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Jeremy is the first to get the clue sending them to memorial tower, followed by Ernie is second and Justin in third. Tommy officially surpasses Laurence to put them back in fourth place. Justin comments that Bill is likely the only one with any experience that even comes close to that challenge. While winding them and giving them quite the workout, no seems overwhelmed and defeated by the Roadblock yet. But you never know, the Detour may take care of that for them.

Jeremy & Sandy remain at the head of the pack, retrieving their Detour clue first. The options are All Sewn Up and Not Grown Up. All Sewn Up requires the teams to head to a market and design shop. Select a customer and then finish sewing a suit for him. Not Grown Up takes the teams to a school where they assemble a toy truck out of scrap materials that is then "test driven" by a student. Appropriately, Team Test Drive of Jeremy & Sandy will choose Not Grown Up.

Ernie & Cindy and Justin & Jennifer get to the tower together but then part ways as the engaged team chooses sewing and the siblings go with the school. Justin presents a logical argument against the sewing and it is based upon being at the mercy of the sewing machines. I hadn’t thought about it that way but that is a great point. The unreliability of machines on the race is tantamount to the unpredictability of animals in challenges. If given the choice, I think I would opt out of a task involving either of these. Not far behind is Team Dude who also goes with Not Grown Up. The guys freely admit they don’t see themselves as grown up and for a pair that seem to savor every drop that live gives them, I’m not surprised by this choice.

And it looks like Ernie & Cindy decide to keep their streak of one mistake a leg alive by choosing the sewing task. When they ask their cabbie if he knows where it is, he replies "No" and they STAY in the car as he just drives around. Why don’t they insist upon getting directions immediately or switch to a driver that knows? Consistency is king, I guess.

Laurence & Zac have left the Roadblock and arrive at the Detour clue. Laurence shows his age and chauvinism by rationalizing that sewing is “where the ladies whip past us.” Wow. That is some anti-progressive thinking there, Laurence. I get the “from a different generation” thing but that seems awfully antiquated.

While Bill stays out front of him because of years of hay baling experience, Marcus is motivated by the warehouse workers singing and dancing. This puts him in the mood to keep plugging along and finish the task.

As Jeremy & Sandy begin building their truck, we get a glimpse at Jeremy’s humanity as he says being around the kids at the school makes him wish he could see his six-year old son.

Well, Cathi may disagree with my condemnation of Laurence because she happily jumps at the chance to sew a suit when they get their Detour clue. She expresses experience doing it as well as a love for it, rather than doing it because it’s "woman’s work." To debunk the notion further, Amani & Marcus go with All Sewn Up also but at the suggestion of Marcus. He feels that family experience with sewing may have rubbed off on him. I’m not sure it works that way but we will see.

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