.
I was trying to find someone that could speak English,
and luckily the lovely police officer could speak a little bit of English.
Ni hao.
[in Mandarin]
[Paul] They're always moving around,
so even though you may have checked, say, 25 of them out of 50,
you don't know whether you're checking new ones or the same ones you've asked.
Go to the left.
[Steve speaking Mandarin]
-[Paul] Oh! -[Steve] Thank you very much.
We eventually found the right guy.
We were very happy. Let's get the hell out of here.
Detour. "Teach or Learn"?
[Paul] My instinct is Teach because it sounds the easier to me, but…
We had to get to our next location, which was a kindergarten.
Excuse me. Yangshuo?
[Paul] The first thing we felt we needed to do is find a local
that would actually have an idea of the direction.
Down that way?
-[man speaking] -How far?
I did try to gauge whether we should be walking or driving.
Walk?
[woman in Mandarin]
[Steve] So straight down there.
It became pretty evident that there was no cabs or any form of transportation
going to be along that road,
so we figured that surely it's not gonna be a real long distance.
[Steve] Do you reckon that's what we do?
[Paul] That's what she was saying, wasn't she?
[Steve] Yeah.
[speaking Mandarin]
[Shane] We had to head down to the river.
When we get there, hours of operation were 8:30 till 1700.
They would've been sitting here for three hours.
Yeah, and no sleep.
We were probably only an hour, hour and a half behind at this stage.
-Back in it, mate. -Yep.
[Andrew] Paul and Steve and the twins have had a bit of a rivalry.
They've been butting heads, and we've been in the background,
which has been good for us.
[Shane] A bit of contact with him.
Hello, sir.
[in Mandarin]
Has he got? Has he got?
-[Andrew] Fish. -[Shane] Fish.
He'd say… and then pull out a little fish.
Yangshuo?
Yangshuo that way?
The first person we saw said, "Yep. Continue this way.
You're going the right way."
Let's ask these people too. Yangshuo?
[in Mandarin]
Where is it? This way?
-[Paul] They said down this way? -Yep.
We had to go with our feeling that they keep pointing this way,
so surely it's just up the road.
Surely we can catch the twins with our jogs every now and then.
I just hope we haven't overshot it.
[Andrew] I'll go over to these three here?
Yeah, do these three that are sitting here.
[in Mandarin]
Maybe. What's he got for us?
[both] Oh!
[Shane] Don't fall in, toey! Don't fall in, buddy!
Woo-hoo!
[Andrew] Got the clue really quick off the fisherman,
so we thought, "Maybe we've made up time here."
-Detour! -Detour!
Teach or Learn? We'll try Teach.
We thought, "We can chase them down.
We just need a bit of luck and to go pretty hard."
[Andrew] School?
Kindergarten. Little school.
Yeah? Let's go.
We have the taxi driver who knows the district we need to go to
but doesn't know where the school is.
Not many taxi drivers speak English in this area.
-Keep asking people where the school is. -We stopped and got directions.
Hello. We need to find a kindergarten school known as...
[speaking Mandarin]
No.
There's that full language barrier. It's really frustrating.
Let's just keep asking people on the street.
Are we still on the right track?
Who knows?
[Steve] The further and further and the longer and longer we kept walking,
the more in your head you're going, "It doesn't feel right."
We could be the ones likely in the most danger if everyone else is in a taxi.
Geez, have we made a catastrophic mistake here?
Yangshuo? Yangshuo?
-How long? 300 meters? -Uh...
1.5 hour by bike.
-One and a half hours? -By bike?
[Steve] Of all the times to make a catastrophic mistake,
the last leg is the definite last place you ever want to make it,
and we just did.
Are there any taxis or roads somewhere?
Taxi?
[woman]
It was a massive mistake.
You're thinking, "Oh, no. We've already walked 45 minutes.
Do we go back or forward?"
What do we do?
We've gone too far.
Can't be an hour and a half away.
We've been walking for about 45 minutes. There's no point in going back.
Yangshuo?
When you're in the final leg, it is no guts, no glory.
We just have to keep going.
-Leading the way. -Yeah. Thanks, buddy.
Follow the pup.
We made a friend on the road, a nice dog.
He was guiding us on our spiritual journey through the Chinese mountains.
What a journey.
I know.
-There's a school. -Yeah, here.
We arrive at the schoolyard, finally.
We've chosen to do the Learn challenge.
[Michelle] Ni hao!
Who wants to teach us Mandarin?
This one. You want to come?
We've picked a girl to help us.
Okay.
There was ten pictures on the blackboard,
and the student had to teach us the words for each of the pictures in Mandarin.
[in Mandarin]
[repeating in Mandarin]
Come closer so you can hear properly.
I reckon the little kid we chose was five or six.
-So a really little voice as well. -Yeah.
[speaking Mandarin]
[in Mandarin]
I'm gonna remember that one I'm gonna remember I'm sharing my toes.
[speaking Mandarin]
[in Mandarin]
[repeating in Mandarin]
[in Mandarin]
The further we go out, it's gonna be less people.
Maybe the server will know.
She's looking like she's not knowing where she's going, and we're in last place.
Any English? A little bit?
-But we're onto it now. -[Shane] Yeah.
[Andrew] If we think we're lost, we just stop.
How do we get there?
Yeah? Thank you.
[Shane] We got this fella that could speak English, and he was a local.
Could you take us, please? And we follow you?
-Okay. -Okay. Let's go!
He jumped in with us.
-Lucky we found this nice gentleman. -This good man.
-Champion. -He knows the way to get there.
We've been in Turkish baths together,
you know, bathing each other, and this is nothing.
[in Mandarin]
Okay.
Pressure's on. We're racing.
We weren't giving ourselves enough time to learn the words.
We were just trying to learn them quickly.
We need to go to the Learn quiz classroom.
We're doing Learn.
We went through to go have our exam.
[in Mandarin]
[speaking Mandarin]
[Jo] We realized once we got to the teacher,
we're struggling with "Sheila" and "bloke."
We'll run back downstairs. We'll come back for one more.
We'll learn one more.
Come. It's fun.
So we thought we would try another student to come and be our teacher.
Can you teach us this one and this one?
[in Mandarin]
-[girl speaking Mandarin] -[Michelle repeating]
She had completely different pronunciation.
We were getting confused.
[speaking Mandarin]
Oh, my God.
But we just kept going with what we thought we were hearing.
Thank you.
Now I'm nervous.
[in Mandarin]
We knew we only had two wrong. We'd already memorized the others.
[both] Whoo!
Thank you.
"Make your way to Bai Sha Market."
[Grant] This traveling market is typical of rural China,
and teams will need all their powers of persuasion
to sell their wares to the passing villagers.
Teams must choose a market stall and spruik these common kitchen gadgets.
Once they've sold ten items,
they can exchange their profits for their next clue.
See ya!
We haven't seen any of the other teams, so we think we're in front.
Bai Sha.
We are promo queens.
We sell pieces of paper to people, pretty much.
We can do this for sure.
-[Paul] Do you wanna ask? -[Steve] Yeah, might as well.
We've been walking for about two hours when we found a hotel.
"Lijiang."
Yeah, Lijiang River.
-Where were we? -Can we get a taxi here?
It was an absolute massive relief to be able to call
a rubber-tire savior to get us out of there.
Back on the right track.
We may not be in a bad situation.
We don't know what the situation is or how well we're doing,
but at least we're feeling that we're doing the best we can right now.
Not too far?
-Not far. -Okay.
There's a marker. I can see it up there.
She'll take you back?
-Okay. -Okay.
[Andrew] Let's go. So we get to the kindergarten.
"Choose a student from the playground."
We thought we would be pretty good teachers.
What about the young fella?
I thought, "This guy's switched on." So we picked the young fella.
-That's it. -One, two, three.
[both] Whoo!
One, two, three.
[both] Whoo!
-Good one. -Look at the words.
-Okay. -We'll have to talk really slowly.
We went into the classroom. It wasn't English words.
-It was Aussie slang. -They were ripper sayings.
G'day, mate.
So we had to teach this young six-year-old kid the terms of Australiana.
[speaking indistinctly]
-Mate. -Mate.
-G'day, mate.
Yes. Good, good.
-Bloke. -Bloke.
-[Shane] Pretty good. -Very good.
How ya goin'?
Yeah!
He was a real trouper, this kid.
-How ya goin'? -How ya goin'?
[Shane] We took ourselves out for probably the first time and thought,
it's more about this kid and not so much the race.
Barbie.
-Barbie. -Yes!
Something I was on last night a lot.
Dunny.
-Dunny. -Yes!
We spent a bit of time with the bloke, and he was getting all the words.
Do you want to go to the teacher and have a go?
-Do you want to? Okay. -Here we go.
[Andrew] So we thought, now it's time to head upstairs,
put him in front of the teacher and see if he can repeat them for us.
Poor little bloke froze and couldn't even spit one of the words out.
No? Keep trying.
Good try. It's all right. Will we try a bit more? Go downstairs?
He deserved another go because he'd been trying so hard.
-Footy. -Good boy. Well done.
-Barbie. -Yes.
[blows raspberry]
Dunny.
[Michelle] Place is huge.
We get to the market, and there's a lot of people.
Hello. Ni hao.
Found the stall, and it was sales chick time.
[Michelle] We had to sell ten super slicers for five yuan.
Roll on up! Would you like to buy?
Please, everybody step on up. Look!
The cucumber cutter! It's very, very good.
[Jo] I was crinkle-cutting, slicing apples.
I was like, "My God, this is amazing."
-Perfect spirals. Come on, five yuan. -Who would like to buy?
We had a huge crowd around us,
but it was really hard to get the first person to pay.
Very good price. Very good price. Look. Magic.
-Look at all the things you can do. -The magic slicer, thinly sliced.
All-in-one slicers, only five.
-Two. -You want two?
-Yeah. -How many have we sold?
We've sold two. We've sold two.
Once the first person paid, they all came flowing in.
You buy this for your mum.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
[speaking Mandarin]
We're up to four. We're nearly halfway there.
-[boy] Sheila. -Good.
-Sheila. -Good.
Okay. He's got it.
I think we're aware we were spending too much time,
but because he was such a nice, likable kid, we just wanted to get him.
Try again. Good boy.
Now I set his test again.
[boy] G'day, mate.
[Andrew] Eh.
He could only get "g'day, mate."
That's it. Good boy. You've nearly got it. Have a try.
[Shane] He struggled on "Sheila," "bloke."
He's six years old.
He's got no idea what we're chasing, and he was chewing up the clock.
Dunny.
Very close. Nearly.
[Shane] We're doing the teaching challenge.
We were spending a fair bit of time with this little tucker,
and it was becoming quite evident that he wasn't going to get it.
We're gonna change, have a go at Learn. It's too tough on the young bloke.
Well done.
So the role reversed.
[in Mandarin]
[Shane] He became our teacher.
[in Mandarin]
[repeating in Mandarin]
There's 20, 30...
We've only got one more to sell.
-Do you want one? -I sliced like never before.
Do you want to buy one? Thank you.
[speaking Mandarin]
[Michelle] I think we've sold them all. We've got 50.
Fifty. For you.
Thank you. [speaking Mandarin]
-"Fly to Brisbane, Australia." -We get to go back!
[Grant] Teams must now fly to Brisbane, Australia.
Once there, they must search the airport car park for their next clue.
-Whoo! -We're going home!
Make your way to Brisbane, Australia.
We were finally going home.
Guilin Airport.
Hopefully we can just get on a good flight and leave the others behind.
Whoo!
[Andrew] He took us upstairs.
[both in Mandarin]
We looked at each other and said, "Why didn't we do this first pop?"
And then...
Yeah.
-Why didn't we do this first? -We did it.
-We did it, buddy. -Thanks, buddy. Love your work.
Punched them out first go.
"Make your way to Bai Sha Market."
You want a kangaroo from Australia for helping us?
-Thank you. -Give us five. Yay!
Oh, bang, right there.
There's the boys.
We arrived at the school and the first thing we saw is the cops running around.
It's all right. At least we're caught up to someone.
We'll come back.
[Andrew] Paul and Steve are here.
At the start of the day, we were three and a half hours behind.
Bai Sha Market.
Now Paul and Steve are behind us.
Yeah, so we've made a big jump. We're back in it.
So we're either first or second at this stage.
Come with us.
Yeah.
How you doing, buddy?
We've realized, hey, we're still in this. We're gonna catch up to 'em.
[boy in Mandarin]
[repeating in Mandarin]
[Steve speaking Mandarin]
[both laugh]
[Michelle] How would I get to Brisbane, Australia?
We were hoping and praying that the other teams would miss the flight.
We've got less than an hour, so we don't want other people to see us
or what flight we're checking in for, so we're gonna check in now.
[Steve] We sit the test.
[in Mandarin]
I had the first five words, which I think were a lot easier
than the latter five Steve had to learn.
[speaking Mandarin]
Really frustrating. I cannot remember the word for "bathers."
Far out.
[muttering]
I swear it was... [speaks Mandarin]
[repeating in Mandarin]
Let's try and find this stall.
We're definitely more motivated 'cause we know Paul and Steve are behind.
-There it is! -Yay!
-Yeah, we had a bit more gusto about us. -More energy, yes.
Here we go, folks.
Oh, bang, bang, bang, bang…
It was graters and that sort of stuff.
-Dodgy things you get on late-night telly. -Yeah, that you see on telly.
-We've got one. -You want one?
[speaking Mandarin]
Thank you.
[in Mandarin]
-Thank you very much. -Thank you.
"Make your way to Bai Sha Market."
When you're in the final leg, it isn't just about surviving
because there is no leg after this.
We've gotta make sure we get back in the lead and stay in the lead.
We saw the cops leaving.
We're behind them, but I don't feel we're too far behind.
We have no idea where the twins are, but we figure they're in the lead.
[Andrew] You want two?
-You got two? -Sure.
-Beautiful! -There's another one for this side.
-Here's another one! -You beauty!
They went like hotcakes. We could've sold twice as many.
-One to go. -Last one.
Hey!
-Wow! -That was quick.
Some people said we should get out of the police force and go into sales.
-Haven't they? -Yeah.
Some policemen have said we should get out of the police force and into sales.
-Oh! -[both] Oh!
-"Fly to Brisbane, Australia!" -We're coming home, baby!
We're coming home, Australia!
[Andrew] Let's go! Let's go!
There's the boys.
All right, let's go.
We saw the cops. They were just finishing,
so it seemed that we were keeping pace with them.
[Steve] Look what you can do with these things. You can grate it.
Look at that.
[Paul] Steve's definitely got the used-car-salesman personality.
-He's very good at pitching things. -Whoa!
Check that out. Isn't that beautiful? Look at that.
You can cut that into lots of different…
[Paul speaking Mandarin]
Come on. [speaking Mandarin]
Oh! It was an accident. Sorry, guys. Did not see that one.
[Steve] They're not gonna understand anything I say,
so what I've got to do is just be entertaining for them.
That's always fun to do.
[Shane] Let's go.
-Thank you. -Thank you for getting us there.
Let's go, buddy.
If we don't get on the same flight as Michelle and Jo,
they're gonna have a massive lead on us.
And that's it. We'll have no chance of winning.
We need to go to Brisbane, Australia.
As quick as we can.
We haven't got much time.
We had only what, 20 minutes to get on?
We've got to run. Otherwise we're not gonna get on it.
[speaking Mandarin]
[Paul] I think they were buying out of sympathy
rather than 'cause they wanted the product.
You're a legend. Thank you, sir. He's got two.
[Paul] We've got one to go.
Come on, Paul. You can do it.
-We're done. -That's beautiful!
Steve killed that challenge.
Yeah!
-"Fly to Brisbane!" -Awesome.
-Guilin Airport? -Guilin Airport, yeah.
Thank you.
We've got to do some scrambling and try and get the best flight--
-Ultimately to Brisbane. -Yeah.
Every second on the clock was like ten minutes.
Like, it was going so slow.
Boarding had started, and we were like,
"We're on. The other teams aren't here."
Oh, look at that.
-Just made it. -Perfect.
-Hey. -Hello.
-How'd you go? -I'm okay.
We're all right.
-How long have you been here? -Two hours.
It was just a weight off our shoulders that we'd caught up with the twins.
We were just hoping that Paul and Steve were 20 or 30 minutes behind.
[speaking Mandarin]
Hello. Can we get two tickets to Guangzhou?
You only have six minutes to check in now.
-Yes, ma'am. -[Steve] Quick, quick, quick!
Please, please, please.
We only had six minutes to get on the same flight as everyone else.
Six minutes, man.
If we don't get on the same flight, who knows when the next flight is.
I doubt we'll be able to recover from it.
[Steve] Oh, man.
[Steve] Oh. We only had six minutes.
We were really hoping that we'd made the flight in time.
Please, please, please.
If we didn't, our race was over.
Thank you.
Six minutes before takeoff, guess who arrives.
Welcome aboard.
Hey. What's going on?
My mind went crazy with all the different variables
that could've potentially lost us just six minutes,
and that six minutes would've been do-or-die for us.
-We were gutted. -Yeah.
[Michelle] For everyone to catch up, it's just devastating.
[Grant] All teams are now on a flight
from Guilin via Guangzhou to Brisbane, Australia,
due to arrive at 8:55 a.m.
Go this way.
We need a detailed map of Brisbane, please.
As soon as we got off the plane, we got the good map.
The other two teams went straight to the cars.
Thank you very much.
It felt so good to be back on home soil. I was like, "Yes. Sun on me."
All I wanted to do was sunbake.
"Drive to Captain Burke Park…"
"…at Kangaroo Point, below the Story Bridge."
[Grant] Teams must now drive themselves into the city
and search Captain Burke Park for their next clue.
[Michelle] We're pretty damn excited. We've got a big day ahead of us.
A one-in-three chance of $250,000.
-Pretty pumped. -Whoo!
But we left in first place, and now it's the boys following us.
Girl power. Let's go.
Just stick with the twins for now.
Our strength is not in getting between destinations.
That's a strength of the twins, so we thought,
"Let's let them leave first."
[Paul] The cops are behind us. We don't care what they're doing.
"Drive to Captain Burke Park at Kangaroo Point."
[Shane] That's it? That's all we got?
Everywhere we go now we'll get a map,
so we thought it was worth the two minutes there
to run back, let the other teams get in their cars and go.
Two minutes is not gonna be much.
[Michelle] Woo-hoo! We're going over the Story Bridge.
[Steve] Here's the Story Bridge.
-There's the girls, I think. Right there. -[Michelle] "Kangaroo Point."
We arrived at Kangaroo Point at the same time as Paul and Steve.
Down there! Jo, Jo, Jo.
And adrenaline is pumping through us.
Everything's taken over, and it's chaos.
Jo!
-[Jo] I'm right here! -You're not!
[Andrew] Just go to the end.
There they are, running.
Let's go.
"Drive to Boggo Road Gaol…"
"…and find the warden, who'll have your next clue."
[Grant] Brisbane's notorious Boggo Road Gaol
was once the site of dozens of executions.
Teams must enter the jail to receive their next clue.
We're not far off the others, so…
Righto. "Drive to Boggo Road Gaol and find the warden,
who will have your next clue."
[Jo] Boggo Road Gaol. Yeah.
Ask this man.
[Jo] Excuse me, sir. Do you happen to know where Boggo Road Gaol is?
-Boggo Road Gaol? -Yeah.
[Paul]
[Steve]
Boggo Road?
-Boggo Road Gaol. -Oh, okay.
Boggo Hill, Boggo Road. We want down here.
Paul and Steve jump out of their car and go and stand over Jo's shoulder.
-Joey! -No idea the boys were behind me.
You want to come down Vulture Street. Are you watching?
[Paul] They were doing the work for us, getting directions,
and we were listening in in stealth mode.
-Is that Montague… -Montague Road.
-Thanks, mate. -They said it's just slightly off the map.
Follow them for now.
-[Michelle] Which way am I going? -Depends which way we…
We've got to keep going the direction we were going in.
-[Steve] Do you want to go right there? -[Paul] You do want to do a U-turn here.
There's only one way back onto the Story Bridge.
The wrong way.
-You don't want to go over the bridge. -What do you want me to do, Jo?
I don't know. Just go over the bridge. You'll have to turn.
In the wrong direction, here we go.
High Gate-- No, not towards the city.
That's the street you've brought me to, Jo, and only one way.
Did we want to turn around there or no? On the bridge?
[Paul] Yes, you do.
-Give me the call when we've got to go. -[Shane] Yeah, yeah. Let them beep.
There's only left-turn-only, but we wanted to go right.
Go.
It was pretty much just a U-ey on the bridge.
-Wasn't it? -Yeah.
But it was safe.
-Beautiful. Now, the main street. -Yeah.
-Stay here. -[horn honks]
Michelle, stop! You're going onto a main road!
The legs that we do get frustrated at each other, we fall back.
There's only three teams. There's no chance to fall back.
-I cannot see past! -Reversing, you look over your shoulder.
Yeah, and I can't see anything.
You're not trying to get us killed, okay?
See that white building up there? That might be it.
That'll be it. It looks like a jail. We're the first here.
That's why the map.
Let's seize this advantage, buddy.
-We headed into the jail. -Hello, Warden.
[warden]
-We've been to a few jails, haven't we? -Thank you very much.
"How well do you know your partner?"
Whoo-hoo!
[Grant] In this challenge,
one team member must answer five questions about other teams on the race.
The second team member must then correctly match those answers
to receive their next clue.
-Wanna go first? -I'll go first.
-Doesn't matter. -Yep.
[Andrew] That was a different feeling
because I was grabbed by the arm and escorted into the jail myself.
Okay.
We know each other well. Worked with each other a lot.
"Which team would you lend a helping hand to?"
I'll go with the girls.
That was easy. I thought the twins straightaway.
They've been with us the longest. We've been helping each other the most.
"Which team would you lie to?"
Right, that's an easy one.
Paul in particular has been throwing a few furphies out there.
The thing is, we do think very much alike. People have said that all the time.
They say, "These are like twins or brothers."
"Which team worked best together?"
We'll go Sticky and Sam.
I might skip to the fifth one. "Which was the unluckiest team?"
I'll say Dane and Adam.
They're a strong team and got knocked out 'cause they sold their shoes.
"Whose relationship do you envy?"
Maybe Sticky and Sam, 'cause they got on well the best.
They'd probably enjoyed themselves so much on the race, nothing was a hassle.
I might change which team worked best together.
Change that one to me and Shane.
Hopefully he's on the same page.
So I thought,
I don't know whether putting ourselves there will upset the apple cart.
I did it pretty quick and then got escorted back to another jail cell.
The first one was easy.
It said, "Who would you give a helping hand?" The twins.
"Who would you lie to?" Paul and Steve.
-Easy. -[bell rings]
-[Michelle] Is that the jail? -Yeah, that looks like a jail.
[Jo] The coppers already got here.
[Michelle] We were in shock that they were in first place,
'cause we thought they were behind us, so we were in for the race of our lives.
Thank you.
"Each team member must answer a series of questions regarding other teams."
We thought, it's a twin challenge. We've got this in the bag.
-I'm gonna go first. -Come with me.
Jo chose to go in first.
It's dark.
The first question is, which team would lend me a helping hand?
The first one would be our alliance.
We always said, "We'd help you, you'd help us."
"Which team would lie to you?"
I'll maybe go Joe and Grace.
"Which was the unluckiest team?"
I put us because of the taxi drivers.
[buzzer blares]
The unluckiest team was Dane and Adam, because they were knocked out so early.
-I'll try that. -[buzzer blares]
-Incorrect. -Incorrect.
-[Steve] There's their car. -[Paul] Both cars.
[Steve] The cops are here.
I thought we got there in good time. To see the cops was a big surprise.
It put the pressure on
because we're only gonna be able to catch up through strong performance.
-"How well do you know your partner?" -I'm gonna answer.
Come with me.
"Which team worked best together?"
I think I read the questions really fast.
I thought, I'll get the fastest answer and get back so she can do it.
Shane and Andrew are our alliance.
I think we work best together.
"Which team would lend you a helping hand?" I've selected Lucy and Emilia.
"Which team would lie to you?" I'd say the twins.
It's very difficult when we're opposite personalities.
There's a conflict of answering honestly
and answering what I think Steve would guess.
"Which team worked best together?" I'd say…
Damn, this could be difficult because Paul and I don't hang out that much.
We just know each other from work.
Best together was Sticky and Sam.
-[buzzer blares] -How did we go?
-Try again. -Try again?
Geez, toey, what have you done?
We've talked that we've worked so well together,
so hopefully he's thinking the same.
"Whose relationship do you envy?"
I'll go Tarryn and Ross.
I'd go with them. They were competitive and worked well together. Same mindset.
Unluckiest team would be Dane and Adam 'cause they were first out.
We do have a bit of an idea,
since we'd been on the race together a lot.
But still, that doesn't compensate for 20 years of working together
or 25 years of being sisters.
This is gonna be totally embarrassing if I don't get it right,
because twins are supposed to think the same.
"Which was the unluckiest team?"
Well, that's easy.
Trying to sell their shoes. So I'm done.
Sam and Sticky, I'm gonna say, is the relationship we'd envy,
which I think is gonna be a tough one for Steve to pick.
You, in there.
[Paul] I was put into a holding cell,
and Steve was escorted away to try to guess my answers.
I'm in the jail now, so… living the dream.
Next to Paul.
It was hot,
and I was in a jail cell next to Paul, my favorite friend on the race.
[sighs] I feel like I'm trapped.
"Which team would lend you a helping hand?"
Automatically, the alliance,
-Shane and Andrew. -[bell rings]
"Which team would lend you a helping hand?"
-That is definitely Lucy and Emilia. -[bell rings]
The unluckiest team would have to be Adam and Dane.
[bell rings]
"Which team would lie to you?" That is definitely Michelle and Jo.
[bell rings]
Whose relationship do you envy?
-We envy the sisters, Lucy and Emilia. -[buzzer blares]
They didn't fight. Me and Jo were at each other's throat the whole time.
I was envious of their relationship. So hopefully, Jo would think the same.
I think I misread the questions.
So we'll go…
[buzzer blares]
No.
The anxiety levels start to go up a bit here because I thought,
"There's a lot of combinations that you can have."
-Try again. -Try again?
I was concerned because Paul, Steve and the twins were breathing down our neck.
I think we've got a problem here.
"Which team would you lie to?"
[buzzer blares]
We can't stand their guts, so we'd do anything to throw them off.
"Whose relationship do you envy?"
God, that's a tough one.
That question was so difficult. I just said, "Sam and Sticky,"
due to them having a solid friendship with each other with no quarrels.
[buzzer blares]
-That's not right. -That's not right. Okay.
Question number three… Now, this was a hard one.
Who works best together?
[buzzer blares]
You are incorrect.
Michelle will definitely think that we work well together.
I didn't think to put us as an answer.
I feel she's gonna come out and have a psycho at me.
It's gonna ruin the rest of the day, so…
"Who was the unluckiest team?"'
He may have went these guys,
'cause they lost their shoes
-[bell rings] -or sold their shoes.
Then the lightning hit my jerrican,
and I said, "He will put the boys Dane and Adam."
Could he say us?
"Which team works best together?"
I thought, "Maybe the goose has put us?"
-How's that? -Correct.
Correct!
Oh! [laughs] Oh, phew!
-But it was true, wasn't it? -It is true now that you look at it.
Huss! Ah!
Mate, you made it hard for me!
I could hear the cops celebrating,
so I knew there was only us and the twins left.
So now there's bit more added pressure.
"Drive to Archerfield Airport and check into one of three charter flights."
[Grant] Teams must now board a light aircraft and fly north to Fraser Island,
the largest sand island in the world.
Once here, teams will need to drive themselves
to the beautiful Lake McKenzie.
We're getting down to the business end of the race,
so we got out of there pretty quick.
-Now out of here, buddy. -Archerfield Airport.
That's good. At least it's them, not those shitheads, Steve and Paul.
I hope you're hearing this, Paul, 'cause I don't like you.
What have you got against us?
You're so rude. But that's your game:
to be so serious and not even talk to anyone.
-So, there you go. Talk to the hand. -Why does me being focused offend you?
While I was waiting for Steve to guess my answers,
Jo decided to start ventilating about how much she dislikes me,
which was rather surprising, since I was just minding my own business.
I'd rather be somewhere else
than standing in a room next to you right now.
I'll never look at you again if I didn't have to.
Okay, have a sooky la la then.
I was just thinking, there's a million other places in Australia I'd rather be.
You don't even have to talk about me.
You started bad-mouthing me when I'm next to you.
You think I'm just gonna be silent? I don't know what your problem is.
-I'm just being quiet here. -Good.
I'm amused that you're so nasty and frustrated on this challenge
and taking it out on me somehow.
I wasn't gonna react and say harsh things back to her.
I'm still a bit bewildered why she was lashing out at me like that.
I felt perhaps the pressure's getting to her.
I know she's having trouble, and I know that's our relationship
and this challenge, but I'm just saying,
I'd rather be stuck in a cell next to somebody else.
I've always respected them as a threat team
because I admire their intelligence and game play.
But she only has nasty things to say about me, so to each their own.
She's made this so difficult when it shouldn't have been.
"Which team would you lie to?"
Paul and Steve, we hate their frigging guts so much.
"Whose relationship do you envy?"
She's obviously answered something…
-[buzzer blares] -…differently to what I thought.
You are still incorrect.
We could lose the race because I could be here all day
because she's done dumb answers.
I was going nuts. I was so frustrated in there.
I just thought, "This could be the race."
[warden]
I'm gonna kill her. We just lost $250,000!
[Andrew] This looks more like it here. Go right here. Surely.
-So we're off to Fraser Island. -All right. Done.
That was exciting to go there.
We got in the little eight-seater.
Here we go, buddy. Oh!
So as long as we can keep this advantage today…
-Yeah. -They're chasing us. The pressure.
They might make more mistakes trying to catch us.
-That's it. -Anything can happen.
[bell rings]
With one or two variables on all five questions,
that means the variables for the whole thing is out of control.
So you could be there for ages.
[buzzer blares]
Paul! Ugh!
"Which team would lie to you?"
Maybe she just thinks that that could be the answer.
It's these last two.
"Whose relationship do you envy?"
[buzzer blares]
Negative.
Not the twins.
I'm in the same position as you.
Steve's got to guess what I'm answering, but I'm not ventilating
and saying how much I hate the other team.
You're so serious-faced-- Just look forward and don't say a word.
I'm sorry my looks, my facial expressions offend you.
And…
Wrong.
"Which team worked best together?"
My only thought: I had number three wrong. So I literally tried every single team.
'Cause she's obviously dumb enough not to think that we're a good team.
-It can only be Sticky and Sam then. -[bell rings]
-Is this correct? -Yes, it is.
I was surprised that he did put Sam and Sticky.
Thank you, sir.
Doesn't matter. We've got it right. Let's get out of here.
That's frustrating, man.
I was 100% sure there would be no one else there.
And to see the twins there really gave us a boost.
"Drive to Archerfield Airport and check into one of three charter flights."
All the best, Jo.
-Good luck. -Not back at you.
-[Paul] Jo had a massive go at me. -[Steve] For what?
I was just being quiet, and she started saying how much she hates me.
She thinks I'm a sore loser.
She must be feeling this pressure, I think.
Then I thought, one second.
She doesn't understand what the word "envy" means.
And I was like, "That's what it is."
[bell rings]
-You have all five correct. -Thank you.
I was like, "I'm gonna kill her."
"Drive to Archerfield Airport."
Which team do you envy?
What do you think "envy" means, Jo?
You really want to be like Ross and Tarryn?
-They were competitive. -I didn't get that.
I said I had no idea. I was gonna put the sisters.
-I put the sisters a hundred times. -Oh.
[Michelle] We just lost $250,000. That's all I can say.
It was just all catching up to me, all the emotions from the whole race.
Yes, everything's my fault.
We lost Amazing Race Australia because of me.
When we're having fun and enjoying the race, we're racing well.
And when we're at each other or if something's clashing,
then our power and our focus is gone.
Jo, there's a taxi behind us. Let's pay him to take us there.
-Stop. -Stop, stop, stop.
[Jo] He's stopped. Pull over. Go.
-Hello. Do you know Archerfield Airport? -Archerfield Airport?
[Jo] We need to go there as quickly as possible.
Don't give up yet. You never know what's ahead.
-[Steve] Lovely. -[Paul] Excellent.
That looks cozy.
[Steve] It was gonna be about an hour flight, he said.
There's a plane about to take off.
Yeehaw!
[Michelle] Paul and Steve weren't that far ahead of us.
We actually had caught up a bit of time on the drive.
Last position right now on our way to Fraser Island.
Boom!
[Andrew] Coming into Fraser Island-- nothing like it.
Water on one side, bush on the other side. It was magnificent.
[Shane] I didn't see any of it.
I was like this.
[Andrew] Pretty smooth landing.
Good to be back on dry land, I'll tell you.
No, mate.
Feeling a bit green.
Seeing the three four-wheel drives meant, yep, we're still in front.
[Shane] Good work, buddy. Just watch out through here.
[Andrew] And then racing down the beach in a four-wheel drive was awesome.
You concentrate on your driving, buddy.
[Shane] Follow the marked route from the airstrip.
Well done, buddy.
I look forward to landing, though. My stomach's a little bit… err.
I spent most of the time with my head in the vomit bag.
[Paul] Looks like we're landing on the sand.
That's cool.
There's the girls.
[Michelle] We just arrived in Fraser Island.
We were excited to be back on the beach.
And we were like, "Maybe our luck will change."
It's a manual.
I've never driven a four-wheel drive before
and don't know how to put it in four-wheel drive.
And it was a manual four-wheel drive.
Great.
I panicked straightaway.
[Jo] We're going forward. Follow the other tire tracks.
Straight through this part. Not too fast. Just consistent.
Good girl. Stay on the hard sand!
-Left or right, you dickhead? -I don't know.
I said, "Stay on hard sand." That's very soft. You can see that.
Doing well, buddy.
-[Andrew] There's no place like home. -[Shane] Yeah.
It was so good to be back in Australia, cruising through the bush.
[Shane] Parking.
Come down, buddy.
[Shane] Look at this.
What have we got here? Road Block.
"Who has total recall?"
Yours, mate, 'cause it's the last one.
This final Road Block is a crucial test of memory.
One team member must wade out into the lake,
where they'll be quizzed about the race.
Teams must answer five questions by placing a colored ring
representing the answer A, B or C over each clue box.
When they've answered all questions correctly,
they'll receive their next clue.
The team with the best recall will be one step closer to winning $250,000.
-Righto. -Good luck, buddy.
All right. So A is red.
We specifically left this last Road Block for me,
thinking that it was gonna be a mind games challenge.
Green is C.
The big fellow, though, does not panic.
A, red. Yellow, B.
[Shane] He'll rush when he has to, but he'll clearly think.
I've got confidence in him.
"The famous nightclub you visited upon arrival in Havana is called:"
Now, is it A or C?
[Shane] Tropicana. There we are.
Come on, buddy. Let's pick it up.
C, Tropicana.
"Famous cooking school you attended in Paris was:"
-Hello. -How are you?
Was that A?
Part of our job is, you've got to try and think on your feet,
and you try not to get stressed.
And that's the best way to handle any sort of puzzle or any job we go to.
"La Cordon Bleu." B.
Andrew's the first into the drink.
So hopefully the other teams are held up a bit.
Lake McKenzie. Yeah, it's marked.
We're going very slow in second gear. Stupid manuals.
Story of my life.
"In Istanbul you scrubbed each other down.
What is the correct term for a Turkish bath?"
"The Harem Hammam.
Scrub hard to reveal your next clue."
"Hammam"? "Hamat"? A or B? I know it's definitely not C, "Hummus."
-Who has total recall? You. -I'll do this.
"Each answer can be represented by a colored ring."
We're not sure on that one. I might go A there.
Go back and grab some more.
As I'm coming out of the water, there's Paul.
I know he's doing the last Road Block, and he hasn't missed one yet.
This has been what he wants. He wants this bad.
He was super confident that he could get this.
"The famous cooking school you attended in Paris was:" Le Cordon Bleu.
"Which of the following is not a mode of transport traveled on during the race?"
A, canoe.
[Paul] "The famous nightclub you visited upon arrival in Havana is called…"
It's Tropicana.
It's do or die. We know there's a limited amount of challenges that could be left.
Now's the time to shine. Now's the time to take home the win.
"Which of the following is not a mode of transport traveled on during the race?"
Traveled on jeepney in Philippines. Traveled on rickshaw in India.
Never traveled by canoe.
"The Pit Stop in Jaipur was located on the rooftop of which fort?"
Not 100% on that one. That was the only one I wasn't sure of.
"The Pit Stop in Jaipur was located on the rooftop of which fort?"
[Shane] Paul's quite clever. We've seen him in puzzles in the past.
If he smashes it out, they're gonna be on our tail.
"Amber, Red, or Nahargarh?"
It's gonna be close, I think.
"The Pit Stop in Jaipur was located on the rooftop of which fort?"
"Make your way to the next Pit Stop: Nahargarh…"
That was back that way.
It's Red Fort.
It was Nahargarh. So, C.
He comes running out, and it's hopefully some good news.
-Congratulations. You are correct. -Yes. Thank you!
Huss!
"Travel on foot to the opposite end of the beach
and dig in the marked area to find a treasure chest."
[Grant] Teams must now make their way to the end of the beach
and dig until they find a chest containing their prize money,
then run to the finish line at the other side of the lake.
Lake McKenzie, at the heart of Fraser Island,
is the finish line of the race.
The first team to check in here with their treasure chest
will take home a quarter of a million dollars.
So that's that way.
-Wow. You did that really quick, buddy. -Yeah.
Now it was show time. Paul and Steve are right on our hammer.
-There's no second place. -No.
Hopefully he can smash this,
and then we've got a chance to catch up or outrun or do something.
"What is the correct term for a Turkish bath?
Hammam, hamat, or hummus?"
I'm pretty sure hummus is food.
I'll try yellow.
The pressure is on. Let's see if we get it right the first time.
He doesn't like being wrong.
I'm sorry, you're incorrect.
Come on, mate.
-Let's go. -Where do you wanna start?
Anywhere. You do one bit and I'll do another bit.
[Shane] The first thing in my mind was, this is luck now,
because if Paul smashes out this and he finds the treasure chest first,
that's how fine it's gonna be.
-Anything could happen here. -Yeah.
[Michelle] Run.
Quick. Look for the clue.
"Road Block."
[Jo] "Who has total recall?" Michelle.
You'll be fine. You'll be fine.
Who do we see on the beach? Paul and Steve, and we caught up.
I was so fired up. I was like, "I know I can beat you. I know I can."
Come on, Chelle! Wade out! Let's go, let's go!
Just switching answers on the last two.
"Which of the following is not the mode of transport
you traveled on during the race?"
"Canoe, rickshaw…"
Come on, Chelle!
Okay, A.
I'm sorry, you're incorrect.
I'd been writing study notes of every single clue, every single challenge.
"The Pit Stop in Jaipur was located on the rooftop of which fort?"
C.
[Shane] It's the luck of where it is here, buddy. Innit?
How big is the chest gonna be?
[Andrew] How far do you dig into the one hole?
How deep is it gonna be? You just had to guess.
-Try another spot? -Yeah.
[panting]
I'll try here.
"The famous cooking school you attended in Paris was called…"
Le Cordon Bleu, B.
"Hummus." I reckon hummus is food,
so it's either hammam or hamat on this one.
Let's go by elimination.
I'm sorry, you're incorrect.
He's starting to get frustrated.
Come on, Chelle! You can do it!
"The famous nightclub you visited upon arrival in Havana is called…"
The Tropicana, C.
If he's not correct on this one…
I'm sorry, you're incorrect.
-He's incorrect again. -Come on! He's still got it wrong!
It feels pretty soft here.
-Pretty soft? -Yeah.
Do you reckon you could be on it? Want some help?
-It's soft. -Yeah.
"In Istanbul, you scrubbed each other down."
"What is the correct term for a Turkish bath?"
"Hammam, hamat, or hummus?"
Gee. That's one I'm not sure on.
One of the questions I struggled with was the Turkish term for a bath.
Hammam, A.
I ripped through all of these questions, and I turn around,
and Paul's still in the water, doing the challenge,
and I was like, "I've got to beat Paul at something."
Come on! You're still in it!
-[Andrew] It's soft. -[Shane] Yeah.
There it is!
Good detective skills from Andrew there.
-It's coming off the chest. -Just dug like ten men, didn't we?
Just gotta keep going.
I'm sorry, you're incorrect.
-Congratulations. You are correct. -Thank you.
Come on. They're right behind us.
We're still in this. We've just gotta go catch the coppers.
"Carry the chest via the marked path to the finish line."
-[Andrew] You got it? -[Shane] Yes.
[Shane] You've got to grab it underneath.
-That's it? -That's it.
A bit anxious, you know. Thought we could really win this.
[Shane] Let's bring it in.
Nahargarh.
He always wanted to have the glory of the last challenge.
Unfortunately, it's got him unstuck.
[Paul] One of the earlier questions I was confident in answering,
the Pit Stop in India,
I was answering it as Red Fort.
I think it was actually Nahargarh Fort.
Congratulations.
Yeah. Well done, Pauly!
I don't particularly feel that I choked, but I give merit to the other teams.
Well done on them getting it right before me.
"The first team to arrive will be given a key to the chest and win $250,000."
[Jo] They're right behind us. Go!
We arrived to start digging the treasure chest,
and Shane and Andrew weren't there anymore.
I still wanted to beat Paul and Steve.
Steve and I maintained an attitude that we really want to finish strong.
Pretty sure the cops have won first, and good on them for it.
We'd still like to finish our own race though.
-But I don't want him to beat me. -I'm flattered by your hostility.
I beat you at your favorite challenge that you'd been looking so forward to.
[Paul] Well done.
[Michelle] I know. It's like a personal victory.
[Paul] I don't know why they're so adamant with their hate towards me.
But I wasn't gonna get discouraged. Steve and I just kept digging.
[Jo] Go! Uh!
[all cheering]
Come here, fellas.
[Shane] Oh!
Tell us some good news, Grant. Tell us some good news!
[Grant] Fellas,
-after four continents, -Yeah.
nine countries and more than 65,000 kilometers,
-you are the first team to check in. -Yeah.
You are the winners of The Amazing Race Australia.
[all cheering]
Unbelievable!
[Grant] As winners of the race,
you're now a quarter of a million dollars richer.
Whoo!
You ripper!
You wanna see what that looks like?
-Yes, please, Grant. -Here's the key to your chest.
-Beautiful. -Open it up, buddy. You have the honors.
Whoa!
You've run a fantastic race.
But I wanna know this. You're both family men.
-Yeah. -What does this do?
-Smashes the mortgage. -Smashes the mortgage.
Kids into a good school.
-A few good holidays. -Yeah.
-You reckon you've earned a holiday? -Have we?
-I'm going back to Canada. -That was no holiday, that's for sure.
Absolutely delighted. We've come from nowhere, haven't we, mate?
-I still can't believe it. -No. It's surreal, isn't it?
-We won the 250. We brought it home! -We smashed it.
[yell]
[Shane] To win something like this--
-Absolutely stoked. -Huge.
[Andrew] Shane is just a great bloke. Lucky to know him.
His determination, his encouragement.
Well done, buddy.
To race with Andrew, there's no one else I probably could've done this with
and had such a dream run with it.
[Steve] Pauly!
-You got it, mate? -Yeah, mate.
Unfortunately, Steve hit the treasure chest first.
-This is huge. -Don't give up.
[Paul] Girls, last challenge. Go home strong.
You can do it.
Even though we were in this position ahead of them,
we did want them to see through the race and not give up either.
I hit it, Joey.
[cheering]
Boys, you just came second in The Amazing Race Australia.
Whoo!
We feel we've been beaten by the best.
-Congratulations, guys. -Thanks, buddy.
Everyone here has made this race something to be remembered,
and I can't wait to have a beer with them later on.
[Grant] How about you, buddy?
We all had equal chances going into this race,
and I respect every one of them,
even though they might think that I'm the most unfriendliest, standoff guy.
No, it has been an honor to race with all of you.
It's been a pleasure to meet you all. Thank you so much.
[Steve] Paul really is the polar opposite to me,
and I just feel really privileged to have gotten to know him a hell of a lot better.
-Well done, mate. -I'm proud of you.
I've seen a lot inside Paul, and there's a lot of good.
I am extremely proud of the way I played this race.
I'm proud to have done it with Steve.
It's certainly been a long journey, and what a ride.
I wanna walk out of this race proud that I have played really strong,
with integrity, with honor.
'Cause those things are really strong to me, and…
I do my best to be a good person.
[all cheering]
Ladies, you just scored third place in The Amazing Race Australia.
[both] Whoo!
Congratulations, girls.
-Well done. -[Michelle] Thank you.
Third place is a mighty effort. Give it to 'em, guys. Come here.
Boys!
[Jo] Definitely proud.
At the beginning, all I was trying to do is prove I can run with a backpack.
Definitely very proud of Michelle,
and the places we got to travel to-- so amazing.
[Michelle] It's definitely brought us closer together,
and we know that we're invincible, we can do anything now.
[Shane] Main objective was to have fun, go as far as we could along the race
and do as many challenges and see as many countries as we could.
-The money is just a bonus. -Yeah.
You beauty!
Just some good old ticker got us through.
What Aussies are made of.