Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Istanbul, Not Constantinople
By M. Giant | Season 21 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.04.2012
Rob & Kelley make it to the travel agency, and are greeted annoyingly by Ryan and Abbie as the latter team leaves. Team Grabbie gets in their cab, ignoring a legless man in a wheelchair hanging out right by the car door. This heartbreaking sight prompts Ryan to say, with feeling, "Get me out of Bangladesh." Abbie wonders what the other teams are scheming about back at the travel agency, but Ryan says there's nothing they can do. "You put those six heads together, you get about three brain cells." Ryan seems to be under the impression that he's going to be the most hated person on the race if he doesn't hate everyone else more. He's half right.
Lexi and Trey join the party at the travel agency, and finally Josh & Brent open their first clue at 3:04 AM, the seventh and last team to depart. Yikes, that's almost a whole workday behind Team Metal if you don't count time spent web-surfing. Good thing for them everyone's going to be on the same flight. After we learn that the teams are being given $100 for this leg of the race, Brent interviews that they're way behind, plus their Speed Bump will be coming up, but Josh adds that they're not quitters. "When we lost our jobs and we had to save our farm, we buckled down and saved our farm. We just don't quit." They don't even quit talking about how they don't quit.
At the travel agency, Abba wonders aloud if they can get on another computer, but Nadiya appears to be done with what seems to be the one laptop. "Clear history cache," she chuckles before yielding the keyboard, to hide either any advance research she was doing on Istanbul or a major porn habit. The twins head across the lobby toward where Team Austin is standing, to examine a wall map of the world -- which here shows the Eastern Hemisphere on the left and vice versa. There's a shot of a wad of American cash shot from so close up you can see the mini-20s printed on the bills, and we see Natalie bending down to pick it up off the floor. According to a subtitle, she says, "Okay, somebody dropped their money," but nobody hears her over the crosstalk. Except her twin, who quickly shushes her. Lexi picks up on what just happened, while Trey obliviously tries to strike up a conversation about the bus Roadblock from two legs ago. Post-leg, Nadiya interviews that she picked up the cash and said, "Whose money is this?" and Natalie says she pushed her hand down and said, "Shut the hell up." In the agency, the twins and Team Austin huddle secretively while Trey continues to be rather little slow on the uptake, but he finally advises them to return the money when he eventually figures it out. Lexi interviews that this could possibly be a game-changer. Sure, if that's how you want to win. While James and Abba sit obliviously at the computer, the twins talk about what to do with the money in subtitled Hindi so nobody else can understand them. "I have a good conscience," Natalie lies, but says "the drive gets stronger and stronger as you come closer to the finish line." You're only at the halfway point, Sunshine, and you're already talking about stealing. What are you going to do in the final leg, kill people? She says Lexi had the same idea, but Trey took some convincing. Or rather some ignoring. "We're like, shut up, Trey, you don't get a vote," Nadiya laughs afterwards. So the two teams walk out of the office, with Team Metal's money in their possession. "They're gonna split it with us," Lexi smirks to Trey in their cab. Trey just smirks back. How is this cool?