So we discovered in Race #1404 that one team isn't as innocent as they appear. And yet no one can discover that. How you ask? Well....
The first step in this leg was to get to Siberia and find out what destination was on the back of the 10-ruble note, which was some sort of dam. The dirty play started early, as the cheerleaders (Jaime and Cara) used an accidental taxi-to-taxi call to dupe the midgets (Mark and Michael) into thinking they were really agents at Lufthansa. It ended up all being in good fun, as the midgets actually got to Krasnoyarsk first, along with Kisha/Jen and Christie/Jodi. Meanwhile, the trickster cheerleaders ended up missing a Moscow connection along with the other teams.
But there was a bunchup potential at the dam as the three leaders had to wait for the dam to open. The other teams, however, were far behind, allowing the three leaders to get to the detour, a key factor in this leg. Their choice: stack a tall pile of firewood and hope you don't knock down the stacks, or build some shutters and take them to a marked house. All three teams tried to go on the stacking route, and while the female teams stacked well, the midgets' stack came tumbling down, causing them to switch tasks. Meanwhile, the black sisters finished the stacking first, leading them to the route marker where a new twist awaited: the BLIND U-turn.
Those of you who are new to the game, the U-turn, of which there are only 2 in the race, allowed any team to force any other team to backtrack and complete the other detour option. However, this time, with the blind U-turn, the team choosing to force the backtrack could remain secret whereas before the team had to declare that they did it. Seeing as how no one had arrived from the 2nd flight, both female teams passed on this opportunity and went to the road block.
Meanwhile, as the midgets couldn't find the house they were to deliver shutters to, the other five teams arrived and all of them tried to stack. 3 teams failed in their stacking mission: hottie Amanda and jock Kris, the cheerleaders, and the gays Mel and Mike. The cheerleaders stayed strong with deaf kid Luke and Margie and the Asians Tammy and Victor, while the hottie/jock and the gays went to shut themselves in, so to speak.
With their successful stack, Margie and Luke hit the blind u-turn point in 3rd and decided to do the evil deed: they pulled the u-turn on Amanda and Kris, quoting that they wanted to keep Jaime and Cara in the race. Apparently they didn't hear that Lufthansa was suing the cheerleaders (kidding). Anyways, this is a move that no one would expect from them in retrospect, which could really play to Luke and Margie's advantage if more blind u-turns/yields pop up later in the race.
Unbeknownst of their fate, the daters joined the gays and the midgets in trying to build the shutters and find the house. After what seemed like hours searching for the house, they finally found it, and the male teams quickly assembled their shutters, putting the daters in last place behind the teams who had finished their log stacking.
And this was ALL before they were forced to turn back to wood stacking, holding their belief that the blacks had u-turned them and that the actual perpetrators, Luke and Margie, probably felt bad.
Those perpetrators had long been held up at the Roadblock, which is something I NEED TO DO when I visit Siberia. They had to complete a 3-mile bobsled course in less than 4 minutes while looking for seven letters on the route. After that, they had to unscramble those letters to spell the name "Chekhov", advertised as a Russian playwright. I would've gone with another way to spell a Star Trek officer, but no matter.
Anyways, Kisha, after going twice to spot all seven letters, struggled along with Christie to spell the name. They eventually got it pretty close to each other, leading to a virtual footrace to the pit stop at some musical comedy theater. Finding the wrong theater entrance, the blacks fell to 2nd, allowing the flight attendants to win the leg and take home some motorcycles.
Luke, however, (DESERVEDLY) struggled coming up with the name at the road block as the Asians snuck ahead to grab 3rd. He eventually made it, but seeing him emotionally struggle was satisfaction for me in their u-turn move.
Despite his struggles, he and Margie comfortably finished in a transfer spot, as the U-turn was too much for Kris and Amanda to overcome. I thought it might be a non-elimination point, but Amanda and Kris, as it was revealed, are now out.
So now we have all four couples out of the race in the first 4 legs. Two aren't surprising (Brad/Victoria and Linda/Steve) but two very much are (Amanda/Kris and Preston/Jennifer). And all 3 female teams are still in the race, a combination that has never won the race. Could we be looking at history this series?
Finishing Order for Leg 4:
1. Christie/Jodi (motorcycles)
2. Kisha/Jen
3. Tammy/Victor
4. Margie/Luke
5. Jaime/Cara
6. Mel/Mike
7. Mark/Michael
8. Amanda/Kris (eliminated)
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