Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 44 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Fast Forward, Fall Back
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.03.2013
After the ads, Marie further explains her motivation in an interview, (beyond how she's simply horrible person), which is that their driver dropped them off on the wrong side of the building and she figured it would be faster to just take a different cab rather than play the hand they'd been dealt like a couple of chumps. "I don't know how they got out of the car but we didn't touch them," Tim adds in their post-leg interview. Marie concludes, "I'm sure there's probably gonna be some hard feelings there, but a million dollars [vs.] drinks with Jay and Amy after the show." And that's actually a good point -- they might not win the money, anyway, but it's not like she was going to end up friends with them anyway either. Back in Jason & Amy's cab, the driver belatedly realizes that he left the Roadblock with a different team than the one he's been driving around Vienna all morning. He clearly never looked at either team, because they look nothing like each other. On top of everything, Marie insults his intelligence by showing him the blue Route Info clue and claiming they're all on some kind of fictitious blue same team anyway, so it doesn't matter. That would be a terrible show.
Amy becomes the only person to complete the Roadblock on her first try, so she and Jason are out of there in fifth place. "Back in the back again," Ashley remarks as she continues waiting with Danny. Jason & Amy run out of the building and spot their backpacks, though they can't help noticing that these backpacks currently have a conspicuous lack of taxi around them. As they realize this means they'll have to leave the grounds and go to the main road, Amy says, "Jason, someone else took our damn taxi, that's what happened." They seem to find a new taxi out on the street fairly quickly, but Amy vows, "Providence Amy will definitely come out if another team took our taxi." Wait, so Kevin Smith is working on Chasing Amy's crossover sequel with Outside Providence? Do we have a release date?.
The ER docs show up a Schloss Schönbrunn, where part of the grounds -- which are vast, so no wonder all the cabbies know where it is -- are filled with a high-walled hedgerow maze. Even before entering the maze, they can see the clue box standing in a one-story observation platform in the center that overlooks the whole maze. Travis & Nicole venture in as the baseball wives arrive and have their taxi wait. Both teams wander the maze for a while, with all the wrong turns and dead ends that entails, but Nicky & Kim are the first to reach the ramp to the platform and collect the clue. This one tells them to find the next Pit Stop at something called the Gloriette. They won't have to leave the Schloss, though; Phil says that's the centerpiece of the garden, as he's standing there with a parasol-wielding greeter near a pond and a colonnade at the top of a hill. Do I have to tell you what may happen to the last team to check in here? Well, obviously Phil does.