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Flight and Easy show up at Gold and wisely recognize the need for a calculator. They simply ask one of the workers and voila...they have a calculator to use. If only Brian and Ericka had thought of that, they wouldn't have had hookah trouble.

Gary finally finds the missing tongs and they leave Mika and Canaan as the last team at Glass.

Brian and Ericka show up at Leap of Faith and acknowledge that he is afraid of heights and she is afraid of water. But for the sake of the race and because he knows his teammate well, Brian wisely waits for Ericka to go first because as he says, "If I went first, I don't know if she would have went." Both did it with a little coaxing and they are team number four.

Mika and Canaan finish the Glass and Mika is beginning to get worked up over the phrasing "Leap of Faith" on the clue. Canaan non-empathetically guesses they have to jump off something. This is not the way to help out your freaked out teammate, in case you were wondering. We then are treated to the earlier clips of Mika acknowledging both her fear of water and heights. Maybe Canaan needed to see that clip.

In order to break up the drama, we get to see Matt and Gary take on the slide to become team number five and Flight Time and Big Easy finish the Gold task.

It's time for the big payoff. At the top of the water slide, Mika is throwing a tantrum, which is fitting because she is wearing a pair of child's arm floaties and Canaan is yelling at her and on the verge of just pushing her down the slide. I understand being afraid and all, but so far, we have seen four other people overcome similar, self-confessed fears of water or heights at this specific task. As she fights off Canaan, Mika yells, "You can't make me. You can't make me!" and we get a commercial break.

Usually, they cut to commercial to build tension but when we come back, the tension is quickly resolved and we move forward. That isn't the case this time. We come back and it's still the same scene. Mika is finally sitting on the slide and after reassuring her with a "Mika, trust me," Canaan squats behind her and tries to undo her death grip on the safety rail but he backs away.

Flight Time and Big Easy are finally there and sprinting to the slide.

The couple continues to argue and Canaan is not exactly the model of supportiveness. At one point he calls her a moron for not doing it. I may have mocked Mika for ignorant statements (even in this recap) but I am not her teammate/boyfriend. C'mon, Canaan. Obviously this tactic isn't working.

The time for dillydallying is over. Flight and Easy arrive and we learn that the rules stipulate that when another team gets there, they have two minutes to do the task or step aside so the next team can go.

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