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Previously on The Amazing Race, something happened. Like an M. Night Shyamalan movie ending, we do not understand exactly what that was, though. There was a leg run with two teams losing the Airport Shuffle. Abbie & Ryan, a great team, and Josh & Brent, a not so great team, wound up so far behind their fellow competitors that the elimination of one of these teams was a foregone conclusion.

At least, this was the presumption before James & Abba left their travel documents in the back of a cab whose driver decided to leave the gentlemen. The Amazing Race ended with a “To Be Continued” moniker, thereby creating more questions than answers. Shaky rules interpretations like this are why we grouse incessantly about the etch-a-sketch nature of The Amazing Race competition.

As of this moment, we have no idea which leg of the race will be the focus of tonight’s episode. Are half the teams finished while the other three attempt to avoid elimination? Will there be another leg? If so, doesn’t such a scenario indicate that two different teams will be removed from The Amazing Race tonight? Since Daron is still on vacation, the odds of one team being eliminated are remote. Two teams getting kicked out in the same episode is only possible in our fevered dreams.

When last we left the bottom three teams, Josh & Brent were struggling to keep their heads above water in a literal sense. Apparently, goat farmers don’t do a lot of swimming. Abbie & Ryan completed the same challenge; alas, they were honor-bound to wait for their less coordinated cohorts. So this quartet is finishing the synchronized swimming challenge while James & Abba have a few hours to produce their documents. Our suspicion is that all of this is a swerve with (easily) the weakest team remaining, Josh & Brent, soon to be eliminated. With The Amazing Race, however, the most logical conclusion is rarely the correct one.

Phil tells James & Abba that they are not the last team to arrive, and therefore they have a chance to find their passports and avoid being eliminated in this leg. They head off to chat with the police and see what they can discover. Meanwhile, we head back over to the aquatic complex where a very grumpy judge is sick to death of dealing with Josh & Brent's inability to complete the synchronized swimming challenge. They are told they have only one more chance to complete the challenge. Although they are better, they cannot do the challenge and are given a four-hour penalty on top of everything else.

Since we can see that James & Abba are searching for their stuff during daylight hours and it is nighttime when Abbie & Ryan and Josh & Brent leave the aquatic center, we have a feeling that this isn't really going to be close at all. After all, Josh & Brent not only have to serve out their four-hour penalty, but there is also still a Roadblock for them to complete.

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