The Amazing Race Australia (2011) s04e04 Episode Script

Season 4, Episode 4

Previously on
The Amazing Race Australia,
the teams hit Hanoi
for the toughest challenges yet.
Footy mates Tom and Tyler
might have won the day
Yes! Good boy.
..but true grit from a mother
and daughter won our hearts.
No matter what happens,
you're amazing.
And then a last-minute reprieve.
And you are still in the race.
Tonight, as the teams head
into the hills of northern Vietnam,
the temperature rises
Come on!
They told us that was a rule.
..and our firey
Oh, come on.
They're changing the scales around!
..explodes.
Stop cheating! Oh! Hey.
Don't get on the wrong side
of this one.
Definitely saw another side
of the old duck.
But in the competition's
biggest twist
Oh!
..one team will risk everything
..to survive.
For the fourth leg
of The Amazing Race Australia,
we're in rural Vietnam,
in the Ninh Binh province,
100 kilometres from
the bustling capital of Hanoi.
With a backdrop
of limestone mountains
and the famous Red River delta,
Ninh Binh is the lifeblood
of traditional Vietnam
and today, our nine remaining teams
will be departing
in the order they arrived
at the last pit stop.
Make your way to the ancient village
of Hoa Lu,
and prepare four bundles of incense.
At Hoa Lu Citadel, teams have got to
find a giant stack of incense
in the village.
Here, they have to make four bundles,
each weighing two kilos,
then deliver them
to Chua Nhat Tru Temple
to receive their next clue.
Sounds pretty straightforward,
but the race is good
at throwing up tricks
here and there. So
All the time.
Keeps us honest.
Having Vietnamese heritage
..super, super confident
in the sense
that we have that advantage.
Yeah, I just told him
that we're in a hurry.
Let's go.
I think our main competition
going into this next leg,
we'd say Viv and Joey.
He speaks fluent Vietnamese
..so we wanna definitely focus
on him today
and hopefully overtake that team.
Here we go, my darling.
Lang-lang. Lang-lang!
We can definitely win today.
We made the big mistakes
in the first couple of legs
and now we've got our rhythm.
Today's about thinking
and slowing it down.
We'll do a mild jog.
You have 1.25 million
Vietnamese dong
for this leg of the race.
OK, let's go.
We got about six teams
in front of us
so we're starting
from the behind again, but
..obviously that's where we perform.
So we'll go out there
and we'll smash it. 100%.
The taxidriver has no idea
where we are
and he's taken a really weird route.
Is that it?
Did we just do a loop?
Thanks!
You're gonna have to bundle
two kilograms
without knowing how much
Two kilograms is.
Yeah.
So, do you know exactly
when you're doing alpaca meat
how much two kilograms feels like?
Oh, yeah. There's two kilos.
Yeah.
We have a large alpaca farm.
A lot of times I'm handling meat,
packing meat and everything else.
So you start to get an idea
as to how it weighs.
I don't think anyone sees us
as a threat
but as the race progresses,
they'll start to see that they've
gotta watch these older guys.
Fast, yeah?! You stay with us.
The last leg of the race
was a non-elimination.
You are still in the race.
Because we were
the non-eliminated team,
we are going to go
through a speed bump.
A speed bump is a disadvantage
in their first challenge.
What that is, they'll find out
when they get there.
Fast, fast, fast. Go, go, go.
This is beautiful.
Make sure you don't miss anything.
Do you think it's right?
So we came through there.
That's the entrance.
Let's do it.
Mate, you wait here.
Can you just wait for two minutes?
You wait?
"Once inside the citadel, find
the marked gate to the village."
Thank you.
You wait? Thank you.
The other team's coming up
behind us.
Oh, this way, this way, this way.
Can you see an arrow?
Can't see an arrow.
"Once inside the citadel,
find the marked gate."
Which is this, right?
It's not that.
What do you reckon?
Maybe it's that middle one?
OK, everyone's lost,
like, this is great.
I reckon it's definitely this way.
It's not that way.
As we're walking towards
the marked gate,
the other teams were running
back from that.
Not that way?
We don't think so.
Hayley, let's just go.
We trusted our gut
and we just kept going.
I think it's down here.
Sometimes it's good not to be a sheep
and to be a shepherd.
Growing up, our dad only had
daughters
so he always taught us to be
as independent as possible.
"Don't be a sheep, be a shepherd."
So don't just follow other people,
try and be the leader.
Hopefully, we're being the shepherd
the right way.
The taxidriver had no idea
where he was going.
We even asked him, "Like, do you know
where you're going?"
And he was like, "Yeah, yeah."
And that was a huge mistake.
Maybe we should have just turned
back there.
"Once inside the citadel, find the
marked gate to the village."
There's nothing on there.
- Babe, just stay with me, hey?
- Yeah.
Have you not found it?
No, we're lost, hey.
Ooh, yes! We found the temple!
Here we go! Here we go!
Let's do this!
We started off fifth today
but we were stoked to be there first.
There's the scales.
Ties are over that.
Let's see how much this weighs.
That's a demonstration.
OK, we'll do that. So that's two kilos. OK.
We saw that the bundle of incense,
there was red up the top
and white down the bottom.
You couldn't just grab a bunch
and put 'em in a bundle,
you had to get them
the right way up.
I'll just keep collecting,
you do the tying.
We're doing well.
Come in here for a sec.
Come in close, come in close.
The first gate..
The only marked gate I've found
..is the one right down,
near where the other temple is.
It's the only marked gate
that I've seen in here.
Keep smelling for incense
'cause it's gonna be so strong.
Yeah! Here, guys, guys, guys.
Yes!
Go, go, go, go, go.
Hey, guys.
Oh, so they've gotta be bundled
like that, Tim.
There was this massive mound of
thousands upon thousands of incense.
We thought, "Jeez, this looks fun."
Stay with them. Come on.
That's clearly marked.
What were we thinking? Yeah.
We started the day in first place.
However, we lost our lead
basically straightaway.
Quick hands. Quick hands.
That's what I'm good at.
So there was thousands
of incense things
that you had to grab
and put together.
Everyone was just going, picking out
those sticks as fast as they could. Yeah.
Four bundles, this will take a while.
This is the marked gate to the
village. Oh, there, there! Amani!
Oh, what the hell?!
This is where we have to wait, Am.
Because we were
the non-eliminated team,
there was a speed bump.
"You must prepare one extra bundle
of incense"
We had to do not only for bundles,
like everybody else,
but an extra one on top. So five.
"..continue the race."
So that's five.
We've got five.
Five.
Hey!
Have you already done
the speed bump?
No, this is it.
We've got to do five
and you guys have gotta do four.
Oh.
I'll make 'em perfect,
you just get 'em.
We've lost such a big lead.
I was really angry.
We shouldn't have gone
with him.
Just red and white,
gotta be the right way.
Stay focused,
stay speedy, nice and quick.
Oh, you're joking.
We were the last team to make it
to the incense place
so every other team got ahead of us.
You can't help but panic.
You honestly cannot help but panic,
You go in there, all the other teams
are in there, they're well into it.
We just concentrate on the task
at hand. We need to catch up.
Doesn't help when your taxidriver
doesn't know where to go, though.
We have to make four bundles
of these and they all have to be
between 1.9 and 2.1 kilos.
It's 1.9.
That one is correct weight.
Do we have to have them
..made up perfectly, like the others?
No! It has to be within 100 grams!
I already told ya.
Two. Two kilos.
Mate, it's just over 1.9.
That's what we want, hey?
Yeah.
Look how much that is.
Look how much that is to get two.
Yeah, I know.
Spot on.
Do you want me to take
a few extras or not?
No, just tie it, Chris!
Not doing Christmas wrapping.
Will you just relax?
OK, "Deliver your incense
to Chua Nhat Tru Temple
"to receive your next clue."
Let's go.
Another team just left but they
don't have them around the right way.
Tru temple.
Here.
OK, you got it? You see it?
We were first around there,
by a long way
That's perfect.
What?! No!
..but then we got rejected
because they weren't all orderly.
It's not only a weight issue,
it seems we have to line 'em up.
Go, Chris, go. Go, go, go, go, go.
They're close and we're starting
from scratch.
They're back. They're back,
they're back. They're back.
They're came back.
Right, cool, yeah.
It was worth a gamble
but now we've got the disadvantage
that there are a lot of people
um, that have been doing this
a lot longer than we have
in the right direction.
1.9, a little bit over. Perfect.
This is our last one?
Hello.
Just weigh one at a time.
OK, go. Nice and quick.
That one's good so put that to the side.
Weigh that other one there. Yeah.
Weigh that one.
Yes.
Come on, come on.
Come on. Come on.
Yes!
Good, good, good. Thank you so much!
Thank you.
Fast forward.
Let's look at the fast forward.
A fast forward is the single
biggest advantage of the race -
a team that successfully completes
a fast forward
can skip directly to the pit stop.
And the team to choose this
fast forward
must attach just a few of these
shrimp baskets to the back
and ride down the road
and deliver them to this fisherman.
How are you, mate?
And when I say a few,
there are 320 of these bad boys
hanging off this bike.
It's a high risk,
high reward challenge
and until one team completes it,
this fast forward is up for grabs.
We've taken a gamble and gone
for the fast forward
to try and give us a bit
of a head start
to the finish line, hopefully.
Just desperately want
that number one position, hey.
Oh, what!
There's the marker.
There's the marker.
Here we go.
Where is it?
This is it here, this is the bike.
Oh, whoa.
So we gotta ride this down
to that flag, is that correct?
No. We're gotta load up bike
with shrimp baskets
Oh, so that's the bike.
Looking at this
small little rickety bike,
thought, "This is gonna be
challenging, this is gonna be tough."
Go, mate, go, mate.
Load 'em up. Load 'em up.
And these ones go at the bottom.
One in each hole. One in each hole.
Oh.
We're standing
in the burning sun.
Everyone was just dripping,
drenched with sweat.
It was like being back in Darwin.
I'm soaked.
Sweating.
Yes.
Oh, my God, I'm sweating too, man.
This is crazy.
We had to push through
and keep going.
God, this is so fiddly.
It was actually one of the most
painstaking things
that I've ever done.
Yep.
It's like just We're, like,
literally five grams off.
Rather than doing it
one by one.
Yes?
Chris, just listen to me.
Go the other end and then see
if there's a heap of reds
all in alignment together.
Chris.!
That's what I've been doing!
OK, but you're
Hey!
I'm not in a fire station now,
I'm your husband.
I have been a firefighter
for 30 years
and in South Australia,
I was the first female firefighter.
Don't nag me.
I am the boss
of all the firefighters
that ride on the truck with me.
I like to be the boss.
Come on! Hurry up!
Oh.
Oh, hey.
Come on. Whoa, whoa. This is a race!
I followed you long enough.
Oh
Guys, let me give you
a little warning,
don't get on the wrong side
of this one. Whoo.
Be scared.
Definitely saw another side
of the old duck Adrienne today.
She was getting real heated
at the incense challenge.
Oh, come on! They're changing
the scales around!
Leave them where they were!
Oh, we're not meant to? OK.
You had both the other way.
So we turned 'em back.
Can't touch them.
The rules said we weren't allowed
to move those scales
so when others started
to turn 'em around,
I let them know that
you're breaking the rules.
Yap, yap, yap.
Hey! Can't turn the scales around!
Come on! That was the rules.
Use your own scales.
Run around the wall
if you wanna use our scales.
Adrienne was stressed.
Okey dokey.
Turn it round. Cheaters.
Excuse me?
Stop cheating!
And she went off her nut.
She called us cheaters!
Stop cheating!
It's OK. You can go.
We'll still beat youse.
1.4.
1.9.
Thanks, Tyler.
How nuts was Adrienne just then?
-I think she's just Desperate.
-..stressed.
Thank you so much!
Thank you.
Oh, how cute.
Grab the bottle. Let's go.
Fast forward.
We're not gonna do it,
the boys are gonna do it.
Do a detour.
So detour.
Short strokes or long stride.
A detour is a choice
between two challenges,
each with their own pros and cons.
In this detour, teams will decide
between short strokes or long strikes
and it's all set side by side
on this remote island.
In short strokes, teams
have to paint an exact replica
of the mask their partner's wearing.
The art of creating colourful masks
is traditionally part
of the full moon festival
and it needs detail
and concentration.
Roar.
Or choose long strides, which will
elevate them to unsteady heights.
Stilt walking
is the name of the game.
Each team member has gotta
complete a circuit
and it's only one team member
at a time.
Once complete,
they'll receive the next clue
and continue racing.
Long strides. Let's do it.
Let's do this.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
Thank you.
I can't paint. Can you?
Do the stilts?
Yeah. Let's do the stilts.
OK.
Hey, thank you.
I'm good atpainting.
I'm good with that.
OK. Short strokes.
Yeah.
Come on. Good boy.
Long strides?
Long strides.
We're going to "Trau Vang Ninh Nat",
please.
And we need to beat this team.
That was hard, like, it was just
We just
And the sun zapping your energy.
We train in this weather, babe,
in Darwin, like
Thanks Darwin Deadly Runners
fortraining me up.
Oh, there's Sid and Ash
up there.
Wonder what they're gonna do.
Yeah.
- Are you the fast forward?
- Oh.
Guys, the detours are on the other
side of the bridge! Get back in!
Over there. Oh, get back in. Righto.
This alliance we've got
with Sid and Ash,
four heads are better than two,
and we genuinely trust them.
Like, we really think
they're nice, genuine people.
That's our allianceworking for us.
They're legends.
The alliance is important for us.
It's almost like
keep your enemies closer.
They are a threat 'cause they work
really well together,
they're really positive.
Go, mate, go, mate.
Load 'em up. Load 'em up.
They're a good team to have on
our sideas we climb to the top.
So perfect here.
Short strokes, up there.
We lost so much time
with that taxi.
No, we're not doing the fast forward.
We are way too behind.
Detour.
Let's do short strokes.
Is walking on stilts difficult?
I reckon short strokes
will be easier.
Let's do short strokes.
Let's go.
Exact!
Thank you so much. Fast forward
"Load up a bicycle
with shrimp baskets
"and transport them down the road."
There's too many teams in front
of us, sounds too physical.
OK.
We just passed Tim and Rod
who are trying the fast forward
and looks quite challenging.
So who knows, maybe they'll really
struggle with it.
Oh, yeah, that's it.
OK, "Choose an available table
with brushes.
"Each choose a painted mask to wear",
choose an easy one.
Yep. I'll wear this.
Then grab the mask underneath.
Yep.
Put it on.
We had to replicate a mask
on each other.
Look up, look up.
I was a bit like, "I'm being
suffocated as I'm painting here."
We wouldn't see anything.
However
Yeah. It was like
the tiniest little holes.
Look up again. Look up.
Holy crap, they're high!
We picked the long strides detour,
where you had to get up
on these bamboo stilts
and make your way around
a course without falling.
OK, let go. Let go. I've got to
be able to move my foot.
As a kid, I'd actually had
experience playing on stilts.
I thought, "This is going
to be really easy."
Whoa! Babe, this is gonna be hard.
So, they've got all this
tied together.
So, we tie all of them together
with the white rope
and then plunk it all on
at one time?
I don't know. I don't know.
Come hold and I'll
We kind of freaked out, 'cause
even if we put this together,
like, it's probably gonna be wrong.
Mate, I reckon we just
go do this detour.
Do you reckon?
Should we just go?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah?
I don't think we can do it.
We're kicking ourselves a little bit
about giving up on the fast forward.
I've never done stilts
but I'm not a good painter.
Yeah, stilts?
Right, we're gonna go do the stilts.
Let's just stay calm. Level-headed.
I think this stilt thing
will be alright.
My back!
Oh, shit.
The speed bump held us back heaps.
Like, that was really
time consuming.
Two kilos exactly.
That's enough, Amani.
We are getting worried.
The rest of the teams are off.
We've got to do five,
so we've gotta do one extra.
Still anybody's race,
so let's run it.
We've gotta go here.
There's $250,000 to be won
and we are not gonna give up.
Yes, exact.
It's on it.
Oh, my God.
How hard is it?
It's really hard.
Is shoes off easier, girls?
Here.
Really arch your foot, Hayley.
Arch it?
And push it way up into there.
One at a time.
Is it hard, boys?
Yeah, it is.
When we got to the stilts, every
single team there was struggling.
Nuh.
Not one person was cruising
through that challenge.
Everyone's failing.
Ah!
I don't even know how to
get on the stupid thing.
It looked absolutely impossible,
to be honest.
Mate, if you just have an attempt?
We literally gave it, like,
five seconds
..and thought, "There's no way.
We just can't do this."
We've decided to switch.
We asked the taxidriver to wait,
I haven't paid him yet.
So he's definitely going to be there
when we get back.
I'm just worried, though, because
he's already stuffed us up
at the start.
Oi, Sid and Ash.
Yeah?
How hard is this?
Well, it's not that hard.
You've just got to copy.
Both of them are so hard,
everyone's struggling.
Oh, we're good.
So, we'll go pig.
Pig. I'll go the lion.
These two?
Yeah.
So, we tried to pick the most
basic-looking masks we could find.
We were like,
"We have to get every single detail.
"We have to get these masks
absolutely identical."
Hey, guys.
How are you going?
Get the stack. The stack with
the ones underneath it.
Come on, we've gotta move quick.
We've gotta move quick.
I've just got these tiny,
little pea holes in my mask.
And you're trying to look
out of one eyehole
so you can get a bit of perspective.
It's very difficult
with depth perception.
I touch the brush on it and I don't
even think it is where it is.
Your whole spatial perception
is gone.
You've got this, girl.
First attempt, and I thought,
"Oh, I'm gonna make it."
I saw the white line
just in front of me
Oh.
Like, literally,
you fell onto the finish line.
I know.
Like, a centimetre before.
That's brutal.
We have to get these masks
absolutely identical.
So, I pick the pig,
and you picked the tiger.
And we thought
they were gonna be easy.
We were wrong!
It's super-weird
sitting there with a mask on.
Viv's like, "Turn your head this way
and hold it there,"
for what felt like two hours.
Look that way.
Yeah.
OK, like, seriously, mate.
OK, again, we're in a race!
Oh, shit, this is hard.
I need a bit of water soon.
Like, I'm gonna pass out here.
I think I ate some of my sweat
dripping down my face.
That's disgusting.
At least you kept yourself hydrated.
It's not even. Stop.
Come on, Chris.
I'm trying to cool down a bit.
I don't care.
Chris was a cat, I was a cow.
So frustrating. Ah!
Oh! Far out!
Start up here.
We picked the long strides detour,
which basically you had to get
up on these bamboo stilts
Go, girl.
..and make your way around
a course without falling.
Go.
Mickey had picked it up
really well on the sticks.
Go, girl.
Good?! Yay!
Once one person had
gotten through
Yes! Good boy.
..the next person had to
get through.
You can do this.
You've got this, babe.
You've got this, babe.
Yeah, you've got this.
Just try and stabilise.
It's like watching a baby giraffe
walk for the first time.
Almost there. You can smell it.
Yes! Yes!
Oh, be careful.
I was so stoked,
because I thought we could have
been there for a long time.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you very much.
"Make your way to
Three Periods Halls
"on the Bai Dinh Temple grounds."
The Bai Dinh Temple grounds
is the largest Buddhist complex
in South-East Asia.
Here teams must search
among 500 Buddhist statues
to find the one monk with both feet
resting on an animal -
Phap Luan Son.
Once they locate Phap,
they need to climb this belltower.
Once judged to have identified
the correct statute
they need to ring the bell
to collect the next clue.
And that is one hell of a bell.
Oi! Hey!
Here!
BaiBai Dinh Temple?
All good.
Yeah.
Amani, stay with me please.
Let's go.
Bring your brushes.
If we didn't have that speed bump
we'd have caught up to everybody.
We knew we were coming last.
But we are not gonna give up.
You've gotta wear it
and I've gotta paint it. Look.
I've still got heaps, Tim.
It is a pass.
Hmm? It's not, OK?
I can promise you,
it's not going to.
Do I have to use a brush?
We were doing it very, very quickly.
I think other teams were
overthinking it massively.
No?
Nup. Which one?
Your one.
I'm telling you, that whole top is
a mess. Like, it's a deadset mess.
I think with the mask on
and having to try and paint,
you just started getting
quite claustrophobic.
Yeah, it was tough.
Yay!
"Make your way to
Three Periods Halls
"on the Bai Dinh Temple grounds."
Thank you.
We did well, we're onto the next one
and we've got a lead now.
So, the only people that I've seen
move off have been Tom and Tyler.
Oh. Thank you.
You've got this, girl. Do you
want me to talk to you or not?
Nup.
OK.
It makes her even more angry
if I can do it and she can't.
So I know she'll be
so determined to get it.
She's just halfway through now.
Oh, my God.
Hayley, it's OK.
Oh, my God.
It's OK, Hayley.
Yeah, I know, Mikayla.
"Bai Dinh Temple is
locally known as Chua Bai Dinh.
"This is a place of worship,
so no running and no swearing."
Oh, this is so cool.
It's amazing.
We arrived at the top
and it was just these old temples
with Buddhist statues.
It definitely took our breath away.
So it was very nice for us to take
a moment and take everything in.
Can you hurry it up?
We're still in the race.
We need to go quick.
I'm just trying to be
respectful, mate.
Yeah, you can walk a bit quicker.
A clue told us to search through
hundreds of Buddhist statues
to find the one Buddha who had both
of his feet resting on an animal.
Is there more there? Oh, thank God.
Yeah, there's more.
There were so many statues.
We had no idea where to start.
I was so angry
that Mikayla could do it,
'cause how can your younger sister
beat you at something?
Inside I was like,
"Oh, if she can do it I can do it."
Get back on the horse?
Yeah.
Get back on the horse. Here we go.
Mate, this is it. This is the one.
I was so happy.
Oh, thank you!
I'm so proud of you!
I'm glad that's over.
You did well to not give up.
You did well to just
nail it first go.
Push up.
Yeah.
We'll just keep soldiering on.
At this point
I was really frustrated.
In my head, I just wanted to do it,
I just wanted to complete it.
Come on.
Watching teams slip away, our
position in the race slip behind
I'm calling it. I just
I'm physically I think too fatigued.
Jasmin got around the course no
problems. I just couldn't do it.
I just could not for the life of me
pull it off.
My body was starting to shut down.
That's two tough challenges
to start the day.
Yeah, two tough challenges.
Been a hard morning.
This is a tough week.
This is a tough leg.
Thank you! Bye-bye!
So, on this one it's one fish.
On that one, it's, like,
another little animal.
Is he on a turtle or something?
It's a monkey.
Oh, this is a cat.
But both feet need to be
resting on an animal.
OK, so, let's go back down this side.
Both feet.
Finding the monks, they were, like,
hundreds of them everywhere.
There are statues for days!
And I just knew we had to
keep calm, walk through
and just logically look for the monk
with its feet on an animal.
His feet aren't resting on that.
What is this on her foot?
I think that was
only one foot, Hayley.
I might write that one down,
just in case.
Don't get them confused.
Yes, Mum!
Chris, are you hearing?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm just making sure
you're listening.
'Cause you don't do painting
with the kids.
Oh, I haven't seen you do it lately.
We're both pretty defeated,
but we run over to the mask painting
and I can see Tim and Rod are
sitting there, painting these masks.
You guys didn't go for
the fast forward?
We tried. It was so hard.
Really?
Mate, I reckon we just
go do this detour.
You reckon? Should we just go?
Yeah.
The fast forward is still at play.
Do you want to try the fast forward?
And we'd spent so much time
wasted at the stilts,
that we were really worried
about where we were in the race.
Give it a go?
A fast forward
..straight to the Pit Stop.
Let's go the fast forward,
then. Come on. Come on.
Is this a bad call?
I don't know.
High risk, high reward.
It was a real gamble for us
to go with the fast forward,
but we were in trouble.
If we can nail this, babe, we are
going straight to the Pit Stop.
Let's ask this tour guide guy.
Excuse me, we're trying to find
a monk with two feet on an animal.
Two sides.
There's two sides.
Yeah, two sides the same.
Maybe it has to be the other side.
We checked everyone in here.
Yeah. Nah.
Nah.
Oh, yes!
This is it. This is it.
This is the one.
Phap Luan Son.
We're going to the belltower.
Yeah. Let's ask this guy
if he can drive us there.
Hey. Can you drive us
To the belltower?
Dong, dong!
Move, move, move.
Tower.
Let me show him.
There's the
Try that.
"Load up a bicycle
with shrimp baskets.
"Transport them down the road."
We can do this.
We an seriously do this.
OK, let's section with this.
Yep.
Come on, help me.
Just do that as tight as you can.
Every single of these ones
are around the back, babe.
Do you reckon we build them up?
Yeah.
So, trying to tie
every single basket
to make sure that it was
really balanced
Yeah.
Three, four
..we really had to be methodical
in the way we did it.
Being in such a compromised position
right at the back of the pack,
we knew we just had to take the risk
and that we could potentially bypass
the road block and catch up to
the rest of the team.
Oh, thank God.
Here we go. This is it.
We've got the Buddha with
both of his feet on the animal.
His name's Phap Luan Son.
I tried to write it
with all the right accents.
And you've missed a letter.
And I have, I've missed
an absolutely full letter.
OK.
That's the bell tower.
I was just thinking
Yep.
What's this thing here?
Give me the map.
The bell tower?
He pointed at that thing.
Both feet rest
Here.
This bad boy.
That's it.
That's definitely him.
Great. OK.
Hello, sir.
Hello.
Phap Luan Son.
Yes?
Yes?
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
"Make your way to Ho Tien and search
for Beau at your next pit stop.
"Hurry up. The last team to check in
may be eliminated."
We're looking for
the bell tower, bell tower.
The bell tower.
- Whoa! Look at the bell.
- That's epic.
Holy dooley!
That's so cool.
Yay!
Ah!
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Come on, let's go.
Ew! No running.
So, run!
Not allowed to run in here.
Oh, you're right.
Oh, cheers.
Tommy, Tyler, you are
..the first team to check in.
Yes! Good work.
Well done. Ooh.
Put a pretty happy.
Got another first place.
First place. Thanks, mate.
The girls are back!
Whoo-hoo!
Thank you!
Hayley, Mikayla, you are
..the second team to check in!
Yeah!
Good job, girls.
We are absolutely stoked to come second.
So happy.
It's our highest placing yet,
so we're over the moon.
Started fifth today
and got to second today, so, stoked.
We're coming back.
We're coming for those boys.
Watch out, boys.
Are you happy with that?
Yep.
OK.
Thank you.
Thank God.
Thank you so much!
"Make your way to
Three Periods Halls
"on the Bai Dinh Temple grounds."
Let's go, let's go.
Nup.
Femi couldn't get the eyebrows.
He had to kind of start it again.
Which gave us a bit of boost
to keep going
and we haven't lost that much time.
Got this, guys. Keep going.
OK, OK. Bike, bike, bike.
Get the bike.
Oh, babe.
Jasmine and Jerome are risking it
because they'll be last if they
can't complete the Fast Forward.
Yep.
It's not worth the risk for us.
Almost there, babe.
Doesn't give us
Oh, .
Are you OK?
Oh.
-.
-You alright, babe?
Oh! !
-Are you OK?
-Oh, .
You right, babe?
Yeah.
I just smacked my face.
I'm down on the ground
trying to tie this bike so tight
and this piece of bamboo just
flings me straight in the eye.
I'm just gonna tie it on.
You OK?
Yeah, I'm fine.
- Are you in pain?
- Nah.
You've done so well.
I love you, baby.
It's OK.
Jasmin, can you read the clues?
You must ride the bike.
You may not walk the bike forward.
You may not carry
any of the baskets by hand.
You must deliver
all of your shrimp baskets at once.
I don't even know
what I'm doing right now.
Settle the taxi.
Yep.
$20 change.
Are you ready to haul ass?
Yeah, we can't run, though,
remember?
Oh, yes! This is it!
Eventually
we found the bell tower.
And at this stage of the race,
we're still making mistakes,
which is frustrating.
SoPhap Luan Son.
Yay!
Thank you!
Thank you.
Nice. Again. Oh!
Here. Wait, wait, wait.
Here's a little present.
A little koala.
A koala from Australia.
Yeah.
Thank you. Where are you?
Have a look at the map.
OK.
I don't know where we are.
Posing with both feet resting
on an animal.
Does it say what animal,
or it doesn't?
No.
Fish.
Both feet.
This one. Yep.
Yeah, both feet.
Do you reckon?
This is a monk
Chris.
..with both feet on a lion.
He doesn't have his foot on it,
he's got his toe on it.
A foot is not a toe.
Do you reckon
his other foot's on it?
Oh, wait, I already wrote that down.
Yeah, you did.
That's the elephant.
Yeah.
Every single time I saw an animal,
I said, "Bugger it, write it down,"
There's nothing else.
I don't know if you want to double
check everything before we do that.
Can you see it?
Do you reckon this is it?
Yeah.
There's no other teams here.
We had no idea where to look.
We didn't know where to start.
So we were like,
"How are we gonna do this?"
Like, "This is not looking good."
I reckon it's down here.
Oh, there's Sid and Ash.
Do you need help? Do you need help?
Where's this temple?
Where do we go?
Oh, I'll give you the name.
I'll give you the name.
So you don't have to search.
Oh, my God. That's so nice.
What do you need?
What do you need?
P-H No, P-H-U-C
They basically showed us
the exact spot where to find it.
Just go check it to make sure.
Go check it.
Yeah.
That is literally so great.
If the farmers ask us,
we know nothing at all. Yeah.
Sid, Ash.
You are the third team
to check in.
Yay!
Rest and recover,
and I'll see you guys soon.
- Argh!
- Are you alright, babe?
Yeah, I'm just hitting
the other bike.
Finally get all those baskets
onto the bike.
Here we go.
We take the bike to the road.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Alright.
You right? Keep going. Keep it going.
The flag is roughly about 200m.
And I just needed
to get some momentum.
Once I've got a bit of pace, I'm alright.
Yeah, yeah.
Careful of this bump, babe.
Yeah.
Just come over it slow.
Get away from the tree.
Oh. As I was riding, I was imagining
my son laughing, thinking, you know,
"What is Dad doing with all
these shrimp baskets and nets
"hanging off the side?"
Me wobbling all over the road.
The weight distribution
Just try and keep it steady, baby.
You're looking so good, babe.
Yeah?
Hello!
Hello, my friend.
Hello.
You're very strong.
Thank you so much!
Thank you.
When we'd been given
that Fast Forward pass
to say you've completed
this challenge,
you're on the way to the Pit Stop
Make your way to Ho Tinh
at the Bai Dinh Temple
and search for Beau
at your next Pit Stop.
..there was no better feeling.
Babe, you did so good on that bike.
Oh!
I'm a little frustrated.
The heat's getting to me.
It's so simple, bro.
OK.
Just look at what's there.
OK, I will write down the symbols
if you think that's what it is,
but then we go and check the
Yeah, exactly.
And this is ridiculous.
To think I'm sitting here
drawing some
No, what I was gonna do
is put a paper over it
and then use a pencil
And you've got a pencil in your bag?
I do have a pencil in my bag.
Best decision ever
to take on the Fast Forward.
Yeah.
High risk, but bloody
high reward right now.
We were never gonna give up
regardless.
No.
We're not quitters.
We'll get through it.
We'll battle through to the end.
Let's go.
Phap Luan Son.
Yes!
Thank you so much.
I love you, mate.
I love you.
Hey.
You ready?
You all done?
I'm done.
Let's give a shot, man.
Yes!
Yes!
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
After the third attempt,
we finally got it.
I'm just like, "Thank the Lord!"
We're out of here! Whoa.
Alright, let's go.
Oh, yes! Yes, thank you!
Thank you!
As soon as Nick and Femi leave,
they were a little in front of us.
But we're still in this.
We got this.
It's alright. Go, go. Get our bags.
Down one more. Maybe it's the lake.
Don't run, don't swear.
Don't run, don't swear.
Ah! Brother Beau!
Man!
Welcome to Bai Dinh Temple.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Jasmin, Jerome.
You are the fourth team to check in.
Oh!
Well done, babe.
Well done. Well done, my love.
Oh!
Risky move.
That Fast Forward.
High risk, high reward for sure.
Yeah, we had to take it.
Oh, here we go. Another team.
Hello.
Tim and Rod, you are
the fifth team to check him.
Honestly, better than we thought.
That's such a relief.
If it hadn't have been
for Sid and Ash -
they threw us the biggest bone
ever today -
I reckon we would still be
running around.
This is not it! I want to go
find another animal.
If you want this, if you are
insistent on this No, forget it.
Chris!
Forget it. We'll go home.
We'll go home.
Oh, Chris, would you not do this!
Chris, I can't communicate with you.
You're not
No, but you're not listening
to what I'm trying to say, either.
OK, we'll do it!
This is not Team Adrienne.
I know! It's not Team Chris!
It never has been.
We don't act as a team.
We don't communicate with each other.
We don't share ideas.
Chris definitely didn't want to
share any of my ideas.
I've just been following barking
orders from you the whole time.
We were in a bad point.
We get to Bai Dinh Temple,
and we were pretty certain
that we were back
of the pack at that point.
Search the hundreds of statues
at Bai Dinh Temple
for the monk who is posing with
both feet resting on an animal.
I want to ask this guy. Excuse me?
You know, we didn't come all the way
to Vietnam just to give up.
Like, we're resilient people.
Do you know where this is?
Around there?
OK, so follow the corridor.
Soldier corridor.
Yes.
Where's that?
So let's ask someone where this is.
Excuse me?
Can you tell me where this place is?
Around the corner?
We could be still in this race.
No. He's holding an animal.
Have you looked at the map?
Chris, did you say it was
only down one side, the corridor?
No. This is the whole thing.
Maybe it goes
Maybe it does go all the way round.
We could see on the map
that the place is really symmetrical.
Maybe there's more further up.
I don't know.
But I want to check
over this other side.
Chris suggested that maybe
there are some monks on the side.
Well, he had to get one for the day
because the other 50
are in my favour.
I reckon he's got two feet on him.
Yeah.
Now, where's the bell tower?
Right here. Right here.
Hey, Joey, there's another one.
Both feet on an animal.
That's the one, right?
Yep.
Good spot.
Bong!
The first time I hit it smack on.
The second time I missed.
And then the guy
And then after about the fifth time
he got it right.
One by one.
Yeah, really, really meticulous.
Where are the monks?
Where are the names?
It kind of clicked to us,
it was like,
"This isn't as simple
as we thought."
Let's just keep going.
Maybe when we see
Could it be
It could be these walk
So we did have a little bit
of panic in ourselves.
Oh, thank you!
Thank you.
Chris, Adrienne, you are
Give it to me.
..the sixth team to check in.
Yes!
That's great.
Nearly had a divorce today.
But we're still together.
We're stillwe're still racing.
When we clash
You still love me, don't you?
..it's just a heated communication.
But we don't carry a grudge.
Oh, there.
We just need to find
where the bell tower
Yes, just there?
Yeah.
Ah, thank you so much.
Thank you.
We could be still in this race.
You know what I mean? Come on.
One.
Yes!
Are you sure?
Yes.
OK.
Yes, yes, yes.
Give the monk's name
to the bell tower attendant,
who will allow you to ring the bell.
So we need to find the bell.
Oh, you're joking!
Viv, Joey
..you are the seventh team
to check in.
You will continue racing.
That was a tough leg.
A lot of stupid mistakes.
Yep.
We were both stressed.
He just got stressed as soon as the
taxidriver took us the wrong way
and it just went downhill
from there.
Yeah, we definitely didn't talk to
each other as much as we should have.
This was definitely a reality check.
We were super confident this morning
and now it's just like
we're just back down to earth.
Where's the attendant?
Where's the attendant.
N. That's an N.
Oh!
Yes!
Yes!
Thank you so much.
Yes! Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Let's go, let's go. To the Pit Stop.
Come on, Amani,
we're still in this race. Come on.
I'm coming, I'm coming.
Come on, baby girl.
We've got this, Amani.
Would this be it?
There. That is the Pit Stop!
Let's go, Amani.
Where is it?
Nick, Femi
..you are
the eighth team to check in.
Alright, this has happened before.
How are you gonna change?
Focus much better
and these silly mistakes
probably won't happen again.
"Probably" won't happen again?
Won't happen again.
Won't happen.
Won't happen again.
Welcome to Bai Dinh Temple.
Thank you.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
Rowah, Amani
..you are the last team to check in
and you are eliminated.
Your time on the Race is over.
That's OK.
That's OK.
We came on for a challenge
and we got it.
Yeah. It was so good.
And the main thing
is that I'm leaving
and I can say that I've actually
built a stronger bond with my mum.
Yeah.
She's amazing.
And our relationship is way
more important and we survived.
We gave it our all
and I'm super proud of Amani.
She's epic. She's amazing.
She's fantastic.
She's everything and anything I
could have asked for as a daughter.
The race may be over for us,
but our bond continues.
It'll continue growing stronger.
I know a lot about my mum now.
She knows a lot about me.
Sure do.
And, yeah, I can't wait to go back
and live with her.
Yeah!
Next time
on The Amazing Race Australia
In Mongolia, the teams go to war.
I'm not fine with it.
Cheated.
And in the tightest race
to the finish
Argh!
..the competition
Go, go, go!
This is where it got crazy.
..is turned on its head.
Running is what I do.
Go!
What do you want me to do?!
Get him going that quick!
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