By M. Giant
After some discussion of the U-Turning that went down during the leg, everyone flies together from Hanoi to Botswana, but three different bush flights carry the seven remaining teams to the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Bates & Anthony and Caroline & Jennifer are in the lead as each team meets up with a group of three Bushmen who will be running the rest of the leg with them. They start by going out and digging up scorpions, which the Bushmen orally tame before letting the racers pop them into jars. Joey & Meghan and Max & Katie are on the second flight, and although neither man is particularly macho about the scorpion encounter, Joey makes Max look like Indiana Jones by comparison. The third flight, carrying the derby moms, Pam & Winnie, and the perennially trailing Chuck & Wynona, have different levels of luck at the scorpion hunt, but at least Wynona does a Roadblock at last.
Each team drives their Bushmen guides on to the Detour, where they have to either make a fire by rubbing two sticks together or construct a clever snare to catch guinea fowl in the local style. Almost everyone opts for the first choice, but Bates & Anthony prove to be the only team who can actually do it, and they win the leg. Everyone else eventually gives up and switches. That ends up being to the advantage of both Pam & Winnie and Chuck & Wynona, who were previously at the back of the pack when they decided to start with the snare task in the first place. Pam & Winnie come in second and Chuck & Wynona post an unprecedented third-place finish while the teams who were once ahead of them try to build their own snares. Joey & Meghan come in fifth and Caroline & Jennifer sixth. Max & Katie were the last team to switch tasks, but does Beth & Mona's ill-advised detour to the parking lot to see if they could drive to the Pit Stop give Team Newlywed a chance to not come in last? It does not; the derby moms are team number six, and Max & Katie are the last team to arrive. But it's a non-elimination leg, and they're still in the race to continue grossing us out about being on their honeymoon.