Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Look Back in Angkor. Wat?
By M. Giant | Season 13 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.26.2008
The fourth-place team, Toni and Dallas, are leaving at 10:15 a.m. New Zealand really scattered these teams out, didn't it? Toni interviews that she hopes to race smarter, not harder. "I am not gonna be able to keep up with 20 and 30-year-olds," she declares. Fortunately, the "smarter" comes into play when she's able to direct Dallas to the Auckland International Airport rather than a strip of macadam in Te Puke or whatever. And it turns out Dallas also doesn't know where Cambodia is, either. If nothing else, this is going to end up as quite a geography lesson for him. Can I tell you something embarrassing? I couldn't find Singapore on my globe, and had to look it up on Google Maps. And I'm still not sure about the reliability of the driving directions it gave me from my house.
Terence and Sarah arrive at the airport and find the same Flight Centre that Ken and Tina were at earlier. They learn that the previous team is on a flight to Singapore that's leaving at 12:20, but that it might be too late for they themselves to make that one. Well, maybe next time they'll try to outrun the cops.
Nick and Starr leave the Pit Stop at 11:34 a.m. In an interview, Starr confirms that she did indeed run over her own arm with the Blokart during the last leg. As she removes her jacket and puts on her seatbelt in the back seat, we can see a couple of bandages, although Starr assures us it's not broken and she won't "let it get in the way of our game." Nick agrees that she's strong. Starr says, "Another day, another Road Block, another Detour." As long as neither of them gets edited out.
Terence and Sarah wait in suspense while their agent works the phone, first learning that the Singapore flight is still open and then that they can get tickets. They're told to hurry, but that doesn't stop Terence from bitching at Sarah for outrunning him as they dash down the terminal. Maybe you could snap it up a little, running coach. At the gate, Ken and Tina are boarding their plane, and Ken's microphone barely catches her saying, "Honey, I don't think Terence and Sarah can make it," as they walk to the jetway. But even with her mic off, it's still a jinx, because Sarah and Terence make it on board. With that, both teams are wheels-up to Singapore.
Andrew and Dan are leaving at 12:44p.m. pretty much confirming for me that this was an 18-hour break, because the sun was still up, if low, when they arrived at the end of the last leg. Anyway, as they drive back to Auckland, Dan is in the back hoping that there aren't many flights. Andrew solo-interviews, "Dan's really intense sometimes." For some reason, they replay the clip of him from last week saying, "It's the turning point of my relationship with Dan." In the car, Andrew wonders aloud where Cambodia is, and Dan tells him, "Asia. You didn't learn that in school?" "No, I didn't go to fancy private school like you," Andrew says, and then interviews that sometimes Dan can be pretty wacky. "Sometimes too wacky, and then we don't focus enough on what we're doing." Is that really the issue with them? Because of all the things I could accuse Dan of, wackiness is pretty far down the list. I'd put it somewhere between his arsonist tendencies and his vampirism.