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Brent and Caite are the first at the Garden Bridge and find out that their first task awaits them at a Buddhist temple on the other side of the city. To complicate matters (thank you to the sneaky sneaky producers), teams cannot take a cab to this particular task. Sounds like the makings of another error-filled leg.

The models opt for the bus to take them to the temple and once again Caite brings up the embarrassing infamy of kids needing maps to find “The Iraq.” Her exact quote to summarize the situation, “Obviously, I can read maps because I can figure out where we are and where we are going…in China. So people, you can go screw yourselves.” While she clearly has worked hard to redeem herself throughout the course of the season, it is that snotty and “I’m too cool” attitude of hers that has me rooting for her elimination.

Jet and Cord rip open their clue and return to pay their cabbie but decide to get some free advice out of him about the best way to get to their temple destination. He instructs them to head to the metro train about a kilometer away.

With a handy time stamp on screen that shows that it has been over two hours since they left the mat, we see Dan and Jordan wandering around the pitstop area unsuccessfully getting help from locals about where the Garden Bridge is. The language barrier is so infuriating to them that Dan proclaims, “I HATE China and I will never be back.” Wow, that is quite the declaration. It is time for them to resurrect their earlier stated strategy of “never be alone and in last.” So, they decide to wait a bit longer there and try to tag team with Louie and Michael, because they knew the cops have a Speed Bump in their future. While I personally think it is risky to intentionally remain with other teams, like the brothers did on a previous leg, this approach has some solid merit to it this time.

Michael and Louie are rightfully thrilled to see the brothers because they were so far behind and Jordan’s lame attempt to snow the guys into thinking they stuck around to race with them is all for naught. Team Super Fuzz is the clear benefactor for this strategy.

Sadly, the race savvy team that Michael and Louie had become in the middle legs was cracked last time with the time wasting overlooking of the task location last leg. Well, Michael is still clinging onto his eagle eye spotting of the grapes in the vineyard previously and suggests they go up to a high point to use binoculars to spot the clue box. The pitfall here is overconfidence by the cops, with Louie definitively saying that a certain spot has to be the garden. Then, there is the blind acceptance of their suggestion by the brothers, who should have spoke up and pointed out they have already covered this area exhaustingly for over 120 minutes.

Brent and Caite’s bus pulls up to the temple and puts them in first place. This Buddhist temple is the site of the Roadblock and Caite decides that she will handle it for her team. The task is pretty straightforward with the person having to count all the gold statues in one of the rooms. The twist is that if they incorrectly guess 523, then they have to wait ten minutes before they can make another attempt. I know it’s not the nicest thing to derive pleasure from, but I love when they punish the teams for messing up. Especially when it happens to an arrogant team.

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