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Caite finishes and they are onto the next task which instructs them to take a funicular down to the next clue. Shawne is inching her way across steadily like Jordan who is almost done and Dan is only using his arms after slipping off the foot line.

Jordan finishes and it is clear that the relationship that started on a show like Big Brother between her and Jeff is a hundred times healthier and real than any love the Bachelor has manufactured over the years. Jeff is very encouraging and praising her performance. As they question what a funicular is (a gondola-like train car), we get our first clue misread as Team South Carolina uses the stairs.

Dan finishes third and rides down with Team Big Brother. The next task, Paint the Town, requires the teams to carry four cans of paint, a ladder and paintbrushes up a steep street and help finish painting the outside of a house, which is really only about a 8x8 square. Basically, the challenge itself is not that challenging but finding the houses will be. The first three teams start searching.

Allie and Joe are fourth and fifth across the cable, while Adrian is struggling worse than anyone. As Shawne finishes, Michael and Louie have arrived and Louie has already lapped Adrian. This is taking him painfully long.

Teams Big Brother and South Carolina are still meandering around town looking for their task location when they converge on the one street they haven't tried. Wouldn't you know, there it is. Team Big Brother quickly finishes and heads to the pitstop with Team South Carolina on their heels.

The cowboys and Jody and Shannon are the last two to show up at the Roadblock and Shannon and Cord get suited up. Not only is Adrian still moving at a snail's pace, the inevitable happens as he loses his foot hold and falls off both lines. With Adrian twisting in the wind, we cut to commercial for dramatic effect.

The safety person comes out to take Adrian back to the starting point because his arms are worn out. While he faces a huge setback, Cord (cowboy boots and all), who is currently in last place, shimmies across the line like this is the easiest thing he's ever done. There is little doubt or tricky editing that can mislead us into thinking that anyone other than Adrian and Dana will be eliminated.

Team Big Brother is greeted by a Chilean mariachi band and our New Zealander host at the pitstop as team number one. Eerily, the baby blue shirts Jeff and Jordan are wearing mirror last season's Meghan and Cheyne who also won the first leg and the whole race. Foreshadowing? Who knows?

Caite and Brent hit the mat next and as no shock to the viewer, Phil doesn't allow them to check in because they didn't follow their clue to use a funicular. That earns them a 30 minute penalty on Phil's green time-out bench.

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