All teams set out from the Mekong Delta on moving boat, on the way to find a puppet theather in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. All teams try to find taxis except Lance and Keri, they just run around trying to find the theater as they think they’re in Ho Chi Minh City. My doubt of Lance being a lawer grows much higher now. Has he won any case?
Flight Time and Big Easy are the first to reach the theatre, where they have to pull small clues from the mouths of dragon puppets, darting back and forth in the water. There is a bullet in each clue, containing a stamp of a building, their next stop. Each team has their own creative way of getting the clues, teasing with the puppet, attacking it, etc. And everyone quickly finds the stamps inside the bullets, except Lance and Kerri, again. They wasted time going around asking for clues.
The building’s a post office, where they find their first detour: Child’s play or Wor Play. In Child Play, teams have to move a animal figurine from one side of the park to the other, gathering five balloons on the way. For Word Play, teams have to go to the top of a hotel and look down on the busy crossroad, searching for six letters on various transportations going around it. Then they’ll have to unscramble the letters to form “doc lap”, a Vietnamese word for “independence”.
Everyone opts for Child Play, only Marcy and Ron go for the Word Play.
Sam and Dan try to help Maria and Tiffany when they hit a snag with their dolly, nice guys. Though Maria and Tiffany ask them to move on without them, good competitors. Zev and Justin chooe the giraffe statue, the largest of all, and end up smashing it. Lance, loses one of the balloons, almost loses his emotions as well. Marcy and Ron are doing quite well at first, then they have some trouble getting the last letter. By the time they get all six letters, most of the other teams have left the park for their next stop. Instead of asking the locals, they try to unscramble the letters by themselves, thinking the word could be on a sign nearby.
The clue they get after finishing the detour lead the teams to a chop shop at a busy intersection, there a Roadblock awaiting. Each team is given 2 VCRs, they have to break it down and sort the parts into piles. Flight Time and Big Easy, Meghan and Cheyne are the first two teams to arrive and get to work neck and neck. Back to Marcy and Ron, they are still looking around all the signs with the word on it, to no avail. Finally, a local helps them decode the word. By then the two first two team at the Roadblock already finish their chopping and heading for Reunification Palace, the pit stop.
One after another, teams reach the chop shop, and no one seems to beat others in the process. Lance and Kerri are still quarelling which way to go, and they become the second last team to arrive. However, Lance decides to simply rip the VCRs with his hands, tearing every pieces out, which make them catch up a lot of time. Meanwhile, Marcy and Ron are still on the way. While Flight Time and Big Easy and Meghan and Cheyne are neck and neck on their way to the pit stop, Flight Time and Big Easy outrun the couple by a few seconds, earning them a first place of this leg and a trip to Aruba. Other teams finish the leg by the following order, Mike and Gary, Brian and Ericka, Sam and Dan, Maria and Tiffany, Mika and Canaan.
Marcy and Ron get to the Roadblock after both lance and Kerri and Zev and Justin leave. It’s another footrace between the two teams, and Zev and Justin win. Good news is both teams are safe. Marcy and Ron are the last team to arrive, and they are eliminated from the race. It’s a pity to see them go, I think they have the potential of going far in the race, the detour eats up too much of their time. Anyway, best wishes to them.
