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Overthinking the challenge is exactly what Team Beekman did. They have delivered the wrong order to two different addresses and when Josh expresses concern that he hopes the orders were right, Brent tells him if they weren’t right, “there will be hell to pay.” I find this funny because it seemed like Brent was the one driving this method.

The owner of the pizzeria points out that Josh & Brent messed up the orders and the task must be redone. Of course, Brent takes this opportunity to berate Josh for being the reason they are redoing it. Both teams had better hurry because Trey & Lexi have found out they are heading to the UN headquarters.

As they both plug away at the deliveries, Brent’s tone has changed and he says that they should focus on the positive. Well, at this point, I am positive that it’s gonna take an epic collapse on the part of Trey & Lexi for anyone to beat them. But I don’t think that’s what Brent meant.

Team Beekman has corrected their deliveries and are now on their way to the UN also, with Team Beefcake right behind them.

Trey & Lexi hit the UN with gusto and are faced with another Roadblock. It’s a twist on the old “how well you remember the places you visited” task. If they played the part of Houdini in the previous Roadblock, then the other person has to do this one. So Lexi is up and here’s the challenge: They have to identify the nine different ways they heard “Hello” and “Good-bye” at the Pit Stops on each leg of the Race. When it’s done and correct, they raise the UN flag and get their final clue.

For it to be a Race for a million bucks there doesn’t seem to be much of a sense of urgency on Lexi’s part. Well, that is until Josh arrives to do the Roadblock for the Beekmans. And then there’s the added pressure of James being on the Roadblock scene now as well.

It really is a three-way race and all the teams are taking the approach of getting French and Spanish out of the way first before moving on to the more difficult ones, which should be interesting. I don’t see anyone, in particular, excelling at this task and it could be a long day at the UN. There may be peace in the Middle East before these guys finish.

Since they don’t have the recall necessary to tear through this challenge with confidence, each of them uses the right method of just trying every combination possible for each flag until it is correct. Lexi’s frustration has manifested itself into many, many tears. I do find it humorous that she keeps lamenting the fact that this is a challenge they can’t control. Well, Lexi, technically, you could’ve controlled it if over the last several weeks, you picked up even the most basic vocabulary on the Race.

They have burned through about two and a half hours and Beekmans and Beefcakes are neck-and-neck. Team Beekman edges out the other two teams and gets the clue pointing them to Gotham Hall. They are scrambling looking for a phone to get directions but Jaymes & James are right behind them. Both have the location and the directions in hand and are duking it out for the million dollars.

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