Episode Report Card M. Giant: N/A | 85 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Smithing and Sewing
By M. Giant | Season 21 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2012.10.21
The teams are flying to Dhaka, Bangladesh, but first they all have to spend the night in Indonesia, meaning everyone's on the same flight. There are hints at fallout over the previous leg's mutual U-Turn between Rob & Kelley and Gary & Will, but nothing comes of it at first.
With varying levels of difficulty, the teams get to a bus repair yard, where a Roadblock requires them to patch up the sides of buses and remove seats. James & Abba skip this and go for the Fast Forward, in which they have to become apprentice rat-catchers, collecting dead rodents from specified locations. While repairing his bus, Ryan damages his clue to the point of unreadability, and ends up helping James from the Chippendales with his bodywork in exchange for a look at his. It's help that proves sorely needed, as James ends up sucking at the task so much he has to chip the Bondo back off. But at least Gary and Trey have a similar problem, while everyone gets irritated with Nadiya's relentless cheering of Natalie.
From there, with Abbie and Ryan in the lead, they have to go to a market and dig through bags of smelly dried fish for the clue to the Detour. Team Grabbie selects the option where they (and later the Goat Farmers and the Chippendales and the substitute teachers) have to start with cotton and finish with a mattress, while the twins, the monster truckers, Team Austin go with the one where they have to forge an iron spike blacksmith-style. Leaving the Roadblock, Trey & Lexi have such dire taxi problems they end up behind even Gary & Will (briefly), while James & Abba easily win the leg, although Abba's a little concerned about having stepped in raw sewage along the way.
Natalie and Nadiya are the first team to actually finish all the tasks and begin the arduous journey to the Pit Stop, although they end up on the same boat as Abbie & Ryan. The latter team ends up as team number two and the twins in third, followed at some distance by Josh & Brent and then Rob & Kelley, who have to get to the mat twice thanks to poor following of directions. Jaymes & James come in sixth, which is better than they expected at the mattress task. Trey & Lexi are team number seven thanks to some helpful boat directions from Josh & Brent, and Gary & Will finally come in last, as they should, and they're finally done, as they should be.