By M. Giant
Normally everyone flies to the country together, but this week all four remaining teams take separate flights to Barcelona, Spain. Not that it matters, because they all end up on the same overnight ferry to the island of Mallorca. Yes, even Josh & Brent. And everyone is soooo happy to see each other, and not Ryan & Abbie. But the Chippendales, Team Austin, and the twins are all racing together now, although Natalie & Nadiya get left behind early on due to their inability to drive stick. Yes, the teams are actually driving themselves to places this leg, for the first time this entire race. Which one of them actually refers to as "a whole new ballgame."
After claiming a clue from a mob of fire-slinging demons acting up around a cathedral, the teams head to a sports complex, where they have to take on a serving machine on a clay tennis court. Tennis player Trey aces the Detour, with James not far behind. From there, they have to collect their clue from two musicians playing guitars in a cave. Their plans to proceed to the fake bullfighting side of the Detour together go awry, though, when Jaymes & James take a "wrong" turn and end up at the other option, where they successfully attach two giant blades to a 400-year-old windmill. Meanwhile, Trey & Lexi's first attempt at the bullfighting Roadblock also goes awry when, after Trey gives Lexi directions through an obstacle course of cape-holding matadors, he crashes her into the final target and she hurts her finger badly enough to make her cry. Jaymes & James complete the windmill task with no such difficulties, but they're not quite fast enough to beat Trey and Lexi to the Pit Stop, where one of the freakiest greeters ever welcomes them to Mallorca.
The Roadblock evens things out a bit for the trailing pair of teams; the ankle Josh hurt during the leg prevents him from easily completing the task and Nadiya just plain sucks at tennis, but not badly enough to end up passing Josh before he digs deep and succeeds. And then the twins get lost again, meaning they're the last to reach the windmill Detour. Which Josh & Brent complete smoothly and efficiently while the twins get all Laurel & Hardy again all up in this piece. Nobody is more surprised than Josh that he and Brent end up as team number three, and when the twins reach the mat in last place, Phil tells them it's a non-elimination leg. So they'll be back for at least the first leg of week's two-hour finale, which could actually be anyone's game. Well, except Josh & Brent's, probably.