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With a justified air of overall pissed off-ness, Jet tries boring a hole into the back of Jordan’s head with a glare. Jordan incidentally refuses to make eye contact with the cowboys. As Jet reviews the list of things he wants to do but can’t (e.g. grab his backpack and forcibly move him or kick his teeth in), Dan is just standing well behind Jet and Cord. The fact that Dan isn’t saying a single word to defend his brother’s action says to me that he thinks Jordan is in the wrong (which he is). It’s an unwritten rule of the race that Jordan wiped his feet on like A-Rod on the Oakland pitcher’s mound.

Jordan goes on further to say that it’s a game, there is a million bucks at the end and he’s going after it. With a “Hate the game…Don’t hate the player,” the cowboys' eyes are rolling and Dan is still just being a bystander. He knows his brother is wrong and in cowardly fashion, doesn’t call him on it. I wonder if playing dirty was part of his lifelong dream on this race. By the way, Jordan, I do hate the player and not the game because you are the first one that I can recall that has pulled this kind of trick on any season. So clearly, there is nothing wrong with the game only you as a player. To add to the sheer pointlessness of this move, all the teams were going to be on the same flight in coach.

Jet and Cord get their tickets last and the teams board the plane. Dan finally speaks up and says that “this is final three and this is it. No one is going to help anyone.” Of course, big man Dan is saying this without Jet and Cord or Brent and Caite standing near them. At least during this exchange, he admits Jordan played dirty.

While on the flight, Dan has a legitimately smart idea that actually makes a difference (unlike Jordan’s shenanigans). While the teams must only buy tickets for coach, if there is an opening and the flight crew lets them, the teams can move to first class. This would be a huge advantage to getting off the plane quicker than the others. Dan and Jordan curry favor with a flight attendant who lets them move on up.

They land, and the brothers dart out of the terminal and are seemingly in a cab before the others have gotten off the jet way. Brent and Caite are in second and Jet and Cord are in last. All the teams are heading to the Presidio and Battery Godfrey. Unsurprisingly, Dan and Jordan get their first and the clue is a riddle with teams having to figure out a landmark by its date of construction, height and murals painted on it. The answer is Coit Tower for those interested.

The luck of the taxi cab draw is not on Brent and Caite’s side as they once again have a cabbie with no sense of direction. And humorously, even though they are back in the US, they have a driver that has a tenuous grasp of English.

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