♪
♪ [Dramatic instrumental] ♪
♪
JON: After 280,000 kilometers traveling from
coast to coast to coast,
and all around the world,
Canada's favourite summertime adventure is back...
where it all started over a decade ago!
JON: Go!
RACER: Ah!
-Amazing Race! -Yes!
JON: For 9 seasons,
we've raced to amazing heights...
[Screaming & laughing]
And shared some unforgettable moments.
-Ah! -...along the way.
I can't believe I did it!
Unreal!
And now...
♪ [Theme music] ♪
11 new teams are ready to race.
Michael and Tyson, best friends and
professional baseball players from Vancouver.
MICHAEL: I got drafted with the Toronto Blue Jays.
I played with them for seven years.
ANNOUNCER: A base hit for Kraus.
TYSON: I was drafted by the Seattle Mariners,
and was playing with the Philadelphia Phillies as well.
ANNOUNCER: Gillies will stop at second.
TYSON: We actually got to play a
couple tours together.
We were teammates for Team Canada.
[Cracking bat]
TYSON: We not only bring in the physicality,
we're the Mr. Congenialities.
Racers better beware. We're coming.
MICHAEL: We're coming.
♪ [Organ] ♪
♪
JON: Kevin and Gurleen, newly dating couple
from Calgary and Abbotsford, British Columbia.
KEVIN: I'm Kevin. I won Big Brother Canada.
GURLEEN: I'm Gurleen.
You might know me from Farming For Love.
And, we both met on Traitors Canada.
KEVIN: You guys know I'm faithful.
Look at the evidence!
How could I have played this game as a traitor?
GURLEEN: I just feel... [Crying]
...sad that Kevin left.
♪
GURLEEN: We have only really been dating for 8 months,
but we're madly in love.
Kevin is the man of my dreams, literally.
SFX: [Record scratch]
Oh my god, that's too much.
-Aw, that's the best. -Like, that's too much.
JON: Eva and Trystenne,
best friends from Toronto.
♪
TRYSTENNE: Eva and I met about four years ago.
We work out of the same gym,
and we have been linked at the hip ever since.
♪
TRYSTENNE: To train with us...
EVA: Be ready to work hard.
TRYSTENNE: Eva and I inspire
and empower those around us.
-Period. -Period.
-[Laughing] -Woo!
EVA: Get it!
♪
JON: Michael and Amari, father and son from
Thunderchild First Nation, Saskatchewan.
MICHAEL: I was 21 when Amari was born.
AMARI: Like I think he peaked in maturity when he had me,
and it never developed from there,
so I'm being raised by a
20-year old my whole life.
[Laughing]
MICHAEL: I'm a retired pro basketball player.
I am in the North American
Indigenous Athletic Hall of Fame.
♪
AMARI: When there's cash on the line,
there's not a smile on his face.
I'm not actually competing with my dad.
I'm competing with Money Mike.
[Laughing]
MICHAEL: Not Magic Mike. AMARI: Not Magic, Money.
JON: Taylor and Katie,
best friends from Edmonton.
TAYLOR: We're freestyle wrestles.
[Match bell ringing]
KATIE: Freestyle wrestling is a tough sport.
6 AM practices, bruises...
sore bodies.
Last year, we had the opportunity to leave the
University of Alberta as champs,
which is where we got these awesome rings.
And this year, we want to leave
The Amazing Race Canada as champs.
-[Match bell ringing] -[Laughing]
JON: Dorothy and Olus,
married couple from Calgary.
OLUS: We moved to Canada from
Lagos, Nigeria three years ago.
DOROTHY: We want to represent people who came to Canada
with only a few boxes and a lot of dreams.
DOROTHY: Look at us love birds.
OLUS: This is actually a dream come true for us.
We really always wanted to learn about
every part of Canada, and there's no one else
I would rather travel with than Dorothy.
DOROTHY: Ah, stop it!
JON: Colin and Matt, best buds from
Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador.
COLIN: We want to be part of...
Woo! The Amazing Race Canada!
COLIN: We've made audition videos for
The Amazing Race Canada since season one.
-Woo-hoo! -Eh, welcome to London.
-Yeah, tea and biscuits. -Yeah, tea.
MATT: And they're embarrassing.
COLIN: They are embarrassing, to say the least.
MATT: For lack of a better word.
MATT: We met in high school,
so we've just been best friends ever since.
COLIN: And now we're a little bit older,
we're a little bit wiser, and we're going to
represent the great folks of the Rock.
MATT: Woo! Yes, b'y!
♪
JON: Brad and Sam,
father and daughter from Toronto.
BRAD: My name is Brad May,
and I played in the NHL for 18 seasons.
My nickname "Mayday"
came from an overtime goal in 1993.
ANNOUNCER: Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
SAM: As an 8-year-old girl, my dad winning the cup,
it was so cool.
He's my best friend, my hero.
-There it is. -My biggest supporter.
SAM: Growing up with my dad playing hockey
definitely taught me to be tough.
[Whistle]
At the end of the day, it's Team Mayday.
BRAD: All day. SAM: All day.
BRAD: Every day. SAM: Yeah, baby.
BRAD: Let's go.
♪
JON: From the foot of the Horseshoe Falls,
it's time to start The Amazing Race Canada!
♪
♪ [Theme music: energetic & adventurous] ♪
♪
TEAMS: [Cheering continues]
♪
RACER: It's happening, man!
Oh, there he is!
[Cheering continues]
♪
[Cheering & applauding]
JON: Welcome to Niagara Falls,
and welcome to season 10 of
The Amazing Race Canada!
[Cheering & applauding]
MICHAEL: Let's go, Jonny!
[Cheering & applauding]
JON: This is the very spot where this
adventure started over 10 years ago.
And now, it's your turn.
[Cheering]
KATIE: Yes! NICOLE: Yeah, baby!
JON: Lauren and Nicole, first of all,
how do I tell who is who?
BOTH: You don't, you don't.
LAUREN: I'm Lauren.
NICOLE: And I'm Nicole.
LAUREN: We're bringing that twin energy, so twinergy.
NICOLE: Twinergy, that twin telepathy,
that double trouble.
LAUREN: There's actually two different sides to us.
We like to dress up, walk a red carpet.
NICOLE: But also we are not afraid at all to
get our hands dirty, get our hair wet.
LAUREN: Season 10 is, go big or go home,
and I am so excited to kick some ass
with my partner in crime.
NICOLE: Oh yeah, baby.
JON : Julia and Olivia, what are the two of you
going to be bringing to this race?
JULIA: We have 10 years of being together,
and one year of marriage, we're here to bring it.
OLIVIA: We're bringing discipline,
energy, and power!
JULIA: Yeah! [Laughing]
OLIVIA: We train for endurance competitions
5 to 6 times a week, and it is a grueling activity.
JULIA: We swim, cycle, and run.
To all the other teams, watch out.
Good luck.
OLIVIA: The storm is coming!
[Laughing]
JON : Connor and John, what are the two of you
hoping to show Canadians who are watching?
JOHN: I'm trying to show Canadians, not only myself,
but the wonderful, inspirational community of
Little People, that we are not only the same as
everyone else physically, but also mentally,
and there's no one here I would rather have
than my best friend, Connor.
[Cheering & applauding] JON: Yeah, buddy!
JOHN: Connor and I met frosh week at McMaster University.
CONNOR: First interaction we have,
he's hitting on my girlfriend,
and I'm like who the hell is this guy?
SFX: [Twinkling]
JOHN: I ended up hitting it off with him,
and now we're besties.
In terms of my career, I'm an "influencer".
I really just make content that'll make people laugh.
CONNOR: Having the courage to be who you are-
he's nothing but inspiring.
♪
JON: Do you want to know what you're racing for?
[Cheering]
JON: For the team that makes it to
the final leg and crosses the finish line first,
you will win...
The first ever 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV RS.
That's one for each of you.
[Cheering] TAYLOR: Yeah! Boom!
JON: Because you were made to travel,
our friends at Expedia will be sending you on
a dream trip for two around the world.
[Cheering]
JON: A quarter of a million dollars cash.
MICHAEL: Let's go.
JON: And, The Amazing Race Canada.
[Cheering]
LAUREN: Let's go! COLIN: Yeah! [Laughs]
JON: Are you ready to go?
[Cheering]
JON: Your first clue is on the bags that
you brought with you.
Good luck.
Race safe.
Make Canada proud.
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
♪
JON: Go! ALL: [Cheering]
KEVIN: Come on. Let's go!
MICHAEL: Oh! They're fast!
KEVIN: We're on The Amazing Race Canada, baby!
Here we go!
DOROTHY: Woo! AMARI: Road Block.
LAUREN & NICOLE: "Who's down to go first?"
-You? -Me.
JON: In this Road Block, one racer will attempt
what no ordinary human has ever done before.
JON: Go over the falls and descend
180 feet
down one of four rappel lines
alongside this raging waterfall
to retrieve their next clue.
Ooh-hoo-hoo!
TRYSTENNE: I'm gonna go first.
SAM: Me? BRAD: You are.
JULIA: I am. OLIVIA: Yeah.
-You got it, baby. -Okay, I'm going first.
JOHN: I'll go first. CONNOR: Do it.
TYSON: You have $500 for this leg of the race.
-Let's go. -Right here, right here.
I think this way.
AMARI: Horseshoe Falls.
We've got to get all the way over there.
MICHAEL: Yeah. AMARI: You got the cash?
MICHAEL: Yeah, I got it. AMARI: Okay, let's go.
EVA: Oh, my god.
BRAD: Overlooking the Horseshoe Falls
in front of the Table Rock Center.
-Dad, do you know where? -Yeah.
SAM: People are following us. BRAD: Let's go.
LAUREN: I know it's down that way.
It's a bit of a run. But we've got this, baby.
-We set the pace. -This is good.
You set the pace. We're good. We got a lead.
♪
OLUS: It's a really wet day.
KEVIN: You want a taxi? I don't think-
GURLEEN: Should we ask someone how far away it is?
KEVIN: Let's get a bus. SFX: [Honking]
CONNOR: To the falls, to the falls.
JOHN: Let's do it.
First come, first served. We've got to go.
TAYLOR: Okay, run.
KEVIN: Are you going to the falls?
GURLEEN: We want to go to the outdoor
observation deck to the Horseshoe Falls.
-I am. -Perfect. Let's go!
JOHN: Horseshoe Falls. Let's go.
KATIE: Taylor's gonna be rappelling down the side.
JOHN: I don't know why, the adrenaline is
hitting me so freaking hard right now.
KEVIN: We're literally getting passed by the other teams.
MATT: We're trying to get a cab.
KEVIN: Bye, boys! See you!
GURLEEN: Bye! KEVIN: See you later.
SFX: [Honking]
♪
Tys, do you, do you have the money?
TYSON: For real? MICHAEL :Yeah.
TYSON: I don't have it. No freaking way.
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
MICHAEL: Let's go do this. I dropped the money.
Oh, boy.
GURLEEN: Outdoor observation. KATIE: Table Rock Center.
CONNOR: Wow, what a view!
♪
KATIE: This is just absolutely unbelievable.
This race has begun.
KEVIN: That move to get on the bus,
everybody starts running.
I'm telling you, that's not how you win the race.
You've got to use this, baby.
AMARI: I think we're in first place right now.
TAYLOR: I am not nervous about heights.
I'm really excited.
♪
Dang.
MICHAEL: Here. Let's go, baby.
JULIA: Damn.
AMARI: I'm a little disappointed.
I thought we were in first place.
OLIVIA: Man, they got here quick, eh?
JOHN: I hate heights. I hope you know that.
CONNOR: Perfect. JOHN: Not perfect.
INSTRUCTOR: You're gonna be lowering down on this rope
on the side of the cliff of Niagara Falls.
This is like a little gas pedal.
If you pull it up, you're gonna lower slowly.
GURLEEN: Okay, I can't fall, right?
♪
-Step over. -Okay.
[Rumbling waterfalls]
I can hear the falls rumbling behind me.
I'm absolutely terrified.
[Exhaling sharply]
KEVIN: She's losing her mind right now.
GURLEEN: Oh my god. [Beep] Okay.
JOHN: Well, here goes nothing.
CONNOR: John's about to rappel from
about 200 feet up there.
Woo-ee!
Oh, that is cold already.
Oh yeah, there it is. Ooh.
JOHN: This is very nerve wracking. Oh my god.
TAYLOR: Set. Pull.
KATIE: Let's go, Taylor! Woo-woo!
There she is! Yes, Taylor!
TAYLOR: Hey, buddy!
This is the wildest thing I have ever done in my life.
You're doing it.
Let's go.
The tricky part with this lever is that
you have to control the speed.
If you go too fast, you'll go past the clue,
and that will put us at the back of the line.
KATIE: Let's get that clue!
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
KATIE: Yeah, woo-hoo!
TAYLOR: Woo!
Yes!
KATIE: I'm so proud of her.
TAYLOR: That was amazing!
I just rappelled down Niagara Falls!
JOHN: They want me to look down.
I literally haven't looked down yet.
TAYLOR: Elevator. KATIE: Yeah, yeah.
Here, hold your bag.
TAYLOR: Number one! KATIE: Good job!
TAYLOR: I did it so fast!
KEVIN: Come on, Gurleen! GURLEEN: I'm not looking!
♪
TAYLOR: "Detour. Game Time or Show Time."
JON: Teams will make their way to the eclectic and
electric entertainment district...
SFX: [Screaming]
...known as Clifton Hill.
♪
In "Game Time", teams will find
the Great Canadian Midway...
and play any of these race-marked games.
♪
Once they win 400 tickets...
[Bell chimes]
...they'll receive their next clue.
In "Show Time", teams will recite historical facts
about Niagara Falls to a group of tourists.
[Cheering]
They'll need to memorize these 77 words...
and perform with the corresponding props
to receive their next clue.
KATIE: We're gonna go to Show Time.
TAYLOR: Okay, let's go. KATIE: Let's go.
There's only four rappel lines,
so any team after that is gonna have to wait.
We're number one right now, number one!
MICHAEL: Let's go, Amari!
This is the first time he's done anything like this.
AMARI: What the...?! [Laughing]
-Oh my god. -[Laughing]
AMARI: Oh yeah, speed up a little bit.
I'm getting the hang of it.
GURLEEN: Not looking 'til I get down.
Kevin, you better buy me a really nice ring.
AMARI: Okay, I've got my clue. Oh!
MICHAEL: There you go, son, good job!
AMARI: I'm soaked!
JOHN: Agh!
CONNOR: I can't even imagine what's going
through his head right now.
JOHN: [Frustrated grunting]
KEVIN: Yes, get that clue!
Yes! Yes!
She got it.
GURLEEN: I hated it!
You have to buy me a really big ring.
[Laughing] Baby, I love you so much.
MICHAEL: Let's do, ah... AMARI: Game Time?
MICHAEL: Game Time. AMARI: Game time, okay.
Let's do it. What game are we gonna play,
the basketball one?
I think we're gonna kill that one.
KEVIN: We're gonna do Game Time.
Let's go play some games.
DOROTHY: My leg hurts.
-Ooh, my legs. -How you feeling?
I'm tired.
OLUS: Is it just your legs, though?
DOROTHY: Yes. [Crying]
I don't know whether it's because of the cold.
I just, I feel so sick.
DOROTHY: As I'm running down the boardwalk
to Horseshoe Falls,
something is wrong with my legs right now.
DOROTHY: Oh! My legs!
[Gasping]
I want to go home!
My legs. [Crying]
MICHAEL: Oh my god.
CONNOR: I've seen a few racers come down now.
I'm getting a little nervous here.
OLIVIA: Let's go! Keep driving.
There you go!
It is insane being this close to the falls.
She is moving with the wind.
JULIA: Come on. OLIVIA: She just got the clue.
Drop, drop, drop, drop!
JULIA: Yes, let's go!
That was epic!
TYSON: Grapple, baby.
MICHAEL: One thing about Tyson,
he goes a thousand miles per hour.
MICHAEL: Hey, slow down, man!
Hey! [Shouting] Tyson!
TYSON: Let's go, baby!
MICHAEL: Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
MICHAEL: The money that we dropped early on,
keep your eyes peeled. It could be anywhere.
MICHAEL: Every time we have to run,
it reminds me that we have no money.
TYSON: We lost our money right at the beginning.
We've got to get back to the starting point to find
our money ASAP, or we're screwed
for this rest of the leg.
MICHAEL: This sucks.
JOHN: Argh! CONNOR: John!
JOHN: [Singing] But I will not get frustrated...
because frustration...
helps nobody in life.
JOHN: I've been challenged my entire life to face stuff
that isn't made for the average Little Person,
so I just have to keep feeding myself slack.
CONNOR: Go, John!
JOHN: I'm not gonna let Connor down,
and I'm definitely not gonna let myself down.
JOHN: Yeah, John.
You're getting the hang of it.
I got the clue, let's go, baby.
CONNOR: Woo! Let's go! JOHN: Yeah!
Ah!
First challenge!
Heights, perfect! I hate heights!
CONNOR: Game Time? JOHN: Let's go, baby.
CONNOR: That was super bad ass.
JOHN: Yeah, the ladies are gonna love it.
NICOLE: You got it, baby! That's it, Lauren!
Secured.
Double trouble in the house!
-Show Time. -Let's do Show Time.
♪
KATIE: Come on, Taylor.
TAYLOR: Okay, we chose Show Time.
We chose Show Time.
[Cheering]
"You must use the props as directed on the script.
Welcome to Clifton Hill, otherwise known as
Street of Fun."
We have to memorize a script that talks about
bizarre facts about Niagara Falls.
All of that force can produce
4 million kilowatts of electricity.
KATIE: The light bulb represents the generating of
electrical power, which is what the falls do.
KATIE: Say, do you remember Annie Edson Taylor?
She went over the falls in a barrel and survived...
SFX: [Meow] KATIE: With a cat.
TAYLOR: Meow.
TAYLOR: French acrobat, Charles Blondin,
crossed the falls on a tightrope.
Charles stopped with a stove on his back,
cooked an omelette and lowered it down to the
passengers of the Maid of the Mist.
-[Hissing] -[Laughing]
DOROTHY: [Crying] My legs! OLUS: Okay.
DOROTHY: My legs hurt. OLUS: We're almost there.
Do you know we're almost there, baby?
COLIN: Eva and Trystenne are behind us at the moment.
TRYSTENNE: What place are you? COLIN: We're in 10th.
TRYSTENNE: Okay, so we're last.
-Oh no. Oh, no we're not. -No, we're not.
COLIN: Geez. DOROTHY: My legs!
COLIN: Okay, we're in like 9th place. I love it.
MATT: That's the power of positive thinking right there.
BRAD: Way to go, Sam! SAM: Secure the clue.
Clue is secured.
Let's just get down this thing.
BRAD: Yeah-ha! That's my girl!
-Game Time. -Let's go!
-We're going game time. -Okay, let's go!
BRAD: I don't know where that is.
SAM: Is that not where you and mom had your first date?
BRAD: No. Oh, Skylon Tower maybe.
SAM: Great Canadian Midway, Dad. It's the arcade.
BRAD: Sweetie, stop. SAM: I'm almost positive.
Can you slow down and focus?
We're very similar, me and my dad.
We're both stubborn.
I saw the other teams run this way.
SAM: Let's go. BRAD: Okay, fair enough.
AMARI: This is it. Great Canadian Midway Arcade,
1000%.
Sticker, sticker, sticker.
Ooh! Oh yes!
We've got to get 400 tickets. -400 tickets.
He's been training for this moment
since he was a kid, so...
My dad's my hero.
I'm kind of following in his footsteps.
I'm playing college basketball in Edmonton.
AMARI: Let's go, let's go! Come on, guy.
Money Mike.
-[Blaring horn] -How many was that?
[Game chiming]
12? Yeah, we gotta find a different game.
KEVIN: Yeah, we're gonna play arcade games.
I play games for a living every day, baby.
We're gonna go smash this out.
KEVIN: I'm a poker player.
I'm massive in the poker world.
I can think through games at a high level.
I got a really good strategy here though.
So instead of playing on this game,
I'm gonna throw them over here,
and we're gonna use that machine.
GURLEEN: Woo!
You got it, baby. You got it so good.
KEVIN: Oh, we got 25. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
We're doing this, we're doing this.
OLIVIA: We're here in the arcade looking for a...
a certain game that we can play.
Do you feel like shooting?
Tap, tap.
KEVIN: Julia and Olivia try to use the machine beside me.
But obviously, I took all the balls.
KEVIN: That one, that one didn't work.
I didn't think I'd lying this early in the game, babe.
I can't help myself.
GURLEEN: It's so good, babe. It's so good.
♪
TAYLOR: Feeling confident.
We feel like we can get this, this done.
-[Cheering] -Okay. [Laughing]
KATIE: There's words in bold that you have to include.
TAYLOR: Welcome to Clifton Hill,
also known as the Street of Fun.
[Cheering]
KATIE: A French acrobat...
Charles...
Blondin...
tight roped across the falls
300 times.
♪
TAYLOR: Charles also strapped a stove to his back
and fried omelettes. SFX: [Buzzer]
OFFICIAL: I'm sorry, that's incorrect.
TAYLOR: Okay.
KATIE: There's words in bold that you have to include
in the proper order, so let's just make sure
we say it properly.
MATT: You've got this, Colin!
Yeah, there it is. There it is!
Woo-hoo! That was unreal.
MATT: Insane! Well done! My man.
EVA: We're still in it! We're still in it!
You got this, Trys!
TRYSTENNE: God has not given me
the spirit of fear.
DOROTHY: And I let go? INSTRUCTOR: Yeah.
DOROTHY: Okay... oh. INSTRUCTOR: Here you go.
INSTRUCTOR: You got it.
DOROTHY: My legs hurt so bad,
but I just have to keep pushing.
DOROTHY: [Effort grunting] OLUS: You can do it, baby!
DOROTHY: [Grunting & whimpering]
EVA: There she is!
Okay, Trystenne, you've got this!
TRYSTENNE: [Effort grunting] Swing back.
EVA: There you go. Yes!
TRYSTENNE: We're going to do Show Time.
Let's go.
OLUS: Dorothy the explorer!
Go, Dorothy! Go, Dorothy!
Go, Dorothy! Go, Dorothy! That's my girl.
DOROTHY: Oh wow.
♪
MICHAEL: We're back to the start.
It's kind of where we think we...
possibly might have dropped the money.
Scan, scan.
No, no, no.
We got nothing, uh?
Somewhere around here, we thought it'd be here,
but it's not, so...
TYSON: Do the best we can and, man,
that's all we can do. -Let's go, alright.
MICHAEL: We got no luck.
Now we have to run the rest of the leg.
Disaster!
quick as there's many teams that have already showed up.
MATT: ...the location of the first challenge of the first
running of The Amazing Race Canada.
COLIN: Boo!
TAYLOR: During these crossings, he strapped a
stove to his back where he fried omelettes for the-
SFX: [Buzzer]
OFFICIAL: I'm so sorry, you didn't get it.
TAYLOR: Oh, God. KATIE: There's other teams.
Come on, Taylor, we're so close.
TAYLOR: We got to this Detour first,
and we're slowly losing that lead that we started off with.
"He cooked an omelette and lowered it down to the
passengers on the Maid of the Mist."
♪ [Arcade] ♪
BRAD: Come on. SFX: [Buzzer]
BRAD: I'm a little bit frustrated.
SAM: Arcades are so fun.
I always have like a good time here.
BRAD: What do I do?
SAM: He gets a little flustered at them, clearly.
BRAD: It's chaotic in there. I'm 52 years old.
The noise drove me crazy.
SAM: Are you doing well? BRAD: No. I suck.
God, I suck.
SAM: Come on, no, you don't. Gotta get out of that mindset.
GURLEEN: Kevin is doing great. He's doing amazing.
I love him, he's the best.
KEVIN: Now we just have a few more rounds and
we should be out of here.
GURLEEN: We have to get up to 400.
KEVIN: That's it, it's done, we're good, we're good.
AMARI: 15 more tickets, and then hopefully-
Oh my god, they're checking already?
Awesome! So here's your next ticket.
KEVIN: Let's go. GURLEEN: Thank you!
KEVIN: Let's go, come here, baby.
♪
MICHAEL: Let's go. AMARI: How?!
What were they playing?
BOTH: Thank you. GURLEEN: "Make your way to..."
KEVIN: Nightmares Fear Factory.
GURLEEN: "One team will win the Assist by Desjardins for
the next challenge." Okay, let's go.
This is the haunted house. It's on top of the hill.
-Okay, what is it called? -The Fear Factory.
Do you want to stop and ask for directions?
GURLEEN: Yeah.
KEVIN: Hi, can you really help us?
LAUREN: We were hoping to get a challenge like this,
so we're hoping we buy some time here.
NICOLE: We're so ready for it.
NICOLE: Two years ago,
we moved to LA to pursue acting.
We've had to memorize pages of scripts.
Okay, we're gonna try it once. We think we're ready.
-We're going to send it. Let's just see what happens.
KATIE: Oh, that's what I missed!
NICOLE: Can you actually remember what
Annie Edson Taylor did here on October 24th, 1901?
LAUREN: She was actually the first and oldest person
to go over the falls and survive.
She did it on her 63rd birthday with her cat.
-Meow! Meow! -[Laughing]
KATIE: We're not really sure what we're missing right now,
so it's just-
TAYLOR: It's go-time.
LAUREN: He actually cooked an omelette,
and he served it to his passengers on the
Maid of the Mist.
[Cheering]
-Congratulations. -Yeah!
TAYLOR: They just finished.
It looks like they're onto their next one.
Let's go.
[Cheering]
"...Nightmares Fear Factory and search for
your clue inside."
AMARI: Here, let's find a worker.
Let's ask right here. Where's the Fear Factory?
Excuse me, do you know where
the Nightmares Fear Factory is?
Right turn, then about a block on the left hand side.
KEVIN: Come on, baby. Let's go. Let's go!
LAUREN: Okay, right side. Okay.
AMARI: How's it going, ladies?
NICOLE: Oh yeah, baby. AMARI: [Laughing]
TAYLOR: ...while having a stove strapped to his back,
and fried omelettes- SFX: [Buzzer]
OFFICIAL: I'm sorry, you didn't get it.
CROWD: [Booing]
TAYLOR: Oh my god. What are we doing?
DOROTHY: Whoa. Okay.
OLUS: I see a few teams here.
So, I think we're like finally catching up.
DOROTHY: Boo! OLUS: Ah!
KEVIN: Nightmares Fear Factory.
A ticket?
AMARI: Route info. BOTH: "Brave the fright."
SFX: [Thunder]
JON: Over the last three decades,
over 180,000 people have chickened out
of making it through this...
LEGENDARY HAUNTED HOUSE!
SFX: [Screaming]
Once teams find the Nightmares Fear Factory,
they'll need to make it through the hair raising
hallways of this former coffin factory.
If they survive the scare, they'll need to memorize
a colour combination unique to each team,
then proceed to the Illumination Tower to
light up the falls in their specific colours.
Returning to the race is the Assist by Desjardins.
This time on select challenges,
the Assist will be a winnable pass
that one lucky team...
will find hidden in their clue.
Tonight, the Assist by Desjardins will give them
a little extra help as they light up the falls.
KEVIN: Let's go, let's go. We gotta go in.
NICOLE: Okay. LAUREN: Okay.
AMARI: Memorize a sequence of colours.
MICHAEL: Yeah. ATTENDANT: Have fun, okay.
-Good luck. -Hey...
Baby, I'm not gonna like this.
KEVIN: Ah! Okay, okay.
[Snarling & roaring chainsaw]
GURLEEN: Come this way. Come, baby.
KEVIN: Don't leave me, baby. Please, don't leave me.
GURLEEN: Baby, where are we going?
KEVIN: [Sighing]
GURLEEN: Baby, it was all fake.
Memorize these colours.
[Snarling]
KEVIN: Ah! It's so great.
♪ [Creepy & suspenseful] ♪
It's gonna jump out.
[Snarling & roaring chainsaw]
AMARI: Just say it a bunch of times over and over
in your head.
MICHAEL: Physically, we are a strong team.
But, our memorization isn't the greatest.
AMARI: Just keep saying it.
MICHAEL: Purple, blue, red, green, purple.
[Snarling & shrieking]
LAUREN: Fix my hair if you're gonna touch my head!
[Laughing]
OLIVIA: Yes! Yes!
Major league! Major league.
JULIA: Yes! Awesome. OLIVIA: Thank you, thank you.
SAM: Okay, I think we have enough.
BRAD: No, no. There? SAM: Come here, come here.
SAM: Thank you very much. CLERK: You're welcome.
JOHN: Let's go, baby. Let's go, baby. Yes!
CLERK: Awesome, congratulations.
MICHAEL: 100% that we have enough tickets.
Let's check. SFX: [Buzzer]
MICHAEL: 316! A little bit of a ways to go.
Right here. Playing baseball definitely helps.
Tyson's just whipping it.
GURLEEN: Do you see any cabs?
KEVIN: I'm looking for one, let's go.
GURLEEN: Baby, I love you! KEVIN: I love you.
Focus on us, focus on us.
CONNOR: Come on, John. JOHN: I know, man!
I'm trying.
EVA: "Taking the scenic, um, settings of a beautiful-
the Butterfly Conservatory."
TRYSTENNE: Okay, pause.
Do you want to do the other one or no?
EVA: What do you mean, the arcade?
TRYSTENNE: I think we can do it.
How do you feel? Yeah!
This area was the very first- is it area?
TRYSTENNE: I went to an arts school,
but I majored in dance, not, not, um...
acting.
[Horn] EVA: Okay.
COLIN: I think what we have to do is we have to
break it down into like four different parts,
and we just memorize the first couple lines.
COLIN: I've always been a pretty good public speaker,
and I'm an English teacher,
so I teach my kids how to public speak.
COLIN: Welcome to Clifton Hill,
otherwise known as the Street of Fun.
[Horn]
[Cheering]
TAYLOR: During his crossing, Charles stopped with a stove
on his back, to cook an- cooked an omelette.
COLIN: During one of his crossings,
Charles stopped with a stove on his back,
cooked an omelette and lowered it down to the
passengers on the Maid of the Mist.
[Cheering]
OFFICIAL: Congratulations.
Yeah! Let's go! Let's go!
TAYLOR: I think they just got it.
COLIN: Nightmares Fear Factory here we come.
Ha-ha!
KATIE: A French acrobat, Charles Bl-
Charles Blondin...
tight roped 300 times across the falls.
TAYLOR: During these crossings,
he also strapped a stove to his back and fried omelettes.
SFX: [Buzzer]
OFFICIAL: I'm so sorry. You didn't get it.
TAYLOR: Holy Hannah. Okay, holy Hannah.
KATIE: Crossed the falls on a tightrope 300 times.
Cooked an omelette and lowered it down to the
passengers on the Maid of the Mist.
KATIE: What are we doing wrong?
[Sighing]
Do you remember what Annie Edson Taylor
did here on October 24th, 1901?
TRYSTENNE: The very first location of the very first
running race of Amazing Race Canada.
EVA: Do you want to try it?
TRYSTENNE: I don't know the rest of the second half.
EVA: Oh, my gosh, Eva. -You've got this.
Come on, come on, don't worry.
TRYSTENNE: This area has long been known as
a honeymooner's paradise.
EVA: Trystenne? TRYSTENNE: Huh?
EVA: Do you want to switch? TRYSTENNE: Yeah, like...
We're gonna switch to Game Time.
EVA: There's a lot of memorizing in that,
and I feel like we have to do what's faster.
♪
TRYSTENNE: Hey, look, the boys are still here.
-Basketball. -Yes, yes, perfect.
MICHAEL: This is our game right here.
Tyson is like going above and beyond killing the clowns.
[Squeaking]
MICHAEL: Hey-hey! TYSON: Ha-ha-ha.
MICHAEL: Nightmares Fear Factory. Let's go.
TRYSTENNE: We just saw the boys left. Oh!
EVA: Let's go, keep pushing.
Knocking these clowns down are like knocking down
the clowns in the race!
Ooh!
SFX: [Buzzer]
DOROTHY: And he cooked an omelette and gave it
to everyone on the Maid of the Mist.
KATIE: Crossed the falls on a tightrope 300 times.
I don't know what we're missing, man.
TAYLOR: And I need to say, "cooked an omelette".
Oh, I keep saying, "fried an omelette," don't I?
KATIE: Yeah, you do. TAYLOR: Cooked an omelette.
It's me! KATIE: Okay, let's go.
TAYLOR: [Laughing] We're back again.
[Cheering]
MICHAEL: ...way to Nightmares Fear Factory.
The girls are still there? -Yeah.
TAYLOR: Charles also did this with a stove
strapped to his back, and cooked an omelette
for the passengers down below.
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
OFFICIAL: Congratulations! [Cheering]
Thank God, thank God, thank God!
TAYLOR: "Make your way to Nightmares Fear Factory."
DOROTHY: Boo! OLUS: Ah, a ghost.
[Maniacal laughing]
Ah!
SFX: [Screaming]
MATT: Oh God, this is how it ends.
[Roaring chainsaw]
SFX: [Screaming] BRAD: Ha-ha.
SAM: Green, blue, green, red, purple.
BRAD: Okay, keep that to yourself
so it doesn't bother me.
SAM: Well, don't breathe in my ear either.
[Laughing]
JOHN: I'm pretty sure Nightmares is up here.
CONNOR: Come on, John. It's right here.
JOHN: Route Info and an Assist by Desjardins.
ATTENDANT: This means you don't have to memorize
the colour combination. You guys are good to go.
CONNOR: Thank you. JOHN: We just have to haunt.
ATTENDANT: Oh yeah. CONNOR: Oh!
Oh, he grabbed my ear.
JOHN: Now that is a good photo.
CONNOR: The Illumination Tower.
JOHN: Yeah, we have a lot of money left.
We could use a taxi at some point.
CONNOR: If we see one, we'll grab it.
♪
KEVIN: We're number one, baby.
GURLEEN: I think we're number one.
KEVIN: Yeah, we can smell, we know we are.
It's right there, this is the tower.
-Let's light it up! -[Laughing]
♪
-Hi. -Hi, sir.
KEVIN: Blue, purple,
green, blue, red.
SFX: [Bell rings]
GURLEEN: Green, red,
purple, blue, purple.
SFX: [Bell rings]
OPERATOR: Congratulations. KEVIN: Yeah!
Baby, take a- look at this.
That's amazing.
JON: Teams must now make their way to the tunnel at
the Niagara Parks Power Station.
Here, in this former power plant,
teams will learn the powerful history of the falls
as they take one elevator down.
OPERATOR: We're descending down approximately
180 feet.
JON: Once they reach the bottom,
they'll run through tunnel,
a 2200-foot-long subterranean passage.
This observation platform at the base of the
Horseshoe Falls will act as the Pit Stop for
the first leg of the race.
The last team to check in here...
MAY be eliminated.
KEVIN: Run, let's go, go, go!
GURLEEN: Cab driver, there's a cab there.
KEVIN: Where is it? GURLEEN: Go, go!
KEVIN: Yeah!
GURLEEN: There's another team coming out.
KEVIN: Power Station Tunnel. Do you know where that is?
MICHAEL: We want to try and get first.
KEVIN: Let's go find Jon! GURLEEN: Jonny!
KEVIN: The ginger legend.
AMARI: Red, purple,
blue, red, green.
SFX: [Bell rings]
MICHAEL: Purple, red, blue, green, purple.
SFX: [Buzzer]
I think we might have to go back.
AMARI: I really hope not.
LAUREN: Oh, there's a thing there.
Do we go to that? NICOLE: Yeah, probably.
MICHAEL: Let me think here.
I know my two outsides were the exact same.
NICOLE: Blue, purple... red.
SFX: [Bell rings]
OPERATOR: Ladies, that was correct.
-Yes! -Yes! Thank you!
NICOLE: Double trouble.
Cab!
Do you know where the Niagara Parks Power Station is?
On the right side. First big building.
LAUREN: On the right? Are we close?
DRIVER: Yeah.
GURLEEN: You're 100% sure you know where to go?
DRIVER: Oh, yeah.
We didn't see anyone leaving the challenge ahead of us.
KEVIN: Let's go to the Power Station.
It's right there.
NICOLE: I see lights, I see tunnel.
LAUREN: We could be first. NICOLE: Yeah.
KEVIN: Come on, Jon!
AMARI: I know that.
I remember my colours, but my dad doesn't remember his.
MICHAEL: Yeah, let's go again.
AMARI: But instead of going all the way back to
the haunted house, I think we're just going to
keep trying until we get it.
AMARI: Red, green. SFX: [Bell rings]
MICHAEL: Purple, blue,
red, green, purple.
SFX: [Bell rings]
-Congratulations! -Yes! Oh my god, dude!
"Find Jon at your first Pit Stop,"
so we've got to go find the tunnel.
I think we're just gonna run.
COLIN: Look at that. MATT: Green, red...
...blue, green.
SFX: [Bell rings]
[Cheering]
COLIN: We're going to the Tunnel at
the Niagara Parks Power Station.
MICHAEL: Hey, taxi, taxi.
MICHAEL: Oh, they're in. They're in there.
MATT: Team Newfoundland all the way.
COLIN: Yeah, first Pit Stop, brother.
Let's do it.
♪
KEVIN: This is us. Can we come?
Shut it before anyone else gets in.
OPERATOR: Work began on the tunnel in 1901.
We're descending down now 180 feet.
KEVIN: Remember this, babe.
LAUREN: Is it- Oh, I see tunnel.
NICOLE: Sprint to the finish line, baby.
[Elevator chimes]
KEVIN: Let's go, let's go.
LAUREN: I've never been so excited to see Jon.
OPERATOR: On this side here, we have a shaft that
spun 250 revolutions a minute.
-[Elevator chimes] -Thank you so much.
KEVIN: You're doing so good, baby.
I love you, come on!
LAUREN: We're almost there.
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
KEVIN: Ah!
-[Sighing] Look at this. -Wow!
WOMAN: Welcome to Niagara Falls, Ontario.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
JON: Kevin and Gurleen, you're not done yet.
Before I can check you in,
I've got a question to ask you,
if you'd reach into that vase and hand it to me.
♪
When did the construction on this tunnel begin?
KEVIN: You got it, baby. I believe.
GURLEEN: 1901.
JON: Kevin and Gurleen...
you're team #1.
KEVIN: Yeah! Come on, baby!
We're so good, baby.
JON: Because you were made to travel,
our friends at Expedia are sending you on
a dream trip for two...
to India.
[Cheering & laughing]
KEVIN: Gurleen and I work every hour of
every single day, so to get this time with each other
on a trip where you come from-
GURLEEN: Yeah. KEVIN: This is beautiful.
GURLEEN: That's so sweet.
JON: Because Expedia wants to make this a dream trip that
you will never forget, they're giving you $10,000.
What?! [Cheering]
GURLEEN: You're my best friend.
I love you.
JON: Lauren and Nicole,
how far down does the elevator descend?
BOTH: 180 feet. JON: In unison!
You're team number two.
LAUREN: Feels good, you know, there's two of us
so we have to come in second.
[Crowd chatter]
DOROTHY: And Charles cooked an omelette and gave it
to everyone on the Maid of the Mist.
OLUS: Unbelievable!
OFFICIAL: Congratulations. You got it.
[Cheering]
TRYSTENNE: Good job, Eva. Good job, good job.
Good aim. Nice.
Yes, this one gets you tickets.
♪
Nightmares Fear Factory.
[Evil laughing]
MICHAEL: Ha-ha-ha.
Why am I laughing in a haunted house?
-Oh my god! -[Growling]
KATIE: Ah!
KATIE: I think if we could get a taxi,
that would be ideal.
TYSON: This is when I wish we had a taxi.
OLIVIA: Blue. SFX: [Bell rings]
I missed all the action.
JULIA: [Laughing] You can see it changing colours.
BRAD: Green, blue. SFX: [Bell rings]
-Thank you. -Oh, yeah!
Here we go, baby.
CONNOR: Ready when you are.
JOHN: I'll sing it to you, baby. Purple.
CONNOR: Purple.
CONNOR: Because we have the Assist by Desjardins,
all we have to do is read these colours off the card.
CONNOR: Red to finish it off. SFX: [Bell rings]
Come on, John!
JOHN: There's literally a knapsack
the size of me on me.
COLIN: Off to see Jonny boy. Let's go.
COLIN: We're coming, Jon! MATT: [Laughing]
JON: Colin and Matt, how far is the path
from the elevator to the platform?
COLIN: Oh, geez, man.
Uh, 2200 meters?
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
JON: That answer is incorrect.
You will have to head back to the elevator,
go back to the surface, come back down,
then we can try again.
COLIN: Oh, Jon, you're the worst, man!
MATT: [Groaning] Oh no!
♪
MATT: So we just memorize the facts.
We've just gotta memorize the facts.
We've got it.
OPERATOR: Work began in the tunnel in 1901
and was completed by 1904.
OLIVIA: That's epic.
JON: Michael and Amari,
the shaft spun at how many RPM?
AMARI: 250.
JON: 250...
is the correct answer.
AMARI: Yay! MICHAEL: Yeah.
SFX: [Shrieking & screaming]
DOROTHY: Why did I agree to this?
Ah!
[Screaming]
OLUS: We saw Eva and Trystenne
just right behind us. Hi, do you have maps?
We're looking for the Illumination Tower.
EVA: Oh, there's another team.
We're going to get them.
OLUS: Quickly, quickly, quickly.
DOROTHY: Quickly, please.
TRYSTENNE: Is that the Illumination Tower?
EVA: So it said in the clue an Illumination Tower.
I see the tower. I'm going towards it.
TRYSTENNE: Is this the Illumination Tower?
That's the Skylon Tower.
TRYSTENNE: Oh!
My stomach drops...
'cause at this point we just feel extremely lost.
Yeah.
EVA: Let's just run.
♪
This is the longest walk.
This race is not for me.
OLUS: I'm banking that we overtake, like,
some other teams who are still on foot.
TRYSTENNE: Do you want to take a taxi?
EVA: No, no, no.
TRYSTENNE: We're trying to save our money.
We have no idea where we're going right now.
TRYSTENNE: Oh!
COLIN: We're back, we're back.
MATT: Sorry we didn't listen the first time.
COLIN: Let's go see Jon.
OPERATOR: We're going to come to our tunnel,
which will take you to a 65-foot platform.
OLIVIA: This is epic.
JULIA: It's like training for our marathon.
JON: Julia and Olivia, when did construction
on this tunnel begin?
OLIVIA: 1901.
JON: 1901 is...
correct.
JULIA: Yeah. JON: You're team #4.
COLIN: Let's try this again, Jon.
JON: When was construction on the tunnel completed?
COLIN: 1904.
JON: That is correct.
COLIN: Alright, bring it in. [Laughing]
JON: Is this race anything like you
would have ever expected?
COLIN: It's a complete and utter dream come true to be
standing next to Niagara Falls with my best buddy,
you can't ask for anything better than that.
OPERATOR: We're going to reach the tunnel,
and that tunnel is 2200 feet long.
TYSON: Thank you, that's awesome.
MICHAEL: Thank you, man. Appreciate you, brother.
♪
SAM: Come on. I just want the other girls
to run behind me right now.
SAM: Look, they're behind. We're in a footrace now.
OPERATOR: We're now descending down
180 feet.
JON: Michael, Tyson,
the shaft spun at how many RPM?
MICHAEL: You try. TYSON: 2200?
JON: 2200 RPM...
is incorrect.
You're gonna have to go back to the elevator,
up to the surface, and do it all again.
TYSON: Alright, thank you. Alright, we gotta stay alive.
OLUS: Blue, green. -[Bell rings]
[Cheering] Yes! No way!
OPERATOR: Congratulations.
TRYSTENNE: Thank you so much!
Look at where they are. They're still there.
DOROTHY: So it's all the way down there, eh?
TRYSTENNE: Can you just tell us where the
Niagara Parks Power Station is?
Oh, it's just there behind you.
DOROTHY: Okay, baby, let's go.
Should we just run?
EVA: One more hurdle we've got to get through.
DOROTHY: Oh, my legs! [Crying]
SAM: Right behind us.
KATIE: Got it, Taylor, keep coming, keep coming.
MICHAEL: Teams are passing us.
TYSON: Man! Oh, man.
JON: Brad, Sam, your question is
when did construction on the tunnel begin?
BRAD: 1901. SAM: 1901.
JON: Correct.
BRAD: Give me one of these, baby.
Oh my god!
JON: You're team #6. Taylor and Katie,
how far down does the elevator descend?
TAYLOR: 2200 feet.
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
JON: That is incorrect.
You have to go back to the surface,
come back down, and we can try again.
TAYLOR: I'm sorry.
That was all my fault. I'm sorry.
KATIE: There's still teams behind us.
Keep it going, Taylor, we gotta push.
JOHN: That'll be us. KATIE: Good luck, guys.
CONNOR: Bro, this is actually sick.
JOHN: I know.
TAYLOR: We're not thinking before we do,
and it's getting us in trouble.
OPERATOR: We're going to be reaching our tunnel.
Our tunnel is 2200 feet long.
JOHN: Jonny boy. That was a lot of cardio.
JON: Connor, John, when did construction
on this tunnel begin?
JOHN: 1901. JON: Y'all are correct!
JOHN: Yes! Yes! Let's go. We did it.
JOHN: There's light at the end of the tunnel!
CONNOR: We did it.
TYSON: It's now or never.
MICHAEL: Hey, hold on, hold on.
Before we run, we got- hey, Tyson, two options.
We go, we give it a go, or we just go back and
do it one more time...
so we don't have to make the run.
TYSON: Everyone was right behind us.
This could basically be it.
MICHAEL: Oh my god.
we've got to travel back.
We do it one more time, get the notes down pat,
and then come back.
Let's go, the elevator's here.
EVA: Hopefully, we're not last.
TRYSTENNE: Hopefully, we're not last.
EVA: I hope we're not last.
OLUS: I see like a tunnel sign.
DOROTHY: Finally.
KATIE: We can hear another team's coming,
so it's important that we do this...
right, and really pay attention.
OPERATOR: We're going to reach our tunnel which
will lead you out to a 65-foot platform.
TAYLOR: We're going. Let's go, it's not over yet.
OPERATOR: We're descending down approximately
180 feet.
TYSON: No time like now.
MICHAEL: Constructed in 1901 to 1904.
OPERATOR: ...as it spun 250
revolutions per minute.
TRYSTENNE: We're just exhausted.
EVA: Today's been a day.
[Laughing]
KATIE: Hi, Jon.
JON: Alright, let's try that again. How long...
is this viewing platform?
KATIE: 65 feet.
JON: That's correct. BOTH: Yes!
TAYLOR: Oh my god.
JON: Taylor and Katie, you're team #8.
KATIE: Good job, Taylor. TAYLOR: I'm so proud of you.
I'm sorry. I love you. Mwah.
MICHAEL: [Sighing] Oh, my god.
JON: Michael and Tyson, let's try that again.
When was construction on the tunnel completed?
TYSON: 1904. JON: Correct.
MICHAEL: Oh my god. [Laughing]
JON: You are team #9.
MICHAEL: Just happy to be involved right now.
TYSON: We've learned in the first leg
I should be carrying the money.
[Laughing]
DOROTHY: Oh, it's too far.
I can't run there.
OPERATOR: Enjoy the view. TRYSTENNE: Thank you.
EVA: This is crazy. I hear them.
DOROTHY: My legs! [Crying] My legs hurt.
EVA: Let's go, Trys, come on!
JON: Dorothy, Olus...
the shaft spun...
at how many RPM?
OLUS: 250.
♪ [Suspenseful] ♪
JON: That answer...
is correct.
OLUS: What?! DOROTHY: Wow!
[Laughing & cheering] We're still in the race!
JON: You are team #10.
DOROTHY: The Amazing Race Canada is only for the
best of the best, and that's why we're here.
Yeah. SFX: [Boing]
Even in 10th place. [Laughing]
JON: Eva, Trystenne,
you are the last team to arrive.
I am sorry to tell you this, but you have been
eliminated from the race.
-Wow. [Sighing] -God.
JON: Trystenne, it's not the ending that
you were hoping for. I know that.
But were you happy to be able to do it with
one of your besties, Eva?
TRYSTENNE: Oh, I wouldn't have done this
with anybody else.
She's the best friend that anybody could ask for.
EVA: At the end of the day,
we're still strong within our sisterhood.
That's all that matters to me.
TRYSTENNE: Black girl magic out.
JON: Next time on The Amazing Race Canada...
GURLEEN: I asked you if- are you sure!
JON: A storm is brewing on BC's Sunshine Coast...
KEVIN: Is it farther? GURLEEN: Baby, I don't know!
BRAD: Just an absolute beauty. SFX: [Whinnying]
JON: At the Road Block...
MICHAEL: Giddy up on that thing!
JON: Michael and Tyson horse around.
MICHAEL: If this isn't it, then I don't know what is.
JOHN: No longer having kids after this.
JON: And the race reaches a fever pitch
for Julia and Olivia.
OLIVIA: Ah!
♪